Brainstorm for 2009...

Okay, so it is January 1, and I want to make some big, fun, and scary adventures for this year. I know it's going to be a year of BIG, FUN, and SCARY changes no matter what I do (and I can't wait), but I want to add in some of my own.

So I figure that I'd just use this for brainstorming/coming up with a list, since that is sort of what this blog has turned into...I think I blogged more about BFS during 2008 than about what I was writing (which was what I made this blog for originally)!

Anyway, so I'm going to take a few minutes and just brainstorm some things I've wanted to do, and then use that list to pick from for my "official" BFS goals for 2009. Alright...so here I go:

• Get into a regular exercise schedule
• Even if I don't go to the gym, at least do some crunches and pushups (or something) at home
  
• Be able to run a mile in under 9:00 (I've only done this once before in my whole life, and that was in seventh grade! And I don't run anymore...)
• Eliminate chocolate/"junk food" (but mainly chocolate) from my diet except for on my birthday, my mom's birthday, my dad's birthday, or my graduation day (hey, I did it with soda at the beginning of high school)
  
• Stop snacking when I am at home! Only eat three meals, and maybe a small afterschool snack (like a yogurt since they give me calcium/those bacteria that help your stomach)
• Draft the second book in The Eleventh before my graduation from high school!
• Learn how to put on makeup! It's so shameful - I'm almost 18, and I can only manage to put on nail polish. Speaking of which, I need to obtain some black nail polish. I can never find it, and I want some for band concerts!
• Get my driver's license and practice driving A LOT. I barely ever find time to practice, and I NEED to get my license before I leave for college. This is another shameful thing...I should probably practice everyday, but I need my parents, and that's a bit tough...so maybe at least 4 hours per week? I'm not sure about this, but I want to get my license in the summer at the very latest!
• Get into college and buy myself a sweatshirt as a present :)
• Graduate from high school! And then go to college in the fall! :)
• Learn how to be more composed - I laugh a lot, and I'm going to turn 18 this spring...I need to learn how to be more like an adult. And I'm going to start by learning how to stay composed even if I want to laugh uncontrollably.
• Sign up for a FUN class once I get to college. Something new and exciting!
• Take/assemble pictures of "my home", whatever I consider to be part of "my home", and put them into some sort of album (at least on my computer - I don't need to actually print it out, I just want it to be a "complete" album) to help me remember the good times when I go off to college
• Watch a sunrise from a high-up vantage point :) (no clue when/where I can do this, but I've always wanted to)
• Do something "above and beyond" for my Creative Writing final project, just like I did for my Humanities. In fact, I want to do something that "defeats" my Humanities final...even though there are more limitations on the Creative Writing one (so it will be harder)
• Spend a day with one of my best friends (who lives in Canada)! We've done this every single year since we met, and I don't want 2009 to be any different
• Go up to the city with my friends, either by car or by train. I've never done this...
• I want to take purikura pictures with my friends again! I've only done this once in America, and I have so much room in my sticker book for it...I want to fill it up with pictures of me and my friends so I can bring it with me to college (since it's tiny, so it won't be a big deal)
• Start writing in my 15th journal by the end of the year? Maybe? I'm nearing the end of my 9th, and I ended my 4th at the beginning of 2008...
• Move out of my house :)
• Buy a sweatshirt/other gear from my NEW SCHOOL! (Which may or may not actually be...you know...THE New School...University...EUGENE LANG! Ahahah wonderful name.)
• Get contacts...
• I suppose I should try to relearn Japanese? Since I couldn't take it this year...but I will DEFINITELY take a language this fall, even if it isn't more Japanese (I reallyreallyreally want to learn Mandarin)
• Even though I don't really draw much, I will draw every main character in The Eleventh...separately (no cheating with Clanae + Arach in the same picture, for example)
• Do some sort of...thing? To make my second semester fun. Like...I dunno! But something second-semester-y :)
• Write something not-short-story-like that could take place entirely in the real world AND present day (like for Screnzy or NaNo or something)

...Yeah...this took me, like, all day, since I couldn't stay at the computer for long.

I'll do another post with an actual list.

...Later... :P