Just Good Shit: 11.29.20

I don’t know if anyone else noticed this, but it seemed to me like everyone’s Thanksgiving dinner this year was… a lot better looking than in past years? Normally I go on Insta reluctantly after the holiday (I’m sorry!! It’s just all very beige and mushy!!!!), but this year, I truly loved seeing everyone’s cute little meals! It kinda felt like once Millennials were in charge of their own fate — and weren’t necessarily having to cook a ton of food and/or a bunch of the same old recipes to please their extended families — things got a lot more exciting (and aesthetically pleasing). It was nice to see! I hope it was all as delicious and lovely as it looked.

Here’s what I had going on this week…

On the blog

• Good gift ideas for the sweet, smart, fun, and cool youths in your life

• Good gift ideas for people who want to cronch on something delicious

Reading

A Mother, Her Son — and Their 1,500-Mile Search for Home, New York Times.

A Lack of Transparency Is Undermining Pandemic Policy, Wired.

I handled holiday orders at a grocery store. Trust me: The holidays are miserable., Vox.

Christmas Dies Hard, The Atlantic.

The New Kristen Stewart Lesbian Rom-Com Is Kind Of A Bummer, BuzzFeed News.
(And if you don’t mind spoilers, read this one too.)

Danish Hygge Is So Last Year. Say Hello to Swedish Mys., NYT.

A happy ending, Ask a Manager.

Cooking

Aside from our Thanksgiving meal, we also made Dishoom’s wonderful chai. It has the added benefit of making your home smell like cardamom, cloves, and cinnamon…light some unscented taper candles and you’ve got an incredibly cozy winter vibe!

Watching

I watched The Holiday for the first time and hooooo boy — it did not live up to the hype at all. I wanted to like it but I honestly hated it! I also watched A Muppet Christmas Carol for the first time, and thought that was pretty cute and fun. And we watched Happiest Season which was…fine! (I agree with everything Shannon wrote in that BF post above.)

In non-Christmas programming news, we also watched Taylor Swift’s Folklore special on Disney+. And we’ve been watching How To with John Wilson on HBO Max and are loving it so much. It’s so wholesome and funny and interesting; I cannot recommend it enough!

Have a good night! 🌟

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