Sometimes People are Hurtful

Something someone told you about yourself that you’ll never forget (good or bad)

Circa 2004

This is definitely something that I need to forget and I work every day on trying to forget it.  It is something that my husband helps me to over come.

So when I was in college I was working on an Agriculture Education degree.  At the time I was dating a guy.  Somewhere along the way I was told about job making 200,000/year.  In another instance I was told about a gal who had a job in Kansas City working for a large Agriculture Business company who was making 70,000+/year.  Her husband was a full time farmer and she only had to drive 30-45 minutes to get into the city for her job.  (I may insert the 70K job, my Agriculture Marketing teacher was trying to convince me to stay in school for an extra year and graduate with a double major in Agriculture Education & Agriculture Business.)

So one day I was referring to these two different jobs, these two different instances saying that I would make it big someday doing something.  His mother looked at me and said that I would never make that type of money.

Now, if you would have known me at the time, to me that issued a challenge.  I hated the word no or can’t or you can’t especially.  I would work extremely hard to prove you wrong.

So this was a couple years into dating this guy.  Now luckily I have that guy out of my life and I have my extremely supportive husband in my life who stands behind me and has all the faith in the world that I can achieve whatever I put my mind to.  But here lately I’ve had a few road blocks thrown at me and I’ll tell you, those words ring in my ears/head every now and then.  He knows it too which he hates that they ever told me that, but he believes in me 100% and we’re working together to overcome that thought in my head and just push it out all together!   

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My top 3 worst traits

{Number 3} – I’m totally scared of commitment.  Not when it came to getting married… more along the lines of, what are you doing tomorrow?  I don’t know, why?  Do you want to do {insert phrase here}.  Um… I don’t know.  I grew up on a farm.  I’d make plans and then a cow would get out or a sheep would need a lamb pulled or a horse would start having seizures.  I have a hard time making plans far out.

{Number 2}– I’ve been told I don’t believe in myself as others believe in me.  That hasn’t always been the case but here lately I feel like that side of me is coming out more and more.  This is definitely something I’m working on, one day at a time.

{Number 1}– I have a tendency to be overly critical of myself.  My hair isn’t right, I’m to heavy, my smile is crooked today, I have no make-up on… we all know the words.  Shame shame shame on me.  I should start looking in the mirror and only focus on the GREATNESS that is me.  I don’t allow others to say those things, but why I can say them myself, who knows.

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Gooch Bros Grill – Joplin, MO

My mom spent 3 weeks in Germany during the month of May for work and missed Mother’s Day completely.  So when she got back, she took the Monday off as a recoup day, especially to try and get back on Missouri time.  She called me Monday morning and asked if I wanted to go to Joplin with her so I jumped in my car and buzzed on over to her house.

She went and got her nails done and then it was lunch time.  She asked where I wanted to eat and I told her I didn’t really care.  She gave me the option of Cheeseburgers or Mexican.  I told her she was the one who had been out of the country for 3 weeks so whatever she wanted, we’d go there.  She finally said she really wanted a Cheeseburger and Onion Rings so we wound up going to Gooch Bros. Grill.

When we first looked at the menu, mom was afraid they didn’t have onion rings, but I put her fear to ease because they did.

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How To: The Bang Twist

Ok so I got a little creative this morning and decided to do a little vlog on my hair.  I know, crazy right?  Me doing a vlog first off and secondly about my hair.  I think I’m probably the most hair challenged person in the world.

So here’s my attempt at showing you how to do your hair.

On a side note, if you do this and plan on being outside for a while… make sure you put sunblock on the part on top of your head or else you’ll burn your scalp!  Ouch!

School Doesn’t

Things you’ve learned that school won’t teach you

School doesn’t teach you how to be a friend.  Sure you make friends in school, but you only learn how to be a friend with real-life experiences.

School may give you the knowledge on how to manage your finances, but until you’re out in the real world and trying to juggle this bill with that bill and this amount of money coming in, you never truly know how to deal with your finances.

School doesn’t teach you how to have fun.  Life is too short not to laugh at least once a day. (more…)

Rain makes corn

Rant about something. Get up on your soapbox and tell us how you really feel. (a pet peeve, a current event, a controversial topic, something your husband or roommate or neighbor or boss does that really ticks you off)

Rain makes Corn, Corn makes Whiskey, Whiskey makes my baby, feel a little Frisky….

Whether you are a plant-eater or a meat-eater, the long and short of it is YOU NEED RAIN.


We’ll get a day of rain here or a day of rain there and everyone is just complaining about the rain and how they want the sun to come back out.  What the heck?  Rain makes things grow.  It makes it so wells don’t drag bottom (and pump your swimming pool full of mud).  It makes rivers flow for the fishermen.  Rain is a very pertinent thing for the environment.  It even helps clear out smog in larger cities. (more…)

A list of links to your favorite posts in your archives

Here are just a few of my favorite posts.  I must admit though, I love this blog and looking back through all these posts I’ve laughed, I’ve cried, I’ve reminisced, and I’ve wondered just how I knew even 2 years ago that times would change in my life.  It’s just absolutely crazy and I hope if you enjoy some of these posts you’ll let me know 🙂

Happy Tuesday!

There is an explanation!

++How we spent our 1st Anniversrary.
++Another favorite is sharing 26 truths in my life.
++We had a girls day and attended grandma’s cooking school.
++I love our yearly we’re together posts.  2009 2010 2011 2012
++Tbug joined in on my Cookie tradition and took it over.
++The argument over where the tv remote went….
++The infamous Goat Ornament.
++50 Reasons why I love my husband.
++What about that time that Tbug told my dad that it was a “Rib Emergency“.
++Hubby’s Surprise 30th Birthday.
++Continue to wish me luck, I’ve still lost my mind!
++Hang on, this is only the beginning.
++The Socks – Hers, Mine
++How many of you can say you got an Ice cream maker this cheap??
++This lovely collection of recipes I found one night by chance.
++I made quite the first impression

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What’s up with the Crazy Weather?!?!

Here we are approaching the 2nd Anniversary of the Joplin Tornado.  A tornado that did major devastation to my part of the country and yet we’re not the only part of the country that is hurting.  Just yesterday Moore Oklahoma was hit by an EF5 tornado.  I have a college friend and her husband who live in Moore.  She said they were okay and that their house was 1000 feet from being taken out by the tornado.

I really am starting to wonder why Mother Nature is so upset lately.  Is it just me and the fact that I’m older so I pay more attention, or is the weather becoming crazier?  Can anyone shed some light on that?

So Sunday afternoon we were headed to pick my mom up from her work trip to Germany.  She was in Germany 2 years ago when the Joplin tornado hit.  She found out by watching International news and calling my dad at 1am to chew him out for not telling her what was going on.  I tried to call her but dad said it would be the middle of the night and that he’d call her first thing in the morning.  Just so happens our mornings here started 7 hours after her morning there.  Rude awakening for everyone involved.  Then mom called me at work to chew me out for not making dad call her.  My phone call came in at 10am.

Anyway, they were calling for bad weather.  This is what the sky looked like just before we left to head for the airport.

Which was a bit eery seeing as though this was the predicted forcast for the evening.

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Get real

Get real. Share something you’re struggling with right now.

What am I supposed to be accomplishing with my life?  What am I going to get out of this next hurtle?  Where am I supposed to go next?  So many questions right now that I really don’t have answers to, yet knowing that God is on my side, I’m sure something great will spawn from this, I’m just not sure what it is.  Wow, that’s a really long sentence.

Pretty much every day lately I have been struggling with am I good enough?  Could I have done better?  Why did this happen?  Am I smart enough?  Am I driven enough?

When I was in high school and even college, I was scared to death of change, yet I felt like I was going somewhere.  Somewhere big.  And even if I wasn’t exactly sure where I was going, I still had the dream and the passion to accomplish it.  Now I feel like I’m floundering at sea.  Lost in the wind.  It’s a feeling I’m very unfamiliar with and I’m not real sure I care for it either.

So there you have it.  A very discombobulated post on how I’ve been feeling because honestly I can’t put my feelings and thoughts in to words.

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The Living Room Update

So as I told you the other day, Pokey and Earl are remodeling their house, again.  I really wish I’d have gotten pictures of the garage before they even started cleaning on it but Earl didn’t even get any.  Oh well, I’m their paparazzi so I made sure they’ve gotten pictures since :).

This morning they promised hubby breakfast if he’d come and help do the electrical work on the house.  I didn’t know there was breakfast involved or I’d have come to help as well. ha!

By the time I got to the house this morning I saw that they were putting in the support pole.  Sadly, Pokey sent Earl, TB and me to the store to get a cedar pole.  Earl called to make sure they had the pole and check the price.  The guy on the phone told her.  Then Pokey called back to double check because it seemed too good to be true.  He got the same answer.  We got over there, wound up with Pine which is what the guy on the phone quoted, came home and we were wrong.  So now they’re going to wrap the pole in cedar.  Ah, one hit after another.

We also met the boys at another store looking for ceiling fans.  Woohooo that worked out great.

Once we got back to the house with the pole, the boys went back to work, placing the pole.

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