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Day 9~ My bucket list

9 Mar

Life-List

 

I like to think of my bucket list as my life list. These are things I’m determined to do in my lifetime. Fortunately for me, I’ve been able to do some of them already. I have so many and the list continues to grow.

 

So with today’s day 9 challenge, I give you a peek into my “Life List”:

~travel to California

~live in a house with a wrap around porch

~live near the ocean

~fall in love

~ get married

~have fireworks at my wedding

~ become a mother

~go on a cruise

~travel to Mexico

~publish my children’s book

~become a children’s author

~go to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York

~walk a red carpet event

~own a pair of Christian Louboutin heels

~buy a Louis Vuitton bag

~run a 5k

~go to a taping for Oprah

~go to a taping for Ellen

~become a professional blogger

~turn my blog posts into a book

~travel to Europe - Greece, Paris, London and Italy

~attach a love lock on the Lover’s Bridge in Paris

~own a dog again

~learn how to snowboard

~learn how to surf

~travel back to Hawaii

~ see the Grand Canyon

~see Niagra Falls

~travel to Canada

~go on a hot air balloon ride

What are some things you would have on your bucket list?

xo

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Day 7~ My Dream Job

7 Mar

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My dream job. Where do I even begin. All my life I wanted to be a teacher. But also during this lifetime I always have had a love for writing and drawing or shall we just call it, the arts.

When I was growing up, I was that little girl who would help the teacher at the end of the school year and take home all of those unused dittos and ‘play’ school with them over the summer pretending to be the teacher. I also started to be around children a lot and take care of them at the age of 12. From that point on, I had many teachers have a huge impact on me and made me realize that this is what I wanted to do. I also during this time, was an art major in high school and also enrolled in an early enrollment writing class my senior year. I knew at an early age what my loves were~writing, teaching and art. I created many beautiful pieces throughout these years, which I now have hanging in my house, and I created a children’s book.

Now flashback to senior year in the year of 1996-1997, and for any of you who were around at this time, know that there weren’t many options like there are today if you were going to college. Girls either became teachers if they went to school or something to do with children, or you went into a field of Business or Communications. There was no social media, marketing wasn’t really pushed as much as it is today and basically anything having to do with computers was more in the IT field rather than the possibilities being endless like they are today. So naturally I applied to a state college, against my will, and lived at school to become a teacher. I don’t regret the decision. I made wonderful friends, whom I am like sisters with til this day, and I had some of the best experiences ever. However, I always felt like I should be doing something else.

Eleven years later, I am a teacher. I love what I do and I am very good at it. But I still feel like something is missing. I have a knack for organizing events and project managing but I also know I have a talent for writing. Being given the opportunity three years ago to start my own blog, has opened many doors for me and I couldn’t be any more grateful than I already am.

So without further ado, here are my dream jobs:

To become a professional blogger for a magazine.

To work in the fashion industry.

To become a children’s author.

Lucky for me, I have been fortunate enough to be able to do some of these things on the side, and my career as a teacher has allowed me to have the time to be able to do these things.

Currently as this moment, I have this fabulous blog thanks to Glamour Magazine for choosing me three years ago to be a Glambassador for my home state, I work for StyleWeek Northeast as the Director of Operations and remember that children’s book that I wrote in high school, I am in the process of editing it and I will be sending it off to be published this year.

Every day I put out positive thoughts and vibes that one day, my dream jobs will become a reality.

What would be your dream job?

xo

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Sometimes all you need is a reality check

27 Feb

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I’m sure I’m not alone on this one when I say we sometimes need someone else to bring us back to reality and point out the obvious. And for the most part, it’s usually not what we want to hear but we have to hear it anyway. Other times, it may be “YES! I feel the same way!” and think to ourselves, “God, I’m so glad I’m not alone on this one.” You know you’ve been there at one point or another, so don’t try to state otherwise.

For us girls still trying to survive in this crazy part of the world called~ the dating scene, I’m sure you can feel my pain when I speak of this. And I also know you feel my pain when your now married friends or people who you associate with and they are “taken” say to you, “Oh it will happen someday.” In this type of situation, I want to say to these people, “Listen. You were once me. And yes I know it will happen. But right now, I need you to just listen and be. Let me vent. Let me get it off my chest and then you can bring me back to reality.” Bitchy? Maybe. But for me that’s my way of bring them back to reality.

Today I was sent this link to a fabulously written essay on how we, us ‘single’ folk, may sometimes act~ whether we know it or not. I cannot even begin to explain on how I feel like this post was written for me and the many other girls out there who are in the same situation. She’s blunt, honest, and real. And ladies, we all need someone like this in our life. Luckily for me, I have my sister and my 2 best friends, whom I’ve known since the days of scrunchies and no cell phones, who will always be those people. But sometimes it can be done by a stranger, in writing, for us to always have as a reminder. Permanent. Never going away.

If you need to print out and reread this a few times, do it! If you need to read it daily until you get “out of the basement”, do it!

Once you are ready, you will realize “Your capacity to love is so great that it will carry you through most things in this world that we live in.”

Click on this link below to read this brilliantly written post!

I Don’t Like You But I Want You To Want Me..

Time to move on up ladies!

xo

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