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Adventures of Brandi

36 year old with a Bachelor's of Journalism in Advertising degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Striving to make something of myself. Social Media and PR enthusiast! Husker fanatic, outdoor lover, event guru.

I got a Shake Weight

Today, I went to Walgreens and bought myself my own Shake Weight.

I had to come to Columbus today for work because I am working at the Platte County Fair until Sunday.  So I had a few open hours and I used my shake weight for the first time in my hotel room and did some ab work outs as well.  I could really feel the burn in my arms at the end of the 6 minutes and I am so excited to see what my arms will look in a couple weeks if I push myself to use it every single day, maybe even twice a day if I could.

I am really trying to work at this being more active and eating right.  It has been a rollercoaster that I can not stay on because I seem to keep falling off.  However, I believe in myself that the shake weight will get me to start exercising and being a little more active.  Now, I just need to push myself to eat more healthy.

I am off to bed to get some sleep for tonight before I start a heavy work week with Nebraska Lottery.

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Tomorrow’s Plan

So my work schedule for the Lottery was goofed up and now I am not working until Thursday.  So I picked up a few hours at the daycare I work at occasionally.  Things are about to get really busy through the next few weeks with all the county fairs that I have to work at, but the paychecks will be really worth it.  I am excited for the a lot of excitement through July and August!

I need to do a few things tomorrow that I may not be able to do in the next few weeks:

1. Work at the daycare 6:30-11:30am

2. Lay out and Tan

3. Rollerblade

4. Catch up on some reading for my summer online class.

5.  Clean my room and do some chores around the house.

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It has been a while…

Life has been a little busy for me lately and I have not had time to sit and type on my computer.

I got done with a three week summer class a couple weeks ago and since then I have been traveling a lot for my job with Nebraska Lottery!  We have been to Omaha, North Platte and Duncan, Nebraska.  This weekend we will be working fourth of July celebration in Seward, Nebraska.

I also just moved into a duplex with three other girls and I am loving it!  Things in life are surely looking up and I can only see more good things coming my way (at least I hope!)

I am currently taking an online summer class and my first paper is due by tomorrow night so I’m spending most of today trying to finish writing it so I can turn it in and have it done.

I need to do better at updating my blog, I believe I will start keeping a journal while I am on the road with my job and then when I get to a computer I can just type them all up.

Have a great rest of the week and and great 4th of July!

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Learning to cooking

I added a new adventure to my life: COOKING!

I am beginning to learn how to cook and bake delicious recipes.  I believe at the same time it is teaching me not to eat out as much because the more I can learn how to cook and make a recipe makes me happy for the ability to complete the process. 

Last week I made homemade monster cookies and tried a simple s’mores recipe from Family Circle.

This week I plan on trying an easy enchilada recipe and a chocolate cake recipe. 

If anyone has a good ideas for something I should learn to make then please give them to me.

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Having a Good Work Ethic

These past couple of years between my jobs and school, I have learned a great deal on what it means to have a good and hard work ethic.

Here are few things I have learned about having a good work ethic.

1.  Don’t ever be late-  Things have to be done, in any kind of work place and some people do not have a lifetime to wait.  When there are deadlines to be met then they need to be done.  There are no excuses for things to be done, there are only fingers to be pointed when things are not done on time and those fingers will be pointed at the one responsible for getting it done.  It amazes me that people spend more time in a day coming up with an excuse of why something is not done on time, when it would take less time just to do the work.   The smart thing to do is to get it done and get it done early.  This also goes for being on time, when you are told to be somewhere then be there on time.  I am always an early person, I tend to show up about five to ten minutes before I am scheduled to be somewhere.  A boss of mine once told me that “if you are ON TIME, then you are already late.”  Again, unless of extreme circumstances and things that you can not handle then there are no other excuses for being LATE.

2. Plan, Plan and Plan-  Always plan ahead, it is always better to be safe then sorry.  An old saying is “what you don’t get done today, someone is getting done right now.”  Plan ahead and plan in advance, don’t ever wait til the last minute.  Things always seem to be more complicated when you wait til the last minute because not everything will get done.  Time is of the essence and the sooner you begin on a project, the more time you may have will give you more time to change things before a due date.

3.  Be Creative-  In just about any job a person may, a good creative mind is the key to success.  Don’t stress, if you may not have a creative mind, it is alright to ask for help from others to do things and get insights from.  Ideas bounce off of others and I think we can all agree.  Learn to work with others, but don’t ever let others steal your ideas.

4.  Don’t trust others-  Be careful about what you say to others and be careful about sharing your ideas.  As I have said some people may steal ideas.  You never know who, so it is always good to just keep somethings to yourself until you are ready to share you ideas because everything else is already planned.

***I am not saying that just because I follow these tips that I am the best worker ever, but these are few things I believe that help others to have a good hard work ethic in not only life, but the workplace as well.  Afterall, what we achieve today will lead to successes in the future!***

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Snacks for Studying

I enjoy a lot of kinds of foods, but there are a few foods and beverages that always help get me through to help me focus on studying for tests:

1.  Fruit Punch

2.  Dr. Pepper

3.  Special K Crackers

4.  Goldfish

5.  Orange Jello

Try these sometime while you are studying… they will help give you a little boost of energy.

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Trying to study for finals…

Studying for finals is a hard to stay concentrated on.

Here are some of my study breaks I seem to have:

1. Phone chat with a friend.

2. Online chat with a friend.

3.  Go for a little drive in the car.

4.  Cleaning

5.  Take a bath

6.  Listen to music and dance

7.  Go rollerblading

8.  Organize and plan my summer

9.  Wander around campus

10.  Take a long nap

I pretty much thing I can be productive at anything else in life, besides studying.

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Sunny days…

Sunny days always make me so happy!

I’m getting ready to kick off the second year in a row with my job at Nebraska Lottery!  Continue to follow my blog, twitter, or facebook on where you can find the Nebraska Lottery Spin N Win game this summer at various events around Nebraska!

This coming week we will be at the Honky Tonk BBQ Festival in North Platte, Nebraska.  Friday May 7th-Sunday May 9th.  Come check us out!

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When my dreams come true…

It was said once on One Tree Hill:  “When all your dreams come true, who is standing next to you?”

It is starting to hit me that I am at the age where I am entering the real world.  A majority of my friends that I grew up with in Lincoln are graduating college and getting jobs else where.  I have a number of friends that I have met in college that are graduating and moving back to home states.  Yes, it is depressing.  Have I cried about it: YES.

I don’t think that people ever grow apart from each other, we all just learn that some point in life we grow and begin the rest of our lives.  When my friends and I graduated high school there were some of us that stayed here in Lincoln and others that went to out of state schools.  However, the one thing that kept us together was coming back home to Lincoln.  Now all I am hoping for is that the University of Nebraska brings my college friends coming back to visit.

I am learning that this is not goodbye; this is see ya later because we are all going on to do bigger and better things with our lives.  It is our time now to change the world for the better and make a difference while we are at it.  It is our time to grow up, get married, have children, buy a house and operate a family.

I just pray that I do not lose connection with all my friends.  I want them to be by my side when all my dreams really do come true.

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