My Thoughts on 2011 and hopes for 2012

More personal this posting

Professionally 2011 has been great:

• I have a new boss in Fujitsu who sees the value I bring, and enables me to do what I do best.
• UKOUG has changed and I am President of a great community with a great future.
• I continue to speak around the UK and the world on Fusion Apps, with help from the ACE Program and the UX Advocates Program.

Personally:

• I continue to teach my silversurfers and this year took them to Denmark.
• I continued to loose weight after my surgery late 2010 and love the new me
• Made more friends and visited more of their families
• I took the challenge to get fitter and completed my PADI Open Water
• Had a great adventure holiday with my daughter and best friends in Guernsey
• I still have fun with my imaginary friend

The friends I have made around the world have given me great highs, but towards the end of the year I also had a number of lows. I get quite lonely, which maybe because I rarely spend time at home, but also because my darling daughter of whom I am so proud graduated from university and is now at Sandhurst as an army officer, and really has flown the nest now. I love travel and love my job and I love my house, but I do need to decide what I want to do in the future.

So my wishes for 2012

• Iron out the highs and lows (or rather drag the lows up)
• Have the best 50th birthday ever (which I will because I am celebrating in Colorado with 42 of my best friends
• See my daughter graduate from Sandhurst
• Continue to enjoy my job
• Get re-elected to UKOUG Council and stay on as President
• Make more friends and stay friends with the ones I have now
• Visit my best friend in Munster, Germany
• Step down from the Product Development Committee IOUC and help someone else take over
• Do more diving, and defiantly before the liveaboard I am doing in August
• Find someone special would be nice but not sure I am ready for online dating