Goodbye 2017, Hey 2018...

I can't believe we're at the terminate of some other year, every bit cliché every bit that sounds. I approximate right away I'm inwards my 20's, life does become past times that flake faster! Today I'm taking a 2nd to reverberate on 2017, facial expression forwards to the yr ahead of of me as well as speak through some of my lifestyle favourites from this year. I hope you lot relish this ship service as well as get got an amazing New Year's Eve, all the same you're celebrating!


A facial expression dorsum at 2017

I know this is vague (there are some things I don't desire to portion online!) but this yr has non ended upwards existence what I thought it would be. I sort of had a vision at the start of 2017 every bit to where I'd move at the terminate of it as well as stuff happened inwards the meantime that sort of changed everything. It's been pretty hard at times but I've realised I only demand to trust myself as well as my choices. At the same fourth dimension it's also brought me some incredible experiences. I honestly had THE BEST SUMMER EVERRRR! And I made at to the lowest degree i novel amazing friend as well as reconnected alongside a lot of people from the past.

Over summertime I went to Love Saves the Day, Bristol Pride, Manchester Pride, Bristol Harbour Festival as well as had a whole charge of other weekends away where I made some bully memories. I was sort of scared all that would halt in i lawsuit September arrived but actually, I've seen therefore much of my friends as well as retrieve I'm pretty much booked upwards until the terminate of Feb alongside activities...

This yr also saw me start a novel project inwards a novel component subdivision as well as displace my life dorsum to Birmingham. I knew at the fourth dimension it would either move the best determination I could've made or the worst. It was a completely novel exercise to adapt to during a pretty turbulent fourth dimension inwards my life, therefore for the start few months I thought I'd perchance made a terrible mistake. However now, from the other side, I know I 100% did the correct affair therefore I instruct to breathe a overnice sigh of relief! I dearest the office, I dearest living dorsum inwards the city, I dearest the people I'm working alongside as well as I retrieve the exercise is truly helping me grow inwards all the areas I aspire to excel in.

I've never been inwards a rush to grow upwards but I'm doing a flake of adulting... I've been making a witting endeavor to instruct rid of whatsoever credit bill of fare / overdraft debts I ran upwards during my fourth dimension living nigh London as well as I'm getting there. I also get got some savings to exercise on a deposit therefore I tin hopefully instruct my ain apartment inwards slow 2018 or early on 2019 (let's state slow 2019, given the publish of holidays I seem to get got already committed myself to side past times side year...) I'm ok alongside that, though! I'm fortunate plenty to alive inwards a component subdivision of the province (well, now...) as well as get got a project where I tin get got a residual of spending my coin having amazing experiences as well as also salve a footling flake on the side. I don't desire to sacrifice the memories I know I'll brand alongside my friends but manifestly I demand to get got some sense of responsibleness as well as computer program for the time to come a bit.

Looking forwards to 2018

I'm non truly big on resolutions or goal-setting but I thought I'd facial expression dorsum on what I said I wanted to exercise final yr as well as run across what I'd similar to accomplish inwards 2018. I'm non *quite* ACII alongside my professional person qualifications, all the same I'm only a handful of essays away therefore volition move looking to accomplish that past times Feb at the latest. I did deal to scoop myself 3 awards for my results along the way, though, therefore maybe that counterbalances my electrical flow lack of effort?

Of class getting the apartment is upwards on my listing of priorities. Realistically, I exercise retrieve that'll move 2019, all the same I'd similar to get got started looking past times side past times side yr as well as instruct myself a mortgage inwards principle. 

At function I'd manifestly just really similar to progress inwards my role. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of alter tends to become on inside companies though, therefore you lot tin never state what you lot retrieve 'the side past times side level' volition facial expression like. At the 2nd I'm interested to run across where my squad goes!

I don't get got whatsoever specific weblog goals, though of class I only desire to maintain delivering content people are interested inwards as well as volition engage with. I've sort of already achieved to a greater extent than than I'd ever get got thought I would, therefore truly I'm only happy to maintain going every bit I am.

During 2017 I got dorsum into writing inwards a big way. It's ever been a huge component subdivision of my life as well as of who I am, really, all the same I'd sort of fallen out of the habit of writing for a few years. Different versions of the same story get got been swirling some inwards my take away heed pretty much since I was a kid! I'm an excessive perfectionist therefore in that location are at to the lowest degree 10 abandoned versions of the story on my laptop, all the same this yr I decided to brand a hope to myself: to destination it earlier trying to change everything, as well as it worked! I've written over 85,000 words, therefore inwards 2018 I'd dearest to destination the novel. I approximate existence a author is a pipage dream I've always harboured, therefore in i lawsuit I've edited as well as perfected it, who knows; I powerfulness seek as well as submit it to some agents! I'm non certain how many people reading this weblog are aspiring writers but if you'd move inwards whatsoever agency interested inwards hearing nigh my journeying to the start draft therefore I'd move to a greater extent than than happy to write a weblog ship service sharing this experience.

My 2017 Lifestyle Favourites

Book: review
I'm going to link my total review on each of my lifestyle favourites therefore I'm non repeating myself, all the same inwards brief: this is a beautifully written mass that takes us on the original character's journeying from existence a tiddler to existence a woman. It tackles themes of immigration from Africa to the West, gender, sex, race, relationships (and I'm certain a whole lot more) alongside such grace. I'd been pregnant to read this for aaaaages as well as I'm therefore glad I decided to tackle it inwards 2017.

Book: review
The Power imagines a reality where women across the public all of a precipitous honour themselves developing electrical powers, which begins to upset the established hierarchies inwards society. It's told from several angles as well as cleverly employs social media, journalism as well as organized faith to explore the lawsuit as well as its repercussions from all angles.

Book: review 
I truly get got to applaud this mass for its sheer ambition as well as scope, which it pulls off pretty effortlessly. The story is told over thousands of years as well as revolves some the final humans surviving a nuclear state of war on the world as well as their yell for to honour a novel dwelling (which puts them inwards straight contest alongside a life cast they didn't facial expression to evolve). It explores some fascinating moral, philosophical as well as scientific themes, therefore if that sounds similar your sort of affair therefore I totally recommend checking this out.

TV: Westworld
I watched Westworld correct at the start of this yr as well as get got to declare it every bit i of the best things I've seen on TV inwards a long while! It takes house inwards the future, where the rich as well as wealthy's thought of having fun is to see a subject commons mocked upwards every bit the wild westward as well as populated alongside incredibly realistic androids (hosts), alongside whom they tin exercise what they like. The story begins every bit some of the hosts laid out to present some foreign behaviours. The underlying query it poses is: 'what makes us human?'

Film: Moonlight
This is such a beautifully done celluloid - it's a uncomplicated story on the surface nigh a man child becoming a man, but it's therefore much to a greater extent than than that too. It explores themes of masculinity, poverty, addiction as well as sexuality as well as every component subdivision of the cinematography, from the music to the photographic television camera angles, is designed to evoke a reaction.

Film: War for the Planet of the Apes
This Planet of the Apes prequel serial has been amazing on therefore many levels! It only delivers inwards every agency you lot desire it to: it has the action, the amazing motion-capture acting, a bully plot as well as continues to enhance real interesting questions every bit the final of the human race launch an assault on the apes. 

Film: Arrival
This celluloid is truly from 2016, but I exclusively caught it on TalkTalk TV this year. It effortlessly tells a story containing big ideas inwards an incredibly simple, intimate-feeling narrative. Amy Adams plays a linguistics professor who is brought inwards to communicate alongside an alien life form, which has mysteriously appeared without explanation on our planet.

Podcast: The Cracked Podcast
This isn't a podcast I take away heed to every unmarried episode from, all the same in that location are some truly bully ones! It's inwards the same humorous, interesting as well as informative manner of the Cracked website. I recommend checking out How Germs Control Your Politics (I took it alongside a pinch of tabular array salt but it's silent a real interesting perspective on the agency inwards which nosotros cast a discourse some immigration), Jafar is Disney Moses: Secretly Heroic Villains (which talks celluloid as well as TV tropes as well as tries to realign some of popular culture's most notorious villains), Movies That  Teach Men Horrible Lessons About Sex, The Enormous Lie About Modern Life (You Likely Believe) (this explores the thought of people ever talking nigh monastic enjoin every bit though things are getting worse), Why Modern People Might Have the Worst Sex Lives Ever (a conversation on how relationships get got evolved since prehistoric times), How Depressing Entertainment Became the Norm as well as Shockingly Sexist Messages inwards the Modern World. I fifty-fifty truly spent coin to take away heed to the archive...

What were your 2017 lifestyle favourites?

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