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10 Tips When Traveling Out of the Country

June 18, 2019 by Alisha Leave a Comment

One of my blogging boo’s Lashawn of Everyday Eyecandy shared an article a few weeks ago about the importance of taking a trip as an adult with your mom. Well I was already way ahead and my mom and I have planned to kick off her 75th birthday in August by taking a cruise to Cuba. Well the current administration took a big ol’ shat on our plans and on June 4th they abruptly banned all travel via cruises to Cuba effective…June 5th. You can still travel to Cuba but there’s like fifty eleven types of restrictions and we had already paid to cruise and wanted to take that route…so on to plan B! (more on that to come in an upcoming post)

Now back in my day…seriously like less than 20 years ago you could travel with less restrictions. But since 9/11 a lot has changed and its imperative that you have all of your ish together when you plan to travel outside of the United States. Here are 10 tips to help make travel easier and save you all the stress and headache of not being prepared when traveling out of the country. [Read more…]

Enjoy Summer with a Wine Slushie!

May 31, 2019 by Alisha 28 Comments

In Nashville, we’ve been having record setting highs. So basically it’s not even officially summer yet and it feels like the pits of Hades outside. Add no rain for over a week to this heat and its just miserable out there. But one way to stay cool and enjoy a grown up treat is with a little wine slushie! Now if you’ve been following me for any amount of time you know that I love me some wine! One of my favorite sayings is “Everyone needs to believe in something… I believe I’ll have another glass of wine!”

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5 Ways to Not Be an Asshole Toward People Dealing With Mental Illness

May 9, 2019 by Alisha 8 Comments

Did you know that Mental Health Awareness month has been observed each year during the month of May since 1949? I don’t ever recall there being a time growing up that mental health was discussed as openly until I became an adult. I’m glad that more people are wanting to get help but there are still so many that feel isolated or ashamed about their mental illness.

If you’ve been with me for a while you know I typically discuss my love for all things related to natural hair, my crazy ass kids and wine. Literally those are the three top things that I feel represent who I am as a person. But for the last year and a half I’ve also focused on a lot of things outside of my blog. That would be dealing with mental illness.

For the last three years I’ve been working as a Crisis Consultant for a suicide hotline. While it is probably one of the most stressful jobs I’ve had, it is also one of the most rewarding! The majority of my jobs since I graduated from college have dealt with mental illness in one way or another but not as intimately as this one.

I’ve been trying to figure out the best way for a while now to address some of the issues that come up when I’m talking with callers. I like to just cut to the chase when I’m talking with people on the phone so I figured that would also translate to how I wanted to discuss this on my blog as well. The only way I figured that would work was if I gave some tips on how to treat people that are dealing with mental illness. [Read more…]

Rocketbook Reusable Notebook Keeps You from Wasting Paper!

March 29, 2019 by Alisha Leave a Comment

I’ve been keeping a secret about a bad and wasteful habit that my husband has had for years…heck decades! My husband writes down every song, business idea and thought that pops up in his head. This man has probably spent thousands upon thousands (ok maybe I’m being a bit dramatic) on notebooks and loose leaf paper. So when Rocketbook reached out with a chance to review their reusable notebook I was ecstatic to say the least.

The Everlast notebook by Rocketbook feels like a traditional notebook but wipes clean for endless pages, notes, and doodles. The Everlast works with any pen from the Pilot Frixion line and is connected to all of your favorite cloud services. With Optical Character Recognition (OCR) features, the Rocketbook allows users to transcribe and search handwritten notes right in the Rocketbook App. The notebook comes with a black pen but we like to be “extra” sometimes around here and I picked up a 7Pack Pilot Frixion from Amazon which also comes with black, green, purple, light blue and red. You can use the eraser on your pen or the cloth that comes with the notebook. [Read more…]