{"id":160,"date":"2008-12-31T13:52:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T13:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spiderscripts.co.uk\/?p=160"},"modified":"2022-02-12T10:22:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T10:22:25","slug":"resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not usually one for making new years resolutions.  I am of the general opinion that if I&#8217;m going to make a change I might as well make it here and now instead of waiting for January 1st!  I&#8217;m also of the opinion that if I set out a list of &#8220;things to do&#8221; over the next year, I will invariably either fail to do them, or simply forget I made the list in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, after a very pleasant week in Nottingham with my family (including three and a bit day trips to see extended family), I have returned to Leicester inspired to take up again a couple of activities which I have neglected for a long time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reading fiction<\/li>\n<li>Exercising<\/li>\n<li>Spending time with people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I managed to plough through the harrowing but excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Need-Talk-About-Kevin-Paperback\/dp\/1852424672\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1230731181&#038;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"We Need to Talk About Kevin\" rel=\"noopener\">We need to talk about Kevin<\/a> during the break and have been reminded just how much I enjoy reading.  It&#8217;s not like I haven&#8217;t done much reading this year, what with all my Relay study material, but I haven&#8217;t finished off a fiction book for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say I did masses of exercise during the break, but I was up and about doing stuff some days, and the difference between that and staying in the house all day was surprisingly noticeable.  It&#8217;s really no wonder I have trouble with my sleeping patterns when I do sometimes just sit in my house drinking tea for an entire day.<\/p>\n<p>The best thing by far about the Christmas holiday though is that I had a chance to see my family (lots of them!) and just hang out.  I really enjoyed the numerous games of scrabble we played, and the chance to catch up on what people had been up to since I last saw them.  I do sometimes fail to do the whole quality time thing with my friends, and it really isn&#8217;t difficult, especially when I don&#8217;t spend all my free time sitting in front of a computer (yes, I know, irony has just slapped me in the face).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not usually one for making new years resolutions. I am of the general opinion that if I&#8217;m going to make a change I might as well make it here and now instead of waiting for January 1st! I&#8217;m also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/?p=160\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,71],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-life","tag-resolutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}