Tuesday Things.
1. Had the best apple cider donuts of life this past weekend, which made me question why I would eat any other donuts, ever. You know? Like why waste another bite on a donut that isn’t the apple cider one?
2. Pretzel and potato chip blondies. WHAT.
3. I’m super rejuvenated by the fact that there are 99 days left in the year, but also sort of freaking out. There are goals I reached and others I haven’t. Do you make a plan for the last few months of the year?
4. What famous women say about achieving success later in life. Oh my gosh I love love love this.
5. I’ve definitely asked you before, but what do you define success as? Money? Happiness? A title?
6. TV things! I was super annoyed with The Affair, didn’t really feel like we needed to see an entire half an episode of Sierra’s perspective?! Also can someone please pretend that it’s 2005 again because the DWTS cast is so good and I am living for it. Totally worth DVRing and watching later!
7. The best news of last week was that The Seven Lives of Evelyn Hugo is going to be made into a movie! I don’t know if I’m sad (because nothing can ever live up to that book for me) or glad (because the story is incredible).
8. These are the words people can’t spell. This made me laugh but I totally agree with some of them, especially nauseous! I can never spell it correctly.
9. My #1 emmy best dressed was Mandy Moore. Those colors were so incredible! I also looovved Kerry Washington’s outfit and Billy Porter’s with that HAT! Stunning.
16 Comments on “Tuesday Things.”
I’d like to add vinaigrette to #8. It sounds like it should start like “vinegar”, but it doesn’t. Argh.
omg YES!!! i always spell it wrong too!
Soergels?!? My fav time of year is apple cider donut season.
I was at Trader Joe’s today and saw their Cinnamon Bun Spread. And I thought to myself, maybe Jessica has a wonderful plan for using it? I bought it (obvi), without any sense of what I will do with it. But it sounded too amazing to pass up.
I’d just eat it with a spoon!!! That sounds like a dream come true and I’m definitely going out today to get some.
Seven Husbands is being made into a movie?! Agree with you 100% – I’m excited and horrified at the same time. If Helen Mirren isn’t present day Evelyn, I don’t know who is.
How did I miss the news that Evelyn Hugo will be made into a movie!?!? I am very excited. Of course, it won’t live up to the book. Nothing will. Especially if they have someone else write new dialogue to be inserted into the script (my pet peeve). But it will still be great to see the story come to life. Think of all the fashion!!!! I’m dying to see someone make that green dress appear in person. :-D
If you have not, can you make a version of Apple Cider donuts??? Give us life.
Also…cannot spell version (thank you to spellcheck)….VERISION…is not the correct way
Kind of a deep topic here, but a wise person once told me his definition of success and it has come to make so much sense to me: Success is the continued pursuit of a worth goal. I think the emphasis on the worthy goal makes it so real. Sometimes you have to pursue money in a situation, sometime happiness is the more important goal. There’s not one thing that defines success for everyone at all times. And the part about a continued pursuit means to me that success is not a destination. Less “I’ll be successful when…” but more like success is realized in the trying and doing.
Gorgeous answer! That’s exactly how I feel about it but I’ve never heard it articulated in quite that way before.
THIS. IS. AMAZING!! so, so true. thanks for sharing :)
Totally agree about The Affair. I have loved this show from the beginning and now it just feels…lost?
Are you watching ‘On Becoming A God In Central Florida’? Because it is SO GOOD!
Success? That’s a tricky one, but I would say happiness. I’m particularly grateful for my happy marriage, which I don’t mean that in a gaggy way, it’s just that my parents didn’t have a good one and my mom never seemed to like my dad very much. I’ve been surprised at how fun marriage is and how much I truly like my husband! It’s a very fun thing for me to succeed at because it’s something I didn’t have any personal experience or knowledge of beforehand, if that makes sense.
Follow Taylor Jenkins Reid in IG. She’s posted about the movie!! Also, can you post a good recipe for apple cider donuts? Mine taste like spice and don’t have a true apple flavor. I’ve even reduced the cider to enhance th flavor.
My measure of success still stands from year to year….are my kids alive, somewhat happy, still talk to me? That is my success. The rest is irrelevant to me.
success…hmmm that is so hard. i could lie and say something like just making other happy. but u know what…im reading this at word while gulping down my lunch at 1 PM in between meeting pulling 10+ hr days. Im not hear volunteering my time…im here to get paid. and i want to get paid to enhance my life and build my “success”. i think for me as i get older success is less about a dollar figure or a title, though those still count as success in a career, but i think success is also getting to a place where i can live comfortably, do the extras that i want, take care of the people i want to, and not have to worry about pinching pennies or not having a good retirement. Its less about volume of stuff and more about quality. Its less about things and more about cool experiences (a wonderful vacation vs fancy shoes). its also about good relationships because those things take work ! But for me the key might be…in order to be successful i have to have goals to push for and meet. Right now im in a phase where i am just getting through the days so that does not feel like “success”. Feeling like my time is sometimes spent on all things i dont want to do vs i want to do. ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. did i just elude to success = balance ?? ick scratch that i hate that word. What does it mean to you ? Maybe it changes over a lifetime and even day to day ? especially for women ? now you have gone and made me think…..