A Bright Shiny New Year
01/01/2014 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaThere’s a lot to be said for starting new year’s resolutions on 1st December of the previous year. Enthusiasm gets you started but it is habit that keeps you going.
So far it seems that the stars are aligned for a pretty productive year. From the December solstice until today and including Christmas we have had the most beautiful mild weather. Probably the best in at least five years. Not the soul sapping icky sticky sizzling steamy 40s like last New Year’s Day and Christmas 2012
Planted tomato and sunflower seeds today before pottering off for the annual ritual of the fireworks on the river at 8pm. So that ticked the box of the often intended but rarely achieved goal of walking at least 3km per day. And then it was time to drink bubbles and polish up a bright and shiny new Pensieve for the new year.
The one black spot on the otherwise bright horizon was a series of notifications from the internet provider. By Christmas Eve had already used up 50% of the monthly data allowance that is supposed to last until 12th January. The youtube binge sparked by this tasty
Christmas Feast
was accountable for most of that. Thanks to all those evil Carols of Cthulhu had gotten to 85% by Sunday and now the nasty goblins inform the serpent that as of last night’s witching hour, the whole month’s quota is gone. All those months and months of not even using half of the 4GB allowance count for nothing at all
Lucky it is possible to keep tabs on the total running cost once over the limit but it looks like the next ten days will include lots of squiggling and a strictly limited online diet. Definitely no Google tarot card crawls and youtube is absolutely off the menu
Tomorrow will be off to the library to snaffle a copy of “The 5 elements of effective thinking” before slinking off to the arts centre (and former lunatic asylum) in Fremantle for the last day of a binge of musings, meanderings, plotting and planning and a certain serpent’s 12th birthday party
Friday will be back to business as usual at one of the day jobs. That’s the funny thing with the whole Christmas and New Year ritual. After all the celebrations it is almost a relief to get back to mundane muggle reality
So far it seems that the stars are aligned for a pretty productive year. From the December solstice until today and including Christmas we have had the most beautiful mild weather. Probably the best in at least five years. Not the soul sapping icky sticky sizzling steamy 40s like last New Year’s Day and Christmas 2012
Planted tomato and sunflower seeds today before pottering off for the annual ritual of the fireworks on the river at 8pm. So that ticked the box of the often intended but rarely achieved goal of walking at least 3km per day. And then it was time to drink bubbles and polish up a bright and shiny new Pensieve for the new year.
The one black spot on the otherwise bright horizon was a series of notifications from the internet provider. By Christmas Eve had already used up 50% of the monthly data allowance that is supposed to last until 12th January. The youtube binge sparked by this tasty
Christmas Feast
was accountable for most of that. Thanks to all those evil Carols of Cthulhu had gotten to 85% by Sunday and now the nasty goblins inform the serpent that as of last night’s witching hour, the whole month’s quota is gone. All those months and months of not even using half of the 4GB allowance count for nothing at all
Lucky it is possible to keep tabs on the total running cost once over the limit but it looks like the next ten days will include lots of squiggling and a strictly limited online diet. Definitely no Google tarot card crawls and youtube is absolutely off the menu
Tomorrow will be off to the library to snaffle a copy of “The 5 elements of effective thinking” before slinking off to the arts centre (and former lunatic asylum) in Fremantle for the last day of a binge of musings, meanderings, plotting and planning and a certain serpent’s 12th birthday party
Friday will be back to business as usual at one of the day jobs. That’s the funny thing with the whole Christmas and New Year ritual. After all the celebrations it is almost a relief to get back to mundane muggle reality
