I’m starting my #nospendchallenge today and like everything else I undertake, I am exceedingly optimistic at the beginning. Check in with me a little while later and I’ll let you know how I’m feeling about it. Earlier I listed my rules for the challenge. As everyone is different and everyone’s financial situation is different, everyone…
Quarantine Fifteen and the Pandemic Pudge
As mentioned before, 2020 has been a year for the record books. We started 2020 with our hospital hanging up cute little ‘Year of the Nurse’ signs. Little did we know, we’d be rewarded with a good ole’ 1800’s pandemic complete with a lack of PPE. Thank god the liquor stores didn’t close because I’m…
Flying the W
Cubs win. Cubs win. Cubs win the World Series! I am a huge baseball fan. I started playing at 4 switched to softball at 12 and continued playing through college. I understand the rules, the intricatices, statistics, and the history. Baseball was one of the few ways my dad and I bonded. These days I’m…
Swimming with fairies and the beauty of Skye
When I was a little kid, I used to love to play make believe, and play in the creek behind my house. I’m sure that I wasn’t the only kid in the world who liked to play make-believe or play in creeks, but being as how I was an only child who lived out in…
Wandering around Holyhead and Anglesey
Ahhhh, Holyhead… One of those places where you truly feel like you are at the edge of the world. Holyhead, located on the Island of Anglesey and Irish Sea, is the jumping off point for Ireland and for nearly 4000 years people have been making the journey from the Welsh outpost to Ireland and vice-versa. …
Scaling the highest peak in Wales
Taking on Wales’ tallest peak My first weekend away landed me in the charming village of Betws-y-coed, North Wales, a village of about 500. Bewts-y-Coed is located in the heart of Snowdonia. Wales may not be home to the tallest mountain peak, but it still has some challenging hiking. It has charming waterfalls. But really…
A Happy Little Accident
Until I get going, I will reflect back on some of my past travels and travel mishaps before I started this blog. This first post recounts my first visit overseas, my first alcoholic drink, and my first attempt at understand a ‘foreign’ language… Yes, I’m calling English a foreign language because in the beginning I…
My favorite mistake*
*My favorite mistake, a song by Sheryl Crowe–one of my all-time favorite songs* A few weeks ago, I drove down to Wilmington to check out the city to see if it is somewhere I might like to live one day, while trying to decide if I should visit a guy affectionately known as my favorite…
Hello? is anyone There?
Hello, my name is Michelle. Welcome to my blog. So I did a thing… well two things really, if you count one of them as this blog. Well, three if you count having a birthday… which I did today. The thing about birthdays, at least for me, are indications that I should re-evaluate my life…