With my feet on the ground and head in the clouds…
Hello My Dear Darling Friends! This week may not have been as fun as last week, but it was still a good week. Last Sunday I started my 21 Day Bone Broth experiment which was inspired by Dr. Kellyann. I decided that Sundays and Wednesdays would be my bone broth mini fast days and I […]
Read More 2020 Happiness Project Week #3Tonight I made a deal with myself that I could get the Thai iced tea as long as I did at least 1 hour of coding. I was not excited about this deal when I made it, but after a delicious dinner of sauteed veggies and scallops (that I have been craving for awhile) I […]
Read More Choices & ConsequencesHello My Dear Darling Friends! This week was a lot more lighthearted and more fun than last week! I have been obsessed with the wild chickens (I call them the Oreos because they are black and white) who appeared on Christmas Eve and have adopted us ever since. The first time I saw them they […]
Read More 2020 Happiness Project Week #2Hello My Dear Darling Friends! We have made it through week #1 of the year 2020! Historically, I have written these weekly posts on Sundays, but I think I will try doing a mid-week update and then if I fall behind I can always move it back to Sunday. This has been a bit of […]
Read More 2020 Happiness Project: Week #1I guess in my case this is the 13 year challenge. The sad thing is that I have no pictures of myself from 2008 through most of 2010. That period of my life was “not my brightest moment” and I was basically trapped in a very physically and mentally abusive relationship. I am still kind […]
Read More That infamous 10 year challengeHello My Dear Darling Friends! The new year is here and it is time for me to continue my tradition of doing a year-long project! Through the years I have done a series of projects including: Happiness Project Transform Your Life Project Transform Your Life Project 2.0 Be-YOU-tifully YOU Project: 2018 2019 Be-YOU-tifully YOU Project […]
Read More 2020 Happiness ProjectHello My Dear Darling Friends! Once again the weeks have escaped me! When I first sat down to write this week’s post I was going to write about week #52, but then I realized that I almost completely skipped week #51. For a fleeting moment I thought that I would try and remember all the […]
Read More The End of the Be-YOU-tifully YOU Project 2.0 Week #51 & 52Happy 7th Birthday Living Out Loud! Has it already been 7 years? I started this blog at the end of 2012 when I was in such a dark place that nothing seemed to matter. I was going through the motions of life and everything felt black, white, or overly grey. I was brokenhearted and just […]
Read More Happy 7th Birthday Living Out Loud!My Friday went like this: I woke up at some point in the afternoon and my partner asked if I wanted to get brunch at our favorite brunch spot. We soon realized it was too late and the kitchen was closed so we started driving North for an adventure, but my partner and I were […]
Read More Just about skipped Friday and took a rest day…Hello My Dear Darling Friends! I have noticed that each week has a different pace and theme. This week was about self-discovery. I stayed closer to home and spent more time journaling and a lot of time reading. I just realized that I have read 15 books since September. That may not seem like very […]
Read More Be-YOU-tifully YOU Project 2.0 Week #50