Why the Internet is Awesome

Hey everyone! It's been awhile! But I am really trying to start blogging. I vlog enough, I need to actually BLOG more. Alright, so here that goes.

I have been on the internet now for about ten years. My family first got the internet about 12 years ago, but I wasn't allowed on it without permission and guidance until I was about 13. The internet and I have come to develop a pretty intimate relationship. When I was about 14 I started Role Playing on Yahoo chat and started developing online friendships. Though back then no one ever learned much about you. It's still the same in the Role Play world, but now they're held on forums not in chats. Then at 16 I started to write fan fiction, both of these were involved in the Anime world (Role Play was for Pokemon -- which actually evolved into Star Wars [not anime] and fan fiction started as Yu-Gi-Oh and evolved into all the other anime I liked). Fan Fiction, again wasn't something that you let anyone know much about you. that is until I met Chip, but I have told this story enough so I am not getting into that.

I really have developed awesome friendships with people over the internet and am starting to wonder if this is the way of the future. That the best way to meet people is over the internet. I never would have thought that before. Now I am meeting people in Youtube, and seeing them face to face really makes me feel good about "knowing" them. Before there was always that question about if they really were who they were. And Youtube takes that question away.

The internet is a wonderful place...

(and Anime is a wonderful thing -- sorry having a marathon of a short series that I really like as I type this...so good)

And so it Begins...2010

Today marks the first day of a new year. Every year I think about my life and what I would like to improve. I never make honest to God resolutions...or at least I haven't in many years. But I use this time as a time of rebirth. So, over the course of this year I plan to do the following:

~Join a gym and really focus on getting into shape and losing the remaining 45 pounds I have left to lose
~Get my Mouth Remodel started (pulling eight teeth [including wisdom teeth], braces on my molars to fill in big gaps for 8 months, switch to Invisilign)
~Jump start my acting career (get headshots and voice demo done as well as get a theatre agent and a voice over agent)
~Make enough money to get a computer, camera, and a decent editing system for AG Productions
~Get my Facts of Fandom Documentary underway (c) 2009 AG Productions.
~Have the equivalence of a full time job to qualify for a Provincial working visa in Vancouver, BC Canada and have that job be something more career oriented than meaningless job
~Become Partner on Youtube specifically so I can claim my own copyright for the videos I make (I need YOUR help to do it...subscribe, watch, rate, comment www.youtube.com/agactinggirl)
~Finish writing one of my books and start the publication system
~Figure out why I have acne so bad and try and get rid of the acne scars left over
~Get my websites up and running (brittanyhalaas.com and AGProductions.com)

I am sure there are more things that I would like to accomplish in a year. But this should be enough for now...I may add more later, but for now, I think I am set for a year's worth of goals!

Off to make my first Vlog for my year long adventure of vlogging everyday!