What am I up to?

sitting in the train... Typing the date and realizing it is April fools day today... I could have used this to tell you a ridiculously foolish and incredible story... But you probably wouldn't have noticed since I already feel ridiculously foolish and incredible in my day to day life... So I will stick to my original idea and tell you about what I am up to these days...

Last night was another interesting Open Mic Night at the Arts Café... we had a lot of fun and I even got one of my university buddies to join in for the first time and he came to play the piano and sing one of the songs he wrote... It was a lot of fun... And I think that this is what life is all about... Having a lot of fun... I told about the three laws of the meaning of life in a previous post, and the 3rd is about having fun... as long as we don't break the second law which is to be kind and even help those around us as long as we don't break the first law which is to be kind and even help the generations to come... as much as we can... of course... because we don't all have the same skill set and energy to save the world, but we should still all do our part...

Freud (and many others actually), have concluded that there two main driving forces that help us make decisions: Pleasure and Pain... We want to avoid pain, because we must survive, and if our ancestors were not driven by the will to survive, I wouldn't be here, sitting in this train, writing this post and you wouldn't be there (wherever you are), reading it... And pleasure... well... we all know how good it is... And the main one, is the pleasure of sex so that we can reproduce... and again... Just imagine if our ancestors wouldn't have done it... right?
So to survive in a pleasant way, we still need to go through some pain (that some of us may find more painful than others), do the grocery, cook, wash the dishes, go shopping, do some renovation, cleanup the house, pay our bills, go to work, drive the kids to social activities (whether they do sports or arts), etc... etc... But we must also leave some room in this busy schedule for our own little pleasures (and not just the one driven by our reproductive glands, whether we take care of it alone, or with a loved one), spend some time with friends, have a drink, sing a song, play games, do some sport, go see a movie, a concert, any kind of show, read a book, write a poem, etc...

Now that doesn't tell you much about what I am up to these days... Well... a little bit... cause if you know me a bit by now, you know that I live through my words... I practice what I preach...

So I go through those little pains that are worth suffering to better enjoy a pleasant survival, like the grocery, cooking, washing the dishes, cleaning up the house and driving the kids around... Note that I didn't put going to work in there... Not that I quit my job (though it would have made an interesting April fools joke :-), but must I admit, I'm lucky enough to enjoy my job and it is actually a pleasure to go to work. So once the choirs are done and the kids are happy (I also admit that having them just half the time helps a little bit, though that "only half the time" I have them, I have to take care of them alone, so I guess it evens out a little bit), I then have some time for myself... So what do I do with it? What am I up to?

As I wrote in my first post on my French blog MADeries, deciding what we do with our time, is the only decision we need to (and can) take... As I said above, we are driven by pain and pleasure, but only to take this crucial decision: "what do I do with my time?"... Time is interesting... Because it is limited, though most of us don't really know how much we have left... Time can NOT be stopped or slowed down (unfortunately), though we can get the impression that its speed varies sometimes (gee... my train is almost at its destination now... Wow... time flies...)... And... of course... we can't go back in time... Too bad... it's done... asta la vista baby...

So what do I do with my time these days... well... music started taking a bit more of my time... I love to go to these Open Mic Tuesday nights (a good thing they are on Tuesdays, I "almost" never have my kids on tuesday nights)... I also need to finish composing the music to go with my Novel... I recently needed to move my music to a new WEB site because I used to have (music.download.com) has closed. So while you are here, note that you can now access my music on Last.fm (I also moved the music of Continuum there). I also took this opportunity to update the Music section of MultiMAD.com.

Ho... and I also wanted to tell you that I have been cheating on you again... Well.. at least... I had given you an early warning... I spend quite a lot of time writing on my vacations blog (in French, sorry, it's very nice language though, you should try to learn it if you don't already know it :-). And of course, uploading, tagging and adding legends to all the 338 photos that I found good enough from the roughly 800 photos I took during my trip to Mexico with GG.

And, of course, I have been continuing my quest for the ultimate pleasure, the one for which we would accept to suffer all the pains of this world... LOVE!!! I have not found it yet, I don't even have a solid prospect... That new book I was exploring is not very responsive, so I get the feeling that she is not as interested in turning my pages to discover me more and I am about her... I'm toying with the idea to push her a little harder to open herself to me... But then again, it might be better for me to put her back on the shelf and browse for other books... More open... Closer... More interested... and yet very interesting... we'll see...

To be continued...

BYE
MAD
P.S.: Never, ever, forget to have fun!!! :-)