So I’ve come up with an idea. I’m going to call it ‘I give it a year’. I’m not sure what made me come up with this. It might be the five-year anniversary of me being in LA and the thought that if I’m here, doing what I’m doing now, in another five years then I need rescuing from my life. Or it might be the recent earthquakes. Either way I know I need to shake things up.
Now don’t get me wrong, I have a lovely life. For a 25-year-old. Or even a 35-year-old. So if ‘She’s my mommm’ didn’t wake me up to the fact that things need to change, then something certainly has.
Ok! With the caveat of the aforementioned ‘I have a lovely life’. This is what I need to change:
(I could speed this up by saying ‘everything’.)
1 - I need my own place. I love the people I live with. I honestly mean that, they are part of my LA family, but I’m too old to share, and I can’t be 50 with roommates (I don’t even know how to spell that. Is it 1 or 2 m’s? Is it two separate words? Is it hyphenated? If you can’t spell it then it shouldn’t be a thing in your life)
2 - I need to go on dates. Or even one. Yawn.... but I also don’t want to be single at 50/forever (right now that feels like the same thing) Let’s see if there are actually any straight, single men in this town!
3 - I need a new job. Again, see above for I’m happy with my life, but I moved here because I’m an actress so yeah.... that!
So I need a new home, a job and a man (ok, I don’t ‘need’ a man but you know what I mean) That’s not much is it? So I’ve decided what if I gave it a year and did all of the crazy things that LA has to offer and even the not so crazy things that mean I live here, really here and not half here and half there (you know where ‘there’ is)
So in the spirit of ‘it’s for the blog’ and in the spirit of ‘what if I really did this, even just for a year’, watch this space. It might not be pretty but it’s certainly going to shake things up! And if I have to eat carbs and drink wine along the way, then so be it.
