I started the year full of optimism about the new decade, and I guess I'm still in that frame of mind, despite the usual feelings that kick in around this time of year. I still have nagging doubts that I could be doing more with my time, but I think I've done OK considering. There's no less than three projects I've got going and I've made some progress with them all.
Firstly there's the old favourite - simplifying and decluttering, something I've wanted to do for years. My house is very small, and every bit of it is crammed with various stuff, most of which date back to the last century and a fair amount I probably don't need. Every year I say to myself I'm going to get rid of a lot of it, and every year I start and then give up after a while because I get overwhelmed by it all. Well, this year it finally seems to be happening. My bedroom floor isn't being used as a laundry basket anymore for a start, something I've been guilty of doing since my late teens and a bad habit of mine that I thought was pretty much unbreakable. Turns out the carpet in my bedroom was green after all... At some point, I'll have to get rid of all my CDs (I never use them anymore, they've all been digitized, so why keep them?) and then some of those old magazines that have been residing under my bed for ages (think I've proved to myself I don't need them by now)
Project two is the return to the poker tables, and it's great to be back! I may do some monthly excerpts from my poker diary here - I don't want to turn this place into a poker blog and risk alienating my readers who aren't interested in the game, but I do want to talk about it here as it is a part of my life and that's fundamentally what I'm writing about here. Suffice to say I end the month with about 20% more money in my bankroll than I started with, which is great (although the sums involved are very small) Hopefully I will continue to move in that direction!
As for the third project, well, I can't actually talk about that at the moment - it's a collaboration with GroupieGirl and I wouldn't feel comfortable talking about it until it was complete. Let's just say if this comes off there could be another very interesting story to tell :)
Anyway, I've spent pretty much all of the last day of January 2010 sleeping to try and reset the body clock. I keep saying that this biphasic sleeping regime is going to have to go, but it's difficult with the circumstances I find myself in. Going to bed around 21.00 isn't something I've done on a regular basis since the 1970s, and I have no real wish to go back to those days (except maybe musically, heh heh) The other alternative is to go nocturnal, sleeping from mid-afternoon till midnight, which would cause even more problems...
Right, I'm going to fix myself something to eat, watch the snow falling for a while and then do the washing up which has been piling up over the last few days due to my extreme tiredness. I have no wish to enter February with crockery in the sink, even if they are my lovely black plates!
albert hammond
it never rains in southern california
it never rains in southern california 1972
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