I was reading back through old post and decided that now that I will have more time and less disposable income I will have to start entertaining myself on the cheap and therefore I think blogging is a great way to start. I also watched Julie and Julia, pretty reluctantly I must say, but I myself am very much like Julie, a creative spirit who also happens to be a non-completer. So inspired by her effort to blog for 365 days I too am going to try to make this a daily routine. All two of my readers will most certainly laugh at this as they have followed this hodge-podge blog for sometime now and know how many times I have promised to blog more and then disappeared for 6-8 months.
In the spirit of changing some bad habits I will also be completing several things beyond this blog. Some of which include: my website, portfolio, and maybe a painting or two. All things I have been promising to do but never quite completed. I figure besides a lucrative nannying job and school I will have a much calmer social life so these things should fit in a wee bit better.
Another change I plan to make is to try to save up for my very own piece of the American Pie. This might come in the form a house, condo, or most likely trailer, but never the less I want to own someplace I can make my own. I have never been one for budgeting (see non-completer, active social life, and general lack self control in any of my blogs) so this will be a particularly hard task to complete. But I refuse to watch (ok maybe refuse is harsh) another design tv show or read a design blog and want to do something only to realize I will have to undo it in 6-12 months.
Most importantly I will be highlighting the more fun people watching side of this blog. People make for good blogging and I consider myself a stellar people-watcher. (I got it from my mom). When I people watch I don't just observe them in the natural habitat but start to form whole life stories for these people (also blame my mother for that one). Its part of the crazy overactive imagination I formed as a kid. I am utterly fascinated by people. What they do, say, think and most importantly wear.
For example today was the first day above frigid coldness in several months in Chicago, so I marched with my brown bag lunch (budget queen here) my copy of Catcher in the Rye (one of the things I never completed) to the river front to enjoy the glorious outdoors/ laugh at people in flip flops already. I was thoroughly enjoying the momentary solitude when click, click, click in came the stiletto crowd of PR ninnies with their matching salads with really smelly balsamic vinaigrette dressing. I know, I know, to them I probably looked like the side braided, Salinger reading, lame PB&J eating hipster, but i mean really we are all clinches in some way right. So I tried to block out the smell and ridiculous complaints over salary (ladies FYI 70,000.00 starting is about 35,000.00 more than I make after four years), and read my book and enjoy the beautiful outdoors. But I couldn't help but listen in on this conversation that got more outrageous as it went on. The girl in the center of the convo, let's call her Poppy (sounds uppity but you are forming a picture in your mind that fits, right?), who was really ticked that she was so under-payed, revealed that she had only been out of school for two months... I almost slapped her. Instead I looked at my cell phone (I never where a watch, never have probably never will) and realized my hour of freedom was up. Thank God. No battery charges or dropped salads.
So there is my people watch of the day, 12 more days of working for the man before freedom sets in. Wish me luck. (and by working for the man I should point out that I am mostly just making mix CDs for my friends instead of working...)
