January days

Welcoming January has been a bit difficult this time around as I'm struggling a little with the whole turning 30 thing. I love birthdays and usually even have a count down the previous 6 months, but this time has been the first time that I feel that time is moving too quickly. 

We welcomed in the new year with a couple of friends in a rainy Brighton :) and spent a stormy January 1st on the sofa relaxing and getting ready for regular life to start again. I've been thankful for getting back into the routine of work and am looking forward to catching up with friends. Last Friday a couple of our Lithuanian London friends came down and we had dinner and looked through pictures of their travels, it felt nice to have that comfortability and ease around people we've known for years. 

Also, the new year has brought with it new plans and as always changes that I would like to make. I haven't made any resolutions as I know myself enough to know that I'm terrible at keeping to big goals. Instead I've been thinking of other ways to keep moving forward and organize my thoughts. 

A few different blogs I've seen recently have the idea of choosing a word that you want to symbolize this year, something that you want to strive for and have a thread running through all of the areas of your life. I've been really gravitating towards this lately as I think it could be more helpful to me than lists and calendars. I've been thinking about this a lot and I keep getting drawn back to the word 'Connect'. I have lots of reasons for this which I will share in another post but I think this is the route I want to go. 

I also want to make a vision board. I attended a Creating 2013 workshop in December 2012 put on a by an amazing woman who I now call my friend. I really enjoyed being creative in my planning for the year and most enjoyed creating a vision board. It is something I had up on the wall at our old flat and something that I still hang on to. I want to make another for this year as well to have the time to be creative and reflect. 

Now, for the next few weeks I have many things to look forward to including celebrating my birthday with new friends and old, a visit from one of our closest friends and her crazy little girls, and then our first visit to Milan, Italy. Although I have some moments of feeling down about my birthday life is pretty good :) 

(a stormy Brighton)