2012: A Review

Third year in a row that I'm keeping my tradition of my yearly NYE review. As per usual, I don't give a crap about what actually happened - the fact we hosted the Olympics and held a party for an old lady all at taxpayer's expense while we were in a double dip recession, the BBC being exposed as a massive paedo club (I can just see them now "First rule of Paedo Club - NEVER talk about Paedo Club") and filthy scumbag shits not washing their hands and spreading norovirus round to most of the population, and  of course, the end of the world on the 21st of December - yes, we've never had a dull moment in this year's news.

1. 3 Year Anniversary - Liam and I made it to three years on the 14th of February. And in 2 months time, it'll be 4 :)
2. Contact lenses mishap - After 14 years of wearing glasses and me gaining a job in an optician's, I finally decided to try contact lenses. Monthly lenses to be exact. I lasted for just over a week when suddenly my eye became sore and watery...while I was at work serving customers. Me being an idiot and forgetting my glasses, I had to leave them in until I couldn't stand it anymore and had to get Liam to bring them to me. When I went to take them out upstairs I was persuaded by a colleague to get the optician to check it - lucky I did, as I was sent to casualty with an ulcer. After 2 hours of waiting in eye casualty I was given antibiotic drops and allowed to go home. So I won't be trying them for a while...at least not monthlies. Eeh, either way I look ill without glasses.

Drinks for my Birthday at The Pilot

3. Jimmy Carr - In April Liam and I went to see Jimmy Carr in Northampton. It was a brilliant evening and we met him afterwards and he was so lovely.
4. Celebrated my 20th Birthday - In May I officially became an adult (as even when you're 18 and 19, you're still a teenager apparently - bollocks). In true adult fashion, I went to work and treated it like a normal day.
5.  Became adopter of a penguin - For my birthday Liam gave me a brilliant present, my very own penguin, Pingu, at Dudley Zoo. While I never got to see which one exactly was him, I got to stroke one at their adopters event.
6. End of Desperate Housewives - While I said I didn't give a crap about current events, this was worthy to me as I've been watching DH since I was 12 years old and was so sad to see it go. Still, the Christmas money from my Dad went towards the Season 8 boxset so my collection's nearly completed.

Elliot the Penguin - Hand reared at Dudley Zoo so she loved the attention!

7. Passed 2nd year of uni - Despite another year of bitching and whining, I managed to pass all 9 modules of my second year at university. So it's a bit pointless to quit now.
8. Dissertation misery - I began my dissertation shortly after exams finished on CBT and vomit phobia, luckily I have a supervisor who's worked with sufferers before, so I'm in good hands. Just have to hope to god I do well.
9. EMDR - Part of my third year involved a course of EMDR (Eye movement desensitisation reprocessing) for my vomit phobia. I'll save you the long story...it didn't work too well.
10. Russell Kane - Liam and I went to see Russell Kane in November and as with most comedy events we go to, it was really good. Unfortunately we never got to meet him as he had to dash off to Leicester.
11. Became slightly more successful at work - Last month I was signed off of my first training course at work meaning I can now do single vision dispenses and adjustments/collections etc. May not mean much to you, but I'm so proud of myself for it.
12. I became an auntie again - My new neice Rose was born on the 7th December in British Columbia and I'm so happy for my brother Sean and his wife Siobhan. She's adorably cute and I look forward to meeting her via Skype in the new year.
13. Irrational norovirus hatred - Unfortunately given the media having nothing newsworthy to talk about I became an irrational, obsessive mess all over Christmas after the heavily documented norovirus outbreak was shoved down everyone's throats. Although, if it weren't for disgusting scumbags of the great British public not washing their hands after using the toilet, there wouldn't be a norovirus outbreak for the media to shove down people's throats. If I give you one piece of advice EVER, it's this: WASH YOUR GODDAMN HANDS.

Kerms - My frog puppet

14. Christmas - After 4 months of working my ass off and edging on burnout, we finally went home for Christmas. And despite the irrational obessiveness thanks to this god awful vomit phobia, it was pretty good. Presents included a My Keepon and my very own puppet.

So 2012 hasn't been a bad year, as we've not quite got anything planned, I'm not sure what there is to look forward to although I have 2 things in mind:
1. Graduation and all the perks - I cannot wait to get out of that crappy hell hole of a university. While I'm not looking forward to standing up in front of a bunch of people and walking onto a stage with a (let's face it, it's me) very high possibility of falling over, in May, it'll all be over. Thank Christ.
2. Leaving Northampton - While I've made a small number of good friends and uni and I enjoy my job, I won't be unbelievably sad to leave Northampton behind. I will be sad to say goodbye to the friends I made and the lovely people I've worked with, but it'll be nice to move back to Wiltshire. Hopefully.