Weekend Links, 9.22.12

Lessons I’ve learned in the past couple days:

1. If the peel on a banana slights breaks open and you leave it sitting on your counter anyway, fruit flies will invade.
2. If your husband is at work and the plunger doesn’t work, dish soap and hot water will unclog a toilet.
3. If you insist on picking a monster zit on your forehead, you will end up with a giant scab. (Lovely.)
4. If you procrastinate too long, you will create massive amounts of unnecessary stress.

I’d tell you more about that last one, but I’m out of time. Seriously out of time. I have put off a major, big-deal, important-to-me-and-others project WAY too long and am currently at Def Con 5, Red Alert, heart-attack-and-ulcer-inducing panic stage.

So, while I flap around my house in a state of pure adrenaline and nonsense (and, I’ll admit it, a bit of self-loathing, because really? I KNOW BETTER.), you should check out these great posts from this month.

{I know. I KNOW. I said I would share posts more often to avoid giving you a crazy long list all at once. I did. I said that and then, what did I do? Pretty much the opposite. I’m sorry. I’ll try harder. But I promise – I promise! – all of these posts are worth a read.}

• 10 Grammar Mistakes that Can Keep Your Content from Spreading | Copyblogger
• The Truth About Adoption: One Year Later :: Jen Hatmaker
• Your Writing can Benefit Your Kids | Your Kids can Benefit Your Writing :: Tricia Goyer
• giving locally, giving globally – hollywood housewife
• An Open Letter To The Girl In The Dressing Room. | (in)courage
• Confessions of an accidental feminist :: Rachel Held Evans
• Promiscuous Reading: Why Theodor Adorno Kept My Attention : The New Yorker
• Bacon Is The New Black | Laura McClellan
• An Open Letter to Brands | Resourceful Mommy
• Five Simple Ways to Reduce Anxiety :: Diaper Diaries
• What Women Need to Say to Each Other… | A Holy Experience
• 5 Friends Every Couple Should Have…and 2 You Shouldn’t « Danielle Peters
• When a Story Really Begins | Goins, Writer
• Won’t You Be My Neighbor :: Diaper Diaries
• this is life. (and I’m not sorry) – SortaCrunchy
•  This One’s for the Girls (Two New Books for Teens + Giveaway x10!) | (in)courage
• The 5 Steps to Writing a Book | Storyline Blog
• Why I Am Dropping the Business Side of Blogging (My Truth about Making Money Online) :: Frugal Mama

Two more things. I happened upon this and feel it’s my duty, as a devoted Gilmore Girls fan, to share it with you: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge. And, in honor of last week’s long-awaited and glorious return of Parks & Recreation, enjoy this video.

[Adam Scott's Scholarly Analysis of "Ice, Ice Baby" on Conan]

What are the best posts you’ve read and written lately? Please share it with us in the comments!

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