IT'S 2008!!!
Man oh man. I feel like an old person saying this, but don't you guys remember when it was just turning 2000? And everyone thought the world as we know it was going to end. That was a long time ago. I was ten years old. I was just barely in mid school (and yes, it was called mid school, not intermediate school and not middle school) and now I'm in COLLEGE. I'm DONE WITH HIGH SCHOOL. I'm practically a grown up.
Okay, okay, you can stop laughing now. It's not that funny.
How did I spend my New Year's Eve?
Well. I babysat for a couple hours, then came home and rang in the new year with my parents and sister and Braddies and Maddies (whose real names are Brad and Madi, but I call them various things... Bradison and Madison, Bradley and Madley, Braddles and Maddles, etc). There was much yelling and drinking of apple cider, then later we had brownies and ice cream and the four played Apples to Apples. Which, if you've never played it before, is a really awesome game if you have a good group of people.
I am really excited about this year. Lots of stuff happened in 2007. In February I found out I was getting published (!!) and in June I graduated, in August I started college, in October I got my license. Not to mention all the other stuff that happened that aren't really milestone things, just happens-to-be-important-to-me-personally things. Like finishing my novel and going to New York. It was a full year and looking ahead I think 2008 is going to be very awesome. A happy year. I always try to think of what sort of year it's going to be before it actually comes. Like how 2005 was an exciting year and 2006 was some sort of peace-making year or something like that. I guess it was when I decided to come to terms with the events of 2005. Which means the move. And then there was this last year, 2007, which was also exciting.
And now I'm at 2008. And I'm ready for it. And I'm thinking it's going to be an amazing year. Not as happening as 2005 or 2007 maybe, but a very happy year. Like how 2004 was a happy year, if I remember right. (And that was probably mostly because 2002 and 2003 were over, which meant no more fires, no more surgeries, no more back brace. Oh yeah, the summer after sixth grade was something out of a cheap Lifetime original movie. If there were Lifetime original movies that didn't have everything end all neatly.
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Oh, and hopefully sometime in the near future I'll remember to make these posts. One on imagination and another on reality. And maybe another on friends. We'll just have to see how it goes.
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Another thing, for those people I'm making cds for (Jocelyn and Erika), I swear they're forthcoming. It's just with the four back together for a while everything else has kinda been pushed to the side. Not to mention I'm trying to get my query letter just right. Okay, enough excuses, the cds are coming, I promise.