tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-286391422024-03-07T00:52:25.441-08:00Stacie's PlaceBringing all my blogs together today!Stacie S-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316646996860200449noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28639142.post-1382425713952585352024-01-04T15:23:00.000-08:002024-01-04T15:23:58.320-08:00OLW - 2024 & Reflections<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_iCKwkDa8dUl1RVHbrJbG3OXK64Te2sww-WdYLQG-kaMp7BK-edQ6SJZGtf0_Nb9KwSleTrLEBTZYWAahw8tBJDwNLip8CRuNl4YAPDvwNUm1jnsVWBI8fPrXg8XBOuRtTJjARMdL02Q4Xheo_n9LoUMFm0degzr2fm5CC_JQLiORqt0lNQ/s1080/OLW%202024.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_iCKwkDa8dUl1RVHbrJbG3OXK64Te2sww-WdYLQG-kaMp7BK-edQ6SJZGtf0_Nb9KwSleTrLEBTZYWAahw8tBJDwNLip8CRuNl4YAPDvwNUm1jnsVWBI8fPrXg8XBOuRtTJjARMdL02Q4Xheo_n9LoUMFm0degzr2fm5CC_JQLiORqt0lNQ/s320/OLW%202024.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Do you pick one little word to work on for the year? If so, leave a comment and let me know what you picked! Keep reading to learn about my word for 2024 as well as my thoughts on last year's word.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a name='more'></a></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;">My word for the year, as you can see above (thanks to Canva for the image), is </div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>BALANCE. </b></span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">This is not a word that I wanted or hope to have but it feels right so we'll see where it takes me. It's funny, how words choose you. I tried all I could to read lists of other words or see what else came to mind but nothing else was sticking. Darn it!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>In 2023...</b></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br />My word last year was Pivot, you can read all about it <b><a href="http://www.staciesplace.com/2023/01/olw-2023.html" target="_blank">here</a></b>. It also was not a word I wanted, again, the word chose me. My life did pivot in a big way, mainly in regards to crafting. I traveled more and crafted less. It makes me a bit sad but also the traveling was really fun and I tried to incorporate crafting where and when I could. Some crafts are not easy to do from afar (like resin!) and so many projects had to be put on hold. Less crafting + no longer holding Pinterest parties was probably my biggest pivot of 2023. I still have plans for my <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/nite_owl_creates" target="_blank">NiteOwlCreates Instagram</a></b> account which I had hoped to launch last year but maybe it will happen this year? Fingers crossed!</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /><i>Back to Balance.<br /></i><br />I just don't know. My days are my own to do what I want when I want. I don't have kids that need my attention or help with homework or to be fed or taken to and from school. I do have a husband though that needs my attention occasionally plus my 3 cute cockatiels. I have throughout the year last year and I am sure before that as well, that I do not plan my time wisely. I procrastinate and save a lot until the last minute. Sometimes that pays off.<br /><br />Like when I lost my wallet in Idaho when I was there for Christmas. I could not find it anywhere! I knew the last place I had it (Walgreens on Saturday). Did it fall out of the car when we went to Tony's parent's house, his sister's house, or the light maze in Nampa? Did it accidentally slip into the trash bag we keep in our car and we tossed it out in the Costco trash can while getting gas? I procrastinated and prayed and called Walgreens a few times as well as the light maze people with no luck. I hesitated to cancel my cards because I need them for a trip to Vegas next week + replacing a driver's license in CA costs money! I had no idea! Almost $40 and I totally did not want to do that. Thank goodness I procrastinated and found my wallet just a couple days ago. What. A. Relief!<br /><br />But other things in life, I do not balance well.</span></p><p>99% of the time when Tony & I travel or I travel by myself, we leave the house 1 or 2 hours or later. I have had the whole week to prepare but I save a lot to do until the end or realize things that need to be done that could have been done sooner than the last minute but for some reason, I did not do them. I took too many breaks. I thought I'd have time.<br /><br />So maybe that's what balance will look like for me in this new year? I know Tony would appreciate it so much if I could be ready on time.<br /><br />What else could I balance better? <br /><br />I am sure my time spent on Airbnb work vs. reselling items around the house vs. cleaning and decluttering. There are times that I work on those things and there are times I don't work on them at all (mainly the reselling or decluttering...I'm always cleaning something!) So maybe some mindful balance in those areas.<br /><br />If you have any other ideas, tips, or tricks on how to balance life with needs and wants, I'd love to hear them. Drop me a comment below!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Stacie S-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316646996860200449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28639142.post-16286357021366187952023-12-14T18:47:00.000-08:002023-12-14T19:53:32.156-08:00Christmas Letter 2023<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0dFjxOokjNcs_RCTYM53u0saQGyT4p2H2UwIwh3Z5z9jaF4nfJZtTSeDkPYoRKQGSfMby5Y082OpSjZJyMp4XZGO-1h7uTGQ60ZP23LwaN9oKecPJpRLCDtrvP6sm0iSm72a-JHVuJhHfCV8jOs0FDK3jUgSp_mxfp3zWDjR5vY76mIIUHTHf8aKxK34/s1167/cc8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="875" data-original-width="1167" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0dFjxOokjNcs_RCTYM53u0saQGyT4p2H2UwIwh3Z5z9jaF4nfJZtTSeDkPYoRKQGSfMby5Y082OpSjZJyMp4XZGO-1h7uTGQ60ZP23LwaN9oKecPJpRLCDtrvP6sm0iSm72a-JHVuJhHfCV8jOs0FDK3jUgSp_mxfp3zWDjR5vY76mIIUHTHf8aKxK34/w400-h300/cc8.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"> What. A. Year 2023 turned out to be. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Full of more traveling than we imagined would happen + lots of family time, hot air balloon events, and many new experiences!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b>Family time!<br /></b>We were able to take our nieces and nephews to do fun things when we visited Idaho in September such as going to a Boise State game, car races at the track in Meridian, and an arcade in Nampa just to name a few things. </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Tony had his family reunion in September in Idaho as well, we went to Bogus Basin for the day and my brother James came down from Arkansas for a visit while we were in Idaho as well.</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Tony & I went to Washington earlier in the year to hang out with a couple of my nieces while their parents took a trip. We went all over the Seattle area and also visited some nearby islands via ferries which was really cool. Huge thanks to my brother-in-law for letting us use his car to cross over into Canada for a day also. I went to Coeur d'Alene for a week to hang out with a niece and nephew while their parents went on a trip. We got to visit my brother Matt and his family in Arizona for Easter. Also in July, I took another trip back to Washington to attend my 8-year-old niece's baptism and celebrate my birthday by riding the rails at Mt. Rainier in their pedal cars and visited the town of Leavenworth where we found a nutcracker museum as well as riding an alpine slide for the first time at the adventure park there.<br /></span><b style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br />Hot air ballooning was busy too! </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Tony & I got to some of our favorite events and saw some of our favorite pilots, crew, and friends in Nevada, Utah, California, Idaho, New Mexico, and <i>even</i> Japan! We were so fortunate to crew for 2 different pilots while we were in Albuquerque and even got a ride a couple of times up above and among 500+ balloons that were there. It was wonderful to have a lot better weather this year than last year and we also got to experience the solar eclipse out on the balloon field. Unfortunately, the balloons were not able to inflate due to wind but it was still fun overall.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b>New things</b> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">First I should mention, that Tony continued his weight loss journey this year by doing keto from January to July and on and off since then. To date (since 2022), he's lost 100 lbs. which is so incredible! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We got to experience Tony participating in a few 5k runs around California, a 2-week trip to Japan with Tony's parents which included Disneyland, Disney Sea, owl cafes, temples, Japanese pancakes, a sumo wrestling event, and Halloween mixed with fall and on into the Christmas season. For Valentine's Day we continued our tradition of trying food we've never had by finding a Jamaican restaurant in Las Vegas. We attended a Festival of Trees in Idaho and went to Canada to see tulips and a super neat hanging bridge hike. We got to visit Mt. Rainier for the first time as well as Olympic National Park. Tony got a new position at his job that he really likes and I started doing online customer support for Airbnb in September which has been a fun, learning & growing experience.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b>The saddest thing </b>this year was that my dearest cockatiel who I've had since I was 12 years old, passed away on November 1st while I was in Japan. That was really tough and I'm still sad every day that he's gone. In the meantime, I have 3 other cockatiels to love on and Rococo will live on in my thoughts and heart every day.<br /><br /><b>Our regular favorite activities</b> happened as well such as my volunteering at Camp Ritchie for a week on rappelling staff, volunteering at Craftcation and Alt Summit in California, some hiking, good food made at home and eating out occasionally, a few trips to Utah including being able to see the fall leaves changing color, attending Pinners conference, our Airbnb room was fairly busy with people coming to visit Death Valley among other things, we got in some beach trips and Disneyland visits where I renewed my pass in August - who wants to go with me next year?! Tony is still running the Zoom broadcast at church on Sundays that he is there and I still have my stake social media calling that is busy on and off throughout the year.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Looking back over photos of our year and this recap, we can't help but feel majorly blessed that Tony has had a great job, we have a nice house to live in and our health has been fairly good overall. We hope you have all had many good things happen this year and we look forward to keeping in touch in 2024 and tackling whatever comes our way. Love you all!</div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Stacie S-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316646996860200449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28639142.post-15701735078591049982023-11-10T01:00:00.064-08:002023-11-10T15:43:59.996-08:00Journey To Bethlehem Review & Giveaway!<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQYmrZyiNyJUGL7DhBdy0594wFHw6rwx5yr9skyQYbYR6TjQKaeiJuk7gPh23IKWHXN2oIILXiV2pWZMgp-Hqt9a_IyDoQqXlq3DeMmKR5a4wbYEUJax12E6zUUTc6tWACDMhp5V18q87EOI1d666XdiY5ndxeHeophwFhqGQoJ31cEeoVHw/s3000/Artwork.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="2025" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQYmrZyiNyJUGL7DhBdy0594wFHw6rwx5yr9skyQYbYR6TjQKaeiJuk7gPh23IKWHXN2oIILXiV2pWZMgp-Hqt9a_IyDoQqXlq3DeMmKR5a4wbYEUJax12E6zUUTc6tWACDMhp5V18q87EOI1d666XdiY5ndxeHeophwFhqGQoJ31cEeoVHw/w270-h400/Artwork.jpg" width="270" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I feel like it's been quite awhile since a really really good Christmas movie has come out in theaters. Do you feel this way too? If so, the wait is over because the movie Journey to Bethlehem is coming to theaters </span><b><span style="font-size: medium;">November 10</span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> and I couldn't be more excited about it. Truly. It's a movie I've seen a couple times now and will definitely be seeing it again with any friends and family who want to go.</span></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EFXcEWalXBI?si=BDYpMayRCuGbSFi_" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Check out the trailer and let me know if this is a movie you'd see or not.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-dfInOQ7sMpTg4NxoDDy06rpSP0aRY-HsPr28IqIkrECODUEvQpfBbAgP8G-EScsOpo0Ob-rpT-p0-QPN0ZDHg4t2-NHUE3C3xwdKcwdg-QUCKHI5TeNMjr04pzyRtHaSvfDAQDk0-BPe4_5DaW3RL8ZBip8Gx5gmcc2V5wl806C1ezhK4g/s1350/Wise%20Men.jpg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-dfInOQ7sMpTg4NxoDDy06rpSP0aRY-HsPr28IqIkrECODUEvQpfBbAgP8G-EScsOpo0Ob-rpT-p0-QPN0ZDHg4t2-NHUE3C3xwdKcwdg-QUCKHI5TeNMjr04pzyRtHaSvfDAQDk0-BPe4_5DaW3RL8ZBip8Gx5gmcc2V5wl806C1ezhK4g/s320/Wise%20Men.jpg" width="256" /></a><br />The wise men in the movie were down to earth and on the comical side. In a good way. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This movie is a musical which is fun and refreshing, especially for a Christmas movie. Whether you like musicals or not, you’ll love the brand new music
in this film, Journey to Bethlehem, starring Antonio Banderas,
Milo Manheim, and more! The music is catchy, thought provoking and I am so stoked to be able to listen to the songs again and again even when I'm not sitting down to watch the movie.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><a href="https://journeytobethlehem.lnk.to/soundtrack" target="_blank">Listen to the soundtrack</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Invite friends and family to watch this heart warming and classic story of the birth of Christ and more into a look at Mary & Joseph by buying your tickets at the link below</span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><a href="https://tickets.journeytobethlehemmovie.com/" target="_blank">Purchase Tickets</a></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you'd like to gift tickets to someone to see Journey to Bethlehem, follow this link,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><a href="https://fandango.egifter.com/journeytobethlehem" target="_blank">Gift Someone Tickets</a></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><b>Now for the giveaway! </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You can enter to win 2 free tickets to see this movie for yourself with a +1</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a class="rcptr" data-raflid="3ea5e4b512" data-template="" data-theme="classic" href="http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/3ea5e4b512/" id="rcwidget_5q7leg56" rel="nofollow" style="text-align: left;">a Rafflecopter giveaway</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Disclosure:</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>Many thanks to AFFIRM Films, Inc. for providing a sample of the product for this review. Opinions are 100% my own.</i></p>Stacie S-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316646996860200449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28639142.post-74618464314437807222023-08-08T22:56:00.001-07:002023-08-08T22:56:07.103-07:00Birthday Deals 2023!<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz3tvmyNkIE3Q0QvDFyA8ASXOULxqOChUYR3t_P01HOpV_SOL4VXXJzbKL_Lb_ozvzhvup4GUMlPPTuHV385zL_pr9cYqkpV_Bjt8ErDq6wyXoiC40Xj_buzw94NWFmqvBko7R3q7hibeu-EJgfzW4SaFEcE5DMlcUeICReX_vlxlo6JbFZw/s1080/birthday%20Deals_20230808_222822_0000.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz3tvmyNkIE3Q0QvDFyA8ASXOULxqOChUYR3t_P01HOpV_SOL4VXXJzbKL_Lb_ozvzhvup4GUMlPPTuHV385zL_pr9cYqkpV_Bjt8ErDq6wyXoiC40Xj_buzw94NWFmqvBko7R3q7hibeu-EJgfzW4SaFEcE5DMlcUeICReX_vlxlo6JbFZw/s320/birthday%20Deals_20230808_222822_0000.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">It's a new year which means it's time to give an update on the birthday deals I got in hopes that you want to get some (or all!) of them too.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Let's get started!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Adidas - silliness still. 15% off a purchase for a birthday. I feel like they have better offers throughout the year. I did not use this one.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Albertsons - another silly one, 2x the rewards on purchases in my birthday month. My rewards never add up or else I'm not buying the right items so I really dont care about this one. I did not use it, I dont think I've set foot in Albertsons all month tbh.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">American Eagle - 15% off a purchase. Nothing special and I decided not to use it this year.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Anthropologie - 20% off. The owl light I want is over $200 so...I'll wait for a better sale. I didn't use this deal.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Archibald's Restaurant at Gardner Village (Utah) - this is one worth using, buy 1 meal get 1 free for lunch or dinner. Must dine in. The offer is good for 30 days from your birthdate.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Artzea - added 250 points to my account. Sweet.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Azteca Casa Ramos (WA) - a code for free flan or churro. Unfortunately, I did not see this one in time or I might have redeemed it.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Bambu (UT) - 10% off my order. The email came 7/3 and expired 7/10 (my birthday) and I was not up in Utah until later in the month so needless to say, I didn't go use this.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Baskin Robbins - free 4oz. scoop. It expired on 7/20 before I got the chance to use it. Better luck next year.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Bead Fairy (UT) - free gift and 20% off my purchase. I got the email on 7/3 and it expired on 7/10. I went to WA for my birthday and there was no chance to get to UT this time.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Black Bear Diner - free Bear's Choice breakfast to use any time of day. I got this email on 7/3 and it's good until 8/17. Yay!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Bubbies Ice Cream - sent me $1 off a 6-pack of Mochi Ice Cream. I feel like I've seen a bit better deals so I'll likely not use this. But Bubbies brand is A+ quality imo. (Last year they sent me a buy-a-box get-a-box free...interesting). </p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Built Bar - a $5 gift card to my email. Last year they added 100 built bucks to my account.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Cafe Rio - oh Cafe Rio. They sent a free $5 to me on 7/5 and then the fine print says it expires 14 days after I get the email. Not from my birthdate. Blah. So this one unfortunately did not get used this year.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Cheesecake Factory - a free slice of cheesecake! I picked the s'mores one. Dying still over how good it was.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Chick-Fil-A - a free brownie or cookie and I had 30 days to redeem. Redeem I did and I chose the brownie.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Chili's - sent an email to me on 7/12 for a free dessert. It expired on 7/17. I did not use this one this year.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Chipotle - free queso, guac, or salsa and chips. The offer expires 30 days from the date of issue and they sent this to me on 7/10.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Cinnabon - 16oz. cold brew. Oof. I do not drink coffee...I wish they'd let me have a little dessert for free instead.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Container Store - 15% off my purchase! I did use this, in California, and got a gift for a friend and a collapsible bucket for myself.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Cricut - didn't send anything for my birthday this year! :( In 2020 they sent me a 10% off coupon. Not much, but something.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Crumbl - a free cookie good until mid-Aug!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Dairy Queen - BOGO Blizzard dessert. Not sure I will use this but maybe.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Dunkin Donuts - free beverage, any size. I got this email 7/8 and it expired 7/15. Sadly I did not get to use it this year.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Del Taco - free regular-size shake. I did not claim this one in time. It was only good until 7/16.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Denny's - free everyday value slam. Good until July 31!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Dippin Dots - a free small cup of dots. This one is tricky to find but sometimes I'm able to get it to work. Last year a kind employee let me redeem it at the CA state fair.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Dream Dinners - free $10 to spend! Good until Aug 14. I'm excited to use this, their chocolate chip cookies are amazing.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Earl of Sandwich - a free brownie or cookie, good until 8/2. I will most likely not end up using this even though I was in LA on the 24th and could have made it to one but there were other birthday deals I was redeeming that day that I wanted more.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Edible Arrangements - last year they sent me an email for 12 pieces of chocolate-dipped fruit. This year, nothing. I reached out to customer service, but nothing yet. This is very sad because it was a great deal to get.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Elmer's Restaurant (CA)- free German pancake. Unfortunately, I will not be anywhere near Elmer's this month.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Enterprise (yes the car rental company) sent me emails the past few years but not this year. It was for a game to play to earn up to 250 points for my account. Darn shame.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Ethel M Chocolates (Las Vegas) - 20% off my purchase of $50 or more. Pass!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Fire + Ice (CA) - I really enjoy eating here but sadly they didn't send me a birthday deal so I will not be going. Byeee. (PS, I did email them on 7/15 and have not heard back).</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Flake Pie Co - a free $5 to spend and you better believe I used this!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Fuddruckers - for the first time, no more free burgers. Now it's $9 for a "meal deal" of a drink, burger, and fries. It's probably a good time to be done. I haven't liked my burger the last few times I've been in. Time to call it quits sadly.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Godiva - $10 off my order through the end of the month.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">IHOP - 5 pan coins which equals 3 pancakes.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">IKEA - this is kind of a mess right now. They never sent me my free dessert and free $10. But every other year before this, I've got it. The online support said I had to call. The call center said they couldn't help me and that I'd have to wait until next year. And I said, next year this will happen again. I need to get this fixed. So they opened a ticket. Stay tuned...</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Rita's Italian Ice - free small ice. I redeemed this in CA and it was tasty.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Johnny Rockets - didn't send me anything this year. Previously, it was a free burger with the purchase of any entree & drink, or shake. I may have fallen off their email list.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Orange Julius - sent their email to me on 6/26. It expired on my birthday (7/10). It was for a $2 any small Orange Julius. A shame to not be able to use this one.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Kiki's Chicken Place (CA) - free small fries with purchase. This is in Sacramento, not going out of my way to get it + it expired 7/10.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Kodiak - does anyone here like this brand? I kinda do and the birthday deal is a free box of birthday cake powder with my next purchase. Pass, because I don't want to spend $45 for free shipping but if you are already placing an order, this would be good to redeem.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Kono's & The Surfing Pig (NV) - yummy place. They sent me a free shake or dessert but this is another one that expired on my birthday. Bummer.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Lazy Dog Restaurant - I love this deal, I get a free appetizer or dessert. They have some delicious ones to choose from. This year I got a chocolate mousse to go and it worked out well.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Macey's grocery store (UT) - I am part of their Perks program and they sent me a free 56oz Red Button brand ice cream with any purchase. Woot!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Marie Callender's - Save $5 off 2 entrees and get 2 free slices of pie. I did use this last year but it wasn't great. I did not get pie, the coupon wouldn't load and the worker didn't know the birthday deal - gasp - so he just did BOGO free on a meal. Anyways, this year it expired 7/17. Better luck another time, maybe.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Marvy Uchida - 40% off of $20 or more. Free shipping over $40. I'm not going to use this so anyone reading this post, if you want it, get ahold of me! It's good for 30 days from 7/17.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Mimi's Cafe - sent me something (a free mixed berry muffin sundae) last year but not this year. I think I've fallen off of their email list too as I do not recall getting any emails from them in quite some time.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Noodles & Co - free crispy or a cookie. Interestingly, in years past they've let me choose from a free dessert, side, or delivery. I opted for the free crispy. It was not that marshmallowy :( </p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Nothing Bundt Cakes- I redeemed this in WA and you get a free bundtlet, any flavor. Such a good deal!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Old Navy - gave me 125 bonus points. I have no clue what that means but thanks?</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Old Spaghetti Factory - a free pasta classic. Dine in or to go. I took it to go, and redeemed it in Utah. Got a salad, pasta, a loaf of bread and Spumoni! So worth it.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Olive Garden - last year sent me a free appetizer or dessert but I have not gotten any emails from them in a long time. Too bad, better luck next year with them.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Old Navy - sent me 125 bonus points. I've not used my points for anything yet, I don't shop at Old Navy often, but hey..free is free.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Pink Nation - didn't seem to send me anything this year. That's a bummer because that's usually one I like to redeem.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Pinkbox Donuts - only in Las Vegas and St. George. This had to be redeemed within 7 days of getting the email (it came on July 10), and it didn't work out to use it this year sadly.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Piper & Scoot (clothing company) sent me 15% off. I did not use it this year.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Plato's Closet (UT location) - sent me $5 off a purchase but it expired on my birthday and there was no chance to use it.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Qdoba - free queso and chips. I used this one in WA!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Raley's - I'm still crying because I couldn't use this one this year. It's a grocery store in Northern CA and a location or two in Nevada. They let you pick out a Hallmark card, a cake mix and a cupcake from the bakery. So good!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Rita's Italian Ice - free small ice. I redeemed this one in CA.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Rubio's - free entree with purchase of an entree. I did not make it to use this one this year.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Rumbi Island - free dessert with purchase. Darn, I didn't get to this restaurant either!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Savers - 20% off. I did use it but this honestly is the same coupon you can get all year round by dropping off a donation. So..its not that special but I'll take any coupon I can get.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Sonic - surprisingly didn't send anything this year. Very strange.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Sprinkles Cupcake - I've prided myself in being able to get my free cupcake the past few years even though its tricky to get to a location. This expired Aug 4. I just was unable to get to a place to pick one up. Very sad because it's' really the only time of year I get one of their cupcakes.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Subway - free birthday cookie. This was good until 7/23. I rarely go in to Subway and just didn't have it on my radar this year.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Taco Bell - free Baja Blast drink (Mtn. Dew). Not my favorite so I decided not to redeem it.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">TCBY - free 3 oz of froyo. I hardly see TCBY so I did not redeem this one this year. The coupon was valid until 8/2.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Texas Roadhouse - free appetizer or sidekick. Wow! I don't remember them doing a birthday deal in the past. I got the email on 7/10 and only had until 7/13 to use it. There was no way timing wise I could get to a location in time. Better luck next year.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Tucanos - free birthday meal with the purchase of a birthday meal. I redeemed this with Tony in Utah!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">The Melting Pot - 6 signature dipped strawberries with any menu purchase. This one lets me redeem until 8/25! But I don't think I'll be near a location in that time frame. I could have used it in Utah possibly but my time was short.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">The North Face - sent me a 10% off coupon. I did not use this.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Tom's - 15% off my purchase of shoes.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Ulta - a free Redken Deluxe Acidic Bonding Concentrate Intensive Treatment. I picked it up in Utah but am not sure I will use it. Just the name of it makes me nervous.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Vans - shoes. 250 bonus points. Like Old Navy points, I'm not sure what it means but hey, I'll take it.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Via 313 - pizza place in Utah that is pretty yummy. $5 off my order AND get this. They gave me a birthday card signed by the staff and a gift card inside for a free pizza. WOW. So stoked about this one!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">That's all folks! What do you think? Are there any I missed? Should I sign up on some more email lists? 😜</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Overall I feel like I missed quite a few deals this year but I did the best I could with the time I had.</p>Stacie S-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316646996860200449noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28639142.post-17901160181189083762023-06-06T14:55:00.002-07:002023-06-06T14:55:22.368-07:003 Years, Say What?<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrCgLK4jP9iv9dept8jRPdu8vyRS4CmEs0QFPc2j8n3AoUsVkvPYkS0XkV4ulNyTvjc76Ts8uuleLXnMhIJS6tXxbPlv0tWMbdhG9lHCf2GC-p6VYVrsVg7mpM9tBHvnJptLzu6UCfdHFyGyS6QZ_xmYr2R5S7P7TWqBhM1QnctGg8CmQ/s4032/20200626_174417.jpg" style="font-family: helvetica; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrCgLK4jP9iv9dept8jRPdu8vyRS4CmEs0QFPc2j8n3AoUsVkvPYkS0XkV4ulNyTvjc76Ts8uuleLXnMhIJS6tXxbPlv0tWMbdhG9lHCf2GC-p6VYVrsVg7mpM9tBHvnJptLzu6UCfdHFyGyS6QZ_xmYr2R5S7P7TWqBhM1QnctGg8CmQ/w400-h300/20200626_174417.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: justify;">Someone mentioned to me last week that March 15th was when the US went into lockdown for the pandemic. Another friend made a blog post talking about how if you feel off, it's due to a dramatic shift 3 years ago. It was interesting to read the comments. I am not sure I have felt off, maybe a little? But I chalked it up to the fact I have been on trips and it always takes me a day or two or three to readjust when I get back home and try to slide back into my routine. </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But it also got me thinking of the last 3 years. I don't think I really blogged a whole lot during covid about my actual thoughts and feelings about being locked down and the never-ending bad news I listened to daily for a while. So since this blog is also like my journal in a way, I figured it better late than never for putting down some of what I remember especially in 2020.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><a name='more'></a></span> </span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB8VLRwQ95OYeYdGO5e2SFeBcoFm7hRzGgPZ_HzYHMUhTMK3jVqfpwlyi8PaRc8kowgUrjQtyUqqD4e0CAnCcJTtkUMuOCf70LCRlwhnalTvuEKlfXgkj6xZE31RdMZB-BahQ4kUq9I1mk9ooJb4zJH3YlqGmty7JimhI_KZh8j6_sPaY/s4032/20200626_143819.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB8VLRwQ95OYeYdGO5e2SFeBcoFm7hRzGgPZ_HzYHMUhTMK3jVqfpwlyi8PaRc8kowgUrjQtyUqqD4e0CAnCcJTtkUMuOCf70LCRlwhnalTvuEKlfXgkj6xZE31RdMZB-BahQ4kUq9I1mk9ooJb4zJH3YlqGmty7JimhI_KZh8j6_sPaY/w300-h400/20200626_143819.jpg" width="300" /></a></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I still feel upset about missed once in lifetime trips and opportunities. Upse</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">t inside that our amazing Canada trip had to get canceled (it was scheduled for June 2020). </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">\<img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk_9fiNeobWU5rIzkPFG5BXATf3YTsjMkNwQ934CcdJjdkqtHgOYoxu5Seczsqw49Bhk3pLQzrATk3urvnKeld-KHVFVCPqpNTGqfawmTEtnbtWYPX18P3EvyEN8Aen-p_y7zR26W7tLzLZqwIdB8sRhSoduMzOFqsIQ1_zqEfjBcWjK8/w300-h400/20200730_191000.jpg" width="300" /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The middle of March is when Tony started working from home Monday through Friday since the naval base pretty much shut down and tried to have everyone who was able to, work from home. We had to turn the middle bedroom into an office instead of an Airbnb room. We turned the first bedroom from a storage room of sorts, into a full-time Airbnb room, for when people started traveling again.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLKtxVsHfJY9nrrFmzQlQy8gDZjU_ckty99QPalI86jRPyNqMmRG9yMp0kU660CxWQVxeVLH0wqdtWkZpBp6exF6C0eQHzDcqDC6k1IlYIzTwJ2Q-DbV3VyBojvhk1nYOSobCHhUMS7cAaaPfC23L1mbl1bEzvBlni3CTVpBAKaxkan-c/w400-h300/20200627_161529.jpg" width="400" /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Church turned into home-centered gospel learning. We watched a lot of BYUTv on Sundays. Eventually, a Zoom link got set up and we were able to watch our ward online kind of. Definitely not the same as attending in person but I am glad being able to Zoom is still an option, for whenever I travel because I am still able to tune in.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> I found myself being a good citizen and staying home, only going out for essentials. Wiping down groceries for a while (foolishly I know now) and over a period of what felt like forever but was probably just a month or two. Scrolling back in my phone to March 2020, my calendar is pretty empty. April is too. I knew at some point I had to escape my house. I haven't been home in 1 spot since we moved to Ridgecrest in 2016 and I was slowly starting to lose my mind. I convinced Tony that we needed to start taking drives out of town. Anywhere. Just to see something different. So we did and it helped immensely.</span></p><div><img border="0" data-original-height="2640" data-original-width="1980" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi6rNzzoBItocIGnz8xq16XbFQ_Hy9zMMpm29aCba6uts2bChOxL3AZ_YDa112jA3X3AiS_FP0Y_DWIi271ce1NBCDfgUA_DeyLt2kVstAFnHRM3Hbrq27zWKzeETC4KqIqxjowYWzNDUhop2h208gvLszJenHJ19eiEbLpdeBx13HIY4/s320/20200627_165419.jpg" width="240" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0iCkTyHNW1uiDqM_yDQHNeWoRfSUKQky_Qg8jvJnoazAr6DxQZ-WiH2LDh5mLTy6MCUeLXPspIH_42RcCjiq_Q-pJ-p3u239iJLLyTmgpElWmuQFlGxEXb_SzMesl_PcIpMlXq_bEr1_PExiomwhlZe6YQVOJgt5e-jyr8qTZDezn5Pg/s4032/20200628_191638.jpg" style="font-family: helvetica; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0iCkTyHNW1uiDqM_yDQHNeWoRfSUKQky_Qg8jvJnoazAr6DxQZ-WiH2LDh5mLTy6MCUeLXPspIH_42RcCjiq_Q-pJ-p3u239iJLLyTmgpElWmuQFlGxEXb_SzMesl_PcIpMlXq_bEr1_PExiomwhlZe6YQVOJgt5e-jyr8qTZDezn5Pg/s320/20200628_191638.jpg" width="240" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Bryce Canyon area, UT & Baker, CA</span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Blog conferences and events all got put on hold, or canceled and never came back. Or might come back in the future (I'm still holding out hope for some of them). I did attend one conference in 2020 - Inspo Creative Conference in Utah. That was fun and went well overall.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjGyVd178_m8R3gF5cthFjYKgPNJYdQ5mHopl2xla4ifyXFfjB8xypmDVKv8poBHZywnjH-gFaZOYfNx5Osi8qxofLjlyLX3HTSR4chByvlQbSGgMo-QVGO_YfefYFfiPMG9-l27ASQ4SF1guuLI_s-ypv_FOjy_-G6Kj-YfHFyC9RMOg/s4032/20200731_173100.jpg" style="font-family: helvetica; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjGyVd178_m8R3gF5cthFjYKgPNJYdQ5mHopl2xla4ifyXFfjB8xypmDVKv8poBHZywnjH-gFaZOYfNx5Osi8qxofLjlyLX3HTSR4chByvlQbSGgMo-QVGO_YfefYFfiPMG9-l27ASQ4SF1guuLI_s-ypv_FOjy_-G6Kj-YfHFyC9RMOg/w400-h300/20200731_173100.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">\<img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEBjF4vkfbgySlMHw2eq2xHUnKvUfe-2k3lMiOYq6tLGDvY5F8dvSGJYkDT_9P-7r66ZmS-AzDLKPEgaUvmP6Z4MdyzaLIgd4g4vY031FSzL14rodV2UXqGZiyR9VVqVSbiVe-8vwYPaCNoIOVJnfk7JDOIrSWjkblJcqBTPLvrw01BPo/w400-h300/20200711_173221.jpg" style="text-align: center;" width="400" /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;">It also super helped me to stop listening to the news on my Google Mini every day and start listening to more uplifting music. I did that so much throughout each day and it helped ease the worry and frustration I was feeling about the world.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ1N-jO9eiSB9MjBBLhmQ9H-PFp_c1Z_y8yFKdGdeHdoNi-vHXmgjJXKcaDUpnk7z4R5dnhf66YVLguB60lkJdZYcSr-NKy5J1TSw2IVi1mKad7t8G9WDbmtorm1EwN4_C6hfMjqZfO47SMVo8M-2EtOXbaK9Hql1pKxWj4oMw0uxPHEI/w400-h300/20200702_170247.jpg" style="font-family: Purisa;" width="400" /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: Purisa;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We got our freeze dryer and kept busy freeze-drying all the things! Meals, fruits, veggies, candy, and more. It was fun and helped pass the time.</span></p><div><br /></div></div></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNLOfROsCHtib-IyPcy8Ur6ccujiiiqgcBsBeVhpZWTfRZpXd_ydh7GAgkhYRI2Cre6H6rd1RIEiF4gQmZLTDDZNxIxAEoqaiqcNVIT22VB4cJ89w9bFMrFjPP81VUpq10IA8palDLuduwPUN8SqjGL_KZeiwA6UzmKGrpwJ4kK4pMASU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="469" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNLOfROsCHtib-IyPcy8Ur6ccujiiiqgcBsBeVhpZWTfRZpXd_ydh7GAgkhYRI2Cre6H6rd1RIEiF4gQmZLTDDZNxIxAEoqaiqcNVIT22VB4cJ89w9bFMrFjPP81VUpq10IA8palDLuduwPUN8SqjGL_KZeiwA6UzmKGrpwJ4kK4pMASU=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Flying with Erica in her balloon in Utah<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Craftcation in April was canceled. Super sad! May was a pretty calm and empty month. But we stayed busy! Lots of house projects started happening. I am so grateful Tony still had an income from his job, my job with Homie was put on hold and never did come back, unfortunately, Pinterest parties paused for a moment and then I switched them to happen virtually which was fun but so much extra work. Girls camp was reorganized so the girls did activities at home. I didn't go to northern CA to work on rappelling staff for Camp Ritchie.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQAfSeqnE-I9gZtFRqZpPhEGjKeI16Kp7rqo9X8LM7F8Zcu20elgQN1gQ0xBypTj4CiHAzWSVXMGXSgZ7SMLcdRWaZDmslsK43qd4wMkPOfXzwC2ryeSFsq3b-uA2G5GmXwncDRD6R0B8cOmcxic5UA6MuqJzNKv9vk0wjgTVV50wJZL4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="469" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQAfSeqnE-I9gZtFRqZpPhEGjKeI16Kp7rqo9X8LM7F8Zcu20elgQN1gQ0xBypTj4CiHAzWSVXMGXSgZ7SMLcdRWaZDmslsK43qd4wMkPOfXzwC2ryeSFsq3b-uA2G5GmXwncDRD6R0B8cOmcxic5UA6MuqJzNKv9vk0wjgTVV50wJZL4=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Not too many crazy things happened but Tony did shave the back underneath of my hair (I really wanted to try this look) and carved a little mountain design in. Shrug. It was fun and weird. I don't think I would do it again. </span><p></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;">We didn't bake a ton or gain the "Covid 15" that many people talked about. I delivered gifts to girls in town from a Ridgecrest gifting group I was in. It was fun to get a surprise or two on my porch. We decorated our front window and part of the sidewalk.</div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWXxYxwkEbUUGPnwa0xKwaLSB8BJJyG_sfkQ-RXsy9PnkDMxE6Q-nJdSS3_Oq35-knJIea3HMf0KopCkwE4xn9ftMVxYsgqrbNrtXnS_XjJwE8yqvwltkT86GRQv-g_XDv8PBwVvzoSo1-TXZZT4NlMUXO2PCmhlYuopn08QHkxmbW24o/w400-h300/20200726_181509.jpg" style="font-family: helvetica;" width="400" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I did all kinds of crafts to pass the time including ice-dying and resin crafts. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGtf2xHVuy2fsSwb6UjUruRaK3Ii5pqVKHlVTsMQ0VMHSJF8ZaxjI6C4ZLqBIo4EeUoRPxDKz2ZSmZw-Oa4pNPZ_GHBdOA1QEC2otB3tLakeqJcgIQVT1RlIHIxp9AkdTYgbEKoGbbFMB5DqZposgUaE8Hb0hnPSkZOeVr4q9oV83xVoQ/s4032/20200708_211951.jpg" style="font-family: helvetica; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGtf2xHVuy2fsSwb6UjUruRaK3Ii5pqVKHlVTsMQ0VMHSJF8ZaxjI6C4ZLqBIo4EeUoRPxDKz2ZSmZw-Oa4pNPZ_GHBdOA1QEC2otB3tLakeqJcgIQVT1RlIHIxp9AkdTYgbEKoGbbFMB5DqZposgUaE8Hb0hnPSkZOeVr4q9oV83xVoQ/w400-h300/20200708_211951.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="1111" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdXSBhdq4hVfy7dvl8esXipKy6MAP58edv6oYkg_wcFaxfc-IusPUGcMDB0WlV8FmTCQOoADKCX9O3Sr1PylJj9xg44IO92GJmsqgSBtQetWyd1CVXQXQ_cwrXw16qEBd09FLpXZ5yRFTbLWAtvyOpVLv974h5UhSZifhg7ZonKUZw8vY=w400-h225" width="400" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I love <b>love</b> using my Gallery Glass paints. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Here I made some fun Easter egg clings for the windows</span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU3GfIscWAD6Wm3FItodp3C1k3TXLd0Wpz0lzfql-ISDwwQatGUKIw-O0nJxFiOjIRMBMXwqnt19fh8FNKxX33Xadq7Gr57vQ6Fe-lkmfyGqH1FDANA2j2eWpAcnVBVpbfak4t_QXcYCKJ8iSaWrl4HsHkU5Xt5GCdEbHj_EYHIBGHBgw/s4032/20200718_084204.jpg" style="font-family: helvetica; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU3GfIscWAD6Wm3FItodp3C1k3TXLd0Wpz0lzfql-ISDwwQatGUKIw-O0nJxFiOjIRMBMXwqnt19fh8FNKxX33Xadq7Gr57vQ6Fe-lkmfyGqH1FDANA2j2eWpAcnVBVpbfak4t_QXcYCKJ8iSaWrl4HsHkU5Xt5GCdEbHj_EYHIBGHBgw/w400-h300/20200718_084204.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I had a yard sale with a friend. Safe because it was outside and all that and we offered hand sanitizer and most everyone did social distancing. Went well and it was nice to get items sold.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="352" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtBh8OCJ2jAYESiImuo0Ia_pJq_YTnQ192D1hgYVOu40dsBb7p3cSpYHgr5zYYP99f7ZxGinRCA0UweSWQ6DmaQnp4r4_b2lsbxB5RNnsloXpGmBP1DcnfCCIJMSLuAzyN8GBxd0ZF2D8X8f1ZRbx68qYs2jaapsmGttPGZLrgF4YE3bM=w180-h320" width="180" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWQK7vNXpdWVDO8QzHqh14FABK5rrkC1Fr459zgB-F8PUpj-4X5LeuKEO8yeWfa9A_yLCGOZvTKGqRxTmYynRimFAIU-BYQuCTYD3eLxGxuKoYdFp3LptBMJd0p4ZhSmxRlHxFZ6wSx95MGupFuSFCSSiIDB0-PQDztFZxaAV998MFOh4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="352" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWQK7vNXpdWVDO8QzHqh14FABK5rrkC1Fr459zgB-F8PUpj-4X5LeuKEO8yeWfa9A_yLCGOZvTKGqRxTmYynRimFAIU-BYQuCTYD3eLxGxuKoYdFp3LptBMJd0p4ZhSmxRlHxFZ6wSx95MGupFuSFCSSiIDB0-PQDztFZxaAV998MFOh4=w180-h320" width="180" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We did lots of house projects including pulling every single thing out of our 1 car garage to paint the floor. We did the laundry room as well. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6y0Lh5sCpn-OKKWfp2wR6U06QqmLkc1m2LKkq_ysACxbPLOA05SilkdPV4BZSay2ZuKRlweS3M1KNSDj2pin8-SoDwcIfyBXudrNhFulRJzMX0oXKoPwcUVsz-yldSl0-ewocgeLOn1wURiiY6dtscqjeDZPukV2HsAXvHE5Bvd7JiFM/s4032/20200704_074419.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6y0Lh5sCpn-OKKWfp2wR6U06QqmLkc1m2LKkq_ysACxbPLOA05SilkdPV4BZSay2ZuKRlweS3M1KNSDj2pin8-SoDwcIfyBXudrNhFulRJzMX0oXKoPwcUVsz-yldSl0-ewocgeLOn1wURiiY6dtscqjeDZPukV2HsAXvHE5Bvd7JiFM/w400-h300/20200704_074419.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br />Our friend Kim hosted a hot air balloon camping weekend at her house since other events were canceled. It was soo nice to see our hot-air balloon friends and socialize. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkHWFnbtf1i51gv3QwlWX0B1G5VBz71BPXwMTDugBM0ROCw7Qj5krDJ3sIDXzC3EI6ZwrLdORnQPidSLC3pxfgOO6cJAepXcSy_0OpzsTGWKx6O02UlqY3cFX1xDiPgwuivhslCp73J2BxFCiGvSlA7tYgoY-1Y0g68x7kXOyHF4VXc24/s4032/20200704_090222.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkHWFnbtf1i51gv3QwlWX0B1G5VBz71BPXwMTDugBM0ROCw7Qj5krDJ3sIDXzC3EI6ZwrLdORnQPidSLC3pxfgOO6cJAepXcSy_0OpzsTGWKx6O02UlqY3cFX1xDiPgwuivhslCp73J2BxFCiGvSlA7tYgoY-1Y0g68x7kXOyHF4VXc24/w300-h400/20200704_090222.jpg" width="300" /></a><br /><br />Kim (red shirt) and I. We went to a place to pick fresh blueberries. Awesome!<br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6G6h5XOtgiuy9IuUUE10gj1GBLFUzFmCqD-iGDZZNtV4ezB1t7YexcyYG1RnYExByDA9UZq2eTSrCY4VYFe2rcKuGAqCibvebAzdbxXglg3mcPl6xATjoSqVuwcz5sQLPOgpXcJQOBPi4yRjT9zNZBZVDg1IZW2m4GvQi6c-Dc2LveKg/s4032/20200712_110852.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6G6h5XOtgiuy9IuUUE10gj1GBLFUzFmCqD-iGDZZNtV4ezB1t7YexcyYG1RnYExByDA9UZq2eTSrCY4VYFe2rcKuGAqCibvebAzdbxXglg3mcPl6xATjoSqVuwcz5sQLPOgpXcJQOBPi4yRjT9zNZBZVDg1IZW2m4GvQi6c-Dc2LveKg/s320/20200712_110852.jpg" width="240" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTz1VeRRj5BcDxGQeX96RVC6d0PWL_3DGRgWq5tlwQCqEhuF5K_WaKnJ3E8o5Ak22TFgyjbuSiC3TR0ZOoTat9sGbT7Oi6ZlLAJdhYFA-_VZWNeVS3NCUFaB8k3wQQvvFZkAZIT5gs9hvBoJJ1aN7f32Vi75YNLAHrC2PFo9XqrwcQV0E/s320/20200711_172705.jpg" width="240" /></div></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Explored around California...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRQB0fET-y_wz8koIU56kqP1sfmW7AJ6z6aeFBHx5s2eizX4VkTFpBrnsbon0Xqb077d2YhnnQYsdoqcsVrymd7VRz-lUi6CRuDqxr4bK5INdjD7VB9Uq5lURh3oi1O2vvn2rekaOZR3yA--fZzwaC2bPfjMpom1q0fi-Yv9Zg9B9zSoY/s4032/20200724_120405.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRQB0fET-y_wz8koIU56kqP1sfmW7AJ6z6aeFBHx5s2eizX4VkTFpBrnsbon0Xqb077d2YhnnQYsdoqcsVrymd7VRz-lUi6CRuDqxr4bK5INdjD7VB9Uq5lURh3oi1O2vvn2rekaOZR3yA--fZzwaC2bPfjMpom1q0fi-Yv9Zg9B9zSoY/s320/20200724_120405.jpg" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCvJAu0njL6AJI66V-s4wGvLlbFtWGVkPoXnnORriZDz7nPDMxx2tub-Cv7HBcjV2vJUQ1xdgwZF7NMvnu8hI-4gaKPOZ1ALIh-ahRF7cN9Tg7IathrplOs61G9RaKr43Bs3ka1ENO0slRiuPsRiiNLydHbhhBLyvUft2KWCzulof2f4A/s2640/20200727_210839.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2640" data-original-width="1980" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCvJAu0njL6AJI66V-s4wGvLlbFtWGVkPoXnnORriZDz7nPDMxx2tub-Cv7HBcjV2vJUQ1xdgwZF7NMvnu8hI-4gaKPOZ1ALIh-ahRF7cN9Tg7IathrplOs61G9RaKr43Bs3ka1ENO0slRiuPsRiiNLydHbhhBLyvUft2KWCzulof2f4A/s320/20200727_210839.jpg" width="240" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Went to Utah and did the Parade of Homes with a friend and also the sunflower fields with another friend in SLC.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1980" data-original-width="2640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBTnOjd-UIBjK8Zx-mxd0PT6YiVQA0hJkbqnPr8TWFx2f7v9-rq9HUen03MnHFrQzGOuY8QPgdTrDNGCN9mleCeCU7LPQFKY40Y_u7DhHdEG9d3sQZIDwbB4WXSUHfFICJ75eRYAaGIxtGxo9hHNPmMovheesZr6W9cluiDApdybWJU8Q/w400-h300/20200729_202128.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />I super duper dislike photos of me with a mask on but it's part of 2020 so here I am with my friends Jessica and Nessa. We went to Waffle Love and enjoyed some food.</div><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4cWlD6nms1c0o6Ly__djo22Xqgy5zVjavTFnUSqPtSbwlI3zPHSie3xlEgb6sjDWGVGbEWI_BC0l8a-65g7dcGk1fnSBU00owpd4x-h2_nJR441jpUvryleoijfk_Dv-D-kqpL-scYI7ywcHGkiNBK723W-FwWPXhkOVaaaKB2MUbyF0/s2640/20200729_132056.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2640" data-original-width="1980" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4cWlD6nms1c0o6Ly__djo22Xqgy5zVjavTFnUSqPtSbwlI3zPHSie3xlEgb6sjDWGVGbEWI_BC0l8a-65g7dcGk1fnSBU00owpd4x-h2_nJR441jpUvryleoijfk_Dv-D-kqpL-scYI7ywcHGkiNBK723W-FwWPXhkOVaaaKB2MUbyF0/s320/20200729_132056.jpg" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVIWPyEeAaMiS-fjImUlSTTAGkWaWGNZjRVMwmIlq3o321wiMDpJbTiQ780l4PERzpbVGP-sQeesbjFryXF2KFoXGo6I4SXo3WzAzHE6q_F8ln8A6SggiZ1rGdZISMGHexyHfXsNzb9XZNzJQxYkNJRd49y19vLlLrawptsBRgaZzqhWk/s2640/20200727_153658.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2640" data-original-width="1980" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVIWPyEeAaMiS-fjImUlSTTAGkWaWGNZjRVMwmIlq3o321wiMDpJbTiQ780l4PERzpbVGP-sQeesbjFryXF2KFoXGo6I4SXo3WzAzHE6q_F8ln8A6SggiZ1rGdZISMGHexyHfXsNzb9XZNzJQxYkNJRd49y19vLlLrawptsBRgaZzqhWk/s320/20200727_153658.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Took my mask off as often as possible in 2020 - yay for being able to see my smile which is the only feature I like about myself tbh.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-edAO4Zi26cc-Bmwm9zNnn96OkiXfiMSL61bSriiB0y4Ul_lI-LGz7JqjkbcXnDgtFB9cCLSr02L2GsPESYIYI5vMJOdwhvV5veU9doa5GHfbKPGbhA9dXtlASjGQSEntdZIG8LsnINDMkTfBNxwx9qs74yy3GZAIvt9gcHsqe0USVhE/s4032/20200808_203059.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-edAO4Zi26cc-Bmwm9zNnn96OkiXfiMSL61bSriiB0y4Ul_lI-LGz7JqjkbcXnDgtFB9cCLSr02L2GsPESYIYI5vMJOdwhvV5veU9doa5GHfbKPGbhA9dXtlASjGQSEntdZIG8LsnINDMkTfBNxwx9qs74yy3GZAIvt9gcHsqe0USVhE/s320/20200808_203059.jpg" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG4n5EefcQZdBD3Si6iuMEtadjNqYlXNxf7sw0MoSgXUsIa1Md-kzXxTWuHtRe6rJXiDKc5Y6BfUgd1p00irFYYhumhH0QpGOtzytLiv8ufQvj-0Xw3qwHLuPlAtUVnfLWqqJZ9jMRIH4snZpCVEpPM6-KOoxQ08bcjiq_UPtprms-aSc/s4032/20200809_122445.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG4n5EefcQZdBD3Si6iuMEtadjNqYlXNxf7sw0MoSgXUsIa1Md-kzXxTWuHtRe6rJXiDKc5Y6BfUgd1p00irFYYhumhH0QpGOtzytLiv8ufQvj-0Xw3qwHLuPlAtUVnfLWqqJZ9jMRIH4snZpCVEpPM6-KOoxQ08bcjiq_UPtprms-aSc/s320/20200809_122445.jpg" width="240" /></a><br /><br />In August my brother got married in the Meridian, ID temple and we had a family reunion too.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFOk0PthDpRS9F-_38MJh0YzJxIZ3dtM7tDdglORXEkE_VQWAe7d_S9TqGTuv5ajkJE2UZWPmAzut8sYG0b8rUIpfykwDe9cn6jfhQrfe_nTpTn6gRJbV2z6EbSuAfguI402-IXAqd64PIQj6FZHfVmjri5lJ0QTzXYVSnBjGrCOAIBAQ/s4032/20200807_203338.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFOk0PthDpRS9F-_38MJh0YzJxIZ3dtM7tDdglORXEkE_VQWAe7d_S9TqGTuv5ajkJE2UZWPmAzut8sYG0b8rUIpfykwDe9cn6jfhQrfe_nTpTn6gRJbV2z6EbSuAfguI402-IXAqd64PIQj6FZHfVmjri5lJ0QTzXYVSnBjGrCOAIBAQ/w400-h300/20200807_203338.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br />It was so much fun to be able to see and hang out with my cute nieces and nephews. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="469" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuBkIsUiM2VLG-Jp2U_xf-BfrryC8VPBOza91zESVTsScDteXJZV-oLVTL_Izii4Dvn6cvH9_vXvFq8Wtyid_gZHfVvOydNePkcv2Wd-1HIVhKKMdUaRCbGq6D6Dj3rZ4hO7ebftsCr_LHCeO4yR4bIiB66127eZTJTheM-wWAi4Z_6cI=w300-h400" width="300" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Despite all the inconveniences and negative news and sadness in 2020, I'd say it was quite the year to remember, and am glad I was able to eventually get out and start living life outside the walls of my home again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thanks for reading!</div></div></span><p></p>Stacie S-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316646996860200449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28639142.post-65940537976426920542023-01-04T00:41:00.003-08:002023-10-20T10:58:23.984-07:00OLW - 2023!<p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-small;">Impact-Site-Verification: 725347919</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTjvkHyq3lPWRQKMxzGqvPVuiuI5bjizwkZcB7HLc5xIQyc90-cDpNiBLex6HGgi2kWKeNeJaG_TyxueCTTIicAHr0HU4CKfgPt5N9X0f5etNeNmPlSJ_J-Cgpy2AHMzWhCgqR-8Wx1b0_dE7uiZKrj80Drs5KM3v2FRTzvWV_uyaXyPK7h8hrSLit/s1080/Copy%20of%20Black%20&%20White%20Minimalist%20Squared%20Playful%20Instagram%20Post.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTjvkHyq3lPWRQKMxzGqvPVuiuI5bjizwkZcB7HLc5xIQyc90-cDpNiBLex6HGgi2kWKeNeJaG_TyxueCTTIicAHr0HU4CKfgPt5N9X0f5etNeNmPlSJ_J-Cgpy2AHMzWhCgqR-8Wx1b0_dE7uiZKrj80Drs5KM3v2FRTzvWV_uyaXyPK7h8hrSLit/s320/Copy%20of%20Black%20&%20White%20Minimalist%20Squared%20Playful%20Instagram%20Post.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I can't believe the new year is here, again. This means I am back, with my one-little-word I want to work on this year. And it will be <u>work</u>! I put that graphic on my Instagram stories and nobody sent me a guess. I suppose it was too hard of a word to unscramble? I am kidding...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">So let's get to it. My word for the year is </div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">PIVOT</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Pivot</i>. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I fought this word for a bit. I did not want it. I did not like it. It feels scary. It feels like big changes and I do not care for big changes, mainly ones that are out of my control. It kept coming back to my mind though and I couldn't shake it loose. So this is the word it shall be for me to focus on in 2023.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The definition of pivot online is "to turn or rotate."<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">There are some things in my life I need to turn/rotate I suppose.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> This is my brain dump so bear with me. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In years past, picking one word to work on for the year, I wanted it to cover all aspects of my life. Social media, family/friends, church, work..you get the idea. This year, I am not sure how many areas this word is going to affect. Here are a few areas that come to mind at the moment.<br /><br />The first one up and the hardest one by far is Pinterest parties. I've been passionate about these parties since I started them in 2012. It's been a good 10-year run of doing the parties. But towards the end of 2022, something inside me shifted/changed and I no longer felt the same passion/desire for them. I was filled with dread whenever I tried to plan a party. So, I must pivot. Does it mean fewer parties or none at all? A different kind of craft gathering? I am still trying to figure this out. I love crafting but especially in the last few months of 2022, it had to take a back seat because of all the other activities I was involved with. I will blog more about this over at <b><a href="https://www.niteowlcreates.com/" target="_blank">Nite Owl Creates</a></b> in the near future.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Next up, well, honestly nothing much comes to mind as to what I do that I could pivot away from but you know what? What about pivoting <i>to</i> something instead of away from it. I do have a small list of crafts I'd like to learn to do this year.<br /><br />Ok, back on track here. Enough talk about crafting. I'll save that discussion for my craft blog. I need to pivot back to blogging more often and documenting. My blogs are my online journals and I did not keep up on it as much as I wished I did in 2022. Why? I travel with my laptop all the time but when I travel, I am out and about doing things and having experiences. I tend to not get stuck to my screen until the end of the day before I fall asleep. But despite whatever reasons there might be, blogging opportunities have been few and far between since 2020 and I've really missed working on projects and collaborations. So I'd like to ponder on how to get that to happen again.<br /><br />One other thought I had was to pivot away from relationships/friendships where I am doing all the work to keep things going. While this is ok, for a time, I think I do it for much too long. I have been trying to tell myself more lately that there is nothing wrong with networking and making connections but some friendships were based on the time they happened and not all of them last forever. Friendships that I felt were so strong at the moment, have faded over the years. Through nobody's fault, really. Maybe I moved, or maybe the friend got married or had kids and became more distant. There are so many scenarios. I need to be okay with the fact that in life, I don't need to have hundreds of best friends. Or even just friend friends. And that when friendships fizzle a bit, it doesn't mean it's a bad thing. There are times and seasons for everything in life. I sure do appreciate the few consistent friends in life, no matter what state they live in. And I sure do appreciate all the people I've met in my life who no longer keep in touch as often but we catch up when we can and that's okay. I am learning to be on board with that even though its hard to swallow at times.<br /><br />I feel like this blog post is getting really boring and I am a bit out of ideas besides pivoting away from Pinterest parties, away from being besties with everyone I meet, and pivoting to blogging more and doing some new things online that I haven't tried before as ways to make some money or grow as a person.<br /><br />If you have ideas about what I could pivot to, or away from, in my life in 2023 - drop me a comment. I'd love to hear your thoughts! <br /><br />I'm sure as the year goes on, I'll find more things to pivot in my life.<br /><br />I am sure Tony would be thrilled if I was on time. Cooked dinner. Helped more with things I feel only he has the skills to do.<br /><br />I'm sure my family & friends would appreciate me blogging more consistently so they know what's going on in my life.<br /><br />I'm sure my calling at church (stake social media specialist) would love for me to find ways to engage members of the stake and community with Facebook and Instagram posts.<br /><br />Lots to think about and I hope by the end of 2023, I'm a better person than what I currently am and gained a few good life (or crafting?) skills along the way.<br /><br />Thanks for reading!</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Stacie S-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316646996860200449noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28639142.post-44760386429481310712022-09-13T00:22:00.001-07:002022-09-13T00:22:21.751-07:00Birthday Deals 2022<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRDc86ryXo5tcEZPUHHSiozxJIfQXCkxgkRqCVJAeFnBBmMZi9p-N81r2hQcQp5CWMYA1a_bX1JPVZeXagd0aKaAK6xFzgqOKWUGDDaEUfikRVEP_XveOfxmeQaiXInrvej5OagfUOQko_SLoV6GVoXYHKp3t6zHPqZZrQP4oCkUe329Y/s320/Blue%20Happy%20Birthday%20Instagram%20Post%20.png" width="320" /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> This was the oddest birthday deal year yet! Keep reading to find out why....</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><a name='more'></a></span></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">SO! Much to my dismay, I'd "fallen off" many of the lists I've been on for years for birthday deals. Waffle Love, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Old Spaghetti Factory and CVS to name a few. Also Yogurtland and Rita's Italian Ice (which I was never able to fix sadly). Some just didn't even send me birthday deals at all, like Deseret Book, Earl of Sandwich, R&R BBQ and Subway. Did I fall off of their list too? So...make a note to yourself to log in or check the restaurants you really want birthday deals for to make sure that you didn't get removed from their list as well. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now, let's get going on the birthday deal emails I got and if I got the chance to redeem :)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Archibald's Restaurant - in Utah and yes. They sent me a buy 1 meal get 1 free.<br /><br />American Eagle - 15% off<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">1000 Degrees Pizza - free 11" pizza. I did redeem this and tried the mac and cheese pizza which was actually really delicious!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Adidas - sent me a 15% off coupon. <br /><br />Albertsons - 2x the reward points</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Artzea - 250 club points <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.drinkbambu.com/menu/saltlakecity/" target="_blank"><b>Bambu</b></a> - 20% off entire order</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Baskin Robbins - free kids size scoop or 3 oz. swirl of soft serve</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Big 5 - 15% off a purchase</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Black Bear Diner - a free Bear's Choice Breakfast Entree</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bubbies Ice Cream - buy a box, get one free (It's a coupon you print and mine is good from July - Oct)<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Built Bar - 100 Built Bucks which seems to only equal $5 off a purchase and is not as good as a birthday rewards as it was last year</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cafe Rio - a free $5 which I used towards a "snack" of chips and queso. This snack actually lasted me for a few days. The queso held out longer than the chips did actually. <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chick-Fil-A - free brownie or cookie. I chose the brownie.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chili's - free dessert<br /><br />Chipotle - free chips and guac or salsa or queso blanco. I did redeem this and tried the queso.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cinnabon - free coffee</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Corner Bakery Cafe - free sweet</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cricut - 10% off and free shipping!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Crumbl - free cookie! I for sure used this one.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Culvers - free 1 scoop sundae</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dunkin Donuts - free beverage, any size</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Denny's - free Triple Grand Slam. I did redeem this in Ridgecrest, CA and then was told they couldn't honor it. No real reason why. They did honor it in the end but next year I'll need to remember to use this one out of town I guess. Wow...<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dippin Dots - free cup of Dots - redeemed at the state fair in Sacramento!<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dream Dinners - 10 birthday dinner dollars. I am so bummed I didn't get to redeem this one.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Edible Arrangements - free 12 piece box of chocolate dipped fruit<br /><br />Einstein Bagels - free ham & cheese birthday bagel sandwich<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Elmer's Restaurant - birthday German pancake</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Enterprise - 250 bonus points</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ethel M. Chocolates - $5 off a box of custom chocolates</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fetch Rewards - free magazine subscription</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fire and Ice - free meal, 1 per table.<br /><br />Flake Pie Co - $5 off<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fuddruckers - free 1/3 lb. burger</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Godiva - free $10 to spend online in your birthday month<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hard Rock Cafe - buy 1 entree, get 1 free</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">IHOP - 5 Pancoins</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">IKEA - $10 off a purchase and a free frozen yogurt</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Johnny Rockets - free burger with purchase of an entree and a drink or shake</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Kodiak - free box of birthday cake power cakes with next purchase</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Kono's and the Surfing Pig - free dessert or milkshake</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lazy Dog - free dessert or starter. I picked a starter this time, the Street Corn Fries. Pretty delicious combination.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Marie Callender's - $5 off a meal and 2 slices of pie. Funny story..I went to redeem this in SLC and the coupon was not loading and not loading. The guy taking my order (take-out only) said I only got $5 off my meal. Mentioned nothing about the pie. Shame on him.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Marvy Uchida - 40% off a purchase of $20 or more. I did not use this this year. <br /><br />Mimi's Cafe - a free Mixed Berry Muffin Sundae. Sadly I didn't make the time to use this one.<br /><br />Nothing Bundt Cakes - free bundlet. Which I did end up getting in the end after scrambling to sign back up on their email list. A guy that had been behind me in line, was saying he didn't get his birthday deal either and he'd been coming in for the past few years...hm. Sus. I'm not the only one that disappeared off the email list it seems. <br /><br />Noodles & Co. - free dessert, delivery or side. I chose a dessert, the rice Krispie treat.<span> </span><br /><br />Old Spaghetti Factory - free pasta classic. I did redeem this at one of the Sacramento, CA locations.<br /><br />Olive Garden - free appetizer or dessert with the purchase of an adult dinner entree.<br /><br />Pink Nation - 25% off a purchase.<br /><br />Piper & Scoot - 15% off my purchase.<br /><br />Pita Fresh - 50% off my meal.<br /><br />Plato's Closet - $5 off a $10 purchase. I was able to get in and use this!<br /><br />Pura Vida - 25 Bonus Shore Dollars.<br /><br />Raley's Grocery Store - mega disappointed with myself. I could have gone to get this and kept putting it off and then I forgot :( It was for a free cake mix, free Hallmark birthday card and a cupcake from their bakery.<br /><br />R&R BBQ - I did not get anything specifically saying birthday deal but I did get some kind of discount in the app from them. I asked the girl at the register what was up when I went in and she didn't know but let me pick a free dessert. <br /><br />Rita's Italian Ice - my account is messed up in the app and I was unable to fix it. It should not have gotten messed up. I haven't had a problem with it, ever. <br />Sus again...<br /><br />Savers - 20% off coupon loaded to my account. Good until the end of the month.<br /><br />Sprinkles - free birthday cupcake. I never got an email from them and just had to dig it out of my memory bank. Sadly, I was unable to find a location near anywhere I was at in July, to redeem this. I tried in August but it was just a bit too much outside of the window of my birthday for the girl to be able to make it work for me but at least she double-checked with a manager. Better luck next year.<br /><br />Starbucks - free drink. I got the pink drink ~ probably my favorite.<br /><br />TCBY - the first 3 ounces are free<br /><br />The North Face - 10% off my online purchase<br /><br />Tom's Shoes - 15% off my order<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tucanos - buy a meal, get one free. I always redeem this one. The experience at the SLC, Utah location was certainly more miss than hit but at least we left with satisfied stomachs. <br /><br />Ulta - free mascara because I redeemed in store. Online redemption was for an eyeliner. <br /><br />Vans - 250 bonus points. <br /><br />Waffle Love - free red velvet waffle but since I fell off their email list and wasn't able to get back on in time, I was unable to redeem. I probably could have gone in on July 10th and asked for it but it was such a hot hot day that I wasn't really up to it this time. Bummer. <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />If you are curious about the list for 2021, you can <a href="http://redcherries22.blogspot.com/2021/07/birthday-deals-2021-edition.html" target="_blank"><b>read it here</b></a>. <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p>Stacie S-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316646996860200449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28639142.post-47042507618996068992022-05-24T09:04:00.006-07:002022-05-24T09:38:58.882-07:00What Happens in Vegas Gets Blogged About<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggFuZ196gPPp8OQMXfL3h-g7sKRav-242UDtWUC0kp17OxFXv9RoBnjDMlaW7_XEviRVc6WxF4I_KG0tqvsulkiXBVp4CmTXs-1jD6CB-8Q9vWzGyjMkLJgcxLla_Y40lOofB2zAF5zzWT8GWyGVfSMsproo_4DB85cP2IiSwBVM2JKZsmFR915dPw/w400-h300/20220520_070449.jpg" width="400" /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">After spending a wonderful week in Salt Lake City, Utah, I started the drive back to Ridgecrest. To break up the drive and give my leg a break, I stopped at my friend's house in St George for the night. We had dinner and a fun time hanging out.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1838" data-original-width="3840" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkvef4i38CGmod04x2J72pQcxw1fmdW8fzMvDK8cEzhFuKX126oPPTRv3YZbqxwpalNxEUgCNZCWjS2z084LoTQ1b-hOzrcLGmwNZsQSsoM0_XcsnHowHwmFUd391lzv3qY0yM3esNfiDVQhoFADARsbpSNV0c--LYJGgbDW6lMjIrTFILt_lngDK-/w400-h191/Snapchat-619549112.jpg" width="400" /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmzAozPl_4Uc6W3RTi2CLe0nAm5jmASJunPT-B2PGVKaxxi_Przd9ZeR0y_LRu99joCL9Ss9xytnIGjfzuq0-5wMSX-Uhui2-p1xiH81EGBB79nmujCe3PBroVv0oHoM5WtTHtHF7VlYKGOSaEr2sh0ADMyO_EeynQycsXhUxyHMPvDIdciXcMnHJb/w400-h300/20220520_071433.jpg" width="400" /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;">I got up early Saturday morning to beat construction and concert (EDC) traffic on the i-15 through Las Vegas. I had made plans to stop at my friend Emily's house to see her new kitchen remodel and was about 20 min away from her place when my car lost power. I had been using cruise control so when it turned off and I couldn't accelerate to keep my speed, I knew something was pretty wrong.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;" /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3840" data-original-width="1838" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3CAZ_-7Io2WWyIkBinhCmmt3THx2FNiXTa5aUvJ_3ZtwTHRYCM3mvDctIKw7SXv812OUE_bXcCEodKJAOtA20xJ2ZPnk0uKPZwju5gJDLTso9OcGb7o8FAfFONwFGfuc-WRdXMXZTsMToSsomieYzYHWGFCkk6PmcrH_8c1rIOvWFRAy1J3c44xsj/s320/Snapchat-738298368.jpg" width="153" /> <img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="919" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIc5bcwnw-_z_KbS3WTJTv_7YBWD-zrQ2lLczpP06ZVuSACxQSBHl68J6nZLaenGUAx_aW8NhHISTixhdcbmKGQJ4VMOU6S90yNKtcQ3Mlqo2TW3CA80E1ckdxMOo4eLnS9Rly11ajDFs5A7UxwjqhoMDbCm0yxvUc3lNzNIolRfDFuPYfAxXrxLX6/s320/Snapchat-824995360.jpg" width="153" /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">(the only photos I have from this part were what I posted on Snapchat...)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;">I pulled over to the side of the road and called Tony. He had me check the battery cables (I'd just gotten a brand new battery at Walmart the day before AND a car inspection check at Les Schwab the day before that where everything checked out fine (minus the battery...)<br /></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;" /></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">I called our insurance but we didn't have any roadside assistance. It's a long story as to why. So then I messaged Emily to see if her husband could come help and she and her husband both headed my way with some gas. Tony jumped in the car and started the 3.5-hour drive to Las Vegas. Meanwhile, I kept praying nobody would hit my car. I see stories like that in the news often, so terrible!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It felt like forever but really it wasn't long at all, that I was watching traffic go by when my friend Emily & her husband Scott arrived to rescue me. Scott added some gas to my car and it started right up. So strange, because our gas gauge has never ever been incorrect. So I got back on the road to meet them at their house but something was still wrong. I couldn't accelerate up to the speed I needed to be at. Things didn't sound right. Worried about damaging the car further, I pulled back over onto the shoulder of the road again, as did Scott & Emily. We discussed things, I was able to drive carefully on the shoulder of the road to the Ely exit and to the gas station where I've stopped many times for gas. We looked the car over again and decided to take the side road along the freeway to their house and I would look up a shop to take the car to. But then Emily thought of a shop and I followed them there instead. I felt awful for 'ruining' their morning by coming out to help me and everything took a while but luckily (blessing in disguise?) their plans seemed fairly flexible so I tried not to feel too down about it.</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3840" data-original-width="1838" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeYBa6PJ5RnRVqcg6NeWpiDdis9yTPs72Qf-WNOIA5nF8excvXxKZz1P5bczIeYuNExt75MXJ5K1vLZflJU1AdEJe4pcNNVcUclQ1hF4ph1lDc86ZXCTmHrOhBALSb6jTrPNyvXIe1G10D6U8NCOMmk1wCGF8e01TqteVvJvek1LvwagTRnxRQoCLN/w191-h400/Snapchat-668431523.jpg" width="191" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">At <b><a href="https://tireworks.net/locations/445-w-centennial-pkwy-north-las-vegas/" target="_blank">Tire Works Total Car Care</a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">After giving the shop all the information I could, Scott & Emily took me to their house so I could wait for Tony to arrive and figure out what to do. Keep the car? Sell it? Leave it in Vegas to be fixed and come back for it the next week? I was on pins and needles waiting to hear what the diagnosis would be.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">About 15 minutes before Tony arrived at Emily's, I got the call. <br /><br /><b>High-Pressure Fuel Pump</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> This part had gone out and needed to be replaced. And no shop carried it, it would have to be ordered from California. And it had to come from the dealer ($1,389 vs. $600 on Rock Auto's website), however, the shop was not able to put in an after-market part because they could not put their warranty on it. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me but there was no way around it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />Ugh, double ugh because it turned into a <i>very </i>expensive repair. More than I've ever spent on a car repair in my life. I am pretty sure. But we had no good way to get the car to Ridgecrest where Tony could fix it himself so we were at the mercy of the shop. The shop seemed confident in being able to fix the issue and didn't charge us to expedite the part and even came down a little on the price of the pump. They also needed to replace the spark plugs and do an oil change.</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So we were looking at it being fixed by 1pm on Saturday. Emily (bless her heart, truly!) invited us to stay the night at her house which we debated on driving back to Ridgecrest and coming back in a few days to pick up the car or just staying...we decided to stay.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">To occupy ourselves we went to see a movie (The Lost City)<br /><br />Went to a park to hang out and try and clean up the car since we'd moved everything from the Hyundai Accent to the Ford Escape kind of quickly.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Met up with my friend Mariana and her husband Evan at a Winco to give her a cockatiel cookie cutter my friend Andrew had made for me (he had made me a few)... It was so fun to see them and catch up a bit.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tried a new Hawaiian Food place for dinner <b><a href="https://www.konosnorthshore.com/" target="_blank">Kono's Northshore</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1838" data-original-width="3840" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLrHoCWNfkynLcXGJJ5nDS-vU1HPjBIuEjySFEcTzr5Q9iTw-CW-_DR84SEI0619WjJTewpnfxwvwxnNHtyh733NBp_hTJ-vze6TowrUce83Nw-g9w6xX-8QL4WSvZhXpxh5cYkcUEsjNs5XdBgdsJEba0_Fs9O6uNZ7D3L6BxqAodqv_R9zgjWd5i/w400-h191/Snapchat-857320105.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3840" data-original-width="1838" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkqUcErbTVtic_LtjLFzVeVv1WzWj5i399EH4Y8-Zb1Mg6ra9dVEs5Z-6y8Bps9rUI3c6D3QUeIsbXnKy1FSq06pvNmK2hsCjmxONUxGQk6CydgEaTMwpHoX4BpXL3x9fGsf3KhxOIv6IVZ7Oo3saZwMtvItxErlk9_FcOavimwAptv2qTHTEN42wu/w96-h200/Snapchat-1707299587.jpg" width="96" /> <img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYlHsmsZULuuRaHYp0g9nbXwsRrW0KxpemGZRLrwDviX10oaPMEqn2k6M8XXZnSY9zPOF2fQgE6dFXDelq6ZvCV9kPhfVGVRFzUSQ8N3y1Tw9cPjV1QoIvVPGT8NdlyDrRAMQGMHh63BVVllL6cY_BC3b710iwwHg1gKiygDlKXRyOOLxHY-r1cQNr/w150-h200/20220520_190954.jpg" width="150" /> <img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpwkDV9Wo5X8NMsbDV0bLvD8LGfKUcBfH9maU7XSUiU9LEJYPT1xzK2KN5y3kWGjr35R58msPNDW_J9J_8IJtIvwaY5AgxiTC5_o0AoypW8tdNi1GplGL5cQ4278xcJxQuKgbDDmu90GojtFDCBXCGvlACCUtPuHF8VvUQwazOvnV0ESQsHciyZcHO/w150-h200/20220520_190538.jpg" width="150" /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQacIgjY_qay32EY-DQUCXoviba9vjJP487FYNOgNJiuqqA-ByJeS_dpJcUySB20jovlgOJ3U76yVXNv00SRvqtOkBprZT4ljUFvui0c3IONWUns7XW1rDaK4OaD0SGStND8fTAK-1yBOO_9n_Ul2ye6CTwFu1c0u4QC1Ids4N2hKFy7LwCa5c44AU/s4032/20220520_210858.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQacIgjY_qay32EY-DQUCXoviba9vjJP487FYNOgNJiuqqA-ByJeS_dpJcUySB20jovlgOJ3U76yVXNv00SRvqtOkBprZT4ljUFvui0c3IONWUns7XW1rDaK4OaD0SGStND8fTAK-1yBOO_9n_Ul2ye6CTwFu1c0u4QC1Ids4N2hKFy7LwCa5c44AU/s320/20220520_210858.jpg" width="240" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLjAUzPHCx3vIR2s3cgharnHM71Y5gnHHunSQxUG1XLLCz8i0MkcHieCrkSZCVbSX53OQFhu3ICDI_79eAfQjI1rtJ7I2vKMs9tAvtvm_GNYHSUHGKf6eLSzxxE7xJRp2pChL_Xznhr-M0JEvbCHdVtComTItrm1mZLsXRkWSYD0aJ5fHAZ0QF7NkM/s320/20220520_205300.jpg" width="240" /><br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We walked around the strip after parking near the MGM and made it all the way down to the Bellagio. Man, my legs were pretty tired towards the end. Checked out the Hello Kitty Cafe where a girl in front of me spent almost $300 on getting one of almost everything in that little setup.</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZfbuhv3cv1cBxKqttJxyDdPKfg46TWx6UUy2kkOv77Gx0aLpq6dt3ln_1CRMnYPW89nbP5Ot3XiLTA2tzGyT6jZ1mCUz2tuef97pRkzdKGHEJ5fy1A0Az9_kXj_fFZLmy0rpb3F4CenI8VsGCvxuZnB1PxukfQXthFScbYr6n0gQUVBW_rxuR63BD/s4032/20220520_205844.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZfbuhv3cv1cBxKqttJxyDdPKfg46TWx6UUy2kkOv77Gx0aLpq6dt3ln_1CRMnYPW89nbP5Ot3XiLTA2tzGyT6jZ1mCUz2tuef97pRkzdKGHEJ5fy1A0Az9_kXj_fFZLmy0rpb3F4CenI8VsGCvxuZnB1PxukfQXthFScbYr6n0gQUVBW_rxuR63BD/w400-h300/20220520_205844.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQU-k0J4fOdOEYssVc2daO00JlKLN4HXRIXdXOMMO4-v9CRBT9BGbUxOUw7FGWP7_VK7kHFnA9mQdZ5AJFlCvMX4dSi2BZqg-5Dvs2M2gCGGQWW3fOW0bkEH8H9PjBCivbmjWYOsiyUjRtvqLPtw_bjJU1e43p_0cmx_jvVjWE7w89bKlJmyuZLDb5/w400-h300/20220520_202751.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzBqkj_87bpYuXV0tE8CVYiJ6Snj2uVek7ChDpBVM5RBFZ2dHIe10ODiiwoOToZJ-AmzTQkSMP-VOnry6BY_u3O4yUNsHRgL22th6t3mu6uUNJKfoJg_o6yz6tN3GkXNqslFamtZ0YkG7yA5jUKX_ZVtxXfOc63l48BUSW00o3AiNgGoG5KcYP52Ln/s320/20220520_191749.jpg" width="240" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg41ycu2UxS41k2A6gby3VxOh-u7H8DDxQ1Ohi_a3YyE7elOHF7igt2k8qcaMDWfqTXinQ8Kf-cBxGBjelhiCldaLimSqNYe2ROviyQ4VdZZjnLVfRq90rFRO9kz0VoUCuNaf-3aOdOxGdUDA3Ln5ZkFLkl8_rRIQuykqZLK4luzZml4zELrPMMYTo5/s3648/20220520_205624_04.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="2736" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg41ycu2UxS41k2A6gby3VxOh-u7H8DDxQ1Ohi_a3YyE7elOHF7igt2k8qcaMDWfqTXinQ8Kf-cBxGBjelhiCldaLimSqNYe2ROviyQ4VdZZjnLVfRq90rFRO9kz0VoUCuNaf-3aOdOxGdUDA3Ln5ZkFLkl8_rRIQuykqZLK4luzZml4zELrPMMYTo5/s320/20220520_205624_04.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The picture on the left was my face after dinner. I am copying my shirt which says "I just can't" which is how I felt about my day overall but thanks to many miracles and tender mercies, I made it through. <br /><br />Here are the ones I noticed ~ </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;">The car could have died anywhere on my trip, scariest place would have been the Virgin River Gorge in Arizona, with its hills and lack of cell service</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">I was able to safely pull over enough to be out of the way of passing traffic and most cars moved into the lane farther from me which helped me feel safer</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">I was a mile from an exit and could have walked there if I needed to. It was Ridgecrest windy outside though so I am glad I didn't have to do that</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">I was able to get on a road alongside the freeway where I didn't have to drive as fast and it got me where I needed to be</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Emily and Scott were available. Scott is working on getting his own plumbing business started so his schedule is one he can set himself and they were more than willing to come help me out + bring some gas for my car in case that was the problem</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Emily, for thinking of a shop to take my car to so I didn't have to spend any time at all looking up shops and calling around</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Tony had the day off from work because he is working 4 - 10's now and was able to jump in the car to come help me</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Emily allowed me to stay at her house and then for Tony & I both to stay the night so we didn't have to pay for a hotel or sleep in the car</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">The shop was able to get the part tons faster than we thought, Friday afternoon! and was able to do the work so we could pick up the car in the morning instead of waiting until 1pm on Saturday</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Feeling so blessed and very very grateful for all the ways God watched out for me during what could have been a scarier and more stressful time than it already was.<br /><br />I will add, that it was a bit unfortunate I missed a fun craft party I had been invited to on Friday evening, and Tony & I missed a ward service activity we had talked about going to on Saturday morning.</span></div></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW15kKFhwHi2ubjHoCXCD-qa2_-WxGTBtZ8A6Z2_QtHBLMeBlQ5cl6UK0f5D_NHfup4m61d7zN-bNktjfE-5spKlVHl6w4L83ttW_2vs7BmCUw29cGHBYUdszzU5rZBbZ1qkMnUHQdDT3iAuBgwjQorfgqUDUEA_wGLuTV0_c6ZYFo1wXRr19hFIsC/s4032/20220520_215124.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW15kKFhwHi2ubjHoCXCD-qa2_-WxGTBtZ8A6Z2_QtHBLMeBlQ5cl6UK0f5D_NHfup4m61d7zN-bNktjfE-5spKlVHl6w4L83ttW_2vs7BmCUw29cGHBYUdszzU5rZBbZ1qkMnUHQdDT3iAuBgwjQorfgqUDUEA_wGLuTV0_c6ZYFo1wXRr19hFIsC/s320/20220520_215124.jpg" width="240" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju8m_w_BPKEkaYQkpjLLBsOhjOMCPIi-LlaxCjgaWFSNdCdN7Uh94FAdDDmQFPzIpqmEpbPcePORQSCBumwFkq9n5CQmKpsQiV2MXWMgFEnQzR_noLkVSC2VmwOZaPtzxGI9PrR3z7ym8G4uTo5Be1aILR539CK5EXxhaPSiL-DwQdzpVbhLOp4Qf9/s4032/20220520_214704_03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju8m_w_BPKEkaYQkpjLLBsOhjOMCPIi-LlaxCjgaWFSNdCdN7Uh94FAdDDmQFPzIpqmEpbPcePORQSCBumwFkq9n5CQmKpsQiV2MXWMgFEnQzR_noLkVSC2VmwOZaPtzxGI9PrR3z7ym8G4uTo5Be1aILR539CK5EXxhaPSiL-DwQdzpVbhLOp4Qf9/w400-h225/20220520_214704_03.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I wasn't able to see Emily on Saturday morning to say goodbye so I took this picture in her new kitchen instead and sent it to her. Doesn't it look amazing?!</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZxFStAXFxcg5H-hQliG0J0HQuZgr_D9LAX3ZAgfZz3l-KsMJW3qLSbX_OqEOMyzCxHZndKfiUCQlC25oyxOvahFwun4QUk47Kq7BeaBGs8QTY7RREmszYbLK6jn618MN5MVRoT9UygpD31mqmHY4a0KWBdDC2sZ_Qw5-aVuU8YxgFNkr9nGkIqPmc/s4032/20220521_093924.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZxFStAXFxcg5H-hQliG0J0HQuZgr_D9LAX3ZAgfZz3l-KsMJW3qLSbX_OqEOMyzCxHZndKfiUCQlC25oyxOvahFwun4QUk47Kq7BeaBGs8QTY7RREmszYbLK6jn618MN5MVRoT9UygpD31mqmHY4a0KWBdDC2sZ_Qw5-aVuU8YxgFNkr9nGkIqPmc/w300-h400/20220521_093924.jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Thanks for sticking through all my words and details to read about what happened!</span></div>Stacie S-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316646996860200449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28639142.post-68628861264492298662022-01-14T15:24:00.004-08:002023-05-15T21:35:44.264-07:00My One Little Word for 2022<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhow1Mwy24mXhMYlHaRXZoAAJUON5MTDY2GIdJ_blJ8XAGp2E8PqK1vjFKdcKlRyWbW1mkiaM1MOiwpQhX6VpNP5RmveXrBvaoMwsmoar5wqe2mGroGB1HkTCyraQT0kLz7U6nbYtpQ1SmiPfD9fF8cXs4Hqx7SuLO_27_sXlcBS40Iqfs=s320" width="320" /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">This is it folks. My word to focus on for the year. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Last year I did pretty well with my word and had many different categories for my word (which was Grow). This year...instead of having tons of categories, I'm going to focus on less areas that need to be worked on, thus, <i>simplifying </i>(see what I did there?) so I don't get burned out or feel overwhelmed.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br />But who am I kidding? I already feel overwhelmed. This year of 2022 has not been kind (minus the fact I got to attend CES in PERSON! with good friends..that was awesome), the rest of the days this month so far have been less than pleasant. I hope to get out of this funk soon and on to bigger and better things. <br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqgeOFd39id9kH78TueivYRu9YQhNwCGUg4aoM3OQ23l_Vjk915XcpFfMnRnF8vOjl9B8hqNnooMx63BizBK-lGwlipCNS8TtIf1zbxcAPgRKM_-P_b7VcwyQNQCFYBd5zwicckZkWs6tE-9aZ2FHO59HT946BqIXFk2WZpsO-7y1wkJg=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqgeOFd39id9kH78TueivYRu9YQhNwCGUg4aoM3OQ23l_Vjk915XcpFfMnRnF8vOjl9B8hqNnooMx63BizBK-lGwlipCNS8TtIf1zbxcAPgRKM_-P_b7VcwyQNQCFYBd5zwicckZkWs6tE-9aZ2FHO59HT946BqIXFk2WZpsO-7y1wkJg=s320" width="320" /></a></div> <p></p><p style="text-align: center;">So for my word <b>Simplify</b>, my goal is really just a desire to downsize and de-clutter my belongings. Why? Even though many of them bring me happiness, they also cause me a certain level of stress. And in my life, stress can tend to create drama. <br />Drama with who? Tony mostly. He doesn't say much but I can tell that he really is dismayed and unhappy about all my 'items' that fill every nook and cranny of our house. I don't like the stress and tension that comes up when he decides to talk to me about it. <br />Drama with what? My emotions. When I think about how much I truly have of a certain category of item (clothing, craft supplies, etc), it brings that stress which brings the drama inside of me. Even if it doesn't spill out for anyone to see.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What items in my life do I want to simplify?</span><br /><br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Clothing/accessories for sure. There is so much that doesn't get worn or used.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Craft supplies. I use so much of it but there are things that haven't been used or touched in a long time that I need to let go of.<br /> <br /></li><li>Possibly food as in snacks. I love buying snacks when they are on
sale for road trips. I don't snack much at the house. But all the snacks
start to pile up because they don't get eaten fast enough and it's
really just soo many options of snacks which isn't necessary even though
I love having options. <br /><br /></li><li>Things. Just things. I truly don't need to hang on to so much like receipts, items from people that have served their purpose and brought me joy but now just add to my stress of having too much, decor that I'll never rotate back in and use, items from past conferences and shows that I don't have a use for but took because it was free. (I'm a sucker for free stuff, can you tell?) We all have things but I don't feel like I need to have SO many things.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">This should be a good start I think. I haven't really broken it down into what I am going to work on when (like into months, quarters, etc) but I have picked up the reselling game again (selling from my closet) and have sold 3 items this week, on Facebook Marketplace of all places! So that's been encouraging. Online app sales are still stagnant but I hope that changes. I hope to do a yard sale or two this year when sickness' going around settle down again. <br /><br />If you have any tips or ideas on how I can declutter easier and part with my beloved possessions without so much heartache, I'd love to hear it. Leave me a comment or let me know as well if you can relate to this!<br /></div><br /></li></ul><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt USD685477533 ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. </span></div>Stacie S-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316646996860200449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28639142.post-18996245095094359242021-12-30T15:30:00.017-08:002022-01-14T15:53:46.720-08:00Man Down...Instagram Down!<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-yDzmVpP95GsdU5abCMwO216Npsol9oauz5T8kLmlZ7r6glhcJi-YCFdbLVSUjknL0OO5w05ZidO4dQt4vIXiyTBYaah1WZ2ynZDybMU6KjUo-QtsdkK5wVC-jEtMPmaP2D5K-h8sTx5fMn8bYTOj4TOUesU_hh_-9hknFLYkLpFvpC0=s320" width="320" /> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I have people ask me every so often what happened to my Instagram account. What did you do? Why did it get taken down?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a name='more'></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="381" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirPOawe4O3EIysVg4ZHVFGhHxfGdZtWv6CXGD19MdY5WTfCtGmFpQx8HE9wmYNoKYGiEfBpV-34_EW7ecjIJ84VEXsM9aTHi9EdZJI5dZr4QPz3amgqFnVV-bLildDAn3Px3J4Mh_6I376LVJG7e7nzLtBJvKwxoLDABygTbwLhipcBfI=w180-h400" width="180" /> <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This screenshot is from October 27th, 2021. I had just hit 3800 followers on my Instagram account which I was <b>SO</b> proud of and excited about. I've been working hard for the past 3+ years to grow this account. A few days later though, it all disappeared when Instagram decided to take my account down with no warning or reason except that I 'violated their terms of service.' I've read through all of their fine print and didn't see anything that I would have done to cause this to happen. <br /><br />So I started appealing their decision. One time, two times, three times...I've lost count of how many times now. There is a link to appeal their decision when I try to log in to my account and I answer roughly 3 questions and then I get an email with a code that I have to write down on a piece of paper then take a picture of me holding it up by my face, with both hands, to verify my identity. Email it back and wait.<br /><br />I <b>never. ever. </b>hear back. I am at my wits end and have been for months now. It is super frustrating and maddening. I've had quite a lot of scammer people reach out to me claiming they can get me my account back. <span style="font-size: medium;">Nope</span>, not gonna go that route and just lose my hard earned money just to find out I still won't be able to log in. How about you fix my account first and then I will pay you? But none of these 'scammers' go for that of course and even if one of them was able to get my account back, there is no guarantee Instagram won't take it down again and delete it permanently for going this route. Which that route with a scammer is a dead end, for sure.<br /><br />I've followed tips and tricks from researching on Google and talking to a friend or someone who knows someone who's gone through this experience. No luck. I am super bummed and a bit depressed even because that was my main platform that I could put down for experience with working with brands when applying for affiliate links or opportunities for my blog. Now it's all gone and brands are not going to care about a screen shot with what I once had. It's truly devastating to say the least. <br /><br />The <u>only thing</u> I can think of that I did "wrong" in their eyes was unfollowing people who no longer followed me or hadn't posted in months, or for well over a year. I'm not sure why doing that is so wrong. I tried to do them 30-60 seconds apart so in my mind, that wasn't too fast, but apparently to Instagram, it was. They want their users to be interactive on the platform, or so I thought. So what good does it to me to follow dead accounts? It does me no good at all. Who knew they wouldn't like me doing some simple 'housekeeping' in my account. <br /><br />Anyways, I'm truly not sure what will happen from here but their customer service is TERRIBLE. 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Monopoly game with Albertsons is Back!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfXpBVty3SVprJDFbTpYth3UiT8-kWGO5Bn1tRhu3xCi2ohnoGCTvZCODkxcs1buSA71UO2rWfLLMeNkdpQ0c6Dfuq2MqOrM3W-0sjajA9WieuYdzDYl9eJzauLxQ0X_oTbAc/s2065/ShopPlayWin_Horizontal_Banner.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1009" data-original-width="2065" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfXpBVty3SVprJDFbTpYth3UiT8-kWGO5Bn1tRhu3xCi2ohnoGCTvZCODkxcs1buSA71UO2rWfLLMeNkdpQ0c6Dfuq2MqOrM3W-0sjajA9WieuYdzDYl9eJzauLxQ0X_oTbAc/w400-h195/ShopPlayWin_Horizontal_Banner.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.44px; text-align: start;">#GoShopPlayWin</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Montserrat, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.44px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I am always so excited for something fun to do where I live that when the Monopoly game starts at Albertsons, I am <i>all in</i> for participating. Plus I love trying to win stuff anyways! We have an Albertsons less than a mile from our home, so we do get a portion of our groceries here throughout the year. I won't lie, I may try to go in extra times to get playing pieces during this promotion.</span></p><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you don't know what the Shop, Play, Win! Monopoly game is, you get physical game tokens when you shop and buy certain items. Lots of brands participate so I don't find myself buying items I don't need or use. In previous years, the store handed out a game board, kind of like a poster, to keep track of your tokens on but there is also an app that makes it very easy to keep track by just scanning the code. Plus each Monopoly piece has extra deals and discounts - sometimes even for free items like a donut or can of veggies.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOM4Ua9Fx8PKYi8CqefDkOf1lbFLYdiDh2B5P7gQYzx07yINmJHYsC4_rkKNs9p3Fn99-aB_UD0aZfV_MOE2wmFW7swFwK8hD6haCWKOF6HCJjeiGTyFvNUsSFzOh1XRM9LTM/s2048/ShopPlayWin_How-To.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1503" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOM4Ua9Fx8PKYi8CqefDkOf1lbFLYdiDh2B5P7gQYzx07yINmJHYsC4_rkKNs9p3Fn99-aB_UD0aZfV_MOE2wmFW7swFwK8hD6haCWKOF6HCJjeiGTyFvNUsSFzOh1XRM9LTM/w294-h400/ShopPlayWin_How-To.png" width="294" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>There are so many cool prizes that can be won, from small to large. From gift cards to groceries to a boat or vacation and a bunch of prizes in-between. I enjoy watching my spaces fill up and I open each ticket with anticipation to see if I can complete any of the sections of the board. You can visit </span><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><b><a href="http://ShopPlayWin.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ShopPlayWin.com</a> </b>for a chance<b> </b>to win $230,000,000 in prizes from participating stores from March 3rd to May 4th <i>or</i> when all game tickets have been distributed.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Other ways you can have a chance at winning are to ~</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Head to <a href="https://m.svnlnk.com/m/p/34687355/12164446/c?afsrc=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Savings.com</a> #GoShopPlayWin and enter the <b><a href="https://app.sivansocial.com/auth/affiliate/portal/campaign.html?id=580" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">gift card giveaway</a></b></span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Check your Valpak envelope in the mail to see if you might be an instant winner of a $100 gift card + get more details on how to win groceries for life! Don't get Valpak in the mail? <b><a href="https://www.valpak.com/coupons/show/mailinglistaddition" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sign up to get it here.</a></b></span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><p></p><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You can also <b><a href="https://www.savings.com/info/social/goshopplaywin-twitter-party/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSVP</a></b> to join the #GoShopPlayWin Twitter party at 10AM PT/1PM ET on Thursday, March 25th, to talk about the game and for even more chances to win a $100 gift card!</span></li><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Woohoo!</b></span> Have I gotten you excited about this now? Let me know if you plan to participate in the Albertsons Monopoly game by leaving me a comment below!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: -10px 0px 15px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: circle; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This post is sponsored by Sivan Social. All comments and opinions are my own.</span>NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Game tickets end 5/4/21. Must be resident of an eligible U.S. state listed in rules; 18+. Visit www.shopplaywin.com for full rules, incl. how to enter without purchase. Series MON-14. MONOPOLY™ & © 1935, 2021 Hasbro, Pawtucket, RI 02861-1059 USA. All Rights Reserved. TM & ® denote U.S. Trademarks. Hasbro is not a sponsor of this promotion.</span></li></ul></div>Stacie S-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316646996860200449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28639142.post-47667080885812273472021-01-03T23:17:00.001-08:002021-01-11T23:49:10.254-08:00My One Little Word for 2021<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Every year that I've picked "one little word" to work on, it hasn't been little. It grows, gets complex and has lots of facets to it. But that's okay. I have 365 days to work on it, right? So with that being said, my word for 2021 is,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="827" data-original-width="985" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguFBxprIneXx5a30FtNKgrCPSES8qSNR_qkEC9fPb7LKmp7gh-CAnmEPr6-rn3vyp8xcX0IpszGl2am-VEg5tVJYtEEBgK7goONEYemKMiqJdVb1PzP80LPmZtXEOQ2yLufQE/s320/Screenshot_20210105-120608_Canva.jpg" width="320" /></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I did not take choosing my word for the year lightly. I never do. I give it lots of thought and consideration. At first, the word that came to mind was "can". Like, "I can." But..."can" seems like an odd word just on its own. I hear it and think of canned veggies or fruit. So what can I do? What did I need to be able to do in this new year?<br /><br />I need to do some hard things. Mainly body related stuff and there is really only 1 hard thing that tops the list. So lets get into the categories of areas I can "Grow."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Physically</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Spiritually</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Mentally</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Marriage</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>First up - physically</b></span>. I take this to mean body stuff - which I am <i>never</i> good with. I avoid body related things at all costs because it freaks me out I think. Gives me a lot of nerves and anxiety. So the main body thing that tops the list is that I need toenail surgery. Again. It'll be a never-ending issue I think unless I get my big toenails permanently removed. That thought terrifies me. So in the meantime, I need to get the one on my right foot removed as the nail is growing in layers and starting to lean towards the right a bit. So gross, I know. I put it off and put it off and just ignore the problem. I have had the toenail removed on my left foot and it has not been pleasant. The recovery after surgery was brutal ( I do not have a high tolerance for pain) and the nail did not grow back properly and at some point will need to be removed again. Barf. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Then..lesser things. Dental care. Maybe get the mole on my back removed. But other than that, I feel pretty darn blessed to not have any major health issues. At least, none that I'm aware of ;-) I also plan on ordering new tubes for the bike I got last year and to start riding. Esp now that the weather is pretty much perfect for being outside.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Next - spiritually.</b> </span>The goals I set in that area for the year are to do my ministering (formerly visiting teaching) every month. I did so-so at this last year. I probably did better at it than I feel like I did. But recently got a new companion and new sisters to check in on. In home visits are rare anymore and kind of stopped even before covid started. I know 1 of the ladies since I moved here but the other 2, no clue who they are in real life. We've not ever met face to face. So my goal this year is to contact them monthly and see if I can help them in any way. Easy enough, yes? As long as I don't push it to the last day of the month... </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Then also, I want to work on getting all the girls camp paperwork moved online. Yes, I am still the ward girls camp director but since it's a stake girls camp, I just have to have a meeting to fill the new campers in on procedures, answer questions and have everyone fill out the paperwork they need in order to go. I also attend monthly </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">meetings and help with rides up to camp and go to camp for the week, if possible. I went in 2019, then it got moved more virtual in 2020 and this year? Who knows. I need to see though about getting permission to move the forms and submission to an online way. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Lastly, getting a better schedule for my Sunday. We used to start with watching Music and the Spoken Word with the Tabernacle Choir on BYU TV, followed by a few shows that were lined up after that. But now...our ward meets at 8:30am. The same time as Music and the Spoken Word. I am not thrilled about that. Still meeting over Zoom for now so I need to figure out how to adjust the rest of the day because last year church wasn't until 11:30 so we got a few hours in the morning to wake up, have breakfast and watch some church related shows.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Now - mentally.</b></span> Ah mental things. Lol. There is still so much I want to learn and do! I still throw around the idea (since I was as teenager) of learning ham radio. I'd also like to get way better with the Procreate art app on my iPad. I plan to pull the trigger on starting an email list this year as well with the first one going out in January and monthly after that. I really hope I can keep it going. I had an online "ezine" as a teenager and it went quite well but nowadays there are so many more details to be aware of I feel like. I want to do more crafting, try more projects, keep doing Pinterest parties. Keep learning things about social media to keep those skills sharp as well. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Marriage</b></span>- I hate when it feels like Tony & I are living as roommates. Date nights get fewer because we dont take the time or energy to plan something. I miss how easy it was to go do fun things when we lived in Utah. We dont kiss goodbye in the morning anymore because Tony just works from home now. So I told him that this is changing. We need to plan at least 1 real date night a month and kiss every day. So far, for 11 days, we have kissed. Woot. I know that is not a lot of days but at least we haven't missed a day yet. And when I am gone traveling we will just do extra kisses before or after my trip. As for planning a date night..that hasn't happened but January isn't over yet. And I am hoping we can plan out the dates for at least every quarter of the year so that we have a few months planned at a time.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So...further breaking each category down, I took a lot of notes on my iPad during our drive back to CA from ID after New Year's. I wrote down how to make many of these things happen. Such as, where I would order my bike tubes. What platform I'd use for the email list. I mapped out a craft a month to do with a friend or two and so on and so forth.</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I'm curious to know if you set a goal or a word to work on for the year. Maybe it's not as elaborate as mine and that's totally okay. Leave me a comment, I'd love to know what you are working on. Even if it's just a goal for this week or month.</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thanks for reading!</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>Stacie S-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316646996860200449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28639142.post-56078076993738260482020-12-31T19:09:00.000-08:002020-12-31T19:09:31.481-08:00Farewell 2020 and Good Riddance<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A ton of crappy things happened this year but pales in comparison to those who lost their lives to Covid. I have been lucky (?) enough to not have gotten it yet even with traveling and being out and about. <br /><br />For a long time my sister and I would trade surveys for the year with each other, to fill out on New Years Eve. For a few years we stopped but I decided to start it up again this year and made a link in case you want to copy it and fill it out for yourself. It's not all cutesy because I am not good at that kind of thing really (but would like to be!) so <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qA6ttLY_iFsAHwaFSedbQ26FXMEL8iinOOhIMeeAcjA/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><b>here's the link</b></a> and leave me a comment if you fill it out. You don't need to share your answers if you don't want to but I did include mine below. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I truly hope 2021 is a better year for you, for your family, friends and everyone in general. I know 2020 stretched us and made us grow in ways we never imagined. Praying for better times to be learning and growing next year!<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-d0b009d3-7fff-d4bd-2472-602b7c0d546d" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 26pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Looking back on 2020</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Top 3 favorite things I did in 2020</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Trip to the Oregon coast for Tony's family reunion</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Pinners Conference in AZ with a friend</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Family reunion in Idaho in August & Evan’s reception</span></p></li></ol><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Top 3 crappy things that happened to me in 2020</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Pretty much all of my trips/festivals/events got canceled</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">My job with Homie got put on hold</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">One of my best friends in Ridgecrest had to move away</span></p></li></ol><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Favorite memory of 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Being able to visit friends in Portland after the coast trip. See people I haven’t seen in a really long time. Working on house projects with Tony to make our place a nice place to be. Finally getting solar hooked up!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Hardest thing about 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Not being able to attend events and conferences in real life. That was really hard to put most all travel plans on hold / make new ones. Staying home for long periods of time. Drove me crazy eventually.</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">3 New Things I did in 2020</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Learned how to work with resin better</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Practiced wood burning</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Learned how to use our freeze dryer</span><br /></p></li></ol><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">3 Favorite meals of 2020</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Peruvian Food at home and at restaurants</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Dream Dinners</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Most anything Tony made</span></p></li></ol><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">3 Favorite Songs of 2020</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Peace in Christ - McKenna Hixson</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Break my Heart - Dua Lipa</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Waves - Mr. Probz</span></p></li></ol><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">3 Things I want to learn or do in 2021</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Learn how to work more / better with resin</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Take more trips and go camping with the teardrop</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Start an email list for my blog.</span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; 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Would love if you are reading this to leave me a comment and let me know what's one fun or interesting thing going on with your life.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It's been a bit since I've been over here but I have been blogging over on my <a href="www.niteowlcreates.com" target="_blank"><b>craft blog</b></a> and <b><a href="www.hoxsiehouse.com" target="_blank">travel blog</a></b>. So check that out if you fancy seeing anything going on over there.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I've been pretty active posting over on <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheStaciesPlace" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </b>and <b><a href="www.instagram.com/staciesplace" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b> if you feel like you are missing out on anything going on with me. But as for here and now...</span></p><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tony & I were up in Idaho for a couple weeks for Thanksgiving. It was awesome to see our families, eat good foods, shop the sales and try to do things as normally as possible. I got to go see The Forgotten Carols with Tony's mom and stayed busy during the day with errands, crafts, and some time at my parents' house among other things. We were there for 2 weeks! I missed my birds, she shed and mail the most. Lol. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Now we are back in CA for a couple weeks and I have not been shopping at any stores! Trying to stay healthy and well so that we can go back to Idaho for Christmas. I can't wait even though it'll be colder than November but it will be nice to see family again. Maybe more of a lockdown on the shopping or waiting until times of day are less crowded to go out. We'll see. Trying to do a compromise with Tony.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I've stayed so busy being back in CA...working on neighbor gifts, friends gifts, hosting a virtual Pinterest party, decluttering, reselling, house projects, lots of freeze drying and some crafting. Looking forward to 2020 being done and to better times - fingers crossed - in 2021.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hope you've stayed safe and well this year and I'll be back soon!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Stacie S-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316646996860200449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28639142.post-75888941048155985522020-02-29T14:59:00.000-08:002020-02-29T14:59:05.960-08:00Home Maintenance Checklist<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since my only experience with real air conditioning was in the house I grew up in, I had to turn to Google for some help with this one. The most important thing to do is replace or clean the filters. If you aren't sure where the filters are, a quick search online should pull up a diagram. Clogged filters whether with dirt or other junk, reduce the air flow and your unit won't perform as well. Check the fan motor, blades, compressor and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">refrigerant</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> tubing. Just an all over look is helpful and the more you do it, the more you become familiar with how all the parts should look and be functioning. Then, if anything goes awry, you'll be able to notice and fix it yourself or call someone in to fix it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We started the tour around 11am on Saturday and went until it closed at 7pm. We made the most of our time and only got to a few of the houses on the tour but got some great pictures. Our friend Heidi came with us because her husband had to work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lighting and accessories in this first home we went to were quite stunning. I loved all the variety!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am also loving the pink padded bench at the foot of the bed in this bedroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bathroom on the right has some nice wallpaper as well but those birds, they have my heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I tried to pay attention to all the details in the home. When you stage your home to sell or are looking for a home to buy, it's fun to see how other people or designers choose to decorate a home and it can give you inspiration for your own home and style choices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plus, this view! St. George is quite beautiful in this sense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The backsplash in the kitchen was unique - I loved the shape of the tiles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This kitchen also had a nice back-splash above the stove and a handy water spout that swings out from against the wall. This is something I've noticed in my last few years of going to the Parade of Homes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Loving the texture and style of these rooms from the pillows to the bedspread to the headboards and the wallpaper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This backyard was so relaxing with a small soaking pool or possibly it was a hot tub and a fire pit area. I always love a good fire pit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I put CES under Lifestyle since Tony didn't go with me. I still need to finish blogging about Creativation and my trip to Phoenix. Tony & I just went to Pahrump, NV for a hot air balloon festival as well as crewing at a festival in Mesquite, NV a few weeks ago. We went to St. George to the Parade of Homes which I'll be blogging about next and also got to attend a bird show in Las Vegas which I've been wanting to do for quite awhile. I was in Utah the first 2 weeks of February as well. My traveling life hasn't slowed down, sadly my blogging has a bit but watch for catch-up posts soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Growing up we didn't have one set place to work that was designated as a craft room but we had a fairly large family room with a table that was great for coloring and doing various projects at. We had 1 cupboard of craft supplies that my mom kept well stocked for our imaginations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Make a list of upgrades or repairs, no matter how big or small, that your house needs and do 1 per month. Maybe it’s tighten all the doorknobs. Add an extra outlet. Put in a spotlight. Fix a sink that drains slowly. Paint the laundry room. What have you been putting off doing that is minor and maybe not a big inconvenience but would sure be nice to have fixed? Pick 12 projects and plan to do 1 per month. It was a 2 day project but Tony was able to add a second outlet + 2 USB ports to an existing outlet in our kitchen. This is something that has provided us a great convenience and he talks about it every time he plugs something in. It may not increase the home value much but it will be attractive to future homeowners. It’s something that brings us a lot of joy to have.</span></span><br />
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I think it's not something that I'm going to be 100% the best at, at least not right away. I have many goals and plans for this year already made, even when it was still 2019. One thing that crosses through my mind is a dear teacher and friend of mine said something that really resonated with me and it was basically along the lines of not wanting to waste anyone's time. I was in a social media marketing class at LDSBC when she said that and it's stuck with me ever since. When I do things (host events usually), I really try to make it worth people's time to come and help them feel like they would like to come back (Pinterest parties). </div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If there is one thing I have learned (and not applied) over the years in attending various blogger conferences and classes, it's that you own an email list. You don't own any of the social media platforms you choose to land on. Your followers there could disappear if it goes down, as I noticed last year when Twitter, Facebook and Instagram all had glitches. It was unsettling and scary and really drove the point home to me that I HAD to start an email list.<br /><br />So why had I not done it in 2019? I thought of so many reasons why I couldn't do an email list. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So you would think that by taking various email classes at blogger conferences, I <i>would</i> know where to start. But...it was still hard. Sometimes the speakers would say suggestions of websites to use and I'd look in to it and decide it was too expensive or not a good fit. I really wanted someone to hold my hand and say okay, use this site. Then, here's how you collect the email addresses. And so on and so forth. The classes covered content and layout but not some key elements I felt I needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maintaining. I'm great at starting projects but not so great at finishing them or keeping them going. I didn't want an email list (especially if I was paying for it) to be another one of <i>those things. </i>But I see the value and am aiming for it to be a goal to get an email out monthly to my subscribers and maybe more often inbetween with important announcements or things that add value to your life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yeah..I still don't know the best way to collect email addresses. I hope the template I am using to start this email newsletter has a help for that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's hard to say what will be valuable to people, especially when I cover travel, crafts and lifestyle. All on 3 separate blogs but trying to combine them in to one email list. If it looks like one topic is really taking off, I could see myself creating an email list just for crafts or just or travel for example. We'll see..it'll be an experiment I guess as I go along. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One more thing. I am so busy and when I go on trips, that makes my life even more crazier and busy because I'm not home doing a regular routine I set for myself. Irregardless, I am hoping that once I get a good template laid out for my newsletter, that all I need to do is write some words here and there, plug in links to blog posts I have prepared and hit send. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let me know if you have any email tips or ideas. I have my first issue of my email newsletter almost perfected and am excited to hit send!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">there was a leak in the line outside somewhere and my husband spent days digging up the pipe until </span><br />
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Stacie S-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316646996860200449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28639142.post-5414824664633450742019-12-10T19:51:00.000-08:002019-12-24T19:51:38.030-08:00Where Did 2019 Go!?<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, ultimately I think it's a silly question to seriously answer on where did 2019 go. "It went away Carol, it went away." But with the year going away, I'm holding on to many wonderful times and memories. It may be one of the best years yet! Here's a bit of a recap of what I've been up to lately...with more blog posts to come!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">and when they </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">came back, there fishtank was frozen! Even if you don't have pets its nice to keep your</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">home. There’s nothing quite </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">worse than a pipe bursting while you’re away and having it ruin ceilings, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">furniture, carpet, possessions </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">and more. If you are going to be gone for a bit, consider leaving a faucet</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">once you set </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">that up, you just select the date range you want the hold for, you can include any notes </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre;">case </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre;">anything happens while you are away. We have a few people we can trust on our street to help us </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">we were able to have someone come over and check our house for damage and turn off the electricity.</span><br />
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<br />Stacie S-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316646996860200449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28639142.post-91821302346005677132019-11-30T13:48:00.000-08:002019-12-15T23:17:48.358-08:00Getting to Know Your Homie Agent<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">How long have you been an agent with Homie? </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I began working for Homie in August 2018. I was the first local Real Estate Agent hired by the company. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What did you do for work before your job at Homie? </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have been a Realtor since 2007 and worked for different brokerages during the time since. Prior to that, I was a School Administrator, Teacher, and U.S. Navy Veteran. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the MLS I have helped people buy and sell over 300 homes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Why did you choose to work with Homie instead of a traditional firm? (switch over to Homie) ?</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I had worked with the previous GM of Homie AZ in the past and remained close personally and professionally. He reached out to me in 2018 about a new company in town with a great vision and culture. I would have worked again with this person in a heartbeat but he convinced me on the values and mission of Homie and it was the perfect fit for me. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What services do you offer through Homie that you couldn't offer through a traditional brokerage (?) </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We offer flexibility, ease, and transparency at Homie. We put the control in the hands of the customer and provide whatever support they need. Our community, radio, & online advertising all drive consumers to our website, which then helps them see their way to huge savings, whether buying or selling. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Is there anything you can't offer when someone works with you with Homie? </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We've been fortunate to provide any and all support our clients have requested. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What's your favorite part of working for Homie? </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Being a disruptor in the industry has tremendous appeal. But it's more than that, we are literally disrupting the industry for the better, and that is special to be part of. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thank you Wayne for being so willing to answer my questions and help people know more about you and how Homie operates. If anyone out there reading this has any questions about <b><a href="https://www.homie.com/" target="_blank">Homie</a></b> or if I can help you get connected to someone who can help you put your home up for sale or purchase a home using Homie, shoot me an <b><a href="mailto:skinnerstacie@gmail.com" target="_blank">email</a></b>.</span></div>
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