Things that happened last year:
- Plantar fasciitis which meant I hobbled for the best part of a month. So that combined with work getting a lot more busy and Christmas/other events meant gym didn’t happen as much as I’d have liked.
- Food. This has been hit and miss, pretty much as always.
- Geek Mental Help week! I organised my first non-girl geeks event, and though it was small, it was a great success! Definitely want to do something similar again this year.
- Girl Geek Events. I organised a birthday party to celebrate the 10th birthday of girl geek dinners, and I joint organised a music technology event and our christmas party, both of which went really well
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- Got another tatt! A Welcome To Nightvale one, very happy about that
- Volunteered at Thoughtbubble! Thoughtbubble is a great comic con, but volunteering killed me – I missed the party on the saturday evening because I was in too much pain, which was a bit disappointing. I did meet some amazing people, so overall a win.
So I did a mixture of things I knew I would, and things I did not see coming (I had only vaguely considered a podcast, never mind a testing one, and certainly not getting to over 30 episodes and still going strong!). Overall, decent year.
This year:
- I need to continue with the podcast, get a bit more organised with episodes (I recorded and edited the majority of the episodes last year the day before they went out which is not the most ideal), and get more guests on the show. I’ve got stickers and business cards, I may branch out into more merch, who knows!
- I need to get back on the gym wagon now I’ve recovered from injury and have no events to organise. I did start the 30 day burpee challenge but I had a manic week at work, so will restart that next week
- Keep on with eating well, and learn new recipes. I got a food processor for christmas so that will be used a lot!
- I have two events that I’m helping to organise for Manchester Girl Geeks
- I also want to do something for Geek Mental Help week again
- TestBash! I’m going to my first testing conference this year, so I’m very excited about that – I’m hoping to get a podcast recorded at the actual event, we’ll have to see how that goes
- Work. I want to learn some automation – Selenium seems the most relevant to me, so going to look into that, and see what I can apply to work.
- Thoughtbubble. I’m going to see about volunteering. I’d love to, but I need to be able to function, so I’ll be seeing about only volunteering for half maybe.
- Tatt. I have my next tattoo design sorted, need to decide on placement on my body.
As always, so many plans, but nothing much more that normal, so I’m hoping its achievable!