30 Days of Blogging: April 30DoB Goal Review

1. Finish This Link-Up

Well this is post number 15 in the link-up so I didn't do TERRIBLE but no I didn't finish it. Honestly doing half of them is better than I expected. I'm going to try to go back and finish the rest but we will see. 

2. Finish My Photo a Day Challenge

I'll get this one finish today!!

3. Get Everything in My Living Room Unpacked

Ha...NOPE!! Not even close. Got another box out of there yesterday but this one is definitely not done...

4. Get All of My CDs and DVDs Put on Their Shelves (in Alphabetical Order...)

Yea this is another no...they're all still sitting in boxes. :/

5. Start Sorting ALL of the Scentsy Family Stuff I Have Scattered Through My House

I started a little bit with this but I'll get more done this weekend as I have to take some of my products to an event. I'm gonna count this as a success since I technically started! 

6. Figure Out What to Do With Our Yard

We have a plan...not much is in motion but we have a plan! 

7. Plan My Next Scentsy Family Team Meeting

We don't have a date set but I have promised that we have one coming very soon!! Maybe the date will be set today!

8. Get EVERYTHING Moved

It's all at the house...not unpacked yet but it's all moved over and our friend have moved into our old house. 

9. Get My Kitchen Table Moved In

Nope...not even close!

10. Stock My House With Groceries

Yes! I finally went grocery shopping and we have food in our cabinets! :) 

Ok so I did better than I thought I had. Maybe I'll get the rest finished up next month?? How did you do on your goals for the month?

30 Days of Blogging: Favorite 30DoB Prompt

Well since I love making lists and I love setting goals I have to say that my favorite prompt was:
Goals for the Month of April
I'm not doing the greatest on accomplishing any of them but at least I set goals for myself and thought about them several times through the month!!!

But since it was also a list my 2nd favorite was:
21 Facts About Me
I love writing random lists and sharing quirky things about myself so this was right up my alley.

I didn't do the greatest on keeping up on all 30 days but I'm trying to go back and do more of them so keep an eye out!!!

30 Days of Blogging: Wordless Wednesday

30 Days of Blogging: My Blog Besties

I read so many blogs that I could write about here but I don't interract with the writers much so here are the few that I do keep in touch with and know:

Well this fancy gal is Kelsey and she is the brains and beauty over at Keeping Up With Kelsey. We have probably met each other years and years before we knew it since our dads went to school together in the awesome little town of Wilber, NE. We however did start spending time together when I was the Nebraska Czech-Slovak Queen and she was the Wilber Czech Queen. Many crazy days and nights with not enough sleep in a car on our way to events. We once even considered the closest thing to a monsoon that Nebraska has around 2 in the morning. Soon after those adventures she joined my Scentsy team and we have spent time talking business with that. After she started blogging I decided to give it another whirl and here I am! She is sure to make you laugh and even teach you a little about agriculture or running if you check out her blog.What are you waiting for? Go CZECH it out....Keeping Up With Kelsey (yea sorry...had to do it!)

This beautiful mama is Tonja and she is the full time project manager over at The Sullivan Good Life. I have know Tonja probably since elementary school. Her younger brother and I were in school together for years before we got to know each other. We hit it off when we sat next to each other in band my sophomore year. I think she was the only reason I played all the way through sophomore year and when she graduated at the end of the year...I dropped out of band. She also joined my Scentsy team and this brought us closer together again. She inspires me in so many ways in watching her raise her 4 kids and do everything she can from home so she can be there with all of them. I have always dreamed of being a stay at home mom but thought that in today's day and age it was nearly impossible unless you live like pilgrims. She has proven this to be wrong and it gives me hope that maybe someday I can too. She has also inspired me to get healthy and get fit. Seeing the AMAZING results she has had doing the Beachbody workouts after she has become a coach makes me want to follow in her footsteps on that too! If you wanna see how this busy Mama does it all be sure to check out The Sullivan Good Life.

This strong and independent woman is Raewyn ruling the world over at Be a Warrior Queen. We actually got paired up for a Carabox and started messaging each other back and forth. We had so much in common and had a blast getting to know each other. I wish I could say we have kept in touch but I haven't been a very good blogger lately and have kinda fell off the face of the earth so I haven't been in touch with many people at all. I love her positive attitude and she was great at cheering me up and letting me know that someone cared when I was having a hard time in life. If you need to remember how strong of a woman you are and how big your place in this world is be sure to check out Be a Warrior Queen!

I don't know who else is out there? If you read my blog I would love to hear from you so I can get to know some of you!! :)

30 Days of Blogging: 21 Facts About Me

1. I love lists! Yupp...this is my favorite prompt yet! :) I am constantly making lists and sometimes making lists for my lists for my lists.
2. This year will be my golden birthday. I'll be 28 on June 28th. 
3. I have always wanted to have a radio show. No idea why this is but I think it would be great to share my opinions on things and help others figure things out. I would like to think that I am exciting enough for people to listen to. 
4. I have 3 black pugs...and an obsession with pugs in general. My puggies are my babies and even my husband knows where he ranks in comparison to them. ;) I will be a WRECK when I lose one of them.
5. I love to cook but hate to clean up afterwards. Luckily we have an agreement in our house that I cook and Brad does the dishes. We both end up happy this way so it is definitely working out. 
6. I want to someday own my own salon and spa. I would love to have my own space to take care of my own clients. Maybe just one chair and one facial bed but it would be MINE so that would make it perfect. After owning my own salon, I think that someday maybe I will try to teach in this industry. I love helping people and have watched my dad teach at the college level for years so this has always been in my sights. 
7. If I had a superpower I wish I could turn back time. Not to change things but just to relive them. I would love to have one last song at my favorite concert or one last adrenaline rush on my favorite roller coaster or one last hug with someone I've lost.
8. I'm a technology geek and love to have the latest and greatest technology but I try to step back and remind myself that brand new things often have problems. I often have to sell myself on NOT buying things.
9. I finally learned to shop for clothes by what they are and not just the price. I used to shop for things that were ok and wearable off the clearance rack. I always wondered how everyone else looked so adorable and I felt frumpy. This year I finally started shopping based on what I love and know I will wear. I feel a million times better about myself in the things I'm wearing now. 
10. While I am a technology geek as listed above...I have a hard time getting digital media and e-books. There is just something about having the CD with the insert or holding a book in my hands that won't die in the middle of me reading it that I have a hard time giving up. I have been known to buy a digital copy of something and if I love it enough I buy the CD/Book/DVD  too.
11. I hate being as tall as I am. If I knew there was a surgery I could have and I had the money to blow on it, I would have surgery to make me shorter. I would LOVE to be 5'5" or 5'6". (I am 6'1" for those that don't know how tall I am.) I have always been self conscious about my height and while it's gotten better over the years I hate when I get brave enough to wear heels and I walk somewhere for someone to say "OH MY GOSH...HOW TALL ARE YOU!??!?" Well...hello to you too. HAHA
12. I wish I was brave enough to move away from home. I wish I could pack up and move to Kansas City, Fort Worth, or Prague but I will likely never be brave enough to actually do it. 
13. I always hated Apple products and said I would never own one but I now own an iPod, iPhone, iPad, Airport Express, Apple TV, and Macbook Pro. I love how reliable their products are and am hooked...yes I'll probably be buying products from them for the rest of my life. 
14. I hope to someday have a job where I can travel a little for work. I would love to be a trainer for a product line or something where I can travel around the US or beyond for work but don't want to be traveling full time. 
15. I think I need to have kids or nanny again so I have an excuse for my love of Disney movies. :) Yes I have watched Frozen 4 times in the past month since I watched it for the first time and no I haven't ever watched it will a child. 
16. I'm TERRIBLE about procrastinating...I should be doing homework right now but instead I am blogging and avoiding it. 
17. I have a weakness for sushi and Mexican food. :) I can be full and will find a way to sneak in a few more bites with these. I always finish eating and feel miserable for hours afterwards. 
18. If I don't drink soda I get a HORRIBLE caffeine headache. I would love to quit drinking soda but I don't like coffee without a ton of sugar and creamer (which makes it no worse than soda) so I'll have to work to cut back before I quit cold turkey. 
19. I don't really like bologna but for whatever reason whenever I eat my mom's chili I love to have a bologna sandwich with it. I'm not sure how this started but me and my younger brother both do it. Mom's chili and a bologna sandwich with miracle whip. :) I also love adding vinegar and cheese to my chili.Yea..I'm weird. :) 
20. I was a vegetarian for 4 years. Not for a noble reason...only because my mom didn't believe I could do it and said if I did it would only last 2 weeks. I showed her....and made her mad I think....every day for 4 years. Yea...I'm a tad stubborn...
21. I've only gone hunting once but when I did I told my husband I was going to do everything. He figured I would try but chicken out on it. (Who would think the girl that was a vegetarian for 4 years would to it all. I shot the buck (only in the leg but he had to shoot the 2nd time because I was too shaken up as I had never shot at a moving target in my life) and then helped to drag it to the truck, field dress, skin and de-bone it. Nobody thought I would do it but I did it all! :) Guess the bonus of growing up with brothers is to not be afraid to get a little dirty. 

There you have it! 21 things that many of you don't know about me. :) I hope you do this too so I can read about you a little more! Can you relate to any of these or which do you think are really weird?

30 Days of Blogging: Did You Ever See Yourself Doing What You Do Today?

Did I ever see myself married and back in school full time to start a career in the beauty industry? Honestly? HECK NO!! Not until a few months before we got married.

I had finished my degree after many bumps in the road and had finally decided I wanted to do web design. I was even doing just that....and I still wasn't happy. I truly had a great job but it was only that...a job. I didn't love it and I didn't see myself doing it for the rest of my life. <insert dramatic soul searching music> I had to rethink everything in life...and I did just that. I loved meeting people and helping them, I am good at sales but don't like to be pushy, I love all of these things but how the heck to they add up?! </dramatic soul searching music> (Ok...if you got that thumbs up to you, that was part of that web design time in my life...) I realized that doing hair was it. I had always thought about it but was afraid that people would think it was a dumb career or I went because I wasn't smart enough for "real school." I didn't think I was the hairstylist type with the adorable clothes and cute hair...how would I fit in? Oh how I wish I would have looked past what other people thought right away.

I put in my 2 week notice 2 weeks before I got married and only told my new husband of my plans. We agreed to make it work. I went back to work for a few weeks to help them out between the wedding and when I started school and a week before I started classes I told my parents and everyone else what I had done. I think everyone thought I was NUTS but as time went on and they saw me working and doing well at school they opened up to the idea. The next bombshell was to tell them I wouldn't be finished after the 14 months...I was going BACK to school for the Esthetician program. As before there were a lot of opinions but now everyone is happy that I'm doing what I love and loving what I do.

I have to say the hardest parts of going back is the severe lack of time and the drama. Let me explain:
*The time - well this is pretty self explanatory. A newly married couple with a wife that goes to school 40 hours a week and works 25 hours a week. We haven't done a lot of the things my newly married friends and family have done but we are making it work. I just have to keep telling myself that when I'm done we will make up the missed vacations and fun times with friends.
*The drama - again...fairly self explanatory...I'm in school with 100 women and a lot of them are just out of high school. I grew up with brothers so I have always related more closely to men so that took some adjusting in the first place. It's definitely an adjustment but now that I'm working in the industry it is clear that women don't always grow up so no matter how hard you try to avoid it there will always be someone to cause drama.

What did I see coming? I always saw myself as married and starting a family by now. I still see that in the future and am happy that it has waited to help me accomplish some other things in life. I did see myself as a director with Scentsy after years working with this amazing company. I knew that with the team of men and women I have under me that it was a matter of time. I love it but wish I had more time for it...hopefully very very soon!

I can't complain about where my life is at these days and wouldn't take anything back but I definitely want to encourage people to work for their dreams. No matter how hard it is...if you want it bad enough...you will make it happen. It may not be the exact path you expected or even the exact results but work for it and know that nobody can stand in your way...if you don't let them!! :)

30 Days of Blogging: My Favorite Poem

Well someone told me today that I need to have kids because I'm just a big kid at heart with my love of Disney movies and coloring. :) I guess I'll just prove that even more by picking a "poem" by Dr. Suess. I love the words in Oh! The Places You'll Go! 

It's so inspirational but something that everyone from age 4 to 94 can be motivated by and relate to.

30 Days of Blogging: My Favorite Photo and Why

This is a pretty special photo from my wedding. :) I look like a total cheese ball but it's probably because I'm truly smiling from ear to ear to have this photo. It took us a LONG LONG time to get to this point but these guys are two of the most important men in my life, my brothers. We fought like cats and dogs as kids and I think my parents often wondered who was going to come out alive from day to day but now we are the best of friends and I can't imagine my life without them. They are my protectors, my advisors, and my best friends. I love you both more than you'll ever know!! <3

30 Days of Blogging: What People Do Not Understand About Me

I think that one thing that people always wonder about me is why I constantly have to be busy. I sometimes step back and wonder why I do it to myself. I guess I have been raised by 2 parents who don't know how ot say no to anything...and I got that gene for sure! I wish I could just do one or 2 things in life and feel satisfied but I don't want to miss out on anything. I feel like saying no to something that may be interesting to me is giving up an opportunity. This is why I try to squeeze out every minute of every day out of my life.

I also think that people don't think I have time for them and that isn't true at all. I am always busy but people don't realize that my friends mean more to me than anything else in the world. If I know that someone is having a get together I will likely at least find a way to stop by. Often people don't even invite me because they think I will be too busy to come. I will find a way to put family and friends above all else if I am given that opportunity.

Last but not least, I don't think that people realize how much I internalize things and take things to heart. I don't share my emotions much but when something bothers me it often eats at me for quite a while. The last thing I ever want to do is to disappoint or hurt someone else so if I feel I have done that it eats at me. I just want everyone to be HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY...even it that means that I'm not so happy.

There you have it...some of the things you don't know about me. :)

30 Days of Blogging: My Favorite Thing to Do on Sunday

My favorite thing to do on Sunday is to go to church and spend time with family. During the spring and summer I love grilling out and spending time with family and friends in the yard. (Maybe even the occasional nap.)

Unfortunately I don't do this as much as I would like to. I usually am too tired to get up to go to church.  (This is the one day of the week that i get to sleep in...not that this is an excuse.) On top of that, I usually work on Sundays as it is one of the only days that I am available every week.

I'm pretty excited about Easter Sunday because most of my family is coming to our church and while we won't all get to have a meal together (due to us all growing up, getting married or dating, and having multiple families to spend time with) we will get to spend time together throughout the day. I'm hoping maybe it's nice enough that after lunch we can all take a nap or something and get together at our house and spend time playing games in the yard and grill. A girl can dream...but knowing the Nebraska weather...we may have snow that day.

What are your favorite things to do with your Sundays? Do you have any exciting plans for Easter? I would love to hear about it!!

30 Days of Blogging: Share Your Favorite Workout Routines (And Why You Love Them)

Well...do you want me to pretend that I work out a lot? No...that would be a lie and since it's almost Easter...but I am TERRIBLE about working out. I like to be outside so walking outside is always nice for me but walking takes too much time...and I'm definitely short on time. I'm guilty of not wanting to sweat so that is a downfall for me. I don't mind dancing or playing Wii games that make me work a bit but that isn't much for a good workout. 

Maybe I'll re-visit this when I am able to start working out again.  LOL

A+ for honesty right?? HAHA!

30 Days of Blogging: These Are a Few of My Favorite Things, About Spring

I love rainy days...mostly on days when I can lay in bed and listen to the storm outside. Maybe read a book and look outside and watch the sky falling.

I love seeing the colors of summer on their way back! Green grass, colorful flowers, and blue skies bring a smile to my face. Planting the garden for the summer is also a happy sign of warmer weather coming.

I love grilling out (or making my husband grill rather) and spring marks the time that he's willing to stand out there and do it. Maybe part of this is the fact that I don't have to cook when we grill. :) I prepare everything and he does the grilling while I get to sit back, relax and maybe even have a few drinks.

Sandals, shorts, capris, and short sleeved shirts. :) I love getting to dress with 4 less layers!! Getting to pull out my much more comfy spring and summer clothes make me happy!!

There you have it! Just a few of my favorite things about spring! I can't wait until it comes...and STAYS this time! :) 

30 Days of Blogging: What Makes Me...ME!

• I am a licensed cosmetologist.
• My family means the world to me. 
• My family extends beyond blood relatives and marriages but many amazing friends that I love.
• I love pugs and have 3 of them that are my babies.
• I was Miss Czech-Slovak US in 2010-11 and my Czech heritage means the world to me!
• If I could live anywhere in the world it would be the Czech Republic.
• I'm back in school full time to become a licensed esthetician. 
• I am a workaholic.
• I blog to keep everyone I care about updated on what is going on in life but it is also almost therapeutic for me to be able to write.
• I love to read but don't have a lot of time to read anymore.
• Singing is another way for me to release the emotion and stress in my life. 
• I want to own my own salon someday.
• I LOVE traveling and want to see as much of the world as possible.
• I hope to skydive someday.
• I sometimes regret not joining the military as I once thought I wanted to do.
• My passion for life sometimes gets me into trouble because I want to do EVERYTHING! I just don't want to miss out or regret something. 
• I hope to never quit learning.
• I am VERY thankful for everything I have in life but I often forget to share it with everyone. 
• I care about people in general and have a hard time not helping others even if it means me suffering in some way.
• I bought a house 2 months after I turned 21 and only moved 1/2 block away from my parents. 

I think this sums up some of the things that make me...me in a few statements. I hope you learned something, related to me, or agreed with some of them. I would love comments of things you think make me special if you can think of more!!

30 Days of Blogging: My Biggest Fear

Well my instinct is to think of my biggest physical fear is needles...eek! Just thinking of them gives me the heebie geebies! I do have to say that I did make some strides towards getting over this TWICE now. My mom had complications with a hysterectomy when I was a freshman in high school and almost didn't live due to internal bleeding. She got 10 units of blood which saved her life. I've now donated blood twice to help give back what helped to save her life. I've promised myself that I would at least replace the units of blood that helped to save her in my life and maybe by then I'll be able to continue. (I still get VERY sick to my stomach and tremble in fear when I do this but I've done it more than once so I'm doing better...)

You never know who's life you will change!

My biggest non-physical fear is to regret saying or doing something or not saying or doing something. You just never know what will happen in life. I'm always afraid that I will do something and wish I hadn't or not have the time to do it. Or even not say something I wish I had before it is too late. It's been all too apparent that you never know when someone's life will be cut short especially in the past few months and you always wish you would have said something to them before they're gone. I just hope that it's never something major. I also want to do as much as I can in life before it's my time. I want to do so many things and never want to put them off in hopes or expectations that I will do them later. I may not have a lot of time in this world and I want to make an impact while I'm here! 

30 Days of Blogging: Your Goals for the Month

1. Finish This Link-Up

Seems minimal right? Well with my schedule thinking of getting on here every day will be hard but dang it...I'm gonna do it!

2. Finish My Photo a Day Challenge

Just one more thing to keep updated on every day but if I check them both at the same time I should keep on track!

3. Get Everything in My Living Room Unpacked

Ugh...I hate moving but I hate all of the boxes still in my living room more! One room at a time and in no time I'll have everything in it's place and a place for everything. It feels good to get rid of some of the junk I'm lugging around for no reason and the boxes of things I've gotten rid of already are proof of that. 

4. Get All of My CDs and DVDs Put on Their Shelves (in Alphabetical Order...)

This may seem minimal but if you could see all of them you would understand...maybe I'll post pics when this is done! 

5. Start Sorting ALL of the Scentsy Family Stuff I Have Scattered Through My House

Again...seems minimal but there are boxes of boxes of boxes of Scentsy Family items and a whole room dedicated to it that I need to get organized, I'm hoping to get everything at least separated and in the process of making a plan of how to put it back in there. 

6. Figure Out What to Do With Our Yard

Ugh! I hate the yard at this house (maybe because my parents took care of the first one and did all of the landscaping etc for me before we got married or even lived together.) I just want to scrap it all and start over but that isn't an option. We just need a game plan of how we are going to make this new yard work! No complaints on the amount of space we just need to get it into tip top shape now. 

7. Plan My Next Scentsy Family Team Meeting

I feel bad that I haven't had much time for the lovely ladies and gentlemen on my Scentsy Family team and I need to change that. I need to plan out a time to get together with all of them and catch up and help all of us get motivated to get out there and get our businesses back up and running full steam ahead. 

8. Get EVERYTHING Moved

The rest of our things are sitting in the garage now but I feel like there is a light at the end of the tunnel now. 

9. Get My Kitchen Table Moved In

This is what will happen if I get my living room unpacked and cleaned and the walls painted. 

10. Stock My House With Groceries

This seems like a tiny thing but if you think about the fact that I haven't shopped for groceries in MONTHS it is pretty big. Gonna cost me a lot but it will bet worth it to have something to eat at home and not have to eat out all the time. I just look forward to looking in the fridge and not wondering what on earth I might be able to eat. 

Check back tomorrow for more fun!!