I’ve had a 101 list item to make sushi with Kelly. I’ve also had an outstanding pledge/promise/plan to make sushi with our friends E&B. We’ve been trying to figure out how the foursome could get this accomplished for six months. SIX MONTHS! Thank goodness for RA Sushi and their sushi-sake class. We.Were.There. And because it […]
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Age is Just a Number – And My Number is 45
What does 45 look like? It looks a lot like me. It also doesn’t really seem very different than 44. You see, Kelly’s birthday is the day after mine (happy birthday, love!) so I have 364 days to observe how he handles his age. By the time my birthday arrives, I can comfortably step into […]
Resolving a Long Struggle Regarding Housekeeping
I swear it’s not that I’m a messy person – in fact, my work team says that I’m a neatnik (they’re overstating my tidiness, to be honest). I’m also not a lazy person – see my previous post on always having too much to do. Yet somehow I simply can’t keep our house neat and […]
Home of the Free Because of the Brave
We’ve wanted to visit the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery for some time. But it’s on the south side of the metro – close to an hour away when traffic is light – so you have to really really want to go. That’s a pathetic reason for not visiting a national cemetery. I realize that. Still, […]
Gel Manicures and Boy Pedicures
Checking off another 101 list item (gel manicure) and a life goal (convince Kelly to get a pedicure). Success!
Installing Gutters: Better 30 Years Late Than Never
Getting gutters shouldn’t take this long, but when it does you want the end result to look this good.
That Time We Did Our Dave Ramsey Debt Free Scream
It finally feels real: Screaming “We’re debt free” on the Dave Ramsey Show helps us put a bow on paying off the house.
Traveling Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail (Part 1)
Kelly and I have long wanted to “do” the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. We like bourbon and we really like to see how things are made. Here’s a summary of our first trip on the Bourbon Trail (cut short due to weather) and some tips and tricks if you’re interested in planning your own trip.
Dye-ing To Try It Out
I’m a ginger. (In case you hadn’t noticed.) But specifically I’m a strawberry-blonde, special emphasis on the blonde. That’s all fine and good, particularly for compliments on my “Pretty red hair” which is all mine – not bottle-infused. But it’s not fine and good for eyebrows and eyelashes. Those suckers are blonde. Invisible. Might as well […]
Making the Move to WordPress and My Own Domain
It’s been a long time coming, but I am finally “master of my domain” (but not in the awkward Seinfeld way!). Over the holidays, I purchased www.shannahhayley.com and set up my own site hosting on WordPress. I’ve worked off and on to get things rolled out of my old Blogger site and into this new […]