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I hope you’ve all had a very lovely holiday time. Ours was the usual, eat too much, drink too much and feel bad afterwards. I got given rather a lot of chocolate this time round, more than ever, quite a lot of it has disappeared now into the bottomless pit that is my stomach… I got some really lovely gifts, including all of Friends, Bones season 2, a Postsecret book, some Snoopy stuff, PW’s cookbook, money for a bike helmet, new crockery & hand towels for the bathroom (I must be an adult, I was really excited about this), and a bunch of other really cool stuff.

It was also our first Christmas at our flat instead of a parents’. Lunch was good and not as much hard work as I thought, but that may be to do with not cooking a whole turkey… I also managed to watch every single Wallace and Gromit short & film over the festive period.

For our Xmassy pics complete with snow, Snoopy, Playmobil advent calendars, check them out on Facebook here.

There’s a slew of 2009 review & 2010 promises in my Google Reader today, but what’s one more eh?

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Happy new year everyone! I’m having a fantastic day off, sitting in bed, surfing the web and eating chocolate – bliss.

The one thing I’m trying not to let ruin my day is my phone. Messages from last night were coming through  strangely, so I thought I’d switch it off and back on. It won’t turn back on. This is apparently not an uncommon problem and fixes cost money and all the data stored on the phone. Fortunately my pictures and things are on the external memory card, but my contacts,  messages and a few other bits and bobs are not. I’m also generally unhappy with the phone. The OS has had it’s quirks, and the other week it randomly deleted all the default themes shipped with the phone.

It’s still under manufacturer’s warrenty, but part of me stopped trusting the phone a while ago. I’ve only had it 14 months. I want to go back to a Nokia I just bought a new camera though, not really looking to spend precious funds on a new phone. I guess we’ll see.

Anyway, back to new years… 2008 recap! I…

…graduated
…turned 21
…moved into my very own place
…started working fulltime for the very first time
…had a second anniversary
…generally entered the world of the grown up

I have no idea what’s going to happen this year, which is weird after knowing for the last 17 years or so of full time education exactly what would happen each year. I do know what will happen this month though:

Websites, websites, websites. The ones which have been in the works the last few months will launch or get close to launching.
At work work there should be some exciting design stuff happening!
More photography!
I’ll cave and get a new phone

Project 365

I tried it last year and made it to June with a fair few missed days. This year I hope to make it a bit further! I have a new camera, a Pentax Optio S12, which is so dinky it fits in my pocket but still gives a great picture and has plenty of options. Would have loved that digital Leica I saw, but it was 6 times more expensive!

For the time being – until I sort out a photo gallery here on my hosting – I’ll be posting the pictures to my Shuttercal. I don’t want to pay for another flickr subscription and think I’m almost all out of room on there, plus Shuttercal was specifically designed for this I’ll put monthly mosaics on here too! I’ve not taken today’s picture yet, trying to think of something appropriate

Happy new year everyone!

So I have two new years resolutions, one which will probably fail because I’d forgotten Mars eggs existed is the no buying chocolate resolution – see here. The second is Project 365 (I guess 366 this year).

The objective is to take one photograph a day to help you grow as a photographer, learn what’s important to you and to keep a visual memory of your year.

I only discovered this today so I’m a day late, but it’s a leap year so I’ll still have 365 pictures.

I also plan to blog about each picture, so here’s the first one, and it’s not pretty Came home to my student house today, I’d left some wine glasses in the mister’s room because they were mine and didn’t want them breaking, turns out after a week they grow mold!

Gross but interesting. I also like what the flash did with the glass! I used my phone camera for this cause I had it handy

And yes that is our kitchen sideboard, but we’ve not been here so it’s not our mess

As an aside I had a wonderful, romantic new years and feel I started this year really really well. Happy new year everyone!

Where did you begin the year 2007?
The mister’s dad’s house

What was your status by Valentines Day?
In a relationship

Were you in school anytime this year?
Uni

Did you have to go to the hospital?
Don’t think so

Did you have any encounters with the police?
Nope

Where did you go for vacation?
Does Sunderland count? Hahaha.

What did you purchase that was over 100 dollars?
This laptop, car insurance, rent?

Did you know anybody who got married?
The mister’s dad.

Anybody who passed away?
Not directly

What concerts or shows did you go to?
Muse at Wembley Stadium – twice

Describe your birthday:
Awesome evening out with friends and the mister, then looking after the hungover mister with lots of spoiling in between.

You favorite moment(s)?
I’ve had quite a few. Now is pretty awesome, listening to the mister play guitar.

What was your best month?
They all had their ups and downs

Made any new friends?
Yeap

Favorite night out?
I had quite a few

Other than home, where did you spend most of you time?
Library…

Changed your hairstyle?
A fair amount, yes

How old did you turn this year?
20

Do you have a New Year’s Resolution?
To not eat chocolate

Have you had any regrets?
No, just lessons learned

Attend any sporting events?
Nope

Have you gotten sick?
Glandular fever.

If you could give your life to get anything back, what would it be?
What would be the point? I wouldn’t have my life, so how would I enjoy or experience the thing I got back?