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Friday, December 15, 2023

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. 😑)


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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10 comments:

  1. I was in such disbelief when I opened that second box. I mean this is Ikea. They are supposed to be the best and for us to have 2 boxes with either missing parts or a major broken piece is supposed to be unheard of. I'm so proud of you for not getting the emergency pizza.

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    1. Yeah, twas not a good night. At all. Now it's somehow MY job to stalk their stock?? WTAF??

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  2. Now I want to go to Vermont! It's on my bucket list! Baking, cleaning and wrapping this weekend, I feel you on the pizza it's a battle some days not to take the easy way out!

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    1. You should! You'd love it. Sounds like you have a busy weekend ahead! It truly was and even tonight the Mr was ready with the pizza man on speed dial but baked up the stuffed salmon, rice and brussels I had planned.

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  3. Good for you for ordering a wonderful dinner instead of adding to your stress by cooking a meal that is intensive and that you don't have the time or energy for. Now you can have that more relaxed meal, and as you said, the Christmas Eve spread and tea for mom are the focus this year. You'll enjoy the other meal over the winter when there's no time pressure and your body had recovered some after these grueling months of hobble-itis. I'm so proud of you!!!
    Today we go for a procedure, then I'll work this afternoon/evening. Need to wrap one more thing (ironially, from Ikea) for the hubs and do a gift bag for a friend to drop off in her mailbox. Not sure about the rest of the weekend but I have laundry staring at me so I'll try to get that done today too. I hate having laundry to do on the weekends so I try hard to get it done beforehand, but this week was way too busy with appointments. I could go down to the creek with a washboard, but, nah. LOL

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    1. Yeah, I waved the white flag. We're prioritizing and I asked grandma to understand this year. We'll still have it, just delayed a bit. Get that laundry going and if I win the lottery, I'm getting you a washer with delayed start! LOL

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  4. Wow, after that I would have ordered the pizza! It's good you have better will power! Last Friday I took my youngest son to the ER, ended up having emergency gallbladder removal, was about to burst. His GI doctor thought it was just his Hiatel hernia acting up, he had to beg just for a ct scan, and oh look, the gallbladder is the problem. She even told him he was being argumentative, he couldn't eat, sleep, one sip of water made him throw up and was in constant pain, for well over a week, yeah she's lucky I wasn't there with him, {he's 29} because mama bear would have had some very choice words for her. She at least apologized to him afterwords, which is rare. I loved his surgery doc though, he was awesome, was on his way out the door and stopped in and stayed to see his ultrasound and answered all the questions without making us feel like a number, even came up to his hospital room to take him down for surgery, now that never happens. I hope you guys have a great weekend, I'm going to try and destress!

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    1. I don't know where the willpower came from because the will was GONE! Oh my goodness! I'm so sorry the doctor was a butt. I do NOT understand how these doctors lose their humanity and then have the nerve to tell people they don't know their own bodies...WE LIVE IN THEM! I'm glad at least the surgery doc wasn't a jerk and was nice enough to go the extra mile. Don't make mama bear rip of her shirt and go hulk style!!

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  5. Smart move getting a prepared holiday meal. You've had a tough year & you should take it a bit easy. Our family often did Christmas long after December 25. One being everyone's schedule + the Orthodox calendar differs a bit. It does seem like doctors suggest those weight loss medication to easily. I don't want to be sick just to get to a healthy weight. Last night we went to the park to see the light display . we hadn't done that the last few years. It did perk us up just a nit.

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    1. Yeah, we're moving the roast to the following weekend. Aww, I'm glad you guys got out to see some lights! Warms da cockles!

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