Hi,
Yes, I know that the year has started 19 days ago. It doesn't really matter, I was just too busy. And anyway, today I am able to feature thumbnails and a skin. So I wish everybody a happy year and lots of luck throughout it.

So, this year started with a job interview (yay), but sadly enough, I didn't get the job (once again...). It seriously starts to get to me that nobody thinks I'm worth giving a job to. Anyway, I'll keep searching. And then my boyfriend and I were let into our new appartement early, so I was very busy painting and organising and painting and painting. And painting. But now that is all done and this weekend we'll finally move in. It'll be brilliant once the phone/internet company got their head out of their arse and install our Internet (right now, it's expected for beginning of February). Not that I need the Internet to search for jobs and apply to them, no... Internet is completely useless apart from entertainment. Good that my boyfriend has a very lovely brother that will let me use his Internet during the day.

Last year started hard. I never knew how hard being separated from your loved one can be. I gained a whole lot more of respect for my parents! I have no idea how they managed, seriously. Even though it seemed to get easier with time passing, it was still hard at the end of the period. Which was at the end of my university studies. I was happy to be done with them and back in Germany with my boyfriend. It was long overdue, I had the nagging feeling that it didn't do any good anymore for me to keep doing that course. What was worse, I felt like it didn't prepare me for a job at all at the end. Which maybe was due to the fact that university was quite different in Spain, France and Ireland. The one in Ireland (as great as it was and as good as the courses itself were) seemed to be the only one that didn't stear you into some kind of direction. I felt like I was starting to find my goal in life while I was at university in France and I lost it all again while I was back in Ireland. It was just the mixture of classes I had to take (seriously, who gives 1st year classes to 4th years? Isn't it a little late for introductory courses to completely different fields?). It didn't go anywhere near the direction I had found for myself. At the beginning, it just frustrated me, but then I just lost track of my goal. And now I'm still searching and I have still no idea what I want to be "when I grow up".

Pff, but last year also had good parts. Being together with my boyfriend for the second half of the year being one of them. Having my project 52 to do gave structure to me while I spent most of the time doing the same things weekdays as weekends. And since I wasn't the only one to complete the challenge from last year, I am going to feature a picture from everybody that made it through!






And of course, my favourite of the year: