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There are 84 days left in this decade. AIBU to ask what you are going to do with them???

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Fruitbatdancer · 09/10/2019 23:42

After a shitty few months with health issues of several dear friends and relatives, I feel like I need to make my mark on the decade. What can I do to shake things up or just generally be more awesome?! I don’t want the usual grim stuff about eating well and drinking less. Although if toyed with “not drinking gin till the next decade” We have 84 days people, let’s change the world! AIBU? Help me?

OP posts:
elprup · 10/10/2019 07:50

It’s alright people, the 2010’s don’t actually end until the end of 2020. You’re good for another year!

@OwlBeThere actually they do end on 31st December 2019!

scaryteacher · 10/10/2019 07:55

Moving back to the UK for good. Getting the UK house sorted before Christmas. Learning to live with a retired dh. Starting to job hunt. Settling back into village life.

OwlBeThere · 10/10/2019 07:55

They don’t. The first year of this decade was 2011, so that makes the last year 2020. We don’t count from 0-9, we count 1-10.

stitchwitch85 · 10/10/2019 07:56

I’m hoping to get fatter and fatter before popping out my wee boy hopefully this side of the new year. Otherwise we shall see in the new Roaring Twenties with a new baby!

Booboosweet · 10/10/2019 07:59

I will end it like I began it: working hard. This decade I met my husband, got married, had a child, got a permanent job and bought a house, so I am satisfied with that!

Booboosweet · 10/10/2019 08:00

I also intend to overindulge in lots of champagne and yummies

elprup · 10/10/2019 08:01

They don’t. The first year of this decade was 2011, so that makes the last year 2020. We don’t count from 0-9, we count 1-10.

That’s not correct - if it were the case then the year time began (0-1) wouldn’t belong in any decade at all! The first year of a new decade is always on the 10 - hence why we refer to recent decades as the 2000s, the 2010s etc.

The first year of the new millennium was 2000, not 2001!

WalkAwaySugarbear · 10/10/2019 08:01

I'm hoping to ace or at least pass the first of many exams in my CIMA qualification before the end of the year. We're having a fairly quiet Xmas before going to Orlando for 2 weeks before NYs, I so can't wait, we've not been abroad for 3 years.

doublebarrellednurse · 10/10/2019 08:06

Crack on with my MSc
Crack on with growing a person
Help my husband grieve

Penners99 · 10/10/2019 08:09

Work out how to spend £170,000,000

AngeIoMysterioso · 10/10/2019 08:11

I plan to...

  • have a baby (38 weeks today 😬)
  • move house (please God if you can hear me, let this purchase go through quickly... I am losing my mind living under PILs roof!)
  • that’s pretty much where the plan ends.
MulticolourMophead · 10/10/2019 08:12

elprup, the first year of a decade is certainly the 1, not the zero.

Because otherwise our calendar would have a year 0, and it doesn't.

We moved straight from year 1BC, to year 1AD.

The last year of the 20th Century was 2000, not 1999, and the new millennium began on 1 January 2001.

But because of the number change from 1999 to 2000, and all the Y2K computer issues, people got excited and basically celebrated a year early.

Meanwhile, I'm using the last few days of this particular year to sort out my application to university as a mature student (aged 50).

ControversialFerret · 10/10/2019 08:13

Penners Grin

Am trying for promotion, should know by the end of the year.
Making an effort to improve my self care by exercising more and seeing if I can get some weight off (4st to lose).

PocketMoneyMonster · 10/10/2019 08:15

Google says:

With the sole exception of the very first decade (1-10 AD), western historians believe that every subsequent decade begins on a year ending in zero, e.g. 1920-29, because the year ending in zero is nevertheless a full year.

Pyjamaface · 10/10/2019 08:17

Head down and just willing it to be over and done with.
Just general shite for most of it but in the last year my DM was diagnosed with breast cancer and then my DF died so i am so done

Poetryinaction · 10/10/2019 08:18

I met my husband in 2010 so this has been our decade. We met, married, bought and sold a house and had 3 kids. That's probably enough! We are going to New York this month to celebrate.

elprup · 10/10/2019 08:19

With the sole exception of the very first decade (1-10 AD), western historians believe that every subsequent decade begins on a year ending in zero, e.g. 1920-29, because the year ending in zero is nevertheless a full year.

Phew, thank you Google! To me new centuries always begin 1800, 1900, 2000 etc. I see what Multicolour is saying but 1801, 1901, 2001 just sounds wrong!

Ponoka7 · 10/10/2019 08:21

I'm on a diet forum and we've been doing a Christmas and New Year Countdown.

I want to enter 2020 a stone and a half lighter. That's two pound a week, so totally doable. I want to have taken up weights again and started yoga or Thi Chi.

I've been seriously ill and depressed, but I'm recovering, so I've been doing the random acts of kindness. It really does do a lot for your mental health.

I was Vegan. I'm going to go at least 4:3 vegan.

I'm going to plant lots of bulbs, snowdrops, tulips, daffodils etc. Hopefully start a rose garden.

My house needs a big sort put, I'm determined to be organised enough to bake over Christmas. But still have days out.

New year is going to be the start of voluntary work and then paid employment. I've got operations coming up and no employer would touch me, yet.

1919 saw, the creation of the precursor to the NAZI party. 1920 saw Ireland split and the start of fighting. 1919/20 saw a division across Europe and rise of the far right. A hundred years later and we're in a no better place.

MrsMozartMkII · 10/10/2019 08:23

Gosh.

Like PP it hadn't registered with me that it's the end of the decade.

Well, I'm having today off, as life has been so full on and I'm fending off a cold, so there'll be some thinking going on rather than action. That means tomorrow will be 83 days, but there'll be action.

Tonnerre · 10/10/2019 08:28

Technically the decade doesn't end till 31st December 2020.

EmeraldShamrock · 10/10/2019 08:32

Great thread.
Shit it is scary celebrating the 2000 doesn't seem that long ago. 20 years gone Shock

Itallt0omuch · 10/10/2019 08:33

I'm going to start a business. The last 3 years have been a shit cycle of anxiety and depression and I need to do this for me. I've wanted to do it for 10 years and I'm fed up of waiting for the epiphany that makes me finally do it. It's not coming so I'll just get on with it now Grin

MarianaMoatedGrange · 10/10/2019 08:35

Penners99 can I have a tenner please? Grin

I'm a gimmer and my history started in the mid 20th century. So much change in that time. Tech, a currency change, people even look different! another new decade to look forward to , by the end of which I'll be 75 Shock

readingismycardio · 10/10/2019 08:36

I'm planning a wedding
Want to lose 5 kgs
Do well both at work and uni (second degree)
Organise my wardrobe (donate, sell, bin)
My birthday's in December and I can't wait for Christmas & my birthday

elprup · 10/10/2019 08:38

I'm going to plant lots of bulbs, snowdrops, tulips, daffodils etc. Hopefully start a rose garden.

@Ponoka7 I would love to do this! When’s the best time to start?