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When a new year comes around most people say they'll make a fresh start, like start going to the gym, quit smoking, change their job etc. When I say it however it seems I really mean it!

The new year has already seen a massive change in my life in the shape of moving house, over the 9th and 10th of this month I was lumping and dumping boxes from one house to another; not the most exciting or stimulating of tasks, what made the move even more irritating was the fact that our new house is exactly 42 paces away from the old one. The good thing about moving such a short distance is of course that we've not had the problem of feeling like a fish out of water, all our daily habits are the same, we can still walk into town for a coffee, we still buy our groceries from the same shops and we can still take the car out at a weekend for a drive around the same roads so even though we've moved home it doesn't feel like we've lost anything - After all a fresh start doesn't mean necessarily needing to change everything in your life to make a difference.

So here it is 2006, it didn't feel that long ago that we were all eagerly anticipating the turn of the millennium and without even realising we're already six years into it! It has to be said that I've made my fair share of mistakes over the last few years ranging from being too trusting and naive to just making some very poor decisions, and I now feel that I'm coming to the part of my life where things are beginning to straighten themselves out, I'm not out of the woods yet in terms of being clued-up enough when to spot when something isn't right and where I should avoid making mistakes but I feel that those occasions are becoming less and less and with a little time a mistake won't mean my life begins to fall apart.

So I'm hoping that 2006 will be a year of gradual change, not a year of unending mistakes and I can finally look forward to life and not dread each day as another mini drama to survive.