Hi everyone!

Just wanted to shoot out a quick post that to preview some of the changes I plan on making in the next couple weeks. First of all, this site will be moving (I'll let you know where soon!). Secondly, laurenpiro.com is in the works! So that'll be up for you to check out soon too (or you can check out my snazzy "under construction" page right now).

Thirdly, I'm wrapping up this whole college thing - which as it seems, comes with quite the full calendar. I'll be filling you all in on that as it happens and I think many of you will be interested in staying with me (and my new space and my new web site) as my year progresses. I'm living the college to career in media lifestyle we're all trying to get advice on! So, use me (but leave comments).

How is everyone else's semester going?

My roommate is rather adorable. For the past two and a half  years she has decorated for every holiday - Halloween … Christmas … Flag Day. The list goes on. And of course, with the Hallmark day of love coming up soon, our apartment is bedecked in all things pink and heart-shaped. And chocolate. As I sit writing this to you, dear reader, there is a bowl of Hershey’s kisses not three feet to my right. And I’ve already eaten like 10 of them. If not more. Damn.

I’m the queen of lacking in self-control, so these taunting Kisses are becoming a problem. In fact, as a college student, I’m faced every day with more or less unlimted food whenever and wherever I want it. I think I can hide from calories in the library but then I hear the call of the pumpkin muffins in the study lounge cafe. If I have business to tend to in a certain academic building there are three eateries I must pass by to get there. And forget hanging out in student center. A ill-considered WildCard swipe is all it takes to turn an empty belly into a regret-filled stomach-ache. For reasons unbeknownst to me and my waistline, I've become somewhat of a cheese fries and salad addict - a habit that I am desperate to kick.

But alas, tomorrow is another day. What do you do to make healthy food choices each day?