After last year, I hope this year can be better! The main things for this year are as follows: - Move house... I dont particularly like where I like and have now come to the definative conclusion I do not need to be in London and as such I will move out in April, probably April the 9th, although this time I will get a proffessional removal firm to do that task, im sick of moving myself! - Health is pretty important to me and I have tried for the past few years to hit the magic 70kg mark and not achieved it, as such the primary aim will be to change the diet and the exersize regime to try and achieve that, prefferably early on in the year. So I want to run a total of 365km this year (which is easily achievable, I ran 216k last year!), followed by watching the calories I am eating, its darn hard... I have been doing it so far for three days and my body bloody hates me for it... although my bowel movements have gone really weird! What used to be get up in a morning and have crap has turned into a once in a blue moon affair, but then again the rules of thermodynamics, eat less - crap less! So thats the health and living accomodation sorted.... so what things do I want for the work life balance thingy... Well I have made a comitment to myself of trying hard this year to become a expert in the field of communications and smart metering.. as such have decided to write a few papers. Already put pen to paper (well ok hand to keyboard) and started one paper which I hope to finish in the next week. I am hoping that if I have got this write I can get this published early this year. The aim overall is to publish about 3 papers this year as a minimum, if I can publish more than that will be a bonus but not sure that is doable dont want to overstretch myself! Oh and finally.... this year I will have a holiday... in fact the process of sorting lots of vacation time has started, I emailed my collegue in VF America to ask if I can shadow one of his staff for a few days when I come to the US on vacation, if this can be arranged then I will go have a holiday and extend it with a bit of work in the US which will make for a nice break I think.... plus work will pay for a hotel in the states for a few days in a nice part of town! Relationships wise, the aim of this year is to move on from Mr Brewer, some things are worth fighting for but you have to pick the battles you can win... and with this one I dont think I can win with Gav so rather than expelling more and more energy than I have available I will quit while I can before it ends up destroying me. I love him, that is a fact, and I will always love him and continue to wonder, potentially every now and then find out how he is, but only in the same way I do with Darrell. I have moved on from Darrell because I know he is happy with the guy he has met and he has come off of recon therefore he has what he wants. For me I am not particularly selfish, I wish I was, but actually I am just happy that other people can find happiness, even if its not with me.