Wear, Watch, Want #130: The Little Rosemary Scrunchie Edition

Wear: Mini Scrunchies

I already lived the 1990s once, and I’m in no rush to do it again. That being said, I do see the appeal of a scrunchie. They add interest and volume to your head. As a person who is constantly afraid of, after pulling my hair back, looking like I have a large egg for a head, I’m tentatively ready to let scrunchies back in my life. I didn’t BUY any, but I thought about it. Then I found out there was a middle ground: The mini scrunchie. These have the same extra fabric, all ruched together around an elastic, but they’re more petite. I assume these were invented for milllenials who already had their time with a Caboodle full of scrunchies and are wanting to dabble in a trend without regressing completely. I got these ones at Target and I’ve been wearing one just about every day since.

Watch: Little Women

My one must-do for my family’s Christmas festivities was to see Little Women. And we did! Well, just me and my mom but that was enough! Greta Gerwig’s adaptation was basically perfect. We (my mom and I) both loved the ambiguous ending and how it references Louisa May Alcott’s own dissatisfaction with the ending of her story. As we announced in the car afterward, “TRUE FANS KNOW.” The standout performance, for my viewing party, was Florence Pugh’s Amy. She made us LOVE Amy, which is a true feat. AND she was the only one who really seemed to show her character aging through time. And you actually understood Amy, FOR ONCE. I have Saoirse Ronan blindness and will most likely think everything she does is perfection, forever, no matter what, so obviously I loved her as Jo. Also this outfit is… everything?

I read some complaints about Emma Watson as Meg and you know what? She was JUST FINE (James Norton, of hot vicar fame, was wasted as John Brook). Meg has nothing to do. I played Meg in my high school production of Little Women so I KNOW. Also, I wrote my college admission essay about how I didn’t get to play Jo despite being a lifelong Little Women fan who felt stifled and wanted to be a writer and then I was stuck playing Meg and listen, at the age of 17 I had experienced zero adversity, that much is clear.

Want: Rosemary Almonds

This Christmas season, Target once again became a winter consumer wonderland. And their in-house brand of snacks was incredible. They had a line of treats called “indulgent trail mix” which was literally like, tiny sugar cookies, peanut butter cups, white chocolate covered almonds, and caramels. There were many different varieties, all only increasing in insanity and getting further and further from what one might call “trail mix.” My true obsession, however, was the rosemary almonds. They are delicious and addictive. If I were the kind of person who made decadent, Williams-Sonoma catalog level charcuterie boards, these rosemary almonds would be scattered throughout. But I’m me, so I just grab a handful and eat them while watching old episodes of Love Island. Devastatingly, the holiday merch season is over at Target, and WHERE am I going to get my rosemary almonds now??? They exist, but I want as many as I got at Target, for that cheap, and easily accessible. The hunt begins now.