Resolution
Holee carpa it's twenty-eleven. I actually kept my New Years Resolutions last year, though they were kind of cop out-ish (they were that way on purpose though, to build up to this "keeping New Years Resolutions" thing, at which up till twenty-ten I had failed miserably). My first resolution was to have more physical stamina. Technically, since I was going to the gym for the first half of last year, I actually built up more stamina, even if I did lose it the day I left for Michigan.
My second and more significant resolution was to make twenty-ten a year to remember. I know that's kind of a lame resolution, but look from my perspective. I'd been here in Florida for three years; I was moving forward academically, but at a snail's pace, and socially I'd been at a standstill since I left Rhode Island. The years oh-seven, oh-eight, and oh-nine are pretty much just blurs in my head, all meshed up together in one giant blob of confusion. They'd gone by so fast, and so little had happened in terms of the direction of my life that I felt like I was in the same place I'd been three years prior, when my family first moved to Florida.
So, looking back on that, I'm glad to say that I definitely accomplished what I wanted to. Twenty-ten will always be the year I decided to be an artist legit, went away to the frozen north, met some amazing people who I hope will be lifelong friends, and made some fantastic memories.
So on to my resolution for this year, which is way more ambitious than last year's. I intend to have a journal entry for every day this year. I don't want to be too ambitious, so I figure even if it's posting a picture or a link to a video or anything, just so I can have an entry for the day. I think if I were to try to write in it every day I'd fall behind miserably, as I have so often in the past.
I've had so much fun this past semester, and I feel like I haven't written down nearly enough of it. How many little things have happened which I have completely forgotten about? Too many, I'm sure. Having had so few friends for such a long time, I feel like I appreciate my friends so much more now, and I want to enjoy every moment I have with them, and I want to remember as many of those moments as possible.
So, here's to one three-hundred-sixty-fifth of my resolution complete (with two minutes to go, no less!)!
Oh, and speaking of awesome times, I went sledding a few weeks ago!
HELLZ YES
My second and more significant resolution was to make twenty-ten a year to remember. I know that's kind of a lame resolution, but look from my perspective. I'd been here in Florida for three years; I was moving forward academically, but at a snail's pace, and socially I'd been at a standstill since I left Rhode Island. The years oh-seven, oh-eight, and oh-nine are pretty much just blurs in my head, all meshed up together in one giant blob of confusion. They'd gone by so fast, and so little had happened in terms of the direction of my life that I felt like I was in the same place I'd been three years prior, when my family first moved to Florida.
So, looking back on that, I'm glad to say that I definitely accomplished what I wanted to. Twenty-ten will always be the year I decided to be an artist legit, went away to the frozen north, met some amazing people who I hope will be lifelong friends, and made some fantastic memories.
So on to my resolution for this year, which is way more ambitious than last year's. I intend to have a journal entry for every day this year. I don't want to be too ambitious, so I figure even if it's posting a picture or a link to a video or anything, just so I can have an entry for the day. I think if I were to try to write in it every day I'd fall behind miserably, as I have so often in the past.
I've had so much fun this past semester, and I feel like I haven't written down nearly enough of it. How many little things have happened which I have completely forgotten about? Too many, I'm sure. Having had so few friends for such a long time, I feel like I appreciate my friends so much more now, and I want to enjoy every moment I have with them, and I want to remember as many of those moments as possible.
So, here's to one three-hundred-sixty-fifth of my resolution complete (with two minutes to go, no less!)!
Oh, and speaking of awesome times, I went sledding a few weeks ago!
HELLZ YES