Happy New Year!

Yes I'm slow to this New Year thing. Anyway 2010, it's over. I'm not going to lie, this makes me happy. Yes to 2011. I hope everyone had a great Christmas.

In December I went to Berlin to see the Christmas Markets and existed on a pre Christmas diet consisting mainly of delicious pastries and hot chocolates with various shots added for the entire time. Here I am stuffing my face with some sort of ham and potato combination for a change (and of course a hot chocolate) it was excellent:

Nom. Check my hat - cat lady with no shame.

My first eggnog

I could have included a historic landmark, but no, Super Mario construction hoarding it is.

I'm really terrible at new years resolutions, generally I just don't make them. But this year I'm going to try, so:

1. Blog more
Self explanatory. And a fairly common one I'm sure. I love writing and blogging so this shouldn't be too difficult. I'm not sure if many people read my posts, but I enjoy writing them, so that's fine with me.

2. Photograph more
Another thing I enjoy but don't do enough of lately. I suppose I just got busy so haven't had the time. Just need to get back in the habit!


3. Keep track of my books
At the moment everything to do with my accounts is receipts in a shoebox, so I have to do up all my general books properly. I'm writing this up here because now it's on the internet so I have to do it. NOT leaving this until the night before the October 2011 deadline.


4. Take more time off
At first glance this doesn't seem like the most productive of goals. However for a lot of 2010 I didn't take full days off for weeks on end. It becomes very difficult to be creative if you can't remember your last day off away from the desk. It's important to have breathing space away from a project and I have learned that even small breaks are good, that leaving something for one day doesn't mean the world will end. When you take a break and come back a project can often look very different and you can improve on it with this new fresh eyed perspective.

Check me out making resolutions, who'd have thought it!

Anyway a happy new year to all and I hope 2011 brings you all sorts of everything nice. With sparkles.