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Let It Be Sunday, 29!

-Dreamy Summer Bucket Days

July 26, 2015 by Joy the Baker 19 Comments

Happy weekend-ing!  I’m think I have what can only be described as a wind-blown sunburn.  You’d think after 34 years I’d know the limitations of my pale, un-yielding, un-tanning skin.

I hope this finds you living your summer days well.  With ice-cold drinks, outdoor picnics, lazy beach days, and enough sunscreen to know better.  I’m crossing things off the Summer Bucket List with a smile on my face.  This Amos Lee concert at the Hollywood Bowl with happy parents and picnic tables was ultra dreamy!

I think of you often.  Most sincerely I do.  I hope your weekend in filled with love and happiness.

Here’s what the Internet has for us this week:

•  NASA’s 3 Billion Mile Journey to Pluto, Explained.  My brain breaks when I read this.

•  Schtoon: (verb) to steal someone’s chair when they get up to do something.  “That cat schtooned my chair when I got up to do something.”  I LOVE this:  The Made-Up Words Project

•  Cheeseburger Ethics:  do professional ethicists behave better than laypeople and WHAT, WHY NOT!?

•  I think that if Harper Lee had wanted to publish Go Set A Watchman SHE WOULD HAVE!  There… I said it.

•  Some dude straight RAN THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL like a boss.

•  The man who makes today’s comedy: Judd Apatow for Rolling Stone.  

•  Forever likable and forever hard-working Dave Grohl.

•  I know it’s just whipping already delicious cheese into a flurry… but it’s still really really delicious.  Add olive oil, lemon, and almost too much black pepper for best results:  Whipped Ricotta with olive oil

•  Between the new dress I have to buy, the plane ticket to your lovely… so lovely, beach destination wedding, and the gift because you registered for three thousand dollar bedsheets WHERE!?… I’d love to attend your wedding but I can’t afford it.

•  A memoir about what happens when you get rid of all your stuff. It’s extreme life-styling.  I really like the idea of asking “does this thing add value to my life” to every item in my house?  TronCat  gets wide-eyed and nervous when I bat that question around.

•  They’ve gone and done it… they’ve ruined kale.

•  The Chef Who Saved My Life.  Jacques Pepin really is the one and only.

•  I thought hard about making a Summer reading list for us, then realized we should all just read Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel and call it a day.  It’s so good.    Stop everything and read it, thanks.

•  Cupcakes and Cashmere:  15 Best Things I Ever Ate.  I need to make a list like this, or just go eat a bunch of waffles… which is what I really want to do.

•  Lemon Chia Chews.  Healthful, summer-travel-friendly, and otherwise delicious!

•  These copper and black knives are super chic.

•  What Does $100 Buy You In Different Cities Across The US? I mean… chill out California.  

•  Stand clear of the closing doors, please:  The Most Recognizable Voice In NYC.  I love this glimpse into a part of the world I take for granted.

•  We like pink and red candy.  That’s just the way of our world.  “I’ll take the yellow Gummy Bears….” said no one ever.

Have a most lovely Sunday!  I think you’re supreme.

xo Joy

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  1. Liz

    July 27, 2015 at 6:23 am

    So…. I liked Station Eleven, but I have to say that the truly best novel of the summer is Girl with all the Gifts. Seriously, that is the book we all need to stop everything to do to read. The ending is hauntingly beautiful.

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  2. cadylwhicker17

    July 27, 2015 at 5:10 am

    Scott Jurek! Thumbs ups emojis across the board.

    Also as a native Californian I think it’s safe to say California has no chill.

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  3. aidammollenkamp

    July 26, 2015 at 8:40 pm

    Thanks for the share, dear! And for the 20 minutes I just spent clicking and reading through this list. xo

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  4. -

    July 26, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    THANK YOU. My mother and I were saying the same thing about Harper Lee… she didn’t publish it for a reason. We both think that, for lack of better words, it’s a “dick move” to publish something that someone clearly didn’t intend to share with the world like that…

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  5. Heather@ASpoonfulofHealth

    July 26, 2015 at 3:20 pm

    I always love your Sunday posts Joy, thanks so much for sharing them. Great links this week!

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  6. Chasing Belle

    July 26, 2015 at 2:21 pm

    I love Amos Lee! He is definitely one of my all time favorite artists. I would love to see him in concert someday. Station Eleven just got added to my must read list as well. Looks really good :)

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  7. Susan

    July 26, 2015 at 12:59 pm

    The kale thing is based on some pretty bad science so take it with a grain of salt. https://www.vox.com/2015/7/20/9002919/kale-bad-health

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  8. mpslavich

    July 26, 2015 at 11:01 am

    Love Jacques, love Station Eleven, and totally agree about Harper Lee. Oh, and I love your blog!!

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  9. Stacie

    July 26, 2015 at 10:07 am

    Completely agree with your Harper Lee comment! I’m about 20 pages in and just cannot get into it. It feels like the first draft of To Kill A Mockingbird, which I loved. Maybe I’ll give it another chance and finish some cold winter night…maybe.

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  10. Amy

    July 26, 2015 at 9:20 am

    My favorite candies are usually the yellow ones! Especially yellow and orange Starbursts (I was always willing to trade people with my red/pink, even though those are good too). Joy… You too probably would loved to have been my friend! (at least at snack time, or Halloween) I also loved yellow Jolly Ranchers. I’m a quirky one! ;)

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  11. Laurie

    July 26, 2015 at 9:17 am

    I just wanted to thank you for your Sunday lists. Reading your blog with my coffee is the perfect start to my Sunday. Besides, now I know what to call it when my cat takes over my husband’s chair LOL!

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  12. Judith Ann

    July 26, 2015 at 8:36 am

    You said it Joy! Harper Lee would have published it long ago. She didn’t for a reason.

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  13. Paulette

    July 26, 2015 at 7:26 am

    Beautiful list. I think it never is finished, we add new things which makes life so exciting and every day a gift. Have a good week Joy. Paulette

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  14. Angela

    July 26, 2015 at 7:07 am

    I love French men.

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  15. Gem

    July 26, 2015 at 6:04 am

    My cat does nothing BUT schtoon my seat. She could be as comfy as anything but if you get up she’s in your seat before you know it.

    Also Date Grohl. <3

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