It’s New Year’s Eve (and the end of the decade)! Here’s hoping the new year is full of good things for all of you!!

I’ve given myself too many some resolutions for the coming year. I’m never any good at sticking to them, but a lot of these are things I really NEED to do, such as incorporate more healthy snacks into my diet and get outside for walks (in which I’ll bring Travis. That lazy pup and I will work as a team!).

My mom seems a bit pumped for the year’s fresh start, too. I told her that I plan to actually use the elliptical regularly (after owning it for a year and using it MAYBE twice a month), and we decided that, because she wants to use it, too, we’d push each other into not giving up! I'll do my best to get some time in everyday despite the fact that ‘10 is the year my schedule will be bogged down with preparations for college (applications in the late summer, aaaaahhh!) and related things. Dun dun duuun.

Ha, anyway! Enough rambling for 2009. HAPPY NEW YEAR! <3

First, a Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone!! Share your plans with me! Tonight I'll be eating a small meal with my immediate family and one of my grandmas, and tomorrow will be the big get-together with relatives. Then there's another party after the first of the year once my cousin is home from Afghanistan. Tomorrow night will be especially fantastic because my great-grandma will be flying in from Wyoming! I've missed her so much and can't wait to drown her in hugs. <3

My kiriban will be coming up at 20,000 pageviews, which is less than 100 away. It'll take me a day or two to get there, so if you plan to catch it, I wouldn't start watching yet. BUT!! I'll be offering a drawing to whoever manages to send me a screenshot first. I need to finish holiday gifts before I get to work on that, but it will get done. I'm not letting the art I owe people build up in '10 like I did this year.

Also, my dA anniversary was at the beginning of the month. THANK YOU, EVERYONE, FOR A WONDERFUL THREE YEARS!!

I'll be ringing a bell to raise money for the Salvation Army today. Hopefully my bell ringing skillz are superb enough to attract many, many dollars and make standing around in the cold worthwhile.

_{(It's more hours to add to my list of volunteer stuff for National Honor Society. *cough*)}

...now... where are my warm, fuzzy gloves............?



Haha, I have to add that I'm eating a huge brownie for breakfast. I'm learning how to cook/bake (yes, I've vegged off other people my whole life), and I just have to say: if my eating habits are going to turn into something this unhealthy, I should probably re-think this cooking thing before it's too late and I'm as big as a house. xD

Also, I AM DRAWING. I SWEAR. I'm working on holiday gifts right now. One in particular is sucking up most of my time (and making me bust into bouts of laughter), so I probably won't have them all finished by Christmas, but... yeah. PROGRESS.

LAST NOTE: My mom had me listen to this song, and now I can't stop. [link]

Let's get that spazz attack off my front page, shall we? The concert was amazing, by the way. Old news by now, but... I would probably go see TSO every week if I could. Hehe.

I'm drawing things, I swear. I'm just not putting a lot of time into these things because NaNoWriMo is ruthlessly devouring my free time. I'm at 35k/50k though, so we're nearing the end! I'll get serious about submitting again after that, including some Christmas-related things.

Tomorrow's the last day of school this week. FIVE-DAY WEEKEND, HERE I COME~