May I recommend
A Hair spritzing thing like this one.
If you have curly hair then you know that a brush is not your friend. You also know that 2 in 1 Shampoo and Conditioner is not your friend. You also know that any kind of winter headwear is not your friend. You also know that a humid July day is not your friend.
But you know who IS your friend?
This bad boy.
What does it do, you ask? Well, at its most basic level it spritzes your hair with water as if you are an aloe plant being carefully nurtured, or a poorly behaved dog being half-heartedly trained not to leap at people when they enter your house. (Sidenote, this training will not work, but don’t worry, a global pandemic will happen and then no one will ever come to your door again, so that little issue will be SOLVED).
Ho hum, Amy, you’re thinking. I can just spritz my hair any time I want with the Dollar Store spritzer that I bought to half-heartedly train my dog; this busted watering can; or even an old water gun.
While yes, that is the case, this Hair Spritzing thing is better. Firstly, it was specifically designed to spritz hair, not frenetic cockapoos and secondly, it does this thing where you depress the button and the water spritze out, but then KEEPS spritzing for longer, even when you’re no longer pressing the button. This is very satisfying, allowing your thumb to rest and relax for those extra 2 seconds while your hair enjoys the fruits of its labour. In these Trying Times it is important to find rest and succor wherever you can get it.
So, buy one of these things and spritz your hair and then scrunch in some sort of mousse/gel/hair wax/concoction and you are good to head out into the world like a less sprightly Lil’ Orphan Annie.
What is the secret to your hair care routine? Leave a comment below!
Agatha Christie’s poisons
To Really Understand Agatha Christie You Need to Know About Poisons
This is a good article, giving the lowdown on the plants behind Agatha’s poisons and was a nice little reminder of some of her mysteries I wouldn’t mind re-reading. The new novel I’m working on is kind of “Golden Girls Meets Agatha Christie” so I’m really getting into Ags these days…
A common, albeit horrifying, symptom of strychnine poisoning is spine rigidity: victims have been known to arch their spines backward in a U-shaped bow. If you’ve seen the 1973 version of The Exorcist in which the child spider-walks backward down the stairs, you’ll know what I’m talking about. Death comes quickly, and rigor mortis sets in unusually fast.
Pandemic Walks
I’m a Short Afternoon Walk and You’re Putting Way Too Much Pressure On Me
Ha ha ha, this is very relevant to my current state of mind
When this little routine first started, I thought it was the greatest thing in the world. I was an escape. I was an adventure. I was beloved. But somewhere along the way, I became your everything.
Now, I’m both your leisure activity and your only form of exercise. I’m the last thing tethering you to reality, yet your only way of escaping it. I’m the singular effort you make to maintain your sanity, and your sole means of experiencing joy, hope, and happiness. It feels as if I’m your lover, friend, and therapist all wrapped into one and, frankly, it’s making me uncomfortable.
Timely Article about daylight saving time
Daylight Saving Time begins Sunday March 14: 8 Things you should know
This was actually quite interesting, especially the bits about what it would mean to eliminate it. The maps at the end got me considering my preferred approach.
Having more light later could benefit us in a surprising number of ways:
People engage in more leisure activities after work than beforehand, so we’d likely do more physical activity over sedentary leisure activities. Relatedly, studies show that kids get more exercise when the sun is out later in the evening.
Stromberg also cites some evidence that robberies decrease when there’s more sun in the evening hours.
There could be economic gains, since people “take short trips, and buy things after work — but not before — so a longer DST slightly increases sales,” he writes.
This is fun, though I didn’t make it all the way through
How Many of the 100 Most Famous Passages in Literature Can you Identify?
I’ve picked out 100 of the most referenced, quoted, reused, and generally well-known passages of literature, from single memorable lines of dialogue to longer sections of prose or verse, and turned them into a quiz.
TikTok
Always, ALWAYS here for Cotton Eye Joe content
This clip perfectly encapsulates everyone’s degree of pandemic fed-up-ness
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Hair Spritzer + Agatha Christie + Daylight Saving Time
The Walk article - so true! But that walk is transformed when you introduce it to a friend. As long as the walk is open to threesomes. The quote list was a great time waster. I didn’t make it all the way through, but I scrolled down and read a few comments. Vicious. Finally, that 12 YO girl was hilarious and reminded me of Bea - she’s watched the trailer for IT about 500 times because we won’t let her watch it. Nothing scares her. Except maybe showering.