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Mar 5Liked by Claire Zulkey

Would love the discussion of getting back into hobbies. I'm always fascinated by how people spend their free time and I can feel the world opening up as my daughter finishes 1st grade. But I'm so entrenched in our routine/boring and old that I cant' quite get to the place where I find/sign up for/attend a . . .. something. I like all of your stuff and even the topics that are heavier never feel too heavy.

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Mar 5Liked by Claire Zulkey

“deluxe car wash version of toiletries.” this is what I come for, lady 💞 ps thank you for sharing all this! Great to see a parent juggling work (while bringing carafes of coffee into bed, yes please). ✍️🫶🏽⛵️

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Mar 5Liked by Claire Zulkey

This was such a joy to read! I’m nosy so I LOVE peeks into other people’s lives and who better to creep on than THE witch? Also, kudos to you for doing OrangeTheory post-peel. My face feels like it’ll fall off and OrangeTheory is no joke (went once and never again… pretty sure I slid off the treadmill).

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Mar 5Liked by Claire Zulkey

I also enjoy watching stand up specials when I'm exercising! The people at the Y probably think I'm crazy for laughing so much. The only problem is there aren't enough on Netflix (the only app that works at my gym) and I have no time for the edgelord ones, ugh.

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Mar 6Liked by Claire Zulkey

:) Josie and the Pussycats was one of those movies that greatly influenced my teen years and I didn't realize it until I re-watched it as an adult.

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Omg. It’s TERRIBLE. I am one of those ppl who hyper-tastes bitter things like grapefruit and 90% dark chocolate and it would not leave my taste buds…

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Honestly? I love seeing how people do life. I think it’s a service to all of us—especially parents!

I also have two boys, also love JLD (I loved her podcast!), and can attest to the anti-nail-biting polish for my oldest kid. It works.

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Mar 5Liked by Claire Zulkey

I am impressed by all you are doing! I sometimes try to plan out an editorial calendar but then usually can’t stick to it and just go with what I most want to write or seems most pressing. I think the more winging it approach works well sometimes.

Also now I’m wondering if I should be doing orange theory. Do you generally like it?

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For Chicago-based readers, will you share where you had the peel done and if you were happy with the results/thought it was worth the money? Finding legit dermatologists and aestheticians who are actually highly trained and skilled is so rough!

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