Pinky Sparkles...

Gooooood evening guys and dolls! It's been a minute since I've blogged...clearly I've had writers block for the past 7 months!! Lol geeeeez! I say this to my clients daily, but I seriously can't believe it's OCTOBER!?!?!? I mean the last time I blogged it was March and I told ya'll about my salon, Kismet Beauty Lounge, which has been my baby this year. I'll tell u this, it's been the busiest year of my young life so far. The blessings that I've been given from God have been unreal! I mean seriously UNREAL! Thank you to God and everyone who helped me get to where I am today are not even enough words to describe my gratitude. I've learned so much this year that my brain actually hurts lol. I've loved so much that I ooze hearts and I've sparkled to the point where I truly think glitter runs thru my veins!! Laughter and Love is my addiction....and let's not forget working out of course, lol ;) Anyway, let me fill you in on my most recent trip to Puerto Rico I went on about 2 weeks ago. It was a very last minute (like I mean we booked it a week before departure) decision because I was going to be in Miami for a hair show, so it only made sense to grab the killer deal and make use of timing when it's there ya know!? I'll tell you this, I have the BEST friend in the WORLD!! My Dilek! My partner in crime. My soul identical friend. My fellow coquette...the BRAINS behind the operation. I say this all the time...I'd be lost without her. Not only because I have no sense of direction, but because she has the best ideas and I help execute them! We are truly Pinky and the Brain, lol.. So now here we are in San Juan *shaking my head in disbelief that I'm actually here* and what's the first thing I notice?!? Everyone smiles!! Lol I finally found a place where everyone is like me! The thing is, Dilek always tells me to stop smiling so much because I gets me in trouble, lol....she's right tho, she's absolutely right! I been like this my whole life, I smile even when I'm sad, and I laugh when I'm nervous so I actually can't help it. However, there are then some peeps who get the wrong idea just because I throw a smile their way. Which is when my bestie then tells me to quit it lol.. So now can u imagine how awesome it was to be in a place where all people do IS smile!? My dream land...next to Miami of course. I mean how could anyone be sad when the weather itself can put a smile to your face! It was 92 and humid and I was in love (with more then just the climate If you know what I mean lol). I'm pretty sure D and I were the only 2 blondes on the island, and I didn't hate that! So you can imagine my sparkle stood out like no other lol.. For 3 beautiful days all we did was laugh, drink champagne, laugh....laugh some more, and soaked in as much vitamin D as we could before heading back to the Windy City. As the saying goes that "laughter is the best medicine" I can honestly say that those are words that will be engraved on my tombstone one day. It's the truest statement there is. I'm a workaholic, and there are things that stress me out in my life. And when I laugh, everything goes away! My heart smiles, if u can imagine that! Lol. Laughter might not cure a disease, but it cures everything else, I swear by it! I love life and can't imagine going thru it unhappy, so I choose not to, even tho there are things that make me sad (which I'm gonna save for another blog) I believe in living to the fullest, and I did that in Puerto Rico this year. I thank God for my adventures and I continue to live the only way I know how.....IN LOVE Well I think I'm about to call it a night...between the light of the iPad screen, my romantically lit cradles and Ne-Yo playing in the background my eye lids are gonna need toothpicks to be held up soon! Lol..cheers to sweet dreams and realities! Muuuuaahhh!!!

Kismet Beauty Lounge

"All for the love of beauty" is what i answer when someone asks me why i do what i do for a living. My name is Kasia and i am a WORKAHOLIC, lol.. ok so maybe u don't find that as funny as i do but it's the actual truth! And if im correct the first step in AA is accepting the truth and to not live in denial. So there it is... after years of close research and foot pain from working 12 hour days i have finally been open,honest and admitted the fact that i am married to my career! Now do you understand why i got divorced 2 years ago???!!! LOL. ok all jokes aside ( but remember there's always truth in everything someone says) now that i admit i choose my career over my relationships let me begin to explain why....
I've been at Enve Salon for over ten years now. I get ready for work everyday and think to myself "i wonder if i'll ever feel what some of those other people feel?" I hear people talk about how much they hate going to work, how they have the case of the "mondays" ,and how they can't wait for the weekend because they don't have to go into work. I feel bad for people like that. well i know the answer.. it's been the same for almost 12 years..the answer is NO. The thing is, when you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life. Now don't get me wrong, i'm not saying that what i do is easy...it is still "work" and therefore because i work hard i play hard too ;) We all need to find time to relax so that we don't let work consume us. As with everything in life...it's all about balance.
I choose what makes me happy every morning. I want to get the most out of the one life we are blessed with. So this brings me to what i wanna introduce next. Dreams, wishes, wants, desires are all possible if you work hard and never give up. i gave up once tho and thought i wanted what i chose to be the "normal" life like most people. That normal life made me 50% happy not 100%.. so i decided to make changes and get back to focus on what i knew and loved... my life in the beauty industry. I went back to working 70 hours a week, flying by the seat of my pants, traveling more, sleeping less, meeting new amazing people at hair shows (where i felt like i was FINALLY normal, because i was with other crazies just like me!, lol). Since the day i started at my first salon i dreamt that one day o would own my own...and well....*big gulp* I DO!!! Phew! that was more heart dropping then when i said "i do" on my wedding day, LOL LOL!!
I don't know if u knew this or if you read my blog about my 30th. Well for years now i've always been excited to turn 30 because i felt like something BIG was gonna happen. I used to think i'll get married, or have my first baby, or buy a house...but never did i think my dream of owning a salon would be IT! I learned throughout the years that if you work hard and follow your heart...your dreams actually do come true <3
so, i'll leave on that note for now (mainly because i'm gonna be late if i don't stop typing right now,lol) When my client leaves i always say to them "to be continued..." Til next blog my dreamers and believers.. Mad Love always and forever!! Dream Big and Work Hard!
P.S... The salon is called Kismet Beauty Lounge....cute huh?? lol ;)

Happy New Year Baby!!

And just like that it's a brand new year. LOOOOOOOOVE!!! That's right ya'll it's freakin 2012! The year of the dragon! Hmmmm, when i hear the word dragon i automatically get a sense of fear. When coming face to face with the big fiery reptile you almost don't know if it'll attack or be gentle. Im sure we all remember Puff the Magic dragon?! LOL. Soooooo unpredictable...just like this new year will be ;)....
Now let me start from last night...New Years Eve...
Unpredictable is exactly what my year has already started out like. All I'm gonna say is at the age of 30 (drum roll please..) i egged someones house.LOL, YES!! u read it correctly, don't go back and re-read..i promise. I..Kasia Milon threw eggs at a house on new years eve, hahahhahaha!!! sorry, please excuse my outburst of laughter, but when i think about it...i cant even believe it myself still! lol. BUT, before you wanna judge and tell me i got karma comin back to me..let me at least explain myself.
So NYE was spent with my best friend. Nothin really crazy was planned for the night. She had a few family members over, and all we wanted to do was drink some good champagne and eat good food and share great laughs. Basically that's exactly how the night had started at 9pm. I think NYE should always be spent with the people you love (before i go on, let it be known there's still one person i would have traded even my fav champagne for to be with that night....we wont talk about that this blog tho lol) and i love my bestie, my beautiful blonde bombshell!! Now, if i remember correctly she was about to pop open a 6th bottle of champagne (cuz that's always a great idea *insert sarcasm*) and the drama of the night had officially started. A quick lil review of the drama I'm talkin about.. my girl has nieces that she basically treated as lil sisters her whole life and that night true colors were shown. So, as we sat there texting, responding to fb posts, tweeting, drinking, and eating.. there was a comment thrown out by one of her nieces that was pretty much the string that broke the camels back!! I'll tell u this..in ten years i have never seen my best friend this upset, this hurt, this betrayed. Now if there's one thing i can't handle (and i can handle almost ANYTHING) it's seeing pain in someone i love. All it took was one tear down her face and when she decided to do something that was gonna make her feel better even if just for a minute u better believe i was gonna stand by her side. And this my friends leads to my statement above.... i egged someones house, wtf?!?!?! i mean how many 30 and 40 year old women do u know that have pulled a stunt like that?! lol.. was it wrong? yea, it probably was. Do i regret it? oh HELL NO! as a matter of fact i'd do it all over again for her in a heart beat. We didn't hurt anyone, we didn't ask anyone to be involved, and we felt great with every shot! hey, if i got karma comin my way for my actions then i deserve it. But i'll tell you this. That night my best friend was hurting and i would have done anything to help her for how much she's done for me thru our years of friendship. Ya know, when i think about it, that girl and i have done some CRAZY CRAZY shenanigans!!!! ...and i wouldn't change a thing til now ;)
So let 2012 unfold loves! Fire! Drama! Yikes! in the end stay beautiful and stay smiling... a new chapter in my book begins today xoxoxoxo

Guilt...ugh

LOOOOVES!!! well hello there!! I finally had some free time to write to you on this lovely Sunday night. It's a special night, a night of rememberance actually....it's Sept 11th. I'll tell you what...ask me what i did last Thursday? Ummmmmm, if i think really hard then i might scramble pieces of the day or peices of that week and hope i'm getting the events in the right order, or even the right people that were involved in my life that day, hmmmm...anyway, now that i just took a 5 min break from typing because i actually just tried thinking of what i did do and who i saw last Thursday and STILL dont know , geez LOL!?!?!! my whole point is,i can't remember 7 days ago,but if u ask me what i did September 11th 2001 i can tell u hour to hour probably even minute to minute of that devastating day in America. So, tonight i decided to blog because its a day of reflection.
The last time i wrote i believe i mentioned a boy i met while on a Sunday lunch date with my girlfriend..well,to make a long story short, i realized i was just in heat that day. In this case im not reffering to me sitting in the boiling sun on a humid summer day in Chicago...i mean i was in heat like a dog that hasnt been nutered!!! ya'll get what im sayin?? LOL. i was basically interested in him for the wrong reasons...hey, dont judge, we've all been there at least once in our life (maybe i've been there more then once, but enough about me,back to my story, lol!) Poor guy still texts after 2 months, can u believe that?! I returned his texts simply because i felt guilty not... but when i think about it, what the hell do i feel guilty for anyway?!??? NOTHING that's what. I don't let guilt control my life anymore. I used to, and it only delayed my future. Guilt is a mother F$#%@R i tell ya! i truly believe that people make wrong decisions because of a guilty conscience. For example... some guys will have a girl that they aren't 100% happy with so they decide to find happiness elsewhere but never let go of what they have at home. Why? well that lil bit of guilt sets in when they think about how much their girl has put up with thru the years and years and will put up with because she "loves him" (please if she ONLY knew..she'd probably quickly "unlove him" if she was smart...but hey what do i know!) So, that guilt of his dishonesty to her takes over when he has to look at while she says to him "baby, i just love u and i'm just so happy to be together, and i cant wait to marry you and have babies, and a house, and grow old together, and....blahm blah blah. You get what im sayin?? He now feels so guilty that he can't break up with her!!(even though he cheats on her because he's unhappy in some aspect of their relationship) i mean how can he break her heart like that when she's got hearts in her eyes for him along with a checklist obviously, lol. This poor guy will now let the years add on with his darling, and get comfortable living a shady life, as long as he doesn't have to face the guilt and be the bad guy that breaks her heart and makes her cry. F that!!!! please, that'll be the day where i let guilt control my life! Let me tell ya this much...if im guilty of something im gonna own up to it. I'll ask the person to prove it with evidence of course (i mean hell, i don't wanna go down without a fight, lol) But i will not live a life of guilt from my actions that most likely made me happy as hell when i acted on em..just sayin, lol. Look, we all made poor choices in life,i get that. The thing i don't get is why some people stay in a situation that isn't fair to both parties in the long run. The guilt of your actions shouldn't be the deciding factor of staying in a stale relationship. Be fair to yourself, the person you're with and even the kids that are at times involved.
I'll share this with ya. If my momma would have let the guilt of deciding to divorce my dad in Poland, break up a family, and move her daughters and herself to America where she was going to have to start all over with the unknown...i wouldnt be sitting here writing to you now. I'm sure she felt guilty thinking we'd never know our father the way most kids do. But instead of living on that guilt, she moved forward taking life day by day..doing what made her happy, which then led us to happy lives. If you don't make yourself happy, you can't make those around you happy.
I've done some things im not proud of, but i won't sit here and dwell on them or feel guilty. I learn and move on...and sometimes i dont move on when i should because my stubborn ass won't wanna learn my lesson yet ( at that point i deserve what's comin to me!lol) Everything is easier said then done, i know i know. All im gonna say is that it's not impossible. Do what makes you happy, truly happy and i'll be happy for you. Im signing out my loves, good night and good luck with this thing we call life. Y'all know my answer to everything is LOVE! Stay beautiful and smiling!!!
xoxox ME

Kasia & The City...

Sunday bloody Sunday! i never did really know what that meant, lol.. eh, the English never interested me enough to look into it anyway, hehe! soooo, how are my ladies and gents doin these days? im gonna go ahead and assume the answers are " it's summer, so im great!" or " schools out, and so are the hotties" or "im sun burnt..enough said" I'll take all those and other positive thoughts ;) I...thank u for asking, lol, am SUPER! (did i really just say super???) ok, let me rephrase myself..i'm alllll goood. i had a great day in Chi-city with a fellow blondie of mine. See, i got a couple trips comin up this month and mamma needed some cute new dresses. I mean not only do i have NOTHING to wear in my closet (so not exaggerating, like i'm guilty of at times) but i also parted with my size 0 days so really nothin fits right and i need to look cute at ALL times. Being a single girl is almost more work then being in a relationship if u ask me. i mean, whoever said love is blind was LYING! lol. i need someone to see me clearly and vise versa. And if i don't feel sexy and confident in my skin and clothes, then how can the male species that im preying on find attraction in me?!?! Anyway, back to my shopping day in the city.... Akira was a hit! my friend Jonathan hooooked it up! i got the cutest of cute dresses for some Vegas nights ahead. One of my favorites actually reminds me of a cupcake..a pretty strawberry icing vanilla cream center pink cupcake!! i gotta say, i almost look edible in it, lol! All other items...equally delicious looking ;) After my much needed retail therapy, a girl's gotta EAT, so off to the Viagra Triangle it was. Monika and i wanted to people watch so Carmine's was perfect. Today is when i sadly finally realized....im not made of sugar :( yep, i said it, i KASIA MILON (who now owns a dress that looks like strawberry cool whip frosting) is solidly at 130lbs, made of all spices and nothing else. I found this out because i never melted sitting outside on the most humid day in chicago this summer...and boy do we have brutal heat here, phew! The good thing about me not melting is that i met a cute boy sitting two tables away. Mmmmmmmmm... From the initial eye contact i knew i wasn't leaving without knowing at least a name..and maybe a social security number, plate number, blood type..ya know, the usual background check, lol..KIDDING! Needless to say this IS the first boy that made me sweat a lil since Mr. Wonderful, but that could also be cuz it was about 115 degree out with the humidity! geeeez! Mr. Cutie from Carmine's eventually made his way over for some small talk. The entire time i'm just thinking to myself..i hope i don't smell like a dirty kid that just played in the soil all day,gross, we all know that smell ain't so pretty. But then again i WAS sitting by flower pots so i coulda easily blamed it on that,lol! Mr. Cutie was adorable alright, just when i thought this city had nothing to offer each time i've been out lately..i just got proven wrong ;) ok, it's ten pm and i gotta bed and pillow that's been calling my name for a half hour now.." i hear u!! im COMING! i just gotta find some batteries!" oops too much info, LOL.. buh bye for now loves! Big kisses til we meet again in front of a computer <3 <3 <3 MUAH!!

is the game over??

Hello loves! i bet you're wondering what happened after 40 days and 40 nights, huh? Well, i gave him up..but not just for 40/40..but for good (HUGE gulp...with an added sigh following) Yep, u read correctly, your eyes aren't decieving you...My Mr. Wonderful is gone. That strength i asked God for about 2 bloggs ago, well it was granted. Geeeez, i guess the big guy up there really does listen to me. in that case, God? Hey God? ummmm, can u send Mr. Wonderful to me with open arms say tomorrow about noonish, lol..yea, if it were only that easy right? So back to that strength i got to finally let my feelings of love go.. booooooo for meeeee. Ugh, i can't even begin to tell u how hard it's been these past few weeks. I cried! yea, u got it, i actually cry every other day, and im not ashamed to tell u that i do. i am however ashamed to admit that i purposely listen to songs that i know are going to make me sad...it's the dramatic side of me, what can i say. The thing is just because i let him go physically, means absolutely nothing. He lives in my heart and in my head every day. So sure i have no physical contact (which kills, believe me...batteries are running low), but not having emotional contact is the part that makes me saddest. Honestly, it would be easier to just keep seeing him and then move on when i move away one day. This is hard, and i wonder if im the only one that fell here..i wonder what he thinks, and feels. But i might never get a straight answer. And that's just something i need to accept. I knew the rules before i played the game. I knew what the outcome would be. What i didnt know is that i would fall this hard. So, is this it? Is the game over? Or is it just halftime?? All i know is the ball is no longer in my court..i shot, made my free thro in and passed it along to him. Time to stand on the sidelines and cheer

New Moon

Good evening my fellow beauties and beasts, lol. I'm totally messin around you guys!! you all know i think everyone is beautiful ( it just sounded right to type, hehe) Ok, so I'm sitting on my balcony enjoying spring so far. Typing with my hair in my face from severe winds but i refuse to go inside because i have a sense of peacefulness out here. i also get to creep up on my neighbors chillin on their balconies, lol..they think im too busy typing but little do they know I'm a multi tasker...my mamma taught me well ;) Let me tell you what else brought me out here tonight. Ashes ands a new moon..ok i know your confused, so let me do the honors.
i was once informed by a man named Vinny, who wore a puffy shirt had flowing hair that you ususlly see on the cover of a Danielle Steel novel... umm, never mind my unnecessary description of Vinny, lets get back to what i learned from the unusually dresses man. Vinny tells me that the night of every new moon, not to be confused with a full moon, u can make wishes into the universe. See, the thing is, I'm a very superstitial person. i believe in wearing yellow panties on new years for good luck, depositing money into my back account on new years eve, and now making list of wishes that i burn on a plate and send out into the universe. you got it...no problem, i'll back it up a bit. So Vinny tells me.."Kasia, i want you to go home tonight and make a list of what you want..anything you want, write it down on a piece of paper and then at the bottom make sure you put IN MY BEST INTEREST because sometimes what you want isn't really what you should have if the universe doesn't think you will benefit from it. The universe is here to help you. So make your list and then burn it with a white candle til all you have are ashes. Then blow these ashes out your back door (in my case my balcony)these ashes then will be sent into the universe and the universe will work in your favor with your best interst in mind and grant you your desires" HA!!! sooooo guess what i did?? i went home that night, made my list burnt it and blew it out into the air....BUT it wouldn't be me if i hadn't done something wrong....oh boy...lol... Wouldn't you know it i forgot the most important part IN MY BEST INTEREST!!!!!!!!!!! geeeeez, so as usual i freaked and couldn't wait for tonight so that i can make my list again and this time not forget the most important part, lol. which brings me to my balcony, tahh dahh.
I bet you're all wondering what was on my list huh?? well a girl doesn't kiss and tell...ok maybe i do sometimes, but only to like 5 of my closest ladies. In this case i can't tell you what's on my list but i'll give you a hint...there's a boy involved, lol! oh the story of my life...the boy that stole my heart and refuses to give it back...well on my list i asked for it back, haha!
Alright Lovers and Dreamers, im out for night. time to make some bed time tea and watch the season finale of Kim and Kourtney take New York City.. Kisses and Huggs always and forever..Ka$!@ (ps. thats my new name spelling, cute huh?)'