There are 600 million adolescent girls living in the developing world – the majority living in poverty. By giving one of these girls a chance, you start the Girl Effect. When girls have safe places to meet, education, legal protection, health care, and access to training and job skills, they can thrive. And if they [...]
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The Girl Effect ~ Invest in a Girl and She Will Do The Rest
Posted in life, random, thoughts, video, tagged advertising, awareness, change, charity, creativity, education, Girl Effect, helping others, making a difference, Nike Foundation, non-profit, NoVo Foundation, philanthropy, poverty, The Girl Effect, typography, Wieden & Kennedy, women, youtube on August 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Major Cuteness
Posted in Frenchie, photos, random, tagged animals, cute, dog, dogs, french bulldog, frogdog, new puppy, pet, pets, puppies, puppy on August 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday we visited the French bulldog puppies. And OH-MI-GAWD. How can anyone NOT think these are the stinking cutest creatures eh-vah? I promise not to become a crazy dog lady or let this blog become all about French bulldogs but I could not resist posting these pics of them at a week old….The critters are [...]
Surprise Bloom
Posted in beauty, life, nature, random, tagged bloom, flower, flowers, plants, pretty, surprise, unusual on April 30, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Look who happily greeted me when I came home from work* yesterday.
Does anyone know what kind of climbing plant this is?
It is one of the most interesting flowers. The pictures show the double layered long spiky looking parts as blue but they are actually bright purple. I picked this guy up at a grocery store [...]
Polar Bread Pimped by a Reindeer
Posted in Sweden, expat, food & wine, life, random, shopping, tagged Food, grocery shopping, polar bread, reindeer on April 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Not something I would normally ever in a million years come in contact with back home in my Whole Foods Market, so you can imagine I was a bit jolted when I rounded the corner in the grocery store and laid my big brown eyes on this guy. He was marketing, Polar Bread or Polarbröd [...]
Price of Eternal Salvation: $12.79
Posted in humor, life, random, tagged comedy, entertainment, eternal salvation, funny, gag gifts, God, heaven, hell, reserve a spot in heaven, Travel on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently, that’s all it takes to secure your spot in heaven. A quick visit to a website created by two Seattle boys and you can save your soul online. Take a peak at www.reserveaspotinheaven.com for a guaranteed spot in paradise or if you prefer going to the burning under-world try: www.reserveaspotinhell.com.
For a dozen or so [...]
Twiggy
Posted in beauty, expat, interior design, life, random, tagged branches, country, country living, flower arrangements, nature, simple, sticks, trees, twigs on April 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
One of the benefits of having an address in the sticks is the sticks.
After spending the evening hitting a round of golf (or in this case Fattie playing well and me gouging ginormous divots out of the earth while he patiently and ever so kindly waited for my three – four strokes to his every [...]
Swedish Wieners
Posted in expat, food & wine, photos, random, tagged frankfurters, funny picture, half-special, hot dog, sausage, strange food, Swedish, Swedish hot dog, weird, wiener, yuck on April 15, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Seriously. How could anyone think this looks attractive enough to stick in your mouth?
I snapped this prized winning pic the other day while out running errands. The country is littered with these hot dog stands. They are in supermarkets, malls, gas stations, street corners, and pedestrian shopping streets. I just can’t believe someone in their [...]
Sunday Night
Posted in life, photos, random, tagged lake, my life, photo, photography, pictures, Sunday, sunset, walking, water on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Even though it was a busy Sunday (Fattie’s grandmother turned 98 and we had a very yummy family dinner at my in-laws in her honor) I managed to sneak in a quick jaunt this evening.
Luckily for me, one of the grocery stores I frequent is located directly on the lake, so a shopping trip to [...]
Bliss Spaaaahhh!
Posted in random, tagged bliss products, bliss spa, body butter, good stuff, pampering, product, relax, relaxing, spa, W Hotels on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I want need to go to here. Immediately. Wanna go with? Among other fabulousness, they have the best body butter eh-vah.
*photos: blissworld*
Burn Baby Burn
Posted in life, nature, random, thoughts, tagged burning calories, calories, exercise, fitness, health, my life, OCD, running shoes, sneakers, walking on April 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Some think it’s a pretty freakin’ boring activity that takes too much time for the amount of calories it ultimately burns. However, walking does have some pretty huge benefits. Yeah, yeah. Blah, blah, blah – you’ve heard it a thousand times before, you know walking is good for you, you know you should exercise…..but maybe [...]
Wearing stilettos on the farm
A city girl from the states falls in love while working her 9-5 in Holland and wakes up to find herself living on a golf course in the Swedish countryside.
Don’t Be Shy.
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