my name is annika. this blog is a way to document my new years resolution for 2014. also, i would like to write down how it all works out. if it all works out. in 2014, i am going to be presenting myself with a new challenge every month. some of them might be easy. some of them i might have done before, but who cares, i am the one making the rules. i haven't even decided on many of them. but yes. i am going to introduce every new challenge on the first of each month, and then i will blog about it. i am really looking forward to it. challenges are what keeps me going. they seem to grab onto the tiny bit of discipline i have inside of me and not let it go until i am done. they're the only thing that makes me ambitious. so yes. i might be a bit scared, but i am also excited. let's do this!

clear night skies, the smoke over town when the sun rises, waterdrops on grass, flowers - just flowers, the smell of rain on hot asphalt, feeling the wind on my face, receiving smiles from strangers, giving smiles to strangers, friendly old people, mean old people (as long as they're not mean to me), colors - each and every one of them, laughing, hot cups of tea, poetry, the ticking of my alarm clock and falling in and out of love over and over again.

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past months. January 2014 the present.