What have I done this year?

Rather than starting to beat myself up about all those things I should be doing, and depressing myself by listing them, and promising that in January I'll start behaving like a machine (up at 0600; to the gym three times a week; eat four portions of fruit and three of veg a day; get nine hours' sleep a night; go to the ROH once a month; do all my filing the day it comes in), I'm going to list the things that I've done this year.

Things that I'm proud to have achieved, and things that make me feel good. Herewith the greatest re-writing of history since Stalin, but hey. It's my blog and if I want to spin stuff to make myself feel better, then I will. I want to explode confidently into 2007. I don't want to feel guilty because I'm not going to the gym or whatever - I want to be happy that I can do what I want and value my own opinion. Something I don't do out loud too often.

So, this year:

• I've organised a fantastic wedding (photographs will be up soon on the website, I promise);

• I've converted to Judaism;

• I've managed to gether a year's worth of commercial/IT/telecoms law experience off two temp jobs that proved to be amongst my favourite jobs to date;

• I had a fantastic wedding and have amazing memories to look back on;

• I acquired a fantastic husband and we're creating a happy marriage (bleurgh);
  

• I now have a much healthier diet;

• Oh yes, I stopped smoking;

• I flew in a 'plane with a mate (he actually did the flying) and drastically reduced my fears of aeroplanes;

• I stopped biting my nails (thanks to a lovely salon which paints my nails so I can't bring myself to bite them);

• I joined a gym (ha. maybe I'll start to use it by the end of the decade!);

• I tidied my desk (this truly is momentous - I don't think it had previously been tidied since I bought it);

• I have started cooking more and generally not avoiding the kitchen.
  

The list will, of course, be updated. Look out for the bullet points over the next few weeks....