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Goodbye 2010 and good riddance
Jan. 2nd, 2011 06:24 pmYeah, so that was 2010 - not the best year ever. We had about three reorganisations at work, plus several more lots of redundancies, me trying a new role that didn't really suit me and not being able to get out of it, etc, etc. Plus we've had ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pennski 's own work issues which are still being worked through, plus the health issues that went with them. Plus we had the death of pennski's grandmother, health crises in my own family and so on.
While there was no one really major thing that was a complete disaster it was just one of those years where there was a steady drip, drip, drip of annoyance and irritations. More than any time for years I felt like all my joy at life was being sucked out of me.
I'm determined that that is going to change in 2011.
Firstly, I have got to stop letting what is happening in the office control my mood. I've even had a conversation with my manager about this last week and he basically told me that I worry about things I don't need to and take stuff too seriously. Like that's news!
Secondly, I've got to start enjoying the things I do out of the office more. I'm going to try and blog about something at least once a week (though I'm immediately going to break that next week for reasons that will become clear!) I might even try to write a critical article or two (I've had a piece about Patricia McKillip going around in my head for ages, plus possibly - just for fun - a follow-up to my Vector article for the 40 year anniversary of Doctor Who after five years of 'New Who'.
We're starting the year off well - we're off to Norway in the morning for an 8-day tour! We're as packed as we can be now, and I've had my traditional grumpy attack while making sure that we don't break our weight limit. The tour is packaged as a 'Northern Lights' tour; seeing the Lights is not guaranteed of course, but we're hopeful!
So here's to 2011. Let's hope it's a good'n.
pennski 's own work issues which are still being worked through, plus the health issues that went with them. Plus we had the death of pennski's grandmother, health crises in my own family and so on.While there was no one really major thing that was a complete disaster it was just one of those years where there was a steady drip, drip, drip of annoyance and irritations. More than any time for years I felt like all my joy at life was being sucked out of me.
I'm determined that that is going to change in 2011.
Firstly, I have got to stop letting what is happening in the office control my mood. I've even had a conversation with my manager about this last week and he basically told me that I worry about things I don't need to and take stuff too seriously. Like that's news!
Secondly, I've got to start enjoying the things I do out of the office more. I'm going to try and blog about something at least once a week (though I'm immediately going to break that next week for reasons that will become clear!) I might even try to write a critical article or two (I've had a piece about Patricia McKillip going around in my head for ages, plus possibly - just for fun - a follow-up to my Vector article for the 40 year anniversary of Doctor Who after five years of 'New Who'.
We're starting the year off well - we're off to Norway in the morning for an 8-day tour! We're as packed as we can be now, and I've had my traditional grumpy attack while making sure that we don't break our weight limit. The tour is packaged as a 'Northern Lights' tour; seeing the Lights is not guaranteed of course, but we're hopeful!
So here's to 2011. Let's hope it's a good'n.
