I read the following over at tipnut, and totally agree with this philosophy.
I intend on setting myself these goals.

11 Goals To Enhance Your Life This Year

1. Choose One New Thing To Learn: Take a class for something you’ve always wanted to know how to do…knitting, woodworking, embroidery, gourmet cooking, first aid, oil painting, wine making.
2. Eliminate One Negative Distraction: Media gossip capturing too much time from your day? Spending too much time complaining with others? World news haunting you hourly? Cut the negative noise, focus on weeding out one distracting habit at a time.
3. Embrace One Positive Influence: Focus on making room for more time for something positive in your life. Nurturing friendships, seeking uplifting discussion or information, spiritual reflection.
4. Honor Your Family: With your time, laughter, forgiveness, respect, generous acts, support and encouragement…then enjoy what blossoms from that.
5. Nurture Your Home: Determine areas that need improvement–cleaning, baking & cooking, organize. Make pretty the best you can with the resources you have. Appreciate.
6. Develop One Healthier Lifestyle Habit: Exercise, eat better, cut fatty foods and snacks, quit smoking, cut the soda pop, walk more.
7. Stretch Yourself–Do Something Terrifying: Public speaking, belly dance class, volunteer for your political party of choice, fundraise for a good cause.
8. Teach Something: Volunteer to teach a community class, start a blog and share your experience or knowledge, share family recipes, history and traditions with younger family members.
9. Reduce Something: Clutter, debt, overspending, household waste (recycle).
10. Focus On One Area For Increased Independence: Make more instead of buying ready-made (food, gifts), learn how to fix more instead of hiring or purchasing replacement, grow more of your own food–even if it’s just kitchen herbs, work on debt reduction.
11. Stretch Your Generosity: Regularly do something a bit painful that helps someone else–give a co-worker a ride home, offer a helping hand to an elderly neighbor, donate clothing and household items to a struggling family–all with no strings attached.

Some goals you may let go of over time, but some will flourish. The fun is appreciating the journey–and where it leads you to next :).

Some new photos from our trip to Ireland last weekend…

Just a couple of photos of me in work mode(click to open full-size):

Alot of you have been asking what I have been up to, whats new with me, and when will I be telling you all about it.

Well, as some of you may know, I started a new job last month, one of which is very challenging, but I love it very much. I wouldn’t change a thing.

In regards to my personal life, I have started seeing someone, someone amazing, someone who appreciates me, and most of all, someone I love.

Sure I lust after him, he is gorgeous after all, but this is sooo much deeper, so much more intimate, and has much more longevity.

He makes me laugh, he makes me cry, he makes me want to be a better person.

He made me believe in love at first sight.

He is calm, patient, and keeps me on track.

He makes me feel safe.

I know he’ll never leave me.

He has a creative mind that is always bursting with ideas.

He doesn’t want to sit down and watch life go by.

They way he looks at me makes me melt.

I love this man like no other and he loves me too.

He is the yin to my yang, and I would be lost without him.

Wooohooo, a sneak-peek of last night’s activities at The Lamp’s New Year’s Eve Party - more to come

Yesterday we went shopping in Leeds…

And today did a spot…

A photo from the game today…

And another one from Xmas eve…

I have now lost exactly 140 pounds, which brings me to 175.

I couldn’t be happier, my only concern now is losing my curves.

Here are my latest photos:

Dave and Jon at mine at 3:00 AM on Saturday… After lots of drink!

Russ, talking on the phone to his girlfriend at 3:30AM on the back step, while drinking Ciaprinhias, having a fag, and prior to getting covered in lime shaving gel from the upstairs bathroom window, ala Dave.