Things I want to Accomplish

     I am sitting in my bedroom at 11:40 p.m. writing this for three reasons. One, I can't sleep. I am just no tired at all really and I had too much Ben & Jerry's Half-Baked ice-cream. Two, I always seem to have more imagination and creativity late at night or early in the morning. Three, I came up with an idea and when I come up with ideas I like to write it down before I forget or just finish up that idea by doing it right away and not getting annoyed because I forgot later. Anyways, as you can tell this blog post is about things I want to accomplish in my life. Here's my top 10:
1. Graduate high school on study interior design and/or photography at Purdue University.
2. Write a book even if it doesn't get published.
3. Learn to play guitar.
4. Learn to speak fluent German.
5. Ger married to someone who loves me for who I am and who I can't live without.
6. Form a closer relationship with my family.
7. Travel to places I always wished to go.
8. Move out of Michigan (preferably somewhere warm).
9. Be a contestant on Jeopardy, even if I don't win.
10. Never forget to be me in everything I do.

     Now for reasonings behind each one! The first one is because that is what I am interested in and I want a solid start to my life on my own. The Purdue University part is because I have grown up learning to love Purdue as many of people on my mom's side of the family attended that school and I have an Aunt that currently works there. My mom actually planned to have my Aunt "adopt" after high school that way I can get in for a discounted price. :)
     The second was just because I love reading and writing. If I write a book and actually get it published (not likely) then I will just be expanding the options of books for others to choose from and hopefully with inspire or encourage people to read and write too. Also, I think it would be cool if I could write a book good enough to go on school reading lists.
     The third is just because I got a guitar for Christmas a few years back, but never got around to learning to play it. My dad also got one forever ago, so we were hoping to learn together so we could spend more time together seeing as we don't get to see each other that much. If anyone is wondering that is because my dad is usually always working to earn money to support my family and to prevent himself from losing his job. He also helps coach my brothers hockey team and hockey is something both my brother and dad enjoy doing, so they spend most of their free time working on that. So after all of that there isn't much time in the day for anything else. I am also so absorbed in school, reading, and random internet stuff, that I don't really have much of a social life. Also, I have wanted to learn to play the guitar for a long time. I always thought it sounded really pretty.
     Number four! German... I am currently in a German II class at school, which is really fun. I am also in German club, which has nothing to do with German really but is fun. I want to become fluent in German because my dad's side of my family is from Germany, so it would be cool to speak the language my ancestors spoke. Also because we only get to choose between Spanish, German, and French at school and I hate Spanish and French (I find them to be horrid languages and sound so ugly and difficult to learn) so I picked German. I think it would be cool to find someone else to speak German with and have secret conversations in German with all those people who don't know German. I got this idea last year when my two "Asian Buddies" were talking about how they thought there was something going on between two of the teachers at my school, but they said it in Chinese so no one really had any idea what they were saying. I thought that was pretty cool.
     Number five is kinda self explanatory. I plan on getting married someday and I don't want to be married to some hobo that hates me and I hate back. So yeahhhhh.....
     Six was briefly explained with the guitar thing, but when I said family in this one I mainly meant my brother. Those of you who know about the relationship between my brother and I think this is probably the one thing I will never be able to accomplish. We kinda don't get along and basically act like we hate each other and can not stand one another's presence. Well, I want to change that. Not to where we have heart-to-heart conversations, but to where we can actually stand each other and talk somewhat like friends.
     Seven is about traveling. Okay for this one I want to include a few places I would like to travel. I want to go basically all over Europe, Australia, Belize, Hawaii, Brazil, and most islands in the Caribbean (I have quite a few of those covered already). I just like traveling and exploring new places. If you didn't catch on, most of the mentioned places have a warm climate. I really like places with an average temperature of around 80 degrees... Fahrenheit... not Celsius that would be a little too hot. But anyways, I like traveling and want to do more of it sometime.
     LEAVE MICHIGAN! I'm sorry to all of my Michigan friends who would like to stay and don't want me to leave, but I hate it here. I love my friends, but hate the place. I can't stand anything about Michigan except it's Summers. Those are okay, too bad the warm weather only lasts about 3 months.
     Already at number nine! Lately I have been watching a lot of Jeopardy. I get really excited and happy when I get a question right. I just wish they had a whole category on Harry Potter trivia. I just think it would be fun to participate on the show, even if I lose.
     Last but not least, I want to be myself. I think that is the most important thing someone could remember to do. I believe that being yourself is something that many people forget to do and just do what it takes to fit in. People will try to become skinny because that is considered pretty and they will forget just to be themselves and absorbed in trying to be skinny to fit in with everyone else. It's kinda like Katy Perry's song Firework.

So those are the ten things I want to do/ accomplish with my life. I don't care if people think I'm wasting my time with any of them, it's what I want to do and I'm going to do it!