Hello Sunday Friends! Welcome to this fine day. Rest. Let’s take in some good rest.
It’s been a busy week at The Bakehouse with a floral workshop and a King Cake making workshop and somehow tonight the dishes are mostly done and put away and there’s only a hint of glitter still on the floor. Mardi Gras seems to have snuck up on me and honestly, I’m so glad it did. I don’t have my costume entirely finished, but one way or another I’ll have pompoms on my shoes and sparkles around my eyes by this Thursday at the latest.
Are you warm and well and taking good care? That’s my hope for you today.
Here’s some good reading. Cheers to taking the time to let it in:
• The Winter Olympics are fast approaching and we’ll see the world’s best athletes doing some of the most mind bending things thanks to ability and bodies and very hard work. But do you ever think of like… the very fist time a would-be Olympian tries something insane? Like, how do you get into some just light luge work? Well – here’s how: Learning To Luge.
• This left me blurry with tears and tender-hearted. Mister Rogers: Can You Say… Hero? Do you know you’re strong on the inside too?
• Ok it’s the Super Bowl today. Cheering, kneeling, whistles, crashing, smashing, kicking, Justin Timberlake, money money money money money. It’s American football, shrug emoji. Four Ethicists Walk Into A Super Bowl Party
• Modern home kitchens are geared more and more towards men. The Man’s Man’s Kitchen. I feel like there’s a really easy joke about gearing kitchen sinks and dishwashers towards men, too. It’s right there isn’t it?
• Why Everyone Is Obsessed with Skin Care. Guilty, if there’s a serum – I’ll try it thankyouverymuch.
• I think of this documentary so often. The grit and fortitude is… well it’s what we’ve all got in us. Losing Sight Of Shore. Please do find it and watch!
• I think I became a baker, partly thanks to the amount of early 80’s brown rice, tofu, date rolls I had to eat. My parents were early health food enthusiasts and while I’m now a thankful adult… when I was five literally all I wanted was a package of Oreo cookies in the house. I’m not alone: How Carob Traumatized a Generation.
• I guess this makes me the sucker that pays for everything she has in her cart. The karma otherwise just isn’t worth living with, ya know? The Banana Trick And Other Acts of Self Checkout Thievery
• I make this recipe from Food & Wine often. I use boneless skinless chicken thighs with great success. It’s so simple! Garlic Braised Chicken with Potatoes
• Next week I have a cocktail recipe comin’ atcha that calls for Gran Classico. It’s now a bar staple. 10 out of 10 recommend.
• The time for talking about the dog is over. Gosh, isn’t that the truth.
• Lately, daydreaming about this trip to Costa Rica a few years back. The days felt so long. Gloriously long. And there was one of these smoothies everyday after a morning of attempted surfing. Banana, Leche y Cafe con Chocolate
• I’m wearing this rather perfect day heel from Everlane these days. It’s an all-day wearable shoe and I think it’s chic and classic, too.
Have a really lovely day! I’ll be back with a cocktail soon.
xo Joy
Jana H.
Ugh. I can’t think about stealing at the self check out, either. And I’m naïve enough to not even realize that it seems to be expected, if this article is to be believed. I guess I’ve just always carried the notion that the majority of the people in the world are honest, good, people. Not perfect, by any means, but basically decent. This article, if accurate, is depressing.
On the other hand, there’s Mr. Rogers who restores my faith in humanity. I wish I could have gotten my niece and nephew into watching the reruns when they were younger. :-/
Michelle
Own and love those shoes, as well as Everlane’s loafers. Great quality and style.
Carla Elliott
I’ve been looking for a new day time shoe and the one you posted seems to hit all the right notes!
joythebaker
I’m so glad! I’m really enjoying it!
Deb in Indiana
Thank you for the Mr. Rogers link. I was very happy when my kids were watching his show.
Melissa
Whew, that Mr. Rogers article has me crying in a coffee shop. We could all use a little more of his good in the world right now.
joythebaker
Isn’t it so beautiful!?
Lexie
Silly question about the Day Heels: does the elastic at the heel stretch out? It looks like it would grip so uncomfortably!
Laurel
Re: Losing Sight of Shore. There are some very inspirational YouTube Ted Talks by the women who were on the boat. Loved this one.
https://youtu.be/47wKisXpIvM
joythebaker
Thank you so much for this!
Melanie
Great sunday post! I wouldn’t be able to steal food either… but ‘opportunity stealing,’ in the end, is exactly what the walmarts of the world are doing to every single person in their store. For example: if people didn’t have such a hard time finding better work, walmart would have no choice but to offer their employees more money to stay. Every time they underpay someone, they are stealing time and money from a person who just didn’t have a better option. They are just taking advantage of that opportunity!
joythebaker
Preach it.
Claire, UK
I guess there are two types of people. Those who don’t steal at self check-outs because it’s *wrong* and those who do steal at self check-outs because they *can*. I’ve often thought that it would be very easy to get unscanned items through them, because the supervisors always just swipe their cards at the machines when they protest that something is a bit heavier than expected. I can’t imagine that they are being paid enough to seek out confrontation with members of the public. There’s a big difference between seeing the chink in the armour and taking advantage of it. I would just never, ever do it. I would be utterly disgusted, ashamed and guilty if I did. I’m the opposite of an impulsive, risk-taking, thrill-seeker though, so maybe I just don’t understand how strong the urge could be.
joythebaker
The fact that it’s thrill seeking activity was kind of baffling to me. I seek thrills, but I’m also a pretty moral person so….
Laura
The Banana Trick is one of the most depressing articles I’ve read recently. That is insane. No company would “ask you” to shoplift. Whoever wrote that article needs to be told they have no morals, not telling everyone else they are mornons. That’s despicable to swap stickers and let an item slide into your bag without paying. You are knowingly stealing something. Stealing is stealing. It’s very black and white…easy to draw the line between right and wrong there. I felt like that was an April Fools article. There is no way an otherwise law abiding citizen would feel like stealing is okay.
joythebaker
As I read this article I really was like… gosh, is this really how people are? If so… shoot, color me a moron because I just don’t steal. But you’re absolutely right – the perspective is skewed.
K
Sigh. Where there is a way, people will. People used to take stickers off of cheaper items and place them on more expensive, back in the old days. Apparently, I am a sucker too, since I have returned to a store that forgot to ring something up for me so that I could pay for it. I am even uncomfortable around people who open boxes and start eating before they purchase something. It’s not yours yet! And I don’t even want to hear that I am uptight about that because I have never been a mom with kids who wanted Cheerios right that minute to avoid a tantrum. My mom is appalled by that behavior!
Joanna
I guess I’m a sucker too. It makes me uncomfortable to think about stealing groceries.
Annette Taylor
Took your advise on trip to NOLA. Willia Jean’s was great. However the Mosquito Supper Club has been the highlight! Such good food, back story, fun guests and hosts we really enjoyed. Thanks. Maybe next time we’ll bake with you.
joythebaker
Oh I’m so so glad you enjoyed your visit and especially Mosquito Supper Club!
Taste of France
Re the Man’s Kitchen, I know more and more guys who are really obsessed with cooking. Though not the daily grind kind of stuff–just statement dishes. Often carnivorous.
Rena
Oh, this could be really the reason why you became a baker :)
With love from Bavaria/Germany, Rena
http://www.dressedwithsoul.com