Luce Ends: June 5

Booked and busy.

I’m not sure where May went, but I wish her well! She a good time, but not a long time and now I’m in the thick of “oh fuck” mode. I move in *checks notes* nine days and let’s just say we have a BIT to do before we abandon Bill (he has work stuff and has to wait for the truck) and head off to our midwest paradise.

Yes, I know Chicago is the midwest, but Kansas is different and I can say that! I’m from there!!

Anywho, this week I’m already falling behind on my TV viewing and I doubt it’ll get better when we’re mid move so bear with me—if that’s even what you care about!—I’ve already fallen behind on Love Island USA and I can’t imagine me and my mom sitting down to watch these buffoons aggressively makeup while we stay with her for a few days so….let’s just pray that I can stay on top of my shit enough to survive until we’re a little settled!

This week’s Luce Ends includes…

• Love Island USA initial thoughts…

• My Summer House Reunion Pt 2 Recap (SEE HERE)

• Summer must haves

Love Island Is Saliva Swapping Central

I am going to come off as a prude and, to be honest, I’m fine with that!! I feel I’ve watched this show enough to know that whatever happened that first night IS NOT NORMAL. Neither is night two, but we’ll get to that later…first, we need to talk about the way these people are being directed to swap spit as much as possible and they didn’t even hesitate!!

At one point I think all six of these people were kissing.

It was A LOT. And the sounds were A LOT. And I just think, for night one, it’s A LOT to put us through and, while I don’t think we would be happy if we just watched them chit chatting (I’ll be honest, I’d be bored), I just think with the four-way kiss and the giant bed overnight…production got a LITTLE ahead of themselves.

As far as our Islanders…brain cells are lacking, but entertainment value is climbing! And a lot of that is thanks to Kenzie who is so mad at Charlie, who left her after 24 hours together for the chance of someone else, after telling her multiple times that he wasn’t attracted to her.

Kenzie also referenced Ella Enchanted as a classic love story so I fear she might be iconic.

I wasn’t feeling Temu Charlie, but it seems he just needed a Bombshell to show me his appeal and now I'm starting to feel like I’ll be pissed if they break up! The cop/ dad definitely scared Beatriz off and she ran right into the arms of a man who is finding every opportunity to strip and look at himself in the mirror. Trinity and Food God/ Brink have no chemistry and are stuck together and the other two couples have not made an impression on me yet, but apparently Melanie is about to be a million times crazier than Kenzie and I’m thrilled to hear it!

Overall, I'm holding on for dear life because I just know I’ll be way too invested by next Tuesday and will be clocking to UK as soon as possible because I just feel safer there. Way less likely for herpes to spread at the very least.

Summer House Pt 2 Recap/Rant

Once again, I rambled on and on about Pt 2 of the Reunion (Pt 1 here!) and since then….honestly it’s been pretty quiet! The biggest piece of news is that the happy couple aka Amanda and West are back stateside and your girl is sporting the infamous rat pony and striped sweater out on a patio to signal she’s back in town and DNGAF.

I was just starting to feel like we’re being too hard on Amanda, but now…credit where credit is due—she said if you all are going to take pictures of me, I’m going to make you look at this damn sweater and hair again and again and again and it’s kind of funny!

The truth is, between the looks and the Reunion, I’m actually not sure what Amanda’s end goal is at this point—TV wise, relationship wise, career here—but I do have to applaud the fact that she is going to stay loyal to that hairstyle til the end!! (Also, she’s at lunch with her one friend Katie Deluca and I need to know why this girl hasn’t slapped her out of this yet?? HELP YOUR FRIEND!) As of yesterday, we’d heard rumors that contracts STILL hadn’t gone out so I think production is scrambling and I’m very concerned for the future of my fave show.

A light list this week!! As always you can find my ShopMy links here and updated Amazon finds here!

• My go-to self tanner: I put this on last weekend and spent half my time in the Dallas heat and half of it in a pool and let me tell you, it stayed on!

• This cute set from Negative will be wayyyy cuter when my top half isn’t about to topple me over, but I really loved the mint color and had to have it

• I only kept select pajamas unboxed ahead of our move and I’m so glad I kept my Lake Pajamas close at hand—I splurged on them my last pregnancy and I can say they are 1000% worth it

• I wore my Margaux wrap sandals half the weekend and—can confirm!—they still hold up!!! ($40 off first time purchase!)

• As an Annabel Monaghan fanatic, it’s no shock I loved her latest book, but I can confirm that Dolly All The Time really was another excellent read from her!!! (My TBR is a little on pause the next few weeks as focus in on packing)

• Last weekend, instead of our traditional Mahjong battles, we played Rummikub instead and I forgot how much I love this game!! Maybe I love it because I won almost every hand but can confirm it’s worth having in you game cabinet if you don’t (very easy to learn, I promise!)

• You can still get 15% off at Ruggable with my code LUCY15! (i’m very excited to put this rug in our dining room and haven’t decided where this one will go!)

• Another week, another reminder to watch (not listen, but watch) Amy Poehler’s Good Hang—this week it’s Tom Holland!

• Now that I’ve finished my Summer House recap, I can’t wait to read Brian Molyan’s Vulture recap

• I think you can still use my code LUCY75 for $75 off your LEESA mattress (we got one for Coco’s big girl bed!)

• My fave fave fave Cann/CBD drinks (also it’s Spritz Season!!!!): I’m very jealous every time I link these….I want one badly (CODE LUCY20)

• M&Ms is partnering with Love Island with this play along game — will start using mine next week (if my girls don’t eat it first)

• I just saw this Substack about defending Amanda Batula (haven’t read it yet, but I love seeing every side of this so will be reading!!)

• My Shark vacuum is on sale — I’m not going to ramble on about a vacuum, we’ve had it for several years, it’s a solid vacuum and that’s that!

• My friend got me obsessed with La Vie while I was in Dallas and, while I haven’t found the hat or the dress I borrowed, I did find this one and I think I want to splurge