Love Objects
Welcome to “Love Objects”. Here you’ll find reviews and links to our favorite resources—products, services, books, and sites we love.Sadly, we don’t get paid to endorse them; we just love ‘em. However, we are members of Amazon Associates, which means that if you click on the links we provide and order anything from Amazon, we get a teeny-tiny, extremely low-calorie piece of that pie. (How tiny? In September 2009 we made $1.74! We don’t see this being our Ticket Out of Palookaville any time soon.) We promise to keep our recommendations carefully edited and to disclose if there’s some special arrangement between Love Object and one of us ardent users (e.g., we received a free review copy of a book we recommend or know the author). We’re very judicious about our selections; these are Love Objects that we truly love. So if the spirit moves you and you want to show us a little love too, please use the links to order!
You know how those carbs hijack your blood sugar and give you the whim-whams and inflame your innards and flab up your ladywaist? And how you know you’re not supposed to eat ‘em but you really, really, REALLY miss chocolate? So have a lil square of the Lindt 85% Cocoa bar to quell the cravings. I’m not gonna lie; it’s the teensiest bit punitive compared to the chocolate you’re used to, but it’s better than nothing. Rest it on your tongue a bit to get the maximum sweetnes; gobble it too quickly and you’ll be reminded of that time you snuck into the pantry and thieved the Baker’s Chocolate. Nibble a square instead of stuffing a Snickers down your pie hole and you get to feel virtuous and sanctimonious and holier-than-thou, my three favorite feelings.
Amazon has a great deal for 12 bars( Lindt Excellence Extra Dark Chocolate 85% Cocoa, 3.5-Ounce Packages (Pack of 12)
, including free shipping.
Lindt 85% Cocoa Extra Dark: Carb Slayer
Betsy and I have never done much of a blog roll (hey, maybe that’s why we don’t have as much traffic–we don’t do all that link sharing/link farming that pumps up SEO*.) However, Betsy recently found this very cool blog: fiftyshift.com, and pointed me to it. I immediately lost about an hour reading articles on the site. Smart, insightful articles written by women our age. Then I realized that the site will republish articles from smaller blogs. I promptly sent the site’s founder my essay on breast cancer, and she published it! Hurray! If you have a few moments, please go check them out. You can support their cause if you click on a few Google ads.
*SEO: Search Engine Optimization. Translation: things that web sites do to attempt to make their site turn up higher in a list of search results.
I’ve been on a green tea kick lately. Nobody seems to debate the health benefits. However, some don’t like the flavor much. “EWWWWW!” says my friend Marty, “It tastes like grass!!! Yuck!”
Luckily, two of my fave tea purveyors have come up with blends of green tea with something else that makes them less grassy. Pomegranate Green Tea (do I get extra bonus points for the Pomegranate in the mix here?) and Jasmine Green Tea. Here are links to them on Amazon. In the Total Transparency department: we do get a few pennies if you click through and buy from these links.
Oh, cool, we were featured in the March 2010 issue of More Magazine!
Our girl crush and hero, Martha Beck, gave us a fabulous shout-out in her November 2009 column in O, The Oprah Magazine; color us clam-happy!
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