Cheese, Cheese, & Cheese

As I'm sure the rest of the blogs of the world are doing, I've come up with several things that I am going to attempt to complete/ do over the period of the next 365 days-- or I guess 364 days.  I guess I better step on my list. 
Last year (2010) I did a couple new things, some that worked out great, some not so much.  These things included but were not limited to:

1. transferring to Appalachian State University (worked)
2. dying my hair brown (didn't)
3. dying my hair back to blond (worked)
4. started a blog (still working on that one)
5. started running
6. moved into my own apartment with some awesome roommates (i hope it worked)

So my list for this year (2011, for those of you who forgot the year as their attention was more focused on watching Snookie like a hamster inside the clear plastic dropping ball of the MTV New Year) includes but once again is not limited to the following:

1. run a half marathon (that's 13.1 miles, people)
2. get a summer internship in the fashion industry- if anyone wants to help me out on that one, I'm open to anything
3. go on a road trip with just my sister and brother
4. read 20 new books that I haven't read yet
5. go to new york

summer is no longer about catching fireflies

I guess this is a little depressing for my first post, but it is definitely something I'm sure everyone thinks about as they get older. What happened to those summers? Swim team practice in the morning, capture the flag at night, lemonade all the time.
This summer is not one of them. This summer I have two jobs. I am so thankful for both of them, but unlike past summers, I am not laying poolside or driving around with the windows down all day.
But wait a minute, let me back up and give you a little better idea about myself before these two strenuous summer jobs.
I am a pretty typical 18 year old girl from charlotte, north carolina. Or for that matter, I am a pretty typical 18 year old girl from anywhere. I have been dancing since I was two years old. I had planned on pursuing this through college and even performing professionally. But after this year, God seems to be pointing me in another direction. So I am starting fresh this year, a new school, a new major, a new mind set. (And yes, I can see how cheesy this all sounds. But how can it be cheesy if it's true?)
I have always been very interested in fashion, art, music; I started thinking, if I'm not dancing, why don't I do that? So, currently, I'm following my new dream of becoming a fashion stylist at a magazine. And that magazine will hopefully one day be teen vogue, but whenever I think about that, my mind immediately goes to Juno sarcastically shouting, "DREAM BIG!" at her dog adoring stepmother. Probably minus the sarcastic part.

Anyways, the way all of this connects: the summer, the cubicle job, the teen vogue, is my determination to find a summer job at teenvogue. Or atleast somewhere a little closer to what I want to eventually do with my life. And then I would be happy with skipping out on the capture the flag and the swim team practice to just settle for some lemonade (:
now that endings not so depressing, right?