Looking forward to...

Blush_01

I don't know about you, but for most people I know (myself included) 2010 has been a bit of a difficult year.

However, with a little over a week to go, 2010 is almost over, and 2011 is en route, pristine and promising.

I know in effect the change at new years is the same as the change at midnight any night of the year, but it does seem like as good a time as any to think about change and making things better, and about the good things that are coming your way.

There's so much grumbling, misery and loneliness at the moment, lets think about the positives! What are you looking forward to in 2011? Do you have any plans or wishes that you'd like to see coming true?

rainbow kirby

Looking forward to finally being able to move back out of the family home. I plan on moving in January or February, and to be honest, I can't wait.

Hoping for a better running year than this year too, was never able to string more than 3-4 weeks of solid consistent training together this year without something happening which would interfere with it.

Also hoping to not be single for the entire year again :eek:

StereoLove

I'm looking forward to better weather and maybe having enough money to go on holidays this summer

Larianne

Looking forward to finishing second year and going on placement.

Getting more diving in.

Going to Italy and Croatia.

Getting a job.

Having a bit of a life after these exams!!

...and finally learning how to drive.

BRING IT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blush_01

I have high hopes for 2011!

Looking forward to a job hunt, moving on from where I am, possibly finding a career path, maybe some study, and definitely more time with the people who mean something to me.

I am looking forward to putting a bit of work in on myself, and being happier with who I am.

I'm really looking forward to being more focussed and structured in how I deal with things. I can fit everything I want to do in... I just have to drop some of the unnecessary nonsense. TV is unnecessary nonsense (and that's practically gone already) but writing isn't.

I'm so looking forward to a time when there is no snow. NO SNOW!!!

That'll do for a start.

Ickle Magoo

Really looking forward to going home for a visit - and giving my folks a huge big hug.

baby and crumble

Yeah, 2010 was pants.

I'm looking forward to a few things in 2011... Having my girlfriend living back in Dublin after 18 months away. That was epically rubbish.

Looking forward to finishing and handing in my PhD in September, hopefully.

Looking forward to going to New Zealand and presenting at a conference, and then heading to Sydney to present a workshop... Fingers crossed I find the money from somewhere!

Novella

After the crapness of 2010 study-wise, I'm hoping to go back to college in 2011 and just enjoy myself. Do a course I love, work hard. I'm feeling really motivated 'cause after being out of education for a while, I miss it so much and I know I'll be ready this year to give it my best shot.

Other than that, I'm really just hoping that 2011 will be a happy year. I'll do whatever I can to make it that way!

squeakyduck

I'm looking forward to travelling around the world next year after my eldest brother gets married to his fiance They live in cambodia at the moment so they will come back here for a wedding/blessing thing. I might have two travel partners on my hands.

I'm also looking forward to the challenge of a TEFL course, I hope to teach in a foreign country with it. So much to get sorted.

Most of all I'm looking forward to ringing in the new year with my friends and boyfriend

stupidusername

i'm looking forward to being able to walk again! which should be in February.

I can't wait to move out of here, which wont be till January, and move to Dublin.

There's a few WPP jobs that have come up that are quite exciting sounding and I'm hoping there's a chance I'll get one of them in the new year.

I'm really really looking forward to seeing spring. I just love seeing all the birds around, and love to watch the webcams on the nests. Just a better time of year. and this time round I can appreciate it more.

I've said to my best friend that it'd be cool if we could both start saving up a bit of money so that we can go to visit his uncle in South Africa. We'd been saying it for a while when we were a couple, but it's about time we got around to it. It'll be so mad to go on a safari etc... hopefully we can do that in the autumn.

SarahMs

Jeepers............ I hate this time of year..... It's so amazingly fun and romantic...... but on the other hand it's slightly scary because it will be January again and that means the start to another year.

I plan to just enjoy 2011, not put too much expectations or wishes or dreams or big ideas into it. Take the good with the bad and smile

dirtyghettokid

2010 was a pretty crap year .. only good thing was i got married in the summer time. but last year was crap too and i thought this year would have been better. i do hope next year will be better, but i'm not holding my breath! i'm out of work 3 years now, and i hope to move back home to canada.. so i'll be looking forward to that if i ever get the money together to go!

xoxyx

Looking forward to finishing this lot of study and hopefully leaving a job and starting a career.

Looking forward to re-doing the epic holiday I had this year, but with background experience this time!

Looking forward to 2011 in general.

Eve_Dublin

Hopes for next year:

Get to next level of fluency in Spanish

Move from Spain to South America in the Summer! Hopefully I´m brave enough.

Not fall for any man in the meantime and if I do, it better be requited this time.

Start dance classes again.

Be a little less independent.

Worry less.

Asphyxia

So many things to look forward to next year!

Random bits of travelling.
Sisters wedding.
Hopefully going to start training and studying to become a Beauty Therapist.

There's so many things :rolleyes:

rain on

Hopefully it'll be the year when I stop being 'on track' to get promoted and actually feckin get there

Aside from that, I'd like to do more stuff with my band, hopefully a couple of gigs outside Ireland and another release, but without losing my mind organising it like I did this year. I'd like myself and the OH to continue having as nice a time together as we've been having recently, I'd like my parents to stay healthy and my father's (small, construction-related) business to keep holding it together. Really when I think about it I've been very blessed this year and I hope it continues.

Konata

I'm looking forward to actually being able to do something with my life in 2011 I've been looking at night courses so gonna take up 1 or 2 of those for Jan - Summer and then hopefully make it back to college in September. To do something I actually like and want to do this time!

I'm looking forward to having a whole year untarnished by severe depression or eating disorders. I'm going to try and reach a personal milestone of one year without self harming (would be in September 2011).

I guess I'm just looking forward to having a chance at living a slightly more normal life!

Stheno

I'm looking forward to both big and small things:

Big things:
Getting a job
Getting certified at Master Level in my primary qualification, not easy but achievable.(albeit expensive!)
Appreciating what I have compared to others (great partner, great friends) and spending more time with them
Getting my health back I worked for 18 months in an office infected with mould and damp and it's affected my health.

Small things:
Keeping the house clean.
Having more friends over.
Cooking more and realising that the food in the freezer is there to eat, and not to admire.
Framing my pictures.
Making the house I live in more of a home and a real reflection of me.

Giselle

Right now I'm looking forward to getting today over with without bloodshed!:D

Bring on the new year, last year promised much more than it delivered but next year is going to be the best. I can feel it in my water*:)






*whatever that means :)

Jemmy

A new year, new start, new me!

sleepyescapade

I have a phone interview for my dream job/location on the 4th of January, I am looking forward to that and hoping to God I pass it and progress to further interviews/job offer because it will enable me to secure a H1-B visa and move over to my OH. So excited/nervous about it! So I am looking forward to that and finishing my degree and moving to the States

Blush_01

I am looking forward to getting my new (second hand) car. Thinking I'll go for a slightly higher engine capacity and possibly change from petrol to diesel. It's exciting.

Princess Peach

I have my birthday and graduation the first week of January, yay!

Def need some sort of holiday cause its been way too long!

And I'd like to decide what to do with my life. Be it applying for jobs related to my degree or going back and doing my masters. Bit sick of just floating around in life now :P

Oh, and losing all the weight I've put on in the last 2 days :pac:

Chuchoter

Going to Italy
Possibly (looking unlikely though) working in Bordeaux for the Summer.
Turning 18!!

almostnever

Getting back to college.
Hopefully moving to Dublin for second year.
Hopefully going to Paris in the Summer.
Hopefully doing well in my college exams so I can be confident enough to try for Schols.
Turning 19.
Just looking forward to 2011 in general to be honest, I have a feeling it's going to be a good year.

Whippersnapper

Learn to drive.

Princess Peach

Oh I'd also like to learn to drive

cdaly_

Getting back on my bike after all the snow... Have been off it for most of the month...

QueenOfLeon

Saving up some money. Hopefully.
Going to Oxegen again after getting the ticket as a Christmas present
Approaching the college workload a bit better.

I'm not gunna say my birthday cos I don't want to leave my teens!

Retail Hell

1. Quit Smokings this new year,
2. Start a family with the missus,
3. Move backto ireland, or commute to ireland from uk
4. Have a great time at my friends Wedding in the summer
5. get a little fitter, if the smoking thing works out

Puddinase

Blush_01 wrote: »

I don't know about you, but for most people I know (myself included) 2010 has been a bit of a difficult year.

However, with a little over a week to go, 2010 is almost over, and 2011 is en route, pristine and promising.

I know in effect the change at new years is the same as the change at midnight any night of the year, but it does seem like as good a time as any to think about change and making things better, and about the good things that are coming your way.

There's so much grumbling, misery and loneliness at the moment, lets think about the positives! What are you looking forward to in 2011? Do you have any plans or wishes that you'd like to see coming true?

Think 'difficult' is definitely appropriate for summing up this past year.
I'm looking forward to getting back to my happy self, feel like I've had all energy and positivity sucked out of me this past 6 months.
Obviously this is something I'll have to work on myself but hopefully I'm finally able for it.

To new beginnings:D

Pembily

I'm looking forward to
* Being single for the year and only worrying about my happiness and not his

* 3 amazing gigs (Slane, Oxegen (I'm braveing it) and Feeder )

* Getting a job in my field

* Sorting out a Masters

* Settling in in Dublin

* Getting my normal happy self back fully

* Getting my fitness back and weight back down

* No more tears!

2011 is going to be epic! Fooking better be cause 08 - 10 were SH!TE!

Maple

What am I looking forward to most in 2011?

Being happy in my own skin. I haven't felt that in nearly 5 years but I can feel it happening now and I'm relishing the feeling.

Everything else will click into place, I just know it.

I can feel 2011 is going to be a good year.

kiwi123

having a whole world at my feet with a degree in my pocket!

Knowing I have nothing holding me back and that if I want something I have to take full responsibililty and grab it myself....no excuses!

Finding myself! As cheesy and all as that sounds, becoming completely comfortable with who i am and at peace and LOVING THAT PERSON!

spending time with the girls and doing things like going away on a girly weekend.

Also spending time with my family and watching my niece grow into a beautiful (and bold) little girl

Getting some more life experience

It's going to be a year with lots of ups and downs but by this time at the end of 2011 I hope to say that I have lived life!

*i just got a little bit excited* :P

The feeling that I am infact making the most of life!|

Twee.

Bring on 2011!

I'm starting an unpaid internship in a field I want to work in from January to May and I can't wait! It' going to be so much fun! Then I'll be heading away on a J1, back in time to start my final year in college! It's gonna be a good year

dellas1979

This time last year I made a list of things I wanted to do:
1. Buy a new 10 car (bought it end of January).
2. Go on a fab holiday/travel more (went to france/spain in May and NY in June)
3. Finish my Masters (finished in Sept)
4. Get a new job (got it in Sept also)
5. Loose weight and get fitter (ran/walked a few marathons-joined gym/lost weight (prob all back on since the Christmas ).
6. Save more (yep!).
7. Meet someone famous (ok-I met Breffni from the apprentice and Gerry Springer :pac:).

Things still on my list for 2011:
1. Id love to move to New York for a few months at least and experience life over there. Am seriously thinking of this.
2. Just generally having the craic and putting myself first.
3. Keep up the getting fit thing and run a full marathon.
4. Meet someone really famous.

Chinafoot

My plan for 2011:

- Get the finger out and finish my masters.
- Focus on getting on the right path for my ultimate career goal (I had my epiphany moment this month!)
- Get the weight and fitness finally sorted. I'm too young for this crap.
- Move out of the city to Swords with the other half - and NO flatmate!
- Move to a new branch for work.
- Accepting that my family are the way they are and that I have plenty of good friends who will be there for me.
- Enjoying myself.

pow wow

Looking forward to loads of traveling and catching up with old friends, another house move and finally deciding whether a certain someone is firmly on my list or crossed off it :cool:

tatabubbly

Pass my masters course,

Get my driving licence,

Save for moving away,

Get myself some nice things cos this year i was skint and hated it!!

I've got to remember that even though the OH will be away from june 2011 on, that he loves me and not to get irrational....

NeuroticMonkey

Wow 2010 was a HORRIBLE year for me in which I lost a bunch of friends (now realise they weren't really friends at all), got seriously neurotic and isolated for a while, failed some important exams and, despite all the plans I had made for my future career and the work I put in throughout the entirety of my degree (and the efforts I went to to get work experience to put on the CV), I'm now living at home with my folks in the sticks, jobless and skint as the dole hasn't come through. :mad:

OK sorry, rant over! :rolleyes:

Plans for 2011:
1. Work experience (relevant!) is sorted for 3 months initially and may be able to do more after that.
2. Night course (component certificate) lined up in something I've always had an interest in but never the time for.
3. Master degree in UK in Sept 2011.
4. Improve photography skills.
5. Get Blue tip or full blue belt in TKD and get back to my pre-exam and pre-crazy-ness gym and swim routine.

Would also love to have a successful relationship that lasts longer than 3 months for the first time ever. And just be more outgoing and fun for other people to be around...I'm hoping to work on my general person-friendliness now that I'm outside the formal education system for the year. I'd also like to leave the country..nowhere fancy, just to see some new places....a few times this year, funds permitting.


So, in summary, F*CK YOU 2010 and BRING ON 2011!!!

Lia_lia

I want it to be a productive year! This year was pretty uneventful/unproductive.

I hope to:

Learn to drive (bout time!)
Move to a different country for the summer (depending on funds)
Start the college year with a good work ethic, no messing about!
Try a new sport/activity.

Jenneke87

Looking forward to a job that really suites me and a place of my own to life, not just a room in a house minded by a landlord who charges everyone that want's to stay over for a night.

dammitjanet

2010 was awful- my 1 year old nephew got meningitis, I suffered with depression, my OH suffered with a heart disorder, my dog died and I left my old job to go to a new one where I am being bullied by some of the staff and miserable all the time.

2011 will be better:

Going to get a new job!!!

Going on holidays (once with my gran, once with my OH and again with him and his parents)

Going to lose weight and get back to running

Going to meet up with old friends a lot more

Moving in with the OH

sexydancer

My little boy's First Communion

pinkpigs

2009 & 2010 were horrendous years of epic proportions. My wish for me this year is..

• Stay off the cigarettes
• Get out of the debt that suffocating me
• Staying positive
• Be good to be myself

To have a nice boyfriend to share things with and less of the loneliness..

P.P.

squishykins

2010 was an awful year...The only good thing that came out of it was the improved relationship with my dad, which is already going down the ****ter...but that's another story =D
Ok so what's definitely gonna happen this year!

I will get a damn job!

Get my full licence

Get a wee Renault Clio!

Move in with my bf (well, same building anyways, I have the deposit down!)

Finally lose this weight and get fit, something I've been trying to do since 2003 but it will happen now!

Go to Amsterdam

Go to Germany (Rock am Ring, woo! Never going back to Oxegen )

Not be such a crazy bitch :rolleyes:

Once I lose the weight, buy me a new wardrobe (probably as a birthday present to myself :P)

It feels good to have all that down, now it has to happen!

mood

Seeing post from people here saying they got a job and hopefully holding onto my own.

Hopefully enjoying getting fit and eating healthier.

Getting my skin sorted out.

A date this weekend.

Probably won't happen but I would love to see all the corrupt politicians, developers, planners and bankers etc get locked up, asset repossessed etc and the economy improve.

annieire

Travelling more in 2011:)

Pythia

2010 was quite a good year for me as I got a great new job, celebrated another year with my boyf, went on lots of great holidays and got a new car.

For 2011:

I'm looking forward to going on holiday to Vegas, New York, Libya.

Hopefully passing the first lot of my actuarial exams.

Another year with boyfy!

psycho-hope

hmm lets see

go on holidays somewhere nice
hopefully get a full time job so i can afford to go back to college in september
spend more time with the bf
pass my driving test
Himself gets a job even if it means us both moving to scotland or wales

intouch44

having a blank canvas in front of me and making 2011 what I want it to be, also becoming independent and concentrating on myself for a while possibly making a move out of ireland? who knows??