Thanks to everyone who participated in SUYB this month (I promise I’ll finish reading all your posts today) and a HUGE thank you to Tanya for the amazing facelift of this little space of mine! If you need or want yours done, I cannot recommend her enough. Not only is she crazy talented, her patience is unparalleled.
It’s been quite a week with all the news coming out of DC and my anger is starting to boil over. Like, cannot be contained anymore. Between Al Franken and the rollbacks on protections for elephants and more mass shootings and fucking Roy Moore and just the endless steaming pile of shit that just keeps growing like a political landfill replete with stinking turds, it’s hard to focus on anything else anymore.
But like my hero Elizabeth Warren, I persist. So let’s recap this week’s non-shitty events.
Reading. Ghettoside by Jill Leovy. Still. Nothing new from the library and I’m on a NetGalley break.
Watching. Mr. Robot and Damnation. The former is so fucking weird and at least 4 times an episode I get lost and the latter is filling my inexplicable love of Westerns. Even thought it’s less Western and more drama. I don’t know. At least I’m taking a break from Netflix.
Eating. Baked ziti. I haven’t had it in YEARS and I couldn’t stop thinking about it so I made some the other day and now I have enough until I turn 50. Separately, it’s one of those foods I make that I never actually follow a recipe and make differently every single time. See also: stuffed shells and crab cakes.
Listening. New podcast alert (well, new to me): Professional Book Nerds. It’s interview style (at least the ones I’ve listened to) and I really like the hosts. Plus, they’re funny and they followed me back on Twitter so I have to pimp them now.
Welcoming. A new dog! If you follow me on IG, you’ve seen her take over my feed and I’ll go into depth about her next week but the gist is her name is Lizzy (after aforementioned Elizabeth Warren), she’s 5, a puppy mill survivor, and she’s absolutely awesome. Barkley is adjusting as well as a cranky old man can adjust, the cat fucking hates her, and it’s nice to hear 8 feet running around the house again instead of just 4.
Laughing.
That’s all she wrote this week. Can’t remember what all of my weekend plans are but I know some involve doing a mile walk in the cold and the dark at the beach so mixed feelings about that. I’ll see you guys back on Tuesday. Have a great weekend!
I cook like that, too. So happy you got Lizzie. Amen on the cauliflower crust. A dark beach walk is s but eerie. But it’s the beach.
Goddess speed for a lovely seeking and intense healing lights and love for this world. Save the real elephants. Ban trump and the GOP. Extincting hate and greed would be awesome.
Love, Steph’s Momma
A bit eerie. Lovely weekend.
Proofread , Linda.
Yay for a new pup. So sweet and I would love to hear her story!
I had never heard of baked ziti so I looked it up and now I want to eat it right now!
Yay new puppy! That mkaes me so happy for you <3
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p.s. We Brits would just call it “pasta bake”.
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The site looks great! Congrats on the new addition to the family! I’m watching Everwood (a young Chris Pratt) and Friends! Need light!
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Umm Everwood is one of my all time favorites and I get so excited when people watch it and a little jealous that they are experiencing it for the first time! I had to buy the DVDs since it is so hard to stream!
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Freeze that ziti! I get in weird moods for that specific dish too.
Love the new site design, it looks awesome!
Nice bloglift! Tanya is awesome.
Freeze the extra ziti; it’s so amazing when you can just defrost and eat instead of slaving away in the kitchen.
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Hahaha- having a weird mom definitely builds character 😉
Yay for Lizzy!! And yay for rescue dogs and showing mill dogs allllll the love they deserve after such horrific treatment.
No man, woman, child, minority figure, or elephant is safe under this administration. Absolutely disgusting.
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I made ziti this week (from Skinnytaste) and we ate it all in two dinners because every time I plan a salad alongside, I forget to actually throw it together. But it had spinach and all the cheese was low fat so it’s basically health food.
Love that your dog is named for Elizabeth Warren. Yay for a new look!
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Thanks for the shout out! I appreciate it. As I am having issues with Frontier FiOS again, I’m extra glad that your site went up before all my Internet drama. I’m just so furious with everything going on. W was no cakewalk but it least it wasn’t something every day. And as much as it pains me to see who be revealed as today’s pig, I want to know so we can get them out power, whether it’s in DC, Hollywood or anywhere.
Your blog looks fabulous!!! I squealed when I saw you announce the addition of Lizzy! She is such a cutie and it sounds like she is fitting right in. Any pasta dish I make seems to make enough to serve an army. Hope you have a great weekend!