TGIM! (thank God it’s Monday- part sarcasm, part yay because Rat’s Nest!)
I know a grill hates to see me coming
🚨 While I have you here- please take 2 minutes to fill out my 3 question (anonymous) survey!!! Full honestly very encouraged. TYSM!
🎬 Mary Kate and Ashley’s entire New York Minute movie is free on YouTube- A pure nostalgia walk down memory lane featuring low-rise jeans and the Sidekick phone of my dreams.
me when New York Minute came out, fully convinced the Olsen twins would pick me out of a crowd as an obvious fellow style icon
📱 Casetify phone cases are indestructible- I've been using their heavy-duty case for about 4 years now. My phone has been lobbed across rooms, down stairs, and off my car trunk, and somehow my poor little iPhone remains completely unscathed. Bonus points for there being thousands of designs to choose from!!
🌱 Start a rooftop garden (and hold me accountable)- I just started a little rooftop garden with 5-gallon buckets, and I think you should too. Mine has jalapeños, cherry tomatoes, and basil- I went for plants that won't get torched on a Memphis rooftop, and two weeks in, we're thriving. You just need a couple of buckets from the hardware store, a drill for drainage holes, starter plants, soil, optional fertilizer+ tomato cage, and sunscreen so you don't burn to a crisp while you’re planting like I did. Is this whole thing motivated by the recent salmonella outbreak in tomatoes? Yes. We all cope differently, okay? (this tiktok video has a great how-to on the bucket planting process)
Before
~After~
Apple released their sneak peak of iOS 26. Honestly, kinda goes crazy. While I have major beef that the photos app is still horrendous, they did announce some pretty cool features, like a warning for your battery draining (maybe now my friends will stop yelling at me for my battery being on 2%) and live translations on FaceTime (maybe you can live out your Lizzie McGuire dreams after all).
From insane parades to protests, a lot happened last weekend: the No Kings protest went stoopid, and the Trump military parade…. happened.
The whole Iran and Israel conflict heating up again (this video here which my boyfriend wont stop telling me to add - please prove to him that you wont click it and it’s a terrible idea.)
for me it was two cups of malibu rum baby
Signing off running to water my tomatoes,
Kate!!
P.S. If you enjoyed this, send it to your friend who wants to garden. If you didn’t, send it to your extended list of enemies.
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