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Steal­ing this from thebabywife.com.

1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before?

Grad­u­a­tion! Never thought I would see the day!

2. Did you keep your New Years’ res­o­lu­tions, and will you make more for next year?

Goals for 2011

Well I did one out of four, I got a 2:1 at degree level, I didn’t reach my sav­ing goal as I was unem­ployed for 6 months eeek!!! and I failed my dri­ving test twice. Preg­nancy well still work­ing on it.

This year — preg­nancy, pass my dri­ving test and do my sav­ing goal.

3. Did any­one close to you give birth?

Yes one of my best friends gave birth in Spring to a lit­tle girl.

4. Did any­one close to you die?

No

5. What coun­tries did you visit?

None

6. What would you like to have in 2012 that you lacked in 2011?

Money would be nice and enjoy my new job.

7. What date from 2011 will remain etched upon your memory?

Grad­u­a­tion, it was an amaz­ing day, I got tear­ful. Oh and find­ing out I have PCOS that will be in my mem­ory forever.

8. What was your biggest achieve­ment of the year?

Com­plet­ing Uni and find­ing a job.

9. What was your biggest failure?

Being out of work for 6 months, it was a hor­ri­ble time.

10. Did you suf­fer ill­ness or injury?

No I have been alright this year which is new for me!

11. What was the best thing you bought?

My iPhone 4, I love it to pieces!

12. Whose behav­iour mer­ited celebration?

My amaz­ing husband.

My fam­ily

My friends

13. Whose behav­iour made you appalled and depressed?

A few ex friends

14. Where did most of your money go?

Sur­viv­ing

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

Fin­ish­ing uni.

16. What song/album will always remind you of 2011?

‘Gotta get thru this’ Daniel Bedingfield

17. Com­pared to this time last year, are you:

1. Hap­pier or sad­der? Hap­pier.
2. Thin­ner or fat­ter? Thin­ner
3. Richer or poorer? Poorer but not for long

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?

Enjoy­ing that time off

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?

Wor­ry­ing and stressing

20. How will you be spending/did you spend Christmas?

With my fam­ily <3

21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
My hus­band, mum, dad and best friend

22. Did you fall in love in 2011?

Already in love

23. How many one night stands in this last year?

None

24. What was your favourite TV pro­gramme?
Ice Road Truckers!!!!

25. Do you hate any­one now that you didn’t hate this time last year?

I don’t hate, I dis­like cer­tain behav­iour from people

26. What was the best book(s) you read?

Re-read Harry Pot­ter again

27. What was your great­est musi­cal dis­cov­ery?

New dance songs

28. What did you want and get?

Mostly — I wanted a 2:1 secretly and got it, and another surprise.

29. What did you want and not get?

Pass­ing my dri­ving test — booo!!!

30. What were your favourite films of this year?

Friends with Ben­e­fits

31. What did you do on your birth­day, and how old were you?

26 and I my hus­band made steak and chips, yum

32. What one thing would have made your year immea­sur­ably more satisfying?

Not hav­ing to deal with unem­ploy­ment for would be great

33. How would you describe your per­sonal fash­ion con­cept in 2011?

Relax­ing in leg­gings and long tops

34. What kept you sane?
My hus­band and my dad

35. Which celebrity/public fig­ure did you fancy the most?

None

36. What polit­i­cal issue stirred you the most?

Rais­ing of uni fees!

37. Who did you miss?

My best friend — wish she lived closer to me!

38. Who was the best new per­son you met?

Met some amaz­ing peo­ple on-line

39. Tell us a valu­able life les­son you learned in 2011.

Every­thing hap­pens for a rea­son and to stop stressing

Thank you so much for all your won­der­ful com­ments on here and my twit­ter account, it means a lot to me.

So the ques­tion I have been ask­ing myself is what is next? What is going to hap­pen next in my jour­ney? Cur­rently I am job hunt­ing and I would love to be employed as a web designer or a front end designer, at a large e-business com­pany, for exam­ple, any high street brand.

I would also like to apply for post-grad job roles which should open up in Sep­tem­ber but I need a part-time job role to sup­port myself while I apply and await the close (June 2012).

I have cre­ated an on-line port­fo­lio, con­tacted com­pa­nies, applied for loads of job roles, unsure what to do next I am think­ing of con­tact­ing small busi­ness to offer my web ser­vices and maybe approach job agen­cies, any more job hunt­ing tips are welcomed!

Other news, I have been see­ing a lot of the fam­ily and friends, tonight I am mak­ing roasted veg­etable lasagne, I really hope it tastes nice.. I will have to post the recipe if it goes well.

I have a degree in Com­puter Sci­ence, how crazy is that, I never ever thought I would see the day that I would get to wear the cap and gown, walk on stage and col­lect my degree.  But it hap­pened yes­ter­day, it was amaz­ing and I must say I now have been bit­ten by the edu­ca­tion bug and would love to do a mas­ters in e-learning but I am get­ting ahead of myself got to get a job first to pay for the masters!

It was such a lovely day, I nearly cried at the start of grad­u­a­tion because it just felt so spe­cial, I think I value it more since I had to work in rub­bish jobs before decid­ing to return to col­lege to get my A Lev­els and go onto uni­ver­sity, even though I was a mature stu­dent (over 21) it didn’t seem weird to me to be back. I am so glad I did return and I am so grate­ful to my hus­band and his sup­port men­tally and finan­cially over the past four years, we have never ever had a dou­ble income since we have been together so that should be weird when it happens.

It was amaz­ing to see all my friends walk on the stage, I was so proud of all of my year, since we all became close as a whole group and I think that’s what made it really spe­cial, I am going to miss see­ing them every­day, whin­ing about course­work and gossiping.

After the cer­e­mony my whole fam­ily went to a pizza place which was amaz­ing, it was lovely to have both my dad’s fam­ily and my mum’s fam­ily together for the first time in 14 years, my par­ents are divorced, and I had all four my sib­lings together, it was lovely.

Even though I am feel­ing really sad because I am going to miss my friends and my uni­ver­sity life, I am excited to see what hap­pens to me in the next year and where my path will go.

Long

Shorter

That’s right I had to cut off about 1cm of my nails due to the fact I have a job inter­view on Wednes­day and as much as I love (and I do really love) my long nails I just couldn’t type in them, well not as fast I could with shorter nails, it was a sad day yes­ter­day as it has taken me two months to grow them but hope­fully hav­ing them shorter won’t lead to me bit­ing them again. Find­ing it a bit odd to get use to them but I am sure I will in time and I will prob­a­bly grow them again for graduation.

So I had my results released on Fri­day last week, I was so ner­vous, I woke up at 11am (results not till 4pm), I thought the more I sleep the bet­ter than the less time I have to panic and worry.  About mid­day I got a text from a friend of mine say­ing results are on the board do you want yours?  I was like erm yeah okay (then I just stared at my phone until a reply) and I got a 2:1 (Upper Sec­ond) hons!!! I am so pleased! Much bet­ter than I thought they would be!

To com­pare with the Amer­i­can sys­tem, since a lot of you ladies and gents are from Amer­ica, I found this lit­tle chart.  Gotta love charts.

I am so happy with this grade, you see I thought I had failed one of my exams and would end up with just a pass but turns out I did bet­ter than I thought in all my exams and this pushed me by 1% over the lower and upper barrier.

With the degree com­pletely and utterly over with and I’ve achieved a great grade from a great uni­ver­sity,  I just have to find a job in my field which is eas­ier said then done but I will keep hunting.

With no uni­ver­sity and no job, I am just plod­ding around at home, I need to look after my money so dri­ving is being put back yet again until I have the cash to do some more lessons.. so keep your fin­gers crossed for me for this interview.

I am free! I fin­ished my last exam yes­ter­day and have now offi­cially ended my uni­ver­sity degree, it has to be the weird­est feel­ing in the world, I have spent three years at uni­ver­sity and before that two years at col­lege to get into uni­ver­sity, and now it’s all over, five years of my life is over!

So much has hap­pened in those five years, meet­ing my hus­band, get­ting engaged, get­ting mar­ried, buy­ing a house, chang­ing jobs, meet­ing some amaz­ing peo­ple and decid­ing to try for a baby.

I am free from the stress of revi­sion and assign­ments but I can’t help feel­ing sad that I won’t be see­ing my uni­ver­sity friends every day and hav­ing to get a proper job is quite scary no more lie ins no more sit­ting at home all day.  But I have no job so hus­band says I can sit at home relax­ing, and I will look for a suit­able job.

I guess I am start­ing a new chap­ter in my life which hope­fully con­tain a great new job and a family.

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