{"id":23,"date":"2009-01-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-29T18:53:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T18:53:45","slug":"the-new-life-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"The New Life Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My aim for 2009 was to write more about what&#8217;s going on in my life&#8230; I think its a fairly simple resolution, but for the last couple of years, I have barely &#8220;blogged&#8221; at all.<\/p>\n<p>2009 has already proved to be a crazy year, probably brought on by the major events that happened in 2008. As pretty much everyone knows by now, Chris and I parted ways&#8230; and I&#8217;m now flatting again. Its hard to adjust to that, its been nearly 5 years since I really shared a house with flatmates&#8230;. James didn&#8217;t really count.<br \/>\nThis whole thing brought on what I called for a while &#8220;the new life plan&#8221;. Which sounds like a hippy, kind of touchy feely thing, but its not. I did have to re-assess what I wanted in life, since I&#8217;d spent nearly six years floating along without really thinking about it. I figured a few things really had to change, and that now that I&#8217;m more comfortable with who I am, and I&#8217;m on top of problems which plagued me through my university days its time to really do all the big things.<\/p>\n<p>The first big step is to visit all the places I&#8217;ve meant to. I know I&#8217;ve travelled a lot already in my life, my passport has plenty of stamps from all over the world, but this trip will be a bit different from the family holidays I experienced growing up. The plan is to see all the people who have moved away from New Zealand or the long time friends I have never met face to face.<br \/>\nSo the plan is to travel round South America and visit family. Then to parts of the USA (San Fran, Chicago, New York mainly), go to Canada finally- mostly to see Dan again, hang with Maria in London where I&#8217;m sure she has become well versed in shopping and the nightlife. Maybe I&#8217;ll work for a bit there if the funds are looking a bit sad, after all, this is the perk of having a British passport.<br \/>\nFinally make it back to Europe, and go from Barcelona to Berlin, visiting Nannie on the way in Switzerland- a plan I had to put on hold about 10 years ago because of things beyond my control. I intend to get those damn salt and pepper shakers in Denmark&#8230; yes I plan to go to Lego land.<\/p>\n<p>Then the end of this not so whirlwind tour will have me go to Perth and see the rogues who decided the most far flung place was a good place to go, then on to Melbourne where a decision will be made as to where I will settle myself for the future. Hopefully by then I&#8217;ll have a plan for what happens next. I guess that if I travel enough it will come to me as to what it is I really want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">My aim for 2009 was to write more about what&#8217;s going on in my life&#8230; I think its a fairly simple resolution, but for the last couple of years, I have barely &#8220;blogged&#8221; at all.<\/p>\n<p>2009 has already proved to be a crazy year, probably brought on by the major events that happened in 2008. As pretty much everyone knows by now, Chris and I parted ways&#8230; and I&#8217;m now flatting again. Its hard to adjust to that, its been nearly 5 years since I really shared a house with flatmates&#8230;. James didn&#8217;t really count.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/?p=23\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}