Personal Game Study

For some reason, this game gave me a huge jump in my rating (there was only a 50 point difference between my opponent and I to start, which I don't consider as big in live chess as I do in turn-based). And since I discovered the ability to add games here into this blog, I figured I would do this for myself as a way to study my games. Please note that this isn't my proudest game as I'm sure I made several mistakes and that I consider myself in between beginning and intermediate (I have only been playing chess one year). So I made annotations to let the more experienced players know what I was thinking, and I would love to have anyone give his or her critique of my game and my decisions.