I am going to start off by introducing myself to you.  My name is Starley, and yes it is my given name.  I am finishing up my Associate's degree this semester at DSU.  I am planning on receiving a Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education.  After high school, I went to the Skin Institute and became a licensed Master Esthetician.  Some people love this career, but I discovered that I do not.  When do most people go get facials, manicures and pedicures? When they are off work. That meant that I had to work nights, weekends and holidays.  Served and LDS mission in Missouri and when I returned I knew I was going to go back to school. I have been married for a year and a half and I love it.  We have a one year old puppy that I love.  Her name is Izzy and she is a cockapoo.  Some of my hobbies are to read and sing. I just finished a great children's novel.  It is entitled, The Mysterious Benedict Society.  There are two more books in the series that I cannot wait to read. I love learning and I find other peoples cultures fascinating.  Personally, I believe that I will thoroughly enjoy this class.
I have chosen to complete my blog on Baudelair's poem "Be Drunk." I agree with his poem because it emphasizes the importance of living your dreams and doing something you love. I am going to take the route of career to discuss this poem.  I went to a trade school and had all of the tools I needed to make a career but I did not like my job.  My life was miserable while I worked as an esthetician.  I would constantly think to myself, "I don't want to go to work today", and I would have a pit in my stomach all day long. My pay checks fluctuated depending on if it was the busy season or not.  I was not drunk because I hated what I was doing.  I returned to school to pursue a career that would allow me to be drunk because I would be doing something all day that I loved.
 It is important to do something that you love for work or else you will end up miserable.  For example, my mother does not like her job.  She does something with setting up health care systems and inputting the codes.  She complains frequently about how much she dislikes what she does.  I have told her many times that she should do back to school and do something that she loves.  There is not way to be drunk or truly enjoy your life when you dislike your job.  A full time job is five days a week from 9-5. That is forty hours or more that an individual spends wrapped up in what they choose to do for a living. When you enjoy it, you do not mind spending your time focused on your job.  It is easier when you are not at work to enjoy life.  I would come home from my esthetics job in such a bad mood and it would affect my home life.  Did I want that to happen? No, but at the time it was so hard to let work go and enjoy being home.  Now, I have a new job.  I pretty much get paid to hang out with kids and it has changed my life. I love my job and in return is has improved my overall quality of life.  I can now say that more often than not, I am drunk on happiness because I love my job.  That makes my life wonderful.