Re-evaluation time : Goals for 2012

It's more than 2 weeks since my last entry and I have spent that time, amongst other things, reassessing my life. During the time it also turned in 2012, so I've started thinking about what I want to do in the next twelve months, and the future after that.

I have recently expressed a desire to leave the UK as I am becoming more detached from life in the UK. Over the last few months I have fallen out of love with a lot of things that were an integral part of my life a year ago. I no longer get excited by the prospect of going to watch Lincoln City play, or even football in general, so much to the point where I was able to just give up the website I had run for nearly 10 years without having any regrets.

I am not close to any particular member of my family and none of my best friends live in England. I do have some good friends in England, such as Ellen and Charlie, but other than them I can't think of anyone in this country who I would genuinely miss if I were to leave, not off of the top of my head anyway. I don't mean that offensively but I have 130 people on Facebook and how many do I talk to on a regular basis other than Jodi, Megan, Ellen or Charlie? Probably none of them, not a single one.....other than the ones I work with, but that doesn't really count.

I suppose one reasonf or that is that virtually none of my friends live in Lincoln, they all live a distance away and I rarely see them, or even talk to them on a regular basis. Don't get me wrong, some of the people I worked with at Showcase Cinema were people I loved working with, but as I say, I rarely see or talk to them, so it'd be hard to miss them if I moved away as it wouldn't really change anything.

I've always been a bit sceptical of Facebook in general anyway. I always found it to be a bit of a popularity contest. I was not a popular kid in school, yet the amount of people from school who added me to Facebook was ridiculous, especially given that most of them didn't actually talk to me at all during school. Despite that, I do find it useful for communicating with people and for that purpose it is a good tool, but again I've fallen out of love with it for most part.

So anyway, as we now enter 2012, I am going to start re-evaluating my future.

I have ruled out Norway as a place I want to live. I'd love to visit it for a holiday, but having looked into it a bit more, there's not enough justification to move therea and to be honest, I think Tromso was just a case of me thinking it was a beautiful city before actually doing sufficient research into it.

So my choices are America and Canada, and I have started to take it very seriously.

Although the image is a bit dark, I bought a book recently about moving to America, what to expect in general, how to actually apply for stuff like work VISAs, etc. The only thing it doesn't properly tell me is what the good areas to live in, and that leads me neatly onto Route 66.

Recently I started discussing with someone I know about a thing called "Complete North America" and it has a Route 66 drive. It's a 2 week driving holiday that goes down the whole of Route 66, which is a LONG way, it goes through a lot of different cities and areas, meaning I get a good view of America in a short amount of time. It's something I am seriously considering.

http://www.completenorthamerica.com/holiday-type/fly-drive-holidays/route-66-usa-fly-drive

I still want to see large amounts of Canada as well as I would still love to go there. Every time I turn on TV there is a programme on that references Canada and there are numerous other signs that are telling me it's the right place for me. My best friend lives there and it is a truly beautiful country........cold, but beautiful.

Changing subject, I'm not one for New Year's Resolutions but one thing I certainly want to do this year is lose weight. I weigh 18 stone (well, 18 stone 5 at the time of writing, but I figured I'd round it up) and it's not good. The problem with it is that I work in an office and burning calories and getting decent levels of exercise during the day is nigh on impossible, gyms cost far too much and I have problems with the back of my legs where the muscles tense up after just a few minutes, even when walking, and it becomes uncomfortable. I know that has nothing to do with my weight as I had that problem when I only weighed about 12 stone in 2005ish (I put the weight on after working in call centres).

I think my ideal weight at the moment would be anything under 15 stone. The lower the better but I'd be happy with anything under 15 stone. That'd be a weight loss of more than 40 pounds and I'd be delighted with that, especially if I end up getting back to the 12 stone I was a few years back.

So other than deciding about a new country to live, friends and weight, do I have anything else to talk about? Nope, not really, so for now, peace out!