To Do list №5 April 2020

To Do list №5 April 2020

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It's hard to know where to begin this month, it feels like all security, every ounce of safety has been ripped from us. Try to remember it has only been paused, you will find yourself again in the aftermath. What a way to start an astrological new year! It might be helpful to look at this time period as an opportunity, where suddenly all the people you might have wanted to engage with have more time to hear from you. This is a better time than ever to do your outreach homework... start that plan, begin that dream, don't get lost in anxiety- apply yourself! Perhaps you can switch the mindset of this horrible disaster into an answer to your prayers. TIME. It's here for you... how will you use it before it's gone?

 

Aries Season

 

"This is a great time to start a new project, to go for your dreams and goals, to reach out to those who may be able to support you, to take things to the next level, and to push past any fears or excuses that may be holding you back.

In fact, use this energy to see where you are making excuses in your life. Most of our excuses are based on fear, a limited mindset, or a lack of self-love.

See if you can identify what excuses you are making and try to challenge the validity and truth of them. See if you can debunk your own excuses and switch them to more abundant thinking.

All through Aries Season, we also have zero planets in retrograde and strong cardinal energy too. This indicates a time to lead, a time to step up to the plate and go for our goals! 

Aries Season can be a time of self-discovery too, where we can really speak our truth and learn to make our ego work with us and not against us.

It is always a good time to be yourself and to take actions that are aligned with your highest truth, but in Aries Season the entire Universe comes to support us.

Stay open to the signs and the direction of your life through this season, as it is surely to put you on a path that is more aligned with who you are and who you are now becoming.

It is a brand new year; you are growing and evolving, and as the seasons start changing around you, you will find new discoveries and new insights about your path of destiny."

Forever Conscious

 

 

Since we have some time on our hands, I'm including a few extra entertainment suggestions this month!

Super Soft items for any activity?

here are some ideas for day to night sweats, lol!

The Rosegold All Day Sweatpants

These supersoft, dreamy flares feel like you're wearing nothing at all. Avoiding any kind of pinch elastic, you'll put these on every time you come home. Featuring a long inseam with a raw finish at the ankle hem for custom cutting to your length, starting at height 5'11, trim to your length! These are extra tight at the hip and thighs to hug your curves and prevent chaffing, high waisted for no rolling. EXTRA Stretchy. You will LIVE in this special pant.

True to size, extra long inseam for trimming 

$159.00
The High waisted sweats

Petite length, high waisted Sweatpants. Super soft dreamy flares feel like you're wearing nothing at all. Avoiding any kind of pinch elastic, you'll put these on every time you come home. These are extra tight at the hip and thighs to hug your curves and prevent chaffing, high waisted for no rolling.

these are extra high waisted and petite in length. Fit for 5’5 and shorter. If you are tall you can wear them as flood length and the effect is still cute.

True to size

Cotton/Poly Modal

 

$159.00
 
The Pillow Hoodie, Black

The hoodie you can wear 24 hours. You will live in it. Perfect for work, class, campfires, late nights, post skinny dips, snuggling, cold mornings and coffee.

100% incredibly soft modal oversized hoodie with extra large pocket- so you don't have to bring a purse on that hangover run to the coffee shop.

Muse Evelyn, in the boots, is an extra small and wearing XS

Muse, Kat, is 5'7 and an xs, she is wearing a size S

Size down for a tighter fit.

$132.00

1. Nothing to see here;

Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school. But then Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal and they’ve barely spoken since. Until now, when Lillian gets a letter from Madison pleading for her help.

Madison’s twin stepkids are moving in with her family and she wants Lillian to be their caretaker. However, there’s a catch: the twins spontaneously combust when they get agitated, flames igniting from their skin in a startling but beautiful way. Lillian is convinced Madison is pulling her leg, but it’s the truth.

 

2. My Dark Vanessa

2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher.

2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager—and who professed to worship only her—may be far different from what she has always believed?

 

3. The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

Overworked and underappreciated, single mom Amy Byler needs a break. So when the guilt-ridden husband who abandoned her shows up and offers to take care of their kids for the summer, she accepts his offer and escapes rural Pennsylvania for New York City.

Usually grounded and mild mannered, Amy finally lets her hair down in the city that never sleeps. She discovers a life filled with culture, sophistication, and—with a little encouragement from her friends—a few blind dates. When one man in particular makes quick work of Amy’s heart, she risks losing herself completely in the unexpected escape, and as the summer comes to an end, Amy realizes too late that she must make an impossible decision: stay in this exciting new chapter of her life, or return to the life she left behind.

But before she can choose, a crisis forces the two worlds together, and Amy must stare down a future where she could lose both sides of herself, and every dream she’s ever nurtured, in the beat of a heart.

 

4. Traffic Secrets

 

The biggest problem that most entrepreneurs have isn't creating an amazing product or service; it's getting their future customers to discover that they even exist. Every year, tens of thousands of businesses start and fail because the entrepreneurs don't understand this one essential skill: the art and science of getting tra­ffic (or people) to find you.
And that is a tragedy.
Traffic Secrets was written to help you get your message out to the world about your products and services. I strongly believe that entrepreneurs are the only people on earth who can actually change the world. It won't happen in government, and I don't think it will happen in schools.
It'll happen because of entrepreneurs like you, who are crazy enough to build products and services that will actually change the world. It'll happen because we are crazy enough to risk everything to try and make that dream become a reality.

 

5. Find Me

 

No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary listeners about the nature of love than André Aciman's haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as "a love letter, an invocation...an exceptionally beautiful book" (Stacey D'Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award-winning film starring Timothée Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love.  

In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami's plans and changes his life forever.  

Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.   

Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.

 

6. The Worst Kind of Want

 

To cool-headed, fastidious Pricilla Messing, Italy will be an escape, a brief glimpse of freedom from a life that's starting to feel like one long decline. 

Rescued from the bedside of her difficult mother, forty-something Cilla finds herself called away to Rome to keep an eye on her wayward teenage niece, Hannah. But after years of caregiving, babysitting is the last thing Cilla wants to do. Instead she throws herself into Hannah's youthful, heedless world - drinking, dancing, smoking - relishing the heady atmosphere of the Italian summer. After years of feeling used up and overlooked, Cilla feels like she's coming back to life. But being so close to Hannah brings up complicated memories, making Cilla restless and increasingly reckless, and a dangerous flirtation with a teenage boy soon threatens to send her into a tailspin.

With the sharp-edged insight of Ottessa Moshfegh and the taut seduction of Patricia Highsmith, The Worst Kind of Want is a dark exploration of the inherent dangers of being a woman. In her unsettling follow-up to Catalina, Liska Jacobs again delivers hypnotic literary noir about a woman whose unruly desires and troubled past push her to the brink of disaster.

 

 

Laila has some of the most magical, organic, inspiring food content I've ever seen. It's earthly yet other wordly, and endlessly inspiring! Lately, since the shut in she's been posting more recipes on her instagram- here are a couple that have been very inspiring! Waiting for a book of recipes... would snap it up!!

 

Follow her here

 

"Here’s how I make beans. Soak a cup of beans overnight (this is important). The next day use the soaking water plus more if needed to submerge the beans by at least a few inches. Add a handful of bay leaf, half an onion, half a head of garlic, some parsley, and (to start) a tablespoon of salt, and 1/4 cup oil. Salt and fat are the most important things about cooking beans. The liquid needs to be salty. Taste it. Everything else doesn’t matter as much. Don’t have onions ? It’s fine. No bay leaf (sad - but okay!). Bring to boil and then gentle simmer for half an hour and test. Small beans take less time. I also like to add a little vinegar towards the end. Taste again. And add salt accordingly. Let the beans chill in the liquid for a little while once they’re done. This makes them hold together and not fall apart. Add a little more oil, and lemon zest before eating (in the plate). This isn’t a recipe per se, just a technique and what works for me. There is no such thing as “the bean” or the anything recipe (and it’s annoying - I hope magazines stop doing this.) There are just ways of doing things for a reason. My grandma does this the same way ❤️"

"Sit down, pour yourself a glass of wine, and peel a pound of chickpeas, one by one, to make a smooth hummus. This is not usually the first step you’d see in a recipe because we say we never have the time. Now that we have nothing but time, tasks like this become so soothing.
Like all dry beans, soak the dry garbanzo overnight (again, time...) This time throw out the water and put lots of fresh water in a pot w the beans, 1/4 cup salt, an onion, garlic, and a handful of bayleaf.
Bring to a boil and then simmer gently till cooked. Test in 30 minutes. The white foam on top is normal. When soft, drain, then cool.
Peel all the garbanzo with your fingers, one by one, sliding the skin off. Every one is a small victory. Put the naked beans in a blender with 1/2 c tahini, 1/4 c olive oil, 1 lemon squeezed, half a clove of garlic, a little salt, and a splash of water, and blend. Add more water till you get the right consistency. Taste for salt. That stuff you buy in a supermarket in plastic should be called something else because it’s not hummus "

 

 

 

And in case you missed it...

 

 

MOVIE FAVES  From owner, Kimberley Gordon;

 

⚪️ Muriel’s Wedding⁣⁣
⚪️ Mermaids⁣⁣
⚪️ Sense and sensibility⁣⁣
⚪️ Dogtooth⁣⁣
⚪️ Dogville⁣⁣
⚪️ My life as a Dog⁣⁣
⚪️ Belle⁣⁣
⚪️ We are the best(Vi är bäst!)⁣⁣
⚪️ Sister⁣⁣
⚪️ Avalanche⁣⁣
⚪️ 2 days in Paris⁣⁣
⚪️ Red/White/Blue series⁣⁣
⚪️ sex and Lucia⁣⁣
⚪️ Force Majeure⁣⁣
⚪️ Anomalisa⁣⁣
⚪️ Margot at the wedding⁣⁣
⚪️ Before/after sunrise⁣⁣
⚪️ Swimming Pool⁣⁣
⚪️ The way we were⁣⁣
⚪️ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ⁣
⚪️ Jane Eyre 2011⁣⁣
⚪️ The Little Hours⁣⁣
⚪️ Pride and Prejudice⁣⁣
⚪️ Reality Bites ⁣
⚪️ Mullholland Drive⁣⁣
⚪️ Moonlight⁣⁣
⚪️ Whale Rider⁣⁣
⚪️ Melancholia⁣⁣
⚪️ Battle Royale⁣⁣
⚪️ Call Me Your Name⁣⁣
⚪️ Julie and Julia⁣⁣
⚪️ Sleepless in Seattle⁣⁣
⚪️ The English Patient⁣⁣
⚪️ Slumdog Millionaire⁣⁣
⚪️ Eyes Wide Shut⁣⁣
⚪️ Romeo and Juliet⁣⁣
⚪️ Clueless⁣⁣
⚪️ the girl with the Dragon tattoo, (Swedish)⁣⁣
⚪️ Little Women, by Greta Gerwig⁣⁣
⚪️ Kids⁣⁣
⚪️ Y tu mama tambien ⁣⁣
⚪️ Hereditary⁣⁣
⚪️ Martha Marcy May Marlene⁣⁣
⚪️ Two for the road⁣⁣
⚪️ Atonement⁣⁣
⚪️ Umbrellas of Cherbourg ⁣
⚪️ House of flying daggers⁣⁣
⚪️ Maria Full of Grace⁣⁣
⚪️ Midsommar
⚪️ Marie Antoinette

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