Living a Joyful Life

  What We're Eating This Week... Monday: Chicken & cheese quesadilla Tuesday: Ham steak, sweet potato, veggies I'm not sure about the rest of the week. What I'm Reminiscing About... My two trips to the Caribbean. What I'm Loving... Watching football, planning/filming for my Youtube channel. What I've Been Up To... Watching football/tv/movies, filming/planning, spending time with my mom. What I'm Dreading... Nothing at the moment. What I'm Working On... Planning out content for my YT channel for February & March. What I'm Excited... I had a best friend date with my bestie and her daughter. We hit up all of our usual stores and Starbucks and we went out for lunch. What I'm Watching/Reading... Watching: Christmas movies that I didn't see in December, football, TV shows Reading: I'm currently reading Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid What I'm Listening To... Mostly country music, pop, and 90's music. What I'm Wearing

                                                                   The Christmas Wish -Lindsey Kelk (My Rating: 4 stars) I really enjoyed this story. Lindsey Kelk is a great author and I was so excited when I found out that she was coming out with a Christmas book. It was super cute and festive and I loved it. Talk Santa To Me -Linda Urban (My Rating: 3 stars) I though this was a super cute YA festive read. I enjoyed the main characters as well as the supporting characters and thought it was a fun read. Also, how cute is the cover? Christmas novels always have the cutest covers. ' Tis the Season for Revenge -Morgan Elizabeth (My Rating: 2 stars) I have a-lot of mixed feelings on this book. I thought there were a-lot of over the top sex scenes (I don't mind sex scenes in the novels I read but I found these ones to be very excessive) that didn't need to be there.  It probably didn't help that I was in the middle of a row of a planer while reading the majority of this boo

  Top 10 Favorite Books of the Year:   1.  Every Summer After –Carley Fortune   2.   The Summer of Broken Rules –K.L. Walther 3.  Blame It On The Mistletoe –Beth Garrod 4.  The Love Hypothesis –Ali Hazelwood 5.  The Stand-In –Lily Chu 6.  The Hidden One –Linda Castillo 7.  Book Lovers –Emily Henry 8.  After I Do –Taylor Jenkins Reid 9.  Meant To Be –Emily Giffin 10.  Postcards from Summer –Cynthia Platt   End of Year Book Survey:   Currently reading?  I haven't started my first book of 2023 yet. Your book goal of 2022? 60 books   How many books read in 2022? 63   Fiction/Non-fiction ratio? 62/1   Male/Female authors? 1/62   Favorite book(s) read? Every Summer After –Carley Fortune   Least favorite(s)? Flying Solo –Linda Holmes   Longest title? Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between –Jennifer E. Smith The Code for Love and Heartbreak –Jillian Cantor   Shortest title? I read 4 books that had a on

  What We're Eating This Week... Monday: Hibachi with my sister & her family (this place has the best fried rice I've ever had in my life and I wish I had this exact restaurant where I live) Tuesday: Late lunch (Caesar salad & garlic knots) Wednesday: Pizza Thursday: Dinner out with my dad (Caesar salad) Friday: Dinner out with my family during my visit (Skirt steak, mashed potatoes, green beans) Saturday: Dinner out for my birthday (Calamari and chicken parm. with pasta) Sunday: Ravioli & meatballs What I'm Reminiscing About... Past Christmases visiting my family and Christmases from my childhood. What I'm Loving... Quality family time, Youtube & IG Vlogmas, Christmas movies/music/books. What I've Been Up To... I participated in IG Vlogmas, visited my family, celebrated Christmas and my birthday. What I'm Dreading... The post-Christmas blues I always get in January. What I'm Working On... My content schedule for Youtube for January and Febru