New Year, things to do.

Things that I need to do this year

• Teach myself SQL properly.  I got half way through this last year, then I got distracted by shiny things and wandered off after a pigeon.  But I strongly suspect that learning the ERP system I’m working with at the minute would be LOADS easier if my SQL was better. 
• Learn to make Roman blinds.  We’ll come back to this one later on.
• Finally get the tires changed on my bike so I can cycle to work when the weather gets better.
• Find a hedgehog water bottle that doesn’t leak.
• Finish the bathroom.  I need to repaint, change the light fitting, put up some pictures, touch up the sealant in the shower and put up a blind.  You see where the learning to make blinds comes in?
• Joing the WI.  Yes really.  The tolerant housemate has already been enlisted for this venture.
• Finish the kitchen. I need to finish a tiny little bit of tiling, make blinds (yes again) and also bribe my baby sister to make me a door curtain, fix the door between the kitchen and living room, put up some shelves for recipe books and think about some art.  I probably need to replace the fridge as well, but I am trying to ignore that at the minute.
• Go on holiday.  I didn’t get a proper holiday last year.  This year I am planning to spend some time in a gite in the Loire with my sister and the shiny new nephew before wandering down to Barcelona to see my favourite bald Frenchman and hang out on the beach for a week.
•  Buy some diamond earrings.  I’ve always wanted some.

Did I mention I got given a pet hedgehog for Christmas?

Technically she’s an African Pygmy Hedgehog and she’s very sweet, although a little bit stressful while I get into the swing of looking after something other than myself again.  And then there’s the feeding her live mealworms thing.