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A fantastic article, extremely well written for a 13 year-old. This brings back memories, as when I walked to school I had a walkman which I *loved*.
I recently took my walkman out of storage, as Andrew and I are making digital copies of some of the tapes we both made as children (separately, that is). It is a blast from the past!
Yay going over to France for a long weekend next week - going to be camping with Andrew’s Mum and Dad. Can’t wait!
It’s a bit late for new years resolutions, but here are some of the things I want to achieve (or at least begin to achieve) in 2009:
- To be more frequent with blog posts, and to put more thought into it
I went from blogging almost every day at university to nearly stopping blogging. While not as many new and exciting things are happening in my life (University was very exciting and new, life now is still great but maybe a bit more routine), I still want to keep up to date with events and photos and things. - To improve my knowledge in PHP
I went a bit off direction when I learnt Ruby on Rails: It is definitely my favourite language and I love it, but it has proven to be not as useful in the real world as PHP would be. - To improve my fitness
Gotta stick to that Wii Fit diet! :) - To spend more time with the kids and nurture them
Video games are great, I think they teach kids a lot of things, but nothing beats playing board games, or charades, going out and having real family time. I’m so fortunate to find myself with two amazing kids added to my family, something I never expected to happen, and I want to help Andi have a great time with them and watch them grow up!
Of course, I’m also really looking forward to new opportunities that are arising with my career and that will change things a lot! I hope we succeed.
We’re all moved into the new house now (although still unpacking boxes..) - got a fantastic new living room suite as well. I love our new home!
Our first step onto the property ladder — Andrew and I have just been guaranteed a mortgage and reserved a house.
It is a beautiful new 4-bedroom house in a brand new development area, with a garage and a garden, it is opposite a lovely park. Elliot and Oliver will get their own rooms and we’ll have a spare room for when guests come to stay.
We are moving in before the end of the year — so exciting!!
Today is my last day at work, on Sunday Andrew, the boys and I head to Il de Re!
It is a long journey so I’ve got lots of DVDs for the player in the back of the car (where I will be with the kids, heh) and I’ve got my iPod which we can listen to as well.
2 weeks in the sun is going to be great! See you when I get back :)
