2014 Reflecting

So 2014 has finally come to an end, and it's kind of been a good year for me. It's been quite drama free but also quite productive.

I like to look back on the years and see what I've achieved and whats been good and what hasn't been so good, so here I am going to have one last look back on 2014 before bringing in 2015. 

So for the past couple of years I have wrote a list of goals that I've wanted to achieve that year and have marked them off throughout the year, so lets see how I did...

• Get a full time job
  Done! Found a new job in February.
• Get a place with Chris Yep! Me and Chris finally moved in together in July.
• Jog more
  Done! Especially throughout December!
• Jog/run 5K Unfortunately Not :(
• Stress less Again, not successful. 
• Conquer a fear
    Nope
• Have a memorable 21st
  My 21st wasn't crazy but it was nice, the day started with pancakes for breakfast, the Lush Spa, then partying with some of my closest friends.
• Paris
  Nope :(
• Have a spa break
  Okay so I didn't go to a Spa Break as such but I went to a spa, does that count?
• Have a weekend away 
  Unless it's been to visit family, then nope.
• Go to a festival
  Nope
• Sign up to a charity
  Nope, I do give money and food to the homeless where I can though
• Reach 500 1000 blog followers on either blog
  I reached 500 quite early on so upped my goal, however, with work, finding time for my blog hasn't been easy :(
• Try something new
  In terms of foods, I have tried so many different things this year
• Host a dinner party
  Since moving out, Chris and I host dinner parties all of the time.
• Learn to cook
• With my boyfriend being such an amazing cook, it's difficult. However, I have dabbled in baking.
• Go a whole month without drinking
  I did Sober October!
• Read 30 (minimum) books 
  Again, time for reading has been difficult to find. Although I am recently getting back into it again.
• Give up something for lent - FAILED

I'm still working on my 2015 goals, but they will be in the side bar on my blog very soon!

New Years Resolutions!

For my final post of 2013 I'm going to be telling you all my new years resolutions!

I don't always make resolutions, sometimes I'm not in the mind set and think 'if you want to change something why wait till new years?' But I also think it's really great to start a new year with an open mind and goals of what you would like to achieve, so that's what I'm going to be doing. 

Get a full time job

I've kinda been a bit lazy the past year (or two) by only working part time and just waiting for my dream job to just come to me. I refused to work anywhere I didn't love, and I realised that could take years or may not happen at all so this year I want to just get a full time job. I don't mind what it is, I just need to get back into habit of working more.

Get our own place

This has been a plan for around a year now. However, finding somewhere to live in London with not a huge budget is proving difficult. Me and my boyfriend have discussed moving out of London soon so this may be on the cards, I'll keep you updated.

Jog

At the start of every year I tell myself to eat healthier and exercise more and in the first week of January I go full force into that, I exercise every day and eat fruit and chicken constantly. But then a week later I get bored. 

This year I'm not telling myself to jog a certain amount of times a week or anything but I do want to jog more when I can. 

Stress less

Something I haven't ever discussed on my blog and don't plan to (not yet anyway) is that I've been suffering from anxiety a lot the past year. It's gradually getting worse so I hope to work on that a lot in the new year.

Blog more and build blog/s

My final resolution is to build both of my blogs, I finally have my blogging head back and have been loving it more than ever lately, I have triple the amount of followers as I did last year and I hope to build that and create lots of fun future blog posts.

So that's it, time to say goodbye to 2013. It's been a good one, despite a few bumps, I've learnt a lot, matured a lot and I'm excited to see what 2014 will bring. I hope you all have a great new years whatever it is you're doing. 

Thank you for your constant support.

See you next year.  

2014 To do List...

As seen in my previous post, last year I put together a fun lost of things I wanted to do or achieve that year, throughout the year I checked them off and earlier today, I looked back at my progress. 

Now it's time for my 2014 goals, I'll put all of these into their own tab at the top of my blog and will most likely add to it throughout the year. 

Some may be repeated if I did them in 2013 and really enjoyed them.

Here goes...

• Get a full time job
• Get a place with Chris
• Jog more
• Jog/run 5K
• Stress less
• Conquer a fear
• Have a memorable 21st
• Paris
• Have a spa break
• Have a weekend away 
• Go to a festival
• Sign up to a charity
• Reach 500 blog followers on either blog
• Try something new
• Host a dinner party
• Learn to cook

That's all I can think of for now. Hopefully I can complete the majority of them and I'm sure I'll be adding more over time. So see my progress throughout the year check the tab next to my blog header.

Have a great new year.