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I saw this meme done here at Leah’s Blog and thought that I’ve had such an epic year, it would be a shame not to join in!

1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before? Where to start? Long haul flight to LA, enrol in a paper at Tech, work in race control at the ITM400 Street Race in Hamilton!

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I wanted to return to study, which I did, and I lost some weight (8kg) and I hope to keep up my good grades and continue losing weight, getting healthy and looking great. I started the year saying that this was going is my year, and I was so right!

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Nope! Not a single baby in sight.

4. Did anyone close to you die? We lost our little cockatiel, Lucky. We miss him heaps every day. He was our own little flying terrorist of crazy. Read more »

This is post number 300 on this blog. Yay me and three years as well.

I sat my exam. I’m quietly confident. I’ve also since developed obsessive compulsive disorder in checking for exam results twice a day, at least. My paper selection for next semester is done, but its up in the air right now as MIT ‘aren’t happy’ with my paper selection so I have a meeting with them next week. Thinking I might try for a cross credit for the business computing paper, but will see how it goes.

Chopper the Cockatiel is settling in nicely. We haven’t managed to convert his diet and if it doesn’t happen soon I will be booking him into the vets and paying them to change his diet for us. He also isn’t quite used to us, and so being handled isn’t great for him. He will get there. His disposition is lovely. Introductions to Cookie have been stressful for Cookie. She will get used to him sooner or later.

I’ve now lost 7kg. I fell off the rails last week and ate a lot of pizza. It was a meal of circumstance. LOL. Three nights in a row of pizza. Eugh.

Also, this blog post serves as an official memo that I’ve cancelled Christmas. I cannot get into the spirit. Any year. I’m already over it.

Oh, and another thing, I’m itching to get behind the camera. I will very soon! Hope I get something wonderful to share with all three of you soon.

This post has nothing to do with November, or wind. Sorry. Just wanted a cool title to call this post because it touches on a few things.

At the moment, I’m studying for my one exam for tech. It’s on Thursday morning and is the first exam of the exam period for MIT. Good in a way I suppose, bad in that I have to wait a month for the results. Hopefully I will soon find out how my assignment did too. I did the practice exam today and did it in under 3 hours, but there are definitely some gaps in my knowledge, so I will work on those areas of weakness and do a general revision the night before.

Re-enrolments have opened and I’ve signed up for all my papers next year. Semester One (2012) sees me taking Accounting Practices and Business Computing and Semester two (2012) will have me taking Economic Environment and Organisation & Management. I have a feeling it will get harder from here.

I’m also finally getting on top of this illness that I’ve struggled with since the start of the month. I know, 20 days. That is 20 days of headaches, sore throats, feeling like I’ve been punched in the face, upset stomach and generally feeling like crap. I’m still not 100%, but I finally feel like I’m getting there. Sure, the lack of rest hasn’t helped my cause. This weekend has been the first weekend off in ages, so I took full advantage of getting a few things done around the house, and getting a facial too!

The diet thing is working well. Back at the start of November, I got a copy of EA Sports Active 2 for my PS3 on sale from Mighty Ape and I’ve done a few workouts on it when I’ve been in better health. I did one today actually. I hope to complete the 3 week cardio kickstart programme this time! And then I have a goal to move on to the 9 week challenge and see how that goes for me. Anyway, since changing jobs, I’ve managed to lose 6.5kg. I’m stoked. The goal is to lose another 2.5kg in the next two weeks. Probably a bit ambitious, but I’ll give it a good try all the same.

Oh and while still mourning the loss of our beautiful little boy, we got a new little cockatiel. He is all of 11 weeks old at the moment and we’ve named him Chopper! Chopper is a lutino cockatiel and he is very beautiful and hand raised. He can mimic rainbow lorikeets and loves to play with toys. He isn’t sharing a cage with Cookie yet, but these things take time. I’m sure he will get settled soon enough.