Five Things Week 10 ~ End of 2016 {+Giveaway}

Five Things Week 10, marks end of 2016 and also 10 weeks since I started sharing these weekly roundups. I have an ongoing #giveaway open to UK residents only to win a Lee Stafford Academy straighteners. It’s seems surreal that today is the last day of 2016, where has the year gone. When I sit down and reflect on the year, I have been truly blessed and can only imagine how 2017 will be like. God’s grace allowed me to complete my #take12trips travel challenge and give an update of how I did in the year. I have had an opportunity to thank my 2016 sponsors including the December 2016 sponsors I mentioned yesterday. 2017 holds so much promise and I can not wait to see what the lord has in store for my life as a whole.

Five Things I did

• Last Sunday was Christmas Day, I spent the day with my parents and we went to church together. It was a good calm and relaxing day, I had given my parents the Christmas presents I got.
• Tuesday night, tried out a new restaurant {to me} in Whitechapel called The Gourmet Hut. They have the most delicious burgers ever, we had such a great time there.
• Thursday went shopping with my friends in Oxford, the weather was absolutely frightful but KFC was so delightful. Hahaha
• Spent three awesome days with my besties just enjoying life and ending the year with a bang.
• Friday, traveled home for end of year and opening of the year service with my parents. I have always loved closing and opening the year in the house of the lord.

Five Great Things to happen

• Last week Thursday, my friend who I visit in Korea yearly came back for Christmas to visit her family {+Friends}. It was great to see her and our other friends, 3 musketeers.
• Tuesday went to Bethany Green ‘Spa Experience’, we had booked to spend some time in the spa.
• Wednesday, I passed my practical driving test. I didn’t mention it to anyone until after I got my certificate.
• Thursday, we spontaneous decided to go clubbing Reading. It’s been over 3 years since we three last clubbed together.
• A brand I recently worked with asked me for a long-term collaboration, I couldn’t say yes fast enough.

Five Things that sucked

• Monday, all trains from Paddington where cancelled so couldn’t go back home. This was a blessing and a curse, blessing spent more time with parents and curse, ruined my plans.
• Tuesday, still no trains where running from Paddington until 29th Dec 2016. We ended up heading to Ealing Broadway to catch trains to Oxford but got on the slow (murderous) train. #adultchoices you stick to them.
• The spontaneous visit to Reading to club cost us £50+ for a taxis home since no trains where running at 4am.
• I had a troll bully me on my blog Facebook page and it ticked me off. Thanks Facebook for the option to block and ban unwanted people from the page.
• Though I passed my driving test, it was scary driving in the fog. There was a 20-car trail accident on A40 on Wednesday where one person died in Oxfordshire. So sad.

Five Things for next week

• Stay organised, on a recent trip shopping with my mother I picked up a stay organised planner from Wilko and cannot wait to start using it.
• I intend to set my yearly goals which are broken down either into quarters or monthly achievable targets.
• Schedule posts for the next two weeks as I catch up on the other ugly side of blogging
• Start saving for a car now that I have passed my test
• Start saving for the concert I am attending with my sister at the end of January.

And there you have it, Five Things week 10. Though quite unbelievable, goodbye 2016 and wishing you all a great start to 2017.