2013 has some BIG boots to fill

New years resolutions. 

I never usually buy into them, mostly because I'm not fussed about celebrating NYE so I normally drift into January on a Christmas come-down focused only on short term goals. In the past those goals have revolved around university. 2012 was a brilliant year and has left behind some big boots to fill. 2013 however, has left me feeling a little unsettled already. This is the first year of post education life and I've been working in a 'proper job' as every one describes it since September, for the foreseeable future. The next few years of my life are no longer split up into years at university, terms and holidays, essays and exams and as delightful as this new pressure free life is, I feel like I'm drifting towards a completely unknown goal, or simply just drifting.

With no impending Olympic fever to look forward to (wasn't summer 2012 just amazing?), no end-of-uni-celebrations/trips/shenanigans to break my year up I just don't know what to look forward to. So for the first time in as long as I can remember, I'm jumping on the resolution bandwagon.....and I'm really looking forward to it!

I currently have very little planned for this year, no gigs to look forward to so far, no trips planned and no life changing career plans so I'm seriously going to have to make this year as exciting as I can. So, 2013 is to be my year, as I make it, and this blog will form one of my resolutions, as well as document the rest of them.

So those resolutions....

1. I'm going to cook more. I promised my mum when I moved home I'd cook once a week and that lasted a month at most. I have this wonderful French cookery book I bought in France a few years ago and it is dedicated solely to puddings so every week I'll be cooking a different pudding from this book. Not only will this test my cooking skills but my understanding of French. (As a warning it should be noted most of my cooking attempts are exciting to say the least...)

2. By Easter I'm going to open an Etsy shop full of beautiful things I've made and start directing my crafting skills into something useful.

3. That age old favourite... get fit. Last Easter I ran a marathon in my fastest  time yet of 5h32, for me a real achievement.  In the summer I cycled 180 miles from home to Cornwall, and since then I've done NOTHING. So I shall hop back on that bike and sort my life out. I work 14 miles from home and by March I will be cycling to and from work at least once a week.

That's all for now. I think three is enough to be going on with, especially as they are long term goals. I think it will be a better success story if I can continue all three of these throughout the year, rather than take on 13 different goals that I will undoubtedly only drop along the way.

So, 2013 blog post number one done. Watch this space for a weekly update on all things crafty and inevitable cookery disasters.