2014.

Jungle Park in July, Fall Out Boy in March, Halloween pre drinks, Memory Walk start line in October & sibling theatre selfie.

Hello (:

Welcome to yet another post about 2014, to join the onslaught that will be coming to a screen near you in the next few days.

2014 has been a bit of a weird year in all honesty. I started this year with my pals in possibly one of the dirtiest nightclubs in Sheffield, sickly vodka concoction in one hand, absolutely loving life. My only concern at that time was not losing one of my shoes to the sticky floor.

January, February and March were all very much the same. I spent Friday nights in said nightclub with my best friends, and suffering through weekend long hangovers. I was struggling through the last half of my NCTJ course and hating every second of it. Now, it feels like it's been much longer than a year or so ago since all of that was happening. Through all of the arguments with tutors, nervous breakdowns in the toilets, throwing shorthand notebooks across the room and public affairs nonsense, I passed everything (apart from reporting, but let's ignore that blip) and got my shiny diploma in the post in May. Go me.

Through doing the NCTJ, I've learned the hard way that I'm unfortunately not in a prime location to go off and be a journalist just like that. That's not to say I've given up altogether, I've just formed a solid back up plan that will be put into motion in 2015/2016.

In July I turned twenty-three and gave myself a massive kick up the arse. I realised that I'm not going to get anywhere if I sit around and mope. Getting angry doesn't solve anything and feeling like I've been mislead and given ill advice hasn't helped me achieve anything. It's put fire in my belly, of course it has, but it hasn't gotten me any further along in life. I don't want to bang on about how much I've learned or grown up, because I haven't, but I have made a fair few decisions to try and enhance and move life along a bit faster.

I decided I was going to start learning to drive. Better late than never, eh? I had my first lesson in September and after having a few problems with the first instructor, that was sorted with a swift change and I'm now terrorizing the streets once a week.

This year has been very up and down, from loving life at Leeds Festival in August, to having a cry in the stock room at work in June (and last week...) it's been a bit all over the place.

I don't think it's quite sunk in yet how good 2015 is going to be already. I've been told I have to make it my year and that's the goal. I want to see everything and do loads of new things, take all the opportunities and make some much needed changes.

I'm happy to see 2014 go to be honest, but I'm also very excited about what 2015 has in store.