Monthly Archives: June 2009

Dolls, mud cakes and childhood memories

When I was little I played with dolls and made mud cakes, like any other girl my age. I had a ballerina doll that looked like a Barbie but wasn’t actually a Barbie. She was Nadia, a name she got because of her gymnast-like, very slender body. Unlike gymnasts, she also had boobs but that...

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Chic Sundays: shoes like candy

I’d like to take this opportunity to declare my undying love for J Crew and all the goodies in that store. But especially the shoes. The flats, the pumps, the heels, the d’Orsays, peep-toe, no peep-toe, with bow, bow-less, the shoes are divine. Take a gander. Is there a person in the right mind that...

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Would you take your pants off?

I has already seen this video and perhaps so have you. But I just came across it on Swiss Miss and watched it again.     The title is pretty much self-explanatory. People basically take their pants off during the subway ride. It doesn’t surprise me that much since it takes place in NYC, the...

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June shower

Oh boy! It’s hot outside. I’m not exactly pro-AC but we had to take out the big guns on Wednesday because little Alex drops were beginning to drip on the floor – I was melting! So while we were chillin’ in the AC breeze yesterday afternoon, we hear leaves rustling then thunder and all of...

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Where do the trees go when they die?

When they say that 30% of the rainforest  has been cut, do you know where the trees went? They reincarnated in many sheets of paper that ended up stapled together in a scholarship application file. My scholarship application file. I’m not going to give any details about the nature of this scholarship, out of political...

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