I’ve just finished teaching two classes (with a broken – or fractured – toe. I’m not sure yet) and I’m having a shower and washing away 2019.
Scrubbing, exfoliating, pumice-stoning, deep-rinsing the year away, and applying 2020’s moisturiser ALL over my body. Night cream, night serum, eye cream, (Oh, I am so 32!), putting on fluffy socks (over my bandaged toe 🙁 ) and making a cheese board.
It’s not that 2019 has been a bad year, but for some reason it feels really good to clean it away. Start 2020 fresh.
And with those big, round, even, very-much-satisfying-my-OCD numbers, comes the realisation that we’re entering a new decade.
I have been alive for three and a bit so far, and it’s not beyond me that this new decade will see me into my forties :-O
New Years is an interesting time. We’re staying in this year because New Year’s in Berlin is like a war zone (don’t believe me? Google that shit) and my baby Baloo is very scared. Felix is chilling and getting leftover cheese.
Some people find celebrating a New Year very overrated, and some don’t.
I think you like NYE if you have plans, and then you pretend that it doesn’t matter when you’re at home watching Netflix and washing your hair and eating cheese, and… wait.
This year, the beginning of 2020 is exciting to me. I am genuinely looking forward to all the amazing and maybe not so amazing things this next decade has in store. I have a LOT of things I want to achieve and I’m becoming more aware of the importance of doing them NOW.
One of my favourite Chinese Proverbs, is;
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
And Oh God am I feeling that!
I made a list of all the things I achieved over the past decade. Imma share them with you now. They started off in order and then very quickly went out of order and all over the place.
They are both good and bad things. Just the things that happened that I remembered. In absolutely no order and completely unedited…
– Finished Colour Cosmetica – Went to Cambodia – Bought a house – Got Felix – Made new friends with Ryan and Nat – Got Married/Got Engaged – Went to America – Went to Disneyland and Disney World – Took up yoga for real – VM (Visual Merchandiser) at Forever New and Cotton On – Loads of gigs – Got Baloo – Sarah had Lij – Stopped talking to Dad – Saw loads of friends get married – Got my tattoo sleeve – Entered Miss Ink – Made redundant as VM – Worked at St Peter’s and loved it – Became a yoga teacher – Moved to Berlin – Worked full time as a yoga teacher – Had another nephew, Henny – Travelled lots and lots – Turned 30 – Did a headstand – Met my yoga hero, Jess Rose – Spain, Cruise (New Caledonia), Luxembourg – Germany, Prague, Italy, Portugal – Croatia, Slovenia – Met my other yoga idol, Adriene Mischler – Started my own Youtube channel – Belgium, Amsterdam – Saw snow – Game of Thrones – Bali, France – Met new people, made new friends – Stronger, better relationship with Alex – Mended relationship with Dad – Found out Dad is very sick – Pop died – Nanna died – Saw Ricky Gervais – Did the splits – Rock climbed – Rode a bike everywhere
– Most orgasms
There are lots more things, both good, bad and somewhere indifferently in between, but my hand was hurting and ending on an orgasm seemed appropriate.
There are so many things I wish I had started 10 years ago, instead, I’m going to start them now.
Happy New Year. Happy New Decade.
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