FRIDAY FOURTEEN ISSUE 24

February 21, 2020
This week: Noodle recipes for one, a brilliant Instagram account for some on-point humour about climate change (“we’re literally dying!”), stories of couples who choose not to live together, why you’re getting the Sunday scaries, a new doco about Bill Cunningham, and more

Noodle recipes for one (starring late night miso ramen)

If you’re thinking about having kids at any time in the future, you need to read this tweet right now

A remarkable Reddit post from a home cook on lockdown in China

“When you’re a fat person trying to dress yourself, there are a lot of hacks”

From deciding who pays on the first date to making a budget, there’s loads of useful stuff in this article about money + dating
(there’s even example conversation starters!)

On disordered eating and Taylor Swift and realising that food isn’t the enemy (“I was never skinny in a way that would be considered concerning. I never forced myself to throw up. I never skipped meals. I ate sweets. I drank beer. I scavenged for late night nachos. I didn’t “go on diets.” But like millions of other people, I had a deeply disordered relationship with food, sustained by the knowledge that, hey, it seemed to be working.”)

Apparently brow lifts are a thing now?

Yet another reason why we should all move to Japan

We’ve both recently become obsessed with this Instagram account that asks people to send in photos of their mother before she had kids, and a little story about her life (we’re not crying you’re crying)

… and while we’re mooching around in Instagram, here’s a brilliant account for some on-point humour about climate change (“we’re literally dying!)

Stories of couples who choose not to live together (“If you’re not living in the same home with a guy, then you’re not going to feel obligated to do the dishes, or pick up his socks. You might not feel obligated anyway, if you lived with him, but it’s a little easier to resist when they’re his dishes and his sink.”)

Looking for easy weeknight dinners? Scroll down to the comments section of this article immediately

Another doco about legendary street fashion photographer Bill Cunningham has just been released and the trailer looks fantastic

If you’ve ever been struck down by the Sunday scaries, this could be why (“Low-grade existential dread” is how Erin Thibeau, a 28-year-old who works in marketing at a design firm in Brooklyn, describes the feeling she gets on Sunday afternoons and evenings. For her, the end of a weekend presents stressful questions about whether she has taken full advantage of having two days off. Those questions fall under two categories that seem to be in tension: “It's a mix of ‘Have I been productive enough?’ and ‘Have I relaxed enough?’”)