“Life is strange and you do what ya gotta do just to survive You got your hustle and you gotta know that baby I got mine” – Low Cut Connie, “Private Lives” Few things in this world get me as excited as when one of my favorite bands drops tour dates. Especially when I see …
I cannot remember a time where I witnessed my mom drinking alcohol. Leading up to this post, I have been racking my brain and there is not one instance where I recall seeing her with so much as a wine cooler in her hand. I, on the other hand, am a much different case. I …
I am a little backed up on content at the moment. We got some bad news about Sherlock a few weeks ago (the first Saturday of March). I am not sure if we are *quite* at the point of it being an “at home hospice” type situation, but, we are likely not far from it. …
The thing about working from this recipe binder that was put together in 1981 is that it assumes a certain level of knowledge about how well one knows their way around a kitchen. 9/10 times I can figure out what the recipe is saying but sometimes I just have no idea. (This would also be …
One of the reasons that I don’t make a lot of complex recipes is because I feel like I never have the time to devote to them. During the week, I try to eat dinner with Danny (sometimes it is the only time that we have to catch up) and he rarely shuts down for …
When I started this project, I knew that there would be some (likely many) fails. Never in a million years, however, did I think that this would be one of them. A little backstory about this recipe. As I moved into adulthood, my mom still made a big deal about birthdays. Specifically my birthday (and …
Five weeks into this project and I am already slacking with missing a post. The stretch from the last week of January/first week of February was a difficult one. The end of my November-January “busy season” is always a challenge. Add in having to close out the month on Friday, Jan 31st and my brain …
Jeryl was one of my mom’s best friends. I don’t know when exactly they met or how their friendship began, but, I cannot remember a time in my life where Jeryl or Randy (her husband) were not around. When my mom got sick, Jeryl was one of the few people that my dad felt comfortable …
This time of the year is always stressful for me. I work in the family business and never get much time off (if any) over the holidays due to seasonality of getting orders out before the end of tax season. This usually means that by the time the middle of January rolls around, I am …
After my mom died, I was tasked with making a video for her memorial service. I went through her computer and found a ton of old family photos that she had sent off to a service to have scanned. At the time, I was thankful to have found these because it made the process of …