| EMILY ISA BAKER

A New Year

This year was a lot different to the last year, I had accomplished a lot. I had gained a degree, lost weight and travelled further. Maybe it was because my relationship was newer and everything was fresher straight out of university. Last year I made a list of goals and I will only tell you the ones I accomplished. Starting with 'try to read at least 3 books' I read Eleanor & Park, The Rosie Project and Paper Towns (all quite easy books but my favourite kind), another goal was 'to travel to at least 3 places' I visited Amsterdam, Barcelona, Devon and Budapest one group trip, two couple trips and one family trip which I feel grateful for and another main goal was to 'run a 5/10k race' In June I completed Nike We Run 10k in 1 hour 2 minutes which I'm still proud of. There's a lot of things I didn't mange to accomplish such as losing another 2 stone, I actually put on 12 pounds. I didn't manage to move out into our own place but I did move in to Rakesh's family home. I made the 1 year mark in my crappy retail job instead of finding my dream creative job.

In 2016 I'm going to mainly focus on myself, sounds selfish but I need to otherwise I will never get to be the person I wish I could be. I hope to lose the 2 stone I said i'd lose last year and I really really hope to get out of retail. There's nothing more unsatisfying, un motivating and boring about my part time job, I don't exactly know what I want to do just yet but I'd like to be given the chance with some of the jobs I do apply to.

A few goals for 2016: