Here’s another round-up of crazy and/or
useful links to brighten your day.
“WhatDoes the Fox Say?” by Ylvis
Admit it: you wonder too. Cookie sings this
at daycare. (Except, I hope, the part where they sing “What the fox say?”) The
video’s just a tad creepy, so I wouldn’t recommend it for kids. But if you
haven’t heard of this yet, you will. Recorded as a joke by two Norwegian talk
show hosts, “The Fox” made it to Billboard’s
Hot 100 top ten. Seriously.
Definitely not a kid-friendly site, but the
archive is full of kid-friendly goodness for their tummies. Thug Kitchen has
brilliant healthy recipes, mostly vegan. Just…if your kid can read, don’t open
this in front of them. I am so trying these peach pancakes this weekend, if I
can find decent peaches in October. Which is a challenge, admittedly.
I’m stealing some of these. I may have already used the
rope/swing/Muskoka-chair-with-beer trick.
Not terribly
SFW. Most of us here are well past the point of
throwing bachelorette parties. Unless they’re second marriages, that is. Or sometimes
third. Sigh. But just in case you’ve thrown a rockin’ bachelorette and for some
unfathomable reason have a barely used penis cake pan that you’ve no idea what
to do with, here are some brilliant suggestions. Here’s another one: Kijiji
that shit.
Every once in a while I forget that STFU
Parents exists, and then I hear something about placenta printing and I
remember. Well, it’s that time of year at STFUP, the time when the scariest,
most nauseating things that parents post on social media (like, say, placenta
prints) are shoved to front and centre for us to point and laugh/cringe at. If
you can get around the ads, that is. The fun is just starting, so check back
often.
For the first time in my life, I clicked on
a sidebar ad. Crazy, I know. Why would anyone do that? Well, I’ve had a picture
of a pair of boots hanging on my bulletin board for literally years now. Like,
it moved with me. And then one day, there were almost the exact same boots
flashing at me in a sidebar ad. So I had to.
Turns out they were on a site called JustFab.
They’re not real leather, but that’s okay because no matter how well I take
care of boots, they really only last me one season anyways because I wear the
hell out of them, so I’ve started buying cheap ones every year. Not ideal, but
oh well. But get this: they were $40 (plus S&H). And they were on my
doorstep the next morning.
The catch is that it’s a subscription
service. Every month you get an email with a list of things you might be
interested in, and you have to either purchase something or opt out by a
deadline. They sell footwear, handbags, jewellery, and denim, so the selection
is a bit limited. But it’s pretty of the moment, and the quality’s not bad for
the price. Most things are $40, although there’s a leather collection that tops
out at $90. And did I mention I got the boots the next morning? Crazy.
Since I saw those boots, I’ve opted out one
month and bought a second item the third month. It was another one of those
inspired moments — angels sang and a beam of light shone on my laptop.
Years and years ago I had a dream in which I was wearing pinstripe jeans, like
I had in grade seven, and the next day I thought, “I miss pinstripe jeans,” so
I went to a few vintage shops but came up empty. No one had pinstripe jeans.
Even now I mention them to friends who are the same age as me and they have no
idea what I’m talking about. I didn’t imagine this, people. Pinstripe jeans
were a thing, I swear.
And then, in my latest JustFab email, there
they were. Pinstripe jeans, like I’ve been searching for for almost a decade.
The very next morning, on my way out of the house to drive Cookie to daycare, I
tripped over them on the doorstep. They fit perfectly. There are so many other
ways I’d rather shop and so many businesses I’d rather support, and I really
don’t want to be a shill for any company. But time is money, right? Plus, this just
seems to fill a particular need of mine insanely well.
Gratuitous Halloween Costumes (and one more here)
One of us is pregnant and wondering what
she’s going to dress up as for Halloween. I said, “Pregnant nun, obviously.” So
classic. Or sooo done, depending on your perspective. Turns out there are lots
of brilliant options. My favourite is Marge from Fargo. Really feeling robbed that I was only barely pregnant on
Halloween.
(Note: Linking to a pro-life site doesn’t
constitute an endorsement of its views.)
East End Mama
[image: via pregnant chicken]
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