Why i'm not waiting around for prince charming

Although I do love Disney and adore each and every movie they make (yes i'm a fan of Frozen) I do not agree with a concept that is portrayed in nearly all princess movies.
With a few exceptions all of the princesses are gorgeous, always have perfect hair and make up and can sing better than the contestants of shows like 'the x factor' and 'american idol'.

All of these girls manage to have amazing talents; whether that's talking with animals, accomplishing a whole day's worth of work in fifteen minutes, sewing dresses out of curtains ect. they all have that special something that makes them more than the average girl.
And nearly every single one of these princesses lives a life filled with perfect beauty and talent, singing about change and meeting the perfect guy. And the second they meet that guy, they fall in love with them and soon forget everything else.
Because of this, nearly every little girl and boy grow up thinking they have to be perfect and super talented and  better than everyone else. And when they meet that one person, they'll automatically know and obviously live happily forever after.

Sorry to disapoint, but that's not the truth. That's not what life is like.
Not everybody is born as a super model.
Not everybody can do everything perfectly.
Not everybody falls in love at first site.

If that's what life was meant to be like then what would we expect of ourselves?

I myself believed this expectation, I grew up thinking I had to be as pretty and as skinny as the next girl. I grew up thinking that one day, I'd get that look and share a twinkling in my eyes with the guy I'm meant to be with forever. And that would be it. The point of my life would have been made. And until that happens, I should spend every waking moment preparing and perfecting myself.

That's not the truth. Yes, it's a part of life and yes it's important to me because I yearn to have a family of my own one day. But i'm not going to spend all of my time trying to be the perfect disney princess.

I'm going to be me. I'm going to laugh a hundred different ways for a hundred different reasons. I'm going to soak up the sunshine so that my freckles pop out. I'm going to smile and discover and learn new things. I'm going to make mistakes and learn from them. I'm not going to try to look like a disney princess and play a handful of instruments and bake amazing cakes (even if I'm obviously a princess at heart). Being yourself is the most inportant thing you can do and embracing every part about yourself is what makes you so unique. 

Never ever ever forget that. 

apologies are a common theme in the book of my life

I'm sorry.

I've pretty much disappeared off the face of the blogging world this past month but I do have some great and some not so great excuses:

-I worked for about half of my spring break
-I studied for the other half of said spring 'break'
-I had a lot of seminary sleep to catch up on (this is a huge priority for now but I only have 2 days left!!!)
-I'm still either writing these posts on my tiny phone or attempting to borrow my parents' laptops
-It was my birthday! Yay!
-I had oral finals (finally officially finished attempting to speak sophisticated German & French)
-I have the rest of my finals to study for and cry about (they are a lot more tough than U.S. high school finals...from what I've heard)
-I've been going on super cute adventures with friends from school and church
-I've been dreaming about BYU way too much

I hope these suffice because I'm struggling to think of more.

Luckily I've only just realized that blogger is amazing and allows you to schedule when to post blog posts so I'll try to be more organised from now on :)

Hope you're having a great week!

Lots of Love,
Reilly Michele

Day 10 - 15

10 - my daily routine :
5.40 wake up for seminary, get dressed, fall back asleep again until my dad drags me out of the house and into the car
6.15 - 7.05 seminary (can't believe it's my last year already!)
7.20 - 8.30 finish getting ready for school, have breakfast, make lunch, do leftover homework and go to school
8.40 - 16.00 school, consists of 40% socialising / extra curricular a (mostly volunterring) and 60% trying to do well in lessons (note the trying part)
16.00 - 17.30 diddle dallying with my brothers or napping or if I have a ton of homework I'll be doing that already
17.31 - 19.00 family time : dinner, scripture study, watching a movie / playing a game (great time of the day
19.01 - 20.00 procrastinate by either watching random videos and dancing or playing with my kid brothers
20.01 - 23.00 study time :,( filled with stress, incompetence and confusion. If there's any time left over I fill that with napping, working out (please don't laugh... I do actually work out sometimes) or talking to friends and dreaming about my future.

What does your daily routine look like?

11 -  the last book you read :

I'm ever so slowly reading the book thief. I have a tendency to read 3/4 of a book and then get distracted by school work or other things in life. So I remember the beginnings and middles of books pretty well...not so much the endings ;)

12 - something that you miss :

I miss the way I felt about life as a kid. I had no worries, nothing that stopped me from doing what I wanted, no doubts, simple fears. I felt safe, protected from the world because somebody always had my back. I miss the days when I didn't have to worry about financial support for college or what I'm meant to do about my future career life. I miss always being happy or when I was grumpy my mood could be changed by food or a toy. Yes, as a kid I yearned to grow up and be treated like an adult. But hey, I had no idea what I was getting my self into. Didn't we all? I urge kids to embrace kid hood, enjoy it while it lasts. The day will come where you can't act like a child and be super happy. People will stare and think you're mentally unstable and sadly, that day comes quicker than you'd wish.

13 - do you have any regrets?

Yes, but luckily they are all pretty simple ones, nothing life changing. Sometimes I wish I has listened to advice or done what my mother said. They really knew what was best for me.
I also regret stupid fears I used to have. Ones that really controlled my actions. I wonder how different I would be if I hadn't have had them.

Do you have any regrets? Small or big?

14 - What's on your iPod?

Truth be told, I have never owned an apple product (and I call myself and American...how disgraceful). No, I'm not poor or underprivileged because I never followed the mac crew. But i will never get sick of listening to Michael Bublé. Who would?

15 - list ten things that make you awesome

1. The fact that I'm a dual linguist. Oh yeah (makes up for my lack of musical talent)
2. My teeth aren't perfectly straight. That mostly just gives me character but I will forever have kiddy teeth
3. I adore Disney! Multiple friends have told me I should start a Disney blog but I love this one so I'll just start a Disney section ;)
4. I got 3 inches of my hair chopped off and it looks exactly the same. Magical
5. I can't whistle
6. I spend way too much time thinking about the future. My friend and I have already decided how our kids are going to dress and what we'll do with our cats if all else fails.
7. I love to cuddle
8. I'm the only girl in a five kid family
9. I've lived outside of my home country for longer than I have in it.
10. I make up crazy raps and rhyming bedtime stories.

Maybe that turned out to be more of a random facts about me list but hey ho!


So I think this system is working out quite well.

Til we meet again,

Reilly Michele

I suck at challenges

Life got busy :,(

I really wanted to do this whole challenge but well... Things happened.
Easter has been super busy with work, school work, spending (little) time with friends and trying to squeeze as much time as possible into the relationships I have with my brothers and parents. It's starting to dawn on me that I'll be living half way across the globe in just four short months. That's crazy!!

I really wonder how much will change whilst I'm gone. I hope Ashton doesn't grow up because if he does, I think that will just be the end of me. My baby brother will always have to be my baby brother, even when he's graduating High School, preparing to severe a mission and getting married.

Did you notice how easily I get off track?

Way too easily.

Any who I think I'll try to squeeze as many if these challenges as possible into one blog post just so I finish this challenge before my birthday :)

Happy blogging!

Reilly Michele

Day 9 - what's on my bucket list

Oh dear... I know i'm way behind on this blogging challenge but I will make up for it :) I promise!

Luckily day 9 was pretty easy!

I actually have a seperate page (as you can see) with my bucket lidt on it! So don't be afraid to have a look at it! (all the things crossed out are things I've managed to do / places I've visited)

Hope you've had a wonderful weekend!

Lots of love,

Reilly Michele
(by the way the circus was brilliant! More info to follow)

Day 8 - my biggest pet peeve

Hmmmm... Today's another tricky one!

So I think I'll start out by saying what the highlights of this week have been so far / will be!

-Studio C season 4 started on monday night! I seriously adore that show! It's BYUtv's wonderful squeeky clean comedy sketch show and I supercalifragilistically hope that I can see them perform / go to a meet & greet next school year! Whenever I need some cheering up, I watch one of their sketches!
Can I just say Hi-BISQUE-ous ;) (If you didn't laugh then you should obviously go watch studio C on byutv or youtube!)

-salad! I adore salad and eating healthy and yum yum yum yum yum! Recently my parents have been on a super healthy craze and I'm loving it! It means I get to work out with my momma and eat all of their healthyness with them! The salad I instagramed was the bomb! (Yes, I know I sound sad instagraming salad but you have no idea how freakishly good it tasted...I might have to start a recipe page!)

-my new job! I had a training thingy for it tonight and my first full day is this friday! It's literally the cutedt job ever! I get to work with kids and animals and jungle gyms and cuteness. Plus everyone is super nice and the kids are super ethusiastic!

-Easter break starts thursday!

-I'm going to the CIRCUS with my super cool bestest grandparents ever!!! Eeekk! :) They very muchly take my family on awesome random trips (We went to see BYU Ballroom last june!). Plus they are adorably sweet and very suportive. They've alreay told me they want to buy me something useful for college but I already have luggage so if you have any ideas, don't be afraid to comment them!

- I get to volunteer at my momma's school for the day! Her students are super sweet and they quickly love anyone and everyone! I haven't worked with them in a while so I'm excited to see them this week!

-It's my best fwiend's birthday on Friday and I get to give her my present! :) It is rediculously cute (and childish)!

This is a pretty productive week for.me! There's not usually this many highlights (I'm surprised that I didn't include napping in that list).

So what is my biggest pet peeve?
I really cannot even think of one!

But I really don't like :

-when people send me game requests on facebook or people that complain all the time (I actually unfriend those people)

- kids that want to grow up. I made that mistake and that's probably my biggest regret. Just enjoy a responsibility and stress free life! Remember when choosing what to get at the candy store was the most stressful thing ever? I miss that.

-people that don't like Disney (they are not in my good books)

- not feeling good enough. There is too much negativity and comparing in schools and in the world. We need to encourage and support people, even when they don't seem to need help.

And that's all I can think of for now! So what's your pet peeve?

Hope you have a great wednesday and always think positively (and also don't send me game requests!)

Love,

Reilly Michele

Day 7 - my dream job & why my parents are the best!

Dream job for me?

Is Disney movie watching a job?

[I'm being serious!]

I'd absolutely love to work in Disneyland! Or in any other Disney related workplace! But I know that won't be happening any time soon :'(

But I need to be realistic. Right now I'm focused on school, starting college {at the best university ever!} and preparing to serve a mission for me church.
I'm pretty jealous of all my mormon guy friends that don't have an awkward year in between finishing high school and going on a mission for my church but I'm sure I'll still have a great 19th year of life (which starts in 27 days people!!), even if it isn't dedicated to serving a full-time mission.

Oh boy do I get easily distracted!

So what is my real dream job?

Besides dreaming of working for the best company ever, and hoping to use my love for languages to inspire and help others [either whilst serving a mission or working as an elementary teacher in a foreign country (teaching English in Africa or working in an international school in Dubai would be amazing!)], one of my greatest aspirations is to be a mother.

Moms are the best teachers in the world! They nurture and teach their children in a way the word cannot. Parents truly are the best. My dad has taught me patience, finding happiness in random things,  80's trivia and given me a sense of humor (it still isn't as great as my dad's). My mom on the other hand has taught me all things I need to be a great mom. She has so much patience and optimism for me and my brothers. She's my best friend (other than Cumorah of course! Shout to you!).

In my church, we are taught the importance of families and love. I know that I am continually being prepared to be a great parent. The endless hours of babysitting, cooking, entertaining my brothers and working with others have helped me to develop the attributes needed to be a wonderful mother.

I am so excited to one day marry the man of my dreams (wherever he may be right now... hopefully the guy isn't stuck in a tree or something) and start a family!

I cannot wait to tell my kiddies all about their amazing grandparents and great-grandparents. I know I won't be doing this for many years to come but I cannot wait for the day where I get to start my fairy tale and follow my parent's example.

What's your dream job?

Never be afraid to follow your dreams because I you dream and work hard enough, they might just come true!

Best wishes,

Reilly Michele