2012... a brand new year

A brand new year brings with it a whole lot of new challenges, hurdles obstacles, but also opportunities, friends, adventures, experiences and everything that incorporates the wide variety of life.

After quite a restful break I've hit the ground running, with a new found energy and enthusiasm that I'm hoping will last a little while.

The year is shaping up to be a surprisingly good one. I'm not going to go on about everything that brought me to where I am. It's a long arduous story that's even more boring to tell than it would be to read about. The end result of it all is that The Owl and the Pussycat gallery is no longer a gallery at all, but a theatre, straight up.

Yeah I'm upset to loose the gallery, but now that I have gotten used to the idea I think it is going to be a good thing. It will help me to concentrate, give everything to the one space- well two including the bar, it will help me to focus in and make it as good as it can be. Already it's finding it's feet, and of course there are some things to work out, but that will come over time, its a new space and that also has it's advantages. It's fresh and that positive energy is not only not gone, but I think is starting to increase with my new found enthusiasm. The space feels lighter. There is laughter and music and people hanging around having fun. Lot's of smiles and jokes.

It is as it should be, as it has been, and as it will be from until... whenever it all ends, as everything does some day.

I really can't wait to get my teeth stuck into this year, I think its going to be a good one. Good times ahead... I'm bringing the fun back into the space, it was all starting to get a bit morbid around here, but the suits have gone, the t's have been crossed the i's dotted, the permits signed the bank account drained (gulp) and the sun is shinning over the horizon.

Every show I have booked in this year I feel great about. I know there will be hurdles... there already has been... but what can I say? I'm feeling limber :)

Now excuse me I have to go and help tech for Loving Arthur at Downstairs at Alma's which opens tonight.

Oh but before I go if you have a show that you are wanting to put on this year, now is the time to step forward. I am looking to book the year out over the next month... if I can.