resolutions

i'm a big fan of resolutions. but i don't do the "lose weight, stop being stupid, eat better, make more money" type resolutions. i do the kind of resolutions that whenever i don't feel like myself, when i feel like who i am has somehow blown away... i can look at the list and feel the way i want to feel, the way i ought to be.

you know what i've decided?

2011 is going to be a great year.

2010 was busier and more eventful than probably all the years of my life up to it combined. in lots of ways... some good, some bad, some completely and utterly horrifically awful, some that started out great and ended up horrible, some that started off ok and ended up marvelous. basically the full spectrum of how-things-can-be-in-life.
i was in a play, i graduated, i almost died, i had an interesting... yes well anyway enough of that, my mom had surgery, my dad did something weird to his arm, i started college, i had an identity crisis. twice. the list goes on and on and i haven't been a regular enough blogger or picture taker to do one of those nifty "my year" posts... plus some things i just don't wish to be reminded of. or to remind anyone else of. or to remind certain people of. it just isn't the thing.

but.

december 2011 will be a different matter. at the end of this glorious year, the first in my 3rd decade (born at the beginning of a decade... that's why i share decades with the beib-child) ...i'm doing one of those posts. and it will be awesome. just you wait and see.

(this post is reminding me of back when my cousin nathan used to say "mannn, this is MY TIME!" ...silliness)

this year i take pictures (because of there being something worthy of having its picture taken, you know, my life), this year i figure my life out (yeah.. thats gonna happen), this year i write more, create more, paint more, be happy more. etc. it will be grand. i have a shot at being full of joy this year. and it's gonna happen. bam. new years awesomeness up in here.