I think what I’ve decided to do is to alternate YouTube post and Watching & Listening post every month. So since I did a YouTube post in May , its time to do a Watching & Listening post. You can also follow along with what I’m watching on the TV Time app. Jump to: Movies | TV Shows | Podcasts | Music Movies Take Care of Maya (Netflix) Reality (MaxTV)
LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 22 Week 23 Week 24 Week 25 – Texas Trip Loving some new podcasts that I’ll share at some point. Happy to finally have all the details booked for our trip in July. Just finished that last night! It’s been a bit of a struggle. Excited to see tomatoes starting to ripen. Hoping the bugs don’t get to them first! Reminiscing End of June (connected with 4th of July) is often when we take a short and sometimes long family trip. Sometimes we go with extended family. I’m just…
On Saturday, the 17th I flew to DFW, rented a car, and drove a little over an hour to my sister’s house in Weatherford, TX. My sister was due to have a baby the week of June 16th. However, Baby Lu came a month early, so I had to adjust my plans for a visit. Luckily nothing was set in stone with my trip so I was able to do it over a holiday (Juneteenth) weekend. I’ve taken solo trips to Texas before but this was the first time to rent a car on my own. I will say I…
I’m a week behind because I was in Texas the beginning of last week. So this is actually the week before last happenings… (June 12-18th, 2023) Monday Saw this in a neighbor’s yard. Tuesday Garden is really growing! Alex and his girlfriend made this lego set he had gotten for Christmas. Wednesday Eye doctor time for Alex. Thursday The side of my left foot hurts after I’ve been standing/walking for really long periods of time. Doc sent me for X-rays of my feet to see what it might be. Such an x-ray may have embraced advancements like an ai radiology…
Today I’m continuing to share about our Desert trip… The next day (Monday) even though it felt like we went to bed at 2 or 3 am because we went from central time to pacific time, we got up at a decent hour. We wanted to start exploring before it got really hot. We had breakfast at the hotel and ventured over to South Mountain Park. We saw this interesting place on the way and stopped, because we were obsessed with cacti! Rob grabbed this cute selfie of us at Scorpion Gulch. We had wanted to explore Mormon Trail. However,…
Now that I’m done recapping our cruise, I’m going to jump into our most recent big trip. On Easter Sunday, we went to church and then had lunch at our house, before jumping in the car and heading to the airport. Travel days I often label Day “0” in case you’re wondering. Phoenix here we come! We were late taking off because of maintenance issues on the original plane, but the sunset I got to witness made up for it! The plane wasn’t very full, which was nice. Rob and I had a seat between us as the rows sandwiching…
Here’s last week’s happenings… (June 5-11th, 2023) Monday So many lovely things growing in my little container garden… Tomatoes on the way (hopefully!) Tuesday Nasturtiums are really pretty right now. My sister keeps me updated with cute pics of my new niece. She is looking so little still, but oh so cute! Wednesday Time for my eye check and a new prescription Thursday Rob got home around dinner time. We ending up eating dinner at MK’s Asian because he didn’t have any Asian food while in Texas. Friday Alex had left Rob a little welcome home gift that he brought…
Chocotafaula is an agritourism focused farm located in Auburn, AL that was founded in 2020. However, it just recently opened to the public for the wagon ride, petting zoo, and other fun! I highly recommend this for anyone that enjoys animals! Check out this post to learn more about it!
LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 18 Week 19 Week 20 Week 21 Loving These Jalapeno Stuffed Olives. They have these at Walmart. Happy I got a lot accomplished these last couple weeks while Rob was out of town. Excited Rob is coming home soon after being gone for 2 weeks. Reminiscing A coworker was talking about his camping trip coming up in the Pensacola area and reminded me of our trip 2013 to Pensacola, FL with the cub scouts. Social had dinner with my friend Rebecca at Hamilton’s in Ogletree. Work Memories Got word…
Here’s last week’s Weekly highlights (May 29th-June 4th, 2023). If you missed Week 21, its here. Monday Alex went with his girlfriend and her church to New Orleans for a mission trip. I enjoyed following their trip through their BeReal posts. Eating lots of healthy peanut butter on Ezekial bread with banana. My go to meal lately especially since Rob is gone. Tuesday About every other week, I make a big batch of taco meat to use different ways. I have been craving enchiritos (burrito/enchilada), so I got these Carb Balance Flour Tortillas and made these. They were so good!…
I’m late getting this up. I’ve been too busy doing things around the house this week! Here’s last week’s Weekly highlights (May 22nd-28th, 2023)… My highlight reel on instagram: Week 21 Tuesday I got a new printer at work. New printer Old printer Wednesday Rob has had some pain and numbness in his arm for a bit. Turns out to be a bulging disk. He was lucky enough to get into the pain center to get an epidural last minute before he heads to Texas for a couple weeks. That afternoon we headed up to Atlanta for a Braves game…
Here’s last week’s Weekly highlights (May 15th-21st, 2023)… To sum up this week, we got a new niece and new nephew in 1 week, just a few days a part. I’ll talk more about that below. Tuesday Here’s my little sister with her baby and her hubby. Her baby was born a month early, but is doing well! She’s so little! Wednesday Drew and Caitlyn came over and brought my mother’s day gift, which is this gorgeous plant and pot. That same afternoon, an architect friend of ours came over to look at our deck and draw up a plan…
I feel like these weeks lately are flying faster than normal and I continue to get further and further behind on blogging. Oh well…doing what I can, when I can. 🙂 Here’s last week’s Weekly highlights (May 8th-14th, 2023)… Tuesday Alex sent me this pic of a strawberry milkshake he made at work. It looked so yummy. During finals week, these little squishy ‘stress’ tigers got hidden throughout the library. I found one that never got found. I left it there. Thursday These 2 came over and made stir fry for dinner. They made enough for an army! I had…
Today I’m sharing about why Rob and I are leaving our church after 26 years of being faithful, active members. If you are unfamiliar with the issues in the Methodist church, I’ve taken pieces of an article from The Coastland Times, which is not local to me but did a good job of explaining what’s going on. The United Methodist Church (UMC) is experiencing a major transition across the nation and the globe, resulting in a significant number of churches disaffiliating from the denomination. The central issue causing division revolves around human sexuality. The Book of Discipline, or rule book…
How is it Monday, Again!!?? Geez… Here are week 18 happenings (May 1-7th, 2023). And how is it May already? I saw this news story, and it just hit me hard, with our mind still fresh from my son’s wedding a couple of months ago. I just cannot even imagine or fathom how terrible this would be to live through. Really last week didn’t have anything major that I’m remembering… Kayleigh just looked so cute on top of the stairs. I went with Rob to the Friday night baseball game. We ended up taking 2 out of 3 from #1 LSU!…
Here we are for another Monthly Digest. LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 & 16 Week 17 Loving Some interesting new YouTube I found recently (while sick): All very, very different, but good in their own way… Meg Hughes – college girl in Ireland Peter Santenello – videos about a world the media fails to capture Tay BeepBoop – eccentric designer and DIYer Happy I’m happy to feeling a little better. Excited Not sure I’m excited about anything right now. Reminiscing about our trip to the dessert. I’ll share about…
Happy Monday yall! Here are week 17 highlights (April 24-30, 2023). Monday Oh Monday, how I don’t want to think back to that evening. I think I’m going to write an entire post about this, because I have a lot to say. The vote didn’t go the way Rob and I wanted, which makes me very, very sad. I’ll share more later. Tuesday We’re in the last couple weeks of the semester, which means I’m ramping up and getting ready for the next semester. My current students sent in their requested summer work schedules, so I now I have to…
Week 15 was April 10th-16th and that was the week were in the desert. I was going to do a summary post, but I haven’t been able to go through the pics… Week 16 was last week (April 17th-23rd). Here’s a quick run down of happenings there. Monday Drew dropped Bigsby off Monday morning. I had taken the day off because that was the day we got back from our trip at 8:30am and I knew I would need sleep. I pulled out the big red bed for him to lay on. Instead he rolls up into a little wad…
Wowzas, yall! I just realized I haven’t written a Watching & Listening post since last October! Jump to: Movies | TV Shows | Podcasts | Music Movies & more Top Gun (rewatched) Top Gun Maverick (theater) The Weekend Away (Netflix) Not Since You (Amazon) Midnight at the Magnolia (Netflix) El Camino (Netflix) Sequel to Breaking Bad Christmas The Noel Diary (Netflix) Christmas Inheritance (Netflix) Spirited (Apple TV+) Documentaries State of Alabama vs. Brittany Smith (Netflix) The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker (Netflix) Music Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium (Netflix) TV Shows With TV Shows and Movies, I’ve been trying a…
I wanted to write this post at the beginning of the year, but then life got crazy again and I was like, “Fine, I’ll write it after the wedding.” And here we are midway through April!! haha…I did start making the list earlier this year, just couldn’t get all 23 items down till more recently I got this idea of writing 23 things I want to do in 2023 from a podcast I listened to called Happier with Gretchen Rubin on How to Be a Better Human. Gretchen Rubin is one my favorite authors who has written several books about…