Poof! And another year disappears

Yesterday I turned 20 years old. My email box was full of happy birthday messages, people posted happy birthdays on the forums, I have had two happy birthday songs sung to me over the phone. It is only noon, and it has been a great day so far.

People always ask if I feel any different. It is more of a joke, because your birthday is really just like any other day, but today I do feel different. 20 is a big number. I no longer fall under the teenager category, even though I haven’t felt like a teenager in a long time.

<left: My favorite thing about birthdays is the cake. I love cake.

In one year from today I will be with my parents inside a place that serves alcoholic beverages drinking and having a good time with my friends and family, all celebrating the greatness of being 21. 20 is a 1 year countdown until you turn 21.

So being 20 seems like it should be a turning point in someone’s life. I need to set so goals. Lets see, I have always wanted to fly an airplane, but I haven’t even started any type of training or classes, so my first goal as a 20 year old will to be to take at least one step toward flying a real airplane.

My second goal will be to make CricketSoda a big success of course. This really shouldn’t count I guess because this is always my goal. I wake up with CricketSoda on the mind and go to sleep thinking about how I am going to have it on my mind in the morning. I have just started work on CricketSoda Media, a web development company, and things are going well. Maybe this is the push I need?

Third, I want to go snowboarding. I don’t care what it takes, I have to go. I want to feel the cold snow when I eat it sliding down the slope. I want to see the breathtaking mountains as I travel up a life. I need to go snowboarding, my moral level suffers so much without it.

Forth, I want to get back into music. I want to be in a band that plays often, and plays well enough that the music is fun. I miss playing at a club. Even though we never had a huge crowed, the few people that showed up made it all worth the while. I need to feel wanted again.

My last big goal for this year is to find a girlfriend. I have raised my standards pretty high since my last relationship, and I can see the perfect girl in my head. I just havn’t found her yet, or I don’t know her well enough yet. Only time can tell, and this year she will show up, and everything will fall into place.

So hello 20, I hope I remember you when I am 40. May the year bring many great things, and leave the crap behind.

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