Showing posts with label job. Show all posts
Showing posts with label job. Show all posts

Friday, August 24, 2012

What I Want to Be When I Grow Up


I still don't exactly know what I want to be when I grow up. But I think I have made up my own job and would love for it to be a real career. Lately, I have been renewing my love for Pinterest - the site of all goodness. As I have pinning away at all kinds of ideas for decorating for the holidays, baking goodies or even storage organization tips, I figured that there must be some kind of profession out there that will allow me to be a professional Pinterest tester. Someone needs to double check the validity of all these good ideas.

Many of the things I pin come from blogs where the project was actually completed by someone who then wrote about it and it ended up on Pinterest. But I would be willing to try to recreate the things to see if it really is as easy or as good as what the posts say. Then I could give my stamp of approval on the pin so people know it is a trusted project - like verified accounts on Twitter. It makes perfect sense, at least in my mind. There could be a whole crew of people who test out pins as interests vary.

I also think this would help me getting in gear to actually complete some of the great projects I have pinned. I have been exploring my creative side this past year - learning how to knit, learning how to sew, etc. and Pinterest has only heightened that desire to be creative and do things myself to make the space around me more pretty. How people come up with some of these ideas is completely mind-boggling.

As summer is quickly turning into fall, I am hoping the colder months will bring more time to complete some of these projects. I started working on a 4th of July rag wreath in the spring it is still yet to be finished. Next year summer I will be able to use it. I purchased a wooden J to hang on a family picture wall earlier this summer that I want to paint and mod podge it with scrapbook paper. I have everything to do this simple project, but everything is in a bag in my spare bedroom, also known as the land of potential projects.

There is always a lot of enthusiasm when these ideas pop up. But when it comes time to complete them, life somehow gets in the way. I don't often have hours of free time to complete projects, but if it was my job I would gladly spend my time cutting, gluing, sewing and painting away.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Hope Solo - The American Dream

Many readers may be looking at this post thinking who is Hope Solo? But since the Olympics just happened, many of you may have a better idea of who she is.

Now do you know? She is the goalie for the US women's soccer team! Katie and I go back and forth on a constant basis about if she is hot or not (I think she is, Katie tends to disagree) but regardless, she is just on fire.

At 31, Hope has had my dream...playing soccer for a living. I wouldn't want to be a goalie by any means, but at least she gets to be outside, on a field, doing what she loves every day. Is that not the American dream?

How many of you are living the American dream? A husband/wife, a family, a dog, cat, and a house with a white picket fence and a nice backyard? Wait- is that really the American dream these days? I have watched enough House Hunters on HGTV to know that it isn't. I can't believe how many people could care less if they have grass to play in!!

So what is the American dream? We may all have a different outlook but I think we can all agree on one aspect. It is the freedom to do whatever we want, go where we want to go, be who we want to be. And as many times as I have said that it is impossible to be a child and say, "I want to be _____(insert profession) when I grow up" because guess what? The chances of you getting that job are slim to none. I was the, "I want to be a sports anchor when I grow up" child. And then I did go to college for radio and TV and guess what! I spent almost a year sending out DVD after DVD to tv station and didn't even get one call back. Talk about the American dream getting crushed. But as an American, I know I have the option to change my mind so here I am now, working my big girl job, with good people, just making it work. Hope gives me hope that maybe someday I'll be fully satisfied with my second choice of what I want to be when I grow up.

What did you want to be when you were little? Did you grow up to be that? Let me know because I am really interested to see how many of you followed through on your dreams.
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