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Now That’s Adulting

Jordan Reid in the glam | camp Adulting sweatshirt

{ Adulting Sweatshirt | Floral Stripes & Arrows Blanket }

{ Check out the full Spring Celebration Blanket Collection here }

Yesterday I decided to take my son to the dentist for the first time: an act that was actually less of a "decision" than an "order" - the kindergarten he'll be enrolling at in the fall (TEAR) makes you fill out forms stating that your child is up-to-date on his vaccinations, has been to the dentist, et cetera. And he's four and a half now, so it seemed like a good time to make that first dentist trip anyway. But I was pretty nervous, because...well, I don't know, aren't dentists just kind of terrifying to everyone? Even thirty-four-year-old me gets all agitated about the thought of that horrifying little scythe-thing that they use that makes a horrible sound against your teeth and leaves your gums all bloody (if, like me, you are the kind of person who replies to the question "Do you floss daily?" with "Of course I do!" and are totally lying).

Decor

The Spring Blanket Collection

Hey there, Virgil.

Floral Stripes & Arrows Blanket }

You know that t-shirt that you love more than any other t-shirt because it's simultaneously lightweight and cozy, and is equal parts cool-looking and comfortable? The blankets that we sell over on glam | camp are that t-shirt, except in blanket form. (I think I've told you this about ten thousand times now, but that's because it bears repeating: they are seriously THE BEST.)

Lifestyle

Five Things: Cait Weiss, Former Burlesque ‘Stage Kitten’ and Present-Day Poet and New Orleans Aficionado

Black and white lineup of burlesque dancers

{ New Orleans Burlesque Dancer Bella Blue | Image by Stephen LaMarche }

Kendrick has a huge, huge thing for New Orleans, and looked like he was going to cry when I explained to him that adding a stop in the city to our cross-country road trip last summer was going to mean many, many extra hours in the car with our children. Like, too many. But in exchange for his flexibility on this point, I promised him that we'll make a trip there in the near future - which is a promise I'm fully okay with making, because last time I went (years and years ago, with my dad), there were oyster shooters and lots and lots of those romantic hanging trees that you see everywhere in the south, and both of those things are things that I enjoy very much.

So in preparation for this trip that we will one day go on - and because some of you might also be interested in some tips on what to do in the area - I thought I'd ask a friend who's something of an expert on the area, Cait Weiss, about her five local must-dos. Cait is a former burlesque "stage kitten" (who wrote a hell of an article on the subject) and present-day poet (you can find recent examples of her work here and here), and her suggestions have me wanting to hop a plane and go drink Sazeracs while sitting on a carousel. Like, today. (I also asked her to give me five burlesque-related must-haves, and her suggestions include the most amazing lightbulbs ever and boob tape. Love.)

DIY Projects

The Attractive Decongestant

hanging eucalyptus in a shower for medicinal benefits

Here is my friend Brie busy being awesome and having great hair

P.S. Ten points if you can spot the random hanging octopus doubling as bathroom decor.

P.P.S. I love the title of this post, but I want to be clear right from the start that it does not refer to Brie herself. She is indeed attractive, but (as far as I know) does not herself possess anti-congestive properties.

My Looks

Springtime Wardrobe Update: The Perfect (And Perfectly Invisible) Bra

Waco's Basic Beauty Bra under a white button-down

Wacoal Bra | Shirt | Shorts | Zac Zac Posen Bag c/o | Necklace }

My favorite part of this outfit may surprise you

I don’t always mind having my undergarments showing (see this post, for example, in which my bra isn’t just “showing,” but is a full-on part of my outfit)…except when I do. Some tops – thin summer t-shirts, tailored button-downs, et cetera – just require a bra that’s both supportive and completely seamless. And this kind of a bra (especially if you’re as picky as I am about such things) isn’t always especially easy to find.

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That Time I Glamorously Lived Abroad Except Didn’t

Aerial beach print in a simple white room

Coogee Wave, by Gray Malin (from the A La Plage collection) | Lulu & Georgia Lamp }

For a little while in the summer of 2002, I lived in Coogee Beach, near Sydney. Well, technically it was
"squatting," and technically it was only for two months, but it sounds much more glamorous to say, "Oh, I spent the summer living in Austraaaaaalia." My college boyfriend had done his semester abroad there while I did mine in England, and my school year ended earlier than his, so when I finished up I hopped a quick 26-hour flight (via Japan, where I accidentally spent two hundred dollars on a sushi dinner because I couldn't read the menu and thought what I was getting was one roll, not a boat of rare fish the size of a piano bench) to spend some time reconnecting - because semesters abroad are many things, but "good for relationships" is not one of them.

My boyfriend had to go to classes every day, and it was wintertime in Australia so it wasn't quite warm enough to spend hours at the beach, and the house was...well, there's really just no other way to say it: it was fucking disgusting, in the way that only a house inhabited by nine 20-year-old boys and a rotating cast of female companions can be. Boxed wine, flies, dirty dishes, someone threw up in the bathtub, et cetera. It was fun for a party (and that happened basically every night), but not exactly a relaxing place to spend the day.

DIARY

Lost And Found

Honeymoon in Bali, Phuket and Bangkok

{ Red Light District | Phuket, Thailand }

A few years ago, somewhere between moving from Hell's Kitchen to the Upper East Side and then moving again to Tarrytown, the little camera cards holding all the photos and videos from our honeymoon went missing. We looked everywhere, but ended up trying to cultivate a "well, the memories are more important anyway" attitude about the loss. Which is, of course, true.

Still, though.

Lifestyle

Party In The Pool

Inexpensive pretzel-shaped pool float

{ Our Pretzel }

Ummmmm I'm sorry, but when did pool floats transform from those blue styrofoam things that you can surreptitiously pick little holes out of because god is that ever satisfying into...pretzels? And rainbow ice pops? And pizza slices and toucans and FLOATING TIKI BARS?

I think it was sometime during the summer of 2015, when all of a sudden everybody with access to a body of water absolutely required a pink donut with a bite taken out of it or a white swan (with a cute boy sitting on it behind you, obviously) in order to live a happy and fulfilled life. This entire thing is clearly Instagram's fault, but I'm okay with it because what it has resulted in is the fact that I can now purchase a set of tiny flamingos who will float peacefully around my pool, delicately cradling my Coors Light and awaiting the moment when I decide that I would like to drink it.

Eat

Farfalle with Cotija Cheese and Olives

Farfalle pasta with cotija cheese and tomatoes

{ Noritake Sandefjord Plate }

Oh god, cotija cheese is so good. It's a crumbly, hard, mild-tasting Mexican cheese that I first discovered a few years ago, when Francesca took me to a place on the Lower East Side called Cafe Habana that specializes in cotija-covered corn (a.k.a. Mexico City Street Corn), and - despite my insistence that I do not like things that have red things (in this case, chile powder) sprinkled on them because red sprinkly things are often spicy, and another thing I do not like is anything spicy - she force-fed it to me.

And it was a terrible, horrible idea. Because what happened next was that I started making this cotija cheese-covered corn (albeit with paprika subbed in as the obligatory Red Sprinkly Thing, because paprika is not spicy) every freaking time it was humanly possible, including every single night during the summertime. And that is a lot of cheese (and mayonnaise).