Happy New Year, everyone! Oh gosh, I feel a bit lame saying “everyone”. My inactivity has only decreased my already miniscule readership. I feel like I’m writing to an empty room, which is pretty much true, I suppose. Hopefully I’ll manage to get my act together and change that in 2012.

Looking back on 2011 just fills me with mixed emotions. If this is even possible, it was the best and worst year of my life simultaneously. So many good things happened, and I’m thankful for every one of them, but on the same token, I was emotionally at my lowest this past year. Not the entire time, but on and off, and some of the worst and most hurtful things that have happened in my life took place in 2011. I think it’s fair to say that overall, I look back on it with mainly fond memories, but it has also just left me emotionally exhausted. I need a fresh start, and I’m hoping 2012 will be it for me. I need to just relax, let go, and recharge in every area of my life.

I’ve given up on the premise of a concrete list of New Year’s Resolutions. It seems silly that we put so much emphasis on one day to make a bunch of goals happen. I know what my goals are, and they don’t need to be attached to the New Year. I’m going to make them happen either way. I have hopes for 2012, though. I hope to be happier, to have less drama going on around me. I want to be a better student, and actually study well. I want to stop procrastinating. I want to stop everything that’s negative about my life and the way I’ve been living, and I want to make it a really good year, one that I look back on without the slightest traces of exhaustion or unhappiness or regret. I want to re-energize everything I do, and that includes blogging, and getting a new layout up on this site. I hesitate to say that it’s in the works, because whenever I say that it tends to take another six years or so (gross exaggeration) to complete, but I’m going to put some work into it.

I’ve been on holiday in Queensland for the past week, but I’m back now, and just getting reorganised and back on my feet. If you’re dropping in here still, which I highly doubt, drop back in again soon, because I promise I’m working on bringing this site back to a higher quality and level of activity. It’s going to happen. I need to get something done to motivate myself, and this is going to be my pet project for the next few weeks.

I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year’s Eve, and I hope 2012 will be a great year for us all.