2013. In some ways I'm sad to see it go and in others I can't wait for it to be over and look towards having a better year next year. Either way of looking at it, this year had gone fast and I cannot believe it's over so quickly! Looking back to the beginning of the year, I can see that this year I've really started finding myself and learnt a lot about myself and life in general. I thought I'd look back over the past year in preparation for the next because let me tell you now, it's going to be a big one!
Let's start in January. This blog hadn't even started! Which is crazy because blogging has become such a big part of my life, especially in the past few months. I started the year in a bad place mentally and I think that that started me out on the wrong foot. My dad had just had his heart attack and it had scared me quite a but and put into perspective that life is short and I shouldn't take things for granted; especially my family. Luckily, my friends and family saw I wasn't always in the best place and really helped me through that time.
Skip to February which was a very cold month! I went on a trip to Cambridge (which I wrote a blog post on. Geeze, that was not my best written blog post! I hope I'm better now) which helped me figure out slightly what I wanted to do with my life.
March was a month where we had our first glimpse of sun! As you can tell, I like to talk about the weather. I blame my Grandad for that...we have lengthy conversations about the weather and it seems to have seeped into my life too.
April and May seemed to blur into one and it was also a time when I got down again. It was exam time so I got really stressed and became ill...which I thought was due to stress and I was literally about to drop out of school because I hated it so much and felt so ill. However, these two months also had their fair share of highlights. I survived my AS exams, went on holiday to France, saw McFly at Manchester and went to Evolution festival and had a fab time with some of my best friends. It was also the time when I officially started katieemay.co.uk after importing a load of posts from my first little blog. I also managed to nab myself a part time job washing up at the local pub which meant I finally had some of my own money!
June was another strange month. I was back at school after taking a month off because of exam leave which I didn't need because it was after my exams and I went on holiday again to Spain but I was still ill and didn't have a clue what was wrong with me! I rekindled my love for the library this month after spending a morning there.
July was a fun month where I think I spent more time away from home than I was at home. I went to Holland on an exchange trip which was good fun and I also went to BitesizeUni where I made some amazing friends who I'm hoping to meet up again with soon. I hadn't realised how easy it is to make great friends in such a small amount of time but it's possible!
August was meant to be a good month. In reality I spent a lot of it in bed with hardly any energy which is when I ended up back of the doctors. I haven't yet blogged about this time because when it was happening I was really scared and struggled to tell my best friends, let alone the world. At the end of the month, after emergency colonscopies and blood tests here there and everywhere, I was diagnosed with Inflammatory Bowel Disease which isn't the nicest of things and is very painful. Because it had taken them nearly a year to diagnose it, I'd lost a lot of blood and was 'worryingly anaemic'. I'm going to write a full blog post in a few weeks about it but basically it's something I'm going to have my whole life. It was around this time when it hit me that I didn't know what I was doing with my life and I wasn't happy and I wasn't being me and that needed to change. However, whilst I did have that bombshell that month, August wasn't all bad. I had a quiet birthday with my mom and dad where I went and played crazy golf, a favorite past time of mine, and I went to the Harry Potter Studios which was amazing and defiantly put me in a better mood!
September was another hard month because I was on new medication which wasn't working however I didn't let it dampen my spirits too much! I figured out what I was doing with my life and started applying for University to study Law.
October came along and I went on another trip to London, this time with my school where I actually got to go to the Globe theatre to see Macbeth which was a brilliant experience. I also went to look around Manchester Met and Leeds Met and fell head over heels in love with Manchester and decided that yes, that is where I am going.
Up came November and my UCAS form was sent off to universities across the country and behold offers came within 2 days! I graciously accepted the offer from Manchester Met (after falling off my bed and screaming the house down in excitement). I also started waiting on at the pub where I work which is a huge improvement on washing up!
And then we hit the last month of the year! Which is crazy as has this month. I haven't been 100% and spent more time at home than I care to admit but it has been a good month. I went to the Clothes Show (thanks to the amazing birthday present which my even more amazing best friends bought me) and my family became closer too which was nice.
So what have I learnt from this year? I learnt that life is too short to care too much about what people think. I'm trying to be me this next year and not let people try and pigeon hole me to be something I'm not. I'm putting my head down and going to pass these A Levels so I can get into uni because I cannot wait to see the world!
How was your 2013? What was your highs and your lows? Lets look forward to 2014 and see what it has instore for us all!
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