Our Road Trip Tradition: Titus Specials On Tap

So, Christopher Titus is probably our favorite comedian ever. I don’t care how many times I’ve heard the special before, I always laugh until I can barely breathe.

So what do we do when we go on long road trips, rather than station-surfing? We listen to Titus specials. We’ve bought quite a few of them.

They take up a whole section of my library, and they get us from Bay Minette to Pigeon Forge with no repeats, and we laugh our asses off for the entire drive. It’s so much fun, and it makes the drive go by so much faster.

It’s a great time, and my husband and I live for road trips where we get to do this. I highly recommend giving it a try some time.

Also, on the off chance that Titus actually ends up reading this, I have just one thing to say to you, sir. THANK YOU; you’ve improved road trips for us forever.

Living for Vacation

I think it’s more than a little obvious that I need to chill and reset. My struggles with ADHD, RSD, and my other mental health issues almost always lessen somewhat when we’re on the move. Vacations and little adventures with a change of scenery, even if it’s not an enormous change, always seem to lighten the load.

So, we’re getting ready to load up and head to one of our favorite escapes: Pigeon Forge, TN. I’ll drop reviews and recommendations here in the blog based on what we do. I’ll probably keep the content highly focused, so I’ll be going over one thing per post, which means there will be many more posts than there are days of vacation.

The older I get, the more I want posts to be focused and to the point. I’m not opposed to long content, but I like to get the main points covered quickly before I go more in-depth. I think that format works better for everyone involved.

So, prepare yourself for tons of short, sweet, and to-the-point vacation-related posts. Each will be focused on a single activity or aspect of vacation prep and execution.

I hope you enjoy them and/or find them helpful!

Bay Minette Needs Waitr Drivers!

Waitr food delivery has finally arrived in Bay Minette, Alabama, and we need more drivers, especially with daytime/lunch rush availability. (I absolutely LOVE running for Waitr, but we’re working several jobs right now, and we’re not available before late afternoon.) If you’d like to make some spare cash—and honestly who wouldn’t with the way things have gone with this pandemic—you can sign up to be a driver with Delivery Logistics by clicking HERE. You can drive for Waitr whenever it’s convenient for you.

Another thing I love about Waitr is that it’s a rewarding job. Every time I make a delivery, I get the same warm, fuzzy feeling that I get when I complete a side quest in a video game. I can’t wait to see how Waitr grows and creates revenue, opportunities, and jobs in our little community. I never really thought I would, but I love my job as a Waitr delivery driver.

On another note: Dang! I cut it close on this post, guys. I almost forgot that I needed to get in a post on the blog today. The dangers of ADHD, y’all. I hyper-focus, or don’t focus at all, and doing anything consistently is a struggle. Still, I made it for the sixth day in a row, and I’m SUPER proud of myself for making it this far with everything I have going on right now.

My Goals for 2021

My goals for this year vary wildly depending on what area of my life we’re focusing on. When it comes to the We’re the Moyes blog, I only have one focus–a solitary goal–this year. I want to post once a day, every single day this year. I’ll be covering a wide variety of topics because we honestly almost never know what adventure (or life lesson) we’re going to have to–without a manual–adult our way through on any given day.

We’re just planning to take our adventures and shenanigans one day at a time, and I hope to capture them here in one post per day. The other areas of my life tend to get pretty complex, chaotic, and overwhelming, which is a big reason I’m so keen to keep things as simple and streamlined as possible here. I need one habit that’s easy to follow through on so I can see if I can just do this one thing for 365 days in a row.

So, let’s see how this thing goes! I’m kind of proud that I’ve managed two days in a row, so far. Wish me luck, and more importantly wish me perseverance!

Catching Up – Topics

So, as you can see, I haven’t really gotten around to doing individual posts for each of the topics in my “Upcoming Topics” list from a while back. So, I’m just going to do a fast summary post with the list to catch things up.

• Alan Jackson Concert – It’s not often that you find an artist who sounds JUST AS GOOD live as he/she does on the radio. That’s a pretty rare thing, but let me just tell you that Alan Jackson absolutely does! That man is an ICON of country music, and he still puts on one hell of an amazing concert!
• Tommy James and the Shondells Concert – This was more of a fun ride-along for us than a purposeful concert trip, but I had a great time. It was wonderful to get to see my Mom fangirling over one of her favorite bands from when she was growing up, and the music was familiar and fun. Tommy James and the Shondells still put on a great, high-energy show, and they’re absolutely worth seeing if you’re into the bubblegum music era.
• Shanghai Rummy – This is possibly the most addictive (and cutthroat) card game I’ve ever learned to play. We have a fantastic time every time we play, no matter who we’re playing with.
• Our Babymoon in Manassas, VA/Washington, D.C. & Checking Trenton, NJ Off My Bucket List – As these last few weeks of pregnancy are hitting me (37 Weeks Today!!!), I’m more and more glad that we took this trip when we did.  It was such a fantastic adventure, and we made some great memories in the process. I probably will do a more in-depth separate post about our babymoon because it was just so much fun, and it deserves a post to itself. For now, suffice it to say that deciding to go on that babymoon was one of the best choices we’ve made this pregnancy.
• Transition Phase? – This will also probably get a post to itself some time in the near future.
• Adventures In Getting Our House “Baby-Ready” – I actually already did a couple of posts about this one. Go me! ^_^ You can read them HERE and HERE.
• Baby Shower Plans – All I can say on this front is thank GOD for my cousins Shelby and Jennifer. They made sure that I got the shower I wanted, and things went off without a hitch thanks to them. The shower was beautiful, and I’m in the process of adding pictures from it to River’s Virtual Scrapbook.
• Racecar-related Shenanigans: I’ll probably catch this up in a separate post soon!
• Fishing: There will be separate posts about our recent fishing trips, but suffice it to say that we’re not fishing as much as usual with the impending due date getting closer every day!
• Basically Everything We Do Together That I Feel Y’all Might Find Interesting: This is self-explanatory, and I hope to share more with y’all in the near future!

Made My Lists Portable!

As you probably know from my last post, I’ve been getting the urge to blog while away from my topic lists A LOT lately. Well, I’ve fixed that problem, guys! How? I made my lists portable, and I keep them in my purse now. So, if you’re wondering what’s up next in my post plans, I can tell you!

Upcoming Post Topics:

• Alan Jackson Concert
• Tommy James and the Shondells Concert
• Shanghai Rummy
• Our Babymoon in Manassas, VA/Washington, D.C.
• Transition Phase?
• Adventures In Getting Our House “Baby-Ready”
• Baby Shower Plans
• Racecar-related Shenanigans
• Fishing
• Basically Everything We Do Together That I Feel Y’all Might Find Interesting

Yes, half of these bullet points will probably turn out to be actual post titles because I’m creatively drained, at this point.

You may have noticed that I haven’t made many posts on my author blog recently, and there’s a reason for that. I’m not a good marketer/promoter, I’ve been watching my sales dwindle since Frost’s release, and all I want to do every time I look at that blog lately is whine. Whining isn’t productive, so I’m just not going to go there until I’ve got something positive to share.

Anyway, that’s my little victory for today!

Minimizing & Eliminating Clutter

As a part of getting our house baby-ready, I’m in the process of eliminating clutter and minimizing. I know it doesn’t sound like a huge deal, but that’s only true if you don’t know me. I’m a borderline hoarder because I attach way too much emotional importance to inanimate objects. As a result, I’ve held onto a lot of things that aren’t really doing anything in my life besides unnecessarily taking up space.

One way I’m ensuring that I eliminate clutter is through a group I joined on Facebook for the month of February (The Minimalist Game) curated by my friend Courtney. You get rid of a number of items equal to the number of the day of the month, for the entirety of the month. So, you get rid of one thing on the first, two things on the second, etc. Today, I chose to eliminate a piece of clothing that I’m never going to fit into. The two items I choose to get rid of tomorrow will probably follow along those same lines, but we’ll see. At this rate, I’m hoping to have our spare room cleaned out enough that I can keep River’s changing table, dresser, etc. (except his bed because he’ll be sleeping in our room) in there.

More to come with the adventures in minimizing and eliminating clutter a little later on!