Hmmm… my favorite quote. Are you read to laugh? My favorite quote comes from the movie “Fool’s Rush In,” with Matthew Perry and Salma Hayak. You are everything I never knew I always wanted. I watched this movie for the first time when I was a freshman in college. One of my dorm friends had…
So when I was a little kid my dad built a hay barn on our place. It had dirt floors and it sucked when it rained. So Dad finally decided to put concrete in the floors to avoid moldy bales that were against the dirt floor. The concrete truck came to pour the concrete and…
When I started my blog almost five years ago (five years the 19th of this month in fact), I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. I’ve mentioned many times before that I started it on a whim. I truly didn’t know what a blog was and didn’t really figure I’d stick with it….
Wow, this is a real thinker that’s for sure! Obviously we’ve all been given loads of advice, both good and bad. So let’s go with this gem… Smile and Nod. It gets you through difficult things. It gets you through things you don’t agree with. It gets you through you didn’t hear. It gets you…
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http://www.midwesternatheart.com/2012/11/if-i-ran-for-president.html I would want World Peace. Oh wait, that’s if I were Miss America or was it Miss USA… (think Miss Congeniality). If I Ran for President Women would get at minimum 6months Maternity leave up to a year. Men would get 6 weeks Paternity leave. Affordable further education. Teachers wouldn’t be at the bottom…
In October of 2009 I woke up one random Monday morning and jumped on facebook before I went to work. A friend of mine started a blog. Wait, a what? What is a blog? So I jumped over to blogger.com which is what he used and signed up. I played around on it for a…
So Halloween really hasn’t ever been my thing. I grew up in the country, except for the 4 years I was working on my Bachelor’s degree, otherwise, trick-or-treating wasn’t really a thing. Our town used to have a huge thing for kids to come up and parade around the square and sometimes my parents would…
Dear 10 year older me, Wow where do I even begin? Right now life is absolutely crazy! You’re in Grad school working on your Master’s in English. Obviously different than your bachelor’s but Dr. Carlson made you feel very good about that fact last week after class. Baby girl was born this summer. That has…
Not going to lie… this particular prompt really stumped me. Why you might ask… well because I can tell you the BEST vacation but the worst vacation was a bit harder. I went through all vacations trying to decide if I even had a worst vacation… yeah some aren’t nearly as good as others but…