🥬 Lil Treasures #217: Lettuce Heads and A Love Story
We're talking bowflexes, Bingo and the celestial ladle
Hello and welcome!
Happy Friday to you, and may your immune system be stronger and more functional than mine. This sinus infection from hell is still inhabiting my body, although I do hope and pray it’s on it’s way out. My voice has transformed from high-pitched, very Mickey Mouse-adjacent to low and raspy with a hint of Jennifer Coolidge?
This week contained Usher on roller skates, Mardi Gras, Valentine’s day, the beginning of Lent, plenty of great Taylor + Travis content, etc etc. I have thoughts on all of it but I’ll have save that for another time when my energy levels are back to normal. If you have spicy takes or opinions about any of it (and more), drop them in the comments! But for now, let’s get to the reason we’re all here, the treaaaaaaaasures.
This week’s treasures
💑 Quickly, to start things off, we must address this video of Swelce after the SuperBowl. It’s everything I/we wanted.
🤸 That feeling of exhilaration when your plans with the girls finally work out after rescheduling over and over again.
💐 Kate Baer’s poem The Bridesmaid’s Speech is such a lovely tribute to the women we hold close.
🤠 Beyonce announced that she is dropping Renaissance Act II aka her debut country album and this is me preparing.
✝️ If the season of Lent isn’t something you grew up talking about or following, you should check out this week’s episode of Faith Adjacent called What the hell is Lent? We’re digging into this SWDGISS (Stuff We Didn’t Get in Sunday School) episode to talk through the importance of the liturgical calendar, why we celebrate, and even do a deep-dive on the meaning behind Easter eggs. Cue up the episode wherever you get your pods!
💀 SPEAKING OF LENT….the Memento Mori study has officially kicked off over in The Swipe Up+! If you wanna jump on this train, it’s not too late and we would love to have you. Just click the button below to join for $6 a month, or email me at hello@erinhmoon.com if you want to participate but the monthly cost is out of the question during this time. And regardless of how you are spending your Lenten season, be sure to check out my Lent playlist for your Lent & Holy Week soundtrack needs.
🌍 One of my Roman Empires is this iconic line reading from Maya Rudolph. Tooooo what end!
Let’s Dive In to the Memes!
Thanks for reading this week’s edition of Lil Treasures! Do me a favor and have one heck of a weekend, okay? See you here again next week 💋
What is it like to believe you are so beautiful the only reason someone would be looking at you is because they desire you? I would be like "omg someone is staring at me I must have lettuce in my hair" 😂 Also raise your hand if you were personally victimized by the morning time management one 🙋🏼♀️ Anyway - just wanted to show my face because it's been a minute and everything is slightly off in my universe - not super awful but not great and I just wanted to ask for prayers for the good the bad and the ugly from a group of folks I know will give them. My birthday is next week so that would be a lovely gift knowing I am getting a crazy big prayer bump in the atmosphere 😘 thanks and I hope you all have a lovely weekend ❤️
Oh my goodness these memes are what's sustaining me. Thank you for your service, Erin.
Turds:
- I had a mild stomach bug on V-Day.
- Our public library board has been hijacked by Moms For Liberty. At their board meeting last week they voted on a new policy that prevents the library from purchasing any books with "sexual content" for 17 and under sections of the library (mainly meaning no LGBTQ+ materials). They've hired an attorney that aligns with their views because they know this will spark some legal drama and plan to pay her $200 an hour. The library's budget is already allocated for the year and there is no extra money for attorneys, so the board took $2,000 from the library's advertising budget and set it aside for their impending legal woes. And now because the library has official policies that are discriminatory, they are at risk of losing funding from several of their largest donors. The whole situation makes me so sad and I don't know what to do.
Treasures:
- I participated in a leadership program through my work last year and we had a graduation ceremony last week in Atlanta! It was the first time meeting the other cohort members in person and it was such a good time, even for this super introvert. And I got to see my very best friend who lives across the country and have dinner with her while I was there.
- Our library (the same one from above) started a romance book club and we had our first meeting on Monday! We discussed People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry and next month we are reading Assistant to the Villain. There were only 5 of us and 3 were librarians. I want this to be successful and last a long time, so if y'all have any best practices for book clubs please feel free to share!
- My husband and I are having a 2000s date night tonight. We're ordering Papa Johns pizza, drinking soda, eating candy, watching Napoleon Dynamite, and staying up late to giggle and gossip. I'm so excited!
Alright, that's it! Can't wait to catch up in the comments!