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Hamilton

A few weeks ago, I saw the Broadway touring company of Hamilton at the Morrison Center in my city. I have enjoyed American history, our political upbringing, and all of the many players in the shaping of our country for as long as I can remember. Setting the life of one of our founding fathersContinue reading “Hamilton”

Prompt Day

If you change nothing about yourself and your life, where would you be one year from now? If nothing changes the way we live our life… we will be exactly where we are, albeit… a little better off because we are eating at home more and able to keep what we put into our savingsContinue reading “Prompt Day”

National Love Your Pet Day

Meet our current pack. Sweetpea is the cat. She’s our mouser and cuddle hog. She loves to climb to the top of the entertainment shelf and survey her kingdom. She enjoys a drink from the tub faucet. Each night, she nestles herself under my husband’s arms while he falls asleep. Each morning, she climbs onContinue reading “National Love Your Pet Day”

Black History Month

Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today. ~ Malcolm X ~ I found this quote today, and it resonated with me. I believe in giving people the benefitContinue reading “Black History Month”

Prompt Day

Do you have any regrets in life? I have zero regrets in my life. Everything I have lived through, including the avoidable periods of hell on earth, experiences influenced who I am today. I like who I am today, so I don’t regret the choices I made that led me here. That’s not to sayContinue reading “Prompt Day”

Budgeting

Write about your approach to budgeting. For the sake of this post… I’m talking about my net income. I have a simple approach to budgeting. I use the 80/20 approach. 80% of my income goes toward our everyday expenses. 10% of my income goes into our family savings account. The final 10% is my ‘fun’Continue reading “Budgeting”

Safety & Contentment

For almost 30 years, my safe place and person has been my partner. He has seen me in the worst and chooses to stay in spite of it. He has seen me at my best and pushes me to be even better. He has seen me at my lowest and held my hand as IContinue reading “Safety & Contentment”

Health Update

I finally got some labwork done. My metabolic numbers are improving. I need to go back to get my a1c checked… but from my daily numbers off my CGM, I’m pretty sure that my current diet/exercise/med routine is doing the job it is supposed to be doing. The nutrition plan that my trainer and IContinue reading “Health Update”

Happy Valentine’s Day

For almost 28 years, I have had the same Valentine. Tonight, we ate dinner with our son… and then watched a movie. After that we went to get some ice cream. Now we’re home and surrounded by our fur-kids. Life is so good.

Galentine’s Day

Normally, this is the night that we adventure with our DnD group and kill imaginary creatures with our fantasy counterparts, and we talk, and we eat and just chill out. The weather in our area of the world derailed our plans. Instead, I practiced retail therapy at Target. Then, I came home and got intoContinue reading “Galentine’s Day”