You guys knew about this movie a million years ago, right? It is The Actual Best. And you can watch the whole thing online for free!
How was your week, friends? I caught up with old friends, made new friends over plates of nachos, and had a fantastic dance night out with tons of my favorite people. Truly, I am rarely happier than when I'm surrounded by friends dancing to overproduced pop music.
How was your week, friends? I caught up with old friends, made new friends over plates of nachos, and had a fantastic dance night out with tons of my favorite people. Truly, I am rarely happier than when I'm surrounded by friends dancing to overproduced pop music.
But the links! Here they are!
A friend recently read most of this 700 page book (!) in one day and said it was one of those 'I wish I hadn't read it, so I could read it again for the first time' books. It looks amazing.
Thrifting is The Actual Best. Here's what $10 can get you!
My biggest personality flaw is that I can be preeeeettty judgmental. My standards? They're high and when people don't live up to them there's lots of eye-rolling and grumbling. A good reminder for me: Curatives For Judgement.
You just never know if
: someone has just been diagnosed and is thinking about all they have to lose.
: their lover just texted them to say, “it’s over”.
: he wakes up every day thinking he’s about to fail, fearing that everyone else in the world knows something that he doesn’t.
Wouldn't this calendar be great for planning out 2013?
I'm a bit late but I think I'll join Apartment Therapy's January Cure.
Great advice on organizing blog posts.
Yes. Carrot soup with tahini and crisped chick peas.
Cute! A letter to yourself.
The Audacity of Lena Dunham and Her Admirable Commitment To Making Us Look At Her Naked.
Lena Dunham looks like what millions of women see in their mirrors every morning, women who see themselves and immediately catalog all the things they must “work on” in order to be passably acceptable enough to show their bodies, publicly or privately. By attacking Dunham, we are, to an extent, attacking ourselves.
Related: a super interesting Q+A with the Girls costume designer.
Well, this is adorable: The Obama family in photos.
A sweet children's book about accepting everyone's differences.
It works for me! What Is It Like To Be An Adult And Not Have Kids?
In my 50s, our friends' children started having life events. Weddings, bar mitzvahs, graduations. And I felt so happy for them. I had known these kids from birth, and on those days, I wondered if we had made a bad decision. But when I thought about what it took to get there, the diapers, the soccer games, the braces, the tantrums, the whole enchilada, I knew that it wasn't for me. I knew that I had made the right choice. I wasn't "made" to be a mother. I had spared a child from having to have me as one.
Truth. There is no 'secret.'
Nomadic Matt isn't doing solo travel anymore.
Some Yes and Yes posts you might have missed: How to look good in travel photos and How to get a good job teaching ESL.
Hope you had a great weekend!
A friend recently read most of this 700 page book (!) in one day and said it was one of those 'I wish I hadn't read it, so I could read it again for the first time' books. It looks amazing.
Thrifting is The Actual Best. Here's what $10 can get you!
My biggest personality flaw is that I can be preeeeettty judgmental. My standards? They're high and when people don't live up to them there's lots of eye-rolling and grumbling. A good reminder for me: Curatives For Judgement.
You just never know if
: someone has just been diagnosed and is thinking about all they have to lose.
: their lover just texted them to say, “it’s over”.
: he wakes up every day thinking he’s about to fail, fearing that everyone else in the world knows something that he doesn’t.
Wouldn't this calendar be great for planning out 2013?
I'm a bit late but I think I'll join Apartment Therapy's January Cure.
Great advice on organizing blog posts.
Yes. Carrot soup with tahini and crisped chick peas.
Cute! A letter to yourself.
The Audacity of Lena Dunham and Her Admirable Commitment To Making Us Look At Her Naked.
Lena Dunham looks like what millions of women see in their mirrors every morning, women who see themselves and immediately catalog all the things they must “work on” in order to be passably acceptable enough to show their bodies, publicly or privately. By attacking Dunham, we are, to an extent, attacking ourselves.
Related: a super interesting Q+A with the Girls costume designer.
Well, this is adorable: The Obama family in photos.
A sweet children's book about accepting everyone's differences.
It works for me! What Is It Like To Be An Adult And Not Have Kids?
In my 50s, our friends' children started having life events. Weddings, bar mitzvahs, graduations. And I felt so happy for them. I had known these kids from birth, and on those days, I wondered if we had made a bad decision. But when I thought about what it took to get there, the diapers, the soccer games, the braces, the tantrums, the whole enchilada, I knew that it wasn't for me. I knew that I had made the right choice. I wasn't "made" to be a mother. I had spared a child from having to have me as one.
Truth. There is no 'secret.'
Nomadic Matt isn't doing solo travel anymore.
Some Yes and Yes posts you might have missed: How to look good in travel photos and How to get a good job teaching ESL.
Hope you had a great weekend!
Have you heard the new song/rap "thift shop" by Macklemore? It's ridiculous/awesome.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes
"Imma take your grandpa's style"
DeleteI wrote about it at the end of October :) http://www.yesandyes.org/2012/10/get-in-my-ear-macklemore-and-ryan-lewis.html
DeleteSo you did! Ha, wish I had caught it then! The lyrics are so good. Just wish Goodwill was actually that cool. $15 for used pants?? As if!
DeleteI'm a little bit ashamed to admit it, bit I love dance movies. My favourite is "Hairspray (the original).
ReplyDeleteI have to say-- when I'm having my morning cup of coffee and I'm surfing around the internet, completely bored, your link roundups never fail to make my day. I seriously just open every link in a new tab and suddenly I have tons of awesome reading material! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much!
DeleteThanks so much for sharing GirlWalk All Day! I'm pretty sure I'm going to watch this all day and dance all night :D
ReplyDeleteIsn't it soooo good?! And joyful?
DeleteSo many totally awesome links!!! Thanks so much for sharing! (Just spent the past ten min watching bits of the video and loving it).
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to say how much I enjoy your Sunday link roundups; it's so nice to discover new and interesting websites rather than just searching the internet for videos of sloths.
ReplyDelete(OK, that's a lie: I still totally search for videos of sloths. But at least now they are supplemented with new discoveries!)
It's funny that he mentions Africa as being the place he decided he didn't want to be a solo traveller anymore - I got back from 2 months in East Africa a few days ago and I had made the same decision. I've done a few overseas adventures by myself but decided while I was experiencing the epic amazingness that is Africa that from now on I want to share those amazingness moments with people I care about. :-) Lovely post!
ReplyDeleteThe 'curatives for judment' post reminds me of the David Foster Wallace commencement speech. It's sometimes so hard to remember that people go through lots of sh*t, and that's probably why they act whatever way. We do the same thing to others when we're hungry, upset, etc.
ReplyDeleteGreat set of links, kept me occupied this evening! :)
ReplyDeleteLoved the post on Lena Dunham, which was perfect post-Golden Globes reading material!
ReplyDeleteCALENDAR PURCHASED.
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