23/12/2008

Living up to London

Despite being the sort of person who loves to plan everything out, even if I'd spent a year do so, I don't think I'd have predicted even half of what these past-four months have brought.

At the end of August I moved up to London. I'd just got back from America and Canada, hadn't started work, and had nowhere arranged to live permanently. Four months later and all that seems like a distant memory. Here I am now back home for Christmas having found a lovely flat in Ealing near the Common to share with Eley, Lottie and Simon, and really enjoying work. It's been a fun and sometimes frantic four months, and so much has happened that to try and recount it all would be impossible, and would just do each event an injustice. More recently though, I've been skiing (and strudel tasting) in Italy with Anna, and yesterday was my birthday, so 'thank you' to everyone who wished me a happy one, and especially to Lottie for laying on a wonderful spread of food that should keep us going well past Christmas, and to Anna, for being a formidable karting partner yesterday evening – Lewis Hamilton would have been quivering in his racing shoes, had he been there.

What will the New Year and beyond bring? Who knows. I'm one of these people who makes notional New Year's resolutions, largely because it's the done thing and because I like making lists, but this year, I feel I'm actually going to make some that are going to stick. Perhaps it's because I'm finally 23 - I've always considered this to be the first proper “grown up” age, so I suppose, I'm now a grown up in my own eyes, expect, I'm not. Yet.

So, what are they? In no particular order: To cycle into work and back each day; to buy a, and learn to play the ukulele; to start playing badminton again; to take up karting properly once the new season begins in March; and (can I have this one?) to finally get around to doing everything I've been either putting off, or too lazy or busy to sort out.

2009, here we come. But until then, I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas whatever you've got planned, and wherever you're doing it.

Take care.