The New Year

It's Wednesday and New Years Eve is in two days. I'm kind of freaking out because this is the last year of basically my childhood. Wow...yeah. Scary. I'm not big on New Years resolutions cause they just make you feel bad cause almost no one finishes them. However, I am gonna make a list of things that are gonna happen in the New Year. Just stuff I've been thinking about.

1. I'm graduating high school. :/ I've been in this same place for the past four years and while I'm so excited for the change that comes with college, I'm still freaking out. I mean, I am never going to live at home again. That is scary and exhilarating.
2. I'm going to college. I still don't know where I'm going, but I know what I want to do so that is really grounding me and allowing me not to spaz out every time I think about it. I'm excited to move away and meet new people and finally get to study what I'm interested in.
---These next ones aren't as life changing as the previous two---
3. I'm getting a Mac! I haven't had my own laptop since Winter 09. Mine just exploded (not literally) I have to steal my dad's work laptop and he needs it for...work...and it is just not cool. So, I convinced my parents to get me a Macbook for college. I'm getting it early cause I really need it.
4. I'm going to New York! Yeah, after my last blog where I talked about how I couldn't go to NYC my parents surprised me and I get to go with Angels. I have never been and I still get to go with my friends who are great so I'm pumped!
5. I'm turning 18. That's pretty cool I can buy lotto tickets. Booyah! I hope you caught the sarcasm there. I don't know what I'm gonna do when I turn 18 but hopefully it'll be cool.

I have a challenge for myself for 2011. I don't consider it a resolution because I'm not trying to change myself or improve myself or whatever. I just want to know I can do it. I am going to try to read 50 books. I got the idea from this YouTuber: http://www.youtube.com/user/booksandquills and thought I would try it out.
So, the rulers are as follows:
1. Every book I read counts. It doesn't matter if I've already read it, if I'm reading it for school, or for pleasure. If I read it, it counts.
2. I will write a review about every book. I think I'm gonna do 5 books at a time and make just short little snippets...liked the book or didn't.
3. Along with the reviews I will give them a rating. 1 - Do not read this book! to a 10 - OH MY GOD this book was amazing! ---Yeah, that was eloquent. Look at my extensive vocab.

So, that's what's coming up this year. I'm gonna try to read 50 books and freak out over college. AWESOME!

Today's recommendation: A Very Potter Musical/Sequel - any Harry Potter fan will find this funny. Put time aside to watch this, I just finished A Very Potter Sequel today and it was hilarous.

Christmas and P4A

So, everyone is at school right now recovering from the weekend and our Monday snow day...which was pretty awesome. However I am not at school and I am very thankful for that. I'm not sick or anything, I just had a concert this morning and thought it would be stupid to only go to in for 2 classes. And I have nothing to do and nothing exciting has really happened but I feel like writing, so here goes...there will probably be no real content in this blog.
This year we put our Christmas tree in our living room so we could enjoy it and it really is making me happy. We turn the lights on the second it gets dark and I can smell the pine (since we get real trees) and it's putting me in the Christmas spirit. It also helps that although I personally ordered a bunch of my presents from "Santa" online myself, there is still a bunch of stuff I haven't seen. While this makes me feel really nostalgic for my childhood when I was so excited for the surprise, it is also killing me cause I hate surprises.
Also, I've been getting really stir crazy lately. The combination of being a senior, my teachers loading us with work, and break being in a few days I just really want to go on an adventure. I almost did but unfortunately my friends and I can't go and it's sad. But what is making me happy is the impending Project for Awesome. On Friday Dec. 17, 2010 you should go to the link below and be apart of the Project for Awesome on YouTube. Cause it's well...awesome. When(not if) you go to the link and watch the videos you'll see why its so amazing.
I guess that's all I have to say, maybe over break I'll think of something clever to write about.
Till then DFTBA

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=project4awesome&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_319714