Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months you know that pop superstar Taylor Swift is dating Travis Kelse, a professional football player with the Kansas City Chiefs. Everything Taylor does is scrutinized 27 ways til Sunday, so of course her dating life is no exception. And since we live in the pro-conspiracy theory age, it… Read more »
Perhaps some of you will be excited to celebrate this day. Perhaps some of you have good handwriting. I aggressively do not. I once had a supervisor put on my formal yearly review that I should never hand write anything because no one can read it. Another supervisor described my writing as “a blind man writing with his feet”. I… Read more »
There is nothing easier than this. Just. Do. Nothing. No housework. ESPECIALLY no housework! You deserve it!
This day is a bit of a head scratcher. Multiple sites list today as “Wear Your Own Shoes Day” but no one knows where the “holiday” was started, by who, or what their original intent was. But who cares? Make this day your own in any way you see fit! If you have small kids, celebrate if they put their… Read more »
We are in the midst of football season, which is the only sport I really follow. As a Dolphins fan I’ve seen a lot of bad seasons- including going 1 and 15 in 2007. Only true fans stuck with them through that. Or so I thought. For those of you who don’t follow football, the Dolphins are having their… Read more »
Here is another self-explanatory day! We all love fast food, whether we admit it or not. Sure, we all have that one friend who claims they haven’t had fast food since the 90’s. But #1 they are probably lying and #2 they are probably annoying in a lot of other ways as well, and who needs that kind of negativity… Read more »
A few years ago (in 2016 to be exact) I wrote about the death of Thanksgiving as a holiday https://beckypalmer.me/?p=857 When I wrote that more and more stores were opening up on Thanksgiving and I thought – as many others did- that in a few years time Thanksgiving would be no more of a holiday than Arbor Day. I’m happy… Read more »
My husband is a big autograph collector. He enjoys getting autographs from sports figures, actors, musicians, etc. It can be a pricy hobby, but so is just about any hobby if you do it right. I don’t love the thrill of the hunt the same way he does, but I do enjoy meeting people whose work I enjoy and /… Read more »
For years I have grumbled about Halloween having morphed from a fun time for kids to a full blown event for adults. This in spite of having had a lot of fun at Halloween parties and dress up days at various employers! I don’t know why it bothered me so much, but it did. But I’m over that now. The… Read more »