Spongebob wine pants

Wine glasses and champagne flutes are the red headed step child of my Sinkdom. The rims never retain their immaculately polished finish and a little pond of alcohol constantly bevies out of my sponge's reach. This is why a queue of glassware gathers militantly next to my sink until my hand can no longer find a wineglass on the top shelf of my cabinet and defeated, I'm forced to tackle the defiant soldiers.

Alas, CASABELLA, seems to have solved this precarious predicament. BEHOLD, a sponge designed to spotlessly clean the rims and easily scrub the bottom of even the sveltest of champagne flutes.

Life just keeps getting easier.

Herring Meatballs

{Swedish meatballs}

{Belgian painter, James Ensor's painting of Skeletons fighting over pickled herring}

Sweden. Meatballs. Meatballs and herring. PICKLED Herring. Gorgeous, skyscraper tall women with white blond hair and blue eyes. These are just a few things that come to mind when I think of this Scandinavian country.
{Swedish Bikini Team...is there really such a thing?}
{Gothenburg}

My lover has an interview at Chalmers University, in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. While the interview is on April 19th, we'll be leaving next week to explore the seaport city as a potential relocation destination.

OH wait. I can't forget Bork, the Swedish chef from the muppets.

{Bork}

Beware the Ides of March

The Ides of March marks the anniversary of Julius Caesar's assassination by Brutus and Cassius. This coin, just put on display at the British Museum, commemorates the event. As the story goes, a seer warned Caesar, "beware the ides of March," which Caesar regrettably ignored, as would most dictators in perpetuity. Have you ever been warned about some impending doom in your future? Like if you keep eating girl scout cookies, your ass will get bigger?

What do you eat for breakfast?

German artist Oliver Schwarzwald's new hunger-educing series of photographs of breakfasts from around the globe has my stomach growling this morning. Can you guess the countries?

I love to ride my bicycle, I love to ride my bike!!!!

I just ordered myself a new bike. It's a similar model to the bike I rode in college. I can't wait for it to arrive so I can put it together and go cruising.

piano man

check out this space saving electric piano table. what a perfect addition to any musically inclined cramped apartment dweller. want now.

fall asleep counting gummi bears

Did anyone else bite the heads of two different color gummi bears and then reattach the body of one color with the head of the other Frankenstein style? I know I did. Fabulous fun! This gummi chandelier would have me jumping on my bed, head back and teeth gnashing. 50 lbs of gummis!!!!!