2015

It's a new year and despite not blogging for months, I decided I wanted to reflect upon 2014/2015 on here...

2014 has been (and I'm sure will be) the most challenging year of my life.

I've lost the person who, at this stage in my life, was most important to me. Mum, I will miss you and love you everyday.

Although that will be the defining memory of 2014, I have also achieved goals which I never though we're possible: I've actually started exercising! Yep, after a lifetime of inactivity I have now been running for 4 months, have run 2x 10km races and have a half marathon lined up for 2015. Running has become the highlight of my day (maybe that means I should get a life*).

*'The terrible and wonderful reasons I run long distance' by The Oatmeal pretty much sums it up.

I also somehow managed to get the results I wanted for AS Level which allowed me to apply (and get rejected) from Oxford. It's all character building, right? There's always next year...

I'm sure I will have plenty more failures to come so I better get used to it.

2015 will be another year of incredible change. Finally leaving the city I've grown up in and subsequently the people I see everyday. There will be 1 or 2 people who it will kill me to say goodbye to and I'm absolutely dreading it. Friends and family are easy to keep in touch with but there are some people, those which you don't necessarily talk to a lot, but those which you go from seeing on a regular basis to almost no contact at all... Don't know how I'm going to deal with that at the moment.

I'm trrryyyyinnngg to stay positive about moving but failing massively. Im terrified.

I'm not normally one for New Years resolutions but decided that for this year some direction would be nice...