"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

[hollybrooke]

Happy Easter, everybody! Plans for today include going to Gramma Julie's for Easter. Then later on, I'm shooting up to Kevin's mother's place for a little while. :)

I don't know what it is about me not liking going to holiday things at Gramma Julie's anymore. I think I would like it better if Sandy weren't there. For one thing, it's like the only time of year we ever see her--at Christmas and Easter. For another thing...she just makes me feel so inferior, with her IU-student/sorority girl/spoiled brat life.

And her skinniness and tanned skin and blonde hair.

And her Abercrombie and Fitch wardrobe.

And how she just texts on her cellphone half the time and barely engage in conversation with the rest of us.

And chows down on the spinach-and-artichoke dip because she's a vegetarian and barely touches the rest of the food (except for shrimp cocktail; she's not TOO vegetarian to pass up the shrimp cocktail).

Just.....ugh. I don't even know what she has planned for what she's going to do when she graduates. I hear she was shooting for a career in broadcast communications, but who knows?

I sat down and really thought about it earlier last week. And you know what? I really don't know if I want to go back to school and finish up the journalism thing. It's not really what I wanted to go to college for in the first place. I honestly feel like I was pushed into it by my high school guidance counselor. I would've really loved to have pursued that dream of being an animator and went to art school. And you know....I could still do it. Because quite frankly, I'm at this point in my life where I'm done with trying to do what Mom wants me to do so she can be proud of me. I'd rather be happy with what I do with my life rather than trying to please the impossibly-hard-to-please.

Here's my goal. I want to sit down and write a book of my memoirs as a grocery store cashier. I want to publish this. I want to earn money off of this. And with this money, I'll fund my way through art school.

Comments

[stepholada.livejournal.com]

yes be an animator!

[jadore-histoire.livejournal.com]

I say go for it. You're never too old to go back to school. I always wanted to go to art school too.

One of the popular books among the Borders staff now is Retail Hell, written by a guy who worked in the handbag department of a fancy department store. It's fucking hilarious. I imagine one about working in a supermarket would be just as good, if not better, because I think you see more crazies at a supermarket, thus have more fun stories to tell. I'd read it!

[promisemewings.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've heard of that book and leafed through it once. One day, I'll buy it and actually get around to reading it. :P

[iamfiction.livejournal.com]

I've been on a total memoir kick lately, reading as many memoirs as I can. I say go for it!

I always wished I had taken notes about my last job. I didn't start doing so until the last couple months I was there. It would have made such a cracktastic book.