30 Day Challenge

There's nothing like a challenge by your boyfriend to get you off your butt.

He proposed a plan to me the other night about doing things besides just sitting inside and playing video games or watching tv all the time. Every day for the next thirty days, we will both do at least one interesting thing a day that we don't normally do. Today is going to be my first day. Yesterday was his.

My "interesting thing" for the day will be me participating in the Christmas parade. I'm looking forward to it. I was in it last year, too and I really enjoyed it. The only thing that sucks about it is the cold, but at least I'll be doing something other than sitting in my room glued to the tv. :P

So in other news.... I made a big decision last night with Matt's (my boyfriend) help. Lately I've been kind of having a career choice crisis because I've been torn between what I want to do and what I know I should do because it's more practical. My dream career used to be writing. I wanted to be a writer and after the publication of a local author I thought, "Hey! I can do this!" However, I applied to an art school in Brookhaven, MS and wasn't accepted. I was really crushed from not getting in and for a long time afterwards I thought of my writing as a failure and didn't even want to attempt to write anything. I still really want to write, but I found something else I had an extreme passion for...

I have to give some credit to senior project because it's how I discovered said passion. Probably the only good thing that may have come from that stupid thing... But anyway, I did my project on tattoos. In the process I did a tattoo on an orange peel for my product part and I really enjoyed it. It's kind of like drawing with an electrical pencil. I wanted to go for it so bad, but I knew that it just wasn't practical and I was better off just to go into Early Childhood Education, which was my original plan.

But last night, out of the blue, Matt told me to go after it and be a tattoo artist. At first I was shocked and in disbelief. I called him and he meant what he'd said. I still hesitated and I almost cried from so much overwhelming emotion of confusion, frustration, and fright from being rejected again. I'm still a little scared, but it's like he said. I should at least try it. And so I'm going to. After going through a two year technical program for my back up plan degree then I'm going to try and get an apprenticeship somewhere so I can be liscensed and tattoo for an actual career.

In the meantime I'll be doing a lot of practicing with my art and hopefully take a couple of art classes in college for art/drawing/whatever.

For the record, I've drawn a few tattoo designs for people, so if you have any questions about a design you'd like drawn, you can always hit me up for it. I don't mind doing them at all. I actually have fun with them.

Well, that's all for today. I'm really enjoying this. Readers or not, this is fun and therapeutic, too. But if I do have readers, thanks for tuning in again! :]