Hi friends,

I’m back in your inbox with some recommendations. This is a holiday weekend — Valentine’s Day tomorrow, of course, and then Lundi Gras on Monday, and Mardi Gras on Tuesday. And then, as night follows day, Lent starts on Ash Wednesday.

Let’s take this in order, shall we?

Valentine’s Day

(In honor of media criticism and a darn good time)

1) Watch one or all of the fifty shades of grey movies
2) Afterwards, watch this youtube series
3) Chocolate (obviously)
4) If you’ve already seen all of the above, how about this? or these? or maybe this?

Lundi Gras

(In honor of the legendary Lundi Gras parties that my last house used to throw, and the Endymion parties that my current house used to throw)

1) Drink some reasonably shitty beer
2) Baby bird yourself from a box of wine
3) Put on a dance playlist from 2015.

Mardi Gras

(Happy Maw Graw!)

1) Make a lavish breakfast, with cake
1b) optional: throw some glitter on. why the hell not.
2) listen to some classic New Orleans brass band music
2b) or classic New Orleans jazz, or classic New Orleans funk
3) dance around a little, do whatcha wanna, whatever, just as long as you
4) Eat more cake, and
5) have a fucking drink.
6) Whether you have glitter to wash off or not, take a nice soothing bath.
7) Light a candle, be nice to yourself, feel those feelings. it’s almost been a year (and what a yikes that is) and we are all deeply, deeply screwed. yay :)
8) Finish! the fucking! cake!

Ash Wednesday

I have a playlist for that.

What’s Next?

Lent gives us all an opportunity to eat more fish. Godspeed.

I’m deep into work on the next song, and it’s going (excitingly) in a direction I didn’t expect. I’ll probably make some Instagram stories about recording it this weekend :)

See you in two weeks,

xoxoxoxo lauren

(lagniappe)