Okay. Birthday good. Presents nice. Happy New Year! I'm off to light some fireworks. Hee hee hee

*pauses to think*
"Well, I guess I shouldn't make a list then!"

((falls down laughing hysterically)) *5 minutes later*

Oooh, I crack myself up. Not a good sign for the coming year though! Oh well, it was fun. ^^;

Did I have a lot planned for this past year? Did I have a lot of projects just waiting to get started/finished/continued; projects to enhance my site, my life, and basically any free time I had? Did I finally want to get off my lazy duff and *actually* do some good?

Of course. But did I do any of that? No, of course not.

So what am I going to do? I'm going to pile it all on to next year. It's always the same. Didn't do it this year? Oh, that's okay, I can do it next year! It won't mind; it's not like it had anything special in mind for me. It never did. But next year..... it does. I'll be graduating. I'll be Seventeen. I'll have the 90% chance that I'll go to Japan. I'll be Seventeen. The year has the all-time lucky number in it (3, hello!). Did I mention I'll be seventeen? It's going to be different next year. Something big is finally coming, and everything I hold dear might fall apart. The Change is close. And that Change might not give me room in my schedule to do all the stuff I planned for silly little website. I don't think my site is silly (well, okay, maybe a little...) but there is MUCH more important matters going on out there, and this might be the year that God decides to introduce me to it.

I dunno. Maybe I'm blowing everything out of proportion. But I guess I won't know until it comes. **Waltz for ZiZi ends** o_O? Well, that... had good timing. I'm out.

I'm listening to Waltz for ZiZi right now. It's on one of my Cowboy Bebop CDs, which I got for Christmas. I love this song. It's very beautiful and sad and slow and western-y and lovely all swirled together. ^-^ yum.

Speaking of Christmas, mine was wonderful. Everything worked out great, including the presents! Melly, I owe you about a million trillion thankyous! The Japanese books & stuff that you sent are uber-cool. Thank you. Some more uber-cool stuff that I got includes the Cowboy Bebop CD I mentioned before from me ma, and my all-time favorite movie that I've literally seen a couple hundred times, TWISTER the DVD! 0_0! yay! My dad is responsible for this. ^-^ yay! Nice Christmas indeed.

I've updated my website for the last time this year, which means I made 4 basically big updates this month! I updated at least once every week! 0_0! That's a good record! I wish I could do that more often-- being responsible to my site and update more often than lazy me usually does. oOo, that could be my New Year's resolution, or my birthday cake wish! Doesn't really matter which one, both wishes are made on the same day. *smirks*

Well, I should go now. There's a new episode of Kim Possible today and I don't want to miss Ron! Did you know that Ron is voiced by Will Friedle, who played Eric in Boy Meets World? Did you also know that Friedle has been on my top 5 favorite male actors list since, like, forever? ^-^ Oh yeah.

Oyasumi, minnasan! Watashi wa totemo onaka ga sukimashita. *peko peko* Ara! Tabemono, watashi wa kuru! [[leaves]]

Anyway, on to what the latest update for Musogato.com is: I've adopted the Unclouded clique! Oooo! Don't know what it is? Then you better go find out! I really like this clique, so when I saw that it was "up for adoption" I decided to go for it. And I got it! Yay! I already made two new banners for it, and I plan on going through the members list later this weekend if I have time. I know that most cliques have rules that say you need a website to join, and if you don't have the banner or text link up, the clique will take you off the members list. But... so for half of the members' sites I've looked at either don't have a website, the site closed/doesn't work, or the Unclouded link is no where to be found. I kinda want to take them off the list, but they joined the clique because they related to its meaning and even if they don't have a link back to it, they might still relate to it. I'm not sure what to do. I know I'm in charge of the clique now, but... I don't know. I'd feel bad if I knocked out half of the members *just* because they didn't have a link back to the clique. I guess I'll need to give it some good thought before deciding anything.

In other news, next week is Finals, and the last three days of school before WINTER BREAK! WOO-HOO! Long live the wonderful, beautiful, marvelous, magnificant, and spectacular event that is, vacation. And boy do I need it! Well, actually, I'm sure everybody could use a nice, long, relaxing break from everything. After they finish their Christmas shopping, of course. It's hard to relax when you're doing last-minute shopping for a list of people you hardly ever see. Not that I would know. Mwa ha ha, the advantages of being an unemployed teenager. "Wha...? I'm sorry I didn't buy you that thing you wanted, but here, have this home-made card I drew!" ^_^ Being young is fun!   .....   I better live it up though, my time is almost out... T_T

Last thing I'd like to mention tonight (other than the fact that my Nihongo Nisshi is a complete flop -- because I have no idea what to write about, I end up writing nothing at all), there was a HUGE earthquake earlier tonight. It scared the crap out of me! Mom believes it was a 6.0. That's two earthquakes in one week! We had one on Tuesday or Wednesday which was a 4.5. I don't like this. Especially with reports saying how one of our volcanoes is due to errupt because it's been dormant for so long.

I want to move away!!!

I think I did okay. I skipped almost all of the Geometry questions, which were about half of all the Math sections. When I was taking Geometry in Sophmore year, my class had over 20 subsitute teachers and basically none of them knew what they were doing. So I don't understand the subject, can you blame me? I did do good on the Algebra parts though, so I'm happy about that. I also think I did good on the English/vocab parts too. Hopefully I'll get a good test score that I'm happy with. As long as I don't fail, I'll be happy. If I do, then I think I'll give away another Saturday morning in January or April. Which will be okay as long as my VCR is working. ^_^;

In other news, my family got Road Runner today. It's so cool! I can't believe how fast the pages are working, especially at Neopets. Usually it takes forever for all of the pictures and toolbars to load, but now it's rearing to go in two-to-three seconds flat! Hurray! More coolness is that my parents got me this wireless web thing for my laptop -- it can catch signals from the area so that I can go online ANYWHERE. Without being plugged into the wall! 0_0!! It's nice. I'm sitting in the living room right now. And I could go out and sit on the front stairs if I wanted to, and still be online. hee hee!

Well I'm sick of it. I've written before, many times in fact, that I recognise what is happening to myself and I would try to fix it, but I've done nothing. Epiphanies lasting only a few hours before they get blocked out by the tv or my gameboy. Well this time, I truly am serious.

From now until Christmas, I vow to cut out the superficial crap in my life and focus on what is really important. The parts in my life that really matter. The people who really do care for me. Not this trivial fluff that I continue to surround myself with. And if I can really hold out and keep my word for the majority of this month, than I really will have the best Christmas ever.

Wish me luck?

Yeeeee, I'm so happy that December is here already! It's my favorite month, ya know. We bought our Christmas tree this morning. It's really pretty and makes the whole house smell like pine. We'll probably start decorating it with lights tomorrow, then start on the ornaments. After we're done with that, then we'll start putting presents under it. I got to open Mel's Christmas package today. All those colored tissues reminded me of Old Navy for some odd reason. It was nice. And, since I got to take count of the presents inside, the ominous brown package has no hold over me anymore. However, in a week or so those presents will. That's okay though. It's all a part of the Holiday spirit. ^-^