Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all!

This holiday season has been so much fun. I feel like I have done plenty.

When I finished work for the year on Friday 21 December, my holiday started. That evening I met my friend at her house and we tootled on down to our local to enjoy an evening with friends and a Pink Floyd cover band for entertainment. Not only was it a lovely evening, but the weather was fantastic and it did not get cold once that night.

The next day was my friends birthday, so it was back to her house again and ready to celebrate. We spent the day sitting on her deck – in the shade though, and I still managed to get sunburnt. It was a fun day just three of us friends, her granddad and her mum, having conversations, sharing jokes, laughing. In the afternoon we got into our togs and went to the beach where we played in the ocean in a blow up boat – or should I say we rode the waves with a blow up boat, it was fun fun fun.

On Sunday I had some me and Mum time, we went to the local, caught up with some people and saw some Christmas lights. Christmas Eve was on Monday and it was $5 pints all day so one of the new friends I made in 2012 spent some time drinking those.

I must say being just Mum and I in the house this year, it didn’t really feel too much like Christmas. However, on Christmas day I started singing “it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!”

Mum and I had pancakes for Christmas breakfast, then we got ready and went to my brothers house for the day. It was so nice, Tyler was so excited with all the presents he got and I was awfully excited with mine. An X-box and the perfume I've been after for a long while. Christmas lunch was yummy and scrummy – we had Ham and Turkey, and lots of salads and yum yum yummy! And the deserts were scrummy as well!

I went and spent Christmas night at a friends house which was more fun, and then was off to another friends house on Boxing Day.

On the 27/12 Mum and I went out for the arvo and then came home and spent until midnight playing X-box Kinect – what a hoot we had!

I dropped Mum at the air port of Friday. She was off to Wellington and then Picton for New Years, so I had the house to myself.

On Sunday I left for my New Years trip. A few friends and I went down to Taupo and stayed in a back packers for three nights. It was so much fun. We swam in the lake and made lots of new friends, and went to the museum and ate yummy food, and celebrated the new year. When we were out celebrating New Years Eve I ran into my cousin from Wellington which was a wicked way to end the year!

We arrived back in Auckland on the 2nd January and I have still been having an absolute blast enjoying my summer holiday. It’s Sunday now and I don’t go back to work till Wednesday – woot woot two more days of holiday!

2012

Well I made it through the “end of the world” and am pretty happy with how I spent my year and what I achieved.

In 2012, I have:

• Seen parts of New Zealand I had never seen before.
  • When Cami came visiting in April, we went on a road trip up north. I visited new places and met some new people.
  • Recently, I attended an early childhood conference down south and saw some new places again.
• Finished the first year of my bachelors degree.
  • Now I only have just over a year and a half left, compared to the two I had left in August when I finished my first year. I am rather happy with the way I finished it as I got pretty good marks.
• Attended my awesome nephews baptism in May and his first birthday in July, then in August I gained a sister (in-law) when his parents got married in Rarotonga.
• Visited Rarotonga.
  • When my brother got married in August, we all went to their wedding in Rarotonga. It was so much fun and so relaxing. We hired scooters while we were there and I managed to be the only one to have an accident, I lost balance and ripped the skin off the tips of my toes – they’re much better now!
• Made new friends and tried new things.
• Paid off half of my car loan!!
• Lost 10kgs.
• Hard work, fun, and being sensible.

I have done so much more than just this small selection of memories. I feel that I have achieved the goals I set for myself, although I could just call my 2012 goals a lifestyle.

My Goals of 2012:

Do something scary: Get out of your comfort zone and try something you don’t think you have the confidence to do.

Do something new: You don’t always have to do the same things, try something new.

Do something fun: Basically live and happy and fun life, don't allow things to become unnecessarily un-fun or annoying.

Do something sensible: This is where the adult comes in and has to work harder to be wiser with money and school work.

Do something regularly: I can throw my read more books into this category.

Do something less: Break a habit that's not necessary or good for you.

One thing I lacked in 2012 was using my blog, so I am going to aim (in general) to be more blog savvy and post about what I am doing more regularly.