Author Archives: Stylish 🍒

Day number two of my Division Contest run takes me to Oakdale and the West Allegheny Community Library. It’s Division Awesome’s turn to be in the spotlight this afternoon. My day began with church at Cornerstone. I attended the 11am service (I arrived around 10:15 to eat breakfast). I sat with some new friends IContinue reading “Stylish Division Awesome Contest”

This has been a historic month. I was looking forward to attending my Division Contests in Cranberry, Imperial, and Johnstown this month. All of that got wiped out by the Coronavirus pandemic. This month has changed my perspective on how I’ve looked at things. Obviously, the Stylish Traveling DTM has suffered has a result becauseContinue reading “What If: Stylish Division “Brilliant” Contest”

Good afternoon. Well Monday hasn’t improved so much from where it started. The rain has let up. We just have some drizzle 🌧 and it’s overcast 🌫. We haven’t gotten out of the 40s all day and it has felt like an actual Monday. Will tomorrow be any better? Before I answer that question, let’sContinue reading “Monday Afternoon Forecast”

Good morning ☀️. With the coronavirus shutting everything down and creating social distancing, my blog has also been affected. It’s given me less content to post. I’d have loved to share my weekend with you guys and talked about the division contests and dinner with Mr. Clougherty. All of that cancelled due to the nonessentialContinue reading “Monday Morning Forecast”

Before everything shut down this week, I took advantage of the time off to have a picnic lunch at Twin Lakes. I also shopped at Majesty and updated my wardrobe at JCPenney. I bought some sweet wall art and yet another wood sign at my favorite local Christian bookstore. After that I stopped at JCPenneyContinue reading “Stylish Spring Wardrobe Update”

Well thus ends another season of Gilmore Girls. I’ve made it through the Chilton years. I’ve survived the Dean-Jess-Rory love triangle. Would Rory go to Harvard or Yale? “She’s going to Yale”, an excited Emily and Richard exclaimed when their loving granddaughter made her decision on what college she was going to attend. This seasonContinue reading “Stars Hollow Season Three Review”

This week has seen my whole world come crashing down. Church? Cancelled. Financial Peace University? Cancelled. All Toastmasters meetings and contests and now the Spring Conference? Postponed. Work? All events cancelled until March 31 (that will likely change). The world is on lockdown because of the quarantine from the coronavirus outbreak. It all sucks butContinue reading “Stylish Appreciation Blog”

Believe me, there’s nothing stylish about what’s going on in the world right now. Jobs have been lost, small businesses are going to suffer mightily, retirement accounts have been wiped out. The best thing is do is stay positive and that can be hard when most people have lost everything. I’m still thinking stylish because,Continue reading “How I’m Holding Up”

Back in 2008, I enrolled in Financial Peace University at my home church, Greensburg Alliance. Then it was a 13 week course and it was going to teach me: how to do a budget, buying on credit, insurance, saving for retirement (at 27 far from my mind), and real estate 🏡. I got through theContinue reading “Financial Peace University”

What is the one thing most scientists 🥼 agree on? It’s that our lives are moving in the direction of our most dominant thought and what we focus on the most. If we make our strongest thoughts about what people think of us, we’re going to feel inferior about ourselves. If we depend on othersContinue reading “Going in the Direction of our Thoughts”