Category: Motivation
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Listen, learn, and shout!
Hi, and welcome back to your regularly scheduled content 2020 is an absolute shit show. What even is regular, normal, usual anything? The last three weeks have been eye opening to say the least. A global pandemic had nothing on the smack-you-in-the-face reality that racism is still alive and well in this country, and it’s…
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Real It ‘Til You Feel It
This is my new, somewhat lame, but still rhyming take on fake it ’til you make it. And no, I’m not bashing fake it ’til you make it. It works wonders in a number of situations that include, but are not limited to: Being nice to someone who gets on your nerves because you don’t…
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Hello From Quarantine
Happy Memorial Day, fam! It’s been a while. I hope you’re all doing well during this truly strange time. Long story short, our household is doing okay. We’re all homebodies by nature, so other than wanting to do house projects and being too afraid to go to Home Depot, we’re kind of peachy. Well, as…
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2020: A Lesson In Intentionality
Alternative titles include but are not limited to: 2020: WTF? 2020: Let Me Out 2020: Where is 2021, already? Let me just apply a disclaimer to this post… What’s about to follow may imply that I’m cool as a cucumber about what’s going on in the world, and that I’m handling it completely rationally (this…
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Thirty-Fun Facts About Me
Hey, hey! It’s my birthday! There are some new faces here that have joined me since blogmas, and somehow, in my post-blogmas hiatus. What better day for me to introduce myself than my birthday? If you’re new around here, hi, hello. I appreciate you, and your reading this post is literally part of making my…
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Book Review: The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
I’m off to a great start on that 2020 goal of reading 12 books and have already finished my first of the year, The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank. I’ve had this book for a seriously long time (I got it at Borders… are they done for?), and dug it out…
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New Year, Same Me (but better, I hope)
New year, time for some resolutions. Mental health, first. That’s easier said than done because I truly believe that good mental health involves pretty consistent commitment to all of the quintessential resolutions. So, in putting my mental health first, I’m also prioritizing the following goals and living by the cliche, “You have to love yourself…
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Blogmas Day 25: Merry Christmas!!
Merry Christmas! We have had a cozy morning watching the cat play with new toys. Whatever you’re celebrating, whether it’s the birth of a savior, the season of giving, or maybe even a Wednesday, I hope it’s merry! If you’ve been with me the last 25 days, I appreciate you! Blogmas bloggers, we did it!…
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Blogmas Day 23: 5 Things I Learned in 2019
We’re just two days out people, I repeat, just two days out. I’d actually planned to film a funny baking video today (that I’ll save for later), but dang it, editing is hard. That, and I have a killer headache/stomachache combo and am just not feeling it. We’re all about to be inundated with resolutions…
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Blogmas Day 21: The Gift of Authenticity
Let’s talk authenticity. Authenticity. Real. Genuine. Buzzwords we hear a ton in the age of social media and everything in your face all the time. Being hashtag authentic has taken social platforms and brand marketing by storm and we’ve seen a ton of positivity come from the #real movement, like… The #aeriereal campaign, where we are finally…
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