Living a Joyful Life

  What We're Eating This Week... Monday: Pot stickers, rice, veggies Tuesday: Chicken, sweet potato pie Wednesday: Pasta & meatballs Thursday: Leftovers I'm not sure about the rest of the week. What I'm Reminiscing About... The two trips I took to the Caribbean. I wish I could afford to go to the Caribbean every year because I love the Caribbean ocean so much. What I'm Loving... Spending time with my mom, spending time with my cats, watching sports. What I've Been Up To... Watching lots of sports (NFL football, college football, NBA basketball), reading, watching TV & movies with my mom, filming for my YouTube channel. What I'm Dreading... I always get the blues in January because Christmas and the holiday season go by so fast. To cheer myself up a bit, I make Christmas last as long as possible. I give my Christmas playlist another listen in January, I still watch Christmas movies in January and February, I read a few Christmas books in January. I leave ...

  Currently reading? I haven’t started a new book for 2026 yet.   Your book goal of 2025? 70   How many books read in 2025? 72   Fiction/Non-fiction ratio? 72/0 Favorite book(s) read? 1.          One Golden Summer –Carley Fortune 2.          Rage –Linda Castillo 3.          A First Time for Everything –K.L. Walther 4.          Atmosphere –Taylor Jenkins Reid 5.           Deep End –Ali Hazelwood Least favorite(s)? Mint to Be –Katie Cicatelli-Kuc   Longest title? Dinner With Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show –Bethany Joy Lenz   Shortest title? I read a few books with a one word title.   How many re-reads? 2   How many audio books? 0   How many of this year’s books were from ...

  What We're Eating This Week... Monday: Quesadilla Tuesday: Pizza Wednesday: Lobster roll Thursday: Corn beef Friday: Leftovers Saturday: Reuben Sunday: Takeout What I'm Reminiscing About... My trips to visit my family when my nephews and nieces were younger. What I'm Loving... Spending time with my mom, cuddles with my cats, watching lots of Christmas movies. What I've Been Up To... Spending time with my mom and cats, reading, filming videos for my Youtube channel, watching lots of football and Christmas movies. What I'm Dreading... How fast the holiday season goes every year. What I'm Working On... My content schedule for my Youtube channel for January. What I'm Excited About... The holiday season, my niece O's birthday, my birthday. What I'm Watching/Reading... Watching: Christmas movies, college football, NFL, The Pitt Reading: I finished my reading goal of reading 70 books. I ended up reading 72 books total. My last blog post I posted was about...