Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy New Year!


Have a lovely night, even if you're just staying at home. I hope you have a wonderful 2010. I hope you feel better about yourself. I hope you feel alive. I hope that good things happen to you, and I hope that when the inevitable bad things happen you can handle them and learn a lesson and move on. I hope you know you're not alone and I hope you spend plenty of time with your family and/or friends and I hope you write more and get a seven-figure book deal. I hope next year no more celebrities die and I hope you get an iPhone if you want one. Or maybe a pony. I hope someone writes a song for you on Valentines Day that's a bit like Hey There Delilah, and I hope they have a good singing voice, or at least one better than mine. I hope that you accept yourself the way you are, and figure out that losing 20 pounds isn't going to magically make you love yourself. I hope you read a lot. I hope you don't have to almost die to figure out how valuable life is. I hope you find the perfect nail polish/digital camera/home/life partner. I hope you stop being jealous of others. I hope you feel good, about yourself and the people around you and the world. I hope you eat heaps of salt and vinegar chips because they're the best kind. I hope you accomplish all your hopes & dreams & aspirations and are blissfully happy & get married to Edward Cullen/George Clooney/Megan Fox/Angelina Jolie (delete whichever are inappropriate) & ride a pretty white horse into the sunset & I hope it's all sweet and wonderful because you deserve it because you did well this year in the face of sparkly vampires/great evil/low self-esteem.

So. Have a happy new year. I wish you a good night and a good year and a good lifetime.

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Cat Clarke said...

I love this! Happy New Year Steph! Hope 2010 is good to you... can't wait to read your book.

Amna said...

This is such a beautiful post <3

Happy 2010

Jody Sparks said...

Lovely. I hope those very same things for you, Steph. Happy New Year!

robby (onceuponabookblog) said...

you're just so cute and perfect!
i am going to order your book from AU and i really don't care how much it is.
you are that awesome.

Lesley said...

Happy new year Steph to you and all your readers :D

Emilia Joyce Plater said...

Yay! This reminded me of Brad Pitt's, I mean Benjamin Button's speech at the end of that movie. So great. Happy new year, Steph! <3

à la vanille said...

Happy New Year to you to! This is such a funny/heart-warming post. You're really a talented writer, Steph!

Hope everybody has a good new year too! Time to crack open the apple cider. ;)

Priya said...

Happy New Year, Steph!

Madeleine said...

Aw, that was cute! Thanks, Steph, and you have a Happy New Year, too!

Wini said...

Hi Steph, I really enjoyed reading your post & I hope I get an iphone this year! Happy New Year and may all your dreams come true! Good luck with your novel too.. how exciting!

celi.a said...

Oh, Steph. Perfect, as always. Those are enough hopes to keep me floating for AT LEAST a year, if not the next decade. Good stuff. Also? You are hilarious. But you knew that.

Sara J. Henry said...

And this is such a wonderful post that I completely lifted it and posted it over on my blog. Thanks, Steph.

Fiona said...

Love this post. It makes me realise just how alike we all our in our hope and dreams.
I wish you everything you need in 2010.