Lots of exciting things.
By next year... working on getting my degree at University of Omaha, most likely something involving evironmental sciences. Or something that will allow me to work with forest preservation/wildlife. This also means, getting in some extremely good shape if I want to have a chance at being able to survive/travel in these sort of environments and conduct rescue operations if necessary. This should happen by spring of next year providing my financial aid and grants come through.
If this goes through, then I'm looking at a job and house possibly in Colorado or Wyoming in a few years. New house = yard = puppy XD *squee*
I'm actively pursuing German as a 2nd language, home study along with classes at UNO. This is due in part to wanting to learn a bit more about my heritage and family on my mother's side. Who never saw fit to teach us the language since we planned on living in the states after I was 7 and I've always sort of regretted not being able to speak it. My great grandmother forgot all her English, should I ever get a chance to see with her again it would be nice to speak with her!
My little sister who is insanely good at drawing... (omg so jealous) I need to encourage her to do something more with it. She's pretty limited at home, no art programs or much computer knowledge - so she has no way to share her art online other then through Playstation Network. If she had a tablet, a scanner and some sort of art program... so we've been spending a lot of time texting and playing WoW together. I'm hoping to take her to Yaoicon this October. Its really funny because we are SO alike in many ways but I don't think she likes that sort of thing... BUT!! If she were to meet some other artists, its kind of my hope she'll branch out a little bit and open her mind to new forms of art. Maybe consider school and not just drawing Kingdom Hearts characters... lulz... (I can't talk, thats how I started out too)
By taking her to the con (seriously doubt yaoi is going to broaden her artistic mind ahaha) but I want her to meet other artists, other female artist in paticular who may actually be attending school for art that I'm sure will be there and will be auctioning their artwork. Meet some the manga publishers and look at some of the digital media and some of the styles that she likes. Not to mention, it's a chance to hang out with Rock again <3 <3 <3 since we're meeting there in California! We'll be cosplaying our RO characters, so I'll be going as my assassin: Halperion.
I've got two months to put together this costume. I'm starting with the easy parts first... XD which is the headgear I know I can design and sew easily.
Romantic Flower
Spikey Band and Deviruichi headband
Elf Ears (with wig)
Originally! Hal was drawn with elvens and the Magician's Hat! Which I still love but eventually the Spikey became his token headgear because I liked it so much with the short, feathery hairstyle.
So there are a lot of things I'm looking forward to. Aside from the next Warcraft expansion... omg, seriously? Worgens. Yeah, I'm going to play as one. =_= I can't resist beast-like characters... I've been trying to broaden my experience by doing random art trades on LJ forums. You never know whose character you will be asked to draw and I love it so much, it's a challenge to get myself drawing subjects I normal wouldn't.
My most recent art trade:

Jornum's Tauren death knight, complete with blood worms in his mane. <3 Which I've yet to see much fanart of... it's mostly elves I've noticed or humans/draenei. COME ON DWARVEN FEMALE ROGUES, WHERE YA AT?? =D haha...