friday cool/dumb shit v6
dinos, hair products, home design, and bonus college sara
Happy Friday! A phrase that has been overused in emails everywhere for millennia, and a greeting that is much less fun for parents of small children because as we all know, your Friday is our Sunday. I don’t have Sunday Scaries, I have Friday Fears. I suspect this will continue until both of my boys are voluntarily sleeping their weekends away and I make the transition to irritated mom of teenage boys and grumble about how they’re wasting their lives staying in bed until noon. God I hope I don’t do this, since I am still enjoying it if or when I’m able to make that happen for myself. Isn’t being a grown-up great?
what else rhymes with listicle
Really wanted to make that a thing and I guess literally anything that ends in -icle technically rhymes? But that’s cheap.
First item today is a headband in the shape of sunglasses only it’s not sunglasses!??!?!?!?! I made a passing comment on instagram last week about how my sunglasses were the perfect headband but why was a normal headband not as cute in the same context of what my sunglasses were doing for my day-4 hair messy bun frizzies and someone should make something that is that. And then my favorite Gen Z-er, my cousin’s 16-year-old messaged me that this item DID in fact exist and sent me a link! I could not part with my money fast enough to try them! They haven’t arrived yet but I’m already thrilled about the purchase. Maybe shoulda saved this for next week but whatever.
One of my top 3 favorite home-design related content creators on insta is Shavonda Gardner. Her Sacramento bungalow is so gorgeous, her wife’s shoe collection is gorgeous, her garden is gorgeous, and her content is flawless. Her account is one of my favorites in general, and she facilitates such meaningful and interesting dialogue with her audience and community over everything from decorating your home to racial and cultural issues. A great follow for beauty and meaning in your feed.
Related: Shavonda posted recently about a bookshelf lamp that she is using as a bookend and my brain exploded how good it is [first link is to SG stories, where she probably has an affiliate link. Use that! Second is a vanilla link to the design website]. We don’t have anywhere currently to use this kind of item, and it’s out of my current price range tolerance, but it’s on my house wishlist for maybe post-tiny-kids when my house can be slightly less sponsored by Fisher-Price.
I can’t remember how I found this chick on insta but I became immediately fixated on her 3D printed vessels. I watched every video she posted and was desperate to own some. My ma got me a tray trio for Christmas and I love them so much. Perfect for a nightstand, office, makeup, kid shit.
Some feelgood comics about loving your dog and dinos suffering from the same mental health shit as the rest of us. I dig. On insta too.
Most of us in the northern hemisphere are preparing for summer at least well into spring and thus not really in big sweatshirt season anymore HOWEVER I’m still including this one because I still wear it all the time. Lol “it” as if I don’t own it in 4 different colors and will not be ashamed to buy more (ok maybe a little ashamed but probs won’t stop me). It’s perfect: soft on inside AND out, weight, sleeves, oversized-ness, cuffs, bottom hem situation, and length. It says “tunic” but it does not fit like a tunic, it fits like your dads perfectly oversized sweatshirt. I’m 5’2 wearing size L tshirts from Old Navy recently, size M sports bras, and still squeezing my ass into size S leggings and biker shorts and I get a medium in these sweatshirts. Got close to being able to share my weight publicly to help you choose sizing but I can’t make myself do it, sorry. They cover my bum but not in a tight oppressive way. All our bodies are different so if any of this sounds delightful to you, wait 15 seconds for another Old Navy sale and go get one.
Ever since I decided purple hair was my thing that I wanted to keep up regularly, I am ready to shout about how I maintain it without spending hundreds of dollars every few months on color touch ups to anyone who cares to open their mouth about my hair. I’ll get a very casual “oh I like your ha-” and I sometimes can’t stop myself from interrupting like DO YOU KNOW ABOUT OVERTONE BECAUSE IT’S SO GREAT AND AFFORDABLE AND GOOD FOR YOUR HAIR CAN I HAVE YOUR NUMBER TO SEND YOU A LINK OR WHAT. I am weird and awkward but I just want us all to follow our colored-hair dreams, ok? I obviously have just my own hair texture of personal experience, but the variety of models on their sites and pics in reviews leads me to say it works for all hair textures.
Speaking of teenagers who sleep in and being cool about it: One of my all time favorite parenting anecdotes came from a reader comments post on Cup of Jo (a great ongoing series - I think Cup of Jo has the greatest comments sections in all the land). A woman writes:
I hated mornings, and when I was a teenager my mom started doing a new thing where she’d throw open the door to my room and jubilantly yell, ‘Get the fuck out of bed!’ Her joyous cursing was absolutely hilarious to us both and started the day on a ridiculous note that really took the edge off.
I desperately want this to be my parenting vibe and this comment is one I’ve never forgotten and hope to carry with me into the teenage years. Read the rest from that post here, and more awesome reader comments on parenting on Cup of Jo.
one more thing
Last week I had the idea to start including a picture of me from college in these just to make them even more fun than a random list of shit already is. And I proceeded to have a panic attack because I couldn’t find a lot of my photos in the place where I thought they were. I’m still trying to track some down but I did manage to find at least part of my collection of snapshots from my Canon pixel or whatever the fuck point-and-shoot it was. We’re starting with something mild so I can work myself up to sharing my *offensively young* face and body and be ok about it mentally. Lol, I’m fine.
I’ll be blocking faces of everyone but me, because some of my friends have fancy important jobs now // I am sure Messieurs VP of Whatever And Such don’t want their fun exposed // I don’t want to have to ask permission // college pics of a bunch of randos isn’t fun, but maybe seeing my outfits circa 2007ish will be?? IDK this is feeling flawed and I sort of almost have regrets even as a type, but I wanted to add an element of fun if only to give myself an excuse to comb through the archives and examine my lack of forehead wrinkles. If it’s dumb, I guess it’ll fit well into this friday bullshit which is also dumb yet sometimes cool??? Baby Jesu, anxiety is such a bitch.
See you next week for another snarky memoir featuring more women doing awesome fun shit just for their own enjoyment! If you or someone you know is doing something very fun just for The Because, tell me about it here. kbye!
