2012 has arrived. It even feels like a brand new year but that’s most likely because I’m really pushing for a change this year. In the past, New Years Day has just felt like another day. Nothing has ever felt special about this day. Nothing has ever felt special about staying up to welcome the New Year in. Why bother? When I was younger it was something thrilling because midnight was way past my bedtime. As I got older staying up wasn’t as exciting as I thought it would be. So last night I went to bed early and planned to get up early as I normally do. I blocked out everything, the traffic on the highway and the neighbours having their usual New Years Eve party. Until a little before one in the morning when the party got a little bit louder and it woke little Jorjie up. She went crazy, she jumped up and down barking and carrying on. She finally settled down and I slept in until nearly six in the morning. Everything was silent when I woke this morning, there was no traffic, there was nobody talking or making any noise. The only person that I assume was up at the same time was my father who had been up before me. There was no spectacular sunrise, it was very bleak outside and it has remained bleak. It’s not cold but it’s not warm either. 
New Years Eve seems like such a great time to decide to make changes, it’s a brand new year approaching and there’s this little voice inside your head saying “just do it next year” but how many people stick to their new found goals? I never do so I stopped making so many unrealistic ones. But every year since I was a child I did decide to stop biting my finger nails. And I’ve failed every year until late 2011 when I managed to let them grow to normal length. I still bite them so I can’t claim to have succeeded but I just know that by New Years Eve 2012 I will not need to make this a goal anymore. The internet isn’t the place to put my other much more personal New Year’s Resolutions. Nobody apart from me is to know about them but another goal of mine for this year is to read 500 books that I’ve never read before.
Please enjoy my first two photographs of the year. I normally do a sunrise but it was so bleak this morning around here that there wasn’t anything to photograph.
2012 has arrived. It even feels like a brand new year but that’s most likely because I’m really pushing for a change this year. In the past, New Years Day has just felt like another day. Nothing has ever felt special about this day. Nothing has ever felt special about staying up to welcome the New Year in. Why bother? When I was younger it was something thrilling because midnight was way past my bedtime. As I got older staying up wasn’t as exciting as I thought it would be. So last night I went to bed early and planned to get up early as I normally do. I blocked out everything, the traffic on the highway and the neighbours having their usual New Years Eve party. Until a little before one in the morning when the party got a little bit louder and it woke little Jorjie up. She went crazy, she jumped up and down barking and carrying on. She finally settled down and I slept in until nearly six in the morning. Everything was silent when I woke this morning, there was no traffic, there was nobody talking or making any noise. The only person that I assume was up at the same time was my father who had been up before me. There was no spectacular sunrise, it was very bleak outside and it has remained bleak. It’s not cold but it’s not warm either. 
