Promises
Cross my heart and hope to die…stick in a needle in my eye…
It’s strange that such a morbid pledge be used so commonly among children. It makes you wonder what effect this has on developing and impressionable minds. Perhaps it is a way we learn to deal with things that aren’t so pleasant in life?
Anyway, it is now a new year and for many of us, I guess that would mean turning over new leaves in respect to what we did not achieve in the previous year or what we would like to achieve. I remember one of my New Year’s resolutions from last year was to write on LJ at least once a month. I don’t think that really ended up happening though. This year, I would still like to update on LJ but obviously monthly may not always be possible. Nevertheless, I do not plan on abandoning LJ anytime soon; I like it too much to do that. It’d be kind of cool (in a geeky sort of way) to stick with this blogging thing till I’m old…not sure how realistic that is but anyway. Grandma Caroline’s Blog.
I started off the New Year with a cold…hurray me! I’m so awesome…perhaps that means I will not get sick in Autumn. Sometimes, I get sick once in the season before and don’t end up sick the next season…only that tends to happen when the seasons are changing. Damn…it’s only halfway through summer (almost).
Speaking of sickness, for those of you who I have not told yet, my mum had a pituitary tumour removed about one and half weeks ago. She was losing her vision and it turned out that it was because the tumour was pressing on the nerve to the eyes. So yeah, my family was pretty stressed out in the last two weeks. She had to have two lots of surgery and the reason why I was super stressed was because her tumour was 1mm off from being classified as giant (yes that is actually medical terminology, at least in respect to pituitary tumours anyhow). Also I finally confirmed to myself that I am pretty emotionally fucked up…well in relation to my parents anyway. But that is a matter I will address at a later date.
My mum’s home now and she’s recovering well, she appears pretty much back to normal only she’s tired/has a stuffy nose (the surgery was performed via the nose). She still needs follow-up appointments so hopefully, everything will go well and her vision will improve.
Okay. So that’s that.
Here is my New Year’s resolution:
1. Drink more water/eat more healthily
2. Exercise regularly
3. Try harder at uni (At this stage, it’s not about the marks…actually once I started uni it was never about the marks…if it was then I would’ve tried harder from the start. I just don’t want to turn out to be a shit doctor, I would hope that I am competent and knowledgeable once I graduate, not someone who has awesome marks. That sounds perverse because it is kind of difficult to have one without the other…but not so in my opinion, of course I want good marks but achieving what I would like to achieve is more about personal development rather than academic achievement, so I guess I want good marks…not awesome marks that mean nothing in the real world. Of course awesome marks would be good but that’s not my ultimate goal. Confused yet lol?)
4. Stop going for the usual types of guys I’m normally attracted to.
5. Put aside time every now and then to reflect on whether I am achieving my goals and if not what I need to do.
6. Have fun and be more carefree.
That’s all. I’m actually really excited about this year…but I’d have to say that starting anything new is exciting for me and I look forward to some awesome stationery shopping very soon. I’m such a nerd, but who doesn’t enjoy stationery shopping at the beginning of the year even just a little bit more than they should?
You know me and my organising but still…it’s more about starting afresh with a clean slate (& the prospect of colour-coded everything).
I have a habit of purchasing nice notebooks and only using a few pages. Or I cover exercise books with bits of interesting paper and similarly, use only a few pages in each…and so I have quite an impressive stack of barely used books. They’re nice to look at though (especially when stacked together).
Anyway, Happy New Year everyone! I wish you all a successful and thoroughly enjoyable year and may all your dreams and aspirations come true and may the year be filled with laughter, love and friends.
LOVE Caz
It’s strange that such a morbid pledge be used so commonly among children. It makes you wonder what effect this has on developing and impressionable minds. Perhaps it is a way we learn to deal with things that aren’t so pleasant in life?
Anyway, it is now a new year and for many of us, I guess that would mean turning over new leaves in respect to what we did not achieve in the previous year or what we would like to achieve. I remember one of my New Year’s resolutions from last year was to write on LJ at least once a month. I don’t think that really ended up happening though. This year, I would still like to update on LJ but obviously monthly may not always be possible. Nevertheless, I do not plan on abandoning LJ anytime soon; I like it too much to do that. It’d be kind of cool (in a geeky sort of way) to stick with this blogging thing till I’m old…not sure how realistic that is but anyway. Grandma Caroline’s Blog.
I started off the New Year with a cold…hurray me! I’m so awesome…perhaps that means I will not get sick in Autumn. Sometimes, I get sick once in the season before and don’t end up sick the next season…only that tends to happen when the seasons are changing. Damn…it’s only halfway through summer (almost).
Speaking of sickness, for those of you who I have not told yet, my mum had a pituitary tumour removed about one and half weeks ago. She was losing her vision and it turned out that it was because the tumour was pressing on the nerve to the eyes. So yeah, my family was pretty stressed out in the last two weeks. She had to have two lots of surgery and the reason why I was super stressed was because her tumour was 1mm off from being classified as giant (yes that is actually medical terminology, at least in respect to pituitary tumours anyhow). Also I finally confirmed to myself that I am pretty emotionally fucked up…well in relation to my parents anyway. But that is a matter I will address at a later date.
My mum’s home now and she’s recovering well, she appears pretty much back to normal only she’s tired/has a stuffy nose (the surgery was performed via the nose). She still needs follow-up appointments so hopefully, everything will go well and her vision will improve.
Okay. So that’s that.
Here is my New Year’s resolution:
1. Drink more water/eat more healthily
2. Exercise regularly
3. Try harder at uni (At this stage, it’s not about the marks…actually once I started uni it was never about the marks…if it was then I would’ve tried harder from the start. I just don’t want to turn out to be a shit doctor, I would hope that I am competent and knowledgeable once I graduate, not someone who has awesome marks. That sounds perverse because it is kind of difficult to have one without the other…but not so in my opinion, of course I want good marks but achieving what I would like to achieve is more about personal development rather than academic achievement, so I guess I want good marks…not awesome marks that mean nothing in the real world. Of course awesome marks would be good but that’s not my ultimate goal. Confused yet lol?)
4. Stop going for the usual types of guys I’m normally attracted to.
5. Put aside time every now and then to reflect on whether I am achieving my goals and if not what I need to do.
6. Have fun and be more carefree.
That’s all. I’m actually really excited about this year…but I’d have to say that starting anything new is exciting for me and I look forward to some awesome stationery shopping very soon. I’m such a nerd, but who doesn’t enjoy stationery shopping at the beginning of the year even just a little bit more than they should?
You know me and my organising but still…it’s more about starting afresh with a clean slate (& the prospect of colour-coded everything).
I have a habit of purchasing nice notebooks and only using a few pages. Or I cover exercise books with bits of interesting paper and similarly, use only a few pages in each…and so I have quite an impressive stack of barely used books. They’re nice to look at though (especially when stacked together).
Anyway, Happy New Year everyone! I wish you all a successful and thoroughly enjoyable year and may all your dreams and aspirations come true and may the year be filled with laughter, love and friends.
LOVE Caz