Kind of New Year resolutions

[selenay]

I don't usually do the New Year resolutions thing, but I have been doing a bit of thinking over Christmas about the way last year has gone. There are good reasons for this, but it seems like my life has become much smaller over the past year. I'm not doing as many things and the group of people that I see regularly has become very small. Most of the news that I have is about things other people are doing rather than things that I'm doing. My life has contracted around me and that's not a good thing. My coping strategy used to always be making sure that there was a variety of fun things to look forward to that I needed to stay fit and well for. This year, I've let that slide. Work has been very stressful and exhausting, my mobility has reduced and I know that there have been periods when I've barely been coping with work and feeding myself, but that's no reason to stop living. It's time to stop the rot and the New Year seems like as good an excuse as any :-)

To that end, this year I will:

- Go on the London Eye.
- Go for high tea with mother and sis in one of the posh London hotels.
- Visit the Tower of London.
- Start haunting lastminute.com to find tickets for some good shows.
- See more than two films at the cinema over the course of the year.
- Make sure that I've got one fun outing planned every month, going on my own if necessary or if I need the time to myself.
- Finally arrange to go out for dinner with the old school friend I met through Friends Reunited more than a year ago rather than just thinking about it.
- Write more.
- Make sure that I see my friends - all of them, not just one or two - regularly.
- Get back to archery at least once a month.

I'll add to that list as I think of things :-) I've only got another year and a half living here. It's time to make the most of living here so that I don't have things I wish that I'd done when I leave. Anyone who can think of fun days out or things that I should try, feel free to comment!

Comments

[historyterry.livejournal.com]

Your resolutions all look good, I must say. And if you want anyone to go to the Tower of London with, well, I was only saying to G yesterday, that I must really (re)visit a lot of these London sites before I leave the area.

Hope your first day back at work this year goes well.

Tx

[selenay]

I may take you up on the Tower of London offer :-) Except I'm likely to go into history geek mode. But if you can cope with that...

First day back wasn't too bad. Second day we are discovering system bugs and trying to work out whether they're genuine system bugs or just bugs in trackers while doing half a dozen other things, but it still feels strangely calm here. Not quite sure what to make of that :-)

[historyterry.livejournal.com]

History geek, history geek... let me think... could I possibly put up with one of those... LOL! :-) Speaking as someone who was getting giddy at the prospect of a free lecture on Flinders Petrie's Palestinian collection at UCL later this month.

Actually, I have a very happy memory of the Tower of London - it's where we went on our very first family day out with our new stepfather, which was also on my mother's birthday. It'd be good to go back there again, and look at the place with fresh eyes.

Hope the rest of the day goes well. Me, I'm stuck with some crummy admin jobs, and trying to describe ledger accounts without my brain imploding, while still suffering the sinuses. *What* a lot of fun ( /sarcasm).

[blue-adagio.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year! Hope you'll get around to doing a lot of the abovementioned things. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for your health.

:)

[selenay]

Thank you :-) I certainly plan to do as many of the things above as possible. I managed some writing last night and I'm working out what my January fun outing could be.

And hopefully my health this year will be significantly better than it was last year!