I've never really come to terms with new years being a big thing anyway. Right now my life is still run on a school calendar so my new years happen in September usually and I find the one in January to be quite awkward actually. I mean, yeah, I stay up till midnight and say rabbit rabbit rabbit (just like the first of EVERY month, when I remember) and happy new year. I attempt to come up with some resolutions and think about the past year but it feels weird. Especially this year because I'm between two different schools and I think I've done too much thinking and had too many different experiences to have remained the same person. In fact, I'm positive I'm not the same person as I was last year, or even as I was in August (when I started at CSU).
As long as I'm being all reflective, and a little hippocritical, let's look at my year in review:
- Word of the year: Epiphany. why is this my word? because I've had a lot of them and I just learned how it was spelled and I think it's wonderful.
- Name of the year: Ingrid. This is what I named my bass trombone and it is also:
- Favorite Music/Artist of the year: Ingrid Michaelson. I love her, this has already been mentioned.
- Best book I read last year: I haven't really read much, regrettibly, but I think I'd have to say The World is Flat By Thomas Friedman. I actually read this for one of my classes and as I have said a few times in the past few months "This damn book is ruining my life" as I realized just how right Mr. Friedman is/was.
- Band Piece of the year: Armenian Dances. Just is, played it twice and LOVE IT!
- Favorite thing I baked: My birthday cake: Chocolate cake, chocolate mousse, chocolate ganache.
- Drink of the year: Tea. if I had to pick one flavor, it would be vanilla strawberry rose, which I just learned has been discontinued and I wanted to cry.
- Website of the year: Google. Duh.
- Webcomic of the year: Questionable Content. If you're gonna read it you should really start from the beginning
- Biggest FAIL of the year: this blog, also mentioned before
- Punctuation of the year: ...yeah...
- Addiction of the year: Texting. OMG, texting.
- Phrase of the year: points for trying. I think...there might be another one....not sure.
So...resolutions...I make them but I'm still not sure how I feel about them...I think in part because I resolve to do things all year round, it's not a special thing for me. Just because the calendar year changes doesn't mean I need to pick RIGHT NOW to start new and over and make huge amazing changes in my life. I do that whenever I feel like I need to. This year kind of happened to fall near new years....points for me?
Anyway...welcome to my new year, glad you're a part of it :)
~Renee
