New Year, New Me!

Okay so 2012 is here, the year the Olympics come to the UK and more importantly my last full year in my 20's which means plans are afoot in my head, and now on this blog, to make it a really great year and not to sound too clichéd but hopefully my best year yet.

Now, such an ambitious outlook is never fulfilled without some well thought out plans. So here they are both trivial and challenging.

• New hair cut - It has to be done. My hair is a mess both colour and cut so I think new year, new look, new me.  Appointment is booked for 19th Jan so until then hair research and idea gathering is a must. In the meantime I have bought this to see me through the remaining bad hair days. It gets great reviews and is on sales in Boots at the moment at only £15.49.

• Secondly and probably most commonly with new year resolutions, I want to lose weight. I did really well last year to lose about 10 pounds and I felt great too. I had loads of energy and my head was less stressed as when I 'm not keeping fit and eating well I really do worry a lot and I find I am a lot grumpier. Therefore hopefully if I reignite my enthusiasm for fitness and put more effort into my meals I will feel less stressed and happier too, not to mention get that bikini bod for Summer. I weighed myself this morning fully clothed and I weighed 9st 13lb! Ah when did this happen... anyway my aim is to reach 8 stone 13lb and maintain there or there abouts until the end of the year.  I have joined a gym and will blog about it at a later date but my stone in weightloss starts now.

• Hopefully in combination with my above goal I would like to run a 10K this year for charity. I have always wanted to run a race to raise money for a good cause and have been talking about it for years now. This is the year!

• I would like to do more travelling this year with my boyfriend.  We got off to a slow start travelling in our relationship as my boyfriend spent the first 2 years of our relationship trying to get over his fear of flying. We have now reached that stage and in fact have taken some great holidays together. However I feel we could both have utilised our holidays and money better last year so I am going to be the leader of all things sun, sea and surf orientated. I have holiday brochures gathered and have my Summer wardrobe at the ready.

• This doesn't really support the above goal but I really need to save money this year as I would like to buy a house before I am 30.  I have some money saved but not very much so this year is the year for some frugleness. This does not mean no spending, this just means some serious saving and less frivolous shopping on things I really don't need. I have set myself a monthly saving plan so hears hoping I stick to it.

• After this Christmas, and a somewhat long and tiresome game of 1983 trivial pursuit I realised my pathetic and embarrassing lack of general knowledge. Hence I aim to rectify this by reading more factual books as well as fiction, to spend more time trying to retain some facts and most of all whooping my younger brothers ass next Christmas. I have bought a book about the 100 most influential people in history as I figure that's a good place to start. Once I have finished that I will find a new factual book to study - God I am like a 28 year old student! Now that is depressing.

So those are my resolutions or ambitions for this year and I intend to fulfill them all. I will keep you updated on the progress of them all on a regular basis as another side aim is to blog more. But until next time life here at 2F3 just got a whole lot more focussed.

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