Bright and shiny and new

I do love January...the promise of a new, perfect year.

I ordered my Frankie diary from Angie last year and now can finally use it!

I've been taking a lot of time lately to work out what I like doing, what will make me a happier person who does more and naps less. With that in mind here are my resolutions for 2012...

In a year I will be able to:

- Run 20 minutes on the treadmill and not want to shoot myself

- Pick an entire salad out of my veggie garden (I'm talking Serious Salad here, none of that iceberg lettuce and sliced tomato crap...more on this later)

- Say 2012 was a really great year

I want to:

- Think less and create more (I overthink everythink and do nothing)

- Get my website up and running

- Be more attentive to my blog...poor malnourished thing

- Get my Honours degree

- Be a better friend (They generally deserve it)

Good luck to all of us :) I have a good feeling about this.

Here are some more pics of the amazing Frankie Diary, courtesy of Miss Lucky Pony again...

xx

Let's try that again shall we?

As of Monday...

1. I no longer have a job (my choice, not theirs...I wasn't that crap)

2. I have no clue. Nope, not a single sausage.

3. I am being honest with myself about certain unavoidable truths.

4. I am really, really happy. 

So while I am waiting to hear if my application for Honours was accepted, here are a few things I want to do over the next couple of months...

1. Draw draw draw

2. Blog blog blog

3. Start a veggie garden (this has always been a Martha Stewart-type fantasy of mine)

4. Start gyming for reals

5. Get my next tattoo (Too excited...cannot wait)

6. Redo my room

7. Cook more (More on this later)

8. Make pretty things

9. Stay really, really happy.

Fail. Win.

So it's that wonderful time of year again...and time for some self-improvement.
I blogged my resolutions last year, thought I'd see how well I did...


1. Be healthier. Lose weight. Boooring but there you are. Er, epicness of failness.
2. Not waste time on silly boys, make more time for non-silly ones. Ahem. Well.
3. Paint more, sleep less. Only illustration stuff, thought about sleep all year.
4. Design like I give a damn. Coz I do. Always.
5. Listen to all the music on my itunes. (I get stuck in my playlist rut) Let's just say the Glee soundtrack may have set me back a bit...
6. Do the things that make me happy. Almost.
7. Be unafraid. I fear less all the time.
8. Work out what I'm doing with my life in 2011. Hmm. 
9. Write my dreams down. Nope.
10. Be happy. Because sometimes misery can be less effort. No comment.


So all in all, absolute failure. But I've got other things I'm proud of...
1. I've now been a vegetarian for just over 8 months. It can be an absolute pain, but I'm so happy to finally be acting on an issue that is so close to me.
2. I'm trying to kick people out. You don't deserve anything from me anymore.
3. I finished my degree...I finally have my BA in Communications Management :) Fancy words for making pretty pictures.


My adventure's just beginning. Happy New Years xx

Always something else.

THINGS I NEED TO DO MORE
1. Draw random things.
2. Blog!
3. Make things.
4. Go running and stop being a fattie.
5. Redo my portfolio and make nice designey things :)
6. Learn how to cook more veggie meals.
7. Have Kalk Bay days.
8. Embrace my pretentious art studentness and go to galleries.
9. Listen to Kitsune Noir mixcasts coz they're awesome.
10. Get tattooed.


THINGS I REALLY NEED TO DO LESS
1. Biting my nails. I have been saying this for years.
2. Reading wedding blogs. Creepy much?
3. Listening to the Glee soundtrack and thinking I can sing.
4. Being hard on myself.
5. Stressing out and getting break-outs and feeling KUK coz of work.
6. Playing Plants vs Zombies. Procrastination at its best!
7. Telling people in-depth accounts of my cat's day.
8. Sleeping. Must buy iron pills.
9. Hanging on to things that are so over they need a new word for over. (SATC references ftw)
10. Being angry about change.

Happy New Year you fab bunch you

"You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

Hope everyone had as good a new years as me :) Realised at 12 that I hadn't made any resolutions...so attempting to make some up now.

1. Be healthier. Lose weight. Boooring but there you are.
2. Not waste time on silly boys, make more time for non-silly ones.
3. Paint more, sleep less.
4. Design like I give a damn. Coz I do.
5. Listen to all the music on my itunes. (I get stuck in my playlist rut)
6. Do the things that make me happy.
7. Be unafraid.
8. Work out what I'm doing with my life in 2011.
9. Write my dreams down.
10. Be happy. Because sometimes misery can be less effort.