Friday Faves + A (Positive) Result
Things to Keep Me Busy
Things to keep me preoccupied while I contemplate what to do after learning (yesterday) that my girl The Tick was indeed infected with Lyme (also: shout out to New Jersey Laboratories for their quick turnaround in reporting the results via email):
Today I'm driving out to Long Island to spend time with old friends. Tonight I'll catch up with the girl in college with whom I'd lay in our dorm hallway late into the night smoking clove cigarettes, listening to Billie Holiday and parsing the meaning of life. Hopefully, tonight will be similar, minus the cigarettes and replaced by red wine. But always Billie.
Then Saturday I get to reconnect with my former work wife, with whom I traveled all over the country in my early 20s putting on fashion events and eating and staying in some of the nicest places that I didn't even appreciate back then. I'd really never even stayed in a hotel until I started traveling for work, so what did I know about the Sonoma Mission Inn or the Mondrian in LA? Ritz Carltons everywhere. But she knew everything (like, lunch at The Ivy) and we might have made peanuts, but kinda lived like queens for a while (albeit ones shlepping armloads of dresses and shoes). Remind me to tell you some day about the time we thought we'd just do a quick drive from a show in LA to another in Sonoma. The man we were telling this to looked at us and said, "You know that's an 11 hour drive?" Oh. Life before Waze was so much more exciting. And so was the trip.
This profile in the NYTimes is chock full of 3 THINGS I LOVE SOOOO MUCH: Tom Hanks, Mr. Rogers and Taffy Brodesser-Akner (this generation's Nora Eprhon and someone whose writing I just love + covet).
A few times this summer, I literally thought I was experiencing the onset of early dementia. Like, I'd be driving to Target and, for a hot sec, forget which way to go. Alarming. And sometimes, I'd be in mid-sentence and unable to remember the word for "bread" (that soft stuff you put ham in between). This article in The Atlantic made me feel a little better about my situation and lays out just what The Change does to our brains.
Here's my ideal routine most mornings: wake, coffee, settle on couch, meditate, journal, go into kitchen to make teen breakfast while listening to The Daily podcast on my dear, all-knowing Alexa. One of this week's episodes featured a third grader, Leo, breaking down the impeachment situation. So good.
Happy Friday!
xoAmy
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Honestly, I was not remotely interested in watching HBO's Succession until A: my oldest son kept asking me when I was going to start (I value his TV recs) and B: the whole world seemed to be watching when Season 2 dropped. Far be it from me to not want to know what everyone's talking about, so I zoomed through both seasons and LOVED.