Ending 2011 and starting 2012

It's a few days late this year but I'm going to do my blog about the previous year, 2011 (: I think this is the 5th one of these I have done, which is pretty exciting to be honest. But anyway, I'm going to go through the aims etc I set at the start of last year and see how I got one.


AIMS FOR 2011

- Get 1400 subscribers on my YouTube channel
1343. To be fair this is the worst I've ever done at a subscriber aim, but it's less important to me now. I am making my videos more for me and my friends rather than the wider audience, which is right for me at the moment. I'm hugely appreciative of the people who still keep up to date with my channel (:

- Get over my psychological issues with blue cheese
Yes! Tried Stilton several times and really liked it!

- Get over my psychological issues with raw fish
No. This isn't going to happen.

- Go to Yo Sushi after I have completed prior aim
See above.

- Get my tattoo done
Totally gone off the idea of getting a tattoo, think I did at the start of the summer.

- Get involved in the radio at my university
I did go to one meeting about it but it's a disorganised system and they never contacted me back ):

- Get the dermatillomania to fugoff
I'm doing MUCH better (:

- Get at least a 2:1 in Media Arts and at least a 2:2 in Film and Popular Culture at the end of first year
I got a first in Media Arts and a very high 2:2 in Film (with a first on an essay and an exam), massively proud of myself (:

- Still keep in touch with all my friends from home
To the absolutely best of my ability, yes. Obviously we don't speak as often or see eachother as often but that is the way the cookie crumbles I suppose. It's nice knowing who is still there for me though (:

- Go on some sort of holiday with friends
YESSSSSS ohmygosh Spain was incredible :D

- Do lots of cooking/days out with Joe
We saw eachother a few times at the start of the year but then he decided he didn't want to be friends with me anymore

- Vlog MUCH more regularly
Sometimes I did, sometimes not. See the first point.

- Get a wide angle or a fish eye lens for my camera
Yep got a wide angle at last :D

- Get a place with Simon, Simon, Lizzie and Hannah (unless Simon ends up going to Australia ofc)
Living with Lizzie and Hannah with Tall Simon down the road and Small Simon is in England across the other side of Twicks (:

- Turn 20 without having a nervous breakdown
SUCCESS :D

- Buy something from the Abercrombie and Hollister store in Kingston XD
What was I thinking?

- Carry on learning to not be paranoid about what people think of me
Well I tried...

THINGS I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO IN 2011

- My Chemical Romance with Simon!
AMAZING

- Les Mis with the other Simon!
AMAZING

- Getting a place with friends when we have to move out of halls
Nice

- Another 5 months in halls :D
Best thing ever, wish I were back there ):

- Making even more new friends at university
Lots (:

- More of my Media course
Adore it

- Everything really. I'm just so excited about everything to come!
Lovely. Lovely lovely lovely (:

And I also found at the end of the last end of year blog I wrote this:

"PS...It's mega weird to think that the next time I read this will probably be at the end of 2011. 365 days will have gone by and I will be reading it like OMFG IT'S GONE SO FAST! And I'll be TWENTY. Future Jocy, seriously, please don't mature. That would be your biggest and most boring mistake ever."

I think I can say truly and honestly, OMFG IT'S GONE SO FAST. Also, yes I am 20. And don't worry past Jocy, I didn't mature. I haven't made that big and boring mistake yet (:


And now the bit when I set my aims and things for the coming year, 2012!

AIMS FOR 2012
- Continue enjoying my course
- Get a 2:1 at the end of second year
- Stay with Stuart
- Not have arguments
- Lose weight
- Keep my hair in good conditioning PARTICULARLY by not straightening it very much at all
- Start thinking seriously about what I want to do after uni
- Turn 21 in a calm and sensible fashion :D
- Do not get mature. That would be tragic.
- Do something lovely with Stuart for our one year annimaversary (:
- Sort out my anxiety issues and just feel less ill and more healthy

THINGS I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO IN 2012
- Completely the second year of my course
- Going to Madeira with my family and Stuart and uncle Warren
- Michael McIntyre with Stuart and his family
- Green Day American Idiot musical!!!!!
- NEW YORK
- Losing weight

I cannot believe it is 2012. I remember when we won the Olympic bid in 2005 when I was 13, 7 years ago. I remember how excited everyone was and how it seemed so far into the future and when I asked my mum if we could go she told me that I'd be nearly 21 by then and wouldn't need her to come with me. And back then I couldn't fathom that. And SURE AS HELLIO it happened, holy guacamole. Luckily I feel in the exact same mindset as I did back then from a JOCY point of view. Obviously in some senses I'm older but I'm essentially the exact same person.

2011 was insane. Falling in love with Stuart being the most notable of all insanities XD Joe parting ways from me being another insanity. Both of these things I just didn't think would happen, and have showed me that literally anything can and will happen, good or bad, whether you expect it or not.

Ultimately, it's been incredible. Hello 2012 (: