Elvis Costello and me, best buds.

For some reason, I just don't want to have type out this experience because I just won't be able to do it justice. I saw Elvis Costello, FINALLY and he played old songs and I got to dance on stage and it was awesome and pivotal and totally effing cool. Yay for random luck! I am the purpley blue blur on the left in the far away videos and in behind the two people in the close up video that they took. Arg is all I have to say about not having my own camera. Dude played for nearly 3 hours. His suit was actually dripping and soaked by the end of the night, from top to bottom. Really outstanding.









SET LIST:

I Hope You’re Happy Now

Heart of The City

Mystery Dance

Uncomplicated

Radio Radio

Everyday I Write The Book

Joanna

Turpentine

Long Honeymoon

I Want You

Beyond Belief

Big Tears

Shabby Doll

Leave My Kitten Alone

Living In Paradise

Spooky Girlfriend

Party Girl

Girls Talk

Girl

Alison/Tracks Of My Tears/Somewhere Over the Rainbow/Somewhere

Stations of the Cross

Shipbuilding

ENCORE:

A Slow Drag With Josephine

For More Tears

Earthbound

(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding

I Don’t Want To Go To Chelsea

Waiting For The End of The World

I Can Only Give You Everything

Pump It Up/Purple Rain

Man Out Of Time

I Hope

Just sayin'...

I haven't written for ages. I don't have anything terribly new or groundbreaking to say about being a mom and I'm mostly too busy to hang out on the computer much. I did want to say this though:

There has been changes over the past year. Leon is growing, we live in a nice new place, T is finished working on his masters from home and is now happily at work in a workplace.

I'm a full on stay at home mom now. I wondered what it would be like. Even though T was working from home, he was still there and still available if needed. I wondered how I would do when it was just Leon and me all day. I've been doing it for a while now and I know now, what it's like.

It's like this: For the first time in my life, I am able to say that there is nothing, not one single thing in my wildest imagination that I would rather be doing. I think Leon is the most amazing, beautiful, incredible person in the history of time and I want to put it out there that I am incredibly grateful and appreciative of whatever circumstance of design or random luck that led me to what my life is now which is being with him, helping him learn about the world, watching him grow and learning who he is. Everyday is a revelation. Everyday I'm in love and I feel like the luckiest person on the planet.

I get tired waking up early, I wonder what to make for meals, I wonder what to do on rainy, hot or snowy days, I think sometimes that I might not be able to read Go Dog GO for the 8 millionth time, but I look at Leon's smile and his sparkling eyes and his little hand on my hand, guiding it down to the book and it's all so easy because I love him like crazy.

I can't keep life in a bottle so that nothing will ever change. Who knows what's to come. Right now is something I can and want to be in one hundred percent in a way that I've not really known before. It's a huge gift and this way of being in the present and loving someone so much is something that I hope Leon can have through his life.

He's so full of pure joy, just pure unadulterated joy for all the smallest things in life. He's full of pure trust and love. He's full of desire to learn and explore. And he is loved deeply. Being witness to these thing in Leon has changed how I see life. I can't really even say how lucky I feel about that.

So you see? Nothing said here is anything that hasn't been said before by mothers throughout history. What is new, is that it's me saying it and I'm glad to be able to.