Since this is probably the last thing I'll post this year...let's take a moment to consider...
Okay, enough considering.
Seriously, though, it's hard to even begin to consider all that has happened (the good, the bad, and the ugly) in the past twelve months...started my last year of high school, got accepted into college, went to Hawaii...started this blog and maintained it which, in and of itself, seems to be a pretty big feat for me, to be honest.
What I've learned this year is that I don't function well on numerous nights (let's say...more than seven) with severely inadequate sleep (and not nearly enough coffee)...I'll probably end up being a crazy math teacher...There's no book I'll probably hate more than Heart of Darkness...Tangled is the best movie for any occasion...I need to read for pleasure more...I should write more...I need to spend more time with my friends since, as it turns out, they're really cool people. Definitely some of the coolest people I know...
...and that I probably spend way too much time on the Internet. Buuuuuuut I wouldn't be here without it, now, would I?
Of course, there's plenty to look forward to in the new year as well...graduating from high school, moving out for the first time, possibly getting my first real job that doesn't involve office work or slaving away in a fast food joint, going to a Broadway show with a bunch of people whose lives have been tremendously changed since viewing the cinematic version of said show, a new book from one of y favorite authors, John Green (ten days)...prom (?)...going on trips with my friends without parents...being an adult in less than six months...Crap, I get to grow up this year as well...
I'll spend my New Years Eve how I like it: with friends. Unlike Christmas, it's usually with a different group every year, but we spend it just about the same. We eat, we drink, we play terrible board games, we watch movies, we stay up until midnight, then fall asleep shortly thereafter...and still sleep until almost noon the next day. That's my kind of party.
Last year, I spent it at home, with my mom. We had a nice, quiet evening where we ate Filipino food and drank cider and watched the ball drop on TV.
The year before that, I was in a hotel ballroom eating ice cream with one-hundred of my closest friends, ready and set to go to bed at 9:30 because of the 4:00 a.m. wake-up call to go march in the 2010 Tournament of Roses Parade. It's been two years almost to the day, and it's still very hard for me to believe that we actually flew down to California and marched for five and a half miles on New Year's Day in front of over one million people on the streets (and even more on T.V.). It still seems so surreal...I felt so young back then...
Luckily, this year, I don't go back to school until the 5th. Some years, they've made us go back on the 2nd. Ick.
Well, that's it for 2011, folks (guess you aren't getting the Hawaii blog this year...guess you're gonna have to wait until next year...). 72 days of school down, probably around 70 left (for seniors, at least). But I've discovered I like doing these odd posts every once in a while. Just for funsies. They may happen more often. But we'll see.
Happy New Year, everyone!
Watching: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
Listening to (recently, not at the present moment): Mumford and Sons, Sigh No More (the entire album is brilliant); Ingrid Michaelson's "Can't Help Falling In Love", and old-school Coldplay
Reading: (for school) Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt); (for fun) Anna and the French Kiss (Stephanie Perkins), The Boyfriend List (e. lockhart)
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