Head Start! (Heaven Knows I Need One.)

I'm not good at goal setting, or resolutions, or much of anything. This year, I'm starting early. And I'm going to make myself keep them. My mother was given advice by a very successful acquaintance this year. She said not only write out the goal, but write why you want to accomplish it. For this new year, I want to finally achieve something other than make my parents angry.

I've seen these kind of lists be super long, concocted by over achievers who live to make people like me look like losers. I've seen goal lists be short, made by people who know exactly what they want and how they'll fit in with the overall plan. I'm just gonna write down the things I've been coming back to all year long, then I'll see about getting fancy with it.

Lady Velvet's 2014 Goals

#1. Keep Blogging-
I can't promise a daily blog post. Especially Saturdays. However, I will post at least once a week. Why? I not only need to define myself to myself, I want to draw an audience to myself.

#2. Gain 40 Pounds-
Yes, gain. After my recent illness, I've been skeletonized. I only weigh 6 pounds more than my youngest sister. Who's like 8. So, yeah. The challenge here is to do it quickly, but still eat healthy.

#3 Get a Life-
No more lurking in my house all day, every day. I need to hang out before I lose more friends, I need to get a new job ass soon as I'm cleared, and I need to redefine what my interests are.

#4 Write a Song and Preform It-
I love to sing, I love the attention, but I'm tired of doing covers and church songs. I want to show my creativity in the form of a finished song, in front of someone. I mean, it's not like I don't have millions of ideas.

#5 Finish a Story-
Last year, I spent 200$ on the One Year Adventure Novel program. I have yet to get past lesson 3. This year, I'm going to finish one and possibly start another so that my money wasn't wasted.

#6 Practice, Practice, Practice-
I'm losing my knowledge of Japanese, I can barely play my clarinet, I know next to nothing about FL Studio, my sketches look like crap anymore, and I want to sing on America's Got Talent next season (not the one about to start, I can't make the auditions). This year I'll spend 30mins daily practicing these things so I don't feel like a total loser.

#7 Be on America's Got Talent
Yeah, I mentioned it in the last one, but it's honestly a monumental task that needs to be a goal of its own. I'm not looking to win, just be good enough to draw some attention to myself. 3rd place would be great.

#8 Keep a To Do List-
This is pretty much the only way I'll accomplish anything. Without it, I would never remember what these goals are.

It's not much, but this concludes my list of things I want to accomplish in 2014. Did you know that, for the first time in 19 years, the New Year is being greeted by a new moon? That's special for me. If the moon and the year will both be fresh and new, then I can too. I think this year is going to be a good year for all kinds of new things; new attitudes, new opportunities, new ideas, and maybe some new clothes! x3

Au revoir!

Let's try to keep up, shall we?

Pretty much everyone I know has a blog. I can't even keep a journal, even though I need too. I honestly hate my writing, though. Doesn't help that NO ONE in my little universe knows how to help. I'm quite sick of "Oh. yeah, that's okay".

So here I am, trying this bloggy thing out. With any luck, I'll get decent critiques eventually. Maybe.

Today, I guess I'll explain something I get a lot of questions on: my name. For starters, no, Anna Marie Velvet is not my name. My real name is much less pretty. Why did I adopt a fake name? Because I share a name with both my grandmothers. It's not so bad, but like I said, a lot less pretty. I also want to explain what "Velvet Alchemy" means. I thought of it while I was turning a shirt into a bunny rabbit. I often take things and turn them into something else, in my mind, 'kind of like alchemy, or something'. That's the exact quote that ran through my head at the time.

I want to find some tag thing or something that'll give me a template for a proper likes and dislikes post, but that will have to wait.

Au revoir!