What I'm Reading This Week #50

Tip of the hat to you this fine Friday.  The last three weeks of the year.  😳  It's always weird to hit #50 on the links posts on a normal year because it seems like yesterday I can remember typing #1 and thinking "here we go."  Oh, #1 past you, if you only knew.  

I am unhappy to report that the pantries won.  Whatever demon ass shit stew of toxic glue, bonding chemicals, formaldehyde and God knows what else in those two MDF nightmares in addition to the eucaboard could not be contained by 5 coats of sealer between shellac and a different sealer over it.  They be like:

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We are sitting them outside for someone else to curse their home with or be picked up by the trashman.  So now we got two new Ikea Brimnes delivered to match our other stuff down there thinking that was our savior.  Cabinet one had two bottoms and one shelf and the other was smashed to bits in the corner.  

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That covers about 1/4 of my rage write now as I type with shaking hands, blood pressure through the roof, trying desperately to stop myself from ordering a pizza for dinner when I know it won't help but don't really give a flying crap at this second and unable to exercise to destress. 

Done.  So f**king done.

Now let's move into:

8 Healthy Foods That Naturally Boost Collagen  (For dat glow, yo.  If you'd rather stick with powder, this is a good one.)

How Long Should a Weightlifting Workout Really Last to Be Effective?  (Sigh.  Guess we'd better gear up for long sessions when we add it back in. 😑)

The 9 Best Fruits and Vegetables for a Healthy Immune System, According to RDNs  (Some yummy options in here!)

Here’s How the Weight Loss Drug Explosion Amplifies Weight Stigma  (Not wrong.  The first thing my new doctor said to me last year AFTER telling her (a fat woman) that I'd lost 200 lbs on my own was "let me know if you're interested in Ozempic."  I immediately thought "darn, we'd had such a nice visit up until then.  Eff you.")

7 Skin Care Tips for Cold Weather (I can dig most of these but if you think I'm giving up lava showers, nope.)

Make Your Home Look Sparkling for the Holidays—Even If You Haven't Deep-Cleaned in Months  (Take a laundry basket, walk to each surface, swipe arm across it moving items to basket, chuck it in closet, forget about it for 6 weeks, if you haven't missed the items- throw away.  Follow me for other lazy cleaning/purging hacks!)

I love looking at this online magazine this time every year  (Lots of good recipes and warming of the cockles.)

58 White Elephant Gifts That Everyone Will Actually Want to Steal  (OMG, these are NOT white elephant gifts!!!!  White elephant was you re-gift the worst gift you got from your in-law, a half used gift card, or buy some heinous gag gift like a belly button lint cleaner or something and watch the cringe unfold.  It's supposed to be the understanding that the second you leave, it's getting donated or trashed.  Now it's just a gift exchange.  No thanks.)

This Viral Zillow Listing Has an Unexpected Celebrity Backstory (Holy crap!!! Who knew she made enough bank back in the day to afford this beauty?!)

Norman Lear, boundary-breaking TV master behind ‘All in the Family’ and progressive activist, dies at 101 (Thank you for the amazing programming, sir.   You made my childhood.)

10 days until Christmas.  I suppose I should think about getting stuff for the actual day at some point.  I know we'll have to actually go to the grocery store for the beef roast because these mooks couldn't find their butts with a GPS much less follow a detailed note about how to pick a beef roast.  Even putting "pick one like you're feeding your family" and the shopper is like "my family likes fat caps, yo."  I'll have to gear up to make grandma's noodles which I may just do the day of so as to avoid the same thanksgiving disaster.  Ugh, I really am in no mood to do all of that and honestly would prefer to order a pizza the night before, put it in the fridge and alternate between cold pizza and stocking stuffers all day because there will be enough to do with throwing together our usual Christmas Eve spread, the afternoon tea in Mom's honor and then a whole friggin' other dinner?!  I'm exhausted just thinking about it.  Edit:  We decided to nix that this year.  I ordered honey baked ham slices, a small thing of mac and cheese, I've got beans here and I'll chuck Mom's sweet potatoes in there so most of it is basically made.  We'll do the big roast and noodles over the winter.  At this point the Christmas Eve spread we did with Mom is what is more important this year.

BTW, I didn't order the pizza.

Do you have your holiday menu planned?  Anything going on this weekend?

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