Happy Thursday, my friends! The closer we get to the weekend, the more I find myself slouched at my computer staring at the screen. Procrastination is powerful. Because the Let It Be Sunday posts are my favorite to write and share each week, I thought I’d pop in with a mid-ish week list roundup. While we’re staring blankly at our screens in a procrastination trance, we might as well click off Facebook and read a few clever things. These are them:
First, it’s candy corn season. BE CAREFUL!
• I’ll be at the Baltimore Book Festival this weekend! I’ll be signing books and showing you how to make a pie on Sunday 9/27 at 1pm. It’s free to come! I hope to see you there. Seriously. Come say hi!
• Is Mercury in retrograde OR WHAT!? I just googled ‘what to do when mercury is in retrograde’. How to survive Mercury Retrograde. I did. I really did that.
• You don’t have to tell me. I have a problem with typos. It’s terrible. Here’s why it’s so hard to catch your own typos. No excuses… I’m just sayin’.
• How To Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps. Portion control, fruit juice, smash your heart on the floor. You know…
• Read this, oh read this: The Sanitized Stories We Tell. ‘If we don’t deal with our trauma, our trauma begins to deal with us.’
• I just bought a bunch of sour candy. Be like me.
• Welcome to the world of really chic, super comfortable house/sleepwear! This feels good, real good: Lunya!
• It. Is. Time. Pumpkin Pecan Scones with Brown Butter Glaze. Sorry.
Have a happy Thursday. Fun is over. Time to get back to work!
xo Joy
Ricaruth
Love, love, love Sarah Bessey. Speaking of love, have you tried mixing candy corn with salted peanuts? Life-changing.
Anonymous
Bonus! Let it Be is the first thing I read when lazing on Sunday, so excited to get this one mid week. I just found it on Saturday afternoon but I am going to wait until I can give it due focus tomorrow. Thanks for your blog–I appreciate it!
Erin
I’m so excited that you’ll be at the Baltimore Book Festival! Can’t wait to watch your demo and get my cookbook signed!
Jasmine
About the typos – do you use Grammarly? I added it to my browser during my master’s degree program for online posts and now it’s one of my favorite things ever… it integrates to any online text box and suggests corrections for spelling, grammar and passive voice.
Also, thank you for the Mercury in Retrograde article… this Virgo has a new understanding of a few things :)
Trang Do
Love your post!!
Xoxo,
Love from http://www.trangscorner.com {a lifestyle, fashion, beauty, and food blog}
Sara
These are my favorite. It’s the little things that matter the most :)
-sara
https://almostpaleokitchen.blogspot.com/
em
Pretty please do the “how to make a pie” bit in new orleans sometime!!!
Christen
My sister and I and all of Baltimore can’t wait to see you on Sunday! Safe travels, Joy. So excited for this pie demo!
Alison
I’m in Baltimore and am irked that you are at the same time as Cara Nicoletti (“Voracious”). I may have to flip a coin to decide where to go, ack! There are too many good things going on at once, a good problem to have.
Yael
Wait, this is amazing. These posts are my favorites and I just clicked back here in hopes that I somehow hadn’t read last Sunday’s even though I knew that I had. I’ve done so much procrastinating that I’m about to lose my mind, so naturally I started to go with delusional thinking. But no! A post on Thursday! What a perfect little gift, thank you.
(ALSO THOSE SANDWICH DOUGHNUTS. Oh my gosh.)
Yael
(and these particular articles too. the how to lose weight one and the sanitized stories one. i’m sending them to everyone i know. thank you, thank you.)
aryelia
How To Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps., this is the best thing i have read all week.
thank you Joy and good luck on your book signing. hope you come some were near Tijuana to get my book signed :) :)
Considering The Radish
I’m so glad that I read The Sanitized Stories We Tell this morning. Thanks so much for virtually introducing me (and presumably many others) to Sarah Bessy- I’m definitely checking some of her other stuff out.
Kelsey
Joy! I love your Let it Be Sunday posts so much, they are a great mix of fun and thoughtful pieces, thank you for pulling them together. What a treat to have one on a Thursday!
Stefana
Joy, I really don’t mean to be an asshole and ask too much but is there any chance you’ll call Tracy somewhere in the near future and record your conversation and then put it online? is that a weird thing to ask? am I being to clingy?
Kayla
I’m so glad you posted this today. Work has been so sloooow so this will help pass the time this morning. :)
Bekah
OMG. The weight loss one. Made my day.
Becky Back
How to Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps, Aaron, the guy who wrote this, if you don’t know is one of Conan O’Brien’s right hand men on the Conan show. One of the nicest and funniest guys. You can see him on Conan’s “Clueless Gamer” sketches and has helped tie in video games to Conan’s show. Again, great guy who wears his heart on his sleeve as you can tell with his writing in this article. So glad you found it and shared it.
DisplacedHousewife
Love your Let it Be posts…so glad we got two this week!! I don’t know which is scarier, the candy corn or Mercury in retrograde… It’s a toss up.
Meghan
Awe, Joy. Thank you for this. Your links are so important and offer refreshing depth in this online world. I love that you’re familiar Sarah Bessey! Her work has been vital to my growth as twenty something female. Cheers to you this Thursday!
Ro
I love your Sunday posts too. Looking through your curated window of the internet is so much more pleasant than staring at the abyss straight on…and your recipes rock!
Jeanette Belz
Love your blog. I have been searching though for a book that “I just had to read” and did I write down the title — NO, of course not! So I am revisiting some postings to see if I can find it. Maybe you could start a side bar of the books you mention because they are all so interesting and some of us are a little more into keeping a recipe than a book title, lol. It’s really just a thought, not a to-do ;-) Good luck on your signing today!
joythebaker
i like your thoughts! I wonder what book you’re looking for!
dc
Thanks for the Mercury in retrograde…too bad I didn’t know that before I uploaded IOS9 on my iphone! Also, the stories we sanitize was wonderful! Candy corn and pumpkins rule!!!
Barley Babes
Love these posts so much!! The How to Lose Weight article is so touching/heartwrenching/inspiring. Just forwarded to a bunch of my friends.
joythebaker
right on!
amaliacharis
Joy, I have both of your books and would love to have them signed, and would love to meet you! I hope to someday, but for now your signings have been to far away. :( Hope you come to Nebraska some time, or I can catch you somewhere else–I’d love to just sit down and talk to you; you very much inspire me, and your blog was definitely a driving force in me starting my own blog. Thanks for everything!
Kathy
Hi Joy, looking forward to seeing you at the Book Fair
Paula
Joy. Your links. So crucial. I am going to force “The Sanitized Stories We Tell” on everyone I know, because this message is so, so universal and yet so undelivered. Love your baking, love your real talk. Sad I’ll miss you while I’m up in Charm City this weekend — my new niece is being Christened at the same time! Womp womp.
joythebaker
isn’t the message important!?
Tori
I’m so happy that you jumped the gun on your Sunday posts for Thursday! This is a great list. The article on sanitized stories is so good and the typo thing so true. Happy early weekend!
Jessica Rose
Happy Thursday and good luck with your book signing.
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