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It's the last day where you won't sound like a retard by saying 'two-thousand'. Now we'll be saying 'twenty'. It's the last day of the first decade of the new millennium. Ten years ago, this day, there were paranoid people who believed the world would end because of the Y2K, thinking it was their last day. Sure, people say 'oh oh 2012!!! o^o' but that's not for 2 years and three-hundred something days.

They say that if you have one leg in the past, one in the future, you pee all over your present. But, I will merely look back on this decade for me. From what I can remember.

2000 - I was around 3 and a half years old when the new millennium came. I really don't remember much of what occurred. I would have gone to preschool in September of this year if not for the fact that I was too smart for it. By now I already knew how to read and a bit how to write. And I think I surfed the internet, if only to get to cartoonnetwork.com, back when it was still good. We moved into our house either in this year or in 1999.

2001 - I went to kindergarten this year. I had the afternoon class, so I got to spend every weekday morning at my gramma's waiting for the bus to come. Ah, the good memories of breakfast at gramma's, playing Sorry and how I'd cheat because I was a sore loser. In my kindergarten class there was a girl with the same name as me. I remember us being friends, however, that was the last year I saw her. Ah, I remember at the end of the year, we got to go to lunch for the first time. I was soo excited. Before that we just had snack time. And this was back in the day, way back when my elementary school had milk tokens. Man, I remember those. We didn't have to use them though, we were just small, small children.

2002 - I finished up Mrs. Garvey's kindergarten class with straight x's(good grades back then). In September, I moved on to the first grade. Full days, school lunches, guaranteed recess. This was my first and last year of using milk tokens. We still had snack time, but the snack was no longer provided by the school. This was the end of perfectly good straight-x Ms. Amanda. Now I was starting to get in trouble, however small it was. I vaguely remember once getting sent to the office. I did work there because I was sent there with it. I did 10 sentences when I was only supposed to do 8. Oh, more is coming back to me now... the space unit, back when Pluto was still a planet. The little model still hangs on my wall to this day. And the penguin unit... that was fun. We got to go over to Mrs. Duey's class at the end of it to see an African Penguin. It was so cool. Then, sometime in the winter, though I took the bus, my grandmother didn't want me to be home alone in the middle of the snowstorm that was happening. So she sent one of her milk customers to pick me up so I would have someone to take care of me till my dad arrived. It was sometime after the space unit that a new girl came. Kayla, who is a member of Gaia today. We became fast friends, a friendship that would not keep.

2003 - At the end of the schoolyear, when everything was warm and I ached, oh I ached to run to catch butterflies, Mrs. Lungard was taking down her things. I asked her why, which is when I found out. Cooper was closing, which was why all kindergarten classes were getting moved to Tilden, and Mrs. Lungard would go to Mrs. Garvey's room. I left the first grade with mostly x's and a couple dashes(-). I entered the second grade, and I was beginning to realize that I didn't have as many friends as I thought. I was starting to notice the people hating on me. We still had our snack time, but the milk tokens were gone. It was also our first year of not having a bathroom in the classroom, it was in the hallway. This was also the year that I joined Neopets, with my twin Unis and my Eyrie Birdsis2003. I had missed eyrie day by two days when I joined. Eyrie day is October 10th.

2004 - KittenLion. That was my first username. I joined Gaia sometime in this year, at the age of 8. I finished up Mrs. Pechae's class with mainly x's, but a few more dashes this time. I entered into the third grade, finally fully aware of the fact that I was certainly not a very well-liked girl. It was this year that there was yet another new girl: Sabrina. She has no Gaia account, these days she's more of a sportsy person. We became quick friends, and I finally had someone to sit with at lunch. For science, we'd go to Mr. Destross's room. He had a skill crane in there. I wrote four sentences about the water cycle instead of the required three and got to have a go at it. I didn't get anything, but it was exciting. It was also in this year that I remembered KittenLion's password, but I forgot her username.

2005 - This year. This year is the year that my sister Diana made this account for me. If it wasn't for her, I would not be here as starbolt22. I might not even be here on Gaia. I hit the ground in Gaia as someone in the CB. A bumper and a text talker, it seemed that no future outside of the CB was there for me. March 18 was my joindate, making me an Arca. I left Mrs. Williams class with even worse grades than before. They say the 4th grade is the best grade. It wasn't, for me anyway. This was my last year of not playing an instrument.

2006 - I left Mrs. Kaupang's class with still worse grades and possibly my first 0. In July, I donated to Gaia for the first time. It was the year of good items. This year, I began learning the flute. Every Tuesday, I would get up early and ride the middle school bus to the middle school and wait at the front of the school for Mrs. Linne to come. We practiced in the orchestra room. And many times, the first few weeks, I had to ask middle schoolers for directions. My 5th grade teacher was a good one, however. He had wisdom rivaled by few other teachers in the school. He was pretty funny too. It was this year that the friendship between me and Kayla was irreperably damaged. And Sabrina was not my friend either. However, this was also the year that I met Mitchell Small. He remains one of my best friends to this day. We were quick, good friends because both of us were made fun of and we both loved video games. People thought we were going out, but that was a dumb lie. I was too young to comprehend those things in any way, shape, or form. My grades kept falling, I had a few 0s, and 1s and 2s, though I really did keep up with mainly 3s and 4s. I don't think Mr. Aker thought I would survive middle school. Neither did I.

2007 - I left Mr. Aker's class with varied grades. I was fearful though. The thought of middle school scared me because I thought I would get piled with homework and that I'd just get lost. I fearfully entered the 6th grade. However, I didn't realize that all the teachers in the middle school were pretty darned awesome. I had the best 6th grade social studies teacher: Mr. Mckenzie. I would be a different person today if I didn't hear the wisdom of Mr. Mckenzie. We were his last hour of his last year. But, it was this year that I met my future BFF Annie. By the time 2007 was over, I was thinking that maybe middle school wasn't all that bad.

2008 - It was the year my class got into the Tug-o-war, and we won that penny war. We kicked the crap out of the 7th graders. We almost beat the 8th graders. They almost beat the teachers. If we had beat the 8th graders, who knows? Maybe we would have beat the teachers. It was a girl's gym class, so we had our centers of gravity that gave us the advantage. We only lost because some girl let go. And another wasn't putting all her strength into it. I have to say, the 6th grade was probably my most insecure and bad year. I feared the 7th grade because my siblings told me they'd suddenly begin to pile homework on me. It was this fear that left me prepared. However, I would not be prepared for what else would happen. When I first looked at my schedule card, I thought that I was doomed. I had Science and Tech ed for 6th and 7th hour. Two awesome classes. I tried to be optimistic. Best for last? Hopefully. Turns out it was. On the first day, when I finally made it to science, I thought that I was finally off easy because I'm really good at science and tech. The curriculum itself was simple. But, I found out that we had SEAS Kids in our class. I had heard stories from my older siblings about SEAS Kids acting like they own the place, being rude and general snobs. And now I had them in my class. One sat next to me. Another sat behind me. For about the first month or so, I absolutely despised John Kintz. Whenever Mr. Muniak asked a question, both of our hands were in the air before you could say 'mouse'. I even went so far as to telling him straight out that I hated him. I suppose, looking back on it, that it was because I was so used to being the only smart kid in the class. I'm serious, usually in science no one is listening and no one knows the answer. Well, come sometime in October I believe, I had grown a liking to John. No, not in that way. As friends. Soon, it turned from 'I hate you' to 'Hello, favorite rival~'. However, the nice days would not last. The coldness of October was beginning to dawn upon the world. It was a day or so after that that I had been sitting at lunch. I was dejected and sad, as I usually was in those days, when I noticed someone sitting next to me. I mumbled something, and the kid turned and asked me what I was saying. I said he wouldn't understand, and turned away again. A week later, however, I had begun to get to know this person. Erik Bishop. That's right, Bane of My Existence HPK Erik. We were good friends at first, but it would soon turn to frienemies as he began to reveal his true nature. And so, when December came, the ground covered in snow, and classes changed, Art was the highlight of the week. I had been seated at the same table as John, and this other kid named Adam. It seemed like the trimester would be good. Then, Mrs. Mamer, a week or so later, put Erik right across from me. What happened that day has been written already in this journal. And it was around this time, as well, that a realization had dawned upon me. I fancied John. And it was Erik's fault for making me realize it. We were talking about ways we'd kill John, and I said "Oh, I'd take him to the fair, we'd go on the ferris wheel and then I'd push him off at the top". Then, Erik said "are u sure u wudnt leik 2 do something lelse first?". I immediately said "no". But then, I got on the bus later that day, and realized that the "something else" wouldn't be all that bad. And it would lead to me being really stupid for the next month or so.

2009 - Ah, I'm finally arriving to the beginning of this year, right as it is finally dieing for me. So much to tell, so much to tell because it was this year.

I think I'll put it into my next entry.