End of the Year

Well, I’ve only just set up this thing and it’s already the end of the year. Hopefully at the start of next week we’ll be in our new house, after over 6 months of house hunting, meeting mortgage advisers and speaking to impossibly boring estate agents.

But what about the rest of the year, and the rest of my life…

Well, it has been a good year all in all. Frankie has got a job back at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, making our lives an enormous amount easier. The 140mile round trip each day was starting to become a little bit of a pain to say the least.

The discovery of facebook has meant that I have been able to make contact with an enormous amount of friends that I haven’t seen for years, old school friends, and other people I have lost contact with.

I have managed to loose around three and a half stone over the past 9 months, mainly by cutting out bread from my diet (oh yeah and 90% of the beer). Apparently this has made me more confident, although I don’t think so, although I am happy now that I can go into a regular high street shop and buy a pair of jeans that fit me, without having to ask if they go up to extra fat size!!!

After a full year of training (without breaks for...well breaks, in bones) I managed to pass my Ik-kyu (Iaido) on November at the Darlington Seminar, and are now really looking forward to a fun packed 2008, when I'll hopefully be taking Shodan, and hopefully training with Iwami Toshio sensei, the 11th Soke of Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu. (And hopefully learning some Koryu)