Tuesday Things.
1. This past weekend Emilia changed the language on our TV to Spanish. Every single show was in Spanish – the dialogue and the menu of the TV. And I had to reset the entire TV because I couldn’t find out where to change it back. And I took Spanish all through school!
2. So obsessed with all of these strawberry snacks.
3. Last night I started Sunset Beach, which isn’t even on my summer reading list but a few of you mentioned it in the comments. I finished Ghosted last week and LOVED it.
4. I love love love this article about an old Seventeen magazine date prep day. I could have written that myself – I used to pour over those magazines as a tween and then was obviously over them by 16 or 17 years old. But so many things I read in there have stuck in my head to this day.
5. Do you guys remember a few years ago when I wrote about the cicadas coming out? I mean, there were hundreds… or, um, thousands, and they would literally fly right into your face and land on you – TONS of them. Max was only one at the time, and now they are coming back out in this area again. Pretty sure I’m going to move.
6. Speaking of, I am such an obnoxious baby about bugs (…as if you couldn’t tell). And when I was going through the Starbucks drive through to get iced coffee last week, a huge bug (maybe a cicada!?) flew in my window and landed on me. I freaked out like a psycho, all while trying to order, and trying not to freak out Max, and then I managed to get it off me and it was LOST IN THE CAR. I’m still not okay.
7. 10 instagram posts you’ll definitely see this summer. HA. Hahahahaha.
8. I’m dying to see Aladdin! Who saw it this weekend?
18 Comments on “Tuesday Things.”
These strawberry snacks look delicious! I saw Aladdin recently and absolutely loved it, can’t wait to see it again!
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Emilia turning the TV to Spanish reminds me of when Marcel did that on Friends.
The bug…in your car….is there…waiting! Almost died laughing at your entire Starbucks freak out. Do you want to laugh your behind off?? OMG you have to go on YouTube and look for Tiny Tim’s Adventures. You will die laughing. Especially the one titled Tiny Tim’s using a charcoal mask. I had to get a tissue to wipe away my tears from laughing. His videos will make you forget about the bug waiting for you in the car.
Oh my gosh the cicadas! I had one fly (didn’t know they could fly!) into my car and hit me on the MOUTH while I was at a red stop and go light. Then it plopped down into my crotch! I can only imagine what the people in the cars around me were thinking during my total freak out while trying to get out of the car without squashing the thing so I could flip it off of my seat. It even gave me a fat lip!
Yayyyy, you started Sunset Beach!! How are you liking it so far??? I’ve several MKA books (her Christmas ones in the Weezie series are so great!), and I always find her work enjoyable. :-)
I’m also curious to hear how you like Sunset Beach and MKA!!!
I LOVED Ghosted but, for the life of me, cannot remember how he found out who she was (trying to describe this without giving too much away for those who haven’t read it haha). It has been driving me crazy for months!
facebook! It was a comment left by her guy BFF
That’s right!! Can’t hide anything on social media!
In Florida we get Lubber Giant Orange Grasshoppers. Some summers are worse than others. Yesterday I came home and there was one on the house near the ground (on the blocks holding up the house). I grabbed a paver stone to smash it. It moved at the last minute and I missed. Then it jumped into the flower bed. I kept trying to smash it as it jumped around. I lost it about the same time one of my bushes started touching my neck. Of course I freaked out. It took a while to calm down. In high school I had a Palmetto bug chase me around the house (no joke – they will chase you). I was screaming running through the house. I ran into my mother’s room and thought I’d lost it. Then I felt it – it had FLOWN DOWN THE BACK OF MY SWEATER!!! I FREAKED!!! My poor mother thought I’d lost my mind, screaming and ripping off my sweater. So I can totally understand your freak-out in the drive through. I would die!
I live near Ross Park mall and haven’t seen any cicadas! I would 100% freak out if one flew into my car!
Oh my goodness. My 2 oldest have been finding and bringing in the cicada shells and displaying them on the mantle over the fireplace/woodstove. My Mom is a huge naturalist, and spent a couple hours helping them find them and reading about the whole lifecycle and watching youtube videos the other weekend. I want them to be as fearless as she is – and how she taught me all things about nature and woods (identifying and picking up toads and snake and animal tracks). . . except I HATE the cicada shells. I just hate them. They want me to hold them and “ooh and ahh” like they do, and I simply cannot make myself do it. I hate my squeamishness, but I hate the weird shells even more.
Cicadas are yucky! I remember picking their empty shells off the trees when we were kids….when I thought bugs were cool and interesting. Bluck!
What do you do with all of these books that you read? Do you pass them around to family and friends? That is what my family does. I think it would be super fun if you sent them off to blog readers who would then send them off to the next person on the list….and so on. Shipping to another person would be much less than buying each of the books. Might be fun!
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about your “Rogue Centipede” — I’m a total freak about bugs as well, so I get you.
Oh, Jess…you are too funny with the whole bug thing. Cicadas don’t bother me much but what totally freaks me out are those centipede things that live somewhere in the cracks and crevices of my basement and occasionally make their way upstairs…YUCK. They are soooo gross and move so darn quickly…especially once they realize they are bing stalked for a kill. I get the most freaked when I see the tiny babies…knowing there must me many more downstairs…growing.The story about Emila was a hoot. She is a second child and the fact is…they are programed to keep you on your toes…forever!!
Where is the recipe for those amazing looking cookies?
Yes on the Seventeen article! So many things I read in those magazines have stuck in my head yet I can’t remember important things I need to know every day :) Have you seen the tweet that’s like ‘magazines led me to believe that I would need way more “day to night” outfits than I actually do?’ So true!
The Starbucks story is crazy! But at least it happened while you were ordering and not as you were getting your drink!