So far, 2012's arse remains resolutely unkicked

At the start of the year, I posted a picture of the new boots I'd bought.

It's little more than a month later and I've already worn off the treads and broken the heels of said boots, and since the weather's turned icy I've been back to wearing my battered old jump boots. This is both a lesson to me that cheap footwear doesn't save money in the long term, and also a rather apt metaphor for how things are going so far.

( So here's where I am at the moment: )