It’s my birthday, bitches!!! Today I turn 38 which is all kinds of crazy because on a good day I feel 12, maybe 13 except I have a child and a mortgage and spend a ridiculous amount of time feeding other people/animals or worrying about what to feed them so I guess that actually makes me a grown up. I’m excited for today and all the freebies I will be accumulating and the fact that we’re going to The Everett Theater (featured prominently in Dead Poets Society, specifically the theater where Neil performed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream) to see The Goonies! Birthday win!
And now let’s do a quick recap of the rest of birthday week:
This week in reading…Finished Wonder, working through Alex Woods, finished a book written by my friend Nick (I’ll be sharing more about this in a few weeks), and started Big Little Lies. Picked up Jon Krakauer’s Missoula: Rape and Justice in a College Town. Show Us Your Books is this Tuesday, June 9 and Alyssa and I will be announcing a yearlong reading challenge this summer so brace yourselves for that. I love how much of my week is devoted to books or thinking about books.
This week in TV…Maybe you know this, maybe you don’t, but I believe that Wentworth Miller is one of the best looking men on the planet. He’s been on TV recently in The Flash and there’s some other superhero show starting next year that he’ll be on, too but the big news is that FOX IS CONSIDERING BRINGING BACK PRISON BREAK!!! #sorrynotsorry for the shouting but I just about lost my shit when I read that. It’ll be an “event series” like they did with 24 but I don’t care. Give me all the Prison Break and give me all the Wentworth Miller. Thank you, Fox, for this gift.
This week in cooking…My husband’s favorite meal that I make is stuffed shells. I don’t make them often because they are a huge pain in the ass. But this time I got smart. This time I made 2 pans of them, one to eat this week for dinner and lunches and one to freeze for the next time he wants them. I wish I had a recipe to share but I don’t because I make them differently every single time. I also used homemade marinara sauce for this batch and holy shit, did it taste even better.
This week in things that are awesome…I know people are split on their opinions of The Big Bang Theory as a show but if you don’t think the fact that the show’s creator established a scholarship fund at UCLA for low income science students with the stars of the show contributing money towards the initial $4M endowment is awesome, you need to rethink your definition of awesome.
This week in internet interestings…My husband, in addition to his full-time job, is a part-time adjunct instructor at a university so this article in The Atlantic (shared on FB by a friend who is a full-time professor) about how poorly adjuncts are paid and the effect on their performance and ability to serve students hit home. Jennifer Weiner knocked it out of the park again with her post for The New York Times on the pressure to look good. Then there was this post from Buzzfeed about how someone impersonated the reporter to trick a sexual assault victim into giving up her real name but the most interesting takeaway for me was learning about some guy named Chuck Johnson. I was blissfully unaware of him until that post, and he is the reason the internet can be a dangerous place (confession: I fell into the “I must learn all about him” rabbit hole at one point). The contempt I have for him is on par with the contempt I feel towards the Duggar parents after watching their “interview” on Wednesday night.
This week in birthday funnies…
Have a great weekend, y’all! See you back on Monday with a post topic TBD.
happy birthdayyyyyy! welcome to the 38 club. you’ll like it! all of those pics had me cracking up!
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I’m glad to see it’s such an elite club 🙂
Love the Minions and The Goonies!!
I have never watched those Duggars. The media has made “movie stars” out of ridiculous people. When their interviews to absolve themselves appears on my TV, I change the channel. #thoseholierthanthouareNOT
Happy birthday!!!
Love,Steph’s Momma
I think it’s amusing how they just keep making their situation worse. You can smell the desperation through the TV.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! the older we get, the less fucks we give and life is glorious! xoxoox
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Yes, I’ve realized my level of happiness is directly proportional to the fucks I give. Less fucks=greater happiness.
Happy Birthday! I love the Goonies and I also know how much you love Prison Break so enjoy! I’m not sure how I’d feel if they did that with FNL. On one hand would love to see new episodes but on the other it ended on a great note. I only watched 1.5 seasons of PB. The second season got weird.
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Happy happy birthday! LOLOL @ I get paid for living. Hell yes.
That is awesome about the Big Bang Theory / scholarship!
I always double or triple stuffed shells and freeze them. I like Mexican stuffed shells better than regular stuffed shells.
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BRING BACK PRISON BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE THAT SHOW – that guy – DROOLING
2 pans of stuffed shells – how about 2 pans of GET IN MY BELLY
Oh man BUSTY GIRL PROBLEMS – I chuckled REALLY hard.
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Happy Birthday, friend!!!! That Kim ecard and the not knowing what to do when people sing happy birthday to me?!?! Perfect!!!!
The Big Bang Theory is freaking awesome regardless, but I didn’t know that and that makes it even more awesome if even possible!!! I am going to go dream about stuffed shells now, ok? I hope you have a fabulous time today and enjoy The Goonies!!! I need to watch Dead Poet Society again, it has been forever. Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!
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Thank you! I definitely enjoyed myself! And I love, LOVE what the BBT did.
Happy Birthday!! Enjoy all of your birthday freebies, especially donuts! 🙂 LOL at busty girl problems, YES so true! Have a wonderful weekend, enjoy The Goonies! 🙂
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Busty girl problems are REAL. Thank you!
Happy Birthday! Hope you have a wonderful time celebrating! The past few times I made stuffed shells for my husband and daughter I totally took the easy way and bought fresh pre-made ones at a local Italian store. They do take forever to make, so does manicotti. Happy Birthday again!
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I refuse to buy shells from a store because mine taste better but the time consuming nature of them is why I rarely make them. I’ve never made manicotti.
i could take or leave big bang theory but that is seriously awesome about the scholarship. and YES Wentworth Miller, swoon! a yearlong reading challenge? SIGN ME UP RIGHT NOW PLEASE NO REALLY I NEED THE DETAILS SO I CAN START PLANNING WHAT I’M GOING TO READ.
sorry. i get really excited about challenges.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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HAHAHA! Details will be shared soon enough. I promise 🙂
Have a very good birthday, Jana!!! And so funny, those last few graphics! I never know what to do when people sing happy birthday also. Probably just stare at the candles, pretending to make a wish :). Happy Birthday!
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I look directly at the cake. Making eye contact just makes everything even more awkward.
Happy Birthday! Hope everyone treats you extra special today (or leaves you alone, your choice)!
I totally have a love love relationship with my freezer. It’s where I keep all my food secrets and I’m not a little bit sorry…
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I love that your freezer keeps your food secrets. #noshame
I don’t think Wentworth Miller likes girls but maybe that’s a bonus in that no girl will be able to steal him from you once you land him. 🙂
I just looked up Chuck Johnson, what a DB!!
Happy Birthday!!
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He doesn’t like girls but that’s okay. He’s still beautiful to look at, which is what’s really important 🙂
Are you flippin kidding me?!!?! The possibility of bringing back Prison Break, that’s EPIC!! Love me some Wentworth Miller!! He is my dreamboat! Now if he wasn’t gay, perhaps I could persuade him to bed me down. LMAO. JK!
Don’t you love all the people that come out of the woodwork when it’s your birthday?!
have a great weekend my friend! xo
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I love the people wishing me happy birthday on FB because if they didn’t, I’d forget we were even “friends”.
Wentworth Miller is so beautiful it hurts.
Happy Birthday!
And oh gosh, that Duggar interview irritated me too. Tonight the daughters speak.
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I missed the entirety of the daughters’ interview but caught snippets in the news. Good. Grief. They need to stop.
Happy Birthday!! Wentworth Miller is so dreamy! I haven’t seen the Duggar interview but thety just disgust me, the fact that they hid it even when the victims were there own daughter is beyond disgusting!!!
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If you feel the need to have your blood pressure rise, watch the interview. If not, just stay away. Stay far, far away. It’s horrendous.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🙂
People are split on The Big Bang Theory?? I don’t watch often, but it’s a semi-clean funny show…
I admit that I never finished Prison Break. They lost me somewhere in season 2.
Maybe I can challenge myself to that this summer.
Excited for that book challenge you speak of.
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Season 3 went overboard for me but I kept watching because I couldn’t help myself. It’ll be interesting to see what they do considering Michael DIES at the end of the show. I guess a prequel or something in the year between when they’re exonerated and he dies.
Sorry I’m late—no Internet in the mountains all weekend!—but I hope you had an amazing birthday!! Can’t wait to share some more about our news too 🙂
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I’m excited to share all the details! Hope you had a great mountain, internet free weekend!
So much to comment. Remember when Hollywood (they kinda still do) thought that men couldn’t “come out” and admit they were homosexual because it would kill the “leading man” vibe. I’m so glad there’s women like us that prove them wrong. How you doin’, Wentworth Miller?
I did not seen that announcement about the scholarship fund with the BBT cast contributing. You are right. That is indeed awesome.
Speaking of awesome – I hope you’re birthday was amazingly awesome, because you, my friend, are awesome!
Looking forward to that yearlong book challenge announcement…
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hope you had a great birthday! I LOVE STUFFED SHELLS.
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Happy belated Birthday love!
Just catching up on my reading so also sorry for the sheer amounts of emails in your inbox from me 😀