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Let It Be Thursday!

September 24, 2015 by Joy the Baker 32 Comments

Let It Be Thursday

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

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  1. Ricaruth

    September 27, 2015 at 8:46 pm

    Love, love, love Sarah Bessey. Speaking of love, have you tried mixing candy corn with salted peanuts? Life-changing.

    Reply
  2. Anonymous

    September 26, 2015 at 12:36 pm

    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!

    Reply
  3. Erin

    September 25, 2015 at 1:14 pm

    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!

    Reply
  4. Jasmine

    September 25, 2015 at 12:19 pm

    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 :)

    Reply
  5. Trang Do

    September 25, 2015 at 2:44 am

    Love your post!!
    Xoxo,
    Love from http://www.trangscorner.com {a lifestyle, fashion, beauty, and food blog}

    Reply
  6. Sara

    September 24, 2015 at 3:32 pm

    These are my favorite. It’s the little things that matter the most :)
    -sara

    https://almostpaleokitchen.blogspot.com/

    Reply
  7. em

    September 24, 2015 at 2:11 pm

    Pretty please do the “how to make a pie” bit in new orleans sometime!!!

    Reply
  8. Christen

    September 24, 2015 at 1:44 pm

    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!

    Reply
  9. Alison

    September 24, 2015 at 12:40 pm

    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.

    Reply
  10. Yael

    September 24, 2015 at 12:02 pm

    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.)

    Reply
    • Yael

      September 24, 2015 at 12:44 pm

      (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.)

      Reply
  11. aryelia

    September 24, 2015 at 11:37 am

    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 :) :)

    Reply
  12. Considering The Radish

    September 24, 2015 at 10:26 am

    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.

    Reply
  13. Kelsey

    September 24, 2015 at 10:01 am

    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!

    Reply
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