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Well for vlogging a kurt-day is this.
We're on day six.
Okay, ooh my hands just fart.
Hey guys, welcome to vlog and a ker, day six.
That's actually the first time
I've said, hey guys, welcome to vlog and a ker,
'cause this is the first video that I'm filming.
It's gonna be a mismatch of things.
You'll have seen by now 'cause we're already on day six.
How's it going?
Are we enjoying it so far?
Two takes left
and then I'll be out of your soap box, don't worry.
For the last couple of years,
I have made 10 New Year's Resolutions and spoiler alert.
I think I'm going to ditch this system
because I don't really think it's working for me,
and that's fine.
You're allowed to quit.
So I thought I would take this opportunity
to go through the 10 resolutions
that I had for 2017 and see how I have done.
So the number one thing is the 50 book challenge
so read 50 books in a year.
As I'm filming this, it is the end of November
and it does not look like I will be completing it,
which is what I expected, but the real question is
will I beat last year.
Should have looked this up before Hannah.
So I've currently read 30 books out of 50.
I feel like last year I read like 32 or 33,
so I still got hope.
We could have made some improvement on 2016.
Number two was visit three new countries.
How I struggled to remember where I've been this year,
but I think I did it.
I haven't done a lot of big travelling this year.
I've done a lot of Europe holidays,
and then going to the U.S. and Canada
for different like YouTube conventions
and events and things.
So the first new country that I went to was Denmark,
me and Dan had a weekend away in Copenhagen in March time.
And then in May, I had a family holiday city break
to Budapest and Hungary.
I've never been to Hungary before and that was amazing,
and then my third new country was Greece.
Me and Dan went on a proper summer holiday.
We went to Athens and then we went to Paros,
which is one of the islands.
So I've been to Kreit before when I was a baby,
which I don't remember at all, so I don't count that.
So me going to Greece now as an adult
and remembering it counts as a new county.
I also went to Monaco this year,
but that is part of Spain, and I've been to Spain before.
Number three was New York?
Because I love New York and I was seriously thinking
about moving there at some point.
So two things happened.
Donald Trump got elected and I got a boyfriend,
not the same thing.
When one is in a committed relationship,
it's a lot harder to just go peace out for three months.
But you know priorities change
and I will have visited New York twice this year.
I went in Spring and by the time you are watching this,
you will know that I was in New York last week/
for me now, I'm going to New York next week
or in two weeks time.
But I did a travel vlog so will have seen that.
There's a card, if you wanna watch the New York travel vlog.
Number four was write book number two.
That didn't happen.
So if you watched my New Year's resolutions video
last year, I said that I had an idea for a book,
and I actually talked about the idea of my blog
and why the idea never happened.
Basically I was in a romantic crisis
and I was like I'm gonna go on 25 dates before I turn 25,
and then I met Dan, so that did not happen.
I do currently have an idea for another second book
that I will be writing in 2018.
Also fail attempt at nanorhymo.
I've written blogs and I try to write a novel this year,
does that count?
I released my book this year,
that's what's happened in 2017.
Excuses Hannah, excuses.
Number five was write scripted comedy or do more of that
or some of that.
No, didn't happen, and also just not a priority
for me anymore.
Me and my friend Leah who is a comedian
and an actress sat down together one day,
brainstorming all of these ideas for a sitcom
that we found hilarious.
But then we did nothing about it,
and that's fine 'cause we had a great day.
Although write scripted comedy.
I did write, direct and perform my own live show
with Lucy for my book tour.
That was partly scripted, does that count?
And it was funny if you came to it.
Please confirm for people that it was funny.
I don't have enough fingers now
but number six was get into more cruelty free makeup
and ethical clothing and such.
Yes, I'm still going with the cruelty free makeup.
I'm still wearing my MAC lipstick
because it is right at the end.
I will use this thing to the very end.
And on the ethical clothing side.
I just don't shop a lot anyway,
but I have been doing a lot more charity shopping.
I still shop on High Street because I'm human.
Yeah, I've got a nice collection of charity shop
things that I've got this year,
which I'm quite proud of.
Okay, number seven is give people a chance,
(romantically) because I wrote this list
when I was still single and then probably met Dan
a couple weeks after.
So I gave him a chance romantically
and now he is my boyfriend of a year, almost.
Oh number eight, I did this one.
Number eight was take a holiday with no internet for a week.
Fucking nailed that one.
That was the holiday that I had in Greece
and I just left my phone in the bag
and didn't touch it for a whole week
and it was glorious.
Number nine, go to shows in London,
theatre, comedy.
I think I've definitely did more of this.
I haven't kept track.
Probably should have kept track.
The one comedy show that I really wanted to go
and see which I haven't managed to yet
is The Play that Goes Wrong.
And then the last one, number 10.
Imagine I've got two hands.
Figure out my big business plan,
big picture future company employees.
Nope, since making that list though.
I have decided that I want to go
and get my masters, and I'll be doing that part time,
so it will be two years.
So I guess that's part of a grand bigger plan.
I still have an intern Sam, who works with me one day a week
and that's going really well,
but I'm not in any position to expand
more than that right now.
I'm not in a massive rush to do all of that
but the way that I've gotten to where I am now
is that a lot of things happen to me
or opportunities had presented themselves
and I've just taken then rather than necessarily
making a plan and making decisions.
So those were my 2017 New Years resolutions.
How did we do total?
I'm gonna count some of these as a half
if I feel like I tenuously achieved it.
I don't know.
6 out of 10, do-di reference, not bad.
Not bad at all guys.
Thank you for watching, please give this video
a thumbs up if you enjoyed it.
You've been enjoyed vlogging ker.
Let me know in the comments if you had 2017 resolutions
and goals and how you did with them.
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and I'll see you tomorrow, bye.
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