2013

Last year, Justin and I celebrated the new year by going to Walmart and buying all our favorite snack food and setting it up on a table in the living room while we watched the NYE celebration on tv. We were by ourselves, and it was like a fun sleepover party where we watched Fergie and her hip dancing thing that we ended up imitating all year.This year, we're doing the same thing. I'm looking forward...

December

I love the holidays. At first, you'd think it's for the food. (It's totally for the food.) But really, when I think about it, I absolutely love the atmosphere. The energy. The ambiance. It's probably the only time of year when you can experience a windless Oklahoma night. If you're lucky, there will be snow on the ground, glistening in the mixture of moonlight and colorful Christmas lights.There are...

23 Years

I've lived on this planet for 23 years and a day. More, if you count gestational time, but I won't. I've learned a ton of stuff, most of which amounts to the fact that I know basically nothing. Some of it, though, might actually be useful in the future. Might have been useful in the past, too, but here I am, mostly better for it.When I was 5 years old, my sister, Peyton, was born. I...

Music Monday ON A WEDNESDAY! "Say Something"

I present to you the FIRST EVER Music Monday on Reghanland... ON A WEDNESDAY! Because why not? I make the rules.This week's focus is "Say Something" by A Great Big World feat. Christina Aguilera. The song is beautiful, vulnerable, simple. The music video made me cry, but it seems everything does these days. I truly hope you feel the song and enjoy ...

Picking Up Chicks, Lesson 1: Get your own card

(Kora, the star of the show.)Let's say you're at Tres Cantina on a Thursday night. You're there because someone you know - your cousin, perhaps - is playing there. It's a beautiful night in the late summer, so they've opened up the back patio, which is a perfect setting. You've got your best friend (who is also your cousin, extended, by marriage, who will share credit with you forever on making that...

Cruise Post 2 of 2: Belize & Cozumel

Read part one to get caught up.Belize City, BelizeBelize City was the second of the three ports of call we visited. The coral reef is protected, so our ship couldn't dock on the port. We had to anchor out and take a 15-minute tender boat ride to the port. The water where we were dropped of was very brown and had a lot of trash floating in it.There are huge gates that separate the port shops...

Cruise Post 1 of 2: Roatan

You guys.Justin & I went on a cruise with some of his family (and a handful of others) late last month. I am here now to tell you all about it.We sailed on the Carnival Magic for seven days and visited three ports:1. Isla Roatan, Honduras2. Belize City, Belize3. Cozumel, MexicoThis is our second cruise. Our first was with on the now-retired Carnival Ecstasy (which is currently being transformed...

Tyler's Birthday

You know what I love?Birthdays.Not just my birthday. And not even for the gifts. I prefer two things: 1) a ton of friends to accompany me to a restaurant (Dave & Buster's is a recent fave.) and 2) some sort of lunch/dinner meal with family and pie.Angel food cake is also perfectly acceptable.I have the added benefit of my birthday being on or almost on Thanksgiving, and if you know me at all,...

I am Susie Homemaker

When I'm laying -- lying... whatever -- in bed at night, I just shut my eyes and think. I'm not that tired, but then I get a text. Suddenly, I'm the most exhausted I've ever been, and simply opening my eyes would use up the very last fumes of energy I have. It's not about the time, it's not about who. It's the fact that my brain decided to sleep already. Sorry, I don't call the shots. Brain...

On Food: Panera Pickup

I am not a spokeswoman for Applebees or anything, so I don't know this for sure, but I'm pretty positive that their secret ingredient in everything is jalapenos. I'm pretty sure it's a fact. I don't mind a little bit of heat every now and then, but I hate jalapenos. They're hot, sure, but they don't even taste good.Justin (husband) thinks that Cracker Barrel's secret ingredient is brown sugar. I have...

Cats & Interviews

Imma give you a little insight into the psyche of a cat. "Hey, I'm a cat. I'm gonna pee on this plant here until it's dead, then I'm gonna wait until 11:30 at night and start loudly eating one of the dead leaves of the pee pee plant. I'm going to also climb on you while you're trying to sleep and take my shank-like paw and step right on your boob with all my weight. I'll be standing just like that...

Keepin' It Light

I had a slammin' time today. No stress! Yay! Okay, maybe a little stress. But only for a second. Also, as it turns out, I'm unemployed. But in the best of ways. (No hard feelings. It was just time.) And I cannot even tell you how light my heart is. If it could only stay this way forever, it would be nearly impossible for you to live without me.I had a coffee date with the babe-iest of babes, Miss...

A not-so-introduction.

Hi! It's Reghan. Welcome to Reghanland! Listen, I hate web design. It's just not my thing. Someday, someone will pull this shabby site together and make me look like a pro. Today is not that day, and tomorrow definitely isn't either. Can't really justify paying someone to fancy up my blog if the longest I've ever consistently posted was for less than a year. Then again, I'd surely use it forever if...