Keeping Up With My New Years Resolutions

Hello everyone!

I hope you had a wonderful christmas nd a great start into the new year!

I certainly did, I had loads of fun, and it was a very emotional christmas for me this year. I shed a lot of tears (which me being on my period certainly contributed to) but it was still a great week full of festivities.

I am a big fan of the "New Year/New Me" thing, and please hear me out before you click off of this post immediatly.

 think that you can reinvent yourself at any time of the year, not just when a new year is rolling around.
But I do really like using the time between Christmas Eve and December the 31st for reflecting on the year and thinking about what I would like to change or do better in the new year.
So, every year I make resolutions, none of which I continiously follow through with.
Why, you might ask yourself, would I make these resolutions?

January is one of my least favourite months of the year, it's grey and cold and boring. All the fun and excitement of Christmas is over, the decorations are being taken down, the fairy lights unplugged. Resolutions really help me get my ass in gear and start the new year with a bang, even though the weather is dreary and the spirits aren't at their highest.

I want to show you my resolutions and how well I've been following through with them, now that it's February and the motivation might be wearing thin.

1.  Go to the gym twice a week. Wow, I am extremely creative this year, haha. Doing more sports or getting fit is on probably 70% of the worlds populations list of 2016 goals. I have actually been doing this for the most part. I slacked one or two weeks, when school stress was just overwhelming, but I did go to the gym a LOT. I don't stay very long each time, maybe 30-40minutes, but I feel soo good each time I come home after a workout session.

2. Write a blopost twice a week. Woops. This is the first post of 2016, so I definetly failed that one. I took a break from blogging, as I was thoroughly overwhelmed by all my schoolwork, the jobs I had taken on, and lots of my friends going abroad. But there have been ideas for posts wizzing around my head all the time, so I am ready to rumble (aka write a lot of blogposts).

3. Loosen up, enjoy life, live a bit more "YOLO" and stuff. I have been sticking to this, although it isn't a giant change. I say yes to more things and spring at any chance to socialize or meet up with someone. Some experiences were ok but not great, and some were perfect. That's the thing, you never know how it's going to be. There were some things I would have rather missed, but for the most part I was glad I put this on my list of goals.

The thing that I most wanted to change, was that I had a feeling that I was doing so much that I was doing everything halfheartedly. But I think I will make a seperate post about that and what I am doing to change it.

Lots of love,
Mia

#SeizeTheSummer Update

Hey everyone!

As you may or may not know, I did this thing at the beginning of the summer, where I listed all the things I wanted to do over the summer, a kind of summer bucket list. Also, I said that I would report back to tell you which of these things I did. And feel ashamed because I probably didn't do most of them. Damnit.

So here's my list:

I wanted to...

...make a friend while i was away. DONE! I met this really nice girl in Italy, She was very shy but as I am not, that fit quite well.

...flirt. FAIL. I did come into contact with a cute italien guy, but he was to old for me and didn't seem interested. Oh well.

...tighten my friendship with the girl I went away with for two weeks. DONE! We definetely tightened our friendship and although there were a few bumps along the way, we had a great time.

...take A LOT of photos. DONE! I took sooo many photos, check some of them out here:
Italien Photo Diary

...go to a concert or festival. FAIL. This is a real bummer, because I was going to go to a pool festival, but it got called off at the last minute.

...do sports. DONE! I actually went to the gym quite often during the summer, plus I went swimming and hiking  (a little bit). Very proud :)

…write, write, write on this blog and privately. DONE! I filled loads of pages in my journal over the summer and wrote quite a few blogposts too. Check some of them out here:
Judgement & Jewelry
Telling the Truth & Lying for a Reason

…read at least five books. DONE! In the first third of my holiday I read tons, in the second half not so much, as I was busy with the aforementioned friend. I will be writing some book reviews very soon though…

…communicate more with my internet friends (YOU!). With this one I'm not sure. I did make some new friends, but some of my closest buds kind of disappeared off the face of the internet. You could have said goodbye, you know? *scowling emoji*

…get a job. DONE! Yes, I got a babysitting job, which will be lasting for 10 weeks. So glad!

If you lasted this long through my bundle of summer to-dos, thanks!
I hope you had a great summer and were able to check everything off your bucket list.

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