January

I've decided enough is enough; it's definitely too late to post my 2014 round-up. Long story short- I killed myself revising for finals, graduated with a 2.1, my sister got married, I bought a (very old) car & got a job and started learning to cope with post-student life. So that's that. On to a new year!

I'm pretty glad that January is almost over. While I didn't particularly get much of a Christmas break (working as a waitress/bartender will do that to you), it's still a bit depressing when your house stops resembling Santa's grotto, the horrible snowy weather isn't accompanied by Dean Martin songs and you realise that eating nothing but cheese and chocolate for the last month may have affected your waistline a little..

A few things from this month:

• I had a hair cut. While hardly anyone else noticed, it was actually pretty big for me as I had quite a lot of length cut off- plus this is only my second hair cut in about four years. I may have had an inital 'oh my god I have short hair' moment of madness but I've gotten used to it now and I think I'm a fan!

• Hardly news-worthy, but this month I've eaten a lot of pancakes; healthy banana pancakes, chocolate chip pancakes, pancakes with bacon in... I imagine this will only continue through February as one of my favourite days rolls around- and no I absolutely do not mean Valentines Day.

• One of my favourite parts of January was visiting Birmingham for the weekend to celebrate one of my old housemates' birthdays. I love getting back together with my uni friends as we all still get on so well and it's something I'm determined to keep doing over the years. 

• Not pictured: I've also been doing a fair bit of planning this month. I've booked a trip to Lisbon for one of my best friends' birthdays, redeemed my Harry Potter studio tour gift voucher (I'll be going when the new Hogwarts Express bit has been added!) and have started figuring out a route for my South American travels. I have a feeling 2015 could be a pretty great year!

I won't make myself any promises but I'm aiming to do one of these at the end of every month so that when I inevitably forget to post a 2015 round-up, it won't really matter. How was January for you?