OPINION // MICKY MURRAY
BEING A BIT SELFISH MICKY MURRAY ANOTHER
YEAR!
Finally, I got the blender back out and I’ve
complete with sound proofing using old
I’m really not a Christmas
NEW
started making a fruit smoothie, with almond
election posters, which was an idea I, bizarrely,
person, so I’m very happy
milk, most mornings for my commute to work,
came across on Pintrest, and I had my old
it’s all over, bah-humbug I
it takes just a few minutes to make and sets me
election posters sitting in a corner. Wash them
know, but I just don’t get all
up for the day!
down, turn them over, and use double sided sticky things (I’ve no idea what they are) to fix
the commotion. My favorite is banana and raspberry: 1 Banana,
them to the wall, ta da! Sound proofing for my
I have a January birthday,
125g Raspberries, 150mg Almond milk. Blend,
new cinema room!
20th,
and on your way! You can also throw in some
which
apparently
is
also
the
most
Greek yogurt if you like too.
I still have a lot to figure out, I want to finally have a house warming party, and I want to
depressing day of the year because it’s the day that
Part of being better to me is about getting
do some more traveling, I went to Brazil for
those of us who get paid
active. I’ve signed-up to run a leg of the
a couple of weeks last summer and so I want
monthly should be paid,
Belfast Marathon, in May, to raise funds for The
to go somewhere equally amazing this year,
another reason I don’t like
Rainbow Project. Now, I work in an office and
which might be hard to find, so if anyone has
Christmas, why pay us eight
usually the only exercise I get is canvassing
any recommendations, please hit me up.
or nine days early and make
during elections, thankfully there’s been a few,
us wait an eternity for the
but I was reassured by my boss, who done it
I’m pretty content that I’ve made resolutions
end of January?
last year and is doing it again this year, that
that, I hope, will give me more self-fulfilment
anyone can do it. If you want to get signed
and challenge me throughout the year to take
My New Year resolutions are
up just give Jayne an email and I’m sure she’ll
make time for myself, only time will tell.
going to be all centred on
sort you out – she loves people who want to
me, because last year they
give them money, her email address is jayne@
Selfishness isn’t always a bad thing, we need
were all centred on others.
rainbow-project.org.
to make sure we take care of ourselves, everyone is reminding our politicians about
It sounds selfish, I know, but I spent last year working
Another change I’ve made is limiting my use
the importance of mental health provisions
through
three
of social media. You see a notification about
and we often forget to remind ourselves to
house
hunting,
then
something interesting and three hours later
take care of our own mental health.
mortgage shopping, and I
you’re watching videos of Sophia’s best bits
think I deserve a little bit of
from Golden Girls and giggling away. It’s
selfishness in my life. This is
actually been really refreshing and I’ve spent
something I’ve always been
more time catching up with friends who’ve
bad at, I always take on too
moved away and I haven’t seen in a while, I
much and end up stressing
didn’t realise how much time social media
myself out, so sometimes
took up, until I actively tried to avoid it, and
selfishness
using the time to connect with people who
is
elections,
good
and
Have a wonderful year, be kind to yourselves!
I haven’t seen or who I should really contact
positive and required!
more has been doing me the world of good! I decided I need to be healthier, queue the eye
One of the most stressful thing that I’ve went
rolls. I bought myself a
through recently was buying a house, it’s such
blender about two years
a long and stressful process, a process I never
ago (and I think we used it
want to go through again, so I’ll just have
twice before it ended up in
to hope that I’ve made the right decision. I
a cupboard in the kitchen),
had all these ideas of renting out a room, or
and
found
some
linking in with Erasmus to help host volunteers
recipes
online
from around Europe, which was until Boris
and frozen fruit in Iceland,
Johnston’s Government voted to withdraw
who knew they sold pre-
the UK from the Erasmus programme. So
sliced frozen fruit? I didn’t.
I’ve decided to make myself a cinema room,
I’ve
smoothie
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