New Year Resolutions!

Well Christmas and merriment is almost upon us!!! Huzzah!

I like millions of people am looking forward to presents, booze and lots and lots of booze. Wine a plenty, but my tipple of choice is definitely Baileys!!! :D 

My decorations are hanging, my tree is up and my gifts are wrapped. My list of foods to buy or make is almost complete. I am very excited. Only a week and a half of work left to survive!! That includes two days of listening to presentations (and giving one...eek!) and a training day (yawn!). But then, it is time to switch off, catch up with the family and chill. Play games, walk across snowy fields (ok muddy ones) and be merry. But most importantly be thankful for everything i have and the people in my life. 

It gets to this time of year and i can almost taste the New Year. And with New Year comes New Year Resolutions! It is said that most people who make new years resolutions will break them before the month of January is out. The most commonly made and broken resolutions are:

• Lose weight and get fit
• Quit smokin
• Learn something new
• Eat healthier and diet
• Get out of debt and save money
• Spend more time with family
• Travel to New places
• Be Less stressed
• Volunteer
• Drink Less

Well tried and tested (and failed resolutions) seem the best so i'm going with lose weight and get fit...or a twist on it anyway. I'm a fairly healthy person, i go to the gym 4-6 days a week. I eat well (ok too much chocolate and too many carbs, but who is perfect?). But i want to take things to the next level. I want to scuplt my body, kind of like body building but without getting so massive. I don't want to be a stick insect, i want a 6 pack, i want the muscles, without looking ridiculous at the end of it all. A minor target is to hit my 30th Birthday in the best shape of my life. I have until March to get into awesome shape and start the next decade with the best version of me. 

So i guess that covers lose weight and get fit, eat healthier and diet and drink less. 3 for the price of one!  If anyone has any tips let me know. Otherwise come back in January to find out how my starting point and how well i do!

GOALS!!!

 

 

 

Festivities abound!

Well is that fantastic time of year, where the shops are forcing Christmas down your throat as you battle the crowds and food and alcohol find its way abundantly into your life. 

I swear that Christmas comes earlier every year! Everywhere you go, decorations, tinsel, 'bargins' to buy for stocking fillers. It all very quickly becomes so very overwhelming. And frankly, I can not be the only person who finds working full time (ok researching) and continuing a normal routine, a clean house and food shopping, all of that and frankly Christmas seems like a chore.

I'm sounding a bit Bah Humbug right now! I know! But their is one thing I really look forward to every year! 

The Lincoln Christmas Market is my very favourite weekend in the year!! I take a three day weekend, using the Friday to finish any christmas shopping, pick up any odds and ends i need in town, treat myself to a coffee or two:

What a TREAT!! I'm going to pay for this in the gym! haha! :D

NOM NOM. And then normally one evening into town to enjoy the market. This year, due to appalling winds and rain (send a prayer to the poor folks flooded out in cumbria) we went on a Sunday afternoon. I LOVE IT. The smells of German sausage (their is a joke their somewhere), freshly cooked Belgium waffles (delicious), mulled wine, normal wine, cinnamon cashews and fudge (I clocking hours on the treadmill for this). All of the beautiful craft stalls set in the heart of the historic part of Lincoln. All round the Cathedral and inside and surrounding the Castle and all round the Bailgate. Simply the most beautiful parts of Lincoln to be seen.  

The atmosphere was brilliant, the aroma's were mouth-wateringly delicious and the Company was the best. Going round with my dad and his best mate (a long time family friend). I mean that is what christmas is really about, the company of those you love, having a laugh, catching up, telling stories and jokes. Learning that even the closest people in your lives have hidden depths. It was a couple of hours truly well spent.

Right i'm off to spend my few remaining hours at home with the family and doggie before I head back to uni. Remember this season is really not about the gifts but the people that share your life.