Must come up with a new year resolution!

I've gone for Mystic Meg again today.

Yes I know, I should be spreading my wings a little more and trying different horoscopes, but Meg's are just so short and TO THE POINT. There's no messing around with Meggy Meg.

So here we are...

Your mind is switched on, you know exactly what you want to achieve in the year ahead and Pluto ensures the resolutions you make today have the dash of daring that’s right for you.
In your love life, trust takes a relationship forward.
Luck travels North.

First of all, I have not made a new year resolutions today - I did all that on December 31 (quit smoking being the main one). But because Meg tells me to, I will attempt to make a resolution today. One with a "dash of daring" (who knows what that means, anyway?).

Here it goes:

I will start running in 2013.

That's daring for me. I hate running - can't do it for any more than five seconds. I'll dare myself to train for a marathon. Yes, that's pretty frightening.

Regarding my love life, I have never felt any need to not trust my boyfriend. But, um... thanks Meg. I'll bear that in mind should he say anything out of the ordinary to me before the end of the day.

And luck travels north? Hmm. In about an hour I have to travel from the office to a hospital appointment - but after looking it up on Google maps, it appears the hospital is going to south of the city. Damn. So probably no luck for me at hospital then.

But perhaps driving back from the hospital? Who knows. Watch this space.

Mystic Meg tells me how to get rich in 2013

As I was sitting down eating my toast this morning, I was flicking through The Sun's website (don't judge me) on my iPhone. Usually I will read about the goings-on in the lives of reality TV stars - that's easy reading in the morning - but then my eyes came across Mystic Meg's financial predictions for 2013...

I am by no means rich, though I would very much like to be. So I clicked on the page, scrolled down to Scorpio, and - voila! My guide to getting rich in 2013 (please excuse my bad paint job - I just wanted to highlight it to you!):

Okay, so let's try and analyse this.

What I like about Mystic Meg is the way she, shall we say, is rather specific. There's no vagueness when it comes to our Meg.

According to Meg, this year (or next year, shall we say. There are nine hours left of 2012) I have to do the following if I want to win big cash:

1) Pay attention to present and past relationships, for they can lead me to family legacies. (I don't get this. Really, I don't.)
2) Start writing down memories... (But then what? Enter them into some literature festive? The Pulitzer Prize?)
3) Try and finish tricky puzzles. (I give up after five minutes. Must change that.)
4) Buy a Lottery ticket while on holiday. (With any luck, I should be going on holiday in April.)

Now of course, winning isn't the only way I can get richer in 2013. There is also the opportunity to earn more:

1) Make or design something at home. (This blog? That's a start. Though I don't see how I will earn money from it.)
2) Set my own goals in my existing job. (Already done. I aim to have a good career.)

And now saving up:

1) Research antiques. Look out for antiques. Get rich from antiques. (It's a good job my friend and I have applied to go on Bargain Hunt.)

So there we go, that's what I have to do in 2013 to get more money. I'm a bit disappointed Meg hasn't given me any lucky Lottery numbers though.

Rx

The start of the Horoscope Test...

I decided last night to start this blog. Basically, I've had a pretty bad year in 2012. I won't go into it too much because it might bore you, but let's just say I changed jobs three times, felt as though I messed up my career and moved house four times - each time in a different city spread across the UK - only to end up back where I started at the start of 2012.

Yes I agree, it could be worse. I haven't had my heart broken this year, nor have I lost anyone close to me. But the constant upheaval in my life this year damaged my mental well-being, to the point where this summer I genuinely thought I was going to top myself at some point.

I thought each time I was making the right decision. As it happens, I never did. But I just tried to follow my heart... as it happens, my heart was bloody wrong.

Being a skeptic, I never read my horoscopes. But if I did, I wonder whether I would have been taken down a completely different path in 2012. For example, would I have left my job which I actually loved to move away from my friends and family to try something different? What about if I didn't give up when I was at my lowest point last summer?

So throughout 2013, I'm going to read my horoscopes daily and see where it takes me or if anything comes true. And I'm going to blog about it, either to satisfy fellow skeptics or start a debate with believers.

This I shall call the Horoscope Test. (Yes I know, it's not exactly the most exciting of names - but I was thinking about it for a long time! If anyone comes up with a better name, please let me know!)

I might also see a clairvoyant or go to Spiritualist church at some point in 2013 and see how true that is...

You never know - I could end up a millionaire by the end of 2013 because Mystic Meg told me to play some lucky Lottery numbers. (Here's hoping.)

Or maybe I'll become a believer and spend the rest of my life living by my horoscopes.

Here we go...