- Play at least an hour of piano every day when possible. I've been so stressed out over this year that I've been seriously slacking.
- Start reading for pleasure in English again. Reading has become a language study exercise for me over the last five years or so, and while reading novels in foreign languages is amazing and fascinating, I really miss reading in my native language.
- Attain conversational fluency in Japanese, continue to improve my French, and make a start on Korean.
- Speak less English and more Japanese, even if this means consciously hanging out less with other exchange students and more with my Japanese friends.
- Waste less time online. I don't mind writing on forums, reading interesting things, or even chatting with friends on Facebook, but the constant cycle of browsing the same ten or so sites and not really accomplishing anything, which used to be such an efficient way of keeping my mind off gender dysphoria, is now a bad habit that is stopping me from really going out and living as much as I should. I'd like to kick it if at all possible.
- Grow boobs. Fairly self-explanatory, I suppose, and one resolution I've begun a little ahead of time.
- Find out just who it is that I'd like to be, and just where I want this journey to take me. For the longest time, I was so focused on wanting to be "a girl" that I never really had a clear image of what sort of girl I wanted to be. Ultimately I guess I wasn't really bothered, because I was convinced that being
any sort of girl would be better than being a boy. Now, though, I'm on HRT, things are changing, and it's dawning on me that just being a girl isn't enough. I have to work out what sort of girl I'm going to be.
- Enjoy twelve whole months of a body full of oestrogen, safe in the knowledge that my body will only grow more feminine from here on out. Goodness knows I've waited long enough.
- Continue to be thankful for all the amazing fortune I've had since I took the fateful decision to come out in February of 2011.
