What with a new year approaching rather fast and knowing that my lifestyle needs to change, I thought I would go back a little and start up a blog which I have not done for many years. I used to love blogging. I found it quite therapeutic and helped put goals and plans into reality.. making myself answerable to the things I write. So this year has brought an array of emotions, achievements, disappointments and challenges; I turned the big $ - ) this year which turned out really to be just an ordinary day which was not really celebrated as such, although I wanted to... I signed up to walk half marathon distance of Hadrian's Wall with four other girls..... which was actually really quite difficult. Only two of the five of us finished it completely. I managed 8 miles which, although disappointed that I didn't finish it, I was quite proud of my achievement as I have a heart condition and found hitting 5 miles I was struggling with my breathing. I knew then I would not f