I stink at remembering to put on lotion. Plus, I hate the way it feels - all slimy and sticky and thick. Consequently, I spend all winter itchy and ashy looking. I saw this at Target and decided that it was worth a try. It's so great! I don't feel slimy and sticky because once you rinse it off you just feel moisturized and clean! Yay!
Only problem is, old habits die hard and I keep turning off the water without applying it. Anyone home when I shower must wonder why I turn off the water and then immediately turn it back on again.
No link for this one - search for it in the Play Store or iTunes. I love it because I can listen to my local radio station on my phone, listen to playlists by genre (sort of like Pandora) or I can choose from an enormous list of podcasts. My job is mindless. Super, super mindless, and I have hours of time to listen to whatever I want.
Me? I'm a podcast junkie. I want to hear stories, laugh, learn something, and feel engaged. So what am I listening to?
- The Nerdist - Although I don't 'get' comic books or sci-fi, this show is smart, funny and thought provoking. More often than not I don't know who the guests are until I come home from work and Google them, but I still really enjoy listening! If you want to try it out, try the episode with Kal Penn (from Harold and Kumar) or Lisa Kudrow (from Friends) or if you're way younger than me: Grace Helbig.
- Comedy Bang Bang - None of these shows will get a G rating, but this one probably earns a R-rating on a consistent weekly basis. A little raunchier, it features conversations with stand up comedians. They're not doing their bits, but in the course of talking they riff off of each other and it can be hilarious. And raunchy. So don't listen if you're easily offended.
- Unfictional - Okay, so this one will get a PG-rating. It's an NPR podcast that features true stores, usually 2 or 3 that revolve around a theme each week. Some are funny, some are sad, some make you appreciate another person's point of view. I like almost all of these shows, but I thought I am Montgomery Clift was especially interesting.
- Pop Culture Happy Hour - The folks at NPR weigh in on pop culture. Too highfalutin too talk about the Real Housewives, but down to talk about Orange is the New Black, Breaking Bad, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. It's clean, insightful and also gives me stuff to Google at the end of the day.
- (hangs head in shame) Watch What Crappens - Of all my guilty pleasures, Bravo is my guiltiest. I don't even mention that I'm a RH junkie to people I know unless I get a strong vibe that they might also share my enthusiasm. Otherwise, I'd just as soon you don't know that I have this weakness. In my defense, I grow up in a very sheltered world and until my late 30s I just had no idea that everyone wasn't just like me and my family. So this fly-on-the-wall vantage point into other worlds is fascinating to me. (Yeah, yeah, I know. It's not real reality. I know that watching a bunch of rich entitled people bicker isn't the same as taking a course in sociology. I don't care. It's mesmerizing to me.) And these two guys from somewhere near Beverly Hills talk about the shows on Bravo. They're not clean, I don't always agree with them, I don't always think they make sense, but they're goofy and talking to me in my guilty pleasure language. So I'm hooked. Shh. Don't tell anyone.
I'm studying for a 'big exam' (she said, casually and generically, hoping not to jinx herself), and I have lots of note taking to do. I invested (wink, wink) in these medium point flair pens to make the process a little bit funner. (Fortunately the test isn't spelling/vocabulary/grammar related. And yes, I know it's "more fun" but funner is...well...funner.) Anyway, the colors are really pretty, they're bolder than a ball point but not as fat as a Sharpie, and they don't bleed through the paper.
This was an Amazon Deal-of-the-Day a while back and in a moment of weakness I clicked. It's really fun! You get adhesive backed rings that you stick to your phone around the phone's lens. There's a magnet at the base of each of the three lenses, so when you're ready to use you just stick it to the metal ring. So far the lenses stick nicely and I'm still on the original ring, but you do get a couple extra rings. So far I've only used the macro lens, and it's been a blast.
Okay, I'm not actually suggesting that anyone pay $10 for a bag of candy. Wowsers!
Anyway, I picked this up at Target to put in the kids Easter baskets and as luck would have it, I bought one bag too many. They're weird: bumpy, hard and sugary on the outside and more jelly bean-ish on the inside. Some are a little sour, others are more tart, they're all magically delicious. This one is on the list mostly so I remember to get them again next year! Suddenly I'm strangely excited for next March.
Not making the list, but close runners up:
This peach cobbler recipe (which is helping me use up an industrial sized can of peaches that we bought in a moment of Sam's Club insanity.)
And a couple of movies that might have flown under the radar: The Lunchbox and for the nerds among us, Kerig recommends: Jodorowsky's Dune (the greatest science fiction movie never made).
And with that, I'm hitting post without proofreading because it's waaaaay past my bedtime! Later babies! Thanks for stopping by!
