Life's Like An Hourglass Glued to the Table

Anna Nalick once quoted in her infamous song 'Breathe (2am)': "'Cause you can't jump a track, we're like cars on a cable, & life's like an hourglass glued to the table, no one can find the rewind button, girl, so cradle your head in your hands, and breathe, just breathe". Little did she know at the time how much these words would speak to her listeners.

This past year has been probably one of the hardest I've been through thus far in my 20 years of existence for multiple reasons. I'm not going to get in depth about these but let's just say the night I got back from studying abroad in Seville, Spain on August 1st, 2011 everything in my life was going to be different. These are some personal issues I'm not about to get into on a blog but it made me think of this song every time something this past year has gone wrong. I play Anna's words over and over again until it hits me, and it does every time. Life isn't going to be easy and it's going to be a struggle, but you learn lessons as you go through it. Her words "and breathe, just breathe" make me so much more calm as I do just cradle my head in my hands and breathe. I recommend this to anyone who feels they are going through a hard time because it makes you realize that one day it will pass. You're probably thinking I'm crazy or just venting but after listening to this song again today after being completely stressed about all my school work I felt calm and serene, and I sat down and calmly finished everything, just like it should be. In this first blog I would like to share a little bit about my life in Lubbock, Texas, or as I like to call it, Dirt City and if you've ever been to Lubbock you would know exactly why.

After graduating a year early from Samuel V. Champion High School I made my way to Texas Tech University where I've planned on graduating in May of 2013. I've been almost every possible Mass Communications major you can think of. Starting out Journalism and switching to Public Relations, then Advertising and now finally Media Strategies. I guess saying I have no clue what I want to do with my life would be an understatement. 

I've been blonde most of my life but I've recently decided to become Brunette, and needless to say I absolutely love it. The first year at Tech was a crazy one, that's for sure. I would love to say how great I did in school and how much education I received, but who am I kidding? Enjoying every day and every night of my Freshman year was accomplished very well. I made friends who will be here for a lifetime and lost friends who weren't there like I thought they were.

In the summer of 2011 I studied in Seville, Spain, but I'll talk more about that at a different time. While there I visited my second favorite city in the world, Paris. The fashion, the people, the food, and the whole atmosphere made me fall completely in love. The only other place I have ever felt more home is in New York City. I will go back to Paris one day. Also while in Europe I traveled to Portugal, but like I said I'll get back to that at a different time.

This past spring semester I acquired an internship with a company based out of New York called Skinny Ms. Most of the work I did was online since I was still attending school. Skinny Ms. is an upcoming health business in which provides great work outs and healthy recipes, in turn for me interning I actually lost about 15 pounds in the last year which made me very happy! As I said before, my ultimate home is New York City. I dream of the day I'll step out of my townhouse onto 5th Avenue and hail down a taxi cab to take me to the next glamorous thing I have going on in my life. New York has always been my first love, and always will be. Nothing will stand in my way of getting there.

I tend to have a strange obsession with Chanel, and if you're around me long enough you'll figure that out. The first item I ever bought of Chanel were gorgeous earrings in which dangled from my ears so lightly. They were absolutely beautiful and from first glance I was in love. Since then I've made purchases of shoes and handbags, my other two faves. I pride myself on my interest on boots and especially in the Chanel boots, if I could own about every pair I would. The only thing that might be a close second to my life for Chanel would have to be Marc Jacobs or Michael Kors, I can never get enough of them as well.

Like I said before, I'll describe some other life aspects later on, this is just kind of a summary of where I'm at right now. From San Antonio, to Lubbock, to Spain, back to Lubbock, and now onto New York. Life has so many adventures in store for me, I can't wait to find out what's next.

xo,

Dirt City