I was just going to start rambling about how I listened to the Decemberists’ entire discography again and had a good time and then I realized I hadn’t copied and pasted the header in this post so I went to do that only to discover that I already talked about re-listening to the Decemberists… Cruelties of fate.

I was also going to talk about how I listened to a bunch of Bad Religion but then I typed a sentence and went… Where did I already type this? And it turns out it was tumblr (yes, tumblr still exists, yes there are people still using it, yes we’re having a great time thanks) where I got tagged in a meme and wrote about what I had been listening to, so let’s cheat the system and share that!

stuff i was listening to the week of february 6th:

• boy, “boris”
• lo-fang, “boris”

(i heard the cover first and i think it’s really interesting to hear them back to back, how little he had to change to make it from the man’s perspective and how unsettling they both are for different reasons, i love covers and i love when they’re in conversation with each other!!)

• melissa etheridge, “like the way i do” (incredibleeeee of the time styling in that video lmao – also my sister gave me a melissa etheridge album for christmas when i was like 10 and later on we were both like, ohhhhh yeah lmaooo)
• wheatus, “love is a mutt from hell” (WHEATUS IS DEEPLY UNDERRATED!!!! even “teenage dirtbag” doesn’t get the credit it deserves!!!!! me and one guy on reddit get it)
• bad religion, “21st century digital boy” (as a born and bred southern californian i am legally obliged to like bad religion but i also just like them normal-style, in many ways it is country music for people who grew up eating in-n-out bc it was cheap – this song was extremely prescient and then it seemed out of touch and now it’s gone back around again)

in general i have been listening to my february playlist and also your crystals cleansing and chardonnay aunt’s favorites because the weather is alternating between miserable and tricking me with false spring

I finished listening to You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian which I thought was delightful. I feel like I’ve read a lot of books this year, but I think I’ve just been consistent enough about reading every day (at least 15 minutes at a time, at least twice a day!) that it seems like I’m blowing through things but I’m really not. Which is fine! But confusing.

We’ve been spending most of our time working to get the guest bedroom/rest of the house in order for our friends who are coming to visit at the end of the month so most of my brain energy has been there. I did use our George Foreman grill the other night and remembered how much I love it. I survived college on the original version 20+ years ago and it continues to work exactly the way you need it too with little change except the one I have now is bigger. The infomercials had it right sometimes!

And also I guess if you too are in the Twin Cities, I highly recommend The Clapping Monkey coffee in (as our house search birthed, “I don’t want to live in damn honky
”) Fridley. By far the best iced mocha I’ve had in god knows how long and some great grilled cheeses also!

Okay, I guess that’s it? We haven’t made our donations yet this month, but I think we’ll probably donate to some more mutual aid groups and I hope you’ll find some close to you or in a vulnerable area and do that too!