It’s almost exactly a month since I last blogged, and so much has happened in this time! The most obvious, of course, is Christmas and New Year. I celebrated Christmas with my family: parents, grandparents, aunt and her husband, and saw in 2014 with Chris’s family. It has been wonderful to be back in my homeland (nothing like a bit of exaggeration!) for some time, visiting friends and family that I haven’t seen in a while!
As it’s 20 days into January already, I feel it is about time I posted a New Year Resolution post. If you read my blog last year, you may remember me mentioning that I don’t often make resolutions but after keeping the basic rules I set myself ‘I have decided to stay on track with everything I am doing and just keep working hard at everything. My aims this year are to keep trying to get 2:1’s in everything, and to get some work experience’, I wanted to carry these rules into 2014. This is especially true as it is my final year at university and I do desperately want to do well! Beyond this, I have decided to set one crucial resolution. Last year, I lost one of my secondary school friends and it made me realise how rarely I keep in contact with my old school friends.This is what happens when people go off to different universities and others carry on with other careers – people drift apart. It’s the inevitable. 2013’s tragic event made me realise that I can’t let this happen anymore, and I want to treasure my friends and let them all know how much they are appreciated (phew, this is getting emotional…)
This leads me to the important resolution: to stay in contact with my friends and to keep better contact from here on. I want to feel involved with people and I want to let people into my own life. As Garrison Keillor once said, ‘Be well, do good work, and keep in touch’, a quote I feel I can relate to and will live by from now on.
Have any of you made any New Year’s resolutions this year?
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Monday, 20 January 2014
Friday, 13 January 2012
First post of 2012
Okay, so this post is well overdue. It has been such a busy time recently, what with Christmas and New Year etc, but at least it gives me something to write about. I had my first university exam today (luckily only one in January!) so thought that the blog could wait until afterwards.
I was really worried that I wouldn’t get chance to see my friends over the Christmas ‘break’, as I was to be working so much. We all managed to catch up a couple of times at a pub after work, so that was good. I also managed to encourage one of my best friends to come and visit me as I have a week of nothing before lectures actually start, so she is coming up next Friday and I am SO EXCITED!!
So, let’s take a trip back to Christmas and let me recap for you. Other than working, I saw my friends and saw Chris and his family, and most importantly spent time with my family.
Christmas Day was spent as just the three of us (me and my parents). It was nice just to relax and do very little, for a change. We watched a long awaited episode of Dr Who; it was quite a sweet episode actually, but I have to stop being such a wimp when it comes to television as I seem to cry at most programmes.
We spent Boxing Day at my Grandparents, including my Aunt (who I hadn’t seen for ages) and Chris, there were seven of us in total. Tracy got me a kit where you can build your own gingerbread house, so Chris and I are going to do that this weekend :) Very unexpectedly, my grandparents gave me money as well as couple of little presents, so that was lovely and has gone straight in the bank – woo!
I got a fair few Christmas presents this year, although I shan’t rattle them all off for you! I got a printer, as I didn’t realise how vitally important it would be until first semester. That’s all set up now, nice and sleek in the corner of my room. I can’t help thinking about the trouble I am going to have when it comes to moving out of this flat; when I bought stuff back just from Christmas I had 2 full suitcases and the car was packed! So goodness knows how many trips I’ll need to move all the stuff out…oh well, a fair few months to worry about that…and to most likely accumulate more stuff!
Despite already having bought me LOADS of Christmas presents, Chris wanted to take me shopping at Westfield shopping centre. He spent a fortune on me, and I have such a lovely new collection of clothing!
I spent New Year at Chris’s house, as they were having a family party. It was a really happy occasion, everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and even people I had never met before made me feel like a real part of the family. We watched some of the fireworks on television and did our own little count down outside with party poppers, it was so sweet. Most special for me was that it was my first ever New Year’s kiss, as last year we were on different sides of the country. It was wonderful!
So here we are, 2012, it’s going to be a busy year with Olympics and whatnot. I wish everybody a wonderful year, and hopefully this time next year I will be writing about having an equally fantastic Christmas.
xx
I was really worried that I wouldn’t get chance to see my friends over the Christmas ‘break’, as I was to be working so much. We all managed to catch up a couple of times at a pub after work, so that was good. I also managed to encourage one of my best friends to come and visit me as I have a week of nothing before lectures actually start, so she is coming up next Friday and I am SO EXCITED!!
So, let’s take a trip back to Christmas and let me recap for you. Other than working, I saw my friends and saw Chris and his family, and most importantly spent time with my family.
Christmas Day was spent as just the three of us (me and my parents). It was nice just to relax and do very little, for a change. We watched a long awaited episode of Dr Who; it was quite a sweet episode actually, but I have to stop being such a wimp when it comes to television as I seem to cry at most programmes.
We spent Boxing Day at my Grandparents, including my Aunt (who I hadn’t seen for ages) and Chris, there were seven of us in total. Tracy got me a kit where you can build your own gingerbread house, so Chris and I are going to do that this weekend :) Very unexpectedly, my grandparents gave me money as well as couple of little presents, so that was lovely and has gone straight in the bank – woo!
I got a fair few Christmas presents this year, although I shan’t rattle them all off for you! I got a printer, as I didn’t realise how vitally important it would be until first semester. That’s all set up now, nice and sleek in the corner of my room. I can’t help thinking about the trouble I am going to have when it comes to moving out of this flat; when I bought stuff back just from Christmas I had 2 full suitcases and the car was packed! So goodness knows how many trips I’ll need to move all the stuff out…oh well, a fair few months to worry about that…and to most likely accumulate more stuff!
Despite already having bought me LOADS of Christmas presents, Chris wanted to take me shopping at Westfield shopping centre. He spent a fortune on me, and I have such a lovely new collection of clothing!
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| These are some of my favourite pieces :) |
I spent New Year at Chris’s house, as they were having a family party. It was a really happy occasion, everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and even people I had never met before made me feel like a real part of the family. We watched some of the fireworks on television and did our own little count down outside with party poppers, it was so sweet. Most special for me was that it was my first ever New Year’s kiss, as last year we were on different sides of the country. It was wonderful!
So here we are, 2012, it’s going to be a busy year with Olympics and whatnot. I wish everybody a wonderful year, and hopefully this time next year I will be writing about having an equally fantastic Christmas.
xx
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