Hopes and dreams

My mum wants to start a diet tomorrow. I think I might join her. I feel like I've had my summer of indulging and it's time to man up a bit. I'm going to be reading and commenting on all your blogs loads for lots of inspiration. She also unearthed a hula hoop out of the garage. Supposedly 10 minutes of hula hooping burns the same amount of calories as 10 minutes of jogging! Crrrazy. I'm gonna give that a whack and see if it gives me the waistline I crave.

I'm going to try and get up early too, as I'm working at 1pm til 8 every day this week. It's back to the foody job that occupied my life last summer. Ho hum! Here comes the self control...

So I've decided what I reeeally want to try and aim to do post-university. I'm going to spend the next year researching small but desperate-for-copy magazines in New York, and see if I can get some sort of employment there. If that fails, I plan on applying for a Mountbatten internship. Even if it isn't exactly the kind of internship that I'd dream of, I still need some time abroad to find myself (without the lengthy cost and aimless wandering of travelling - I want to get straight into the business world.) And New York is the dream. I'm planning on deleting my Facebook page and severing ties with a lot of people. Dangerous? Probably. But I'm so happy and self-sufficient on my own. I have confidence in myself, and I'll never cut ties with my family; I expect they'll be full of support. I'm going to try and get a teeny bit of extra dosh over the next year by selling fillers and copy to specialist magazines. Me and my dad did a bit of brainstorming today and I have potentially got a lot to write about.

I want to escape! Although I have enough on my plate next year, I need to start making my career a priority. As soon as I leave uni, it'll all come plunging and hit me in the face, and I need some sort of preparation for that.

I think I might start my research tonight. Even if it's an online publication, anything is a possibility. And hopefully my CV will be brimming after uni, so employers might just be bothered enough to fill out all the Visa paperwork and get me on my way. Who knows!

I turn 20 next month, which marks the start of a brand new decade in my life, and my god, I want the twenties to be good! You only live once, right? Better work towards your dreams while you can. What are your dreams?

Big up,

Q x