Happy Friday, darlings!
Today is an extra special Friday because It’s my mom’s birthday - happy birthday, mom!
It’s been a busy, exciting week filled with a lot of work, a few library trips, a lot of egg products (more on the week’s meal prep coming on Monday!) and more.
Below, a few things I liked most of all this week.
Enjoy your weekends!
Watching Get on Your Knees for the 8,000th time
When I found out Get on Your Knees, Jacqueline Novak’s ingenious meditation on blow jobs was coming to Netflix, I wasn’t sure I needed to watch it. I’d already seen it three times, after all. But I was curious to see what, if anything, would be different from the live show. I would be able to tell, obviously. As mentioned, I’ve seen it three whole times.
But, in fact, it was more than worth watching again, if only for the new vantage point. Seeing Novak’s face up close while she delivers banger joke after banger joke was pure delight. As I did during every other time I’ve watched it, I smiled the whole time.
Mandarins from Trader Joes
I admit – I’m no citrus fanatic. I much prefer a berry to an orange or orange adjacent fruit any day. Until the day I tasted the leaf & stem mandarins at Trader Joe’s.
They are sweet and tangy and full of flavor. Rachel bought a box this week and we deemed them so delicious we went back two days later to buy (an undisclosed amount) more boxes. They’re $5.99 per box and well worth it.
The microphones we bought at B&H
All of the work we’ve done so far for our upcoming project has been recorded on our phones. And we marveled at the sound quality. It sounded good! But then, we bought microphones at B&H with some of our grant money.
Holy. Shit. Our phones ain’t shit.
Suddenly everything sounds like smooth velvety butter and I don’t even mind the sound of my own voice. Plus, if you need any electronic equipment, for anything ever at all, and you live in New York, I beg of you, buy it at B&H.
I am not telling most people anything they don’t already know already, B&H is an institution. But we were considering buying the equipment online, and I’m so glad we didn’t. We spent an hour talking to an audio engineer who really knew what he was talking about, who wasn’t trying to upsell us and didn’t have an agenda. Partially because that they don’t do commission, and partially because it’s just a place where people who feel passionately about their particular tools and craft can share their expertise with us mere mortals.
Plus, they have a microphone room where you can test any microphone you want. Is that not the most fun thing you’ve ever heard?
In any event, I feel lucky to be able to support a local business instead of the big bad internet billionaires and as always, I feel lucky to live in a place where I can do that.
My scale
ICYMI: I wrote about my scale this week. I never thought I'd see the day where I not only tolerated a scale, but actually liked one. And yet, here we are. I’m really proud of the essay that the scale spurred and I’m really excited to be using a scale in a neutral way for the first time maybe ever?
You can read about how I got to this point, along with a number of other feelings about body image and mental health in Resolution Report.
And that’s all she wrote. Love you, happy weekend!
Love,
Jamie AF
Your forthright honesty helps us all to consider our surroundings and our relationship to them. And you ability to see and observe is instructive! 💃😎