Be A Good Person

Be A Good Person.......

It's that simple.  

When you have the choice between saying something nice or something that will discourage another person, say something nice.

When you can steer someone in the right direction, point them, show them, lead them the right way.

When you are able to pay it forward, do it.  (Pay it forward can be in so many different ways, this may be another blog idea.)

When you see someone suffering, give them a helping hand.

When you can mentor someone, do it.  We were all new at some point.

When your neighbor needs to borrow a cup of sugar, lend it to them.

When someone is lonely, spend time with them,

Choose to be a good person.

One Of My Current Favorite Snacks

 Hello, all my good friends!   I hope this day is bringing you good energy.  And in return, I also hope that you're putting out twice as much positive energy as you're receiving.

Several weeks ago, I made of one my least favorite trips.  I had to go to Walmart.  I usually like to do most of my grocery shopping at Aldi, but occasionally I'll need some things that Aldi doesn't have.  I try to only make this trip no more than once a month, and I try to stock up on needed things when I do have to go.

However, sometimes I found some awesome treats that I wasn't even trying to look for in the first place.  Since it was a week or 2 before the Super Bowl, you know they were showing off all the game time snacks.  As soon as you walk in to the grocery side, they have some shelves of "seasonal" food items.  Such as back to school snacks, Christmas treats.  Or in this case, game snacks.

Snacks are my weakness.  I love food in general, but I love snacking throughout the day.  I carry multiple snacks in my lunchbox, and I also keep snacks around my desk just in case.

A few years ago someone introduced me to Zapp's Voodoo chips.  They are delicious!  The tangy flavor is to die for!  Zappos has some other flavors of chips that aren't bad, but the voodoo ones are my favorite.

So when I saw that Zapp's now has flavored pretzel chips, I had to try them.  They had both the voodoo flavor ones, and they also had a honey mustard flavor.  You know I had to try them both.  I decided to try the honey mustard ones first.  Oh my, they are heavenly.  I thought I liked the honey mustard and onl=ion Snyder's pretzel bits.  These are even better!  I think I could easily eat half a bag in one setting if I wasn't careful.  I highly recommend these if you enjoy the honey mustard flavor.

I have not tried the voodoo flavored ones yet.  I'm trying to wait until  finish the bag of the honey mustard ones first.  However, if the honey mustard ones are any indication, I am expecting them to be just as good.

I am thinking of adding my PayPal link to my blogs.  If you would be interested in supporting me by making donations, please let me know.

Have a great weekend!  I don't forget to sprinkle kindness everywhere you go!

My Review Of Everything Everywhere All At Once

 Good day, my friends!

I am so happy that it's Saturday!  While it's not the warmest today (high in the mid 40's), at least the sun is shining!  

Since I had some Amazon digital credit that I needed to use before it would expire, I decided to buy the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once.  It is a long title, so I am going to shorten the title to Everything Everywhere so I don't have to type the whole thing out each time.  

I wanted to give my review of the movie, from someone that isn't a movie buff.  I hadn't really heard much about it until recently, until it started to win some awards.  There was a lot of buzz around it, especially due to the lead actress being older and Asian.  I am loving that people are breaking the molds to what it means to being a leading actress in major movies.  And to see Jamie Lee Curtis celebrate Michelle Yeoh's win at the Golden Globes was awesome!

Ok, now to the movie itself.  This is not a movie where you can be scrolling through social media and get what is going on.  Put your phone away.  If you check your Facebook as the movie is playing, I can pretty much guarantee that you are going to miss important details.  You will get lost in the plot and may not know what is going on.

This movie has a lot going on.  An Asian family is struggling to get by, and gets audited.  I don't want to actually talk about the plot too much, I think it might make my head spin a little bit if I try to put it writing.  But let's just say that Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) needs to save the world(s).   There are multiple universes, and they connect with each other.  Evelyn "jumps" from one to the other to use different skills in the universe that she is from.

There's action, drama, comedy, and a little bit of sci-fi, all wrapped up in one movie.  If you want a little bit of Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (see what I did there? lol), this movie is for you.  It comes in at a little over 2 hours, and I will say I paused the movie once or twice so that I could go to the bathroom or get a drink.  But other than those couple of very short breaks, I did watch it all in one sitting.  

So, I do highly recommend this movie.  Put your phone away.  Or at the very least, know to pause the movie if you do need to check it.  Even though I technically didn't pay for this movie due to all my digital credits, I would've been happy to shell out a few bucks for this one.  If you have watched it, please feel free to share what you thought.

It's Super Sunday!

 Good morning, my lovely friends!

First of all, it's Sunday!  That alone makes it a good day.  And on top of that, It's Super Bowl Sunday!  It's my holiday.  I have no problem with working most holidays.  I am lucky enough to get to work with my sister for most of them, including the past 5 Christmas's.  However, when it comes to the big game, I take it off.  It's the one day where I simply enjoy the day.  I even usually take the next day off.  Not because I drink, I choose not to.  I take it off because I might be eating a lot of junk food, and I like to give my system a day to recover.

When I started my current job, I was scheduled to work the 4 Super Bowls that I was in the position (direct care for individuals with intellectual disabilities).  That was just how my rotation worked out.  I tried to switch with people, but that never panned out.  Now don't get me wrong, we had fun.  We had parties, ate some delicious food.  We would get the big stuff done, and then we would enjoy the game.  We did have lots of fun.

When I accepted the current position at my work, I told myself that I would then take the day off, and I haven't worked the past 5 big games (this year will make 6).  There's nothing like getting to watch the game at home (or wherever you would like to celebrate).  I get to make the food that I want, watch the game in my jammies, and just generally relax and enjoy the celebration.

With whatever you choose to do today, I hope you get to enjoy it (even if it's the commercials).  

I'm On A Yogurt Kick

Good morning, my wonderful friends!  I hope you are living your best life!

It's February, and yesterday felt like spring!  Here in western PA, it was a nice 70 degrees outside.  I evened opened up the doors to let some fresh air in!  In ways, I love it being warmer this time of year.  In ways, I know it's not necessarily a good thing due to climate change.  But I did enjoy the day.

I haven't posted much lately on here, and I am sorry for that.  But I need to get back to this creative space. I know I don't stick to one topic on here, it's kind of just a hodge hodge of things on this page.  

As you may know, I follow a plant based diet.  I am in between a vegetarian and a vegan.  Normally I don't seek out food that has eggs or dairy in it.  But I don't really mind if they're in the ingredients.  Lately, I have been really enjoying vanilla honey greek yogurt.  I'm not sure why, I am not normally a huge fan of yogurt.  I don't know if my body is needing something in it, such as more calcium or perhaps the protein.  But about every other day, I have a bowl of it.  And I add mixed berries and granola on it (I love my crunchies!).  

I definitely understand this is not vegan.  If I do continue to want yogurt, I am going to get the Silk Yogurt (it's plant based).  I've had the silk yogurt before, and it's not half bad.  However, I like the consistency of greek yogurt, it tends to be creamier.  Silk does make a greek yogurt, but I haven't been able to find the bigger tubs of it my area.  (Silk, if you're listening, please make the bigger tubs of greek yogurt.)

I know this was a quick, short post.  I'll try to write more next time.  I hope you all have the best day!