In which is a new year quote and some subsequent optimism.

[mood geeky]
[music Love is no Big Truth - Kings of Convenience]

First of all, a new year quote from the amazingly talented Neil Gaiman:

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

And for the record, Mr. Gaiman did end up surprising himself (and only like a gajillion other fangirls) by getting married to Amanda Palmer (for those who don't know, she's the talented, quirky, somewhat angry singer of the Dresden Dolls). You can read about the Gaiman/Palmer surprise wedding here.

Despite the fangirl in me envying Amanda Palmer (she got to be Mrs. Gaiman! Something I always dreamed of being since...I read American Gods), I am happy for the both of them. They're so in love, and always doing these weird, quirky things to show the other of their love for each other, despite being in different continents most of the time...it just gives me these warm tingly feelings of hope. For a happy ending or something.

Anyways, I do hope! I hope for magic and dreams and good madness and fine books and kissing someone who thinks I'm wonderful (and who I think is wonderful) and writing and drawing and building and singing and living as I can.

And I hope (like the foolish optimist that I am, but, oh! How I really hope!), that I will be surprised-awed even, at how 2011 turned out to be year I was so richly blessed.