Weekly Roundup
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AD :: We replaced our never-used outdoor seating corner with a real climbing structure and swing set. I made good on my report card to fix it! I wrote about the whole swap (and the era we're in now) over on Substack. Bijou Build is giving away a Mainstay and Sway bundle (a $1,240 value) to one of my readers. Entries close August 13th, so don’t wait! If you'd rather not leave it to chance, code THEGOLDHIVE gets you 15% off your own set.
I happily bed share with Hattie. I wish the rhetoric wasn’t so abstinence-only about safe co-sleeping.
If I ever paint my dining room chairs red/orange, you’ll know why.
The title of the show, DTF St. Louis is what it is, but stay with it. It hooked me immediately and then when it turned into a genuinely tender love story that you don’t see coming, I really fell for it. I don’t want to spoil anything but the relationship is the whole heart of it. Jason Bateman, David Harbour, dark comedy, suburban malaise, a murder. After I finished it I went looking for what else creator Steven Conrad had made and found Patriot, which is its own particular deadpan (my favorite). I enjoyed it so much that I memorized a few of the more quirky monologues just so I could surprise recite them to Ross.
Speaking of David Harbour, Lily Allen put out West End Girl last October and I’m still listening the whole thing on repeat. Listen from track one straight through. Sharp, brutal, catchy, fun.
Someone on Instagram posted themselves kayaking, birdwatching, listening to an audiobook, and knitting simultaneously and I’m inspired. That is peak hobbying. I am now looking into kayaks. In the meantime I’m working on my second knit with Lang Yarns Eternity in colorway 4.
I carry around my unfinished knitting just in case I want to pretend that I’ll find a spare moment to knit. I use this Lands End tote, but I’ve since learned the LL Bean version is better at standing up on its own? Anyone here own both and can weigh in?
I 3D printed a set of baby-proof handles for the IKEA Alex drawer unit and it’s reduced my number of hours spent putting everything back in/on my desk from 2 hours a day down to 15 minutes a day.
We’re now watching Widow’s Bay and appreciating the way they nailed the tone for both comedy and scary. 10/10.
My five-year-old baby is starting kindergarten and I just don’t understand how we can send infants school! She’s too little!!
I’m a little rusty on Weekly Roundups, but glad to be back.
