10 Things We're Doing Besides Gitting ‘Er Done

Aug 1

erica’s things

Counting the number of hours my parent friends would save by signing up for Rockets of Awesome—charming ‘n cute kids clothes show up in the mail, and you only pay for what you keep.
Cooking up extra rice just so I can have some leftover to fry it up with whatever else is chillin’ in my produce drawer.
Finding a reason to blabber even more about my favorite bodega greengrocer, Mr. Melon. Appreciate the backup, Lucky Peach.
Using “non-complementary behavior” in a sentence after listening to a totally gripping Invisibilia episode about the power of flipping the script.

Getting to know Susan Kare, the woman who designed some majorly recognizable computer icons, including the Mac system failure bomb and your favorite pre-Facebook timesuck: Windows Solitaire (now available as a real card deck!).
Delighting in an everyday water pitcher (carafe, if you’re fancy) more than I ever thought possible. The ergonomics! The aesthetics! The size! All perfect.
Feeling like a real dummy that I haven’t been destemming kale this game-changing way the whole time—did everyone know about this but me?
Daydreaming about the fish tacos at Fatty Daddy, a total hole-in-the-wall on Smith Street in Brooklyn, NY.

Telling every woman we know (especially mothers-to-be!) to do their compensation and maternity-leave research on Fairygodboss. Discovered (and co-founded by) @samksam.
Minimizing our hot-weather stove time with Heidi Swanson's protein-packed, five-minute egg-y quesadillas. Discovered by upcoming Of a Kind designer (!) @carleen_us.

Secreting this—I’ve been dreaming of the comeback of the anklet since 2012, you should know.