Weekend Musings | March 21, 2026
In my heart and in my cart + other things
In My Heart -
Yesterday, my algo served me this post because it knows I’m a woo-woo girl even though I won’t admit it. And anyway, can I just tell you that I FEEL it. I am recharged!
I have been dragging lately. With good, logical, not woo-woo related reasons at all. I haven’t caught up from the daylight savings time change, so I have snoozed my alarm for an hour plus for two weeks now. We got hit with a whopper storm and my kids were out of school for SIX days in a row, God help me. Still trying to get my feet under me at my new job. Etc etc forever and ever amen. I am a complainer, so I whined about what a doozy last week was and this weekand that’s annoying, but guys, that’s a lot of back-to-back doozies, okay. And while I’m always skeptical about woo-woo, I just find myself so drawn to it when it feels so spot on. March 20 was a good day and today, I just woke up feeling like myself again.
I can’t explain it, but hallelujah!
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So hey, like everyone else I’m watching Love Story and I think it’s great. I also think I’m Ryan Murphy’s target audience because I generally like his work. It’s just so consuming, you know? The soundtrack, the cigarettes - I can basically smell every restaurant they’re in. It still blows me away that not that long ago, people could just puff away indoors. When I was in college, I worked at an Applebees and I remember this guy just ripping darts at the bar and there was like, a glass panel between the bar and the dining room? So foul haha.
Anyway, I was a kid in the 90s and can vaguely remember the plane crash. And then a few summers ago, I read JFK Jr: America’s Reluctant Prince because I’m interested in the Kennedy family, but frankly more so in the Camelot years. So between those two things, that is the extent of what I know about JFK Jr. I know almost nothing about Carolyn. She was so elusive though, you know? It was part of her cool-girl lore. And so I’m enjoying the series! I think I can enjoy it like it’s pure fiction and these people aren’t real at all and that’s probably the best way to enjoy it, because as Daryl Hannah kindly pointed out, they are real. It’s the private moments and the representations that are not. I really feel for her after reading her reaction. I think it’s really fair to be bothered by a one-dimensional representation of what was a five year relationship that surely had some nuance.
Anyway! A long winded way to say I’m enjoying it a lot and crushed four episodes last night before forcing myself to go to sleep. I’m also committed to growing out my hair because Carolyn is giving me real hair envy!
Are you watching it?
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Oh and PS - my album of the week was Marvin Gaye’s Here, My Dear. It was a divorce album, but still somehow upbeat? The magic of Motown, baby!
In My Cart -
I have spring on the brain and that’s all there is to it.
+Oh my god, you can still buy these? Immediately yes. A treat for nostalgic me.
+A lovely spring scent to usher in (please, I beg!) warmer weather. At least my hands will smell like spring.
+Speaking of spring, welcome back into my life American Eagle! Was not expecting this beauty from the very last store left in my local mall.
+Related: AE sunnies in the most cheerful color way.
+Related to the former: another great dress to prepare thy mind for summer.
+Anyone read this memoir of marriage? I just added it to my TBR.
+A couple outfits I’ve pinned recently:
Other Things -
+ I am a mother, but I’m also a girl in her 30’s living for the first time
+Very curious about the MIND diet, which is not about weightless, so hackles down! This is about preserving cognition and how to feed thy brain. I’ve felt foggier than ever in the last year or so, and this stuff is heavily on my mind.
+A few things to know about the new MacBook Neos. I’m up for a new laptop and very curious about this price point!
+Quitting your worst habit. Lightbulb!
+This:
