New Year's Resolutions - 2009

Last year's resolutions were so-so - I ate more healthily and probably lost about a stone or so. I don't count these days. My allotment improved, but total fail on tattoo, 10k or finishing my RHS course. Big win on thee getting a new job, though :)

This year:

- running: would like to be able to run my 5k in 30 minutes by the end of the year. If that's achieved earlier than planned, I would love to run a reasonably timed 10k. Would also like to do an official trail run, as mud doesn't seem to impede my slowness ;)

- knitting: use up all my current yarn. Knit myself some fingerless gloves. Buy some nice yarn and knit m jumper pattern by the end of the year.

- garden: get rid of the greenhouse and lay lawn over the current pool of mud by March.

- weight loss: what can I say when I've already said I don't do counting here any more? I'm going tom have an intense blitz until the middle of March when I get my dress adjusted. Then no more until after the wedding in May as I don't want my dress falling down. Vain, petty, but quite reasonable IMO :) Really I'd like to get to the top of my acceptable weight bracket, as that would get the medical profession off my case, but then that would involve counting pounds, which I don't agree with. Hmm.

- yoga: once a week

- RHS: finish the damn course already

- career: I need to find a job more flexible than Wyevale. It was great to achieve this goal, and it's boosted my confidence, but something needs to give as working Mondays is no good for me any more. A change in day would work, but my heart tells me moving on is probably better. But jobs with minimal non-weekend hours are hard to come by, and I still want to look after the child. I have faith something will happen here :)

- singing course: they had a saturday class at the Folk house that just got you to open your mouth and sing. I'd love to do that - boundary pushing in a cool way :) They don't have it this term, but they do have a day school in conversational Spanish :)

- spam: every time I see a piece of unsolicited mail, I will unsubscribe or report it as spam

Beautiful holiday

Well, getting hitched was better than I expected, and clears the way of stress for the big proper event in May. Woot.

Then we went to Pembrokeshire for a few days of freezing holiday. Down points were the cold, leading to controlled skids along 3 miles of back road. Further down was not learning my lesson on that the first time ;) Up points were two very fine coastpath runs, watching the child totally max out on the happy of being by the beach and having a log burner to inch towards. And finally the extreme beauty of the beach on the final day. I can't describe it adequately, just to say the freezing weather made the small enclosed beach near daybreak into a shimmering mass of water and ice. Turquoise, pink and silver. Like an amazing icicled frost palace by the sea.

And even running through half frozen sea water up to my ankles couldn't spoil this :) Absolutely perfect.

Meh squared

The neighbours over the road are being arseholes about their new drive. Seriously - I'm a considerate person and literally parked about one wheel's width over the edge of the drop kerb, leading to a mental note threatening to tow me away next time. This is the biggest drop kerb you've ever seen, probably not legal, and the drive was totally accessible. I can totally appreciate that they want their drive kept clear, but I also don't see myself getting that huffy as long as I could get in and out. So I'm annoyed. Grr. Etc.

And again it's impossible to cover a work day in a couple of weeks time. This job just ain't working for me any more.

*grump*