Happy New Year!

I haven’t written in forever…I was out of town a few days…and lazy a few more. But even though I’m a few days late, I’d like to wish you a Happy New Year!! We made it to 2012. Guess we better really make this the best year ever…you know since we’re all going to die in December and all.

But really, a new year always indicates a new beginning, new hope, new failures, and new resolutions. I have never been one to make ‘New Year’s Resolutions’. If I need to make a change in my life, I like to think that I can make that change day by day, whenever. I don’t need an ending to start a beginning. That being said, it is the perfect time to make an increased effort in whatever area of our life needs it. I was able to make a lot of wonderful friends my first semester of college, but this next semester I want to get to know people in my classes. The majority of people I know live in my dorm. This is fantastic, but it would be good to meet the people I will probably continue to have classes with that are in my major. So even though I claim I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions, I guess that’s one.

I spent my New Year’s Eve with friends at a Josh Abbott Band concert (I even caught his guitar pick!). Nothing could be better than bringing in the New Year with a little two-stepping and country music :). 2011 was full of big events (graduating high school, starting college…etc.), but I have a feeling 2012 will be just as exciting. How do I know? Every year can be exciting. Life is what you make it, right?

“Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” - Hal Borland

We’ve experienced another year, and will use what we learned and be the person we have become in this next one As the Clock Ticks...

P.S. Happy 16^th birthday to my brother!

P.S.S. Another New Year’s quote I thought was funny: “New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” - James Agate