I am friends with Lilit Marcus. But before I was friends with Lilit, I knew who she was, because she is the mastermind behind a little blog that you might have heard of...
Save The Assistants / Interview with Lilit Marcus
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Links & Love & Stuff
@extraontop drew me in my natural habitat. Love it; love her; love her work.
Serious question: I'm working on an interesting new project, and am hoping to connect with people who may have worked with or for Ivanka Trump's company at any point in the past (in any context at all). If you or someone you know fits the bill and would be willing to chat - anonymously, if preferred - I'd really love to connect. (You can email me at jordan@ramshackleglam.com.)
NYT food columnist Melissa Clark on her morning routine: "I don’t do yoga, I don’t have a restorative turmeric beverage and I don’t do any meditation." I want to be friends with this woman. (How I Get It Done: Melissa Clark, via The Cut)
Links & Love & Stuff
MommyNearest says you should buy The Big Fat Activity Book For Pregnant People "the very first day you see a pink line on the pee test." (I have to agree.)
I would like to own this bikini, please. (Free shipping!)
Party goals. (This Little Girl Wanted A Poop-Themed Party, So Her Parents Threw Her One, via HuffPo.)
Crazy Sprinkles
I have fully embraced walking to kindergarten dropoff each morning while dressed as a character from Grey Gardens. This morning, for example, I accompanied my child to school wearing sunglasses the size of basketballs, striped sweatpants with sparkly silver stars on them...and a massive faux-fur coat that each and every one of his classmates immediately needed to pet, making me quite the hot topic at the dropoff line ("MRS. INDY'S MOM, WHY DO YOU FEEL LIKE A KITTEN.").
When you're in the mood to get a little odd with it, my feeling is that it's all about what you put on top. You can be all white-t-shirt-and-jeans and zzzzzzz underneath, but if you cover the whole thing up with a massive, multicolor-striped, fringed and hooded poncho-esque creation that evokes Yoda via Lilith Fair, or perhaps a fuzzy coat that brings to mind a Bantha with a goth dye job (I mean that as a compliment)? You're good. Like, real good.
Links & Love & Stuff
Click over to Hope & Grace to check out an interview in which I talk whether I "always knew" I wanted to be a mom, judgy strangers, that time I gave birth and totally lost it at my husband and mom, and (much) more.
Aquazzura is KILLING IT with the tasseled shoes lately. (These are my favorites and I would like to wear them every day all spring and summer except I won't because children.)
FYI: Ferndell artisanal coffee (the company dates back to 1862) is HELLA good (and has a swoon-worthy Instagram page).
Links & Love & Stuff
A couple of days ago I shot a news segment about makeup apps and whether they're actually useful. As part of my research I played around with a whole bunch of them, and...I mean, maybe I'm just super late to the party and everyone already knew how amazing they've gotten nowadays, but WHOA. (The one I used to create the three looks pictured above is called Try It On.)
Every once in awhile I do a search to figure out what the most popular items out there are (meaning the things that the most people are clicking over to check out, not necessarily the ones with the highest sales), just so I can stay up to speed. And right now, this chunky cardigan is apparently the most clicked-on item on the search engine I use (ShopStyle). Huh. I'm mildly confused, but maybe it's been really well...advertised? I dunno.
I didn't watch the Golden Globes because I needed to prioritize my new obsession (Making A Murderer), but this roundup of celebrity reaction GIFs is making me really regret this decision.
Strawberry-Basil Fizz
When Kendrick and I got home from our Saturday adventures, it was that moment right before the sun sets when all you (or at least I) want to do is collapse into a hammock with an US Weekly. So that's what I did, and I was all relaxed and cozy...and then I turned the page and spotted a recipe for something called a Strawberry-Basil Rickey.
You know what makes those just-before-sunset-in-a-hammock moments even better?
A cocktail.
This particular recipe required things like fresh herbs and mortar and pestles and Cointreau, though, so as delicious as it looked, it wasn't going to happen. Not right then, anyway.
Today In Enormous Life Questions
Dear Jordan, I'm so embarrassed that this is the way I'm choosing to introduce myself to you, but hey: Desperate Times, meet Desperate Measures.
My Favorite Graduation Speech Everrrr
It's graduation time again!
Yay?
My graduation day was no fun at all. I was in an enormous fight with my boyfriend (we had already decided to break up after graduation, which was, you know, that day, so I'm not sure why we bothered), and I was desperately hungover, so in all my pictures I look pale, nauseous, and near tears. Memories!
And of course the ages-old problem with recent grads is that we all think we will immediately become Oscar-winning actresses (hello!), in-demand journalists making $5/word, or presidents of our very own companies, because we deserve to. To those of you who are graduating this year: you don't, and this will not happen. Unless you are already wildly rich and/or well-connected, you will probably be getting coffee or waiting tables for awhile while you either work your way into an interesting position or figure out what you want to do, and THAT IS OKAY. Completely, 100% okay. It took me six more years and several soul-crushing failures before I was able to get my wheels more or less on track. (For some excellent post-grad advice from Lilit Marcus, author of Save The Assistants which - plug plug plug - makes an excellent graduation gift, click here.)
Thank You
I just got home from a sonogram appointment (all is well; heard the heartbeat and saw a 3-D image of the baby's face) and lunch with Lilit and turned on my computer...and was greeted by an outpouring of support and love the likes of which I've never experienced. Ever.
