Last year's downsides:
work, where I was denied the reconition I deserved for making the best Christmas sales and availability ever, by a massive margin
because instead someone decided that it would be good to punish me for poor customer interest in an area I have NOTHING TO DO WITH DECIDING
which caused me to have a breakdown, which I managed to pull myself out of only because of...
Last year's upsides:
I found out I was pregnant on the 4th January, so frankly just played a tune in my head every time things got bag=d, because I had a secret to smile about. Unfortunately, soon another
Downside:
I kept fainting and stuff at work.
I had to take something like three months off of work because my blood pressure went through the floor (upside/downside? Difficult one - It got me both out of the breakdown place and gave me time to recuperate... not sure)
I spend about 8 and a half months fully aware of the fact that I might not be able to carry the baby to term, but at the end of it the massive
UPSIDE:
Lovely baby!
after a DOWNSIDE:
traumatic birth, which has left me with PTSD.
I'm managing it all, and I really think that I have managed particularly well and been lucky in that I did not suffer post natal depression, because it is so very common, but especially in people with depressive period in their past. I was given a little spark of brilliance from the universe in that regards, and I know not everyone is so fortunate.
The monkeys are bullet ponys. x