I am not a morning person. Never have been, never will be. For around 18 months I had a job that required me to be at the office at 6am and I had about a 35 minute commute. Everyone told me I would get used to it. Nope. I just got used to feeling like crap every day. Fast forward… Read more »
Energy drinks aren’t anything new- they have been around for decades. And I’ve always been of the opinion that they taste like crap- at least the sugar free ones. Years ago I had a sugar free Monster in a white can (don’t ask me what flavor it was) and it tasted like sucking on pennies. I’ve had sugar free Red… Read more »
“Marriage is hard” “Marriage is a lot of work” “Marriage is useless in a modern society” I’ve heard all of these things lately. Mostly from married people. And I disagree with all of them. You might be expecting me to agree that marriage is difficult given that my first marriage did not last. There are a lot of reasons why… Read more »
With all the county fairs going on this week this is a perfect time for this holiday. It’s Cow Appreciation Day! I grew up on a dairy farm, so cows put a roof over my head and food on my table as a child. It’s pretty easy to appreciate that. My sister and I just recently recalled the night we… Read more »
Yes, today is definitely one for me. It’s I Forgot Day. We all forget things. We forget where we put our keys. We forget names of people. We forget someone’s birthday- maybe even our own! No, we aren’t all getting Alzheimer’s. We just all have so many things going on that sometimes our brains have to let some things slip… Read more »
As some of you already knew, I spent the last week in the land of ICE Barbie aka Kristi Noem. In other words, I went to South Dakota. When I was first planning this trip I was excited- I hadn’t been to the Black Hills since I was approximately 10 years old. But as the time got closer I started… Read more »
Here we have another holiday that’s frequently observed as Casa Palmer. It’s National Iced Tea Day! Did you know that while hot tea has been around for millennia, iced tea is a very new invention? It was first served at the St Louis World’s Fair in 1904? Due to warm temperatures, tea sales were down, so Richard Blechynden got the… Read more »
I have been on a journey to reduce the amount of waste in my bath products. I use shampoo and conditioner bars. I switched from disposable razors to refillable ones. I’m trying different kinds of bar soap – that’s still a work in progress. While spending a TON of time online looking at all kinds of soaps I have stumbled… Read more »
Here’s a nice, light hearted-one. It’s National Paper Clip Day! We all use them. We probably never think about them. But in the late 1800s people were thinking about them a LOT. Between 1867 ad 1904 over 50 patents were filed for different designs for “gem clips” – what we know as paper clips today. So take another look at… Read more »