Saw Whip It last night with two lovely lady friends. ‘Twas delightful (and expectedly campy). Afterward we all agreed that 1) we totally have girl-crushes on Ellen Page, and 2) the film made roller derby seem WAY sexier than did the real-life roller derby team passing out fliers outside the theater. Another case of life not imitating art.
Speaking of life-art imitations, I feel a bit as if I’ve been whip-it-ed (how does one form the past tense of “whip it”? whipped-it?) myself this week. It’s just been a whole slew of happenings and obligations and deadlines and responsibilities, one seeming to crowd in right on top of the last — but not in a wholly bad or overwhelming way. I mean, I like being busy. This week the busy-ness has been compounded by the fact that my hubby’s out of town. (But he’s on his way home right now, yay!)
The highlight reel:
- had a super-fun humpday happy hour with a handful of wonderful women and loads of delicious eats that I had a ball preparing (you MUST make these brownies from Smitten Kitchen, and this white bean-cherry tomato salad from Simply Recipes — both are divine). PLUS, close to half of the ingredients I used came from our garden! Double win!
- experienced my most successful week of Etsy sales yet: six sales since Tuesday! I’m stoked about having such a positive shop relaunch, and brimming with new ideas for things to make and do.
- got to eat all the leftover brownies myself since Ben’s away.
- it’s really starting to feel and even look like fall in Richmond, and the weather this week was decidedly on the cooler side of crisp. Bonus: Our A/C hasn’t run since last Sunday.
- finally, I was going to leave you with a magical video to enjoy, but YouTube seems to be down. Do yourself a favor and search for “fleet foxes tiger mountain peasant song cover” next time you’re YouTube-ing. You won’t be sorry. (Thanks to Tarfia for bringing this wonderful video to my attention.)
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