Kiwiana Girl Tells All

It's occurred to me that I have difficulty adjusting when a New Year commences.  When the curtain is due to come down at the End of the year; it's early December and I feel full of hope and promise, that finally I'm going to step into the New Year with a thicker skin and a knowledge that finally I'm on a new road to discovering a better and more positive life.  Then a few weeks into the New Year, I realise that I'm exactly in the same place as the previous year and the previous year before that.  Only I am a year older, my children are a year older, everyone around me is a year older and of course I weigh more then the year before.  But weight is not what worries me so much anymore, because I know I am beautiful, I am smart, I am independent, I am trustworthy and I would give my heart and soul to the ones that I love. My life is like a Computer!!!  Where my yearly back-up has been failing for a few years now and so when I get re-booted at the start of the New Yea