Good morning! Happy day after Halloween! If you’re waking up in your elephant costume onsie, with emo eye makeup smeared all over your face, or with green body paint all over your sheets… not to worry… I ate my weight in peanut butter m&m’s last night and watched enough scary movies to keep up wide awake through the new year so… we all have our stuff.
Throw the sheets in the wash, will some coffee into your mug, and spend your daylight savings hour with me. I’m an internet expert… which isn’t true at all, but I did gather some interesting bits from here and there.
• This is why you hate the sound of your own voice on recordings. But also… what if you don’t hate the sound of your own voice? What kind of terrible narcissist does that make me?
• Why Siri Sounds Like A Lady. Because we’re just so dang pleasing.
• My Dark California Dream. Is California… over? Is that even possible? (Not really…)
• A bread-related weekend read. Industrial production destroyed both the taste and nutritional value of wheat. One scientist believes he can undo the damage: Bread is Broken.
• Adele is here, and we’re all ready and listening.
• Stop stressing about how much you’re stressing and read about How Stress Makes You Sick. Yoga helps.
• If Your Period Was A Person. It’s all just too too real.
• You’re not deathly allergic to garlic… you just don’t like garlic. Don’t be a dick. Food Allergy Fakers Need To Stop
• Vitamin Biscuits from the creator of Blue Print Cleanse. More reason to eat cookies! As if we needed them.
• In case you’re wondering what to get me for Christmas (I know you’re not…). It’s THIS KNIFE. Or THESE KNIVES. Do not care about designer shoes or good manicures. Care very very much about good kitchen stuffs.
• Bet you didn’t know you couldn’t live without these Pineapple Tumblers. Sorry.
• The Ripped Bodice: a could-be, would-be, will-be romance bookstore in Los Angeles.
• Sometimes when I need a pick-me-up, I watch old Soul Train videos while I’m making my morning coffee. What I wouldn’t give to work a Soul Train line: Rock Steady. So much great knee-work.
• The new Polaroid Cube is out and I’m not going to lie: I WANT ONE.
• Stick garlic in the butt and get to roasting: Engagement Roast Chicken (not your butt).
Have a very very happy day.
xo Joy
The Queen of Dreaming
Had so much fun with this ;)
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Donna
On my way to NOLA to look at wedding venues for my daughter’s destination wedding. Any ideas?
Laura
I am catching up on your latest posts right now with a good cup of tea, of course – except I almost *ALMOST* spat an entire mouthful of it across my computer screen because as a matter of fact, for Halloween I went as The Hulk and yes, I did wake up with green body paint all over my sheets. Thanks for the laugh! :)
Christine
This beautiful piece of writing is always at the forefront of my mind when “food faddists” come up. Written by a woman with celiac disease, it urges compassion and understanding for people who are, like she was, desperate to find some relief for their medical symptoms and reclaim their health.
“I can think of something even more annoying than someone ordering rice pasta. It’s being sick without known cause or cure. A study of more than 1,400 primary care patients found that 22 percent of them had ‘multiple, medically unexplained physical symptoms.’ Here’s what happens when doctors can’t explain our persistent and impairing symptoms: We become suggestible. We follow fads. And then we get mocked for it.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2014/12/gluten_free_fad_don_t_be_annoyed_says_celiac_disease_memoirist.single.html
Allysia
Ha ha ha, that video ‘if your period was a person’ just killed me. Thanks for the shares!
sweetteasweetie (@SweetTSweetie)
Is California was so hard to read but so painfully true!
Kari
http://www.sweetteasweetie.com
Nicole C L
I loved the sound of your own voice thing. Thanks for the find!
dessertfortwo
So I was making the engagement chicken last night, and even though I put garlic in my butt, the chicken had no garlic flavor. Can you help with this recipe failure? Should I put more garlic in my butt? Should I put it in my husband’s butt, too?
Ok, this is getting gross.
I’m out.
theblissfulbalance
LOL your comment about garlic in the butt had me cracking up “not your butt” lmao
Teresa P
Okay, the period video cracked me up and Rock Steady made my freaking day.
The Capable Student
Allergy fakers are tedious. The bigger the drama about it the less likely it’s a real allergy.
Heather
Joy, I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy “Let it be Sunday”. After putting the kids to bed I watch The Good Wife and read during the commercials. I really liked the article about food allergies. I know kids and adults with severe life threatening food allergies that cannot go out to eat. I also know people on the bandwagon. I hosted a holiday dinner that offered many GF options for someone I had been told NEEDED to be GF. I then watched that person consume an alarming amount of gluten. Sometimes “we are the worst” and “I hate us” too.
Avery
I think the Period video is hilarious (and of course I had to stick around to watch all her other videos!) Gonna go check out that bookstore Kickstarter campaign now
Jessie @ Chasing Belle
Oh goodness Adele! I can not get enough of her! Seriously, laughed so hard when you clarified not to stick the garlic in your own butt when making the roasted chicken recipe. Haha!
Cy
Love the idea of the Soultrain groovin’ to start the day. Fun!
Cy
As a former server( and actually every position you can do in a restaurant ) and presently as a concierge, these “allergy fakers” drive me crazy! One guest said she was allergic to gluten( she did not say she had celiac, which is very serious) and wanted a restaurant recommendation. I explained to her that , it was very easy for most places to accommodate her, if she would just ask. She proceeded to tell me it was in coffee( ?) and in everything…..crazy! At the very least educate yourselves people!!!! Giving people who actually have a serious problem a bad name. Many restaurants either have a gluten free menu or list which items on their menu are or can be prepared gluten free( one example). These people should be ashamed of themselves. Cheers to the businesses working so hard to accommodate everyone and yes,I think it’s fair to charge extra, it’s a lot of work. As a restaurant worker, I took my customers allergies very seriously. The chef insisted we knew every ingredient( as every server should) in every dish. Things have really gotten out of hand.
emmajeanne16
Adele! I love the new song.
Alex
Those Pineapple tumblers are AWSOME! Now I need them …
Toni
bahaaaa not your but! I love reading these on a slow Sunday at work
chubbycrispy
Happy Halloween and wish you a great November!
Asiyah
You crack me up! I thought I was the only one that watched old soul train videos. Those dance moves are so boss. People don’t dance like that anymore!