So this is the New Year

I don't know whether it's because only so many days have passed since it's inception or im just being very cynical, but the "new year" simply feels like a continuation of the previous yea: 2007. I'm not saying thats a bad thing. It was a good year: a year of firsts, a year of revelations, a year where so many goals were met and dreams achieved. Sure, it was also a year od disappointment, rejection, and some depression, but it was NO WHERE near as much as 2006 and the former half of 2005. 2005 was bad (you'll hear about that later) but 2006 was horrible. That year everything great I had achieved seemed to have been taken away from me almost immediately that year. But 2006 is behind me now. And, unfortunately, so is 2007. I'm hoping for the best this year. I hoping I can finally go on autopilot this year. Where there are no worries and I find as much happiness as I did in 2007. But thats all to come very soon.

As for resolutions, I have a few. Just like last year where I had seven resolutions (only about two I actually kept) I have eight this year to correspond to the new year [2008]. This is kind of a tradition of mine because I started it in 2003. Obviously I didn't try this in the 90's because that would've been just WAY too much to keep track of. But I digress. My resolutions:

1) Hug People a lot more often: After being told I that I don't seem "hugable", I looked back and realized that I actually don't hug people as much as I should. I honestly don't remember the last time I hugged my mom back. That's BAD! So I'm gonna start hugging people more often.
2) Start a band: Making it's fourth appearance on my resolutions list, I'm starting a band...again...I hope. This wouldn't have been on the list again, but thats to a friend of mine and his comment (damn myspace) I'm more determined than ever to accomplish this resolution. And rub it in his Texas FACE!!
3) Finish ONE of my screenplays: I have a good ten or twelve stories I've started btu never really finished. And theres one that I really should finish considering it's based on 10th grade...and I started it in 10t grade. Once again...BAD!
4) Start and Finish 10 selected books: Once I finish "The Alchemist" I'm planning to start on the many many books I have purchased yet never read. Specifically: "Alice in Wonderland", "The Sun Also Rises", "Lolita", "Dracula", "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "Slaughterhouse Five", "Johnny Got His Gun", "Heart Of Darkness", "Invisible Man", and the Challenge: "Crime and Punishment"
5) Learn to Play Drums: Self explanatory
6) Buy a Half stack: Once again, self explanatory
7) Skip to my lou: I dont know what that means, but it sounds funny. Ok fine, a real one...
7) Attend every X-games event this year: There.
8) Finally, the "Top Secret" resolution I always have: Every year, if I dont accomplish anything else, THIS is the one resolution I do accomplish. But you won't know about it until the years end. HA!

Another year of empty promises to myself....wish me luck.