What I'm Reading This Week #7

Happy Aloha Friday everyone!  I hope you had a good week and those of you in the deep freeze and snow all around bundled up to take advantage!  Or maybe enjoyed it from the comfort of your home with a cup of tea.  Valentine's weekend is upon us!  I don't know if that means anything to anyone or not.  I sent out a few cards.  I've got stuff to make a pretty good spread here food wise but it'll probably just be me, the Mr and Aunt Flo curled up on the couch.  Good times.

Let's see what we've been putting in our heart shaped candy holes this week.

Monday was protein penne with Silver Palate's low sodium marinara and a slice of Cheesecake Factory brown bread loaf.

Workout was Powerstrike.

Tuesday was Deliciously Ella's Sweet Potato, Lentil & Coconut Curry with a side of roasted broccoli.

Workout was Turbo Fire Tone 30 and PT.

Wednesday was glazed orange roughy, sweet potato gnocchi and maple garlic green beans.

Workout was Shaun T25 Speed 2.0.

Thursday was tried and true General Tso's chicken over cauli-rice.

Workout was WATP.

Now let's slip and slide into...

Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Walk (Always good to get outside when it's not too frigid to do so.)

8 Stretches to Do Before Bed  (Some good ones...I need to find room for some of them.)

This healthy WW cabbage soup is a simpler version of minestrone  (This actually looks good unlike that heinous soup of yore.)

Study finds childhood diet has lifelong impact (Thanks a lot Magic Fries and Pizza Rolls...the latchkey kid diet of champions.)

No, You Were Not Happier Way Back When. Here's Why  (I agree.  When I look back, I always say 1983 was the best year because of all of the good music and sleepovers with friends.  It was the year my parents divorced too and caused me more trauma than I could bear.  You remember what you want to.)

7 Gaslighting Phrases Used to Confuse and Control (This sounds like someone's sibling I know.)

Are You Problem-Solving, or Just Worrying?  (Usually the latter.)

The Best Cupcake Recipe From Magnolia Bakery  (In case anyone wants to replicate a trip to the Big Apple for Vday.)

Learn to cook like Brenda (and trust me...you WANT to!!  Brenda's French Soul Food in San Francisco was worth the trek from Pac Heights through the Tenderloin past (what is the PC term for a pissed off pimp yelling at his lady employees?) for the French Toast which is on my last meal list.  Their French toast is topped with the butter pecan sauce they have listed.  If homegirl lists how to make her crawfish beignets, I'm probably going to just explode...figuratively and literally.)

There are 7 faces of David Bowie mysteriously hidden in the film ‘Labyrinth’  (Holy crap, I knew two of them but now we'll have to watch it again sometime and check this out!)

Olivia Newton-John says people criticizing 'Grease' for being problematic 'need to relax a little bit'  (Get it, Liv!!  I'm so done with people picking apart every.single.thing. to throw their cancel culture BS net over.  You cannot look at older art in any form through a modern lens.  These teens and twenty something's are going to be friggin' basket cases by the time they're 30 and this is by someone from the generation that created 'PC' culture.)

We've got a simple Valentine's celebration this weekend as I'm sure most of you do.  I'm ready to kick back and hopefully not have a headache like I've had pretty much all week.  Just throwing it out to the universe.  Happy Valentine's Day, my lovelies!

Anything going on this weekend?  Any plans for the Hallmark holiday?

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