Happy New Year!

Tonight is the night that ends the year of 2010 - from when we started counting that is!

I'm not doing much tonight, I'll be eating a lovely dinner with my family (mother, father and little brother) before we'll relax in front of the TV or the computer, until Dinner for One - or ‘The 90th Birthday’ as we call it in Denmark - come across the screen.

Afterwards we'll go for a walk and look at the fireworks that pretty much start at that point, and then we'll probably count down at 12 and jump into the new year. It's going to be so much fun!

For me, the year that has passed has been a year with mixed feelings.

In the summer I started on my second year of Gymnasium (American College prep High School). I'm looking forward to ending it with style in the summer to come, so that I may walk into my third and final year with a satisfied smile.

In the summer I also went to England which was a beautiful and memorable trip. I went with my close family, and we went to England. Not London. England. In my opinion there's an enormous difference, London being a place for tourists, England being a place for the Englishmen and for people who care about the country and not just the crown jewels of Elizabeth II,Trafalgar Square and Tower Bridge.

I've been to Brønderslev Forfatterskole, as I mentioned in my very first blog post. I've participated in National Novel Writing Month, a November I will never forget. Having to write 50.000 words in 30 days really is a hard quest to complete, but I did it, ending on 52.something. And in fright of sounding smug I'll have to admit that it's not all rubbish. I'm not at all done, though, and I'm thinking of going for Script Frenzy in April as well - 100 pages in a month instead of 50.000 words. It'll be a blast!

It's been gloomy as well, however. I remember not being entirely happy in the beginning of 2010, and in the beginning of my second year as well. I've always been rather strange, I guess, and I've had reason to doubt in what way I fit in at my gymnasium. And if I even fit in at all. I've always been strong, though, and happy about myself, so I'd always just daydream and forget about the gloom. But I'll have to admit I've been dreading parties a lot. And I've often gone to bed with the feeling that there's something I forgot to do. That I'm terribly late for something that I must do. And that's not very pleasant!

All that aside I plan on jumping in to 2011 with a smile! I've gained 4 kilos since summer, primarily during Christmas, I'm guessing (I haven't touched a scale since September!).

I plan on finishing my novel in April, getting fabulous grades in June, get a hot tan in July and hopefully get a summer job as well. I can't look more into the future now, though. That's too far for me. I'd rather dream about things closer to where I am now, and things I know'll never happen. Like dating Hugh Jackman. Oh Gosh!

All I have left to say now is HAPPY NEW  YEAR!
May you have a wonderful 2011 and may you not get too drunk tonight! And be safe!

- Yours sincerely