Quick & Easy Meals

  • So I Guess I’ve Meal Planned 😂

    Friday was my day off from AutoZone, and I had plans. Not exciting plans, mind you. The kind involving laundry, couch covers, a little business work, and hopefully enough coffee to keep everything moving in the right direction. I’d been sneezing for what felt like forever, so I opened the windows to air out the…

  • Not Everything Gets to Decide What Happens Next

    Some weeks are loud. Not necessarily bad. Not necessarily dramatic. Just… loud. Everything seems to walk through the door at the same time hollering, “ME FIRST!” That was my week. At work, I had schedules and hours that needed mathing. And y’all know how I feel about math that insists I have twelve hours to…

  • When Yesterday You Leaves You a Little Help

    Monday started with the power out. Again. 😂 At this point, September seems determined to make sure Bubba and I get our money’s worth out of that generator. I had an interview to do at 5:00pm that afternoon, so I managed to miss the downpour. By the time I got home, though, the electricity had…

  • Vacation Memories We Never Planned

    We left home last Sunday with a destination. Well, technically, we had several destinations, a cabin named Ellie’s Escape, four dogs, enough stuff packed to suggest we might never return and Mabel, a brand-new Jeep neither one of us had completely figured out yet. 😂 We were headed to the mountains for our anniversary trip,…

  • Some Things Can Wait Until Tomorrow

    Monday morning, I already had unfinished business waiting on me. If you’ve followed along this week, you probably saw me talking about one of those reports at work that had me scratching my head. We’d done the work. I had numbers showing we’d done the work. Then the official report came along basically saying, “Nope.”…

  • Well, At Least I Still Had My Ear

    Saturday started off like a perfectly normal Saints preseason game day around here ~ except I was spending mine at AutoZone doing ZQOH. And not a cute little handful of ZQOH either. 😂 We’re talking hundreds upon hundreds of item lookups, checking quantities, correcting what needs correcting, and trying to make sure that when somebody…

  • Maybe I Don’t Have to Carry It All

    I had one of those moments this week when the words came out of my own mouth and I almost wanted to look around and see who said them. Except it was me. ME. 😂 I was at ISW (Interviewing Skills Workshop) training on my day off. Most of what we covered wasn’t exactly new…

  • Come On In Anyway

    Some weeks feel like life hands you a list so long you don’t even know which corner to start with. This was one of those weeks. It started with an unexpected trip to urgent care after waking up looking like I’d gone a few rounds with Rocky Balboa. My eyelid had swollen so much I…

  • One More Chair at the Table

    There are weeks that feel like one long story. And then there are weeks like this one. The kind where nothing seems connected until you sit down long enough to look back. This week had a little bit of everything. One morning, I was laughing because somebody on Facebook thought I’d skipped work. The funny…

  • Life Is the Story

    For the longest time I’d get to Saturday evening and start asking myself… “Now what in the world am I supposed to write about this week?” I’d scroll through pictures. Replay conversations. Wonder if anything exciting had happened. Sometimes I’d even feel guilty because life had been so busy that I hadn’t “created content.” Then…

  • So I Guess I’ve Meal Planned 😂

  • Not Everything Gets to Decide What Happens Next

  • When Yesterday You Leaves You a Little Help

  • Vacation Memories We Never Planned

  • Some Things Can Wait Until Tomorrow

  • Well, At Least I Still Had My Ear

  • Maybe I Don’t Have to Carry It All

  • Come On In Anyway

  • One More Chair at the Table

  • Life Is the Story

  • So I Guess I’ve Meal Planned 😂

  • Not Everything Gets to Decide What Happens Next

  • When Yesterday You Leaves You a Little Help

  • Vacation Memories We Never Planned

  • Some Things Can Wait Until Tomorrow

  • Well, At Least I Still Had My Ear

  • Maybe I Don’t Have to Carry It All

  • Come On In Anyway

  • One More Chair at the Table

  • Life Is the Story