Things I Like - October

My monthly round-up of 5 things I'm liking, with a few affiliate links sprinkled in.  Thanks for helping support the blog! =)  See more here!
 
1) Blueberry Morning cereal

This is most definitely my favorite cereal (and I really like cereal).  It has been for decades.  Since it is more expensive than the generic cereal we buy at Aldi, it's long been a Sunday morning treat - only then, always.  THEN, horrors, EIGHT years ago I stopped being able to find it anywhere and I loved at every grocery store in town.  My sister found it a few times at bent & dent stores and every time, bought every single box (I ended up with more than 10 after one of her shopping trips.) but those times were few and far between.  Then miracles of miracles, our Kroger has started carrying it again recently which makes me very happy.  I'm back to my Sunday morning breakfast ritual and absolutely delighted every week.  It has blueberries and a bunch of textures and interesting flavors...it is the best. 

2) Brooklyn Nine-Nine

We think this is currently the funniest show on tv yet I don't seem to know anyone else who watches it.  It's by (some of) the same people who did The Office and Parks & Rec and has a similar, workplace humor.  This time a police station in Brooklyn.  It's a little goofy, like Parks & Rec, but sometimes there is serious police work too.  My googling tells me all the past and current seasons are on Hulu.  If you need a new binge and liked The Office and/or Parks & Rec, I'd give this a try.

3) Lion

This is a fantastically moving movie.  It is about a little boy in India who follows his big brother looking for work one morning.  They get separated and the little boy wanders on the streets for awhile before being put up for adoption and being adopted by an Australian family.  He is 5-6 when he moves to a new continent, new language, completely new people.  He grows up with a pretty nice life but then in his 20s (I think?) tries to find his original Indian village, his original family, with the help of Google maps.  I almost cried.  It's based on a true story (and there are pictures and follow-up on the real people at the end).  Incredibly, incredibly moving (and made me SO GLAD we met Luke's birth mom and knows she signed off on the papers...)  Highly recommend.

4) Buf-Puf

I love these.  I used to buy individual use sponges (that we would use more than once) but couldn't find them again when my stash ran out.  And I could really tell a difference on my face when I didn't have one for a month or two.  Now I did an Amazon subscription on a pack of these and my my skin is a little happier for it.  I use one in the shower once or twice a week and they are just the right amount of extra exfoliation, beyond my normal face wash.  One side is rougher than the other, when you might need a little more scrubbing.  One of my favorite beauty products I've ever used.

5) Grey's Anatomy (season one billion)

This show has been on forever and I've been watching it forever.  Matt brought a VHS tape with the first 1 or 2 episodes when he was visiting me towards the end of my senior year of college and I've been watching it ever since.  Matt gave up in the middle of season 2, I believe (and I've banned him from the room when I watch because he just constantly comments on how unrealistic as a hospital.  Whatever.)  There have definitely been rough seasons, maybe a lot of them (our personal favorite is the one when someone is impaled by a large icicle and it DOESN'T MELT even after hours in the warm hospital building).  And there are a lot of reasons I probably should have given up on this show a long time ago but I really do think this latest season, 14, is starting strong.  A lot less heavy than some of the earlier ones.  It's an overwhelming task to rewatch the whole series to date (it took me 18 months to rewatch the first 10-11) but I am glad I have stuck with it this long.
   

What things have YOU been liking lately? Who else has stuck with Grey's over 14 seasons, ghosts, dead husbands, and non-melting icicles?