Resolute

I decided this year I would bother with resolutions. 2012 was disastrous for me. I lost too much. I gained barely anything. Apart from the will to change. Well that and a ridiculous amount of weight.

My resolutions weren't designed to be something I did or accomplished straight away and in fact I started one of them before new year actually arrived. I quit smoking two weeks ago, today. I had a couple of tokes on NYE but quite honestly, I've done well. I'm proud of myself.

My resolutions have been planned around my last year and what I hated about it mostly.

1) Try and make friends. I am useless at this and too scared to become friendly with people because I am adamant they will hurt me; which, previous experience has taught me, is true. This will not be true of everyone and I need to find the ones who won't hurt me. I want to spend more time with the people I do actually have and I will.
2) Lose weight. This should be fairly simple seeing as I have the perfect diet designed by an amazing person. Plus I know it works as I have done it before.
3)Quit smoking. See previous comment.
4) Blog more. I don't know why really, considering I get to blog as much as I want all day because of my job. It's not the same though, I have the freedom to write what I want but not full freedom. I wanted to write daily, just to express how I feel but writer's block has prevented me the last couple of days, hence why my resolutions are a few days in to the new year.

That is literally it. I have no desire to pressure myself in to too much too soon. 

I need to be happy with everything in small bits. I need to do it in manageable chunks rather than bog myself down with too much at one time. I can do it. I know I can and I am not expecting to do too much straight away.

I don't like the way people criticise people for saying 'new year, new me.' Why is that a bad thing? Okay, maybe not all of them will make a change but at least they have made the effort to initially think of doing something. And that's a start. What have the critics done? Hmmm.

Happy new year people. 

A clear indication?

  When I first started driving I was so nervous. I would feel panicky and worried that terrible things would happen to me; obviously not good, however I over came that and am now a confident driver. I actually hate being a passenger with a passion, apart from the travel sickness, it’s the fact that I have to watch other people drive poorly. In our family road rage seems to be a common theme; Dad, older sister and myself=pure rage! Usually I am a fairly laid back person but the minute I am stuck behind some mindless plonker I get a little irritated.

  One thing I have noticed since driving around Eastbourne is the lack of indicating. By not doing a simple action it can have such dangerous consequences. Indicating not only alerts other drivers, but also pedestrians, as to where you intend on going. This doesn’t happen in Eastbourne, I think around 90% of drivers don’t know how to use theirs. I am constantly on the indicator purely because it comforts me to know that I have shown others where I am going so if, for some reason, there is some sort of problem I know I have given clear signal as to what I am doing.

  I have made a list of cars that I have no intention on buying, purely through the lack of indicators that are on those cars; surely it can’t be the actual driver’s fault?! No, I doubt that greatly, it’s definitely the car, so I now know never to get one of around 20 different types of car. Maybe I should write to the manufacturers and tell them that they have been building cars without indicators? What if the actual drivers haven’t even realised? This could cause uproar! I must do my bit to protect others against these menaces that are producing cars without correct fittings. I guess I could also mention the cars that only ever seem to have full beam lights on…

  There are only two categories you can possibly be part of, either;

 You, the driver, have the common sense and lack of care as a dead lettuce leaf,

Or

 Your car manufacturer needs to be notified of the terrible mistake they have made in production.

  We all know it won’t be the manufacturer so, perhaps, before you turn on to another road, around a roundabout or into a parking space let the rest of us know, or you will either have a crash or, potentially, seriously injure a passer by. Just saying…

Miss C x