1 down, 19 to go...

Just a quick one this, just to mention that I have ticked off my first item from my 2012 'things to do' list:

8. Get promoted at least once.

That's right, I am now a 'Senior' Merchandise Admin Assistant for Topshop international, rather than just a regular one. Hoo to the rah! Muchly happy today I am! And this also means I will now have more money to spend on wine/cocktails/clothes/things I don't really need, which is always a bonus!

As for the other 19 items, well, some of them are going OK, I'm gyming lots, but I want to actually keep that up a bit longer before I say I've succeeded, and cutting down on crisps and alcohol has mainly been due to the fact it's January and I have very little money until payday, so we'll just see how February goes for those ones...

That is all.

Enough is never enough.

I went to see Cirque du Soleil: Totem at the Royal Albert Hall tonight with with my friend Stewart. The show is a mix of circus arts, acrobatics and street entertainment, with the theme of Totem being set around evolution. Well, something to do with evolution, although we were both unsure as the actual 'story' or meaning of it all. Nevertheless it was an enjoyable show, the 2 and a half hours whizzed by, it had a very attractive and muscly gymnast guy to look at, a really cool and pretty stage set-up and lighting, and some really impressive performances.

However; despite these impressive performances both myself and Stewart left with the feeling that we hadn't had all our expectations met. And just to be clear this is in no way due to poor or boring performances (with the exception of one act involving somersaults building up a massive amount of tension, only for the gymnast to perform the tiniest of flips and then expecting a standing ovation), as each act was executed brilliantly, the performers were all incredible, captivating the audience and leaving us all wanting more. And herein lies the problem. We always want that little bit more. We're never quite 'wowed' by things as we always think there could be something better/bigger/faster/more shiny to come along that will impress us more. Enough is just never enough.

Films and television probably have their part to play in this factor, with special effects making the impossible possible, superheroes doing all sorts of unimaginable stunts, and explosions and epic battles filling the screens, the real world seems somewhat dull in comparison. Perhaps if one the acrobats in Totem actually flew across the stage before heroically saving the audience from an explosion we might have felt a standing ovation necessary. Maybe next time.

Well anyway, the show was brilliant, and whether it had the wow-factor or not I wouldn't be able to do a single thing they did on that stage, and if I was to try I would undoubtedly kill myself in the process. So surely that's got to mean something right?

That is all.

Out with the old...

...and in with the new. Yep that's right, I decided that as it's a shiny new 2012 shaped year (happy new year by the way) I will get rid of everything I own, throw it all out and start from scratch with lots of lovely new things. Well, that was until I remembered that I only have about £2.43 to my name and can't actually afford to buy anything. So rather it's out with old, then bring it all back in again. Think of it as a life refurbishment, rather than a life reinvention.

So where to start? Well they say that a cluttered home equals a cluttered mind so my first task is to clear out all the junk I don't need that is cluttering up my life, especially in the big cupboard in my room that resembles the cupboard that Monica has in Friends. It started out as a lovely space used to store my toiletries, books, Blu-rays, etc. and was all organised in the most lovely of ways. However, before long it became a dumping ground for anything I didn't know what to do with or things I wanted to hide from view. It now contains empty boxes, gift bags, glasses, computer cables, random bits of stationary, bills that are yet to be filed away, wrapping paper, old diaries, an apron, drinks bottles, old Christmas/birthday cards, shopping bags, soft toys, some robot money counting thing, washing liquid, and an assortment of other bits and pieces. For all I know I Romanian family may have set up home somewhere in the back. What's even scarier is that I also have a large drawer which has a similar range of random items which I've not even dared to open in about 4 months for fear of what I might find. Maybe let's just forget about that one for now and focus on the cupboard. One step at a time and all that...

I was going to then pose the question of what is next to do once I've de-cluttered all the clutter but I don't think I'll have got through it all anytime soon so maybe that would be jumping ahead a bit. And anyway, refurbishments don't happen over night, do they?

That is all.