Friday Five – February 1st

Cheers to a new month!

I’ve said it before, and I will say it again, I love the start of a new month! In general, I’m all for any excuse for starting fresh. February is such a fun month for me. I love, love so I am a huge fan of Valentine’s day and Galentine’s Day no matter how cheesy they are!

My birthday is obviously the main reason that I love February! I turn 27 this year, and this will be a pretty big year for me. I will be getting married, I will have some changes in my career and I will be taking my blog and business to the next level. Watch out for all the excitement and make sure you follow me on Instagram here to see all of these life changes!

I hit over a million page views on Pinterest!!

As I write this I have 1.8 million monthly page views! This is totally crazy to me. My goal was 1 million and I have exceeded that. My next goal is to have a better conversion rate from my Pinterest page views to my Blog Pageviews. I have an entire post, including a free checklist for how I’ve been able to achieve this. I have it linked here 🙂

Kaptain Turned 6 Months this week

First, if you don’t know who Kaptain is, he is my puppy! I have an entire post where you can virtually meet him here. He has officially hit 6 months old and we celebrated by taking a trip to Unleashed by Petco to walk around and sniff things and left with a new ball and some special half birthday treats!

Kaptain also got his first real trim today so that was a lot of fun. He looks like a brand new dog and looks so skinny now that he got his hair cut! You can always see what he is up to by checking out his Instagram here.

I actually went into the office this week

By day I’m a full-time healthcare consultant working on federal government contracts and by night I’m a lifestyle blogger! I’m pretty fortunate now that the contract I’m working on allows me to work from home. I’ve basically been able to work from home since I started at the firm. I’ve been doing this for about 2.5 years now and rarely go into the office. We just so happened to need to meet and it wasn’t so bad heading down to DC!

We got snow! (Again)

I’m so glad that I get to work from home because it has been frigid outside! I’m so sad each time I have to take Kaptain out to use the bathroom. For some reason he seems immune to the cold and likes to frolic in it! This morning when I took him out, it was snowing! Again! This is crazy to me. But I have read a little about the Polar Vortex Splitting which is causing all of these bone chilling temperatures across the country. Is it freezing where you are? Let me know below!

I hope you all have amazing things planned for the month of February and a great weekend!