That time of the year again! The New Year! Goodbye 2017 as we all leap into 2018!

And as we all know, it usually is a tradition around this time for many peeps to set up their goals, resolutions, and in general stuff they wish to achieve for the months to come for the year. I guess for the past so and so year, I've kinda done the same thing, but it was only little things and continious stuff from previous years that I never accomplished and stuff like that (for example, one goal I always had each year was to complete at least one of my stories, though that has never happened, so it keeps being one for me, and will thus be one this year as well).

But now, 2018! I'm going into this year at 20 years of age and I have some big plans and things to do (which I of course will take step by step and at my own small pace haha, don't wanna rush too fast). I've never once said this before but here I am now doing so: 2018 will be my year where I make lots of progressive! And by lots I mean more than previous ones, so yeah, lots lol. Here's how it's gonna go (I hope):

MOVING / SKILLS / HOBBIES

First things first, there's going to be some moving goring around with my family! I've been fine and didn't mind living in my currently living conditions (a two bedroom apartment with my mom and older brother) for as long as we lived here, but I now know and have noticed that within the past recent year or so, I'm not as happy or like content living here as I though I was. So, I for one am really looking forward to this move cause like my other other family members (older sister and dad), I too feel like a change in enviorment will really help me as a person to grow a bit better and motivate myself in certain areas. So, my brother will be moving to his own place I think, and my mom and I will be moving into a new place with my older sister!

So, once that happens, I want to work on being a bit more independent (but not like super independent where I don't depend on anyone ever) and learn some basic skills and household things. Like, I want to begin cooking so I can make my own food (and also I can let my mom rest so she doesn't have to cook so much). I also want to get my drivers license this year. I've already gotten a permit before (it's expired now tho) and got good experience driving with my dad, so I'm pretty much good on that already (just need to practice my parking and backing up some more lol).

With the move I'm also lookin to pick back up on some hobbies and interests that I have that I kinda dropped or haven't done much or have the proper space to do so. Like art! I used to like sketching and stuff all the time when I was younger, but once my teens hit, I kinda dropped drawing and stuff which I'm pretty sad about. I'm hoping that maybe I'll be able to get like a tablet way into the future and get back on that. Dancing is another fun thing for me, so livin in a bigger place, I'll definitely have more space for that. I've also picked up on photography in the past year, and recently with my sister getting me Instax Mini 9, that can take off more too!

GETTING OUT MORE / ANXIETY

I am a hermit lol. No lie, I barely go outside, or like going outside. I've got a case of social anxiety; I'm not the biggest on interaction, I'm usually super quiet and shy, and I tend to keep to myself a lot as I don't like talking much. Although, according to witnesses (aka peeps like my mom and therapist lady) I have made some excellent progress which is nice, I"m happy about that.

Now, I'm not right away gonna say I'm gonna march out and converse and do all this stuff like hangout with a bunch of peeps and things like that. That's too much, I like I said, I'm taking this slowly. But I do think about this stuff a lot, and I know it would be good for me to experience life more and all that, so, inch by inch, I wanna try. Within my comfortable bounderies of course. Go outside more, maybe just walk around, stuff like that. It's honestly really tough, and I'd rather just stay cooped up sometimes, but hey, I shouldn't just give up yeah? Yeah.

WRITING / ACTUAL BOOK PUBLISHING

Last thing I want to bring up is my writing. For me, I guess writing kinda started out as like a fun hobby thing (maybe? I can't remember) back when I was around the age of 11/12. But as the years passed, now that I have been writing for around 8 years, it has definitely become a big, major passion for me. Never in my life before than did I ever imagine I would want to become an author as my profression, but here I am now, with my biggest long term goal in life being to put forth my ideas into actual books and have them read by many (and hopefully they potential get turned into movies if they are interesting enough >.>).

Up to this point I've only ever made fanfics, though, I've never gotten far with any of them sadly (such an utter disgrace), lol, naw. But even still, I know I have grown and gotten much better from the stuff I have done. I've always kinda imagined what it'd be like once I finally start publishing, although I would always also get nervous at the thought of that approching time. When should I? At what age? Would not be too soon? Asking myself nerve-wrecking questions like that haha. But not, I am for certain, that I am ready and want to move forward with trying to make my own books out there in the literature world, with my own characters and everything. So, that is the biggest thing I'm stiving for starting this year going into the future ones (cause you never know how long story writing can take).

I don't want to abondend my fanfics or anything like that either tho! I'm still gonna be here, working on stories that I most likely won't have any plans to make into a book. I still love writing on here, and have a ton of ideas too, and have no plans of leaving AFF anytime soon. I love this site and all the frens and peeps that I've met and made. But, now that I am focused also on trying to get published, I'll probs have more of my attention of that a lot more than my fanfics. So, I may or may not be writing as much (as if I did a lot if before lol).

I'm still super nervous about all this, but I have my family and frens support to push me through (plus peeps like my older brother have lots of connections and stuff, so he'll be able to help me through it). Overall, I'm just really happy and excited to begin trying to get my writing out there and hope that when it does happen, everybody who takes interest in my stuff will enjoy my stories!

And that's the gist of it! Of course there are probs still more things and minor stuff (ya know, take better care of my health and whatnot) but that's the overall picture plan I had set in my mind. And again, like Jordan Sparks sang "One Step At A Time" I'm going to take it; let's see if I can make things happen! I've got a lot in store for myself, but what about you guys?

What do you peeps look forward to this year? Share with me your goals and stuff, I wanna know!

P.S. This blog post was not spell checked...I got lazy in the end lol.