pre-holiday show results

things came together very nicely one week ago. there must have been between 600-700 people at the show, most of which seemed to take a strong liking to the set.
all of us believe this is a great precursor of what's to come... 2007 should have some interesting things in store for everyone.
i spent Christmas laying low with BJ the first part of the day, until after he wore himself out playing with new toys and watching a new video. afterward a few of us got together for a holiday dinner and hung out the rest of the night, very low key and we kept things simple.
the new year is going to be brought in over some friends' house, directly after a traditional hockey game on the eve of 2007.
i suspect it will feel better to have 2006 behind me, which i'm sure is true for a lot of people i know. not that i'm into the whole resolution bit because i'm not, however i am going to try and work on some real healing this coming year. i get the sense that i've grown past a lot of pain but that i never really allowed myself to face some of the music, sort of speak. that doesn't ever seem to be delightful but i'll take it slowly. besides, i'm busy enough these days that it would be very difficult to get so engrossed to the point where i would lose focus of other things. that seemed to be the measurement of how well i could control working through it all, whether or not i became so preoccupied that other things that normally would matter simply did not... suffice to say it's often about self preservation and knowing yourself well enough to understand how much you can take at any given point. i'm fairly certain i won't be breaking any speed records in my time. in fact, i wouldn't be the least bit surprised if history repeats itself and i find several commonplace distractions to prolong some steps in this journey. then again, chaos has an interesting way of doing an "about face" when you lead with your heart so we'll see...

may all of you find peace this new year.