There’s a really cool set on flickr of London on Christmas morning. It’s almost completely deserted; pretty much everyone is inside. The ones that really got me were of Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, and Trafalgar Square, because I know those so well, and they’re usually completely teeming. Very cool, and kind of eerie.
Cheers to M-D for the link.
A couple years ago, I decided that I wanted to track my spending (in efforts to control it) and watch my weight. Well, the weight thing has thus far been a non-starter, but the other is going well. In 2008, I brought in $100 more than I spent and knocked $500 off my credit card debt. Not wildly impressive, but way better than 2007, when I was $900 in the red and added $1300 to my debt. Plus, I’m paying off my car this month, so that money can be diverted to paying down debt. Huzzah! So I’m encouraged, and pretty pleased with myself.
Not pleased enough to help my income by working on the manuscript I should be copyediting, but still pretty pleased.
That’s the front of the Christmas card I got from the Kennedy Center for donating to it. Isn’t it gorgeous? That’s why it’s on my list of places where I want my hypothetical future boyfriend to propose to me.
Yes, I do think of things like that. But how can you not think about it when faced with someplace so pretty?