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January 1st
Midnight on the dot :D Happy 2010!
And some changes. First, I will no longer be uploading these photos to my 365 livejournal as I have started a new blog on blogspot last year. The pictures will be posted there under a project 365 tag, but I invite you to check out my regular posts as well. ;)
Second...well, there's no second. I'm just happy to be doing this for a fourth time!
December 31st
Since I had nothing better to do this New Year's Eve, I decided to go along the bridges and find a good spot to take some photos of the fireworks. This ice was crackling loudly as I walked by.
December 30th
This is what you would see if you looked through the window on the top floor of the gift I gave my sister for Christmas. I took some special photos of my work today, because I want to eventually sell it online.
This is my favourite apartment in the house- I painted my bedroom a very similar blue. Note the plastic over the floor, of course, to keep the paint from splashing.
December 29th
I put in a date in my 2010 moleskine calendar today: an Avatar screening on the 5th with some people I know. And with only two days left before this year is over it is time to say goodbye to the old diary. I started it in July 2008- it went halfway around the world with me and is the first diary I have actually used to mark down appointments and deadlines in. I won't throw it away because it has a lot of valuable notes in it, especially from the Bounty voyage. The stickers will move to the new one. I always have stickers ready for sticking.
The pencil deserves a special mention- I got it at the Caird Library in the Maritime Museum at Greenwich to fill out request cards for Peter Heywood's letters to his mother. I will never forget the excitement of handling those 18th century manuscripts. So, the pencil moves along with the stickers- I've attached it to the new diary and it will help me keep my appointments.
Or at least write them down.
December 28th
The snow is back. Unfortunately my photographic plans for the day went awry as dad slipped on his walk with Guinness and fractured his right arm. Instead of going out with my camera we spent the day in the emergency room, and this is why this shot is so blurry- I went out after dark with a tripod, but forgot my flashlight so I could not focus.
Dad is fine, by the way, he's broken that arm twice before. Each time in winter, as I recall. There is a particularly gruesome childhood story he tells of trekking through a snowy forest to school one very cold morning (he was born in 1935 in the Polish pre-war countryside, so he is entitled to such claims) and slipping- he put his arm out to keep from crashing against a tree, and it was only when he got to school and took his jacket off that he discovered a bone poking out of his skin.
Days of yore, what can I say. I will go out with my camera properly tomorrow.
December 27th:
Maksymilian likes them.
December 26th
Just hangin' out on the Christmas tree :)
December 25th:
Christmas day guests. In Poland we have our big celebration on Christmas Eve, so Christmas Day is traditionally the day you go visit your friends and family and eat their leftovers;)
December 24th
The lantern on the table contains the Peace Light from the Nativity Grotto in Bethlehem. The flame travels every year from Bethlehem to Vienna, and is distributed from there to the rest of Europe. Our friendly priest works with the scouts who are in charge of the light and brought it to us directly from Austria.
December 23rd
My sister's Renaissance-boyfriend (I think the amount of skills he has proven to possess so far justifies the title) came over to help her bake some cookies. They will hang on the tree and then they will be eaten. :)
