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[This is part 4 of my year in review posts.  Click for parts 1, 2 and 3.]

October.  October marked the end of my project 365, much to my disappointment.  I really wanted to finish and even now, months later, I still feel guilty that I didn’t get to complete the project.  But I was completely uninspired, taking horrible pictures with the iPhone, so I felt the need to let go of the project.

Sad. But it needed to be done.

And so I did.  I also made the decision to quit going to the gym and I struggled to get back into the swing of things.  I mean, by the end of October I wasn’t taking pictures, I was barely blogging, and I was tired of being overworked and overwhelmed.

In November, to try to get things back in order, I started NaBloPoMo, where you blog every day for a month.  At the end of November I also gave in and made the decision to buy my dSLR, something I had wanted to do for months.  But I had to wait, nervously, for it to get to me.

In December I made 2 big decisions… to do NaBloPoMo again, and to start a new photography project, 24 Days of Christmas.

Day 1. Off to a good start.

It worked out perfectly because, after a week of waiting, I got what I had been waiting for in the mail:

My new Nikon D90.  Love.

Playing with a sparkly branch after work one day.

I even got back into Photoshopping – here I cloned out some cars and played with the colors.

And everything changed.  Now I’ve been back into blogging, after blogging every day for 2 months.  I’m back into taking pictures, as my new camera has opened up so many opportunities… so much so that I think I’m ready to tackle project 365 in 2010.   I feel good.  No boyfriend at all through 2009 but… what can ya do?  I had too much going on anyway, no time for a guy!

So 2009 wasn’t so bad.  But I have high expectations for 2010.  Goals, if you will (since I don’t like the word resolution).  But that’s a whole new blog post. :o)

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