Monday morning catch-up

Oh, the giant pile of email and teeth-brushing can wait. Here are ten things I absolutely must tell you before any of this first workday of the week slips by. 

1. I'm beside myself oohing and ahhing over these boys of summer, captured by 12 amazing mamas.
2. These summer wedges that you loved but are still waiting patiently in your online shopping cart? The sales have started and your wallet is telling you it's time to press "buy." Or is that just my wallet? Anyway, sales.
3. If you absolutely must be in the back-to-school mindset, prepare yourself with Kelly Wickham's wonderful tips for what to tell a teacher about your Special Snowflake.
4. My favorite room in my apartment is the bathroom, all marble and granite and giant Jacuzzi tub and slidey drawers. It was the first room the people who gutted this building redid and they blew the budget on it (I've seen the loos in other units in this building so I know it to be true). My own wonderful WC retreat is exactly why I love love loved reading about the to-die master bathroom reno over at Petit Elefant. The best part? The barn door. I kid not.
5. I want to wear this. On a day I remember not to put on black lacies on the bottom. (It's a problem.)
6. These are my very favorite new late-summer skinny jeans (I got ankle length). AND THEY WERE UNDER TEN BUCKS. Not kidding. They may not last until fall officially hits, so I am wearing them every damn day.
7. I want buckets of this to slather this all over my face. 
8. Everyone is getting these cord tacos for Christmas. Or whatever it is you celebrate before the New Year. (Maybe also for the New Year.)
9. I did a daring thing and tried Greek yogurt again. This is big, y'all. I have a thing about creamy textures (please leave it at that). But I got a giant box of it in the mail and I worked up some culinary courage and tried this little flip container with yogurt on one side and granola on the other (mostly because the packaging was so darn cute). Everyone: I liked it. A lot. Apparently, coconut and pineapple and ginger are a fine vehicle for creamy stuff I wouldn't otherwise touch. 
10. Something random about Bruce Jenner being a crap father.