I am today over my disgust at completely losing yesterday's post when once again my Blink Internet connection dropped out without me realising, don't you just love that after typing for an hour.
The whole post was about Reflections of 2011, what to do? Just start again so here goes!
In reflecting on 2011 the difficulties experienced have clearly influenced the decisions we are making in our lives, this time a year ago I was still in the midst of a breakdown and dealing with long term sick leave from my workplace, financial hardship, realisation that we would have to give up our beautiful lifestyle on the Central Coast of NSW and return to our country home with the most difficult matter being the unknown.
I suppose that it was the unknown that forced me to reconsider our plans to travel, live and work in the UK, plans that were put on hold and at times forgotten after the unexpected birth of my soon to be five year old.
The past year saw the loss of several relatives, terrible natural disasters like the Queensland floods and fires here in Australia and others all over the world, moves from Umina Beach back to the country then to Sydney taking its toll, starting a new job whilst recovering still both mentally and physically from my illness, wow I really have acheived a lot.
One of my major disapointments of 2011 was failing to complete my long sought after undergraduate degree. I was unable to complete as the final subject of the degree was a workplace research project, needless to say that the fact that I no longer had a workplace meant that graduating was out of the question, am determined to finish this year and hopefully obtain a credit or higher this is one of my goals for 2012.
One of the benefits of my illness was learning how to set and acheive goals, short term or long term and the sense of acheivement in meeting these goals.
Anyway now that 2012 is here with two of our milestones met we are well on our way to the big move, are now planning on seeing some of the London Olympics which we had really not taken note of when looking at our move and the timeframe, looks like our airfares will be excessive due to the Olympics, didn't factor that in and now considering stop off's in either Asia or Dubai, not sure but G is determined to go to Dubai so looks like he will get his way this time.
Well the Christmas tree is down and most of the decorations put away forward we go into 2012 with a positive outlook and excitement aplenty.
Cheers Saffy........
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