Happy New Year 2011!
明けましておめでとうございます!
♥ Welcome to the Stupendous and Splendorous Year of 2011! Happy New Year! ♥
Another year has left us in its dust, or from my perspective, its glitter. We're into another decade, ending with a prime number, and it's the prime time of our lives. And yeah, to be honest, it's a wonderful life - through all the ups and downs, I've come out believing that 2010 treated us well, but 2011 will be everything its predecessor was and about eleventy-one times more.
I attained my goal of getting into the teacher education program and once again changed my concept of what life should be, and what I want to do with my life. The familiar shapes I was going by have changed, and I've colored outside the lines a little bit, deciding that I'm not gonna be a teacher after all. But that's okay with me, as scared as I am about what will become of my future, because the immediate future - this year of school, this year with my friends and the people I love, this year in cosplay, this whole year - looks glitzy and fabulous from this end. Not only did I change my mind about what I'm gonna do with myself once college is over, or what I would like to do, but I sewed my first costume by myself! Not just one, but two: Natalia and Peony, both from Tales of the Abyss. I went to Sakuracon in Seattle for the first time, breaking a long tradition of going to Anime Oasis here at home. I stuck with my dearly beloved Ellipsis Cosplay, and I'm like a burr in their fur; they won't be escaping me anytime soon, one way or another. I'm with them and they're with me, for good, and we've been changed for the better, inspired to perform in 2011 and get ourselves back out there. Hell, we're not just slingshotting off, we're blasting off again like Team Rocket!
This will be the year that I get a kickstart and get there with my cosplay goals. I'm determined to go not just to Sakuracon, but to Comic-Con, and I'll have the greatest people in my life right there with me, supporting me, with me at their backs as well (and of course, occasionally at their fronts). Because always, I want to be with them, and make believe with them, and live in harmony, harmony, oh, love!
I'm so optimistic I can hardly stand it. My happiness may be tinged with fear and anxiety around the edges, and questions. I'm wondering where to go from here and how to achieve my goals, but I believe that if I want it, I can create it, and I'll reshape the fabric of my world however I need to to attain what I want and unite all peoples within my nation. If this is the way I want it to be with you, this is the way I know that it will be with you, to rephrase a line from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. *^^*
So in 2011, let's "show love with no remorse and / Climb onto your seahorse and / This ride is right on course," again to quote the Chili Peppers and their song Dosed. I'm planning a year that will be marvelous, right from the beginning, and from its auspicious beginning, I've decided that though life may attempt to trip me, though I may stumble or even skin my knees, I'm going to get right back up, zip my white light beams, disregard bombs and satellites, and kick some intergalactic planetary ass.
I have confidence in confidence alone, besides which, you see, I have confidence in me and in this coming year for all of us. If 2010 was the year we make contact, 2011 will be the year we defy probability and become infinitely, improbably incredible. I believe it!
Let's do this thing! Let's go kick some Hunny buns!
"Things will never be the same
Still I'm awfully glad I came
Resonating in the shape of things to come
Never waiting when I know there's only one.
Messed it up but rest assured
No one ever thinks they're cured
Just a minute while I reinvent myself
Make it up and then I take it off the shelf
Over the laws of light
Over the moon by midnight
Let's do it all this time
Everyone wishing well, we go and
"Everyone knows
Anything goes and now
We are the lotus kids
Oh, better take note of this
For the story."
- The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Midnight
Here's tomorrow man. I'll make the best of every today and tomorrow, to the best of my ability.
"Because I cannot hope to turn again / Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something / Upon which to rejoice."
♥ Welcome to the Stupendous and Splendorous Year of 2011! Happy New Year! ♥
Another year has left us in its dust, or from my perspective, its glitter. We're into another decade, ending with a prime number, and it's the prime time of our lives. And yeah, to be honest, it's a wonderful life - through all the ups and downs, I've come out believing that 2010 treated us well, but 2011 will be everything its predecessor was and about eleventy-one times more.
I attained my goal of getting into the teacher education program and once again changed my concept of what life should be, and what I want to do with my life. The familiar shapes I was going by have changed, and I've colored outside the lines a little bit, deciding that I'm not gonna be a teacher after all. But that's okay with me, as scared as I am about what will become of my future, because the immediate future - this year of school, this year with my friends and the people I love, this year in cosplay, this whole year - looks glitzy and fabulous from this end. Not only did I change my mind about what I'm gonna do with myself once college is over, or what I would like to do, but I sewed my first costume by myself! Not just one, but two: Natalia and Peony, both from Tales of the Abyss. I went to Sakuracon in Seattle for the first time, breaking a long tradition of going to Anime Oasis here at home. I stuck with my dearly beloved Ellipsis Cosplay, and I'm like a burr in their fur; they won't be escaping me anytime soon, one way or another. I'm with them and they're with me, for good, and we've been changed for the better, inspired to perform in 2011 and get ourselves back out there. Hell, we're not just slingshotting off, we're blasting off again like Team Rocket!
This will be the year that I get a kickstart and get there with my cosplay goals. I'm determined to go not just to Sakuracon, but to Comic-Con, and I'll have the greatest people in my life right there with me, supporting me, with me at their backs as well (and of course, occasionally at their fronts). Because always, I want to be with them, and make believe with them, and live in harmony, harmony, oh, love!
I'm so optimistic I can hardly stand it. My happiness may be tinged with fear and anxiety around the edges, and questions. I'm wondering where to go from here and how to achieve my goals, but I believe that if I want it, I can create it, and I'll reshape the fabric of my world however I need to to attain what I want and unite all peoples within my nation. If this is the way I want it to be with you, this is the way I know that it will be with you, to rephrase a line from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. *^^*
So in 2011, let's "show love with no remorse and / Climb onto your seahorse and / This ride is right on course," again to quote the Chili Peppers and their song Dosed. I'm planning a year that will be marvelous, right from the beginning, and from its auspicious beginning, I've decided that though life may attempt to trip me, though I may stumble or even skin my knees, I'm going to get right back up, zip my white light beams, disregard bombs and satellites, and kick some intergalactic planetary ass.
I have confidence in confidence alone, besides which, you see, I have confidence in me and in this coming year for all of us. If 2010 was the year we make contact, 2011 will be the year we defy probability and become infinitely, improbably incredible. I believe it!
Let's do this thing! Let's go kick some Hunny buns!
"Things will never be the same
Still I'm awfully glad I came
Resonating in the shape of things to come
Never waiting when I know there's only one.
Messed it up but rest assured
No one ever thinks they're cured
Just a minute while I reinvent myself
Make it up and then I take it off the shelf
Over the laws of light
Over the moon by midnight
Let's do it all this time
Everyone wishing well, we go and
"Everyone knows
Anything goes and now
We are the lotus kids
Oh, better take note of this
For the story."
- The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Midnight
Here's tomorrow man. I'll make the best of every today and tomorrow, to the best of my ability.
"Because I cannot hope to turn again / Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something / Upon which to rejoice."