Boa

Today, I want to be a part of any kind of profession where it is acceptable to be wearing a feather boa at all times. I'm not entirely sure what field this would fall in or what career path I need to take to make this happen, but, currently, that's all I want out of my life.

Float

Today, I want to design parade floats. Sparkly, larger than life, and never short of anything but epic, I think my two cents and uncanny knack for puns and colors could definitely bring some magic to the world of parades. I will be highly sought after for all the main events, but I'll never get tired of seeing a parade. And no, no one will ever rain on mine either. FYI.

Wanderlust

Today, my wanderlust has reached its height as I read Eat, Pray, Love and I just want to give in to it. I want to go everywhere. I want to see the world. I want to travel, try new things, make new friends all across the globe. I will wear a Carmen Sandiego hat and vintage Chanel sunglasses and I will be magnificent in my quest to leave no path untraveled.

Marine Biologist

Today, I want to be a marine biologist. I want to understand why fish and dolphins swim and eat and flit about the way they do. I want to get paid to swim with said fish and get to know them on a first name basis at my underwater office every day. Besides, there are literally fish everywhere on the planet. So I could go anywhere, everywhere and study them all.

Writing

Today, I want to write about things that don't really matter. Frivolous things like what kind of mascara is the best to make your eyelashes pop and what pick up lines really do work best. I don't want to write about politics and problems and tragedy. I want to talk about theatre and pretty dresses and flowers and stunning hairstyles. I want to write about how to perfect the ponytail and reinvent your messy bun. These things distract, keep us going when life is 12 paces ahead of us and the world is crumbling around our shoulders. There is happiness in their simplicity. And I would like to be a part of that.

Mommy

Today, I want to be a mommy. I want to chase my children and kiss them and let them help me scramble eggs in the morning. I will take them to Colts games and help them figure out the mysteries of piggy banks and every single day will be some kind of grand adventure. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next year. But someday. I think sometimes, there is just nothing more than you can want than this.

PS~ My mom is the most amazing mom in the world. And my friend Kelli, who has a two year old that she loves endlessly and perfectly. They inspire me. Every single day.

Flight Attendant

Today, I want to be a flight attendant. Meeting all kinds of new people, seeing all kinds of new places. Getting to wear a cute little uniform and flirt with cute businessmen flying to meetings on the opposite end of the country from the rest of their lives. Ah, yes. Chilling with the pilot, looking at the grand canyon on the regular then graduation to transatlantic flights. Never in the same place for too long but always the opportunity to come home and light for a few days. Perfection. In the form of a life lived among the clouds, closer to the sun, closer to the stars.

Sushi Chef

Today, I want to be a sushi chef. Sushi is the chic-est of all food choices that an educated urbanite can make and the person that makes the sushi is at the top of that food chain. Combining ingredients for rolls and choosing the best looking fish at the market; all to make your customers' mouths water and leave them begging for more. I could totally handle that respect.

Weddings

Today, I want to work with weddings. I want to make them beautiful. Or write about them. Or just be in a whole bunch of them. Or take photos of them as a second shooter if I ever replace my decent camera. Someone kind told me I light up when I talk about weddings today at lunch. I feel like I light up inwardly when I talk about them or think about them or read about them or ponder what color flowers would match shoes like the ones that girl over there is wearing; is it true from the outside in too? I hope so.

Flowers

Today, I want to have a flower shop. I want to sell daisies to people visiting their sick best friends and roses to nervous, fidgety men prior to greatly anticipated first dates. And I want to see the smiles when people know they have picked out exactly the perfect arrangement to make whoever they are taking their flowers to smile. :)

Lights

Today, I want to be the person that creates the patterns of who has to leave what lights on to spell words on the sides of skyscrapers. I feel like the challenge would be great, but seeing your work all lit up all over the place would be epic. Besides, you definitely have to be able to spell to do that and that is something I can definitely do!

One Job

Today, I want to have one job. I want to love what I do and get to do it full time and not need 73 jobs to support myself and pay my rent. I feel like this would contribute greatly to adult me's overall well being and emotional satisfaction with life.

Money

Today, I want to not have to worry about money when I grow up. I don't needs billions of dollars, but I aspire to live comfortably, be able to pay my rent and have cute shoes without serious buyer's remorse. It would be much more enjoyable to not think about how I blew through all of my savings in two years or concern myself with how to fund the things I want to do with my life, since they all seem to involve the dreaded unpaid intern path as a stepping stone to something more real, more solid. Money can't buy you happiness but it damn sure helps out along the way.

Seamstress

Today, I want to be a seamstress. I want to thread machines and do half loop stitches on China silk (bonus points if you know why you can't do that) and design beautiful dresses that beautiful women will fall all over themselves to buy in my super trendy and way too adorable for words boutique. I will design and add bows and ribbons and tiny fluourishes and buttons and ruffles on everything. My clothes will look like me and I will have a hand in the construction of all of them.

Uptown Girl

Today, I want to be an Uptown Girl. I think I would fit in well in a white bread world and I could sooooo get used to presents from my Uptown Boys. Billy Joel only sings about the best kind of women, and I think I am best kind of women material. So, Mr. Joel, start writing a song for this downtown for now but soon to moving uptown to fortune and fame and a smaller room girl.

Singer

Today, I just want to make music when I grow up. I want to sing like a bird, be light on my feet, enchant people with my haunting melodies. I love music. It moves me, pushes me forward when my feet don't quite know where they are supposed to be going. That's a love you can't just ignore.

Smart

Today, I just want to be smart. I want people to think intelligent when they think of me, have my name be synonymous with knowing something, being the go to girl about...something. Mostly, I guess I'd just like my peers to take me a little more seriously.

Cupcakes

Today, I want to have a bakery. I will create adorably divine baked goods (things like sangria cupcakes and quadruple chocolate chip pound cake) and my shop will be cozy with tiny tables and flowers and mismatched coffee mugs. You know the kind. And perhaps, I will have regular customers who will love me and crave what I'm making the way I'm craving a Ron Bennington cupcake from Molly's today...

Ballet

Today, I want to be a ballet dancer. I want to dance through life and be constantly just a pirouette away from a dance break (I think this is how Jason and Vanessa live their lives and a huge contributing factor to their wonderfulness) It is never too late to learn, right?

Dreams

When I grow up, I want to know that I followed my dreams as far as I possibly could. I want to know I did what was brave, found courage when I was lost. My friends are all pursueing their dreams and they constantly inspire me to reach further and dig deeper, and, when I look back on my life, I'd like to know I did just that.