Not me personally ( although I am sure some people think I act like a baby sometimes ... ), but this Blog. A year ago today, I re-started this blog and wrote my first post here . I started off full of ideas and things to say and show .... but that didn't last long. Saying that, and although the rate of posts since then became a little sporadic (to say the least ), and the subject matter not entirely interesting to everyone, I have managed to keep it going in some form - a bit of an achievement for me !
All I can say is that I will try to keep writing: to write more frequently from now on ( after all, I still haven't written about my trip to see the Maestro yet .. that is at least one more post .... hee hee ! ) but I cannot promise anything - my life is still my life ... not that interesting to anyone but me.... ( see, I don't change do I ... ). I am still quite a private person, not able to share my thoughts and feelings that easily, but as that is exactly the reason why I set this blog up in the first place ( to provide an outlet for these thoughts and emotions ) I will try harder to share and open up a little to others. Who knows what the next 365 ( actually 366 - 2008 is a leap year ) days will hold for me ? ... it is going to be fun to find out , and to write about ....
Happy First Birthday my little Blog !
Wednesday, 26 December 2007
Sunday, 9 December 2007
Wishes do come true
Right at the start of the year, at the start of this blog ( well, almost ... ) I wrote about some things I wanted to do, to achieve before the year was out. Amongst the usual ( lose weight and get a life generally ... ;-) ) were a desire to visit Paris again, and to see the Maestro in concert. I even said that it would be a wish to combine the two .... and to see Jean Michel in Paris. Well, the days, weeks and months of 2007 passed, and soon it was November .... almost the end of the year, and - as usual - most of my wishes were unfulfilled. I was resigned to not visiting Paris (lack of time, money and family commitments had won again, for the 3rd year running ), and as there wasn't a tour after the release of Téo and Téa , to not seeing the Maestro in concert. It was going to be another year I sleepwalked through .... and then the Oxygene 30th anniversary project was announced ....
I mentioned about the DVD/CD release connected to this in earlier posting to this blog ( just to note - I finally received my copy from Fnac.com @ the beginning of this week, and it was well worth the wait ... but more of that in another post I think ! ), but then in mid-November, a number of concerts were announced too . Jean Michel was to perform a series of concerts at the Theatre Marigny in Paris in December, playing Oxygéne live on the original instruments used to create it in the late 70's. It sounded wonderful, but I thought December = busiest time at work with almost zero chance of getting time off and Christmas approaching = zero spare money and chance of going. Then the actual dates were announced ... and a plan started to form in my head ....
To cut a long story short - I'M GOING !!. This Saturday, I'm travelling by coach to London, then by Eurostar to Paris, arriving @ about 2.30 pm. The concert is @ 9 pm, so I've only a little time to rest in my hotel room ( when I find it ... ) and compose myself before the show itself. The next day ( Sunday ), I'm travelling back, so it isn't going to be an in-depth visit to my favourite city ... but at least I'm going there this year. It is costing me money I cannot really afford to spend ( my savings look very sick @ the moment ), but the temptation was just too great. This is something I have wanted to do for a long time - the last time I was lucky enough to see Jean Michel in concert was 10 years ago, again in Paris during the Oxygene Tour - and I felt I just had to grab the chance while I could. I'm not getting any younger, and neither is Jean Michel ... not sure when the opportunity would arise again.
Now, I'm not sure if I'm excited or scared ... or both. Excited by the prospect of seeing the Maestro live again, of visiting Paris, of perhaps meeting some of the people I talk to @ Blah Blah Cafe in the flesh - there is talk of a fan-meeting during the day ( and yes, that's you Geejee, Nico and CLUBMIX , amongst others I'm talking about... ) .... scared because I'm travelling independently on my own and not part of an organised group ( unfortunately Bigbrother cannot come) , that there is so much that could go wrong ( missing the coach or train, not finding the hotel, not getting into the venue ...) and that my French is virtually non-existent ... it should be an interesting couple of days ! But I'm trying to put these fears to the back of my mind. I am going, everything will turn out fine and I will have a wonderful, magical time to remember.
Six days and counting ..... I cannot wait !
I mentioned about the DVD/CD release connected to this in earlier posting to this blog ( just to note - I finally received my copy from Fnac.com @ the beginning of this week, and it was well worth the wait ... but more of that in another post I think ! ), but then in mid-November, a number of concerts were announced too . Jean Michel was to perform a series of concerts at the Theatre Marigny in Paris in December, playing Oxygéne live on the original instruments used to create it in the late 70's. It sounded wonderful, but I thought December = busiest time at work with almost zero chance of getting time off and Christmas approaching = zero spare money and chance of going. Then the actual dates were announced ... and a plan started to form in my head ....
To cut a long story short - I'M GOING !!. This Saturday, I'm travelling by coach to London, then by Eurostar to Paris, arriving @ about 2.30 pm. The concert is @ 9 pm, so I've only a little time to rest in my hotel room ( when I find it ... ) and compose myself before the show itself. The next day ( Sunday ), I'm travelling back, so it isn't going to be an in-depth visit to my favourite city ... but at least I'm going there this year. It is costing me money I cannot really afford to spend ( my savings look very sick @ the moment ), but the temptation was just too great. This is something I have wanted to do for a long time - the last time I was lucky enough to see Jean Michel in concert was 10 years ago, again in Paris during the Oxygene Tour - and I felt I just had to grab the chance while I could. I'm not getting any younger, and neither is Jean Michel ... not sure when the opportunity would arise again.
Now, I'm not sure if I'm excited or scared ... or both. Excited by the prospect of seeing the Maestro live again, of visiting Paris, of perhaps meeting some of the people I talk to @ Blah Blah Cafe in the flesh - there is talk of a fan-meeting during the day ( and yes, that's you Geejee, Nico and CLUBMIX , amongst others I'm talking about... ) .... scared because I'm travelling independently on my own and not part of an organised group ( unfortunately Bigbrother cannot come) , that there is so much that could go wrong ( missing the coach or train, not finding the hotel, not getting into the venue ...) and that my French is virtually non-existent ... it should be an interesting couple of days ! But I'm trying to put these fears to the back of my mind. I am going, everything will turn out fine and I will have a wonderful, magical time to remember.
Six days and counting ..... I cannot wait !
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