Resolutions, family, presents and too much turkey..

Belatedly- happy festive season!!
I've had the most amazing few weeks, beginning with a lovely early Christmas dinner with my 2 favourites, to going home, to having an amazing and very sober beginning to 2013!

Of course nothing seems to go without some kind of hiccup, and mine was £110 worth of repairs to my car, but also a solved mystery to why I've had so many problems and I'm now entering 2013 with a non clunky sounding car that runs like a dream (definitely the first time I've been able to say that!), but it meant that I couldn't drive down to south wales as originally planned therefore my car hasn't yet celebrated her 90,000th birthday.

I'm entering 2013 full of hope, because 2013 is going to be a big one. This year will see me apply for medical school after 5 years of anticipation, it will see a new phase to my currently 4 year relationship, because after what seems like an eternity of being stagnant, this year we will at least have to start looking towards the future both as individuals and as a couple. This is the year I turn 21, which seems so adult! But I think it'll prompt me to mature further to be able to take on commitments and mentally prepare for the possibility of becoming a doctor. It's the year I'll take the UKCAT, and the GAMSAT, which is frightening, on top of completing my second year, but I'm so much more ready now than I ever was when I was 17. The advantages of applying to medicine later in life is that you have the added responsibility and maturity, which I now see as necessary and I'm so glad that I'm here in Brighton first, because it feels so destined that I am here. I no longer resent the decisions I made when I was 16 but see them as something that was admittedly awful at the time, but its led me to where I am now and I'm so thankful for that. This year im going to at least look into where I'm going to live for at least the next few years of my adult life, and im excited! Finally this year is going to be a big one in my relationship with God, I don't know how yet, I just know it's going to be huge and I'm so excited by it!!

Now on to resolutions:
1. Take more photos, this is going to be a momentous year, and I want to document it, I will be doing a photo a day for a year which I will document on tumblr, of which I will put a link on here
2. Read the bible more and seek God whole-heartedly this year, because then I will learn to rely on him more completely, and because I can't do this alone
3. As always lose some weight, increasing my exercise will increase my productivity, essential for this year! And I need to develop a more healthy relationship with food to improve my overall health, I'm equipped to do this, I just need to not be so sedentary in this area.
4. Become better with my finances, at least more aware. I'm a student so I should budget like one, instead of having a too laid- back attitude because 'it's fine, I have a job now...'

And to everyone who reads this blog regularly or randomly stumbles across it, happy new year, may it be prosperous!

XOX