New year stuff

[cjt110]

So... What things do you look forward to?

I like having a new, clean, pristine calendar and writing all my dates in - birthdays, any appointments already made.

I also quite like chucking the old one out too.

I love a good long walk on New Year’s Day and then back home for a takeaway in front of Mary Poppins a cool film.

I’m always sad that Christmas is over but I enjoy the feeling of a fresh start that NYD brings, thinking positively about all the potential of a brand new year and having a little daydream about spring plans. DH and I usually start to chat about plans for our holidays. Also quite like the calm after the mayhem of December! Great idea for a thread!

I love New Year. I love taking down the red and gold clutter (which I love in December) to let in lots of fresh air, pots of flowering bulbs and new notebooks and diaries.

Just had a meeting for some lovely, interesting work in the New Year which has made me feel perky about 2019, and the first diary date booked is a long hill walk with an old friend I've not seen in months. Also going on our dream holiday of a lifetime with DC next year. First time we've ever been away for longer than a week, and DS2 is now 16! Can't wait.

I started this thread I suppose @Daisywho after I had an anxiety attack last week over my fucking christmas tree and last night because I wrote the wrote term dates on my spanking new calendar.

Had to go and get another one today and got 3 friends to check my dates were correct before committing them to the calendar.

I always look forward to december because it's my birthday No I am not Jesus and Christmas. But I also have an overwhelming sense of anxiousness.

New year, get the decs down, clean the house, cold crispy walks...

Have now penned my calendar for us all (one of those family planner things) so we know who is off with DS and am about to pen my diary.

From January it starts being lighter in the evenings 15 minutes later every week

We're getting married in 2019, so once January is here we'll start making decisions

@CurbsideProphet And you can say "I'm getting married this year"

Love love love putting away the Christmas tat.

Nope. Just the thought of 2019, and those long cold murky muddy winter days, which inexplicably extend into mid April, plus restructures at work, plus DD starting school, plus Brexit, is enough to make me want to hide under the duvet and come out in June :( Christmas is lovely, with the lights and the trees and baubles, but it should be postponed until about 15th February.

@CmdrIvanova Postpone 'til the 5th of Jan and you can see it in with the Chinese new year!!

Exactly cjt110 !

The whole Brexit debacle and general fuckwittery going on are very confusing and stressful. I'm planning a new year sort of the house: I'll paint those skirting boards that need doing / repaint the conservatory/ clear out some crap and generally make the house feel clean / airy which will hopefully make me feel more zen.

I'll be doing dry January, which won't be fun, but I'll be pleased to have done it. It'll make it a loooooong month though.

Agree to the increasing light - love that.

Longer days. Bulbs starting to show in the garden. Putting all the Christmas stuff away. New diary.

I like the calendar thing but I've already put dates on next years. BUT for the first time since I was a teenager I've got a diary. I got it from Lidl and it's got colouring in pages too! Looking forward to filling it in and the colouring, I've not really done adult colouring before but think it might be fun. Will be using the pens I keep here for the dgd

Also going to revamp my CV and try again to find a job, need employers to see past my age.

Fresh new appointments diary and putting last year's fraying one away.

All the tinsel and other Christmas tat coming down at work - I like to work in a streamlined, tidy environment.

I don't have anything big to look forward to next year, although I'll meet up with friends and do stuff. I'm planning on going to London on the 30th of March, and I'll go to Peterborough and Cambridge during the year. I'm going to have a big clearout and get my stuff out of my friend's garage and sort that out (I can already think of books I'll be getting rid of as I haven't read them of if I've tried I haven't got very far.)
I've already got a Harry Potter calendar but I want a Pusheen one as well. I have one for this year and it's bright and cheerful to look at.

SapphireSeptember I'm also planning a big clear out. So many dvds I haven't watched in years just gathering dust on the shelves!