2008 just seems to have whizzed by. Christmas over again for another year.
No pictures today, as our camera is bung (dropped on its eye by a six-year-old, sigh) and is away, being repaired. I am missing it terribly; it feels strange to not have any Christmas photos. If you want to see part of what my Christmas this year was like, visit the Food Pornographer – the fruit platter was my contribution. Our challenge for Christmas Day was to make it through the three meals we were invited to – breakfast at my parents’, lunch with my in-laws, and dinner at M’s aunt’s. Unfortunately we didn’t do very well – by the time we’d had breakfast and lunch, we were way too full and too tired to contemplate dinner, so we visited but didn’t stay for that meal. Luckily it was quite pleasant weather-wise, with a mild (for December) 26.6°C (79.8°F) maximum on the day.
It’s been extremely hot here in Perth for the last few days. Today’s forecast is for a maximum temperature of 37°C (98.6°F). Yesterday it got up to 39°C (102.2°F). It seems to have taken a while to warm up this summer, but it was bound to happen eventually.
I have yet to prep (read: take out of its wrapper) my 2009 diary. I have kept a paper diary for years. It’s a personal diary – for work I use the Outlook calendar. I like making little handwritten notes about my day, although I don’t necessarily do this every single day. I also use my paper diary to note a book title when I have finished reading it. For the last few years I have been using pocket-sized day-to-a-page Moleskine diaries, however for 2009 I have a large diary. The idea is that I might write more if I have more room. We’ll see.
I hope you’ve all had a good Christmas break – and have a Happy New Year!
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Heh, teh NEW DIARY. I am in such a post-prandial Christmas snoozy frame of mine, I had forgotten – end of 2008, yep, got it tabbed now.
Prepping as we speak! thanks for the reminder.
I have my first Moleskine weekly notebook – looking forward to see how it stands up to being pushed and shoved in and out of my handbag by my son! who thinks he knows where everything belongs…
Have a lovely new year, CW.
Happy New Year CW, hope you are getting your deserved rest! I wondered how you were keeping track of what you read each month, doh I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me to actually write it in my diary! thanks! See you in January. :o)) kalgrl.