This year is almost over. I've never really made any "short term" goals before. I guess there's a first time for everything.

- Save money for my trip to V's
- decide on and apply for my college courses
- clean and organize my "home"
- follow through on my plan to change (at least a few of my bad habits)
- spend more time just writing again.

2. List five people you've lost contact with that you'd like to hear from again.

- Cordelia
- Melissa. The woman I once met on the plane I took to my sister's wedding. She lives in Nevada. We were emailing for a while and I guess we just lost touch, like people do. Maybe I should see if I can find her email address....
- Kevin
- Everyone else I've lost touch with I don't really mind. I mean.. people move on, people change, nothing happened that wasn't meant to. And a couple of times I have caught up with people from my past and they were worse off than when we parted. So I think the people whom I'm not in contact are better off (and vice versa)
But if we're talking about people who've passed on, there's a few I wish I could talk to again. (But that's sheep of a different color)

3. List five things you'd like to learn how to do.

- Play Guitar
- Speak Japanese
- drive a stick shift
- this is taking an extraordinarily long time to think of. This means one of three things: that I know everything, that I'm really tired, or that I have no ambition. Currently I think it's a comination of all three.

4. List five things you'd do if you won the lottery (no limit).

- Pay off my car and college loans
- set up a trust fund for my nephew and niece
- Buy my mom a new house and a car
- Buy an extravagant gift for all of my family
- quit my job and tell them what I really think
Only five things? I could go on for days. Too bad not all these questions are as easy as this hypothetical one ;) I'll never win the lottery so I guess that shows that I spend way too much time daydreaming about things that will never happen instead of focusing on things I could achieve.

5. List five things you do that help you relax.

- reading
- singing really loud
- driving home from work, listening to the radio and thinking things over
- a cool bed in a warm room
- shopping