Rat's Nest Week 28

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• Smash or pass- Covid supply edition:

  • Trader Joe’s tissues- pass (maybe could use as sandpaper for your next furniture flip though)

  • Kleenex soothing lotion tissues- SMASH. Best tissues of all time. They don’t leave a weird lotiony residue and I have gone through 2 boxes the last week and my nose isn’t all red and raw. I will pledge allegiance to these for the rest of my days.

  • Traditional medicinals cough drops- pass. a Werther’s Original would do the same thing.

  • Ricola honey herb cough drops- smash. no notes.

  • Alternating Advil and Tylenol- I try to avoid taking these all together but desperate times call for them. They’re cleared by different organs in your body so alternating made me feel a little better about it (this is not medical advice and i don’t know if alternating actually makes a difference but it works for me).

• Rat’s Hall of Shame- Patrick Ta’s brow gel left a white flakey film on my brows, and Elf’s gave me eyebrow acne (gross, I know).

• Jam of the week- a 12 hour, non looping (!!!) brown noise track on Spotify

• ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ Fans Are Pissed at Wendy’s for Breaking This Sacred Rule- the beef surrounding the collab getting very mixed reviews

• Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve says series ‘stolen’ after poor officiating in WNBA Finals loss to Liberty

• Kate James, author of Rat’s Nest, tested positive for Covid-19. Despite being down bad for a week, she is slowly recovering.

• Jonathan Groff Addresses Rumor His BFF Lea Michele Can’t Read- Groff claims he’s seen her read, but I love a good low-stakes conspiracy theory so I refuse to believe it.

• Bobo’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oat Bites

• Pipcorn Heirloom Cinnamon Sugar Twists