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Cool Bloggers WAlking Club #3
Third week of Cool Bloggers Walking Club is in the books! I only walked or biked 4 out of 7 days…and they were all pretty short. Wednesday, October 14 0.43 mile walk 24:21 min/mile Thursday, October 15 Nothing…this was the day I got hired though! Friday, October 16 0.77 mile walk 25:35 min/mile Saturday, October…
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Prompt: Travel Advice
What’s one piece of travel advice you always follow? View all responses For this writing prompt, I thought I should separate it into two kinds of travel: airline travel and road trips. Air travel – Take a spare set of clothes in your carry on. This is especially helpful if you’re going a long distance.…
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Frugal Four – Scrubs, Sweet Potatoes, Popcorn & Family
Even though my new job doesn’t have a required uniform, I still want to have some dedicated work clothes. At Goodwill I found a pair of jogger scrubs in my size and they were the color of the week, so I only paid $3 for them! After my last post, with this same picture I…
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Thankful Post – My New Job!
Life is such a mixture of happy, easy to be pleased about things, and those hard, disappointing, and questioning our decisions type of things. I know I’ll never be able to avoid those difficulties during my life, but I can make a conscience effort to not let them cloud my vision to the point of…
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Cool Bloggers Walking Club #2
Another week of Cool Bloggers Walking Club! The days I go help my husband, I don’t usually end up walking. By the time we get home there’s too much to do, I’m tired and there’s little to no sunlight left. However those days I’m doing things like painting walls, so at least I’m not completely…
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Thankful Post
Not only was this a busy week, and there’s a full weekend ahead, but there’s been some heavy things going on. We aren’t directly involved with all of the difficulties, but even being on the outskirts can be discouraging. So what better time to do a thankful post! I’m thankful that I learned a new…
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Cool Bloggers Walking Club – Week 1
Elisabeth (she blogs at The Optimistic Musings of a Pessimist), is hosting The Cool Bloggers Walking Club. I’m joining in, trying to exercise almost every day this month. So far this month I went on 3 walks or walk/runs. I can’t remember for sure, but I think Bruno went with me on all three. He…
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Handling It
We say things like, “I can’t handle it.” or, “They just won’t handle the situation.” Sometimes we even say it in reference to something that happened that a person hand no control over. Like, “I wouldn’t be able to handle my spouse dying.” Well, I’m sure if you ask a widow, she probably didn’t think…
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September Recap
When September crept up, I thought about how summer was coming to an end, and not really ready for it. Then before I got myself geared up for summer ending, September was already over. I may not feel mentally prepared for fall, but fall doesn’t wait for me to be prepared, it just comes. We…
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Watermelon Juice
If only everything esle in the garden grew as prolifically as our watermelons!! My husband planted a yellow-fleshed variety. Thankfully, we love watermelon! Some of it we just cut up and eat, but we’ve also been enjoying watermelon juice. It’s easy to make, we just blend up watermelon, simple syrup, and lime juice! At first…
