The Weekly Edit: The Slow Down

All week, I’ve felt like I was getting sick.  Headache.  Chills.  Sore throat.  That generally run down feeling.  But so far, nothing.

I spent most of last winter battling flus, and colds, and mystery respiratory illnesses.  (What can I say?  The Montana Capitol is a petri dish of disease during the session, and no one stays home when they’re sick.)  I’m trying my damnedest to stay well this winter — vitamins, water, sleep, exercise, hand washing, etc., but it feels like I’m fighting a losing battle.

So this weekend, I’m just going to slow it down.  I have books to read, some cleaning to do, some podcasts to listen to, and there is no reason that I need to leave this house.  Because it feels like my body needs a break.

This is the first fall/winter we’ve spent in this house, and we’ve discovered that the HVAC system isn’t up to the challenge.  Some rooms are too hot, others too cold.  My office is particularly chilly.  So how do I stay warm inside the wine fridge?  A heating pad and a desk chair sweater.

While the MM. LaFleur Morandi is my go-to super warm sweater, these two also make appearances depending on the outfit.

BB Dakota Ribbed Moto Jacket ($88)

LOFT Marled Open Cardigan (also in petite and plus, $60)

Republican lawyer George Conway has penned nearly 12,000 words for The Atlantic making the case that the President’s erratic behavior makes him unfit to serve.  While I don’t want to engage in a political debate, I do want to point you toward the latter fifth (?) of the article, which discusses what constitutes a “high Crime and Misdemeanor” in Constitutional terms.

In this section, Conway uses The Federalist Papers and the minutes of the Continental Congress to discuss what the Framers understood the phrase “high Crimes” to mean, and what they would have considered impeachable offenses based on how they viewed the role of the President.

If you want to turn specifically to this section without doing a word search through the piece, you can Ctrl+F for the phrase “practical mechanism for addressing.”  That will take you to the top of the section.  What the Framers understood the phrase to mean isn’t something I’ve ever heard discussed before, and given the propensity for cable news talking heads to misunderstand the law and the Constitution, I found it illuminating.

Do you suffer from dry hair?  This Alterna Caviar CC Cream infuses moisture without weighing hair down.  It was the only way to keep my hair extensions from turning into straw before the wedding.  And even after, it really helps with split ends and dry damaged hair.

Looking for a drugstore dupe?  Several messages boards recommend Pantene’s 10-in-1 BB Cream (though I can only find it sold as a two-pack on Amazon).

The producers Three Uncanny Four are out with Broken, a podcast about the many crimes of Jeffrey Epstein.  How a man could keep teenage girls as sex slaves while maintaining relationships with some of the most powerful people in America is mind boggling.  The Broken podcast dives into the allegations against Epstein and examines who else may have been involved in the trafficking of young women and the cover up.

And if you doubt that it’s possible that politicians, billionaires, and celebrities could know about a pedophile and keep it a secret, then you should give Crime Junkie’s episode about North Fox Island a listen.  Because the protection of powerful pedophiles is nothing new.  (But be warned both of these podcasts contain descriptions of terrible crimes against children and young women.)

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