Today is the first day, of the rest of my life.

I haven't blogged in a long long time, but mostly because nothing much was going on with my life. I've living at home, working at the Smart Style salon inside the Walmart by my house. getting a bit over minimum wage, and pretty much just existing. But I don't want to just be. I want to excel. I want to live life and love every second of it.
I've lived back in Richland for just over two years since graduating hair school. My plan was to move straight to Seattle, but that didn't happen.
Yesterday I got a call from someone I haven't talked to in years. My high school friend Roman. He is living in Seattle, taking a break from art school, doing free lance art work for various people. Living in a crappy apartment and barely making rent each month. I woke up this morning and realized that that is exactly what I need to be doing. Roman does what he wants, when he wants. He is on his own with no safety net. Next month him and Molly are going to go to Paris and live for a month. Just for the hell of it. Neither of them speak french. After this trip they will both be beyond broke. But they will be excelling at life.
I don't want to be stuck in the tri-cities for any longer than I have to. I don't want to live, safe and warm, but utterly boring in my parents basement. I don't want to go to a job every day that I only enjoy 20% of the time.

I vow, here and now to the internet and whoever reads this blog that by my birthday next year, March 30th, 2012 I will be living in Seattle.

I want to find a job that can take me places, where I feel my skill is not only expected, but appreciated. Where no one grumbles about the price of foils, where making money is not the main objective of it, rather the goal is to make a positive influence upon the lives of those who enter the doors by way of showing them their inner beauty via hair. I want to live in a town which doesn't boast as one of the biggest events a rodeo or Cowboy Poetry reading. A town where I am not listed as one of the weirdest of residents.
I need to be around people not necessarily closer to my own age, but people who are at a similar place in their lives. I've done with school and want to be around grown ups who pay rent, buy groceries and have bigger concerns than mid-terms and essays.

From now on, the only money I will spend will be the tips I receive. 100% of my pay checks will go to paying off student loans, and saving.