A complicated houseplant with emotions

I absolutely love gardening. I love planting seeds and watching fragile little sprouts break out of their soil. I love potting a new plant, watching it flourish and grow. I love the smell of potting and gardening soil. I love eating vegetables that I grew myself. I love the “tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk” sound of a sprinkler system…

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Visiting Hot Springs

In Early September (don't @ me about the lateness of this post, please...), some of my family - myself included - took a trip up to Arkansas to meet with some friends and spend a week exploring the area. Now, I can hear you saying it (mostly because my coworkers said it first): "What's in…

Being Kind To Retail Workers

  First of all, let me start out by saying that I get it. We've all been in situations where the customer service in a particular establishment was far from five stars (or sometimes even three stars...) But the truth is, a lot of the time, people are a lot harder on cashiers and other…

5 ways I plan to start budgeting like an actual adult

Ah. money. No matter how much you protest that something isn't about the money or you don't care about money, deep down, you do care. don't lie.  Without money, you can't eat or really, leave the house. Speaking of your house...you need money for that too. People usually judge you based on how much money you…