The Birthday Celebration Begins ....

Black & White

White shell necklace

Black blouse from Anthropologie

Black AE jeggings

Doc Scholl's boots from DSW

White tank from H&M

New Year's Resolutions

I'm not a big fan of New Year's Resolutions, only because I forget about them after 2 weeks and then never re-address them after the year is up. The last time I set New Years' Resolutions was like, 2009, so I'm little tentative, but I'm going to try. Here are my New Year's Resolutions:

1. By far the most common goal set by Americans- lose 17 pounds. I don't care what anyone says about this, honestly- I'm well out of the healthy weight range for my height and age, and I need to once and for all try and feel better about myself.

2. Be happier- like one of my favorite YouTubers always says, "Choose happiness over anger"- I'm amazingly bad at this- I love to get angry and stay that way, so I have to learn to let it go-and even if I really do have a good reason to be angry, to at least pretend to be happy in school or in public.

3. Get a part-time summer job- a lot of kids my age are starting to get jobs working in the mall or something like that, and so I figure it's about time that I do the same- I need at least some kind of work experience before college.

4. Fix my skin problems- I've been suffering from disgusting eczema and rashes for as long as I can remember, and I'm so tired of it.

5. Strengthen my knee- since 2010, I have dislocated my knee, broke a little piece off my patella, and gotten a surgery for it, and my knee has just felt unstable ever since, and I'm so tired of being afraid of doing anything, especially exercise.

6. Post a YouTube Video at least once every week during the summer- I love YouTube so much, but I never have the motivation or courage to put myself out there and really get involved with the community (I mostly admire from afar), so this summer I want to explore my hobby of making videos and see if maybe I can make some new YouTube friends :)

That's all of the goals I can think of, or that I dare to set right now, considering that I am pretty much positive I will achieve none of these goals. Here's to hoping that 2012 is better than 2011.

New Year's Resolutions

1. Learn to figure skate ... again
2. Learn French so I can hold a conversation with Tazy
3. Get my Etsy store up and running
4. work on becoming a beach bunny :-P
5. which means i need to get over my fear of large bodies of water ... and sand
6. Learn to keep my cool and not get mad at all the slight provocations 
7. get through my stash of yarn ... I have so much knitting to do!
8. sew a dress
9. tackle each of the recipes i've been saving up

I will probably be adding to this list ... but this is the start.