December Wrap Up

Another year is almost over and it spells a huge change for me. I resigned from my current, secure full-time employment and have taken the leap into some kind of locum work. January will be the start of training for a job at a laser vision clinic and the end of work at my current job. It is exciting and stressful and all things good and bad at the same time.


It turns out sunscreen wrecks camera screens, among other things. I'm surprised it doesn't cause cancer with the amount of things it "eats". I'm pretty sad about my camera screen being a bit stuffed. And I'm wondering if I had cleaned it when I first noticed the strange look it had in South America, would it be fine now. I'm thinking not.

I want next year to be better than this year. It's not that this year was bad, but I spent a lot of time just getting by, doing just what was necessary. So I have made a little list of things that I want to implement to make next year better.

Exercise regularly and get fit!
In November I started a new exercise regime and I think I have now set a record for the longest I have stuck to one. I'm definitely going to keep it up through December and all next year.

Get better at photography and Photoshop
I've already started making changes to this one too. With the little bit of extra time I will have after I finished full time employment, hopefully I can spend even more time on this!

Enjoy every day more
Up until we went to South America, sometimes the only thing that got me out of bed in the morning was the thought of that trip. I don't want next year to be like that. I want to want to get up. I want to feel more motivated to go to work. I want to have more reason for working than just to earn money to go on holidays.

Keep the house cleaner/tidier
I'm super lazy when it comes to cleaning, but then I have a huge surge of needing the house to be super clean and get frustrated. I don't want to spend all of my free time cleaning, but I need to figure out a way to keep the house clean easily.

Be slower to anger
I get angry too easily. I get frustrated too quickly. I want to try harder to have more patience and stop myself from getting overly angry at stupid things. I have been known to throw sewing projects in the bin if I have had to unpick them a number of times. I also get a bit road ragey.

Cross everything off my bucket list!
There's a good chance we won't be living in this area come 2016, so I want to do as much of the things I have on my Newcastle bucket list as I can before we leave!

Happy new year everyone!