So last week I actually did some housework, and I don't mean just the usual washing up and stuff. I spent a few hours each day sorting out upstairs.

The spare bedroom is properly useable now, not sure when it will be used yet, but I know if Visas are sorted then I will have two lovely young ladies spending a week sleeping in the room come April.
And the library is sorted. Books mostly organised but all on the bookcases. All the boxes have been put away under the beds. I think I did a good job.
Now I just have to do under the stairs so the band's PA equipment has somewhere to live after the boys' leave their flat in March.


It was good to get it all done. It needed doing and has been put off for so long. But it was nice to come home to a relatively tidy house form a weekend in Leeds.

2011.

I haven't made any new year resolutions. I don't tend to because I never seem to keep them. Though I am hoping to lose weight this year. I have a number in mind but Will isn't too sure about it.
But as long as I haven't put on any weight by July I'll be fine.

I hope gaining 2 sisters this year won't mean I lose 2 brothers, but I guess we will wait and see.

My first weird email...

Greetings, GT!
A friend of mine, Virginia from Wimberly, attended recent your concert in Austin and was blown away. Apparently, she mentioned about me to you, and she suggested to me that I make contact with you to explore possibilities of collaborating . I am a professional sitar player since 20 years. I sing a bit too and am always delighted to work with luminous souls.

I understand you leave Austin very soon. Perhaps we could meet sometime tomorrow (Tuesday)?

Hope to hear from you. If not, will call you in the morning.

Yours in music and peace, Amie


Amelia Maciszewski, Ph.D.
Ethnomusicologist, sitarist, music educator
www.sonicbids.com/sangeetmillennium, www.sangeetmillennium.org

Change

I think I've realised I don't like change.
Its more of the fact with people moving away or growing up in a sense.
I know people change and move on and they need to. But in doing that I don't see them, I know nothing about their life and I don't talk to them.

Kids and so on

My sister-in-law, her hubby and 2 kids are down for the week. They go back to Scotland wednesday morning. Its always a tough week when they are down. I generally end up having at least one texting session with her while she's down. Sometiems its to do with how bad her hubby is at times, and this time its do with the fact that her mum is feeling down a bit and she thinks she's down something to piss her off. I said it was probably to do with the kids being around and other such things and the fact that she doesn't want to step in and discipline the kids because she isn't the mum. But its hard seeing your daughter and son-in=law not really doing alot to stop them messing around. Mum was joking that she'd phone my mum for the wooden spoon. I can't imagine the spoon being used on the kids but it might sort them out. They run riot every evening they are here and probably at home but here just seems different.

I just never know how to put politely what i wanna say but there's not alot i can do. Its up to her what she thinks and how she takes it.

Oh well. We're spending some time tomorrow just the two of us hopefully, so we might be able to haave a proper talk then

Boiler

So far this evening Will has managed to get in touch with 2 people about our boiler. One said he was busy tomorrow but wasn't sure if his dad was. And the other being a big company said it'd cost £65 for the first half hour the guy is over and £55 for every half hour on top, plus then the cost of parts. How ridiculous is that?!

Anyway, we wait til the morning to try again.

Thinkings

I'm never really sure what to put in my blog. There are some things that I don't feel like I can write as I don't know who reads it, but which I put in my letters to aa certain someone (Sorry once more for dumping on you darling). But maybe I just need to say them.

I feel like I've lost or am losing my brothers and my friends. Its not entirely their fault, its mine as well.

Holiday could be cancelled if we can't find anywhere to stay thats cheap and easy to get to which is a shame as I was looking forward to it.

Will didn't get the job at Hackney.

Steve and Andy aren't around for my birthday this year. Is it wrong to want them around?

And the first gig that Starting Over play in over a year I won't be around to see.