Thursday Thoughts No. 6

Hello Friday Eve and hello, Loves! I just wanted you to know that I'm in a much better mood and doing better behavior wise, so we shouldn't have to send for a priest this week!  Here we go:

• Thank you so much for the positive feedback from Monday's post, Let's Make A Memory. I will send a gift card to the first person that knows what band sang that song (and not because you had to google it, either!). Leave me your guess in the comments. Hint: think "big hair." Love making memories with my man and thank you for letting me share them! It amazes me that so many of you thought that Alise and I look so much alike and yet I did not post a single picture of her in that post. Truly, she is my Mini Me and I wouldn't take anything for the blessing of calling her my Baby Girl! Love you, Alise! I am so proud to be your Mama!

• No royal comments this week.

• Are y'all gonna watch American Idol when it premieres in March? I'm thinking about giving it a shot.

• Speaking of TV, I am STILL behind on This Is Us because I STILL have not watched the Super Bowl episode. Just haven't psyched myself up for it enough yet. At some point, I am going to pour myself a glass of wine, grab a box of Kleenex, and watch. 

• I read last week on social media, and I QUOTE, "...Facebook is a 35 and above club..." Do you feel like you have just been slapped across the face?? I'll take my FB AND my 45 year old self #thankyouverymuch! Although seriously, I'm trying to cut back on social media these days.

• Okay y'all are waaaaayyyyyyy more excited about the Winter Olympics than I am! Why is that? I'm not sure, but I'm from the Winter Olympics of 1998, which was the era of the Nancy Kerrigan (We almost named Alise, Kerrigan), and Tonya Harding hoopla. I remember watching that fiasco unfold on the national evening news and I was just shocked that someone could be so ruthless! I was more of a Kristi Yamaguchi fan and she ended up winning gold that year. I did hear that some chick landed the triple axle, but I swear, I thought somebody had already done that but whatever. I may tune in later on for the long figure skating programs. Obviously, all I care about is the ice skating! 

• Podcasts. OH, for the love of all things human! How do y'all LISTEN to these things?? I have narrowed my search down to two: Jen Hatmaker and Jamie Ivey. And I've listened to the first episode of Serial, so I may stick with that one, but Y'ALL! The voices of the podcasts I tried GRATE on my nerves!! I don't know what I was expecting? Maybe my personal trainer, CHEF, life coach, assistant, and PRIEST all wrapped up in one podcast, I don't know? Can a gal get a little inspiration? If you know of a podcast with all these diverse hats, hit me up. Otherwise, I think I'll stick to Pandora and XM. 

• You know you haven't been to church in a while when your Life Group leader hits you up in the middle of an SEC Alabama Women's Basketball game! We had church at Ole Miss this past weekend. 

• How was your Valentine's Day? Mine was WONDERFUL! Love my Valentine's!

• Yesterday at the Mother Ship, we had the opportunity to take ashes for Ash Wednesday. A colleague of mine took ashes, but I knew he wasn't Catholic. When I asked him about it at lunch, he said Christians could take ashes. Have y'all heard of that before? I thought it was a Catholic ritual. If I took ashes, though, I would want the cross on my forehead. I saw some people that like had just a dot on their forehead.  That wouldn't work for me. I'd be telling that priest, "Make it a cross, Father!"

Just keeping' it real, Peeps! Thank you for taking the time to read my blog!