is it a sign?

anyone that knows me knows that i love to change my hairstyle.  whether it be a cut, color, style or texture.

for as long as i can remember i've wanted to be a hair stylist (among a growing list of other professions).  i've spent a lot of time in hair salons, beauty supply stores.  anyway, i've had some amazing results and well, some not so amazing results.  but i've been able to teach myself and a few brave souls have even donated their hair to be guinea pigs.


so today the partner and crime and i had to run some last minute errands (christmas cookie supplies) and i saw that they built a regency beauty institute right near my house!!!

this could be my chance!!  so as soon as i got home i went to the website and requested information on enrolling.  they even have part-time enrollment, which means i could still work and go to school.  yes, i know i flip flop on my major at college all the time, but i think thats because im choosing things that'll bring me monetary happiness, rather than just plain happiness.  i want to do something i love, not something that i sort of like doing that'll make me tons of money.

growing up

i find myself more often than not daydreaming....about everything!

the past, the present, the future. the what-if's and what-not's, the could have beens and taking that left at the fork in the road.

maybe its a quarter-life crisis of some sort, but lately i feel as though time is passing me a lot quicker than it used to. when we were kids, we wanted nothing more than to be "grown up". and now that we're there, most of us realize maybe this whole "adult" thing isn't really what its all cracked up to be. don't get me wrong, it has its perks (no curfews, smoking fancy cigarettes, drinking over-priced beer and r-rated movies!).

i don't know if i mentioned it before but i am currently back in school, college to be exact. i started back at a local community college in the spring of 2009. originally i thought i'd try my hand at medical coding and billing so i could work from home. but i quickly discovered that profession was so far from what i wanted to do, i decided to go another route. so here i am a few semesters later, still trying to figure it out! i'm not sure if its indecisiveness or ADD, but i want to do it all! i guess i've always been like this. looking back, here's a list of careers i wanted to do (some of these are from childhood...duh!):

- madonna
- model
- singer
- actress
- ballerina
- special effects make-up artist
- photographer
- graphic designer (i actually went to school for this!)
- business owner
- tattoo artist
- piercer
- artist living in NYC
- clothing designer
- musician
- baker
- interior designer
- professional blogger!
- art teacher

obviously with my current position in the world of finance, i am far from my childhood dreams of growing up to be madonna. although i'm not so sure where i went off course with that one....


anyway! lets get some audience participation going!


so what about you!? what did you want to be when you grew up? and what do you do now?