New Year, New Start.

It's always around this time of year that we tend to think about what we want to achieve in the year ahead.

Whether it's New Years Resolutions or things on our 'To Do' list. It seems like people forget about the other 8 months of the year. November to March are full of either diets ahead of the Christmas season to slim into that 'LBD' or the diet after eating too much at Christmas.

I've been thinking about next year and what I'd like to achieve and you know what, there's not a lot I'd change.

This year has been a pretty good year. The biggest thing for me has been moving house. I don't think I realised just how much I needed to do that to truly move forward.

After I moved so many people finally said to me they couldn't understand how I stayed in that house for so long. I'm surprised no one said anything before but I guess they were just trying to be supportive.

I knew I couldn't stay in that house. Initially it was shear stubbornness that kept me there. I was not going to let Dean 'beat me'. That's such a bad way to have seen it but at the time, I wasn't thinking straight enough to know where I would have wanted to move to anyway.

Now I absolutely love my new house. I'm very lucky to live where I do. And as strange as it may sound, Shiloh (poochie) seems so much happier here too. He hasn't tried to escape once (mind you he can't go and run to Nan and Granddads anymore) and he hasn't destroyed anything (accept for the Lodgers Macaroons).

This year has also seen lots of travelling which I'd like to continue into next year. I think I will better restrain the travelling a little bit. I calculated (roughly) how much I've spent on travel over the past four years and I can't believe I could have bought a several (yep more than one!) properties up North for the amount I've spent. That is insane!!

Work has become busier so this will divert my attention from travels a bit. I'm actually ok with that. I'm very lucky to have a job that I really enjoy and really fantastic colleagues.

I've also stripped a few fake friends from my life. I would much rather have only 2/3 friends that I truly respect and am close to than people that always have a negative opinion on me.

The New Year shouldn't always be about trying to change things, it should sometimes be about improving on the things you currently do and being thankful for this.

Here's to a fantastic 2016. I'm hoping the year will be filled with lots of love, luck and happiness. Not just for me, but especially for my friends and family.