As the year is
drawing to a close, and its wet, windy and horrible outside I thought
that I'd have a look back at some of the things that I'd planned as
part of the Life Circle and see where I've got with my goals.
6 months
Its nearly 11 months since I began my
RLE. As far as my 6 month goals were concerned I haven't performed in
any burlesque shows. I did help out at a theatre show by being a
hostess pre-show. It was fun but I'd have enjoyed it more if at least
one of the other Pink Kitten girls had been there with me.
The Valentine's show didn't happen as
far as I was concerned due to car problems. I couldn't make the
Easter or Halloween shows due to being away and not having a car.
I'll not be making the Christmas show either as I don't have a
routine ready to perform.
Mags moved to London earlier this year
and I've not been in touch with her for a while, I need to sort out
getting the corset for my costume and eventually sort out the skirt
for it. I'd like to get that for when I get around to performing my
Messin' with Fire routine after I've developed it.
I've not sorted out the training to
allow me to teach Burlesque yet, it seems that other things get in
the way of that. It will happen though when I get the money together
and have the time to go through the training. I'll try and sort it
out next year at some point as I'm sure that there are several people
that I would be interested in it.
As far as work is concerned I
eventually wore a skirt and have done so on a number of occasions
since. I tend to wear trousers more now that the weather has turned
somewhat.
1 year
I've entered the
Outlaw triathlon for next year. Training starts on December 10th.
My training is mapped out all the way through to next July.
Going to the gym
has continued to be a bit hit and miss but I'm hoping that I can
rectify that because my son has membership at the leisure centre
which covers his life saving lessons but also gym sessions. At the
moment unless I take him he wont get there.
I managed to get
back into running because I trained and completed the Bristol Half
Marathon. Even though the training didn't get off to a good start it
settled down enough that I finished in a personal best time.
I've not
performed at any burlesque shows this year but I'm planning to remedy
that in 2013 by performing a silk fan routine to Moon River at the
Valentine's show. With luck I'll perform the other routines I plan on
working on at the other shows throughout the year.
The hormones are
working nicely. Emotionally I'm a lot more stabled that I was at the
beginning of the year. I'm also experiencing noticeable results in
the breast growth department. In fact my mum commented the other day
when I was at my parent's, and not wearing breast forms and bra but a
figure hugging roll-neck top, that I would need breast reconstruction
when she saw how my right breast had developed in comparison to the
left one which is the one I had removed to deal with the
gynaecomastia I suffered from when I was a teenager.
2 years
On track to achieve my goal of having
completed the Outlaw Triathlon. Will also be aiming to have completed
a couple of aquathlons, a DIY olympic distance triathlon and the
Outlaw Half triathlon by summer 2013.
5 years
As far as being post-op is concerned
I'll be looking to have had my surgery by the end of 2014. It should
be possible for me to be referred for a second opinion at the end of
2013. If that went as it should then in theory I could be having
surgery 6 months later, smack bang in the middle of my son's GCSEs.
That would be too much pressure to put on him and so I'll be looking
to delay things just enough to see to it that surgery happens after
he's completed his exams.
By the time I've finished working on
the ideas I have for burlesque routines I'll have 5 routines that I
can perform and if I stretch out debuting them then I'll have at
least another 4 shows to perform in ahead of me. Hopefully it wont be
one show a year.
Fitness will still be important as I'm
planning to do a number of endurance events in the next 5 years. The
Outlaw triathlon is the first. After that I plan on doing a long
distance cycle ride, the Dart 10K swim and if everything goes to plan
the Marathon Des Sables when I hit my 50th birthday.
For some of the more specific goals
that I set myself.
Developing C# Programming ability
I've not done anything with this for
most of this year. I've simply not had the time.
On the job front things have settled
down. The redundancy process was completed and although I pulled out
after submitting my voluntary redundancy application initially, when
the VR window was reopened I applied again, unfortunately on that
occasion I was turned down.
I did, however, have two job
interviews. The first I got turned down due to not showing that I had
the aptitude for a test managerial role, which was something I wasn't
expecting to be interviewed for.
The second interview went a lot better
with the company turning me down but stating that I knew my stuff and
that if a suitable job came up then they would be in touch to ask me
to attend an interview. That did actually happen but it was after I'd
been turned down for VR and it simply wasn't financially viable to
take another job.
Developing my C# skills is still
something that I need to do.
Get fit
Definitely keeping my fitness levels
up. I achieved my aims with the Bristol Half Marathon and have
noticed an improvement in my swimming with my 400m time dropping by
half a minute on one occasion.
Decorate small bedroom
The small bedroom
has had the wall paper stripped, the built in cupboard has been
removed and the wall filled with copious amounts of polyfilla. All
that needs to be done to it now is to sand down the woodwork and
polyfilla to give a smooth wall and ceiling, paint the ceiling, door
and woodwork, and wallpaper.
At the moment
though the room is full of boxes with bits and pieces that came out
of some units that we got rid of in our living room. Its also got one
of my road bikes attached to a turbo trainer that I intend to use
over the winter when the weather is to bad to get out and cycle.
Looks like
decorating the bedroom will take some time yet to complete.
Tidy garage and garden
Having sorted out the garden the
weather has been such recently that we've let it go. The grass needs
cutting and a lot of stuff that came out of the garage when we handed
the keys back to the local council after we got rid of our old car
needs to be taken to the dump. As soon as I've got enough time to
load up the car and take it to the dump then I'll be getting rid of
it. Not sure when that will be but it will definitely be before the
end of the year.
Lots of progress in some areas, mainly
the ones that I have control over and really want to work on. Not so
much progress in the areas that I don't want to work on or where I've
not had any control over the situation.
Even so I'm happy with where I've got
to this year. Next year will be another interesting one with
hopefully as many things, if not more, achieved as this year.
