Happy New Year!
Posted: December 31, 2008 Filed under: Christmas, Miscellaneous 7 Comments »I hope that everyone had a great Christmas and that you are all set for your New Year celebrations tonight.
I can’t believe that it is almost 2009 – it seems so futuristic and space age! I remember being at school with Maths Chick in about 1989 and deciding that we would meet at the Eiffel Tower, wherever in the world we were living, on 1st January 2000 … and that was years in the future! Now, it’s 9 years later!
So, a new year provides the opportunity for new resolutions … and a time to reflect on whether I actually kept to my resolutions from 2008 …
Last year I said that I was going to try not to take any more carrier bags, eat 5 portions of fruit and veg a day and give up chocolate for a month.
Re the bags, my consumption reduced significantly and I reckon I took about 15 during the whole year. Not bad, and a massive improvement on the previous year, but I reckon I can do even better in 2009.
I didn’t manage to eat 5 portions of fruit and veg every single day, which is pretty rubbish, really. I did for for the first month or so, but then I fell off the fruit and veg wagon.
I think I manged to avoid chocolate for a month, although I can’t quite remember 
I certainly won’t be doing that again this year though – a pointless resolution (she says, stuffing another piece of Chocolate Orange in her mouth!)
As for this year’s resolutions… well, I haven’t firmed them up yet … but I reckon, not being late anymore, doing more exercise, and not working so much will be amongst them. Possibly trying to blog more, too.
Happiness and Health to you in 2009, Sally. I’ll look forward to your resolutions (seeing as I’m too feckless to come up with my own).
xx
Thanks, Lis … and HNY to you, too!
Just wondering if you and MC did actually meet up by the Eiffel Tower in 2000.
Masher: well, in the end, we decided that we would meet at midday on 28th May 1999 (my birthday) instead, as we thought the world may end at the turn of the millennium (as you do when you’re 15!).
But, we didn’t end up meeting as, although I was living in Brittany at the time and it would have been easy for me to get there, MC was in York and a skint student with a dissertation to hand in!
It later turned out that MC thought that we were meeting on 27th May, not 28th, so we would have missed each other anyway!
Have a beautiful new year!
Happy New Year!
As for giving up chocolate for a month…PAH!
That’s crazy talk woman!
Give up nothing. Just eat in moderation.
And if I could take my own advice, I’d be two sizes smaller:o)
xxx
Citronella: thanks – same to you!
Sophie: HNY! I think the moderation thing has gone out the window already – I’ve just scoffed a massive pack of Chocolate Buttons!