I want to be famous!

I don’t remember the rest of that Pussycat Dolls song.  But when I was younger, I did want to be famous.  I LOVED the movie Grease, and I wanted to be Sandy.  NOT the poodle skirt wearing Sandy, but the one at the end of the movie.  I was about six when I begged my mom to let me be Sandy for Halloween.  She said sure, and I was convinced I would have a rockin’ black outfit with a tight fitting leather jacket.  I did not have either of those, and instead I had a baby blue poodle skirt with my white Sunday blouse.  I was not happy, but I did get a lot of candy, so I couldn’t complain too much.

When I finally figured out Sandy was just a role Olivia Newton John played, I decided to be Olivia Newton John. When my parents explained to me how that wouldn’t work, I thought I would be an actress. What little girl didn’t have that dream?  When I was about 13, I decided I wanted to be a doctor - specifically a pediatrician.  My mom was SO proud.  I held on to that dream until I was in 11th grade, when I realized that the idea of 10 more years of school and hundreds of thousands of dollars of school loans was NOT something I wanted.  Writing, more specifically story telling, was always something I excelled at, so I looked to journalism.  As you can tell, those plans went awry with the birth of my oldest, though I was fine with that.  Dreams change as we grow.  Right now, I can’t say I am doing the ‘job’ that I thought I would be doing when I played house with my friends, but I also can’t say there is any other job I would rather have right now.

Roy also wanted to be a doctor - a neurosurgeon… my own McDreamy!  And he got further along in his quest to practice medicine… two years of college, pre-med.  But his interests shifted into computers, and that interest brought him up to 2011 and the career he has now.

The boys on the other hand are all over the map…

Corey, who is about to graduate, should be thinking about the future in some respects. On the other hand, I realize it is a scary prospect for him.  He has always loved food. Eating it, making it, wasting it… you name it.  He took Culinary Arts 1 last year and really enjoyed it.  He is taking the advanced class this year, and I think he likes it even more. If we ask him right now, at this very moment, he wants to be a chef, but that could change.  All he knows is he wants to be involved in the restaurant/food business in some way.

Joe wants to be just like Dad (Roy).  But ask him what Dad does, and he isn’t quite sure, just that it relates to computers.  So, for now he just says he wants to be a computer programmer. But, truth be told, I’m not even sure what Roy does!

Addi is obviously being swayed by my love of tattoos and the TV show NY Ink.  He has decided he wants to be a tattoo artist. Of course, that will probably change next week, but you never know.  As it stands right now, if he was an artist that specialized in skulls with fire coming out of them, and there is a real market for that, he could make a bundle.

Hayden changes his mind quickly.  One minute he wants to be a member of SWAT. The next he wants to be a cop. Then he wants to be a “Black Op.”  Joe and I told him Black Ops are secret operations that special forces in the military perform.  So, while he changes his mind, often his interests all seem to have something to do with law enforcement.

I asked Dean what he wanted to be when he was big like Daddy.

“Hmm… I want to play with toys.” He answered confidently.

“You want to play with toys?”  I was amused.

“Yes, toys that Daddy buy me.  I play with them.” He replied.

And he ran off to tell his Daddy about his aspirations.  Roy is very proud.