Forty Days and Forty Nights

Happy Ash Wednesday, y’all!
The majority of my religious education — I mean, the techincal ins and outs of Methodism and Christianity and all of that — came from college.  While my family attended an awesome Methodist church in California, regularly attending church was not something to which my family aspired in Indiana.  I’d always believed [...]

Fun Fact Tuesday, Week Four

Still carrying this on.  I think this has officially become a thing.
1.  I don’t consider myself a picky eater, but I used to be.  I’m still not thrilled about the idea of consuming anything that ever dwelled in the sea or some things that are dairy-based, particularly cheeses of any sort, but I will try [...]

Done and Done.

Yesterday was the big event in my office.  The save the date for this event went out in November, so that ought to give you a good idea of how long this thing took to plan.  It’s the biggest, most important thing we do.  I wish I could say things were flawless, that everyone showed [...]

Fun Fact Tuesday, Week Three

I like it, so I’m going to keep it up.
1.  Normal things don’t scare me.  I think it’s because I don’t think about them.  My college’s campus is close to downtown, and it’s fairly well understood that this isn’t the best area of town.  Last year, we had a tiny outbreak of bad things happening [...]

I Got It from You, Mom.

I called my mama on my lunch break.  During the course of our conversation, she mentioned what she and Daddy did for Valentine’s Day.  My parents will celebrate their twenty-sixth anniversary (According to my Franklin Covey planner, that calls for original pictures.) in May.  Their relationship with each other and with their children is not [...]

I Believe …

- that Valentine’s Day is the most useless, consumer-driven holiday in the world and that it should not exist.
- that you should love on everyone important in your life all the time, not just one day a year.  Make me a big deal all the time, not just when Hallmark tells you to make me [...]

Over It.

My university hosted an alumni event for its Nashville alumni chapter, and I was asked to attend in case any of our Middle Tennessee alumni are teachers/have high school-aged children/would like more information about the admissions process.  Y’all know me — I’ll jump at the chance to do any kind of travel or meet new [...]

Today Was Good Except for …

1.  An ill-timed downpour just as I was leaving my apartment in a white sweater.  Thanks, Mother Nature.
2.  Horrendous wind that knocked down bits and pieces of trees all over Jackson.  It’s kind of difficult to drive places with halves of trees in the road.
3.  A random power outage at work.  On the bright side, [...]

Fun Fact Tuesday

I really don’t have anything to talk about … like, at all, actually, but I still feel compelled to write something, so here are three more facts about yours truly.  I think all two of my readers really need to get to know me better.  (Yep, that includes you, Elizabeth.  You don’t know anything about [...]

For the Record, I DO Actually Make Some Bad Choices.

Y’all may not know this, but my sister and I are pretty much total opposites.  She’s quite a bit more adventurous than I am; she takes much bigger risks than I even consider taking.  In a word, Jess is just ballsier than I am.  I’m the safe, cautious one, and my sister is the fun, [...]