The end of the year has me feeling reflective and melancholy, and perhaps a bit sad. It normally disappears after today. Thoughts of the recent and not so recent past flood my head – what if’s also, at the same time plans for the future also fight for space in my thoughts.
So, just over one year ago I was living in Vienna. Then I moved to Prague to be settled in the one place for a while, and of course to be beside Anna. For the year and a half before that I had been travelling so much I began to crave somewhere to settle for at least a few months. I found that in Prague, beautiful Prague. Today is our last day here again, and tonight we get on a plane and fly back to Dublin.
My time in Prague lasted until May, when Anna and I moved to Ireland, me to return her for the first time. On the way we stopped in Scotland for a few weeks, and climbed Ben Nevis – yipeee!
My biggest achievement of the year was initially learning HTML and building my first web site, The Camino
During the last few days it has moved to no 3 on goo.com it has felt like it has taken forever. Now I have a few more sites, good fun…however learning on one’s own is perhaps not the way to do things.
Right now I am sitting outside a church in Prague, (mobile connection), Anna is away to look at somethings in the church. This is where we are getting married in August 2007. We have booked the church and started to book the other things. However organizing it all from another country does sometimes prove to be a little challenging. But it will all work out fine. I could never imagine getting married again, that is until I met Anna, and now I look forward to it with joy.
Anyway, (I know Declan), 2007. I try not to look to the future too much, it can scare me too much if my head spends too much time there. But what do I want, I think it is a good idea to have some goals of some sort, even minor things. Another couple of web sites finished, I have quite a few being built at present, so perhaps to have between 5 and 10 finished by the end of 2007. Finish this current contract that I am on, hard being back in the old type of work again, I went to uni and one of the reason was to leave that behind. Study some more, political philosophy is next. Of course get married. And try once again to get fit, my health has taken a bit of a hammering this last year and now is much better, thank you god or whatever.
One last thing that I would ask for it is something that I forget all the time. I would like to feel more grateful for my life. I am so fortunate, I have a bloody great life and forget that fact so often and let the small stuff bother me too much. I ask to be reminded of this again and again. Being grateful makes me happier and life more fulfilling, remember!
Goodbye 2006.