It’s almost Christmas and it’s 10 degrees Celsius here. I LOVE IT! This unexpected flood of sunshine has done more for my morale than all the Christmas cheerfulness and my mom’s cakes put together. The sun today is wonderful and I think because of this unusual heat wave little green leaves are starting to appear [...]

Yes, I am listening to George Michael singing “Last Christmas” while I’m typing this… I am beyond salvation! My only hope is that all that 80s pop doesn’t fry up my brain cells. And you know what’s next in my playlist? Dolly Parton’s Rockin’ around the Christmas tree… What’s worse is that I know I’ll [...]

I was sorting through our big, messy bookcase today and I came across this little stack of books, all dusty and a bit torn. They smelled like an antiques store and all of a sudden I was overwhelmed with all these memories from olde times of yore when I barely knew how to read but [...]

When I first discovered the online paradise called Etsy, it was as like the first time I dunked my foot in a bubble bath or the first time pistachio icecream melted on my tongue. Etsy is full with beautiful things and I could spend days on end looking for cute crochet bunnies, or little wood [...]

Last weekend D and I got to reminiscing. He told me how when he was little he set the kitchen curtain on fire and how he liked throwing lit matches off the balcony. So he liked living on the edge? What 7-year-old doesn’t? I liked playing with fire when I was little too, but my [...]

Don’t you just love it when you overhear people say stuff while they’re passing by you on the street? Especially when they’re saying crazy/stupid stuff which almost makes you yell to their face “Dude, that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard!” or “You my friend are definitely NOT a rocket scientist!” Sometimes the stuff you [...]