Happy Sunday!
Monday night around 10p Honey decided to try to make friends with a possum that didn’t want to be friends with her (they never touched each other, but Honey sure tried). Mere minutes before my not-afraid-of-a-good-time brother-in-law arrived to face the possum, and fifteen minutes into me and Sarah yelling into the backyard, Honey wrapped up play time, and came inside for bed.
Then Thursday we had an incident with a dead squirrel in the backyard. It’s been taken care of.
I wish I could say “it’s because I’m rushing out the door that I leave my almost empty coffee cup out,” but even on the slowest of mornings, I can’t bring myself to do breakfast dishes before 11am. So after lunch today, I was like, “yeah, I’ll have that last sip of coffee.” And then there was a, “ugh crunchy. Ew that’s a fly. That’s a fly.”
I hope your week is better and more critter-free.
You can support this newsletter, my pest-control bill, and get a special paid-subscribers only issue of the Five Things next week by becoming a paid subscriber below.
This sentence now has links to the my instagram, and old issues of the newsletter. Also my Outdoor Voices referral link.
Number One: This Dress from Target
The moms at church love this dress. I love this dress, I have it in two colors. Main con is that it’s on the heavier side, but the pro there is that it’s full coverage.
Number Two: the concept of deciding once
Kendra of The Lazy Genius has a helpful concept that she champions: Decide Once. The idea is that you decide once for a decision you have to make again and again. For example “on Tuesdays we eat tacos for dinner.”
The helpful way I’ve been applying this lately is having decided that the meal I bring to new moms is a breakfast casserole, and I don’t worry about sides. Boom. Decision made. Is it my favorite decision? Doesn’t need to be.
Number Three: A cure for baldness, but it’s too cheap
This section is not aimed at any readers present or past who may be experiencing male-pattern baldness, I simply the the economics of drug cost are interesting.
Anyway, there’s a drug that is typically prescribed for high blood pressure, but if taken in very small doses, can reverse balding. But no one wants to study it, because the drug is already market available and extremely cheap, so there’s isn’t like this big check waiting to be cut. So because there aren’t peer-reviewed studies, the drug is only prescribed for reversing baldness off-label.
Here’s a NYT article discussing the matter.
Number Four: Being a part of the Gentle Leader community
I am coming to terms with the fact that I do not have a chill dog. She’s my dog and I love her, but she’s not chill. Which is how I broke my finger.
After one too many, “are you walking her, or is she walking you?” Comments from the peanut gallery, I gave in and bought a gentle leader. I love it, it’s a total game changer. Honey doesn’t love it. But she doesn’t hate it. She tolerates it, and she’s a dog who rolls in dead things and tries to get involved with possums, so tolerance is all I need.
There’s some discourse online about how Gentle Leaders are only treating the symptoms of a reactive dog, and not the cause, etc. which I totally love and get and will read more about once I’m out of Hand Therapy for a few months.
Number Five: Recipe round up
I’m back on Recipe Mondays and still cooking through The Comfortable Kitchen.
Salmon al Pastor was good, now the wow I was expecting. I did like making the quick-pickled onions.
Mom’s Anchovy Pasta was fabulous and I bought way too many anchovies, and I am now on the hunt for more anchovy recipes.
Chopped Chipotle Chicken was a crowd pleaser and I’m still gladly dipping vegetables in the sauce.