Living the Dream.

A year ago I figured out what to do with my life...

And now I'm actually doing it? Working at an awesome top salon and doing theater by the PM? Thug life. This summer I plan on just living it up... My reality check at the beginning of 2010 has me really appreciating all this that I have.

And right now I'm going to sit and sip my raspberry green tea/apple juice combo before call and contemplate.

I see Lady Gaga in a week [score] and will be getting the new ipod later in the month [double score].

All I'm saying to you, July. Is... Don't let me down. <3

Watch it.

I'm not sure what this summer is up to yet. I guess it's only the 23rd, so it technically just started. So far - if you count all of June, it's been a lot of lazy-ing in my pool, visiting friends, frequenting bars and working.

I've made an extra special mission of having a drink of the summer:

Which you may think obvious, but I never had so many Margaritas until this summer. I want it to be 2011 and I have a sip and I go, "Ahhh tastes like Summer 2010." I mean it in the best way possible.

Usually it's music that reminds me of summer.. Sort of like..

This bitch reminds me of 2008. And how much she's blown up since then. This summer marks her being on the cover of Rolling Stone TWICE. Anddd I'm seeing her July 7 for ten times the price of my first Gaga ticket.

Getting the iPhone 4 this weekend, even though I technically don't need a new phone. But it's pretty and I wants it.

Ghost of Summer's Past

Don't Call Me Nostalgic

So I guess this blog is a summer tradition. So it's only fitting I listen to my on-going summer playlist. And although I don't really have a 'summer vacation', it doesn't mean I can't make this summer awesome, right?

After all, I have summer reading:

Something I want to buy this summer:

And a sequel to write:

So while I may not have too much free time on my schedule, friends living next door, or a vacation home in Maine I have things to look forward to, a great job, new friends and plenty of downtown mexican places for tacos and margaritas. That's what summer should be about, yea?

And as usual, I'll be writing it all here so I can remember it.

C'est ma vie, pas de 'blem.

Old habits die so very, very hard.

I had this whole post planned prior to opening the window. The thought was interrupted by my grandmother calling to inform me that she really wasn't trying to set me up with her exterminator's son... Phew?

Right now I'm at the end of a three week "vacation" between hair and hair. I spent the entirety of last week in the theater. I thought I was going to hate every minute, but it had me missing theater deeply and reminded me how much I want to get on the stage again. Except, I just accepted a full time position at Arrojo Studio, so I'm pretty certain I will not have the time to audition. I'm in this weird life-passion-love-triangle. I want to do both. It's never been a secret that I want to everything...

Teddy is trying to coax me into Assistant Directing this 15 minute musical. I can't help but smile about it.

I'm writing to warm up to write K-Hawk: Escape From Staten Island, which will come to some cheap ass theater near you in 2011. The idea of it is just too fun to pass up; plus I already mapped out a sequel to this sequel. Look - I'm just like JK Rowling only instead of wizards, I got guidos.

My life is a whirlwind right now. Sort of like that scene in Philharmagic where all the instruments are cyclone-ing around Mickey and he's trying to tame them all. Yea, that's my life. Except I feel more like Donald Duck than Mickey. [There's an obscure Disney World reference for you... If you got that we can be friends for life.] I guess there's so much that has happened in the past seven months I don't really have the time or patience to put it here.

I have this new habit that whenever I get really frustrated, I smile.

Wait.

9.14.09

No less than two hours after I last blogged, I received a call from my grandmother explaining that my father said he will pay for Arrojo. So, I'm going to beauty school in exactly two weeks.

I'm back in Staten Island after a very interesting last week for RA Vue in Purchase. I did my best to make it that I would allow myself to go back there.

I have no job and have absolutely no clue when the next time I will be getting paid will be.

Everybody should go out and see Inglourious Basterds because it may just be my new favorite Tarantino film. Walking out of the theater, apparently everyone was woosy from the gore.

I had a warm fuzzy feeling in my belly.

So naturally, I am going to watch some Kill Bill 1 & 2 to get my fix on.

Rated P for Personal.

Figuring out one's life is harder than you think.. Seriously.

Since I've last blogged, I've handed over cash to Arrojo Cosmetology School which is in Soho. The conflicting issue with enrolling into this school comes serious financial responsibility. I can only take out a personal loan in which I would have to pay every month. However, the class starts on September 14th.

Paul Mitchell wants a huge deposit in tuition to hold a place, however, I'm 75% I could take out a career loan from Sallie Mae and defer that until next August. I could take a small loan out from HSBC to pay for the deposit. The class starts in November.

CVS in my neighborhood will most definitely hire me for minimum wage. Starbucks in Westchester will have me back in the fall for a lot more than minimum wage. So.... I have two options:

A.

Go to Arrojo, take out a loan and work Starbucks on the Weekend/crash in Westchester. Maybe work at CVS too. Totaling 55hours at least of work. 69 if you count commuting. PLUS homework. I don't know when I'd sleep.

Positives of Plan A:

- #1 School

- I'll be having fun in a place that's closer to where I want to work.

- Working in an area where I will see a lot of friends (soho/purchase)

- Will be able to search for apartment and real job by May.

Negatives of Plan A:

- Sleep?!?!/Where will I get energy to hang out with friends?

- I'll probably get sick because I won't have any rest.

- I will be that "senior who never left" for at most a year.

-Definitely no time for side projects for 7 months.

B.

Attend Paul Mitchell's Cosmetology School. Work at CVS for minimum wage. Totaling anywhere from 40-50 hours of work. 10 hours of commuting. I could work at Starbucks at Purchase from Sept - November. I would probably have to take out a loan for the enrollment deposit, but I could pay it off with working.

Positives:

-Nearby.

- #5 School.

- I'll be having fun.

- Possibility of hanging out with friends more.

Negatives:

- Help! I'm stranded on Staten Island!

- I won't be able to work until July.

- Would have to take out two loans.

- I would definitely lose the deposit I gave Arrojo already.

Your thoughts?

This is like a terrible math problem.

Watch it.

Tentative, most probable plan for the future:

Work retail for the next year

Paul Mitchell's Cosmetology until Jul 17 '10

Move out Sept 2010

I've hopefully landed a TA job that will help me save money for the rest of the summer. The more money in my bank account come August 19, the better. I hope to have landed a job on SI by then, but we'll see.

I've decided to go vegetarian again. With the exception of fish.. So I guess I'm pesce-tarian.

I'm considering going blonde again and cutting off most of my hair. Stay tuned.