Jeopardy World Tour App: The Good, The Addictive, & the Ugly Privilege This summer Alan and I found an app we actually both enjoy. Jeopardy World Tour app. We love this thing. Truth be told, Alan keeps saying he’s getting tired of it, but I super hope that’s not true because I just now finally made Tier 8 and have enough tokens to play some bigger cities. We’ve already pulled so many of our friends and family in to this […]
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*** Disclosure for legal purposes: I often include links in my blog posts, and I do collect advertising fees for these links. I do not promote any product I do not believe in, and all opinions are my own.*** Everyone goes through hard or hectic, confusing times. It seems like we’re constantly wading knee-deep in and out of huge changes for as long as I can remember, really. 2018 does not wish to be upstaged. As peaceful and incredible as […]
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*** Disclosure for legal purposes: I often include links in my blog posts, and I do collect advertising fees for these links. I do not promote any product I do not believe in, and all opinions are my own.*** Day 10 of Jumping into Fall & Recovering from Summer Fear Last night I woke up out of a dream to the sound of a man shouting, “April!” Only it wasn’t multiple shouts. It was just one shout, and it must have […]
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*** Disclosure for legal purposes: I often include links in my blog posts, and I do collect advertising fees for these links. I do not promote any product I do not believe in, and all opinions are my own.*** Some years Halloween sneaks up on me and finds me woefully unprepared. Seriously, every single year we end up scrambling the day of trick-or-treating to figure out someone’s costume. At least one person ALWAYS has no plan. THIS year I want […]
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…..And instead I mostly blog and go to the grocery store.
Seriously. I do an outing. Collapse on the sofa. Do the chores some of the chores. Collapse on the sofa. It’s all over surprisingly quickly.
I failed to mention in the video that I’m an abundant sweater. Yep. Those weren’t just armpits. Those were sweaty armpits.
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So while the cardboard boxes were still on the curb, I was sitting on my sofa setting up my wishlist for where we will move NEXT, a little less than two years from now. In the words of Jack Black on Jumangi, “I can’t even with this.”
And that’s why it’s important to have a list of why you love what you do…
Thank you for joining us for the 12 days of jumping into fall and recovering from summer!! So who is ready for this hurricane? As a military wife, I have about 20 friends who are in North Carolina, and we are praying with you all! We live in the D.C. area, so we might be a little affected too. We have a completely dead tree in our front yard. Limbs fall from it regularly. We’re renters, but even still we […]
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Thank you, Flight 93: You died so that I might live. It was 8:30 a.m. on the morning of September 11, 2001, and it started out just like a typical day in Congressman John Thune’s Congressional office on Capitol Hill. Lights still off, the aroma of coffee and the sound of the copy machine firing up for the busy day ahead, we soaked in the quiet before the storm of the phones ringing off the hook or the latest crisis […]
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***When you purchase through links on my webpage, I do earn advertising fees.*** 12 Days of Jumping Into Fall & Recovering From Summer Day 3: Shopping, Creating, & Learning Online (In case you missed the first 2 days, here are the links: Day 1 House Cleaning Playlist and Day 2 Tackling Low Self Esteem.) Do you know what else you tend to do when you get your days back to yourself? Well, personally, I pop open my laptop and go gallivanting […]
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