Well, anyway, I suppose I'll wish readers a pleasant, prosperous and ultimately happy New Year (and I hope it's good when the year's old, too).
I've never really made resolutions (though at the age of 10 I did become rather enamoured with growing a giant vegetable that year - one day), however I have some goals:
- Achieve the best grades that I possibly can in my GCSEs
- Start giving more money to animal charities on a regular basis
- Learn to play a musical instrument, maybe
- Master French and Spanish so I'm fluent
- Learn a new language - choices: Italian, German, Irish, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese
- Start going clothes shopping again - I love clothes and fashion, but I can never bring myself to buy anything and only want to look
- Audition for a proper play/musical and maybe the National Youth Theatre, not just amateur youth theatre clubs
- Go to see Avenue Q again, hopefully twice
- Go to Harrods (and Harvey Nichols again, maybe)
- Write an article for a newspaper and send it in
- Start a few art projects that have been in my head for a while
- Reach the tenth generation on The Sims 3 (I'm on the fifth now which is huge for me)
- Go to a house party
- Actually buy some makeup, particularly from MAC, instead of just gazing longingly (this relates back to the clothes thing)
- Spend some of the money I have saved up - not a lot, but it's just sitting there growing and never gets to have fun
- Get my hair cut into a completely new style (I think two and a half years is a bit ridiculous)
- See some really good films at the cinema
- Start reading fashion magazines in French
- Expand my music tastes (of course, never forgetting Regina Spektor, but I know there's a lot out there that I sometimes miss out on a lot)
- Read more fiction (I can't help my love of Science textbooks and French grammar books!)
- Dress up whenever I feel like it, oh, and go to a costume party
- Do more photography
- Submit some of my photography to, er... somewhere important!