After taking a month off for Christmas, I'm back with some bloggage for you to read.
Here's some final Christmas nostalgia!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgcY2W5qs6M
Hope you enjoyed that and your Christmas time was awesome and that Santa didn't miss you out. I spent my Christmas day making this with my little brother....
It was one of the best spent Christmas days I can remember! A great finale for 2010! When I wasn't making LEGO castles, I was spending my time selling cameras to the punters inside Jessops. I'd already worked there for almost two years before taking a year out and then returning this Christmas to do some temping. It was good to get some cash on the side but I also realised how amazing my 2010 had been because I saw the contrasting difference between then and now. My 2010 gap year had been incredibly exciting! Best so far! This is what it's supposed to be like when you live for Jesus. It ain't boring. If it is, you're doing it wrong!
"A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other."
As it's the 1/1/11, it's generally the time when people think up their new years resolutions/ what they want to do in the next year. I've never really taken much interest in this because there's generally a negative connotation surrounding it. In the past it's always been a cop out and I'll revert to 'stop biting nails' or something generic. This year I've decided to take it seriously but I want to concentrate on the positives rather than the negatives. The most typical resolution I've heard is 'I want to lose some weight' or 'Eat less chocolate'.........how boring is that. Notice it's always the same each year which generally concludes to failure. How about setting something fun? One of the top ones on my list is 'Take my brother to see England at Wembley'. I'm looking forward to that one!
Don't get me wrong, I think it's important to improve at things and learn from experiences. One of the main things I've taken from my 2010 year is how big the issue of poverty is. I find it really strange to think that 7 or 8 months ago I was in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere... it makes me realise really how grateful we should be and it stirs me up to try and do things about it. Another resolution is therefore to remember to tithe 10 percent of wages. I've known about tithing for a while but never taken much interest- I guess because I didn't think anywhere needed it. At that point it seemed strange giving it to church because they were richer than me! It also felt like it might get lost and I never knew what happened to it. Although my views have definitely changed- due to UNBELIEVABLE amounts of generosity towards me- I still feel that it's good to know where your money goes because it's not giving for the sake of giving but also so that you can be 'blessed'/whatever you want to call it by doing so.
Another few resolutions are to watch at least 150 of the top 250 IMDb films (I'm on 98 so far!) and to learn to cook better/actually do some cooking!
In other news, I went to a Tesco extra en route to Scotland for Hogmanay and it was huge. Probably bigger than most football stadiums in the Premiership/airports in Europe. Also, some of our family managed to complete a 3D model of the world in puzzle form. The details of completing such a model are far more complex than you could ever imagine but here's a picture anyway!
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