What I'm loving right now
Featuring interior design, social security offices, and drop waist dresses.
Let’s take a break from dissecting diet culture, wellness trends, and women’s health, shall we?
Here are some things, people, and thoughts (in no specific order) that I’ve been really into as of late:
Paige Wassel’s YouTube channel. If anyone has been caught in conversation with me for longer than 10 minutes in the past year, I have probably mentioned Paige Wassel. This L.A.-based prop stylist has stolen my interior design-obsessed heart through her no-bullshit celebrity home reviews, love of British design, and hatred of white kitchens, rose gold, & DIY trends.
The Home section of Noihsaf Bazaar. Have I bought anything yet? Nope. Do I spend a lot of time perusing the collection and imagining how I would style it in my non-existent bungalow home? Yes.
Side note: I did actually purchase a drop-waist Tory Burch number from their women’s clothing collection that I must have bought on a day when I was a) in my follicular phase and feeling extra cute and b) seriously procrastinating other, more important tasks. (Said task must have been absolutely brutal for me to procrastinate in such a committed way that I bought a halter top, drop-waist dress. That’s like 10/10 on the procrastination scale.)
Aoife Nessa Frances’ album, The Protector - I have no words! Think Aldous Harding meets Andy Shauf meets… Neil Young? Plus, she’s hella cute and Irish. My favorite song on the album is “This Still Life”. ‘Nuff said!
Inhaling my cat - that’s right, folks. A new hobby of mine is to bury my face in my cat’s body (specifically its neck - I can’t explain) and breathing in. Why do these little floof balls smell so good? I know I’m going to lose some people with this one. I, too, was anti-cat once upon a time. But then I found the path Jesus created for me, and now I can’t go back. I know you f*ckers do it to your dogs, too, okay? Don’t look at me like that. Side note: I guess I’ll be doing the same thing with my baby when that day comes… oxytocin, baby!
Chatbooks - How is this not more popular yet? It’s an app that encourages you to get all your amazing phone photos off your phone and into a book! I know, I know, photo albums aren’t *new* by any means, but this app makes it so easy and fun. I’ve been printing out annual photo albums in small, soft-cover books for the past few years and paid a whopping $20 for each of them. Please trade your Tom Ford coffee table book for one of these, mkay? It’s time.
Avoiding the Social Security office - Since getting married last summer, I’ve been using my new last name (Fisher). Since getting married last summer, I’ve also been ignoring the “Newly Named” kit that has been sitting on my desk for 8 months and counting. For folks who don’t know, Newly Named is one of those genius millennial companies that helps people complete tasks that were already pretty easy in an even easier way (#can’tbebothered). In the case of Newly Named, they take all the annoying government-website-browsing and form-collecting tasks out of changing your legal name. And yet — despite how seamless and efficient this process may be thanks to the help of Newly Named, it’s still going to take a pontoon boat of coffee and perhaps an even more miserable task awaiting my completion that causes me to commit to procrastination in such a way that I actually get in the car and drive to the social security office to begin changing my legal name (halter-top, drop-waist dress purchase may still be worse than said bureaucratic errand). Someone should start a company where I can pay for someone to impersonate me to go to the social security office and get this shit done! #soundslikefraud #cutebutlazy
This tweet I recently stumbled upon. - Niche, but it makes me giggle.
This Birth Hour podcast episode featuring a woman in a rural part of Louisiana describing her two birth stories. I have listened to hundreds of birth story episodes on this podcast, and this might be one of my top 5 episodes ever. It is a fantastic episode as an intro to birth, misconceptions around birth, the importance of supportive providers, and how an informed pregnancy can transform the birth experience.
This photo. So many questions… is that an open window into the bedroom? Is the picture taken from a patio? Where did she get that amazing curtain window treatment situation? This photo would make for a fabulous painting. Most importantly, what’s her skincare routine?
Something I’m loving at this exact moment: It’s snowing in Portland!!! I turn giddy every time I see snow. When I saw all the snow on the ground a few minutes ago, my brain immediately thought it was Christmas so I started singing “Walking around the Christmas tree” before I laughed out loud at myself when I realized it is “rocking”, not “walking”. And then I realized Christmas was 2 months ago and I’m sitting at my computer laughing about Christmas song lyrics.
Ciao!