Well, maybe not. I'm behind a few of my dA friends who posted New Year journals, but I'll do one anyway. It's still Jan 1st so I think I'm good.

I'd have to say that for me, 2011 has been...odd. I would almost say that it hasn't been a good year, but that's not entirely true.  It's hard to explain. There were so many big nasty changes that I hated, but I'm all the better for them. And yet I still don't relish the fact that things have to be different than I wanted them to be. But I'm learning to live with it, and I'm learning to change what I want. Or sometimes, to not want anything and just take what I get while I wait for something better. I know, I sound like I don't enjoy life any more, but that's not the case. I've come to have a different view of life. I'm doing what I must for now, as in school/career/work, and waiting to see what happens next.  

So enough of the philosophical vagueness. I'm not really one for New Years resolutions, but I'll make a list of stuff I want to do anyway, since goals are good things.

For life:
-Read my Bible/pray more often
-Write in my journal more than once a month XD
-Finish one of my stories
-Get good grades in the remaining classes of my junior year
-Find an apartment for senior year so I can live off campus
-Get a job and/or internship that actually has to do with my major
-Spend lots of time with college friends
-Start figuring out how to live on my own (like how to do taxes and all that fun stuff )
-Exercise and eat healthier (I was kind of successful in 2011...but I still need to improve)
-Help other people, instead of being constantly absorbed in my own little world

For my art:
-Get better at action poses
-Get better at coloring
-Finish works instead of making a billion unfinished sketches
-Do more digital art
-Draw more Tolkien art. Because I haven't done any in 3 years. And I still love Tolkien. So why not?
-Work on redesigning a few of my original characters
-Try more art styles and branch out
-Get better at realism

For fun:
-Make more costumes (possible considerations are TP Link, regency dress, or Victorian...depending on available funds)
-Read more classics
-Catch up on all those TV shows I've been wanting to watch
-Get another fish
-Manage to *not* kill both fish and houseplant in the same semester

Hehe. That's a long list. We'll see how much of it happens, but it's nice to have it all down somewhere.

I hope you all are having a wonderful day, and that you'll have a great year.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

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