So everybody is doing this lame ass blog post summerizing their 2011 and then what they are going to do for 2012… this is no different. Seriously, I will be summerizing what I did last year and what the plan is this year. If you don’t want to be apart of it then I suggest you go here for a while.
2011
This is was a pretty big year in regards to my life in general in a positive way; the first and formost was I got married to The Girlie on the 2nd of September, which was nice and pleasant. Thanks to that I spent my first holiday in a different country not leaving the hotel; typically that would que some joke with suggestive innuendo but alas it was more the whole planning of a wedding takes it out of you! If you’ve not planned a wedding you have no idea what it’s like, and if you are about to then I suggest you watch this video to better explain it all.
The next big thing was leaving my previous company of 4 years, Infoactive Media, to pursue my carrer further with Fubra. I’ve mentioned previously that it was sad to leave the old company, but it was a move I needed to take and thus has done me wonders, but I do keep in contact with them, which is pretty awesome.
I’ve taken a step back from photography a bit while other parts of the year take president, but that’s not to say I’ve given up with it, just on hiatus. I was also planning on getting fitter this year; that didn’t happen!
On the gaming front, I’ve gain more games that I’ve played but this has causes me to change my look on things that I’ll explain in a moment.
2012
So with the massive distraction of a wedding out of the way, The Girlie and I can focus on our next goal; moving to Bennie Hill’s home town, Eastleigh. Well, it’s in fact my hometown, but I moved away to live with The Girlie, but we made the choice that thanks to Eastleigh having something that sucks you in (akin to that feeling those people keep going to Silent Hill or the creepy cabin all those cheerleaders where murdered). I think people don’t realise what Eastleigh is like until they move away, then they miss it; I say that as some people might read this going “Why do you want to move back” but those who have moved away will understand what I mean.
Work-wise I’m going to be focusing now on developing my user experience knowledge, understanding the human-psyche when it comes to viewing a web page. It’s something that has always interest me and now I’m able to start doing research on it and focus more on it for work. I’ll also be developing more plugins this year for WordPress and hopefully attending a few more conferences on web development.
I’m planning on taking a photography course this year that will hopefully help with learning more on photography and developing skills. I did seriously forgot about my camera last year, but that’s going to change now!
Fitness might not be such an issue this year and I do plan on making use of the gym at my work, I normally got some free time once I’ve finished work so I haven’t got an excuse not to go other than “I just need to get this form perfectly lined up to this circular image”.
So with games I’ve decided to take a step back and somewhat ignore the AAA titles and focus more on the lesser ones and also spend less time on multiplayer stuff, which is why I haven’t got Modern Warfare 3 yet. I’ve already lined myself some JRPGs to play such as Xenoblade Chronicles, Star Ocean games, Final Fantasy’s I’ve not yet completed and also The Last Story when it comes out later this year. I’m also going to take a lot more notice of the Wii as a console due to the number of pretty cool games that get lost in the hype of the more powerful consoles; I still got No More Heroes 2 to play that I got in 2010.
I think that pretty much sums it all up!