I've always had a tendency to turn every phase i go through into some kind of ridiculous, consuming obsession.
It usually ends up working against me since these obsessions come on suddenly, and my patience is quite thing. My history of "all-talk-no-action" grandiose plans is the result of my constant desire to do it all without any time to prepare.
After a weekend of marvelous bonding with my parents and sister, I've developed a strategy to break this pattern, so I can stop always wishing for things and never actually living them.
its a start-small-make-you're-way-to-the-top kind of plan. It involves me making a few rather selfish decisions in the next few years, and relying on people being understanding and supportive rather than judgmental or discouraging.
But I think it might work.
As for my current obsession, the good old U.S.A., I've decided not to go around telling anyone I'm moving to Georgia to live on a plantation and open a pie shop just yet.
Instead, I'm planning a short road trip through a few of the southern states that interest me most so I can get a real taste of it without smothering the idea with too much ambition.
This may involve postponing the trip to France Mikey and I had been slowly putting together, but money wise, we've agreed it might not be the worst of ideas. Nothing is final.
I have to give credit where its due; this idea is in now way my own.
Suzanne, the girl who runs Spanish Moss Vintage, one of my favourite E-Bay stores (although I have yet to purchase anything from it because it gets so pricey) is currently touring the states with her husband to pick up cute thrifty things for her shop and shes documenting the whole thing via blog which i have been religiously following. It's got me completely and thoroughly obsessed with the idea of taking such a road trip, and simultaneously inspired me to actually try to open up a little business of my own. She's 27 and I'm 22, so she's somehow singlehandedly convinced me this is not an unrealistic option.
http://spanishmossvintage.blogspot.com/
and so, my decision to become a patriotic-confederate-flag-toting-pie-baking-southern-belle has been put on hold for a bit while me and mike discuss the option of road tripping together for three weeks, seeing different little southern towns every day and seeing if I like it as much as the part of me who lives vicariously through stranger's blogs does.
im getting smarter every day.
speaking of obsessed....what do people think of me dying my hair platinum white like hers?
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