Sorry for being absent, I have so much going on right now in my life... I'm at a weird cross roads and I have some very difficult decisions to make. I'm bad a decisions at the best of times, like what to have for dinner, or what kind of pudding I want...so making massive life changing decisions is turning out to be a massive ordeal for me.
As you may or may not know, my father passed away last December after being diagnosed with throat cancer in the summer. It was obviously a difficult year, I attempted to balance my final year of my degree with flying or driving thousands of miles every month while he was ill and I eventually hit the wall with school. I went from being an A+ student to dropping a good few points of my GPA, but I also leaner to accept that getting a C isn't the end of the world. Things like that just don't matter in the big scheme of things. After graduating in the summer I have just kind of been coaxing a long a little trying to figure out which path I should be following. I'm a little clearer on things now. I'm a perfectionist which doesn't help anything and I also have a weird need to have control over everything... some things I just can't control to the t though. I'm working through it all bit by bit though. My dad had a tough and lonely life, he spent the past few years working away at something he wasn't really all that happy with at the expense of doing things he really wanted to do. I learnt a lot about how I don't want to be through this whole process. Life is really quite short and fleeting and it's so important to not get side tracked and lose your dreams in the process.
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Anyway that's where I am at, subsequently I have been quite useless with my blogging... I promise I will try a little harder! It's my new years resolution. I know a lot of you that read this are quite similar to me and enjoy many of the same things. I really love sharing my trips with you and talking about our common interests. I have so many pictures from being home in England in spring and October that I have been meaning to share with you all, so I will start uploading over the next little while. I also wanted to get the blog back up so I could share my upcoming Christmas trip with you. I'm going to post the places I get to visit but also I wanted to share some English and British cultural traditions with you guys. We have a lot of really unique Christmas traditions that I would just love to share with you guys. Christmas is my favorite time of year and I will just warn you now that I go in to full on Christmas overload. I fly home on Tuesday and I have a packed month of festivities that I am so excited about. I look forward to seeing all your Christmas pictures too, I enjoy following along with your lives on instagram.
Shannon
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