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Stefanie Mullen's avatar

Love ALL of this. Don't buy a sourdough starter, let's meet for coffee and I will bring you one. Mine is decades old. A friend's family shared theirs with me.

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kaylen alexandra's avatar

I would LOVE your sourdough tips!! 😍 Let’s do it!!

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kamil's avatar

felt this because everything does feel like a shitshow most of the time ;/

love your shares on what's helping you in the self-management area. you mentioning insight gives me a push to get back to my practice of using it. One of my favorite things up there was a brief 3-minute meditation from Dora Kamau titled "the only place you need to be is here". and no, I think what matters most is making your sourdough, not the way in which you make it, use whatever you need to get it started!

on my self-management rotation right now, is a lot of reading of things that interest me, I've been doing some easy diy upcycling projects with old tshirts that need a refresher, reddit, lots of time on my yoga mat, rewatching Insecure for the 1500th time, and baking--i really enjoyed this chocolate chip recipe from the food blog "eat with clarity"

https://eatwithclarity.com/gluten-free-chocolate-chip-cookies/

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kaylen alexandra's avatar

Kamil- where have you been hiding all our lives?!

I love your shares RIGHT BACK.

Would love to see what you are doing with your old T-shirts! I also love a chocolate chip cookie and will be running to check out your GF recipe here.

Thank you for jumping in, thank you for sharing your meditation and validating my sourdough dreams! Xx

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kamil's avatar

Ahhh, you're so sweet boo! Let me know if you try the recipe and even the meditation! I traveled today, but packed some of my tshirts with me to wear, so once I pull them out my suitcase, I'm going to post them in a note and tag you! it's a nice creative outlet for my inner child and helps me update the wardrobe, feeding two birds with one seed!

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Chris Anselmo's avatar

Aw thanks for the shoutout! I love list posts.

Currently reading: Your newsleter. But also, Four Thousand Weeks, by Oliver Burkeman

Currently watching: The Lincoln Lawyer

Currently listening: I'm not a big podcast guy. And I've never completed an audiobook so I'm no help there....

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kaylen alexandra's avatar

📕 Four Thousand Weeks- noted, I’ll check it out!

📺 We LOVED Lincoln Lawyer!!

🎶 This works out for me bc my podcast list is too long to manage! I’ll just continue to report back with the goods I catch and you do the same for any sparkling reads!

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Chris Anselmo's avatar

New season of Lincoln Lawyer comes out tomorrow!!

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kaylen alexandra's avatar

!!! No way?!

New episode of Agatha tonight & fresh season of LL tomorrow?!

You just made our WEEK over here.

THANK YOU 🙏

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Chris Anselmo's avatar

I made my week too by Googling it 😀

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Megan Lee's avatar

Ahh yassss we love a good round up!!! 😍😍 I have thoughts!

1. 48 hour work week with built in chores. Sobs. 😭

2. Emily in Paris!!!! SUCH a delight. Except the seasons go by in a flash! Still sad about that.

3. My daughter was OBSESSED with Astronaut in the Ocean when it came out, and still likes it! And, has a devilish grin anytime it’s not the Kidz Bop version. Oops. 😂

4. Oooooh I deff wanna checkout I Might Regret this!!!

5. Thank you so very much for a shoutout, friend! 🥹🥹🥹 Absolutely friends in my book. 🥰💛

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kaylen alexandra's avatar

I just love you 🥹

That is all.

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Megan Lee's avatar

And I love YOU, too. 🤗

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Marc Typo's avatar

Just finished Nobody Wants this on Netflix. Really good rom-com I wasn’t expecting I would enjoy. Also watching Love is Blind too. And when I’m not watching TV with my wife, I’ve been really interesting learning and watching about Formula 1. Never knew race car driving had so much drama!

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kaylen alexandra's avatar

Marc!!! Hello friend!! Mesa (here in the comments with us) and I LOVED Nobody Wants This!! It mirrors much of my own marriage, my husband reverted to Islam a four our son was born. I loved seeing the inter-religious couple on the screen with NWT!

Also binging LIB- Ashley & Tyler ❤️🥰 my faves (for now!)

Recently discovered through my friend that there is an Arab version of LIB on Netflix, called LIB- Habibi. Fascinating stuff. If you like learning about people and culture, check it out!! So different from the US version!

Thank you for stopping by and for sharing your shows!

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Marc Typo's avatar

My wife and I had some tension in the beginning of our relationships around faith. I love seeing love played on the screen in a way that felt really healthy.

Loving Ashley and Tyler so much right now. Very disappointed in Ramses right now - reminds me how much work we all have to do in different areas in our lives even if we are "standing on the right side" of social issues.

I need to take a look at LIB- Habibi - so muvh TV to watch! ahhh lol

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kaylen alexandra's avatar

How interesting!! If ever you wrote about that I would be ALL ABOUT IT. I realize it’s sensitive, and with kiddos in the mix opposing religious beliefs (if if everyone is on the same page now) can be difficult to talk about. Props to you and wifey. 💙

RAMSES 🤣 say less!!

Hope to see you over in your comment section soon!

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Mesa Fama's avatar

Okay you’ve convinced me to jump on the Wanda train!!

I love your list 😍😍 Funny story about Russell Brand- we almost got to interview him for our documentary 🤣🤣 wayyyyyy back in 2013 before he was uber weirdo cool lol

I’m currently trying to talk myself out of getting a pumpkin pie Blizzard from DQ.. I’ll let you know how that goes!

I’m currently reading Practical Magic, and Nora’s memoir (love her!).

I recently discovered that there’s an entire The Nature Company playlist on Spotify.. it’s all the songs that they used to play in their stores in the 90s 🤣 takes me back to when I used to work there in the mall days 🙃

I have fallen in love Nobody Wants This on Netflix! Hands down one of the best shows I’ve watched. It made me fall for Adam Brody so now I’m going down the OC rabbit hole of loving Seth Cohen 🤣🤣 if you don’t know what I’m talking about please ignore me 🤣🤣

Okay that’s all for now! I 🩵 Youuuu!!!

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kaylen alexandra's avatar

Mesa!! 10/10 content right here!!

1. YES. JOIN THE WANDA TRAIN- you won't regret!

2. Pumpkin Pie Blizzard- REPORT BACK!! That sounds scrumptious.

3. I need to read Practical Magic and I love that you (know) and Love Nora too!! She's incredible!!

4. I skipped Russel whoopsie!! LOL But that is AMAZING that you had that opportunity?! His audio book is read by himself (of course) so it's really quite an audiobook!

5. The Nature Co playlist. Spotify. Roger. Copy That. On it!

6. My sister had me watch Nobody Wants This and I was SPEECHLESS. ME TOO MESA! AMAZING STORY. It is based on a TRUE STORY (did you know?!) And the actual real life sisters who pitched the story to Netflix have a Podcast!!! I forgot the name of it of course- but SAME I LOVE Adam too and that show...just SO MANY similarities that mirror my own relationship & life!!! I am sure it is relatable for so many. The fact that they are of different faiths really spoke to me because Omar reverted to Islam and I ... did not LOL. I almost went off and spoiled the whole show- have you finished Season 1? Can we be the worlds greatest fans of Whore #1 & #2? 🤣

Love Love Love You.

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Mesa Fama's avatar

I binged Nobody Wants This in one sitting 🤣🤣 and yes to being the greatest fans of whore #1 & whore #2!! I cannot wait for season 2!!! Also - no opportunity happened with Russell.. sooo close!

But how’s this for weird Kevin Bacon 6 degrees of separation- I work with Kristen Bell’s dad! 🙃

And now I need to listen to the sister’s podcast!!! Love love love you!!

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kaylen alexandra's avatar

hahahah I DID THE SAME!!!

That is so very cool!! Xx

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Kendall Lamb's avatar

I love all of these and now I need to do a deep dive! I know nothing about Wanda Vision, but the fact that you have a quote tattooed on your actual body makes me think I need to investigate. Love you and your coping mechanisms! (I am eating cookie dough for breakfast. I'm fine, really.)

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kaylen alexandra's avatar

Kendall!! I am about to text you my Disney+ login so that you can join the bandwagon. Wanda is the Queen of everything. I feel like SO many of us Lovelets would resonate with her story. And I would LOVE a bite of cookie dough. Xx

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Kendall Lamb's avatar

I already steal Disney+ from my brother- I'm on it! 🤣

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kaylen alexandra's avatar

I can’t WAIT to have a Wanda party w you!!

Perfect for spooky season but honestly any season. Also: DO NOT GIVE UP on the first episode. Some people don’t love black and white, it’s not that way the entire series!! That’s all I’ll say 😆

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Ashleigh Vaughn's avatar

Thank you so much for sharing me!

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kaylen alexandra's avatar

Thanks for writing share-worthy words! 🙏

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Omar's avatar

❣️

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