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One of my New Years Resolutions was to write in a journal at least once a week. I decided to make this the place, seeing as (and I may just be acting lazy here) but I can write out a journal entry a lot faster via computer than in a notebook. That, and I picked here especially just because I'm most familiar with this site's journal layout. Most entries will be public, some may be friends only, and I doubt there will be any private, but you never know what will happen in the coming year. Let's hope it's all good.

Anyways, back to New Year's Resolutions. The entire list can be found in the previous entry. My first one is to lose 20-30 pounds by the end of June. That's pretty achievable, I say - about 5 pounds a month, give or take. Actually, that's the last of the weight I'd like to lose. I've already lost a lot of weight. After I achieve my goal, someone remind me to put up before and after pictures. xD

The second is to get As in my classes and on finals. This one will be a little harder to achieve, seeing as it's school work and I am a huge procrastinator. I'm taking five courses this semester - Physics, English II, Speech, Statistics, and Human Growth & Development. The Physics and Stat classes will be a little challenging, seeing as I haven't had a math class in almost a year, but I should be able to catch on after a while - I've always been able to pick up math skills pretty quickly after being taught them.

I'm mildly worried about the English and Speech. They involve a lot of writing, and if I don't find the subject utterly fascinating, I really, really, really hate being told to write about it. I have the same teacher for both subjects, and I've been told that he's a pretty lenient teacher. I just hope he can put up with my sarcasm. Last year in English I, I gave my professor so much crap to deal with, I'm surprised I still received an A. One of our assignments was to write a narrative. I named mine "The Narrative" and told a very satirical story about a person writing a narrative. Another was to write a process paper, and I wrote it on writing a process paper - again spilling sarcasm into it. It's my own little way of spiting the teachers. x3 I'm just glad he had a sense of humor. xD I'll have to post the narrative up on here eventually, 'cause it's the one I'm more proud of.

And final, my Human Growth & Development class. I'm actually really looking forward to this one. It's a psychology class, and I am such a psych geek. I have the same prof. this semester as I did last semester. He's very elderly, wheezes when he talks, and takes a long time to complete a sentence. He is very slow at teaching, and sometimes his methods are a bit unorganized, but I know he knows his subject. So, I'm not disappointed I have him again - I just know to look forward to many boring classes.

The next resolution, I believe, is to save up $2500. I already have about $1700, so another 800 shouldn't be too difficult. I work in the bookstore on my college campus, so I get to work in between my classes. :3 It's actually very convenient. I'm saving up for many reasons. First, I'd like to have enough money to buy a stinking plane ticket - which comes from another story entirely - that'll cost about $1500. I also have to buy a passport and birthday presents for people.
I'm going to get a huge boost from my financial aid. I'm getting about $2300 from various grants, and my tuition is $1500, so that leaves $800. Another 400 or so will go to books, leaving the rest to be spent how I see fit. It is alllll going into my savings account. xD

Resolution #4 is to control my temper around my father. I'm really going to have to push myself to achieve this one. He just has this mind set that things have to be a certain way, and if they don't go that way, then everything is ruined and you might as well give up and go watch tv. I swear, he drives me nuts sometimes. I love my dad - don't get me wrong, but I honestly think he's depressed, along with whatever is making him think that he has to spend his free time watching tv because that's the only way to relax. >>; I swear, he'd rather watch tv than play a board game with me or chess or whatever. And when he gets in one of his moods, I can't help but snap at him sometimes. I guess we're almost polar opposites in our mental setting. He's very pessimistic - and is practically throwing money away at the lottery, depending on it to hit and save him from despair... or something. I don't know. >> I honestly don't think hitting the lottery would kick his depression, but whatever. He doesn't want to work anymore - he's only 50, and seems to think it's unfair that he has to, and that he'll be working until he dies 'cause he'll never get the money to retire. << Notice my many '>>'s.
I on the other hand like working. xD My current job is fun. Right now, actually, I'm on vacation from work for Christmas break, and I am SO BORED. I actually WANT to go to work. Or school. Or both.

I'm not going to rant about my dad anymore though. Moving on.

#s 5 and 6 go together. Help with housework and keep my room clean. I've already started on this one. My room currently, is clean, and so in the living room because I cleaned it this morning. :3 Our vacuum is broken though, so I can't sweep. >> Oh, how I miss our vacuum.

#7 goes with #1. DDR. Or Dance Dance Revolution for those who don't know it. It is so much fun! <3 I love it to death. My only pet peeve is that our dance mats are dying off left and right. Buttons stop working, pressure pads in them slide around, so on and so forth. I've got five versions of the game - SuperNova, SuperNova 2, Extreme, Extreme 2 - all for the PS2, and Mario Mix for the Gamecube.

#8 is a rather long story to explain. I'm not even going to go into it. xD I'll start giggling because the 'his' in there is the same 'he' I've mentioned in past entries... >w>;; Ehehehe~ I'm already giggling. Gah, I'm such a GIRL. I seriously hope he doesn't read this. XD

9 and 10 should be pretty easy. I'll just need emails, phone numbers, and the patience to deal with a hyper 16 year old.

11 goes with 3. Money, money. How I hate it. How I love it. D<

12 and 13 are more for me than anyone else. I actually like writing without limits. Like right now, for example. I think I've written more today than I have all month. And drawing. I had always liked drawing, but lately, I haven't had the time. The last time I drew, I drew a picture of the stuffed animal dog he sent me. It turned out really nice (I did it in oil pastel), and I got a new paper pad for Christmas, so why not? :3 I now want to draw more. <3

So those are my resolutions. Numbers 4 and 8 will be the hardest, I think. The others should come rather easily, I hope. Wish me luck, dudes and dudettes.

On New Years itself, my friend Shannon invited me to a festival on main street, but my friends Joey and Amanda want to get together to have a New Year's Party. I don't know what's going to happen - I'm going to see if I can combine everyone together so I don't have to leave anyone out. I hate being left out, and I try to avoid doing it to other people. ;; Makes one feel so lonely. </3

SPEAKING of New Years Eve, 11pm is the deadline of the writing contest Angel and I started back in July! I am SO flipping excited to have this thing over and done with. xD

Okay, I'm out of writing juice. Until next time.

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