5.....4.....3......2.....1..... Kiss Me, Kiss Me

Cheers to the very first of many blog posts this upcoming year. Happy New Year. I wish all of you all the best things in life : joy, love, peace, adventure, and everything else. I spent my new years eve chilling and trying to reflect on my last year. I went to dinner with a few friends in the evening, went over to my friends for a bit but felt like I was interfering with a family thing, hung out at one of my oldest friends house and watched the video countdown and all those other shows. For the record, The music video of the year was Look At Me Now by Chris Brown. I still remember back in 2005 when the video of the year was We Belong Together by Mariah Carey. I was super proud of my music picking skills when the number 3 on my list and on BET were the same (How to Love by Weezy). The MTV special was hosted by the gorgeous Demi Lovato and the mouth watering teen wolf guy Tyler something. They were a good duo. The "last song of the new year" for people in a different time zone was Love You Like a Love Song. It's catchy, but...thank goodness it wasn't the last song I heard. Or was it? Can't remember.

We saw the ball drop and all the magic that takes place in New York City. Speaking of New York on New Years Eve, I went and saw the movie New Years Eve. It was absolutely fabulous. There were plenty of New Years kisses to go around, lots of talent, fell in love with Zac Efron again. It was good stuff. I got kind of emotional thinking about how my new years eve didn't really compare to the one in the movie. I guess I just love the idea of having this fairytale life I see in the movies. I haven't given up on it yet. I know that most people live ordinary lives with very few magic moments, but that doesn't mean I can't hope to be that extraordinary person that experiences all the magic that's in the world. I've had a pretty good head start.

When midnight hit, I was with my mother, father, and little brother. The most important people in my world. Now that I think about it, I wouldn't trade that moment for anything. I had tried to win a competition to spend New Years Eve with the one and only Justin Bieber. I honestly believed I would win, because I read the small print and everything. I doubt anyone actually won. I enjoyed watching him sing Let it Be with Carlos Santana though. It was a pretty legendary performance. Speaking of Justin Bieber, I won't forget how he announced his love interest of the year. He definitely made out with his arm on live television. Not forgetting it any time soon. He's crazy, but I love him.

My mom got us the cheesy New Years hats and horns from work and we all sat around watching performances and soaking in the fact that we are free to start over. New year, new beginnings. It's a reminder that we can be whoever we want to be, and do the things of our wildest dreams. The fact that it's a leap year gives us an extra day to achieve this. I'm determined to make 2012 a year to remember. It's page one of 366 and by the end of the story of 2012 I want to think to myself, "Wow, I really lived!"

song of the day: Untitled New Years Song - By Justin Bieber & Jaden Smith

quote of the day: We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce