My Back-Up Plan.

Graduation is exactly three years away. For the next six semesters, I plan to study how to be an un-stoppable PR person with wicked marketing smarts and cunning creativity. But, if for some reason the job market crashes and I'm left with an unused degree and an unlimited amount of time, I feel that I need a back-up plan of potential careers to support my addiction to anything silver or sparkly and frozen yogurt. 

Thus I have compiled a list of day-jobs that I would find enjoyable. 

(In no particular order)

1. Cat Walker 

Has anyone ever even stopped and wondered why dogs are the only pets that people walk? Maybe cats want in on the fun too. With my revolutionary training program, people will be able to stroll through the neighborhood with their beloved feline on a leash in 2 weeks or less.

Projected Salary:

Still working on it. 

2. Food Critic

Go to fancy restaurants and get paid to eat their food and write reviews on it? Yes please.

Projected Salary:

$65,873 is apparently the national average. I'll take it.

3. Professional Ballerina

I've been doing a workout program called Barre 3 that's supposedly derived from ballet. I'm pretty decent at it.

Projected salary:

$21,100

4. Personal Chef

I make a wicked PB&J and am unparalleled in the art of the scrambled egg. 

Projected salary:

$30,000-50,000


5. Award Winning Novelist


I'll publish my memoir and make millions.
Projected salary:
Millions.


6. Kid Chauffeur


Moms always complain about hauling their kids to soccer practice and gymnastics and back, so I'd just do it for them.
Projected salary: Still working on it.


7. Shark Forecaster 


Skittish beach-goers would pay me to scan the surrounding shoreline for sharks, using state of the art technology. Shark attack reports would disappear overnight, and I would get to live by the ocean!
Projected salary: Still working on it.


8. Tree Climber


Kids these days are always getting things stuck in trees: frisbees, balls, themselves. Using my agile climbing skills, I would heroically rescue these precious objects before the relief filled parents hand me a think wad of green ones.
Projected salary: Still working on it.


9. Party Planner


I would throw some pretty epic bashes while keeping bratty 16 year olds in check.
Projected salary:
$47,000


10. Firework Technician 


Cuidado con el fuego! 
Projected salary: 
$49,000. (Apparently it's a real job, I thought I had just made it up.)




I plan on mixing and matching potential careers to fit my monetary needs and lifestyle. Bring it on, adulthood.

#3. Me at one of my future performances. I'm not a fan of my partner though, he looks kind of creepy. 

We Live Our Lives Like We're Calling a Bluff and All These Miles are not Enough

When you're given a night in which you have the whole house and a spunky second grader all to yourself, what do you do?

I had a few ideas.


I decided to try and give Bethany a fun night to remember by giving her a mini makeover, complete with make-up, an up do, and a photoshoot in one of my old prom dresses. 

She ate up every second of it. 

As I was twirling piece after piece of black, shiny hair around the curling iron, I felt the familiar feeling of deja vu flood my senses. Even though I was only primping an 8 year old, the season and the time of day made me feel like I was getting ready to send Bethany off to prom. I remembered how every event in high school, be it homecoming or prom, I sat exactly where she was sitting in my parent's huge bathroom getting my own golden hair curled before slipping into a fancy dress and heading off to take pictures with my friends. 

As the memories invaded my consciousness in droves, I began to think to the future to when Bethany and Marissa will be getting primped and polished for their own big high school shebangs. I imagined my mom and me as a team in giving each of them a glamorous make-over and watching with a smile as they posed for pictures with their friends and dates. 

It was in this mental flashforward that I realized that once I graduate from college, there is no way that I can live far away from my family. I have said for years that I want to live in a huge city  after college, and have recently added warm temperature to my  requirements for a future home (Big city + Warmth = Tampa, FL or Atlanta, GA). But, being hundreds of miles away from home would mean missing out on many major milestones in my little sister's lives. Since they are still young, there are so many exciting things they have yet to experience that come with growing up. I am not planning on missing out on seeing each of them off to their first day of high school, first homecoming dance, first date (AFTER I make sure the dude is up to my standards), first time at the wheel, first soccer game as a varsity player, you name it. 

So, I told my parents today that, upon graduating from college, I'm either going to have to sacrifice my warm, big city dreams and move somewhere back in Ohio or they are going to have to sacrifice cold Ohio to move to the warm, big city in which I plan to reside. Sounds like a pretty easy decision to me. :)

Princess Kate

There are about to be TWO princess Kates in the world! Not only is Prince William marrying a Kate tomorrow, but his little brother is planning on marrying one too! Yes, I indeed will be getting hitched to the extremely attractive Prince Harry, moving to London, and living the rest of my life with an acquired British accent and raising our adorable royal children. 

Yummy.