Many times over the last few months I asked Matt if he would watch a Mr. Roger's documentary with me. I had gotten it at the library and had heard really good things about it. He may have watched it just so I would stop talking about it. I grew up watching Mr. Roger's Neighborhood and have so many fond memories of it. Remember the Picture Picture that showed how crayons are made? That one was my favorite. (It's on YouTube.) There were some musical episodes that took place entirely in the land of make believe? This documentary covered a lot of things that took place on the show before I was born and I haven't seen nearly all the episodes because there were a lot but this was such a comforting and charming watch. I didn't realize how incredibly gifted Mr. Roger's was at dealing with the emotions of young kids and that made me appreciate all my childhood viewings all the more. I almost cried by the end (my husband did not have the same reaction). I'd highly recommend if you grew up watching Mr. Roger's too!
I like finding a something I really like and then never switching. I like having go-tos. For instant, my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, my favorite brownie recipe. Once I find a good one I stop looking around. Now I think I found our ideal body wash and I don't need to try others. This was a semi-impulse buy at Target and I think it works really well. It has a slight coconut smell but I don't notice it once I'm out of the shower. Matt is happy with it. Best of all, it has a pump so I know, most of the time, I just need one pump on my poofie. Maybe 1½ if I just ran in the summer but otherwise, one pump will do. I previously had a tendency to WAY over use body wash so this is perfect. This one bottle has lasted a couple months and I just bought a few more when Target had them on sale. I am very happy I happened to pick this up.
(I am still on the hunt for a perfect, affordable mascara if anyone has suggestions! I buy a different one every time and haven't been thrilled with any.)
This list is very Target heavy this month. I don't want to admit how many orders I've placed there in the past week (they had clothes buy one get one 60% off + 15% off everything on Monday! Bought most of Luke's school uniform pieces for next year but did many orders to maximize my savings - I didn't want them just taking 60% off my lowest priced items!).
ANYWAYS. We have an old house with uneven floors and no perfect 90° corners. Our bedroom door is not hung perfectly straight and has had trouble staying open the whole time we've lived here. It drives me just a little bit crazy. So, during another sale, I bought this bookend to hold it open. It was $11 and has worked perfectly. It makes me a little bit happier every time I see it holding the door perfectly open. And, when we move, I can use it as a bookend which also makes me happy. Unless we have more door shutting problems.
This is a 7 part documentary that we recently watched on Netflix and found mostly enjoyable. It looks like it may have first aired on CNN last summer but we don't have cable and just found it on Netflix. The first 3 episodes were super fun - talking about music and tv shows from the 90s (Friends and Backstreet Boys both got mentions). We were 6½ when the decade started and 16½ at the end so a lot of the pop culture things we knew about and could compare memories since we didn't know each other in the 90s.
The last 4 were much more newsy - the Clinton affair, OJ Simpson, terrorist attacks (very weird watching news footage of the car bomb at the World Trade Center knowing 9/11 was coming right after this decade ended). It was kinda a depressing end but also very educational since a lot of the politics and world events we didn't know about, being so young at the start of the decade. I'm still really glad we watched it. I also feel really smart for including TWO documentaries on this list, even though they are both pretty pop culture-y.
I think a sign of being old is being very excited about a new vacuum. Although, Luke is also really excited about this purchase and he's 5. When we bought our house my MIL gave us an extra vacuum they had. It was used and I have no idea where it came from, probably an auction (they go to a lot of those). We had just bought a house and were planning a wedding so anything we didn't have to buy was fantastic. We used that vacuum, which worked pretty well!, for the last almost 13 years.
Then I was tempted by cordless vacuums that are lightweight and easy to carry around...since I vacuum upstairs a whole once a month. Matt talked me into one with a removable hose so we (I) can vacuum between couch cushions and such, that is a feature that I use every time I vacuum instead of being super concerned with the weight of carrying it up the stairs once a month.
We bought this one for under $100 on Black Friday and, despite the fact that I do 90% of the vacuuming, Matt and Luke were the most excited to open it and get it going. OH MY GOODNESS. I vacuum the whole downstairs every Friday. We opened this on Tuesday and Luke started vacuuming. It was AMAZING at what it picked up, mostly rug fibers, that the old one had missed just a few days earlier. I am really excited to vacuum again today to see how much more it gets. It's also super helpful to have a clear container so we can see when it needs emptied. I had a tendency to overfill the bag on the old one, wonder why it wasn't working well, and then have Luke point out that I should check the bag. So. This one should be an improvement all around. #adult
What have YOU been liking lately?
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