New year 2011: wrap up 2010

so i posted this on facebook a while ago but i'm gonna try and revive my blog(well i can't remember anything about my previous account on here so i'm starting out new. mostly inspired by Mary and her blogging and lists for 2011. and then Abi Porter to take up some new hobbies and be more active and stuff, i hope to blog a lot more this year :-)

10 Things I Set Out To Do in 2010: 

1.  Be more confident in my relationship with friends - halfway there

2. Be more outgoing in school - done

3. Meet new people around school - done

4. Do more things with friends outside of school - done

5. Be open to new doors - halfway there..mostly fail I think

6. Stop procrastinating on school work - EPIC FAIL

7. Learn new songs on guitar - done

8. See bands in concert that I haven't seen before - done

9. Learn new techniques in photoshop - done

1.  Take friend to heavenfest - done

The 10 Best [Or Most Significant] Events of 2010:

1. Deep 1 (almost 2) hours religious conversation with friend while pretending(me and friend) to paint yellow house in new orleans.
2. Whatever I felt during White collar sideshow’s performance at heavenfest. I cried and I felt things I never felt before. I still to this day have no clue how to describe those feelings. I only regret not going back to there tent to talk to them. 

3.Getting to spend 2 whole days with my two older brothers Derrick and Andy.4.Started in 2009, but went into 2010. Started attending JCOS. 

5.New orleans service trip

6.Flyleaf concert

7.Switchfoot concert 

1. 4 hour bathroom party with alexis and April. Topics range from public schools to music to future, past and present events :) best part about camp right?
2. Wilderness trip 2010. 4 days in the wilderness with 20-30lb of wight in your pack traveling 14 miles through the colorado mountains with advisor and other students. 
3. Disciple concert Nov. 19th and harry potter premier in the wee hours of the same morning. 

(I don’t remember dates very well)

The 10 Favorite Albums of 2010:

1. Who can know it - showbread.

This just came out but its all I listen to and is very close to me

2. For those wait - fireflight. 

1. Memento mori - flyleaf. Yes it came out in 2009 but it was a significant part of my life this year
2. Horseshoes and handgrenades. Speaks for itself. Amazing album. Helped me get through some rough times. 
3. Rains a comin - children 18:3
4. White collar sideshow - WCS. Not essentially music but just listening to the tracks every day put me back into that moment seeing them live. 
5. The powerless rise - AS I lay dying . Sometimes I don’t at first understand tim’s lyrics but then it makes sense...great guitars..
6. Life starts now - Three days grace . Agian not released this year but it played a significant part. First mainstream band to be on my iPod. 
7. The chase - manafest. 
8. Can’t think of one that was released in 2010…

The 10 Best Places I Visited in 2010:

1.  New orleans, Louisiana 
2.  Indian peaks, colorado 
3.  Salem, New Hampshire
4.  Nashville, tennesse
5.  Heavenfest 2010, longmont colorado
6.  Dallas airport ..jk...it was boring...uhh.. Harry potter premier?

Other than that didn’t get out much

The 10 Best Things About School in 2010:

1. Advisor
2. Friends
3. Conversations
4. New building for us!
5. Going off campus with friends and sometimes friends of friends
6. Finding more people at school who like skillet
7. Finding more christians at school
8. Meetings with advisors
9. New classes
10. New library

10 Awesome People I Met for the First Time in 2010:

1. Jon foreman 
2. Kevin young
3. Rob Beckley 
4. Can’t single anyone out. All friends at camp electric
5. A lady I met at the RED/Disciple/Head concert. Her name escapes me but she was very nice and awesome
6. Naddady
7. Lauren (advisor)

The 10 Songs that were the Most Special to Me in 2010:

(beware most will probably be showbread and disciple)

1.  Myth of a christian nation - showbread
2.  The fear of God - showbread
3.  Invisible - disciple
4.  How he loves us - david crowder band/Gungor
5.  Your like a taxi - showbread
6.  Mathias replaces judas - showbread
7.  This close - flyleaf
8. This is the end - relient k 
9. Therapy - relient k
10. Arise - flyleaf

(runners up would be many off of memento mori, H&H, WCKI and FANSD)

10 Good Books I Read in 2010: 

1. The bride collector - Ted dekker ( made me cry)
2. Harry potter 4-7( first time)
3. Immanuels veins - ted dekker
4. Lord of the rings ( I only got to the almost end of the fellowship
5. Myth of a christian nation - greg a boyd. (still in progress)
6. Adam - ted dekker( re - read )
7. Skin - ted dekker( re read
8. mary and liz's blogs( yes they count)

11 Goals for 2011:

1. Meet showbread.(life long goal, hehe. And say more than hey) tied with Veronica and T.D benton. they are my heroes
2. Meet paramore. Been to 2 concerts and they evade me
3. Meet korey and john cooper. Met them at a signing in cali but I don’t count that. I’ve met ben 3 times and jen 2x. Countless concerts and it would be nice to meet korey and john
4. Get my drivers license
5. Get a job
6. Preform guitar for different people
7. Get in shape
8. Find a balance between “close  in state friends” and “out of state/ internet friends...also know as panhead friends)
9. Take more friends to heavenfest
10. Take friends to see skillet
11. start more hobbies paint, draw, photograph more, cook, hange out with friends etc. 

11(secret one) okay got the lyrics part down, now to right the music part down.

10 Miscellaneous Things I Learned in 2010:

1. Relationships with people is an always changing status
2. I don’t have to agree with everyone else. ( ooo that movie sucked, I don’t like that person etc. )
3. Concerts bring random people together
4. As the years go by people drift away from me and it might not always be a bad thing
5. Public school(at least mine) isn’t as scary as everyone said it would be :)
6. The only thing that will never fail me( even if I think at the time he did) is my God. 
7. The jesus we scream in our neighboors face isn’t the Jesus that he really is
8. Things arn’t always what they seem to be( yeah I know cheesy, but I learned from it yet again)
9. I deserve people who respect me and don’t judge me based on my taste in clothes, movies , music, and what I do with my life
10. If someone hurts you , and you want to hurt them back it only continues that hate cycle. 
11. People actually like and remember me