This year has been massive.

I have loved and I have lost, I have worked and been rewarded. I have been blue, oh so blue but now I’m in such a better place.

I wanted to reflect upon this year where so much (but also so little) has happened.

• I started and then deferred my Masters of Clinical Nurse Education
• I have just enrolled instead in my Post Graduate Honours (Acute Care Nursing) degree (2018 here we come!)
• I had a wonderful relationship with a wonderful person that was just not at the right time.
• I travelled to Spain and Portugal with my Dad, a kind of goodbye to solo family holidays and a celebration of the best man I know turning 60.
• A job as a staffing co-ordinator which I hated and dreamt of being back on the wards again (which I ended up going back to my beloved general medicine) – it gave me a whole new perspective of the hospital
• A first wedding anniversary for my beloved brother and his beautiful wife
• turning 28
• making new friends, saying goodbye toxic friends
• losing my appendix and then gaining weight
• dealing with new found body image issues (scars on my abdomen)
• flings with flirty physiotherapists
• tinder dates that would tire your eyes
• reality of my darling dog, Millie growing old (I got her when I was 15)
• becoming more of the person I hope to be
• being a better friend
• not losing touch with those who just need some space, then finally reconnecting with them
• finding so much musical bliss
• accepting that I am who I am
• acknowledging my anxiety triggers
• freaking out about my ticking biological clock
• crushing on ridiculous people
• being proud to be Australian and a part of making the “YES” vote count
• being a daughter, sister, and friend who is loved unconditionally

Thank you, 2017. You have taught me so much about myself and those I adore. It has certainly not been easy but I’m still here and we’re still here and we’ve GOT this!