Thursday Thoughts - helpless to the bass and the fading light oh we were bound to get together

1. Let sleeping dogs lie and all that jazz.

2. Yesterday was a perfect day to walk to the library - 53 and sunny on January 15? Don't mind if I do. Speaking of books, have you caught up on all the Show Us Your Books posts? Do you know Jana and I are hosting a readathon this weekend? 8 am Saturday to 8 am Sunday? Hashtag suggestions?

3. Adjusting for population size, England and Wales would have 272 to our 53,290. With private prisons and people getting rich off of incarceration and the prison industrial complex, we have been designed for this. How are we okay with this? Why do we think prison is the answer for everything?

4. Yes, Virginia, I did postpone my cavity dentist appointment this week. Let me live. I am going to the chiropractor today and acupuncture tomorrow. Keeping those appointments.

5. Huge thanks to Vincent for helping us out with priming and painting the spare room in the basement (BEHR Cherubic) just in time for my mother in law to return for another visit today.

6. This year's first foray into Girl Scout Cookies, ordered from our VA family!

7.  Nail talk: Essie Bright Cider stayed on forever and I liked the color much more than I thought I would when I bought it or first applied it. This week's nails have a lot to live up to when I paint them tonight.

8. For your consideration: this take on the Warren/Sanders woman president media and supporter made shitstorm and the open Muslim-hating of your president (who is also tweeting doctored images and not walking back from it) - also, remember when the White House and press secretaries used to have daily pressers because they work for the people of America? Also,  Lev Parnas. I can't do anything else this week, I'm tired.

9. Reminder:

10. Ecards: 

What appears after the hyphen in Thursday Thoughts is a song lyric to whatever I'm listening to when I start to write the post. This week is Shut Up and Dance by Walk the Moon

TWTW - the one with the great purge

Friday was my work from home day this week. At lunch I hit the library and post office. My canine coworkers weren't working very hard all day and that was frustrating. We went to Mom & Rich's for dinner Friday night and I came home with a bag of cookies that I ate like a rabid raccoon all weekend. Also: nails are Essie Merino Cool, Bruce gets his feelings hurt so easily, and Bender finally sleeps with me.

Saturday Aside from changing the sheets and starting a new book, I spent all of Saturday dealing with the tremendous amount of clothes I have. Like, a full eight hour workday, at the end of which I felt incredibly satisfied. The only things I didn't touch were underwear and scarves. I was so tired I just couldn't do it. More on this whole thing tomorrow.

Sunday was early weekly food prep followed by a Marshalls run in which I bought only what I went there to buy. This week I ran out of sheet masks, exfoliator, and serum. Sheet masks - I felt terrible about the single use/overly packaged nature of those so I got three apply masks and saved $8. I also saved $8 on an exfoliator and saved $16 on serum. I can go back to my Kleem next time. When I got back from there I took Bruce and Bender for a walk sans coat and it was glorious. 

I finished going through my scarves and underwear and reorganized my bedroom shelves before calling it a day and settling down with MFD to watch the Hulu version of Frye fright and True Detective episode five. Reading, tea, and snacks rounded out the night. 

Weekly food prep: Breakfast is scrambled eggs, lunch is tuna over a bed of spinach topped with tomatoes, and Sunday dinner was buffalo chicken dip, pigs in a blanket, and veggies & dip. No cares for the Super Bowl, much love for dips, always. Dinners this week are chili from the freezer and baked chicken with green beans. Plenty of veggies cut up (including carrot quarters for the dogs), and this week's fruit theme is yellow and what was on sale. 

Realizations from clothes clean out tomorrow.

How was yours? 

Thursday Thoughts

1. All of you who know me or have even met me once know I am totally fine with telling people what to do. I excel at it. I don't like that men who do the same thing are called strong and secure and it's always a positive while women are called bossy and it's a negative.

Via Women Working

2. I'm back into The Wire and I'm in deep. I ripped through season three this past week. Welcome back to the streets, Avon Barksdale.

Via

3. Sunday night I made a Minnesota hot dish, what I'd basically call a casserole. My lovely native Minnesota native friend Steph at Insert Classy Here turned me on to this term and basic ingredient idea. It's a great comfort food. It's not a light dish by any means, although I could've definitely done it lighter and less processed. I was not in the mood for that on Sunday.

4. So, I have self-diagnosed a tailor's bunion on the outside of my right foot. Is that a sign of true old age, when you need to go to the doctor for a freaking foot situation? Excuse me while I find a PODIATRIST. Even the doctor category sounds old lady.

5. Charles Manson, is allowed to get married in prison but gays can't in some states? That's some bullshit right there.

Via

6. Dilworth Plaza looks like it's from the future. When is this rink opening? I'd like to watch people face plant during my lunch hour.

7. When I got my makeup done for the wedding Friday, Kristi used this eyeliner and it never moved all day. $17.50, not bad for an excellent gel liner.

8. While I was picking that up, I also went looking for a new pair of gloves. I stood behind some woman dicking around at the register for 10 minutes before the transaction even started. TEN MINUTES. She was going back and forth and shopping, and the line was growing and shifting and grumbling. When the cashier tried to take other people, she was all pissed off. So sorry the rest of us did our shopping before queuing up, you rude ass mofo. This is why I do all of my Christmas shopping online. I peaced out and went to listen to the Wanamaker organ, currently covered up in anticipation of the Christmas Light Show.

9. I have an illness this week and that illness is afternoon coffee. Damn.

10. E-card of the week. Yes, you do see this card here every year. I know, to each their own. To me, the thing that makes Christmas magic is that it happens once a year in a whirlwind short period of time. I like to Slow down. Savor.

Finally, happy happy birthday to Steph @ Not Entirely Perfect. Go send her a good wish.