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...which is a shame, as 2011 has been a year of all kinds of adventures, which deserve to be documented properly. But I'm currently at the wrong end of the A1, and I need to get home. To London. Which kind of says it all.
At the start of 2011, I had one major goal, which was to move from Leeds to London (which first of all meant finding a new job there.) So on the 1st January 2011 I finally stopped just talking about it, and started putting my portfolio together properly. And yesterday, on 31st December 2011 Kris and I finished scrubbing the Leeds house clean of 9 years of memories, and locked up and left for the final time. It was a bittersweet moment, but also a triumph. It took a whole year, end-to-end... but I did it :-)
And it's meant that 2011 has been a complete rollercoaster of highs and lows, and raw nerves and optimism, and scheming and planning, and leaps forward and setbacks, and adrenaline and despair, and feelings of being stuck in limbo and not knowing who I was or where I was or what was happening, and staying sane thanks to long alcohol-fuelled midnight talks with amazing friends, and wondering if things were ever going to work out, and holding on to the belief that they would and that it would all be worth it. And in the end, it really, really was. I am incredibly, unbelievably happy right now. Because you know what? The only thing better than getting everything you want, is realising that that's only the beginning...
"Of course there were a lot of questions, but right now the answers didn't matter; it was enough just to enjoy the questions, and know that the world was full of astonishing things, and that he wasn't a frog. Or at least he was the kind of frog who was interested in how flowers grew and whether you could get to other flowers if you jumped hard enough.
And just when you'd got out of the flower, and were feeling really proud of yourself, you'd look at the new, big, wide endless world around you.
And eventually you'd notice that it had petals around the horizon."
At the start of 2011, I had one major goal, which was to move from Leeds to London (which first of all meant finding a new job there.) So on the 1st January 2011 I finally stopped just talking about it, and started putting my portfolio together properly. And yesterday, on 31st December 2011 Kris and I finished scrubbing the Leeds house clean of 9 years of memories, and locked up and left for the final time. It was a bittersweet moment, but also a triumph. It took a whole year, end-to-end... but I did it :-)
And it's meant that 2011 has been a complete rollercoaster of highs and lows, and raw nerves and optimism, and scheming and planning, and leaps forward and setbacks, and adrenaline and despair, and feelings of being stuck in limbo and not knowing who I was or where I was or what was happening, and staying sane thanks to long alcohol-fuelled midnight talks with amazing friends, and wondering if things were ever going to work out, and holding on to the belief that they would and that it would all be worth it. And in the end, it really, really was. I am incredibly, unbelievably happy right now. Because you know what? The only thing better than getting everything you want, is realising that that's only the beginning...
"Of course there were a lot of questions, but right now the answers didn't matter; it was enough just to enjoy the questions, and know that the world was full of astonishing things, and that he wasn't a frog. Or at least he was the kind of frog who was interested in how flowers grew and whether you could get to other flowers if you jumped hard enough.
And just when you'd got out of the flower, and were feeling really proud of yourself, you'd look at the new, big, wide endless world around you.
And eventually you'd notice that it had petals around the horizon."
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