Saturday, December 30, 2006

Goodbye 2006

I hate New Year. I really do. It always seems to point up to me the things that I have left undone over the past year, what I hoped and failed to achieve. (Besides feeling like I am 15 years old at Birkenhead High School and no one but no one will invite me to a party.....oh the horror of that still remains.....)
This year is no exception. I thought the January of 2007, I would be in a very different place to where I am now, both in my professional and personal life. Things didn't turn out as I expected.
Yet that's a good thing in the main. I had no idea I would be doing Nuffield this time last year. Which goes to show that plans aren't everything. (Although I have been having a succssion of anxiety dreams about the research - which is not what you want lying on the sofa bed back at your parents' home)
Still New Year is a lonely time. My sister is abroad and I felt I didn't really get time to talk to her over Christmas. I think about friends far away, like S who will never come back to this country now. I think about a friend that I turned away from last year after I lost patience with the way she was behaving. Should I have just bitten back those words one more time?
But D is here. I'm very lucky for that. I would be nothing without him.


I'm trying to come up with my customary 10 new years resolutions by tomorrow night. I always make ten so I have a chance of keeping some by the end of the year.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Happy New Year Mrs C. Love from the USA.

Glenda Cooper said...

Happy new year! How ARE you? Where are you? How is LA? So lovely to hear from you.....That's cheered up my 1st jan...

Anonymous said...

I was in the UK two days ago. I don't know how to reach you. I'm so impressed by what you are doing. Everything is good here. Thought of you a lot over Christmas.

Glenda Cooper said...

Ooh I am going to cudgel my brains to see how I can get you my email address without publishing it for all on this blog - I am not sure - but may just have to do it and hope I don't get superspammed...just up at the mo to do Channel 4, in the meantime I went to see Borat with Tanya just before Christmas - what a combination.....

Anonymous said...

put a full stop between my first and last name. Then @ company name (four letters) .co.uk - I will then email you back my home email.. Sound good?

Anonymous said...

Nuffield is a splendid place; hope you are enjoying yourself. Like the blog with its mixture of textures, which is important imv. Glad you are still in the trade, and that you flourish.

Glenda Cooper said...

Thank you for your kind words. Nuffield is great - I still have to pinch myself to make myself realise I am there...Have you spent time there?
Hope this publishes this time - blogger is playing up today...