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So far, so good
My family has always played mahjong on New Year’s Eve. Some families reminisce on the past yea, some families pray… 
we play mahjong like no other. My brother’s girlfriend’s family (that was a mouthful) came over and we all had dinner together, and then hit the mahjong table!
Now, I’m not advocating gambling in any way, but mahjong is pretty darn fun when you play it with your friends and family.
I don’t know if it’s an indication of how my luck will be in 2009 but… I won two times consecutively and then two times again. 
I don’t want to jinx my luck though, so I won’t make any predictions… yet.
Oh, and we had cake.
As I am writing this, I can feel the fat from the tiramisu sink to my thighs. I guess another one of my New Year’s resolutions is to go jogging more often. 
Here we go again!
Okay, so I’m basically stealing this from everyone else on the Intarwebz (ex: Hannah, Brian). 2008 was a pretty tough year for me, but in the end, it turned out pretty well! 8th grade was killer and I’m glad that 9th grade is a breeze so far. 
Goals!
- Music
- Get a Unanimous Superior in CMEA
- Get into an honor band
- Buy a new saxophone mouthpiece
- Clean my saxophone more often.
Academics
- Have a 4.0 GPA for at least one quarter this year.
- Start taking SAT classes!
- Actually learn in my classes instead of just swallowing information and not applying it
- Have fun and not stress too much!
Interact (it’s a club on campus)
- Help improve relationships between the officers in the club
- Go to the Dominican Republic this summer (hopefully)
- Have an amazing charity dinner/International night
- Get to know and befriend our Rotarians
- Try and get more people involved in Interact
- Try and get people to be passionate about Interact instead of just participating in it for the community service hours
- Be the best freshman representative I can be.
Online
- Put together a new layout (this one is getting a little too dark for me)
- Post, post, post, post, post, post, post more
- Find more lovely people to host
- Be a snarkier Snarker
- Plan my Intarwebial resurrection and take over the world
Relationships
- Less sarcasm?
- Less snarky comments, more smiles.
- Say what I want to say and not care what the repercussions are going to be like
Highlights of 2008
- Bought a professional alto saxophone! (Selmer Series III ftw.
) - Got accepted as the Interact freshman representative
- Survived an actual Black Friday sale! (I shopped from midnight to seven in the morninnnnggg. Crazy sales man, crazy sales).
- Found God (I won’t go into that here—maybe sometime later)
- Got accepted into the Alameda County Junior High Honor Band
- Got to understand and know my brother more.
There were probably more highlights, but my mind is blanking right now, so I can’t think of any more… 
What is your family doing to celebrate the coming of the New Year? Do you have any worries for 2009?
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