the good life

mood: happy.
state i'm in: electric blue.
tune: tony bennett 'the good life'


today i feel really happy. really, life feels quite good indeed.

i spent most of today watching the cricket, reading the paper and eating on the couch. had a few candid phone conversations and looked forward to another day off work. three days off work is really bliss. time for myself, for the gym, for shopping or for seeing someone and even for just doing very little at all. more of this please!

work gets in the way of a holiday, but work means money, and that sure is a good thing. it is nice to be earning enough to allow your own finances to make sense - i am earning to save and buy the things i desire for myself and others.

the weather may be inclement, but that too pleases me. the rain and cool breezes as an alternative to blistering heat is fantastic. just a few weeks ago, as it was heating up, i was cursing the thick air, rank with the stench of rotting roadkill and detritus. how nice it would be for this weather to continue into the coming weeks, unlikely as it is.

i've spoken to several of my friends lately, and all are looking forward to things in the new year. they all have an adventure ahead or a scheme at the fore of their mind. every one is achieving, and i find that a really good feeling, to be surrounded by people going in a direction they desire. likewise, i have a lot ahead of me this coming year. i would be lying if i denied a degree of apprehension about what lies ahead, but i have confidence in my teachers that they know roughly what it is i need to achieve what both they and i hope i will achieve.

christmas and new years eve were pretty quiet, but i felt better for it. spending time with just the immeidate family on christmas day was a lot of fun and a few bottles of bubbles with trent and chico on new years eve, fireworks visible through the drizzly mist from my balcony, was just the ticket this year i feel.

HNY 2008 from trent

the andy warhol exhibition at GOMA is absolutely fantastic. to anyone who has yet to go, especially if they are the sort to say 'i am not really into modern art' or 'i just don't really get warhol as real art'. it is more than just an exhibition of art. between the efforts of mr warhol and the gallery's curators, it is a journey through the entire warhol epoch and everything that was going on around him a the time. the man's work certainly reflected of the times he was living in, and as such this makes him not just an influential artist, but something of an historian also, albeit one with a unique approach to the presentation of events. the venue was quintessential to the experience. having visited the national gallery in canberra recently, i can safely say that the brisbane gallery puts it entirely to shame. GOMA certainly is a real treasure to this city, and one of my favourite places to spend time.



as i pick up the paper or log on to some of my favourite news websites each day, i am greeted by stories that fill me with confidence for the decision we all took on that fateful day in late november. there is just so much sensibility in the actions our new federal government has taken thus far. i have the odd gripe here and there, but it nice to be grumbling over the fine details for a change as opposed to an entire action as was so frequently the case with regards to the former government. that australia seems like an age ago already.

to cap it all off there's a string of jazz tunes emanating from my speakers - life sure ain't bad at all!

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images: mine