Author Archives: Stylish 🍒

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”

What a great contest yesterday. It’s been such a great run these last three weeks in Division C. From State College to Johnstown to Oakmont, I’ve been everywhere. Now that the area run is done, we all know who’s going back to Johnstown March 28. It was a quiet week but work was so crazyContinue reading “Stylish March Preview”

Another stylish Saturday, another stylish area contest. Today I completed the Division C run of area contests by attending the joint Area 23 & 24 contest. I got some breaking news early when I found out I was going to be in the International Speech contest. It was going to be an exciting contest. ThirdContinue reading “Stylish Area 23/24 Contest”

I almost didn’t want to come because the day ran too long. I was going to come up with some excuse why I wouldn’t make it to the meeting. I was too tired. I needed some self care. But then we left at a decent time and traffic wasn’t so bad on the Parkway. IContinue reading “Stylish Greensburg Meeting #3”

This was a great weekend. I talked to some girls at White Rabbit. We had a well-attended Area contest in Johnstown despite the cold and snow. Finally, I made some new acquaintances at church. I leveled up socially this weekend. You could say this whole leveling up started on Thursday night with me attending theContinue reading “Leveling up Socially”

February has come to an end and we are less than three weeks away from the official start of Spring. Contest season is in full swing with four contests going on Saturday. I was in attendance for two over the last week. But before I review those two contests, let’s do a rewind of lastContinue reading “Stylish Week in Review #6”