Well, hey I’m Laura. Welcome to my blog about my life. Exciting, right? Another blog dedicated to the typical life of a girl in the Midwest, but trust me...my life is anything but typical. My friends always joke that MTV should find me because really weird, random, funny things happen to me…and if by some weird chance MTV ever sees this, I’m kidding, please don’t actually come and find me. I like my untelevised life.

Oh did you like that really awesome, long run on sentence? Believe it or not, I used to be journalism major, but I changed that. I woke up one day and couldn’t write anymore, nothing I wrote was up to my standards, and I couldn’t imagine doing it for the rest of my life. I switched to marketing last semester, which I hated. (HATED, might I add with a burning passion. Self inflicted torcher.) I’m a people pleaser and I thought marketing sounded okay, and it made my dad happy so why not give it a shot. (And now you know why I switched…again…for obvious reasons).

Some fun background information for you, I moved out in May of 2010, a year after I graduated high school…and now you know how old I am lol Anyway, basically, it’s been an interesting past couple of years. I consider myself to be pretty well on the conservative side, and I’ve learned my roommates are the opposite…in both of my living situations so that’s taken some adjusting, but I’m making it.

And that paragraph ties in with whatever else I’m telling you because I decided November 1 was when I was going to start changing my life. I gained 30 lbs in my first year and a half of being moved out. Basically, I was at breached whale status; seriously.  However, I will have you know that after a couple months of hard work, I am back to the size I was in high school…meaning yes, I lost 30 lbs lol (Praise the Lord) and am on my way to losing another 15…which will happen by my birthday because I am a pusher, and if I say I’m going to do something, I do it. So give me 2.5 months, and I will officially never look like a lard again.

I also decided to change my major to something I wanted to do. Me. Something that would make ME happy. I had an art class last semester, and it made me remember how much I loved being an artsy weirdo, so I switched my major to graphic design. Have no fear I am only graduating a semester late, which I can accept for the trade of having a career I am happy with as opposed to graduating on time and wanting to slam my head against the wall every day at work. So there’s that.

In the meantime, I also left where I had been working for 2.5 years. Not going to lie, it was hard, but I have a much better job now, which I am still adjusting to…but it’ll all work out.

Basically November pulled me out of a huge rut. Lame as it sounds it gave me hope in a lot of areas, because I was finally doing something for me. Such a great feeling.

Novembers awesomeness carried into December (after the stress of finals was over) which pretty much brings us to now, 2012; which I have decided is going to be the best year of my life. I know this should be my goal for every year, but this year I am really motivated. Reasons being, but not limited to…

1. 12 is my favorite number.

2. I’m going to get in the best shape of my life.

3. I’m applying to an art school. I started the application tonight. If I get in, you’ll hear about it. If I don’t you won’t, but cross your fingers for me, they accept ¼ of the applicants…so it’s kinda a big deal if I get in : ) Sidenote: It’s in the top 10 schools for graphic design and besides it looking awesome on my resume, and getting me out of this town, this is not the only perk to it. However, we’ll get to that later. I’ll just give you a clue, he’s the best.

I think that’s it…more posts to come!