If your new to this story and would like to start at the beginning.
These post will be written by the player who plays Siobhan, at the point that these started these characters had been playing together for 2 years. They are no longer being actively used in our campaign. They are still doing stuff behind the scenes. There has been a ten year time jump in our campaign since these have been written. Nothing TootToot does majorly is done with out discussing with me; lets be honest though most of our party knows what TootToot is going to do before he does. This series is long, be prepared. Also it will reveal a lot of TootToot’s backstory that he hasn’t shared with others before and Some of Siobhan’s. Yes; believe it or not my party had been playing with me for two years before I revealed TootToot’s backstory. Hard to believe, I know.
If your new to this story and would like to start at the beginning.
These post will be written by the player who plays Siobhan, at the point that these started these characters had been playing together for 2 years. They are no longer being actively used in our campaign. They are still doing stuff behind the scenes. There has been a ten year time jump in our campaign since these have been written. Nothing TootToot does majorly is done with out discussing with me; lets be honest though most of our party knows what TootToot is going to do before he does. This series is long, be prepared. Also it will reveal a lot of TootToot’s backstory that he hasn’t shared with others before and Some of Siobhan’s. Yes; believe it or not my party had been playing with me for two years before I revealed TootToot’s backstory. Hard to believe, I know.
As a stay at home mom, lets be real I don’t get fancy every day or some weeks even at all. This seems to be one of those weeks. This is a realistic what I wore for a week. I didn’t hide anything. What do you wear in a week typically? I am all about comfort.
If your new to this story and would like to start at the beginning.
These post will be written by the player who plays Siobhan, at the point that these started these characters had been playing together for 2 years. They are no longer being actively used in our campaign. They are still doing stuff behind the scenes. There has been a ten year time jump in our campaign since these have been written. Nothing TootToot does majorly is done with out discussing with me; lets be honest though most of our party knows what TootToot is going to do before he does. This series is long, be prepared. Also it will reveal a lot of TootToot’s backstory that he hasn’t shared with others before and Some of Siobhan’s. Yes; believe it or not my party had been playing with me for two years before I revealed TootToot’s backstory. Hard to believe, I know.
With all the streaming services there is no need now to have cable. When you can binge watch whole seasons of shows in a few days. We have the three main; Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. What have I been watching on all three?
On Hulu; we watched first Brooklyn Nine-Nine all Six seasons in little over a month. The show is so funny. I would watch 3/4 episodes a day. Casey and I would watch them as we were laying down to go to sleep. I am going to guess most of you know B99; is about a precinct in Brooklyn, New York and the group of mostly detectives that work there and the mishaps they get into. Next we watched Drunk History and we watched all the episodes on Hulu in like a month again before bed. The last eight episodes are not yet on Hulu. The sixth season just finished airing on Comedy Central. It is funny, while still hitting some of the issues we face today while drunk people tell you about famous stories in history.
On Amazon Prime; We watched Good Omens together again in like 3 days. It is so good. Moves at a great pace, with an amazing cast. One of my stand by shows that I can always watch is Stargate: Atlantis. The cast and balance of comedy and drama are a real treat for me.
On Netflix, it is just shows I choose to watch. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is one where I watched part one in like 2 maybe 3 days. The second part, I started on my mom trip to Illinois. I had to wait for the boys to go back to school so I could watch on the tv and not my phone are ipad. This show is not kid friendly. Next is Stranger Things, I had watched the first two seasons previously. Honestly I could watch season 2 and 3 over again. Again I watched Season 3 in one night, I was so bad. I started watching at like 9pm and watched on my ipad in bed after Casey went to sleep to finish wwatching the season that night. I finished watching at like 5:40am. It was so good.
That is what I have been watching on the 3 main streaming services over the summer. What have you been watching? I would love recommendations on new things to check out.
If your new to this story and would like to start at the beginning.
These post will be written by the player who plays Siobhan, at the point that these started these characters had been playing together for 2 years. They are no longer being actively used in our campaign. They are still doing stuff behind the scenes. There has been a ten year time jump in our campaign since these have been written. Nothing TootToot does majorly is done with out discussing with me; lets be honest though most of our party knows what TootToot is going to do before he does. This series is long, be prepared. Also it will reveal a lot of TootToot’s backstory that he hasn’t shared with others before and Some of Siobhan’s. Yes; believe it or not my party had been playing with me for two years before I revealed TootToot’s backstory. Hard to believe, I know.
If you have a Five Below in your area, and haven’t visited it is an awesome store where everything is FIVE Dollars or Below. We got one about ten minutes from us about a year a ago and I love going and seeing what they have. In the time we have had one near us, I have found a few favorites to grab from there.
Candy is one of my favorite things to grab. It is typically cheaper then a gas station and there is way more choices.
I love buying organization stuff from there. The tray organizers fit perfectly on the target rectangle metal rolling carts. They have fun storage cubes like my cat one pictured above. There is always an array of baskets in different styles and prices.
Salt Lamps are so easy to grab there. My favorite are the plugin style. They are on the smaller end of salt lamps but for the price they are great.
Also if you love Graphic Tees and don’t want to break the bank. Five Below is the place. They are $5 and so many designs to choose from.
If you have a Five Below near you and you haven’t checked yours out. You should, you are missing out.
If your new to this story and would like to start at the beginning.
These post will be written by the player who plays Siobhan, at the point that these started these characters had been playing together for 2 years. They are no longer being actively used in our campaign. They are still doing stuff behind the scenes. There has been a ten year time jump in our campaign since these have been written. Nothing TootToot does majorly is done with out discussing with me; lets be honest though most of our party knows what TootToot is going to do before he does. This series is long, be prepared. Also it will reveal a lot of TootToot’s backstory that he hasn’t shared with others before and Some of Siobhan’s. Yes; believe it or not my party had been playing with me for two years before I revealed TootToot’s backstory. Hard to believe, I know.
Last month we decided we needed to dive back in to meal planning; we knew though that we eat left overs a lot plus have take away a few times a month. So how many meals do we really need? We sat down as a family and talked about it and decided on 20. The boys gave ideas too, it wasn’t just me thinking of things to feed my family for a month. We sit at the table while we talk and discuss things we like and how we want to try new things. We look through my obscene amount of cookbooks for someone who doesn’t do the majority of the cooking. We also had to plan one of the meals for The Dresden Files Game group. That meal was included in the 20 meals. I bet you are wondering how many of the 20 meals did we make and eat. Well we made 15 out of the 20, with plans to make the other 5 this month. This month we decided that we would go with 15 instead of 20. There were some old stand byes, but we had some stand out favorites and I will share those below and what we are most excited for this month.
July Stand Outs:
Mississippi Roast and Mashed Potatoes (I just googled a recipe)
Shredded Chicken Tacos (we made this up as we went)
Excited for August:
French Dip Sandwiches (Made in the Slow Cooker)
Pulled Pork Sandwiches
What are you planning on cooking for August? Anything exciting you are cooking? Please leave me comment to help give me ideas.
I wrote this before my 34th birthday and set it to go live on my birthday, and just realized it didn’t. So I am publishing it now. I am not reading it again. 8/4/2019
Who says only kids get to do Birthday Photo Shoots!!
So another trip around the sun is wrapping up for me. It has been a kind year, which is unusual for me. Many of my 33 years have been filled with a lot of different kinds of struggles. Mental health being one of my biggest since I was very young. I have talked about those in the past, this post isn’t mainly about them.
What do I hope that 34 has in store for me? Well I would like to meet more of my friends who live in my phone, haha. Since discovering twitter in 2009, I have met some amazing people who have been life changing. 33 lead me to meeting a few and those people were amazing. Those moments were amazing, memories I will cherish forever. I wish Mary Beth and Family didn’t live in hell to me, haha. I don’t think Emily will ever leave hell either though she talks about coming closer. I have plans to travel to meet one more friend and her family this summer, I can’t wait. Other things, I would like to buy a better couch for our living room. Our living room is huge and the one I picked out on wayfair when we moved in is so small. I want to successfully meal plan and cook more, I have let Casey cook for most of the almost 12 years of marriage. I hate cooking, there is a lot of reasons. I want to eat things no one in my house wants to eat but Ollie will try new food and surprisingly eats like the majority. I want to make more meals in our regular plan. I would like to make it thorough the summer with my mental health stable. I did it last summer, that was the first summer in I don’t know how long that I did. I don’t know if it was because it was constant with things going on. That isn’t the plan for this summer. Our family vacation is happening during the end of the school year and my Dad is coming too. I want the boys to have this memory of this trip with their Pop. I would like to take a weekend away with Casey even if we just stay somewhere local, I want to make dates happen more then once a quarter if that. I want to be a better friend, I feel like I have a lot to learn here. I want to be a better spouse. I guess I want to be better, shouldn’t that always be a goal?
So 33 also had a lot of learning and growth plus a smidgen of that adulty stuff. We bought our first home, honestly if you read my archives never thought that would happen. I tackled mount laundry and kept tackling it, the biggest game changer was getting rid of all but two laundry baskets. Okay that isn’t completely honest, that was game changing but the real game changer was I have a vindictive asshole of a cat and when he gets mad pees on clean laundry. So I can’t leave it laying around, thanks Bra’tac. Your being an asshole as lead me to tackle one of my biggest challenges. I have kept my house tidy for a year, like it has had messy moments and floors are dirty sometimes. Overall though, company can stop by and I am not ashamed or shoving shit in closets. Before we moved I hired a junk hauler and if I didn’t want it in this house it didn’t come. Then once we moved in, if we didn’t want/need it, it left. Holy shit people talk about this all the time, but it never clicked. I completed vlogmas on youtube, that may seem lame but I did it and it was a bug deal to me. I finally openly admit that I agnostic, that was a tough one. I struggled for years to accept that. There is more to this story, maybe it will be it’s on post. The biggest one is I realized is that blood doesn’t make someone your family. I have an amazing family that I have made and support me as I am and don’t ask me to not be who I am. You know who you are and I love you.
Awkward Club 