Dear 2010

At first I posted this on my Xanga, but I thought that this is something good to put on my blogger too. More because there's no reason to keep this private :D

Hello 2010,

I know you're only 16 hours old at this point, but I just wanted to get some things down.

You couldn't have come at a better time, honestly 2010. A lot of my friends as well as myself are going through a whole mess of things right now. With the change of the year comes those resolutions, and more change, a rebirth of who we want to be and revelations on where we want to go. So I guess this is all good timing. Thank you for starting off so swimmingly, and being the catalyst of new things to come.

But to tell you the truth 10, (it feels weird calling you just "10," I think I'm going to stick with twenty-ten) even though you're arrival was welcomed, if you stick around too long I won't be too happy. Next year brings about one of the biggest changes in my life. Graduating high school and becoming a college kid. In 2011, everything is going to go all Topsy-Turvy, but I'm so excited for that, you have no idea. The only problem is this is the final (full) year I will be considered a "high school" student, I graduate in May of next year! The last year before I go off on my own. By this time 2011, I'll be living in dorms with people I don't know, miles away from my home and even more miles away from my friends who are going to be living in dorms or in their homes doing the same things I am. I hopefully won't be too far away, I don't want to be away from my Leo/friends for longer than I have to. I'm scared to be living with people I don't know, and doing things I'm totally not used to doing by myself like making money, meeting new people, and supplying my own food. I'm still pretty excited though.

You know what? Go ahead and stick around for a little while. I need some time before that to get some things done; the usual, you know: applications/essays to write, SATs to be taken, portfolios to be critiqued and developed, and growing to do. I will be a senior when you're in your ninth month, LEGAL in your tenth, 18 dude,can you believe that? I'M SO OLD. D: I need to do a lot more growing-up before I can move onto those bigger and better things.

I guess you can say that for me, you will be my reflective year. A year to spend by boosting and/or maintaining my GPA, getting those bonds of friendship as strong and ready for the challenges ahead as humanly possible, having as much fun as I can, and balancing my time better. I love my attitude about school, but I know I need to grow up a little. I need to make sure I don't lose my cool either.

I want to keep my relationship with Leo going, I want to become closer to him and do some growing with him as well.

I'm very excited for this year, I hope you live up to my expectations, but I know I have to work on some things to keep you from going sour. Just don't mess this up for me with a huge plague of celebrity deaths, or the cancellation of Glee, or what have you.

BUUUT WHATEVURR YOU KNOW WHAT?

I'm up for whatever you throw at me. >:D