Goodbye 2008.

So 2008 has been and gone and a brand new year is here. Alot has changed and it's been a good and bad year overall but it could have been worse when i think about it...

Ive made some amazing new friends but also lost my best friend through no apparent reason and that makes me sad that people find it possible to just forget 14 years of knowing each other just like that. I've also drifted away from people as everyone has begun to have their own seperate lifes with different people but I hope in 2009 I can fix some amazing friendships that I have. But despite this 2008 allowed me to meet some amazing new people who I am very thankful to have met and hope my amazing memories of 2009 will include them.

Ive been to some amazing gigs this year and managed to see Junkyard Choir, My Last Mistake, Skies Of Until, Luke Pickett, Sex Drugs & Politics, Black Kids, Kate Nash, Tinchy Stryder, Friendly Fires, Jack Penate, New Found Glory, Paramore, Kids In Glass Houses, In Case Of Fire x 2, Funeral For A Friend x 2, Attack Attack, Cancer Bats, Mcfly, Avenue & Reemer as well as locals bands. So it hasnt been a bad year on the music side of things although seeing Kings Of Leon and City & Colour would have made my year.

I've spent too much money on clothes, shoes, Starbucks, make up, band merch, gig tickets, train tickets, alcohol, food, cds, dvds and random objects from camden such as Kanye West glasses but I really doubt thats going to change this year. Although if I do happen to go to Japan, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Reading Fest and Download like i want to then this may have to change.

Starting university this year has got to be one of the best decisions I have ever made and to think that I nearly didn't go is quite scary. I now know exactly who I and what I want to do with my life and whatever area of journalism I get into it's got to be music based. Spending my weeks learning aobut music is my dream and although the works hard at times I know everything I learn will help me in the future. I've made 3 of the most amazing friends and they make going in each morning worth while & I hope thats going to continue all the way to 2010 when we have to enter the big wide world of a proper job.

In 2009 I hope too:

• Dye my hair red.
• Get my nose pierced.
• Actually be happy with what I look like.
• Get a decent haircut that I like for more than a week.
• Get my first tattoo.
• Find a nice man friend.
• Meet more amazing people.
• Go to Reading festival.
• Go and visit Holly in Southampton.
• Spend more time with friends I dont see as much.
• Try and fix friendships.
• Go and see Dawn and Kim in Portsmouth.
• Go to Norwich and visit Sabby.
• Buy Sabby a pet cat.
• See Kings O f Leon!!!
• Actually meet Dringy.
• Learn to play the guitar properly.
• Go to loads of gigs.
• Go to Manchester and see Alex's new crib.
• Visit Tom at Cambridge aka Hogwarts.
• Go to Japan.
• Have lots of drunken nights out.
• See Slipknot.
• Make more of an effort with uni work.
• Actually do something decent for my birthday and NYE.

Theres probably loads more i'd like to do but most of all I just want to make 2009 AMAZING!!