All through my years of schooling, I maintained consistently high grades; honor roll every year. Except for algebra my junior year of high school. That ruined my GPA for one entire year. (Stupid math.) I did redeem myself in college though. While still struggling with numbers, I managed to get a B- in algebra my last year. I had to pass that class or I wouldn’t graduate. But I did. Again, with honors. Whew. But, I digress. At present, there are many days I do some incredibly stupid, not A+ or even B- things, and certainly not honor roll things. It’s like my brain forgets to do its job. I used to be “with it.” I used to not need notes to remember things. I used to use common sense and logic to figure things out. Nowadays, not so much. Some days I don’t even recognize myself because I do some really dumb stuff.
(more…)Archive for the ‘redneck’ Category
Hard To Believe I Was On the Honor Roll
Posted in authors, Baer House Inn, blogging, breakfast, Family, food, friends, humor, innkeeping, Jansen Schmidt, laughter, redneck, success, Vicksburg, weird, writing, tagged aging, bacon, brain fart, dumb, dumb mistakes, dumb stuff, grades, honor roll, intincts, junk, losing it, not thinking, not using your brain, stupid, stupid stuff, stupidity on January 25, 2021| 10 Comments »
It’s A Real Thing!
Posted in Autumn, Baer House Inn, blogging, bucket list, Family, friends, hill billy, humor, inspiration, Jansen Schmidt, laughter, redneck, resolutions, trivia, Uncategorized, weird, weird facts, writing, tagged afterlife, cause of death, cemeteries, cemetery, curse, Day of the Dead, death, dying, epitaphs, funny epitaphs, funny graves, funny gravestones, funny headstones, graves, gravestones, headstones, last words on November 2, 2020| 6 Comments »
Today is Monday, November 2nd, which means . . . it’s National Plan Your Epitaph Day! Say what? I know, right? It’s a real thing. An entire day set aside to plan your own epitaph. Kind of morbid but I guess it makes sense if you think about it. I mean, you never know what a relative or friend might put on your tombstone once you’re gone, right? Or, worse yet, they put nothing there! Egads! The horrors!!!
(more…)Help – I’m Stuck In A Rut And I Can’t Get Out!
Posted in authors, awards, blogging, books, Family, Fiction, goals, grammar, humor, Jansen Schmidt, mystical, redneck, romance, success, words, writers, writing, tagged book covers, characters, cults, forest, free photos, Indians, kidnapping, marketing, men, Mexicans, photos, pictures, rut, stock photos, stuck, task force, vision on March 2, 2020| 11 Comments »
Okay, the title is a little misleading. I’m not really in a rut so much as I’ve been focusing on the same thing for too long that now I can’t see the forest for the trees. Have you ever been there? It’s kind of frustrating. Here’s my problem: I need to come up with a book cover for my next book and I’ve got nothing. (more…)
There’s Smart and Then There’s Smart
Posted in blogging, cancer, Family, friends, goals, humor, inspiration, Jansen Schmidt, laughter, love, motivation, redneck, resolutions, success, writing, tagged don't give up, don't quit, drop out, faith, family, father, fathers, Goalcast, inspired, keep standing, love, On Common Ground, On Hallowed Ground, school, smart, third grade, video, wisdom, wise, wise man, Youtube on September 16, 2019| 4 Comments »
My blog today comes courtesy of YouTube (Goalcast). I didn’t have anything prepared last night so I consulted the internet for inspiration of some sort to share with you and I found this amazing video. It’s long (about 10 minutes), but so worth it. (more…)
Toto, We’re Not In Kansas Anymore
Posted in authors, Baer House Inn, blogging, books, breakfast, Christmas, Family, Fiction, food, grammar, health, hill billy, Holidays, humor, innkeeping, Jansen Schmidt, redneck, sports, travel, Uncategorized, Vicksburg, words, writing, tagged chicken, chicken dinner, chitlins, cracklins, Faulkner, food, football, Halloween, hunting, hunting season, kale, Kansas, kumbachu, Mississippi, pork rinds, quinoa, unexplained, weird, Welty on March 4, 2019| 12 Comments »
I’ve lived in Mississippi for almost 4 years now and there are still some things that I just can’t comprehend. Mostly I love the laid back way of life and southern hospitality. I love the charming small town feel of a lot of places in this great state. Other things, I don’t get. At all. (more…)
Horn Blowing 101
Posted in authors, blogging, driving, Family, Fiction, first car, friends, hill billy, humor, Jansen Schmidt, redneck, travel, vacation, Vicksburg, writing, tagged car horns, cars, danger, greeting, hello, honking, horn blowing, horn honking, horns, morse code, random, signal, signals, steering wheel, vehicles, warning on October 15, 2018| 13 Comments »
I don’t know about you, but I rarely use my car horn. I mean, seriously, hardly ever. And usually when I do, I have to press around on the steering wheel a bit to get the exact spot for sound to come out. I just don’t have an up-close and personal relationship with my car horn.
Crowd Walking For Dummies
Posted in authors, blogging, Family, Fiction, friends, humor, Jansen Schmidt, redneck, success, travel, Uncategorized, vacation, writing, tagged crosswalks, crowds, giants, heels, masses, sarcasm, scooters, shopping carts, short people, silly, strollers, strolling, toes, walking, wheelchairs on October 1, 2018| 8 Comments »
How many of you have ever found yourself in a situation where you have to walk with the masses, maybe with your elbows squeezed against your sides so don’t accidentally hook arms, bump elbows or whatnot?
Yummy Yummy In The Tummy
Posted in authors, blogging, breakfast, chocolate, dessert, desserts, dieting, drinks, Fiction, food, humor, Jansen Schmidt, pumpkins, redneck, soup, writing, tagged cheese fudge, eating, fried food, fudge, gross foods, Kalen Reacts, ketchup, ketchup cake, mayonnaise, mustard, peanut butter, shoelaces, Twix, Twix salad, weird food, Youtube food on August 6, 2018| 11 Comments »
Let’s talk about food today shall we? Here in the south people like to fry stuff. My husband and I often joke that if someone fried shoelaces, people would eat them. If you go to a restaurant and you want shrimp or chicken on your salad you MUST specify that you want it grilled NOT fried, because otherwise, you’re getting the fried version. And every restaurant serves fried chicken and fried catfish. Every. Single. One. Fried chicken. Fried catfish. (more…)
The Mysterious Case of the Early Morning Creeper
Posted in authors, Baer House Inn, blogging, breakfast, Family, humor, innkeeping, Jansen Schmidt, Mythology, redneck, writers, writing, tagged B & B, bed & breakfast, creeping, creepy, flashlights, hallway, morning, mystery, nighttime, no privacy, old houses, privacy, sneaking around, snooping, Vicksburg on July 30, 2018| 17 Comments »
Owning a bed and breakfast joint may seem glamorous to some, like a lot of work to others, and downright stupid to another group. Let me tell you, it’s all of those things.
Do You Ever Wonder?
Posted in acting, authors, Family, Fiction, friends, humor, Jansen Schmidt, redneck, short story, watching tv, writers, writing, tagged clandestine operations, counterfeit money, crime, crime scene, crime shows, drug deal, jogging, spies, spy, spying, sting operation, tv, undercover cops on October 23, 2017| 8 Comments »
A week or so ago I was watching one of those crime shows on TV, you know the ones where they have an agent/detective go “undercover” and spy on someone? In this show, the gal was sitting on a park bench with ear buds, bopping along to some unheard tune when this jogger stops and plants himself on the bench next to her and starts up a conversation. Now, this gal didn’t want to converse, yet neither did she want to appear as though she were spying on someone. So, she provided the occasional nod or “um hm” while continuing to watch her target from the corner of her eye.
That scene got me to thinking – which can be a scary thing I’ll admit. I wondered if this had ever happened to me. I mean, I’ve been known to strike up a conversation with a totally random stranger if the mood hits me. Yet I wondered, have I ever intruded in a clandestine spying operation? Have I ever encountered a completely random person, who appeared to be sitting/standing idly, yet was really annoyed because I was distracting them from their bad guy’s activities with mindless chit chat?
Seriously, how many of those mornings at Starbucks or the gas station or the grocery store have I talked to an undercover law enforcement person doing their surveillance job?
That in turn got me to wondering other oddball things. Like, have I ever had in my possession counterfeit money? Have I ever spent counterfeit money passed on to me from some other source?
Have I ever happened upon a drug deal without even being aware it was happening in my presence?
Has a late night sting operation ever had to be aborted because I happened along for a snack at a convenience store? Gosh, I hope not. And yet . . . hmmmm?
How many people do I talk to every single day are hiding concealed weapons? Being from Mississippi I’m sure that number is quite high.
There are just so many things that could be happening right in front of my nose. I know that from now on everyone is going to look suspicious to me. How about you?
Have you ever been in the wrong place at the wrong – or maybe right – time? What sorts of clandestine things have you interrupted? Come on – please share. Have you ever wondered if you’ve thwarted a crime just by showing up some place? Surely this isn’t just me.
Word of the day: Ididem
Fun fact about me: I’m tap dancing again.
Original post by Jansen Schmidt, October 2017. Photos courtesy Google Images.
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