Thought Explosions.

 

I usually do a ‘best of’ at the end of the year, but last year had a heavy cloud drifting over it, so instead I’m going to focus on making 2012 a little more positive.

These are some things that I want to achieve this year:

Read more books.

So I used to read quite a lot. Lazy days were spent with my back against a tree in the garden, laid across grass in the park or sat inside with a cup of tea and my head in a book. At night, sleep would come after a couple of chapters and I would often wake up with a book on my face (true story). Nowadays I’m lucky if I finish a book in a month. I have a huge pile of books next to my bed just waiting to be read and the sight of them makes me a little sad. So the plan is to make more time to read. No targets, just time.

Get my cameras fixed and take more photographs.

I have two digital cameras (and a gazillion film ones) but they’re both broken. I often think that I should get them fixed but I never get round to it. I go to places and wish I had a camera with me - I use my iPhone camera sometimes but it’s not as good quality. I’m also crap at getting film developed, I have around 3 films that need developing and I know they’re all full of great memories so I should probably get round to doing that. Uhh, I sound so lazy! (I am lazy).

Think of and start a new project.

A couple of years ago (woah) I wrote a haiku every day for 100 days and, creatively, it was one of the best things I have done. I loved doing it and I found it quite easy; it didn’t feel like a chore because I enjoyed it so much. As well as them being online, they were in a notebook too (Beautiful Boy is lovely, isn’t he) and I felt quite proud of myself for sticking to it. I’d really like to start something similar. I got another ace notebook for Christmas ( eeee, he’s reet good) so I’d really like to use it for a similar project.

Ring my Mum every week.

I suck a little bit at ringing my Mum. It’s not that we go weeks without speaking, we text and she rings me but I’m rubbish at giving her a call. I’m not sure why because I love talking to my Mum! She’s pretty ace. I’m just not very good at organising my time and finding out when she is free. Yay Mums.

Stop worrying.

So, er, I definitely worry too much. I worry about big things but I maaaainly worry about little things. Sometimes things are just too brilliant and I always think something is going to go wrong instead of just enjoying it. (loser)

Be more like myself.

I spend too much time worrying, too much time thinking about work, too much time not being productive. I used to read and write more. I used to discover new music all the time, get excited about new and old bands I’d never heard of and play the newly discovered songs on repeat (and annoy people by getting excited by them too much).

I’m hoping 2012 is ace.