Welcome to I’ve Got Words! I am so excited that you found my blog and I look so forward to sharing with you!
My name is Kephanie Landess and I’ve Got Words and I mean lots of them! I love to travel, laugh, be inspired, laugh, live a healthy lifestyle, laugh, and I also love to share those experiences with others! Did I mention that I love to laugh! I will literally tell the same hilarious jokes over and over just to get a good laugh for me and my friends!
I have an amazing husband, and am blessed with the most special family a girl could ask for! I live in the blue skies of the Carolinas and have spent most of the last 20 years of my career and personal life traveling (everywhere and about every week)!
The story behind I’ve Got Words:
In the late 90’s my husband and I moved to our home down a little gravel lane in Charlotte, NC on a small lake. Our little cabin in the woods was settled at the end of the gravel lane and was just a little slice of paradise that to this day my friends ask how in the world did you find this place (even though we are only 20 minutes from uptown Charlotte)? There were only a few neighbors on the lane when we first moved in, on March 7th, 1998. It didn’t take long to meet the neighbors but we became great friends very quickly with a sweet couple, Bruce and Saundra, and spent many evenings every week and many weekends eating dinner, playing cards, boating, burning bon fires (drinking wine :)), and pretty much anything that allowed me to get my words out!
In the early years, I worked out of my home, and spent hours upon hours on the phone on conference calls in my downstairs basement during the day. My husband worked local but often had late evenings so by the end of the day I had serious cabin fever and cooped up words! As the story goes, my neighbors and I would plan to cook dinner at their house or ours so by the time my husband arrived home, we would be ready for a nice dinner. I didn’t realize this at the time, but apparently upon arrival at their house (or their arrival at my house), I would just talk their heads off about anything and everything that came to mind. It got to the point that when my husband arrived, they would say “She’s Got Words” and I would just laugh! (did you know? In a study, it has been claimed that women speak about 20,000 words a day – some 13,000 more than the average man), so there you have it! (at least that was always my explanation)
Fast forward to somewhere in the early 2000’s (after the standard saying of “She’s Got Words” caught on with all my friends and family); my Mother and Father In Law had this great sign made for me for Christmas (see picture in this post)! It has literally been sitting on my desk for 15 + years and then in 2016 I purchased the domain for I’ve Got Words (ivegotwords.com) and it all began! So now, it’s your turn to hear my words! My hope is that my words make you laugh, assist in making adjustments in your health and wellness, get inspired, travel and just overall enjoy your precious life on this earth!
I look forward to entertaining you! Feel free to reach out anytime with topics of interest, or just to say hello and share your words!