Ode to the year of the *woof*woof*

Another year, another beginning.

I know it's a bad start to a good start (!), but I have been so slack with my blogging, it is almost beyond repair. Unbeknownst to all of you (but not anymore!), i have always quietly kept a notebook of my day to day activities. In the first year of meeting my beloved, I kept a diary of what we did everyday. Ah, the wonder of young love! And then the note-taking started dwindling and gradually stopped. If only life came in reverse - you get all the crap stuff out of the way, and then you enjoy the wonderfulness of new beginnings. Only it would be end - or something like that. Anyway, I put it down to being too busy living a life to spend time talking about it!!!

So, my 2005 ended on a quietly, unassuming tone. Just how I like it, sometimes I like to believe that about myself. I have been trying for the last couple of weeks (not very hard, obviously) of what has happened in the year that's just passed. And it dawned on me that my biggest break through has been finally finishing my studies, and then meeting my best friend again after 4.15 years (yes, we are specific!) in New York and getting a taste of her world. Which, now looking back, has been awesome and I still get bouts of New York sickness. But the last year has also been the year of most inertness. I switched on the automatic button in my brain, and just went on with my daily life, chilling out. And it has been nice - but while it's been nice, it's also been somewhat unfulfilling in the sense of self-development! It just sets to enhance my laziness, which I have oodles of.

So what is in store for 2006? Catching up with old friends for one. It felt like a blink of an eye, but it's been almost 10 years since I last sat for my O'Levels. It's an amazing achievement in its own right, I think. But I can't wait to see everyone convene in April, and I can't wait to see certain people and ask them the places and people they've seen since then.
Like Johann, getting healthy is another biggie on my agenda. Amazing how easily one forgets to exercise and say 'I'll do it another day'. So this year is going to be one of purposeful effort on my part. I am almost at my thinnest in many years, yet I am also at my weakest. I could sleep for Australia (quoting my sister, constantly used by my beloved) and still feel tired. And some days I look in the mirror and feel the entirety of my 26 years ++!!!! So yes, more healthy eating and more exercising.

Also on the agenda - learning German, play an instrument again, and be a little more adventurous!!!!

I hope everyone had a very good start to their new year themselves, live your dreams. They don't have to be big, they just have to stop being dreams!!!
xx