Living a Joyful Life

  What We're Eating This Week... Monday: Leftovers Tuesday: Grilled cheese & veggies Wednesday: Chicken, broccoli Thursday: Takeout I'm not sure about the rest of the week. What I'm Reminiscing About... My trips to the lake, my happy place. What I've Been Up To... Family visit from my sister C, bestie day with my best friend A and her daughter A, reading, watching sports/TV/movies, spending time with family. What I'm Dreading... Something very hard that my family and I are going through right now. It's been a very tough year. If you are the praying kind, my family could use all of the prayers right now. Thank you. What I'm Working On... My YT content schedule for June. What I'm Excited About... Visit from my sister C, spending time with my bestie and her daughter, the Knicks being in the NBA playoffs. What I'm Watching/Reading... Watching: Regular TV shows, MLB baseball, NBA playoffs, Netflix, movies Reading: I'm about to start reading Worth ...

In April, I ended up reading four books which considering I had only read one book as of April 20th, I'm pretty proud of. Here are the books I read in April 2025: Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave (Book #5) –Elle Cosimano My Rating: 4 stars  If Goodreads had a half star system, I would have rated this book 4.5 stars. Another fabulous novel in the Finlay Donovan series. I think this series would make a great TV show on a streaming network. The novels are always so fun and entertaining. I love the relationship between the main character and her nanny/best friend/room-mate as well as the relationship between the main character and her love interest. Check & Mate –Ali Hazelwood My Rating: 4 stars I love Ali Hazelwood’s novels so much. This was a YA novel. Do I like or know anything about chess? No. That didn’t matter though because I loved the storyline. I loved the relationship between the main characters. I also really loved the relationship between the female main character an...

  What We're Eating This Week... Monday: Fries & cheesy bread Tuesday: Chicken with rice & veggies Wednesday: Salad I'm not sure about the rest of the week. What I'm Reminiscing About... My trips to the lake. What I'm Loving... My family came to visit for a week and I loved spending time with them. I've also been watching a lot of sports (baseball, college basketball, NBA). What I've Been Up To... Watching sports/TV/movies, spending time with my family. What I'm Dreading... Nothing at the moment. What I'm Working On... Filming & uploading videos for my YT channel. What I'm Excited About... I won second place in the Men's March Madness Bracket challenge. If Duke had beat Houston in the final four, I would have won first place for the second year in a row. What I'm Watching/Reading... Watching: All of the sports, TV shows, movies, and two Netflix documentaries. Reading: I read 4 books this month. My book blog post will be up next we...