Tuesday Things.
1. So very much here for this mac and kimcheese!
2. If you follow me on instagram then you know I’ve been making recipes on my stories – and my mom, dead seriously, asked me how I chop the onions so fast. Where did I learn to chop that fast? And this is where I got to educate her about the timelapse setting on your camera….
3. And speaking of, why is it so temping to watch our own IG stories?
4. A celery salad is my actual worst nightmare.
5. Grocery stores hacks! I’m terrible at using coupons and going to the store hungry.
6. TV things! So I am almost finished with Love is Blind. I CANNOT!! This show is crazy. I’m also so tempted to look ahead since this was filmed in 2018, but I don’t want to spoil the ending. Can we also talk about how good This Is Us was last week? And how I refuse to even take on the alex karev grey’s episode this week?!
7. After we surprised the kids sunday morning with disney on ice and said we were “going somewhere special,” Emilia immediately screamed “target! we’re going to target!” and yes… I share her enthusiasm. Ha. Target is special.
8. Life isn’t like the movies, even when you write the movies. Nancy Meyers is everything.
9. Inquiring minds need to know: do you call lollipops “suckers?” Or just… lollipops? Suckers is one of those words I just can’t handle!
34 Comments on “Tuesday Things.”
#2 and #7 = 😂😂
#3 = I do because I like to peep who is looking at my IG stories, on that little list at the bottom of the screen.
Help me….I don’t enjoy Target anymore.
My 14 YO drags me there all the time, I can’t look on my own, stay here, she wants my opinion on everything,
then when I give it, I’m annoying. Agh I want to go there and go ooh and aw , but no more……
……and they are re-doing our Target now….it’s very different.
Alicia I’m done with Target too. I feel like there prices have gone up. I used to love Merona tshits and they discontinued that brand. They redid ours a few months ago (SuperTarget) and it’s awful. However, I just discovered Shipt and get deliveries from Target, so much easier shopping on line.
They are called lollipops, always. They just don’t sounds right being called suckers. Its like calling any pair of pants, slacks. My MIL hates celery too, she makes a soup that calls for celery and she uses celery flakes instead, likes the flavor but not the texture of the cooked celery.
LOL!!! so funny at the slacks comment. haha.
I always look forward to these Tuesday catch ups! Is it possible for you to indicate when an article is NYT? I know Cup of Jo just does an (NYT) next to it. Most people only get 10 free articles a month, and I just used my last one when I clicked the link!
oh no!! thanks so much hilary, that’s a great idea and i will do that. i didn’t even realize that because i subscribe to NYT. i will do that!!
I love that you hate celery as much as I do!
oh man it’s just the worst.
I’m from the upper midwest, and they have always been suckers in my family. The only ones that were ever lollipops are from See’s Candy.
oh interesting!
YES! I’m so glad I’m not alone. Maybe it is the Midwest. I grew up in WI/MN and we call them suckers!
i think we can all share Emilia’s enthusiasm for Target, it’s a very special place!!
right!
Haha, suckers are definitely a Midwest thing! My freshman year roommate in college was from the east coast and she thought it was hysterical that I called them suckers. I thought it was equally as hysterical that she called them lollipops.
so funny!
I really had no idea that calling lollipops “suckers” was a thing until my kids got into watching Its the Great pumpkin, Charlie Brown before Halloween. There is a line in there about a “wet sucker” that my 2 yr old would repeat nonstop!
oh my gosh yes, max has always LOVED that part (probably because we told him not to say that word, haha!)
From the Midwest and grew up calling them suckers! It’s one of those words I didn’t think about much until I moved to PA.
crazy!
Ha! I always say suckers. I live in Missouri though so we are very hillbilly ;)
hahaha i get it!!
To me, lollipops are the huge rainbow candies on a stick only eaten by bratty Nelly Olson and the Lollipop Kids in The Wizard of Oz. The Jonas Bros and I prefer the term “sucker.”
bahahaha love it sue!
This Is Us, was great last week. Can’t wait fir the newest episode. Target, is almost always special, except when it’s insanely crowded. Lollipops always!
:)
Lollipops all the way! I respect your distain for celery, but a celery salad sounds like a dream to me 😆 Were you just making a general statement, or was there a recipe you saw? Heehee! Loved Emilia’s Target response! I feel the same way, girl! 🧡
I feel like the word lollipop just sounds so whimsical! But where I live (PNW) I only ever hear people call them suckers. I’m pretty sure if I called them lollipops people would look at me strangely. Also lol’d at your mom and the onions, gotta love parents and technology.
hahaha, I legit LOL’d at the Emilia/Target comment because 1) Target IS that awesome, and 2) my friend told me yesterday that her almost-two year old has a similar reaction to Target trips, and to Whole Foods trips. Apparently, they’ll drive by Whole Foods and he’ll see the sign, and yell out, “WHOLE FOODS! GO!” Hilarious. Moments like these are almost enough to make me want kids. Almost. ;-)
I loved that article by Nancy Meyer. I’ve always been a fan of exes staying friendly as long as the blood isn’t too bad between them. There are definitely some exes I never wish to see again, either because they’re awful people or because the break-up hurt me too deeply, but there are one or two exes that I wish I could be friendly with again because I miss the easy, relaxed friendship we had during our relationship. Those friendships always trumped every aspect of our romantic relationships, and that’s probably why we didn’t work out; we were better friends than lovers. And, it’s comforting sometimes talking to someone who has known you since before a lot of other people have. So, I totally get what Nancy says. Both Something’s Gotta Give and It’s Complicated are two of my favorite movies because of the friendship dynamic between exes portrayed, so I loved reading this article! Thanks for sharing. :-)
Do you know what word I dislike… and no, it’s not moist. It’s “musk” I mean really -why?
“Oh, I like your musky scent today!”
Nope.
Hate to be that person but I always grew up calling them “suckers” (anyone else, is it a Midewest thing?!) Because I didn’t know any different it doesn’t seem weird. In my mind a lollipop is one of those giant, multi-colored, swirly ones you get in gift shops.
nope, can’t call them “suckers.” reminds me of the debate between “sprinkles” and “jimmies” (since I’m from Philly, probably 😆).
Suckers is the way i grew up and i still say that. I’m from Ohio. I agree with fellow commenter a lollipop is like a whimsical larger than your head sucker that exists in the movies. So sucker it is for me. the only thing i do remember though….a tootsie pop was not a sucker…that was the grape sucker that had hard as a rock tootsie roll in it. we did call those tootsie pops when i was a kid. thinking back they were gross.
also remember ring pops ? i called those ring pops not ring suckers. so…clearly i am a very complex individual. LOL.
other things i find odd in different parts of the country….soda vs pop, couch vs sofa, living room vs den, supper vs lunch vs dinner, tennis shoe vs sneaker, i could go on but probably you are sleeping by now reading this long comment.
Even though we live in the midwest, they are lollipops. It may be because I grew up in the southwest. However according to my 3-year old, the are la-mee-pops