2006 has been a transitional year, along with last year...but this one is much better. I just moved, from a big, beautiful, very expensive apartment in a crappy 'hood, into a tiny, affordable guest house in a very magical 'hood. Still getting settled. Very happy here! Big lifestyle change. I gave up or sold cheaply almost all my furniture to fit into this house, but the tradeoff is worth it. I managed to keep two pieces I couldn't part with, stored at the homes of friends. So grateful for my friends!!!!

It was a year and a half-long goal to downsize into a cheaper place where I could work on music without bothering anyone. After 6 months of looking, I finally accomplished this short term goal (for the long term plan: work on music, do healings, keep healthy and happy, and pay off my debt load). Now, I can focus more on creative passions here...music production being the newest craze, along with my Yuen Method healing practice. Oh, and did I mention studying jazz flute? Also for assisting with the music production.

Music is a lonely business. It takes hours and hours and hours. This has been my lifelong, fairly negative belief about music. It is hard, lonely, sad & painstaking work. Using Yuen Method corrections, I have been shifting those old, limiting beliefs into much more positive and desireable ones. Transforming lonely painstanking drugery into loving enthusiastic passion. Write me if you need a correction or two with this yourself! I'm sure I'm NOT alone in my aloneness about music!! :)

I'm also in a job transition this year. The company I have been happily employed at has to lay me off because they just don't have enough full time work for me to do. I have seen my work load dry up, and not enough new stuff coming in. I hold our very weak sales team responsible. For some reason, I'm not worried. I am very well-known in the video post production industry. Very easy for me to keep working. Video QC people are in demand, and sadly, most of them working today don't know a thing. I might actually develop a training program for people who want to get into doing video quality control. I've managed to make a modest living at it for the past 16 years. More on this some other blog...

Life is good, I have no complaints. Of course, we all would love to have more money, but see, that isn't a complaint. I have enough to get by on. I'm happy about that. If I had more money, I could get a couple of much needed pieces of hardware for the music production studio - and Logic Pro 7. It'll happen, when it's supposed to. Seems like we are never done with our desires to grow & evolve & experience all we can in this life...and that does take a bit of money. And time. And effort. I'm all up into all 3.

Not going to Shambhala this year....they didn't book me to to play, nor do I have the funds to go. Been there 4 years in a row. As much as I love it there, it's becoming too routine and losing its magic for me. Taking a break from it will be good. I will miss it.

Doubtful that I will make it to Burning Man this year, too. Not in the budget, either. BM is a huge undertaking no matter how minimal one tries to go. That commerce-free community is expensive! Takes alot of money, time, preparation and planning to survive on the playa. I was hoping to go this year. I didn't make it last year, and missed out on many invites to DJ at several camps. Now that I haven't been out playing any Burning Man theme warmup events, I'm out of sight, and out of mind. Now I feel forgotten by the burner community. My own fault. Well, there is always next year.

I'll start getting out more, really I will! My home, family, friends, cat, job, and all that other stuff that goes with it all comes first these days. Parties are a thing you do after a well-earned hard weeks' work. I'm still workin, and not ready to party just yet. Parties are not my life's priority - the are an enhancement to it.

Of course, all this work I've been doing - moving, taking Yuen Method healing workshops, studying music, learning production, and still working full time amidst all that has a back-end intention - to bring a higher level quality to my performances as a DJ, maybe even as a live performer, and also to give healings at parties as well...I'm the whole package baby. I believe a party can be a wonderfully healing, unforgettable experience for people. Thats' what I'm dong all this "homework" for.