Hi Friends!!
Quick housekeeping note: If Week 55 landed in your Promotions tab, drag it to Primary once and future issues will (hopefully) go where they belong!!
✨Anyways✨ I'm having one of those weeks where every task feels so... tasky? And nothing is ever done? Unfortunately I think that's just the heightened feeling of being alive, which I guess is a great thing? In unrelated (very related) news, I have an ADHD screening on Thursday, which I've heard can be very dicey to do as an adult. If my suspicions are correct, I'm about to be unstoppable. Maybe those recipes I've written will actually make it into the newsletter?! The deep-ish dives could return?! The sky is the limit. Prepare to be sick of me!!!!!
Kosas Brow Gel- picked up my 6th one of these last week. I have veered off course and regretted it every time (looking at you, Rare Beauty, Elf, Patrick Ta). It's the perfect one-and-done brow product IF you have semi-thick brows already + prefer a “natural” look.
The internet is an absolute dumpster fire (derogatory) of finance charlatans claiming the key to wealth is paying everything in cash (probably not) or buying the newest memecoin (definitely not). Through all the noise, Ramit Sethi is my financial go-to guy. I consider myself financially literate (for the most part), and his methods pass basically all my sniff tests. Bonus: his new book is a guide for having money conversations with your partner, which understandably is hard for most people. Sign up for his free conscious spending plan here, and get his first book here.
Luckily I have sustained my child-like wonder for a good card trick, so I lost my mind when my boyfriend's dad told us DAVID BLAINE!!!! (the levitating guy) has a new show on Hulu. It's not for the faint of heart, but it's incredibly entertaining. P.S. no David Blaine slander allowed in this community. If you tell me he can't actually levitate, I'm ignoring you (love u still)
It would be a crime for me to bring up David Blaine without resurfacing one of the greatest YouTube parodies of all time!!
Money can’t buy good taste- Jeff Bezos married Lauren Sanchez last weekend in Venice. All of the money in the world, yet he still said “i do” while standing on carpet tiles with Sydney Sweeney in the crowd. Also, yes I am a hater why is she wearing a long sleeve corpse bride gown in June?
Bad news- your Afterpay habit is about to haunt your mortgage rate. FICO will soon factor in your payment habits on those boots you justified with 4 payments of $150 last year.
Not to sound holier than thou, but I think these payment systems are incredibly predatory, but towards young women especially - so having real credit implications like credit cards could actually be good.
NATO chief clarifies Trump comments: ‘I didn’t call him daddy’- That’s a real, not edited headline. No further comment.
The Devil Wears Orthotics- Anna Wintour (finally) stepped down as Editor-in-Chief of Vogue, but don't mistake this as retirement!! Our favorite girlboss is still overseeing much of the Conde Nast portfolio.
To read:
An AI generated band has somehow garnered 400k listeners a month on Spotify- we’re in the Bad Place, aren’t we?
RFK pushes for better infant formula standards (yay!! but i still think he’s nuts lol)
Dyson (yes, the vacuum company) has a 26-acre glasshouse growing 1.25 million strawberry plants powered by renewable energy. I don't really know what to say about this except that it's pretty sick?!
To peruse:
I've come to terms with the fact that I have a lot of anxiety. In my quest for coping mechanisms, cold plunging KEEPS COMING UP. Between this + reading The Comfort Crisis (more on this in upcoming issues), I've convinced myself I may need a rooftop cold plunge…?
An entirely too expensive top that I need to find a dupe of
The insane growth of Labubu’s parent company, Pop Mart [YouTube]. The craze around Labubus and the extent people will go to get them is wild- i’m talking hours of waiting on livestreams, standing in line for hours, etc- all things I am unwilling to do.
Came out of baking retirement yesterday and revisited one of my favorite baking books - would make a really cute housewarming/birthday/just because gift!!!
Because I refuse to spend HOURS trying to get an authentic one, yet I still succumbed to the trend, I am the owner of the most busted Lafufu (fake Labubu) i’ve ever seen.
Signing off with an ice cold Root Beer Float,
Kate
P.S. If you enjoyed this, send it to your friend who also needs an ADHD screening. If you didn't, send it to Jeff Bezos's wedding planner.
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