Ordinary Eve
Review of the Single year
Every year at about this time the media go mad with Review of the Year style articles that etiher tell us what we already knew or remind of things we would rather forget.
Not to be out done by the heathens I thought I would review my own year and see how I managed with my new year's resolutions from last year (see New year? New you?)
The two key ones were
Stop swearing (like a Cornish fishwife) - ha ha haand
Stop going back to the flat to check that I have put off the straighteners/blown out the candle/turned off the hob when deep down inside I know that I have! - Amazingly this one I have acheived in almost all circumstances!And some more...
My other resolution was to be myself in relationships. How did I do on that one?
Well, better than I had hoped. I have been dating someone who I found specifically because I was clear about being Christian. He is happy with my faith, it's his faith too. He is happy for me to spend time in prayer and to go to church and doesn't bat an eyelid when I inform him I have to miss the opportunity for a weekend away in Venice for a retreat. (what am I some kind of fool?!)
So I guess that proves that it is possible to stick to your guns, be yourself and be valued for yourself
2007
So then, that's my incredibly brief review of the year. But what of 2007?
Mundane stuff
Mundane resolutions include the following:-
Sort my skin out - I am zitty and I am sick of it. I blame Maison ChocolatSave more every month - boring but necessary I feelMake less impact on the environment by changing my fuel supplier, putting a "hippo" in my loo etc.Continue to be myself as much as possible in relationships, it has worked although I thought it never would and that's given me faith to keep on with it and see where it takes me.
God created us all the way we are for a reason - maybe just because he loves that "way we are". We need to value that dream that God has of us and the more we pretend to be something we aren't the more we can drift from that vision.
Remember that being single means that you have much more time to do things that you will only dream about when you have a troublesome male/female whining about activities they don't want to do or a baby that cries through the night so you can't even think straight!
Enjoy 2007.
Katie Streten
