The big weeks just keep coming
This week, it just feels like I’m living in a season of answered prayer, which is technically always true, but it’s a little more palpable this week. Friday was last day at a great job that it was just time to move on from. And Wednesday I start a new, really cool opportunity. For three months in 2021 I will pay income taxes to one state. Just rolling with the punches.
I am grateful for a glorious four days to not think about work e-mail.
I’m writing this issue from my friend’s apartment in Dallas. Someone or something is snoring in the distance, and I hope whoever it is, they are enjoying a Sunday afternoon nap. There is little else that is a kinder treat.
My close girlfriends from college and I spent some time at a lake house this weekend. I kept wanting to call Margaret (pictured below) “Mollie” since that is what she went by in 2012. I think it matters to call people by their preferred name even though I nickname people like I’m getting paid to do it. There is something really special about the people who know you from back when you went by a different name. Whether that’s maiden names, or childhood names, or for me, my strong “KC” phase in Pittsburgh.
I would like to remind you to add your address to the Christmas card list if you weren’t on it last year. My Christmas card is one of my favorite things I do.
Next week we have a wonderful guest writer, there is just so much to look forward to. As usual, you can support the newsletter by becoming a paid subscriber at the link below.
This sentence now has links to the my instagram, and old issues of the newsletter. I hope today is beautiful for you.
I would like to apologize for my suggestion that you buy Olaplex stock, that kind of tanked. Oh well.
Number One: Dune
Dune is worth the hype and worth seeing in theaters. It’s the first movie I’ve gone to the movies for since February 2020, and it was well worth it. I forgot how much I get annoyed with people who chitchat during previews. It’s funny the little things I notice now about being out in the world.
Number Two: Poison
About once a fiscal quarter, a song comes along and takes me by the elbow and forces me to become insufferable. That song, right now, is Poison by Rita Ora. It’s really a summer bop that leans P!NK, and it could use maybe 7% more zest. You may know this song from TikTok, and we all know Rita is LOVING having gone viral. But I love it too. Perfect for riding in the car with your friends, or your daily walk.
Number Three: Haterade // ranch popsicles
If you have space in your inbox for one more e-mail newsletter, I’ve been enjoying Haterade lately. Liz Cook writes about midwestern foods mostly, kind of fun and local. Her description of Runza had me rollin.
I especially enjoyed her issue on “A Series of Escalating Ranch Dares.” I love ranch. I love asking for a little cup of ranch at restaurants. I really love a ranch that on the runny side of regular with visible clumps of dill, but that’s probably just me.
Number Four: 19 Crimes Cab Sav
I’m not prepared to call it a total rebrand, and maybe it’s just Fall, maybe it’s just paying property taxes, but I’ve been reaching for red wine more often lately.
I can no longer find King’s Prohibition at Trader Joe’s (or Celsius, tragically) and I think they may have changed up their New Zealand wine suppliers without warning the number one fan of New Zealand Trader Joe’s wines, yours truly.
19 Crimes Cabernet Sauvignon is a great dry, but not lick-the-carpet dry, middle-bottom shelf red wine. Perfect to pair with a Saturday night slice of pizza.
Number Five: Abercrombie Jeans
My Abercrombie jeans have been on the bulletin board to be included in Five Things for a few months now, and now is their week to shine.
I love these jeans. I am like Michael Scott on a casual Friday in these jeans. The jeans are on sale right now. I appreciate that the denim is not stretch denim, but does have the tiniest amount of give. I sized down, mostly because they didn’t have the wash I wanted in my size so I risked it, and they fit well, but maybe too tight for a road trip, if you know what I mean. So if you want road trip jeans, order your normal size. I’m 5’9”; 5’8” on Hinge, and I got the long length.