{"id":2141,"date":"2012-11-01T21:26:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T01:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2012-11-01T21:26:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T01:26:31","slug":"november-magazines-taught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=2141","title":{"rendered":"What November Magazines Have Taught Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last weekend, I sat down with the November issues of several magazines. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been a subscriber to Southern Living<\/em> and Coastal Living<\/em> for years, but currently I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m also receiving five complimentary magazine subscriptions, so my reading stack is large these days.<\/p>\n

Setting aside The Things I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve Learned That Shall Not Be Discussed (like butt dimples \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so many places I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to visit with that topic), here are the open-for-discussion things I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve learned from my November issues:\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The cover of Martha Stewart Living<\/em><\/a> looks inviting, laden with sides for a Thanksgiving feast. However, I could feel the inadequacy welling up within me yet again<\/a> when I read the words \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Ultimate Thanksgiving Dinner.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The inadequacy will go well with the side of panic attack I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure to experience should I ever attempt this.<\/p>\n

Not to worry. Southern Living<\/em><\/a> came to the rescue with these words: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Casual entertaining puts everyone at ease.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve decided to substitute the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153minimal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153casual\u00e2\u20ac\u009d here as I feel the two words are synonymous. (Naturally, I would not accept the two words as synonyms in the vocabulary tests I give my students, but it serves well for loafing<\/del> blogging purposes.) This, I feel, validates my Thanksgiving entertaining belief system. Chiefly, I believe that dollar store napkins with turkeys on them cover for a multitude of culinary sins<\/del> irregularities and\/or a general lack of effort on my part.<\/p>\n

Upon reading InStyle<\/em><\/a>, I have discovered that I am not. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a low blow for one so easily self-duped.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Rihanna looks gorgeous on the cover of Vogue<\/em><\/a>, but whatever it is that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wearing in this picture puzzles me a bit. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Vogue<\/em>, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll bow to their fashion acumen any day, but why anyone not living on Mars would intentionally wear this is mind-boggling. Just saying.<\/p>\n

Glamour<\/em><\/a> had me all jazzed up about the article \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What to Eat for Amazing Skin.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That is, until I read the list of things you have to eat or avoid eating for amazing skin. (Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t talk to me about how chocolate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s potential for exacerbating acne is back on the table for research. I, for one, fully support the perhaps faulty research of the 70s that found no connection.) In summary, other than forgoing hot dogs and cooking with olive oil (already done), it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not worth it. So here I am, hoping that amazing skin is overrated.<\/p>\n

I love the body bonus that appears to be a regular feature in Self<\/em><\/a>. The body bonus is a page of perforated cards with a series of new exercise moves to try out. To date, I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually gotten to the tricky try-them-out part, but I do remove the cards with regularity, which makes me feel accomplished.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In a move that can only be described as unmatched brilliance, Coastal Living<\/em><\/a> merged two incredible worlds: the world of the beach and the world of cupcakes. I can think of few finer marriages. This is especially true if the cupcakes are chocolate ones.<\/p>\n

What about you? Have any open-for-discussion topics you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve gleaned from your recent readings, magazines or otherwise? Do share; I have two or three weeks before my December issues provide new fodder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last weekend, I sat down with the November issues of several magazines. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been a subscriber to Southern Living and Coastal Living for years, but currently I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m also receiving five complimentary magazine subscriptions, so my reading stack is large these days. Setting aside The Things I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve Learned That Shall Not Be Discussed (like butt dimples […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[759,1307,1306,105,100,1136,1309,1305,1308],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-islandlife","tag-coastal-living","tag-glamour","tag-instyle","tag-island-life","tag-island-living","tag-martha-stewart-living","tag-self","tag-southern-living","tag-vogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}