A lot of good things happened this last week...

1) On Monday, Simon and I celebrated our very first wedding anniversary :)
(in case you don't have facebook, here's a pic!)

Simon came up to Durham and we spent the day together. The weather turned out to be absolutely lovely! We walked along the river and enjoyed a day in town. In the evening we enjoyed a nice meal out & purchased a journal as a gift for each other ("paper" after all!), starting our very own little tradition :)


2) On Wednesday I handed in my MA dissertation thesis!!!

Print, bind, and submit! DONE! That's a whole year's worth of work completed! It actually turned out to be more nerve wrecking than I thought. haha. I had this feeling I was missing/forgetting something! But most of all it felt good :)

3) On Friday I handed in my final assignments and made the trip back home. After 10 days in Durham, over 10,000 words typed up, it was time for one last train ride. Here's a glimpse of how many train rides I've done in the last year:

I'm happy to be done. I've had this real sense of accomplishment since handing it all in. However, I won't find out my results until the end of October/early November so I can't technically say I've got an MA. It'll come!

I'm excited about the next phase in life. It does feel like a chapter has ended. Simon starts his Masters October 2nd. I'll be looking for another job on top of my online teaching. And I've set my heart on getting my UK license sorted! We're officially celebrating our first anniversary with a little trip away (two nights in the Lake District) end of September. Good things ahead!

Today, change feels good :)