Lady-goth06

** This was written on the 3rd of Jan 2011 **

2010 has finished and now this is my first blog for 2011.

Hi everyone,
Hope you had a great Christmas and New Year.

2010 was a great year for me in terms of personal growth and regaining emotional, physical and mental strength.
We went on our first family holiday in 7 years on the 11th of December and arrived back on the 17th.

Last year I made 1 year since I made my decision to not have sex again and walk in a life of 'purity' until God leads my future husband to me. (26th October 2009)

In May 2010 I found out I had Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and was initially devastated because I thought it meant I was barren, and one of my dreams has always been to have a family. Later on I found out that the cysts cannot be surgically removed becaust they are too small, each one (the ultrasound shows 13 cysts in each ovary) only measures about 3mm in circumference.

This made me determined to do whatever I could to heal / relief the symptoms so I can reassure myself a little that I could definitely have kids in the future.
One of the ways you can naturally heal PCOS is to lose weight.
I joined the Southern Cross Health club in October 2010 just after I quit my job at InTACT and went back to CIT to study Business admin.

I finished my Cert 2 in Business admin in the time of a month and started Cert 3 at the end of October.

The biggest achievement of 2010 has been after 7 years, quitting smoking.
After having a scare during November with a virus that I thought was Glandular fever, I smoked my last cigarette at PJ's the first week after having the virus and then quit at 10:30pm that night, suddenly.

I haven't smoked since 11/11/10 and I honestly give all the Glory to God for my self control and common sense to steer away form pubs and clubs for the past 2 months.
It has been surprisingly easy, I think mainly because I really did want to do this before 2010 was over and I committed the whole addiction over to God, telling him to take it all away if it was His will to do so. And he did.
My strategy was to tell no one and go cold turkey, this way people wouldn't remind me every second of the day that I was quitting and wouldn't keep asking me how it was going or why I broke down and smoked if I did fall.

But I haven't made a fuss about it and I have put tickers on my phone so that I don't have to count how many days it's been EVERYDAY.
It's worked so far and apparently it takes 66 days for a human to break a habit, it used to be 81 and then last year it was a year. I honestly don't know how long it takes now days, but I'm going with 66 and I'm almost there.

Other then that, I've been making more and more artwork over the last few months and people have seemed to like it. I have finally chosen the photo I'm going to use for my marriage prayer painting and it's beautiful.
I hope to get that done in the next few months.

Just thought I'd give you an update and such.
Hope to hear from you all soon.
Night