five finds friday: at home edition

I just wanted to bandwagon every celebrity and make this an at-home edition of my regular Five Finds Friday post. Except, of course, it’s always the at-home edition since I live and write from home.

I mean, usually I do all of that. From home. But sometimes from coffee shops or outside somewhere. But this week everything is exclusively from home ALL THE TIME.

This week has felt, like all of yours I’m sure, very long.

A giant glass bottle of lotion broke on the tile floor yesterday. It smelled amazing and the shards of glass didn’t hurt so badly when swimming in lotion.

At the beginning of the week I could only do three push ups.

Now I can do four.

funny

What’s funny right now?

I don’t know.

Everything. Nothing.

There’s a billion memes floating around and some of them are funny but I’m kind of tired of them all.

Having Zoom class sessions with nine high school students. That’s funny. It’s like magic though, you can mute all of them at once. It’s amusing to see their faces when they notice they’ve been muted.

Once this is all over we’re going to start to expect to be able to mute people in business meetings all of the time.

It won’t work. But we’ll wish it did.

Do you think it would be funny to try to host virtual blind dates right now?

A friend and I were talking about that idea. I think it could be fun and comical. Maybe there’s a better word than comical. But I’m also not sure how the logistics would work out.

fashionable

I have always thought of myself as a low maintenance kind of girl.

But maybe that’s changing.

Shoot, I’m 46, EVERYTHING about my body is changing.

My metabolism. (See you later Ability To Eat Four Slices of Pizza and Dessert and Never Notice A Difference in My Jeans. You deceived me in my 20s and made me live like that in my 30s only to really hit me hard in my 40s. Thanks a lot.)

The skin on my face’s texture and color and everything. (Uh – WHY on earth does any women have to battle the growth of facial hair? I don’t care if it’s blonde, it still exists and I AM MAD AT IT.)

My hair. (Oh how I really miss getting my hair colored. WHO AM I?)

My eyelashes. (Uh, those extensions were great but now my little eyelids are looking naked except two very stubborn stragglers. It is not attractive.)

I seriously could go on.

But as I read this I realize I am beginning to sound like high school me and she was pretty self-obsessed. I think from now on I should adopt a fly by relationship with mirrors. Just fly right by them, quick glances only. No lingering at a mirror. No up close and enlarged sort of mirror. Just quick fly bys only.

I did put on a bracelet and earrings today because I needed to go sign my taxes and I needed to go to the grocery store. (Something I have been avoiding for nearly two weeks.) I felt fancy, wearing earrings and all.

flavorful

Everyone keeps eating here. I’m going to need to ration milk again or something.

Fresh fruit vanishes immediately.

And at the store a lot of the meat options are gone. I don’t even know why that is.

So I spontaneously purchased a frozen turkey breast. There were plenty of those.

And today I put loads of potatoes and carrots and onions, a few sprigs of rosemary from our generous plant outside, and that turkey breast in the crock pot and let that miracle machine work its magic.

In the Instant Pot I put this Trader Joe’s Harvest Blend couscous in, using this recipe. (Ridiculously easy.) I had purchased the couscous a while ago and had forgotten about it. Seems like a good time to clean out those cabinets.

Turned out to be a hearty, filling, flavorful and delicious meal.

Success in a week filled with eating waffles and sandwiches and cereal.

faithful

This phrase has been a staple in my life, in our family’s life, for years.

Keep Looking Up.

It means a lot to a lot of folks.

But for us, it means keep looking up – to a God who will provide.

And keep looking up – give it one more day, one foot in front of the other, one step at a time.

feels

Yes, everyone everywhere is doing a live show from their basement or their sofa or their desk. Or, if you’re Jimmy Fallon, from some cooler than all of our own homes treehouse space with an indoor slide and drums and themed wall art. Come on, Jimmy – we know you’re rich. We get it. It’s funny, because I actually am usually very entertained by Jimmy Fallon, but watching him awkwardly engage (or not engage) with his kids had made him little less appealing to me. Whatever, that sounds terrible. I’ll probably delete this paragraph later.

James Corden is consistently my favorite in regular times but I’ve only seen clips of his attempts at an at home version and they haven’t pulled me in too much yet. The one thing Jimmy is doing well is just owning that it’s different, sharing his kids drawing the art, doing Zoom calls with his guests, just all around letting it be simpler.

Stephen Colbert I can pass right over – dude, just wear a t-shirt and jeans, please.

But you know what has been the absolute best thing I’ve seen in this realm of celebrity broadcasting from home?

John Krasinski, not a talk show host, has put together the best little epidode of something he is calling Some Good News. It’s fabulous – sincere, simple and heartfelt. And funny. It’s nearly perfect.

You’ve probably already seen it – I’m not the first to anything.

But if you haven’t, go watch it. It’s worth it.

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