Seven Times Down, Eight Times Up

I took the photo below on the second day of my new habit forming exercise. I plan to take a photo every day, one photo each day that I can be proud of. On day two of my new habit I took a photo of a Daruma.

A Daruma is a toy and good luck charm that represents perseverance and fortune. It is a gift which is meant to encourage the recipient to achieve their goal. Upon receiving a Daruma the recipient draws a pupil into one of the blank eyes and sets a goal, when the goal has been fulfilled the they draw the other eye in.

You can see that my Daruma only has one eye, my goal changed before the original one came to fruition, I still mean to fill in the second eye. 

七転び八起き 

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NYE Fail

My New Years Eve-Eve was spent drunk in West London with Idris Elba (The Wire, Luther) and Riz MC (Four Lions) - heads up, I'm dropping names all over this blog post. That's the best part of my NYEE, want to know the worst part? I was too inebriated to appreciate or remember that I met Idris Elba and Riz MC... Fail.

The next day, New Years Eve, I felt so wretched that I only mustered the strength to pull a duvet over my head and reach for the remote control. This self portrait sums up how I felt yesterday!

Ho-hum! It's a new day, it's a new dawn, it's a new me and today - the 1st of January 2011 - I'm feeling good.

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