The Concorde

Sunday, 2 Jan 11

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What’s your New Year’s resolution? It’s a question I dread being asked, especially only minutes into the year once the spectacular fireworks display has just died down. See, I’m usually far too tired, having run around like a headless chicken organising a party (why I’ve done this to myself, and to Tim, for the past 3 years is a mystery, but I always seem to enjoy it), and this year (unusually), somewhat hazy from a particularly yummy moscato at midnight.

I don’t think I was particularly eloquent in my fatigue. I don’t have one.

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But that’s not really true. Thinking about it, given the grace of a few days and sleep, the picture is a little clearer. My New Year resolution is to improve. To become a better photographer, and learn to use my camera properly and not shoot at a diagonal all the time. That will be helped by the lightbox set up Tim bought me below, especially for night time shooting. To become a better student, and not leave things to the last minute, especially not my thesis. To become a better friend, and be more sociable and open, less selfish, and to lose the habit of abandoning my computer without telling people that I’m afk.

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To improve my confidence, to stand for what I believe and to know when to say no so I don’t end up burning myself out baking at midnight without reward. To be a better daughter and yet at the same time learn to stand up for my rights without getting into a fight. To be a better karate-ka and actually train properly, improve my fitness and my technique. To be a better blogger, whether using words or photos or making sure I actually write something when I have a backload of photos. And improve my cooking.

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What does all that have to do with the chocolate La Concorde? Well, hopefully, I’m already on the road there with a few of those lofty aims above. Especially the cooking, photographing, blogging and maybe, the friend part. Maybe not so much with the fitness part ;P

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