I totally didn't think this weird little kitchen hack was going to work, but enough people told me about it that I finally had to give it a shot.
How To Cut Cherry Tomatoes With Plates
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This Is Today
You know when you are delicately toeing the line between feeling totally a-OK and maybe having the bubonic plague, and the difference between one state and the other, is, like, half an hour of sleep, or maybe a vitamin?
Well, when you are feeling that way, here is what I suggest that you not do: go out until one in the morning, drink really quite a lot of champagne, and then wake up with your children at…oh god, I don't even know when they're waking up these days. ALL THE TIME. All the time is when they're waking up.
Links & Love & Stuff
By popular demand, here is where you can get that pom-pom hat (I don't see it on their site, but give them a ring and they'll send it to you). Also, in this photo we are at a cafe called Riposo, and if you go to New York anytime around brunchtime please go there and order the Sicilian Eggs Benedict.
These leggings are so weird. And yet I like them. This confuses me.
Never before in my life have I given any particular amount of thought to my "lower torso," and yet, thanks to Sports Illustrated, I am not only thinking about it, I am seeing it. A lot of it. (And in case you weren't aware, "lower torso" is a euphemism.) (The Latest Body Part For Women To Fix, via The NY Times.)
Experiments In Random Home Movie-Making
This weekend I had to do a whole bunch of filming for a couple of projects I'm working on…so we thought we'd just keep it going, picking up the camera whenever we felt like it and filming bits and pieces of whatever we were up to.
What we ended up capturing: everything from a panic attack (or, okay, two), misadventures in working-at-home-with-children, first-thing-in-the-morning grumpiness (oh my hair), a lot of road-trip ruminating (as much as I sound all Anxious Annie, please believe me when I say that's just because I'm a crazy over preparer, because I cannot tell you how OUT OF MY MIND EXCITED I am about this), and a major milestone on our son's part (eeeee!!!).
Let me know if you like this kind of post? It's super fun for us to put together, so if you're into the occasional home video mishmash, just say the word!
How To Contour Your Cheeks
Look, I am not a Kim (or even a Kourtney). I like makeup, but I don't want to spend forever and twenty minutes doing it. And while I'm not a total disaster when it comes to doing my makeup, contouring always seemed like something best left to people far more talented than I. Like, presumably, Kim. And Kourtney.
As it turns out? It's really easy. And fast. And non-intimidating. (Promise.)
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In The Real World
Ikea’s New Sinnerlig Collection by Ilse Crawford
Alright, we know I have a massive love-hate relationship with Ikea. Love the stuff. Hate the place.
What I have learned from past (mis)adventures: do not take your children with you to Ikea. Like, ever. Because they will turn into wildebeests, and you will think that your marriage is falling apart, until you finally make it out alive and realize:
Oh, I don't hate you.
I hate the store.
Easy Slow-Cooker Turkey Chili
Everyone has their little food-isms. Some people get all freaked out by parsley, or can't stand the texture of coconut.
Mine all fall under the category of "Spicy." I don't do spicy. I don't put pepper (which to me is spicy) in anything - literally, not ever, and this was a bit of a thing when I was writing the recipe section of my book because apparently it is very weird to say "season with salt" as opposed to "season with salt and pepper."
Because...everyone on the planet but me likes pepper?
Et Cetera Ad Infinitum And I Can’t
OK.
I am now officially completely overwhelmed by the logistical issues associated with a cross-country move.
The sale of one house, the purchase of another. The sale of one car, the purchase of another. The booking of flights to search for a place to live, and the booking of car rentals and AirBnBs for said search. The filling out of the tens of thousands of forms that you apparently must fill out when you move four human lives three thousand miles, all of which appear to be written in Chinese. And et cetera ad infinitum.
The dogs broke me.
Save The Plants!
You know how sometimes posts are nice and timely? Like, Valentine's Day gift ideas posted a solid three weeks pre-Valentine's Day? Spring break outfit suggestions posted right around the time you'd like to start shopping for a new swimsuit? Et cetera?
Well, this post is the opposite of that. Because if you do what I suggest doing in this post at this particular moment in time, the result will be death. (This is less foreboding than it sounds; we're talking about Plant Death, not You Death.)
Anyway.
