First post?
1. Draw more.
2. Kiss somebody.
3. Come out.
4. Write a play.
5. Sing.
6. Be a techie.
7. Dye my hair.
8. Buy all the stuff on a wish list I made back in ’09.
9. Get out of the house more.
10. Get all A’s.
11. Buy pens. Lots of pens. In lots of colors.
12. Doodle all over my jeans.
13. Go to more rock concerts.
14. Get better at making comics.
1) Work on art more
2) Go down to the river on a day that there are NOT [mostly drunk] people in the camp and sketch
3) Cut a fleeping path down to the river…in the spring
4) Excercise more- and ski a lot in the field, hopefully grow slightly better at not wiping out…
5) Try to stand up for the things I believe in more…
6) Draw until I can actually draw
7) Paint. A lot.
8) Write the book I’ve been rolling around in my head- but once it’s NaNo; I’m still sick of writing
9) Study for and take the SATs. Don’t ask me why I agreed to take them in the first place. Of course, it’s not like I’m going to actually not fail it, but whatever. I’m in seventh grade.
10) Make three skirts.
11) Try and dress Steampunk.
12) Stop being so lazy.
13) Build a fort on the river.
14) Make some new friends. (In 8th grade, which is technically this year, so it counts.)
Creative euphemism. Where I intend to cut the path is thorny, hilly, tricky, annoying, bushy, impossibly hard to navigate,and it goes over the railroad tracks, so if we’re caught on it we’re trespassing and we’ll get fined. Oh, and everything grows back over the summer, so it’s pretty much hopeless, but oh well.
– get through at LEAST the 3rd, 4th, and 5th doctors
– knit a 4th doctor scarf
– get better grades (may directly interfere with the above two)
– read more (i’ve fallen off reading a LOT. spending all my free time being social or something, what is this)
– another successful nanowrimo, not like last year’s two-day fail
– sleep more (may directly interfere with everything above)
– up my convention attendance (i’ve never been to ohayocon or origins, and i’d like to go to those. MARCon is an absolute must, and i’ll probably go to mid-ohiocon again, it was fun. hopefully next year i’ll go with a better knowledge of comics and appreciate it more)
1. I learned about 3 chords, which is more than last year but does not count as ‘knowing how to play the guitar.’ I did learn baritone saxophone though.
2. I realized that I actually find drawing extremely frustrating and prefer writing.
So, neither of these were accomplished.
Resolutions for this year:
Watch as many meteor showers as possible.
Finish this year’s NaNoWriMo novel.
1. Exercise more.
2. Get a job.
3. Keep playing guitar.
4. Write five more songs for piano.
5. Sing a solo at the spring concert this year.
6. Forget him.
7. Find true love.
8. Make a new best friend.
9. Go to National Catholic League Forensics Finals again this year.
10. Finally finish a novel.
Well, I put some of this on the Lists thread, but…
1) Write more.
2) Do more space advocacy work and help people more in general.
3) Be closer to my family, especially because I’m going away to college.
4) By the 25 anniversary of the Challenger Disaster on the 28th of this month, have drawn, scanned, and put online pictures of all the crew members.
5) Have a Yuri’s Night party on MB.
6) Go to ICON.
7) Dress more unconventionally.
1) practice guitar
2) attempt to stay in shape
3) write more poetry
4) kiss my girlfriend
5) get better at Spanish
6) work on anxiety and control issues
7) actively attempt to rid myself of both acne and excema
8) become more self-confident
9) do well in first non-school acting class
10) actually keep up with both school work and chores
11) (it is 2011 after all) read the rest of The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman.
By the way, if you tell anyone, and I mean ANYONE in the real world about #4 on my list, then I *thinks*….I won’t let you read volumes 3-5 of the sandman, which I now own, or 6-7, which I will shortly.
Also, numbers 4 and 5 on your list I most definitely approve of. Many thanks!
Just a few informal ones that I’ve been working on for a while. They don’t really count if you start them in September, do they? I’ve been trying to study more, procrastinate less, and do more constructive things in my spare time. The internet, unfortunately, doesn’t count as constructive. Especially facebook and qwop. Museblog… maybe.
(some of these are for eventually, not necessarily 2011)
– finish a story
– submit a story
– figure out stuff about grad school
– get better grades (mine are good, but I want better ones.)
– work on upper body strength
– take more pictures
-Finish applying to college well ahead of the deadline
-Get lots and lots of scholarship money
-Stop complaining
-Starting using “groovy” and “dig” in everyday language
-Costume costume costume
-Save enough money to buy a laptop
-Get a passport
-Get a driver’s license
-Get a motorcycle endorsement
-Put money aside towards a Vespa
-Do my homework
-Revive my theater troupe
Hm. I though I didn’t have any, but I guess I do.
Quite a lot actually.
1: Catch up on schoolwork; I’m not doing nearly enough assignments per day (I’ve been sick for months, so I can’t always work, and I’m way behind.I’m in virtual school.). Whether I accomplish this will certainly effect whether or not I get to do anything else on my list…
2: Exercise. This is necessary, since I don’t have PE, but I haven’t been doing it much at all.
3: Study more for district-wide spelling bee in February and for once not misspeaking (i.e. spelling xylophone as “xylopone,” as I did last year– obviously, I know that there’s an H, but I have a problem with accidentally saying something other than what I mean during spelling bees, probably due to nerves) and losing for that reason (I wouldn’t so much mind losing due to not knowing the word, as that’s bound to happen anyway at some point; I just want to do the best I can for once.)
4: Listen to (or at least read the transcripts of) all MuggleCast Episodes.
5: Write more.
6: Do more art.
7: Memorize the elements song (I promise I didn’t steal the idea from Choklit Orange; I thought of it as soon as I heard the song.
8: Buy lots of Muse Back Issues
9: Learn more about medicinal herbs
10: Memorize more digits of pi.
11: Start collecting extremely odd stuffed animals (as in wongai ningauis and that sort of thing)
12: Get into birdwatching.
1. Watch all the original Doctor Who episodes
2. Have a normal conversation with my brother
3. Go running often
4. Get at least 5.0 on the 40 yard dash (haven’t timed myself yet)
5. Get all A’s and A-‘s (mainly concerned with French)
6. Skip school at least three times (in conflict with number 5)
7. Grow another two inches
8. Make the freshman football team (MAJOR problem with that one)
I didn’t think I had that many, and now that I posted them, they will haunt me until they get done.
It just so happens that I am not a male. That is a MAJOR problem. I’ve read some articles about girls playing on guys teams, but really, I won’t make it.
Assuming you’re in US, and assuming that your school doesn’t have a girl’s football team, you are within your rights to play on the team under Title IX, assuming you do well enough in try-outs. So, practice!
Yeah, I live about a half mile away from the high school, and it has a track, so I go there as much as possible… I’m a pretty good sprinter, and I can punt farther than most guys at my school… Haven’t told my mom yet though, not sure how that will go…
I already posted some of mine towards the end of the December Random Thread, but I’ll re-post a list here because I have more to add:
1) Be more organized, especially in my desk/room
2) Stay more active (Make running more of a priority outside of my normal sports seasons)
3) Play basketball more (I know, I know. I have a lot of fitness related ones, but I would really like to improve my basketball skills so I can continue to play at the high school level next year. It’s like my…I don’t know, sports have kept me sane through a lot of stuff, so I don’t want to slack it off now.)
4) Write! Write! Write! (And do a “proper” attempt at NaNo)
5) Not be bored during the summer and find ways to make myself busy.
6) Get good grades! (Or continue to, at least…)
Have fun writing! My 2010 resolution was to attempt writing (even the shortest of things) at least every day, so it would become easier over time. It was really dull and boring at first, but I usually managed to write about a page a day in my 8.5 x 11″ notebook. Maybe you could do something like this on that side! However, it’s just a suggestion if you like to write. Because it contributes in triggering thoughts for other stories, it may prove to be helpful. Well, good luck on NaNo! (I’m trying my hand at NaNo this year, as well!)
I actually figured out the reason why I do NaNo recently: for the moment when I ask my mom, “So if I punctured the artery in a small sixteen-year-old boy’s arm, how long would it take him to bleed to death?” and look up and see the expression on her face. I would go through every late night, tangled plot, and unshakeable sense of despair just to have that moment again. And I will!
work way more tech (I need lots of experience D: )
get a job (man, don’t be a lifeguard. It sucks. I’m currently waiting for a job to open up at the local library.
Be awesome. (that’s going pretty well, so far)
actually practice, and focus on one instrument.
Contra dance more than ever! There is never enough.
Morris dance more than ever! See above.
Molly “” “” “” “” “” “”
get back into the Museblog? We’ll see how that goes.
Try to start caring about school again. Wouldn’t that be something?
Yeah. So uh. They still count if I came up with them today, right?
oh, and learn a programming language well. I’m severely lacking in that department :/
If you want an indoor plant, a philodendron is very, very hard to kill. Just be careful: ten years later, that innocent foot-tall plant might septuple its size and dominate your room.
Have you been watching Little Shop of Horrors? :D.
Actually, my cousin sent me a Blanket of Snow plant, whatever that is, and I smuggled some peppermint seeds in from CA (oh terrible, terrible me).
How do you get rid of a flourishing plant? I mean, suppose I do grow a philodendron, and it actually survives and septuples in size and I move back *crossed fingers* to CA- I can’t exactly throw the thing out, but I don’t know any of our neighbors well enough to give them a plant… ah well. We’ll cross that bridge if my plant survives.
Grow a plant without killing it… you should get an air plant. They live off of moisture in the atmosphere so they never need watering, and are practically un-killable by neglecting them, and they look nice too!
My resolutions:
1. Finish my third comic + help friends with their various web comics (this seems to be a common one)
2. Bug my parents enough that they’ll let me watch Dr.Who (I scored a victory for Star Trek last year, so we’ll see…)
3. Complete my resolutions (yeah right)
4.complete that resolution
5. spread the Game ( I lost the game!)
6.stall while I try to think up more good resolutions
7. Um……
8. Ever get anything done in general (like this list)
I also vow never to eat pickled herring on new years, regardless of how much good luck it’s supposed to be.
Hm. I hadn’t really thought too much about resolutions. I generally just think of things I want to do and then try to go with them as I can.
But as for things that I would like to accomplish, in no particular order:
-be more motivated (which translates to getting college and summer job apps in)
-dress fearlessly, which includes but is not limited to: learning to sew things properly and making/modifying my own clothes, perhaps taking a knitting class, and not worrying about what anyone else thinks about how I dress myself, getting rid of clothes I hate but keep for convenience (except for work grubbies, those I shall keep and wear only when I’m working grubbily.)
-piss off my mom, uh, I meant “form opinions and state them clearly, eloquently and politely without backing down if it clashes with other’s viewpoints. Even if it clashes with the viewpoint of She Who Is Making Dinner. If it gets that bad, make your own dinner in a dignified manner.”
-get my financial stuff together. As in, put all the allowance I’ve been hoarding away in my sock drawer into my actual bank account, and have dad start paying my allowance in checks, which I will deposit on a regular basis instead of toting around in my wallet for ages until I get to it.
-speak out for justice. Remember that I’ve been the one picked on, and that is a very good reason to stand up for and befriend them, instead of jumping on the bandwagon to avoid reliving those times and becoming a target again.
-read, dream and make more music for the fun of it. Run through the woods and chase squirrels like I used to. Well, maybe not chase squirrels, but keep that energy and wonder. Run around in zig-zags and pretend I’m chasing squirrels.
-go contra dancing more often, and hopefully build up dancing muscles so each time I go I don’t limp for a week afterward.
-read, read, read. Read classics, read non-fiction, read things I like, read things I disagree with, have conversations about books and with books. Read for fun, read for learning, read for enlightenment….just read. Burn through books like I used to. Turn off the cell phone and computer and maybe even the music and just get lost in the pages.
-write. Improve my handwriting, use a fountain pen instead of a pencil all the time. Learn different scripts, learn to write in 17th century style, or 18th century style, or both. Write out the poetry and short stories that are always floating around captive in my head. Put them on paper, and if they suck, say it’s handwriting practice. If they work, share them.
-get a good camera and take pictures. Lots of pictures. Don’t feel weird about loads of self-portraits. Explore new ways of looking at the world. Draw things, too. Draw the things you can’t express in a photo. Stop being worried about the terrible sketches and start looking more.
-reach out to people. Offer friendship to others instead of waiting for them to make the first move. Share life.
-speak clearly and authoritatively. Get rid of extraneous “like’s” and “um’s”. Use more descriptive and interesting words.
-just get more stuff done (see more people, make more comics, go to more intersting things, etc.)
-Tell the guy I like that I like him
-stop stressing about stuff and have fun.
-Watch all of those shows (Buffy, Firefly, Battelstar Galactica, etc) that people keep bugging me to watch.
-Actually commit to my new years resolutions, which has not happened before
Easter Break Resolutions, since I didn’t make any New Year’s ones:
1. Do 10+ sit-ups a day
2. Stop eating randomly out of boredom
3. Learn to shut up about space
4. Learn to shut up in general
5. Stop talking so much around my friends
6. Pass all of my classes at the end of the year
7. Study more, read and draw less
First post?
1. Draw more.
2. Kiss somebody.
3. Come out.
4. Write a play.
5. Sing.
6. Be a techie.
7. Dye my hair.
8. Buy all the stuff on a wish list I made back in ’09.
9. Get out of the house more.
10. Get all A’s.
11. Buy pens. Lots of pens. In lots of colors.
12. Doodle all over my jeans.
13. Go to more rock concerts.
14. Get better at making comics.
Resolutions…
1) Work on art more
2) Go down to the river on a day that there are NOT [mostly drunk] people in the camp and sketch
3) Cut a fleeping path down to the river…in the spring
4) Excercise more- and ski a lot in the field, hopefully grow slightly better at not wiping out…
5) Try to stand up for the things I believe in more…
6) Draw until I can actually draw
7) Paint. A lot.
8) Write the book I’ve been rolling around in my head- but once it’s NaNo; I’m still sick of writing
9) Study for and take the SATs. Don’t ask me why I agreed to take them in the first place. Of course, it’s not like I’m going to actually not fail it, but whatever. I’m in seventh grade.
10) Make three skirts.
11) Try and dress Steampunk.
12) Stop being so lazy.
13) Build a fort on the river.
14) Make some new friends. (In 8th grade, which is technically this year, so it counts.)
Oh, and 15) watch all of New Who.
Is “fleeping” a creative euphemism or an actual thing that the path is intended for?
Creative euphemism. Where I intend to cut the path is thorny, hilly, tricky, annoying, bushy, impossibly hard to navigate,and it goes over the railroad tracks, so if we’re caught on it we’re trespassing and we’ll get fined. Oh, and everything grows back over the summer, so it’s pretty much hopeless, but oh well.
I look forward to it.
– get through at LEAST the 3rd, 4th, and 5th doctors
– knit a 4th doctor scarf
– get better grades (may directly interfere with the above two)
– read more (i’ve fallen off reading a LOT. spending all my free time being social or something, what is this)
– another successful nanowrimo, not like last year’s two-day fail
– sleep more (may directly interfere with everything above)
– up my convention attendance (i’ve never been to ohayocon or origins, and i’d like to go to those. MARCon is an absolute must, and i’ll probably go to mid-ohiocon again, it was fun. hopefully next year i’ll go with a better knowledge of comics and appreciate it more)
– dye my hurrr? i might next week. we’ll see.
– kokon lots! (starting next weekend :P)
I made a 4th Doctor scarf. It’s awesome.
which one did you make? i think i’m gonna do the season 15 scarf
1. Learn how to play guitar.
2. Draw more
1. I learned about 3 chords, which is more than last year but does not count as ‘knowing how to play the guitar.’ I did learn baritone saxophone though.
2. I realized that I actually find drawing extremely frustrating and prefer writing.
So, neither of these were accomplished.
Resolutions for this year:
Watch as many meteor showers as possible.
Finish this year’s NaNoWriMo novel.
1. Exercise more.
2. Get a job.
3. Keep playing guitar.
4. Write five more songs for piano.
5. Sing a solo at the spring concert this year.
6. Forget him.
7. Find true love.
8. Make a new best friend.
9. Go to National Catholic League Forensics Finals again this year.
10. Finally finish a novel.
Well, I put some of this on the Lists thread, but…
1) Write more.
2) Do more space advocacy work and help people more in general.
3) Be closer to my family, especially because I’m going away to college.
4) By the 25 anniversary of the Challenger Disaster on the 28th of this month, have drawn, scanned, and put online pictures of all the crew members.
5) Have a Yuri’s Night party on MB.
6) Go to ICON.
7) Dress more unconventionally.
Wow, I managed to do all but 4) and 6), and I only failed at 4) by three portraits out of seven! I feel accomplished.
(By which I mean that I managed to draw four portraits out of seven by the anniversary, not three.)
1) practice guitar
2) attempt to stay in shape
3) write more poetry
4) kiss my girlfriend
5) get better at Spanish
6) work on anxiety and control issues
7) actively attempt to rid myself of both acne and excema
8) become more self-confident
9) do well in first non-school acting class
10) actually keep up with both school work and chores
11) (it is 2011 after all) read the rest of The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman.
1)Draw more
2)Start learning viola
3)Get better grades
4)Help Clare with anxiety
5)Work on comic
By the way, if you tell anyone, and I mean ANYONE in the real world about #4 on my list, then I *thinks*….I won’t let you read volumes 3-5 of the sandman, which I now own, or 6-7, which I will shortly.
Also, numbers 4 and 5 on your list I most definitely approve of. Many thanks!
Don’t worry, I won’t. I’m not that evil.
Yes you are.
But-Okay, I am. But I won’t.
I agree with #2.
Just a few informal ones that I’ve been working on for a while. They don’t really count if you start them in September, do they? I’ve been trying to study more, procrastinate less, and do more constructive things in my spare time. The internet, unfortunately, doesn’t count as constructive. Especially facebook and qwop. Museblog… maybe.
Lies. Qwop is definitely constructive and translates to real life. (I just haven’t figured out how yet.)
Oh, I got it. If I ever lose control of the muscles in my legs, I’ll know how to control them with a keyboard.
(some of these are for eventually, not necessarily 2011)
– finish a story
– submit a story
– figure out stuff about grad school
– get better grades (mine are good, but I want better ones.)
– work on upper body strength
– take more pictures
-Finish applying to college well ahead of the deadline
-Get lots and lots of scholarship money
-Stop complaining
-Starting using “groovy” and “dig” in everyday language
-Costume costume costume
-Save enough money to buy a laptop
-Get a passport
-Get a driver’s license
-Get a motorcycle endorsement
-Put money aside towards a Vespa
-Do my homework
-Revive my theater troupe
Hm. I though I didn’t have any, but I guess I do.
Quite a lot actually.
1. Get into Junior Districts
2. Get into Senior Districts
3. Maintain all As
4. Stop procrastinating
5. Turn fifteen ( Yay, easy resolutions. )
6. Learn to play the euphonium
7. Learn how to do the “Single Ladies” dance.
I can teach you!
I once learned a weird dance for that which was like a combination of the actual dance and the Macarena (probably not how the dance is spelled)
As for number 4, that sounds like an extremely good idea. Perhaps that’ll be my resolution for next year.
1: Catch up on schoolwork; I’m not doing nearly enough assignments per day (I’ve been sick for months, so I can’t always work, and I’m way behind.I’m in virtual school.). Whether I accomplish this will certainly effect whether or not I get to do anything else on my list…
2: Exercise. This is necessary, since I don’t have PE, but I haven’t been doing it much at all.
3: Study more for district-wide spelling bee in February and for once not misspeaking (i.e. spelling xylophone as “xylopone,” as I did last year– obviously, I know that there’s an H, but I have a problem with accidentally saying something other than what I mean during spelling bees, probably due to nerves) and losing for that reason (I wouldn’t so much mind losing due to not knowing the word, as that’s bound to happen anyway at some point; I just want to do the best I can for once.)
4: Listen to (or at least read the transcripts of) all MuggleCast Episodes.
5: Write more.
6: Do more art.
7: Memorize the elements song (I promise I didn’t steal the idea from Choklit Orange; I thought of it as soon as I heard the song.
8: Buy lots of Muse Back Issues
9: Learn more about medicinal herbs
10: Memorize more digits of pi.
11: Start collecting extremely odd stuffed animals (as in wongai ningauis and that sort of thing)
12: Get into birdwatching.
What’s virtual school like?
1. Watch all the original Doctor Who episodes
2. Have a normal conversation with my brother
3. Go running often
4. Get at least 5.0 on the 40 yard dash (haven’t timed myself yet)
5. Get all A’s and A-‘s (mainly concerned with French)
6. Skip school at least three times (in conflict with number 5)
7. Grow another two inches
8. Make the freshman football team (MAJOR problem with that one)
I didn’t think I had that many, and now that I posted them, they will haunt me until they get done.
Football! You’re brave. Football is scary. Also, good luck!
out of curiosity, what’s the major problem with the football team?
It just so happens that I am not a male. That is a MAJOR problem. I’ve read some articles about girls playing on guys teams, but really, I won’t make it.
Assuming you’re in US, and assuming that your school doesn’t have a girl’s football team, you are within your rights to play on the team under Title IX, assuming you do well enough in try-outs. So, practice!
Yeah, I live about a half mile away from the high school, and it has a track, so I go there as much as possible… I’m a pretty good sprinter, and I can punt farther than most guys at my school… Haven’t told my mom yet though, not sure how that will go…
Good luck!
I already posted some of mine towards the end of the December Random Thread, but I’ll re-post a list here because I have more to add:
1) Be more organized, especially in my desk/room
2) Stay more active (Make running more of a priority outside of my normal sports seasons)
3) Play basketball more (I know, I know. I have a lot of fitness related ones, but I would really like to improve my basketball skills so I can continue to play at the high school level next year. It’s like my…I don’t know, sports have kept me sane through a lot of stuff, so I don’t want to slack it off now.)
4) Write! Write! Write! (And do a “proper” attempt at NaNo)
5) Not be bored during the summer and find ways to make myself busy.
6) Get good grades! (Or continue to, at least…)
I think that’s all…
Have fun writing! My 2010 resolution was to attempt writing (even the shortest of things) at least every day, so it would become easier over time. It was really dull and boring at first, but I usually managed to write about a page a day in my 8.5 x 11″ notebook. Maybe you could do something like this on that side! However, it’s just a suggestion if you like to write. Because it contributes in triggering thoughts for other stories, it may prove to be helpful. Well, good luck on NaNo! (I’m trying my hand at NaNo this year, as well!)
I actually figured out the reason why I do NaNo recently: for the moment when I ask my mom, “So if I punctured the artery in a small sixteen-year-old boy’s arm, how long would it take him to bleed to death?” and look up and see the expression on her face. I would go through every late night, tangled plot, and unshakeable sense of despair just to have that moment again. And I will!
work way more tech (I need lots of experience D: )
get a job (man, don’t be a lifeguard. It sucks. I’m currently waiting for a job to open up at the local library.
Be awesome. (that’s going pretty well, so far)
actually practice, and focus on one instrument.
Contra dance more than ever! There is never enough.
Morris dance more than ever! See above.
Molly “” “” “” “” “” “”
get back into the Museblog? We’ll see how that goes.
Try to start caring about school again. Wouldn’t that be something?
Yeah. So uh. They still count if I came up with them today, right?
oh, and learn a programming language well. I’m severely lacking in that department :/
Learn guitar.
Learn to skateboard.
Get some friends.
Um, better late than never. I vow to:
-knit a cabled sweater
-grow a plant without killing it
-make non-sludgy ravioli
If you want an indoor plant, a philodendron is very, very hard to kill. Just be careful: ten years later, that innocent foot-tall plant might septuple its size and dominate your room.
Have you been watching Little Shop of Horrors? :D.
Actually, my cousin sent me a Blanket of Snow plant, whatever that is, and I smuggled some peppermint seeds in from CA (oh terrible, terrible me).
How do you get rid of a flourishing plant? I mean, suppose I do grow a philodendron, and it actually survives and septuples in size and I move back *crossed fingers* to CA- I can’t exactly throw the thing out, but I don’t know any of our neighbors well enough to give them a plant… ah well. We’ll cross that bridge if my plant survives.
Grow a plant without killing it… you should get an air plant. They live off of moisture in the atmosphere so they never need watering, and are practically un-killable by neglecting them, and they look nice too!
My resolutions:
1. Finish my third comic + help friends with their various web comics (this seems to be a common one)
2. Bug my parents enough that they’ll let me watch Dr.Who (I scored a victory for Star Trek last year, so we’ll see…)
3. Complete my resolutions (yeah right)
4.complete that resolution
5. spread the Game ( I lost the game!)
6.stall while I try to think up more good resolutions
7. Um……
8. Ever get anything done in general (like this list)
I also vow never to eat pickled herring on new years, regardless of how much good luck it’s supposed to be.
Hm. I hadn’t really thought too much about resolutions. I generally just think of things I want to do and then try to go with them as I can.
But as for things that I would like to accomplish, in no particular order:
-be more motivated (which translates to getting college and summer job apps in)
-dress fearlessly, which includes but is not limited to: learning to sew things properly and making/modifying my own clothes, perhaps taking a knitting class, and not worrying about what anyone else thinks about how I dress myself, getting rid of clothes I hate but keep for convenience (except for work grubbies, those I shall keep and wear only when I’m working grubbily.)
-piss off my mom, uh, I meant “form opinions and state them clearly, eloquently and politely without backing down if it clashes with other’s viewpoints. Even if it clashes with the viewpoint of She Who Is Making Dinner. If it gets that bad, make your own dinner in a dignified manner.”
-get my financial stuff together. As in, put all the allowance I’ve been hoarding away in my sock drawer into my actual bank account, and have dad start paying my allowance in checks, which I will deposit on a regular basis instead of toting around in my wallet for ages until I get to it.
-speak out for justice. Remember that I’ve been the one picked on, and that is a very good reason to stand up for and befriend them, instead of jumping on the bandwagon to avoid reliving those times and becoming a target again.
-read, dream and make more music for the fun of it. Run through the woods and chase squirrels like I used to. Well, maybe not chase squirrels, but keep that energy and wonder. Run around in zig-zags and pretend I’m chasing squirrels.
-go contra dancing more often, and hopefully build up dancing muscles so each time I go I don’t limp for a week afterward.
-read, read, read. Read classics, read non-fiction, read things I like, read things I disagree with, have conversations about books and with books. Read for fun, read for learning, read for enlightenment….just read. Burn through books like I used to. Turn off the cell phone and computer and maybe even the music and just get lost in the pages.
-write. Improve my handwriting, use a fountain pen instead of a pencil all the time. Learn different scripts, learn to write in 17th century style, or 18th century style, or both. Write out the poetry and short stories that are always floating around captive in my head. Put them on paper, and if they suck, say it’s handwriting practice. If they work, share them.
-get a good camera and take pictures. Lots of pictures. Don’t feel weird about loads of self-portraits. Explore new ways of looking at the world. Draw things, too. Draw the things you can’t express in a photo. Stop being worried about the terrible sketches and start looking more.
-reach out to people. Offer friendship to others instead of waiting for them to make the first move. Share life.
-speak clearly and authoritatively. Get rid of extraneous “like’s” and “um’s”. Use more descriptive and interesting words.
Anachronistic Handwriting and Calligraphy is certainly a required course at Muse Academy.
Do more begging for a dog.
SFTDP
Oh, and finish the book I’m trying to write.
-just get more stuff done (see more people, make more comics, go to more intersting things, etc.)
-Tell the guy I like that I like him
-stop stressing about stuff and have fun.
-Watch all of those shows (Buffy, Firefly, Battelstar Galactica, etc) that people keep bugging me to watch.
-Actually commit to my new years resolutions, which has not happened before
Hey, I actually achieved all of mine!
((Oh, fine. For all you sticklers out there, I didn’t have any, but whatevs.))
Easter Break Resolutions, since I didn’t make any New Year’s ones:
1. Do 10+ sit-ups a day
2. Stop eating randomly out of boredom
3. Learn to shut up about space
4. Learn to shut up in general
5. Stop talking so much around my friends
6. Pass all of my classes at the end of the year
7. Study more, read and draw less