Books

  • Books,  Tea

    The Tea Center, Books I’m Reading, and Information Technology Crisis

    The Tea Center Just a few notes from today. My long awaited STASH “tea center” arrived in it’s bamboo container, just like the one we had at work. I added all the specialty tea bags I already had to the mix. I barely got it in and it’s in sections (sort of). After a while of trying to keep I sorted by type of tea (berries, mints, chamomile, chai, green tea, black tea, white tea, etc), I finally had to stick my “Constant Comment” tea anywhere it would fit in the backs of each one, lol. Do you think we are set for a while? The STASH tea is better…

  • Books,  Grandkids,  Retirement,  Vlogging,  YouTube

    Monetized on YouTube, Crushing My Goals!

    So, a little thing happened this week. I met my goal of 1,000 subscribers a bit early. I had figured by Thanksgiving and then actually said it was ok by Jan or Feb of 2025 so I’d have time to deal with becoming monetized. Well…thanks to my giving notice video, I met that goal last week and am now at 3,000 subscribers which I met overnight. I’m so honored and thrilled. Of course over the weekend I followed the steps that YouTube had outlined for me, after I got their email that I could apply for the YouTube Partner program. That included a verification process, email and info, applying for…

  • Books,  Busy,  Food

    Friday Notes: My Thoughts on Food, Reading, and Life

    Good morning! Sipping good coffee here this morning. Happy that it is Friday. The week has gone by quickly. It has been busy as they all are. I packed way more in each day on my list than I had time for. I had hoped since we were gone on Sunday to Life Group all afternoon last week, that I might be able to pick up some of the Sunday to do’s each day during the week, but just because I put it on the list did not mean I had more hours in the day to do them. So finally I just rolled them all to Saturday. And joke’s…