Not quite sure how it's happened, but it's February.
Since the should-have-been-award-winning Project 9626 drew to a close on 27th December, lots has happened. I spent five days watching the cricket in the shadow of Table Mountain in 35'c sunshine (essentially paradise), I witnessed the greatest, most spellbinding individual innings from an Englishman in decades (if not ever), I met a seven foot lion and I bagged an empty seat next to me on the flight home.
It's been good.
January has flown by since I landed back at Heathrow on Friday the 8th... the new job started which is full of new-job-challenges but going ok, I've eaten a ton of Top Deck Cadburys chocolate (for the life of me, why don't they sell this in the UK?), read a few books and made a huge decision that effects how 2016 is going to shape up.
The original plan for the year was to move out and get a place of my own in Nottingham. I looked on the usual Rightmove, Zoopla worlds and didn't get very far. I think I suffered from having too set expectations with what I wanted. Annnnnyway, after a check up visit to the dentist last week, I decided to put on hold the whole moving out thing and instead fix my teeth. Long time fans of Project 9626 will remember the disagreement my teeth had with a cricket ball 18 months ago.
Whilst I was essentially the luckiest guy in the world not to not lose all my teeth/an eye, my teeth took a hell of a whack, knocking one out and several out of place. On the face of things, you probably wouldn't notice. But I'm very aware. So I've decided to get them sorted out! Thankfully this can be done in six months without making me look like I've got mouth full of metal. Which is nice.
The flip side of staying at home and getting nice teeth before moving out is that I have a bit more time on my hands to do it right. At this point, I know nothing about moving. I had assumed renting a flat was the best plan, but perhaps I should look at buying somewhere relatively cheap and go about improving it with a view to getting on to the ladder? Who knows! I'm going to do some readin' and some learnin' and find out what is possible. Despite knowing absolutely nothing about it, I *think* I will find it interesting.
I'm definitely going to start watching Location, Location, Location, Location at the very least.
This will be one of the things I plan to write about on Working Title 14... the fear inducing, yet quite exciting prospect of moving out.
(FYI - Working Title 14 might be a holding title, it might turn in to something else. It's all in the early stages again. I didn't want to just rinse and repeat Project 9626 with four more targets for 2016, I wanted to do something a bit more long term. I was alwaysquite very surprised by how well Project 9626 went down, and it's a medium by which I can actually get shit done - which in the procrastination central that is my life generally, that is good.)
So things will come and go.
One thing that I wish would come and go very quickly is the terrifying prospect of 26.2 miles in Berlin.
Since the should-have-been-award-winning Project 9626 drew to a close on 27th December, lots has happened. I spent five days watching the cricket in the shadow of Table Mountain in 35'c sunshine (essentially paradise), I witnessed the greatest, most spellbinding individual innings from an Englishman in decades (if not ever), I met a seven foot lion and I bagged an empty seat next to me on the flight home.
January has flown by since I landed back at Heathrow on Friday the 8th... the new job started which is full of new-job-challenges but going ok, I've eaten a ton of Top Deck Cadburys chocolate (for the life of me, why don't they sell this in the UK?), read a few books and made a huge decision that effects how 2016 is going to shape up.
The original plan for the year was to move out and get a place of my own in Nottingham. I looked on the usual Rightmove, Zoopla worlds and didn't get very far. I think I suffered from having too set expectations with what I wanted. Annnnnyway, after a check up visit to the dentist last week, I decided to put on hold the whole moving out thing and instead fix my teeth. Long time fans of Project 9626 will remember the disagreement my teeth had with a cricket ball 18 months ago.
Whilst I was essentially the luckiest guy in the world not to not lose all my teeth/an eye, my teeth took a hell of a whack, knocking one out and several out of place. On the face of things, you probably wouldn't notice. But I'm very aware. So I've decided to get them sorted out! Thankfully this can be done in six months without making me look like I've got mouth full of metal. Which is nice.
The flip side of staying at home and getting nice teeth before moving out is that I have a bit more time on my hands to do it right. At this point, I know nothing about moving. I had assumed renting a flat was the best plan, but perhaps I should look at buying somewhere relatively cheap and go about improving it with a view to getting on to the ladder? Who knows! I'm going to do some readin' and some learnin' and find out what is possible. Despite knowing absolutely nothing about it, I *think* I will find it interesting.
I'm definitely going to start watching Location, Location, Location, Location at the very least.
This will be one of the things I plan to write about on Working Title 14... the fear inducing, yet quite exciting prospect of moving out.
(FYI - Working Title 14 might be a holding title, it might turn in to something else. It's all in the early stages again. I didn't want to just rinse and repeat Project 9626 with four more targets for 2016, I wanted to do something a bit more long term. I was always
So things will come and go.
One thing that I wish would come and go very quickly is the terrifying prospect of 26.2 miles in Berlin.
This is going to be a massive challenge. I ran 7 miles on Saturday and it was t-o-u-g-h. Only a further 19 miles on top of that. At this point, I don't know how I'm going to be able to do it, other than wearing rollerblades and strapping myself to the back of the pace car.
I must remember though, that I am lucky enough to be part of the British Heart Foundation's 'Heart Runners' team. A healthy dose of perspective is always welcome, and that is exactly how I am positioning this. Hopefully it'll motivate me to somehow run for 4 hours on the day, and countless more in the build up to it. I plan to raise £1,000 for the charity which will make it all very worth while indeed.
I'm also going to eat and drink like a KING in the weeks following it, so roll bloody on September the 26th!
Another thing I'd really like to do (and writing it down means I pretty much have to do it) is the super clichéd dream of writing a book! I've been thinking about it for a while now, I've even written down some actual thoughts... and when you read books like 'The Girl on the Train' and see it hailed as the best-psychological-thriller-story-book-best-ever-ever*... well, it's difficult to think I could produce something worse.
(*the biggest crock of shit I've ever read)
So we'll see how that goes.
And we'll see how the whole Working Title 14 shebang goes on the whole. Read it, don't read it, I don't mind. Although if you've got this far, thank you. Hopefully it'll flow in a similar vein to Project 9626 and prove to be a half decent read and I'll get some stuff done.
Adios.
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