new year is coming up...

*i was going to find some pictures and make a collage but there's not much time for that since it's gonna be midnight soon and i wanna post this up before then. i'll update later, i promise!

so here it is, new year's eve, the last day of the year. to sum up the wonderful year that has been 2010, i thought i'd write a short post about the last year of the decade and tell you all what i've been most grateful for this year.

a) my class at school. sure, it's not perfect, there were some major douches in my class this year, but at the same time, i was with my closest friends, and we became much closer than we were last year when i was somewhere else. also, 99% of the class spoke english as their first language. thank goodness. i understood what people were saying.

b) i've finally settled all the questions in my head about who i am, what my values are, what i want to do and that sort of thing. i've identified my identity! it's too much to be put in words, what i've been working on for 14 years. if you hang out with me, you should get the feel of it. (if it helps, the book Bohemian Manifesto: A Field Guide to Living on the Edge has sort of been my bible and it's helped a lot in the identification process.

c) wonderful friends and family, and that includes the doggies.

d) great music. lcd soundsystem, brandon flowers, marina and the diamonds, florence and the machine, one night only, gorillaz, the killers, coldplay, muse, james morrison... oh goodness, if i name everyone (and i'm liable to forget some names), we'll be here till next year. oh wait, that's at midnight. we'll be here till 2012 then.

e) books to read. my dad let me read his copy of The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde and i'm still working my way through it, and then my sister got a whole stack of nancy drew books cheap, and then we each got books to read at christmas, and my mum got a sophie kinsella book i might pick up after i've gone through all the above mentioned titles. and i should really get back to work on the novel(s) i've been writing. they've been sitting unfinished in my abandoned laptop for ages.

f) tea and black coffee. ooh, yum. where would i be without them?

of course, those are only a few of the things i've been utterly grateful for this past year. but i want to usher in the new year (only one more hour!) doing something more interesting than blogging. maybe stealing sips of shandy while giving my full attention to the loud music my dad is blasting. i might even get up and dance around the hall.

so everybody, happy new year! hope 2010 was a great year for you, and hope 2011 is even better!