A Happy Minus 9C New Year to All!

Happy New Year one and all from a wonderfully awesome minus 9C in Tiszaigar in these last few moments of 2015...then it's over rover.

Then it's full steam into 2016 and all that lays ahead in this new year that is now upon us.

Have you set any specific goals you want to achieve  in 2016?

You must aim for something otherwise you'll bump along from one circumstance to another and wonder what happened when Xmas comes again in 2016...although there is an extra day this year now, a leap year day for 2016, which will give you a bit of extra time to work on those aims you set out to achieve in 2016!

I set out a 5 year plan in August 2011, a few months after I came back from my first trip to Europe and am shocked to discover a huge chunk of those goals have been achieved and there's still 8 or so months to go yet to get the remaining parts of the overall goal into place!

It's a bit of a (nice) shock really to see it in writing and then be living in the reality of that plan.

I never understood about 5, 10 or 20 year plans and hence all my life I bumped around from one exciting achieved goal to another and later on, wondered why everything I'd done- while being very exciting - had left no accumulated substance behind me.

A rolling stone gathers no moss or dross and that was me indeed.

Then after that awesome 2011, 3 month backpacking trip around the parts of UK and Europe I felt I might belong in, I found I did love Bohemia and Lower Bavaria and decided to go on another trip back and look around some more.

So, I set up a plan, a 5 year plan and tried to figure out what I wanted long term and then create a plan to bring it into being. Regardless of being on the aged pension or not at that time, money or the lack thereof plus my advancing years, were not allowed to become an excuse not go after my dreams.

I knew in my heart that if I wanted something badly enough, the Universe would conspire with me to bring it into being...as long as I had a sufficiently big enough WHY I wanted to do whatever it was I was wanting to do! The impelling must come from within to drive you forwards with a fire in your belly.

The one thing that made this goal and its plan different to all my other goals I'd achieved in life, was that from out of "nowhere" I suddenly understood the difference between a goal and a plan to achieve that goal in mid 2011.
Dohhh, you'd have thought I would have known that, but no...I did not.

So a 5 year plan was created over a few weeks and it officially began on 11th of August 2011.
The end goals were pretty huge in a way, but not really when you understand how the Universe vibrates and the need to tune in to that and follow your gut...weird as it may be at times...and weird it really has been at times!

It was on this 2nd trip back in late 2012 that I decided I wanted to live in that part of Europe, somehow and soon.

3 years and a bazillion airplane miles later at the end of 2015, here I am.

You know the other bits in between from my blog.

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I'm stretching out this 5 year plan to a bit longer, to achieve the goals, as that is what I learned.
Just because the plan did not come to fruition in the original specified time, I used to ditch that plan and goal and create a new goal, with a new plan, but not this time!

I can't believe I did that for sooo long without realising just to stretch the time line a tad. I never allowed time for me to learn and absorb any lessons from re-takes along the way, so "ditch it quick and move on" was my mantra.

This time there is a peace within as I go from day to day, course correcting as I go each day. Am on course, but am a bit behind, seemingly, at the moment, with the renos and a few other things, but still on the right path...if that makes sense to you?

So, it's on with the show...

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Lookee at what I found under my Xmas tree! Compliments of my sister...

So lovely to see the sky after 3 weeks of foggy days and drizzle. Jogging time. I take dog with me, on a leash, she loves it.

How awesome is this...the sun rising over my front fence and the moon setting over my back fence...ahhh, life is good.

9am and this frost isn't going anywhere to-day! It's -6C at the moment and a bit chilly with a slight wind. NYDay.

Found a poor little doggie at the supermarket on Xmas Eve, under some sticks, in the freezing cold, bleeding from a wound on her ribs. So, the dog shelter lady came and we collected her and I'm looking after her for now. I was not ready for a dog in winter, but she is so loving, so obedient, very good, well behaved, doesn't jump all over you, if she does try, just say...NO...and she's down. She's really clever too.. I may keep her...not sure yet.

Lovely little doggie...

Poor little thing...Just brought her in...she's injured and scared.

Xmas present from the Mayor...lovely.

Dog after 4 days of care, a bath, lots of home cooking and a warm bed of old coats, "inside" the house...only in the room where the kitchen will be...I don't like animals in the house though. If I keep her, I'll have to build a specially heated area for her or any other animal I may get over time....just don't know where to at the moment. She loves chomping on the ice!

Check out the ice in the tap bucket! hahaha...I had to chop it with the axe to cut it to show you! Amazing.

OK...internet playing up again!
Will go post this and have another try tomorrow.

Happy new year everyone!
xxxx