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What I loved about the Rome trip

2012-02-20T03:07:00.004-08:00

Street art: the only way is up.

What I loved about Rome: Basically, everything.

From the mild February weather with lots of sun that we enjoyed in the Villa Borghese park, to the wonderful paintings from Villa Livia at the Museo Massimo to the food to the many cappuccinos to our excursion to Mussolini's insane Foro Italico,

(I'm running in my long johns here, hoping it makes Mussolini spin in his grave to find a short middle aged woman running in her thermal underwear at his beloved stadium).

(Anders saw this and wondered "is that a turd?". But that is no fascist turd, that's just the firm bottomed man's gloves.)

But most of all, I loved hanging out with my brother. Get yourself a brother.

When life brings you lemons, get a brother.

Back from Rome

2012-02-20T03:00:00.003-08:00

Went to the Maxxi, saw this, wanted it to be pasta but it was made from hay.

I liked the "please don't smoke next to our giant hay installation" sign.

Later that day went to Pigneto, the closest Rome gets to modern day Berlin, a place so alternative and seemingly weed/wine friendly that places were proudly serving a dish only authentic munchies would justify: Pizza with Nutella.

Enigmatic spam

2012-02-17T00:50:00.001-08:00

I get this and think "spam". Then I notice the greeting "your majesty" and conclude that the sender must know who I am. Crack now!

Italian women

2012-02-16T23:53:00.001-08:00

Know the secret of getting their laundry really clean! Also, seem to use lots of handkerchiefs. Cold in the household, casalingha?

Does this happen to you?

2012-02-16T02:13:00.001-08:00

For me, every journey involves a new way for my shoes to let me down. Right shoe, you're fired!

Flying

2012-02-16T01:02:00.001-08:00

I used to hate it, now it's fine. Amazing even. To get to see the world like this!

Travel with my brother

2012-02-15T23:27:00.001-08:00

On the way to Rome . My brother the science journalist has already proved his high qualities as travel companion by offering this interesting information while waiting for the train to the airport:

"Did you know they just opened face transplant clinic in Uppsala?".

No! Did not.

I'd like to wear this explanation as a tattoo or t-shirt

2012-02-15T06:53:00.002-08:00

Hej

Tomorrow - a gentle breeze

2012-02-15T01:11:00.001-08:00

Leaving Stockholm (Sweden)

going to:
Rome, Lazio (Italy)

What I miss

2012-02-14T11:43:00.001-08:00

I still miss Mr Showbiz.

Believe me

2012-02-14T11:07:00.000-08:00

With hairless bodies becoming so standard that this little thing pictured can still be called a bikini bottom, the trend pendulum is about to swing. Get ready to embrace the hair again!

Armani

2012-02-14T08:51:00.004-08:00

Someone's doing something right at the Armani house! Ri-Ri, you rock the denim pantsuit look. Rock it. Rawk eeeet. Like a rocket.

Långläsning

2012-02-14T08:23:00.001-08:00

Ändå vill man veta ännu mer.

Det mystiska folket

2012-02-14T06:36:00.002-08:00

Tänk att de kanske bor där, i skorstenen och har telefon med fast nummer!

Funny or sexy - you decide!

2012-02-14T01:32:00.001-08:00

The Acne oversized tassel loafer. Think of it

as a shoe with a large, proud leather mustache.

Yours for only 600 dollars!

Funny or sexy - you decide!

2012-02-14T01:16:00.003-08:00

We may be laughing now (or I am) but we all know we'll probably yearn for a hat like this too, a few years from now. Marc Jacobs fall/winter 2012.

MJ loves Jamiroquai?

Funny or sexy - you decide!

2012-02-14T00:57:00.003-08:00

Just out strolling in my leather coat and little else, nothing strange about that, cause I'm Giselle and I do whatever I feel.

Seriously

2012-02-13T03:02:00.000-08:00

If you've read this blog or my previous blog, you know I have a huge problem with my feet. My feet are as wide are they're long and on top of that, I've got bunions. The feet hurt a little, but basically the main trouble is I have hobbit feet in a world of lean footed humans. Buying/wearing footwear is a nightmare.

Now I've seen a doctor and might have surgery. Though I'm a bit weary since I love the running and walking of my everyday life and whenever I do get surgery I'll have to rest for 6 weeks (each foot). So I keep putting it off. But when I see Rosario Dawson skip around in her little booties, I feel it might be essential to have the surgery.

The brain is such a fucked up construction.

1. I see Rosario Dawson.

2. I think (like I'm sure everyone does) that it is imperative to look more like Rosario Dawson.

3. Brain delivers solution: have foot surgery.

4. Brain, you're fired.

Rome - do you know

2012-02-13T02:52:00.001-08:00

Is there an old indoors bath in Rome? Not talking about Roman era Terme, I mean more like a public indoors swimming pool that's at least 100 years old?

Like Stockholm's Centralbadet or Sturebadet (top pic)?

Or those?

2012-02-12T12:55:00.000-08:00

Too lazy to work out? Get muscles here.

Light up your day and others!

2012-02-12T12:52:00.000-08:00

Whitney!!!!

2012-02-12T01:32:00.001-08:00

Loved you!!!!!!!!!Here's my dance tribute to you, showing how you've made me feel over the years. I've even had this song as my personal anthem since I'M ALSO EVERY WOMAN!!!

Feel free to mail me your dancing too and I'll post them here as a tribute!

emi at lovegun dot net. Because you're human, you can process that into an e-mail adress.

Ps. What you don't see in this video is Vanja, dancing outside of the frame. She didn't want to be filmed.

ps 2. niki wanted to be included.

Thank you!

2012-02-12T00:45:00.000-08:00

Am so grateful to live in a time with access to dishwashers, laundry machines, antibiotics and movies like Puss in boots. I LOVE THIS DANCING SCENE!

Pregnant and proud!

2012-02-11T08:19:00.000-08:00

Mi Mamacita

2012-02-11T00:52:00.000-08:00

Found this pic of mom and me yesterday.

Me: Mom, I LOVE this pic of you!

Mom: Thanks!

Me: You look sooo beautiful here. So in love. Is it because you're so in love with the photographer?

Mom: Yes! I do look kind of cute there. And sure, I was definitely in love. So in love. With you.

Me: I KNOW THE FEELING!!!!

JOSH - BEST IN SHOW

2012-02-11T00:35:00.000-08:00

My old college friend Josh has a new book out on show dogs and he's seen here on CBS promoting it. He tells Gayle King and Charlie Rose "Most of us don't get pampered like showdogs do, I mean unless perhaps you're a morning talk show host."

I love Josh and I'm sure his book is great. Get it here.

Running for and with the president

2012-02-09T23:44:00.000-08:00

Run with me and Obama's playlist!

Non-spotify users, the list of songs is available here.

Ps. have now listened to some of the music and it's clear that though I really like mr president, I don't share his taste in music. Michelle, waiting for yours now!

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Restylane people

2012-02-09T12:52:00.001-08:00

I walked by this today and all I could think was "Restylane people don't you want your money back? You look exactly the same, just more plastic!"

Restylane, I won't be one of your people. Not even sorry about that!

St Petersburg

2012-02-09T06:27:00.001-08:00

Why don't you go back to calling yourself Stalingrad, hater?

http://rt.com/news/prime-time/lgbt-law-petersburg-scandal-835/

Anders, please

2012-02-08T04:31:00.001-08:00

Would you do this dance for me? (Dance starts at 1:00").

Runners, help me

2012-02-08T04:07:00.000-08:00

Are Icebugs essential to winter running?

Focus on other important stuff!

2012-02-08T03:18:00.000-08:00

John Lennon's Rolls Royce

MUSEUM LOVERS!!! LOOK HERE!!! Boing Boing readers share their favorite exhibits!

ACTION AT THE MUSEUM!

Focus on what's important?

2012-02-08T01:27:00.001-08:00

It's easy! Just watch this. It will have you

1. Love your planet

2. Cherish what you already have.

3. Slow down your urge to shop.

4. Think about eating more veggies, grown close to you.

5. Try to find ways to sound less annoying for doing all of the above.

Top 5 regrets of the living

2012-02-06T05:49:00.000-08:00

As a reply to this, I would like to post the TOP 5 REGRETS OF THE LIVING:

1. Shouldn't have eaten so much.

2. Should have worked out.

3. Should have made that call.

4. Shouldn't have said that.

5. Should have shut off Facebook and Twitter and reading blogposts like this.

Top bonus regret:

Shouldn't have had that last beer/glass/shot yesterday.

Monday morning

2012-02-06T04:28:00.001-08:00

No rush, just going to the dentist. 10 degrees warmer than yesterday!

Am against this

2012-02-06T04:13:00.000-08:00

This opera is said to be partly about Cleopatra who uses her "cunning mind" to get Julius Caesar to do what she wants him to. So why illustrate this highly intelligent strategic woman by using a blowup doll clearly devoid of intellect, created solely for the purpose of being with a woman without being with a woman?

I hate this poster.

Show a little respect for Egypt's last pharaoh. And for womankind in general.

Ps. This poster had me come up with an alternative poster idea - why not exchange it for a dildo with a laurel wreath? Tried to image google for clarity. Search "Dildo + laurel wreath" makes for strange web history. I do it all for you!!!

You just said no to a glass of beer

2012-02-06T03:38:00.001-08:00

You just said no to a glass of beer, so we have to ask:

COULD WE INTEREST YOU IN A PITCHER OF VODKA?

ROME!

2012-02-05T12:28:00.000-08:00

Am going to Rome with my brother next week!!! Anything I shouldn't miss?

Staying strong

2012-02-05T12:22:00.001-08:00

Know how I said shopping doesn't bring happiness? I have to repeat that as my mantra cause Whyred just released a collection of clothes that promise to turn shoppers into current era incarnations of Gwyneth Paltrow in The Talented Mr Ripley.

I have very little in common with Gwyneth, perhaps the one thing I have in common with her is our mutual love of Glee.

But to look like her in Rrrrrrripley. Suddenly seems important? WHY!?!?!?!

Must be strong. Keep running. Focus on real happiness. Strong.

Toves löparblogg

2012-02-05T09:21:00.000-08:00

Detta kommer garanterat bli bra. Rock'n'rollrunning.

Parisa, den här är till dig

2012-02-05T02:10:00.001-08:00

Förstår du hur ditt hjärta kommer explodera av kärlek när du ser din dotter på 4-årskontroll djupt koncentrerad under pågående hörseltest. Vilka fantastiska döttrar du kommer få. Och söner!

Detta apropå detta.

3 years after core training with babies

2012-02-05T02:00:00.000-08:00

Now: Niki is doing the core training herself!

Then! My brother demonstrating "the bitch" called "plank" by others.

Then: Niki cheering me on.

Jobb jag skulle kunna få

2012-02-05T01:46:00.000-08:00

inte många, men kanske detta?

Finally!

2012-02-05T01:42:00.000-08:00

Real winter, real snow.

Do you remember when

2012-02-05T01:41:00.001-08:00

Slipping into something more comfortable meant changing from regular clothes into princess dress and wings? Every day. Every day.

Life at home.

2012-02-05T01:40:00.001-08:00

I love it when things like this just happen.

Svenska nutidsproblem

2012-02-05T01:38:00.000-08:00

HERREGUD HUR SKA DET GÅ?!?!?!??!

Today

2012-02-03T03:41:00.000-08:00

It's cold in Stockholm. It's crazy beautiful. I love winter, when it's winter. When it's snowy, crisp, frozen.

I was happy.

Strindberg was cold.

And many people had this expression on their faces because of the -13 temperature this morning.

So beautiful. I love my city. Love it.

But my kids are all saying we should find warmth. So went to travel agent, where catalogs featuring my own family pushed me over the edge to book a trip.

We'll see how that goes.

Ladies love him

2012-02-02T07:36:00.000-08:00

Ever since I first saw this album cover, I've thought, "LL, that panther is walking you!"

So camera ready. I love this panther. Somethings off with the body though. is it perhaps part seal?

"Walking with a seal." That's what I'll call my debut rap album. Stay tuned.

Oh Wislawa Szymborska

2012-02-02T04:21:00.001-08:00

You were the only conditioner I could find to soothe the circumstances of the human condition. Thank you for leaving your words here on earth!

Trump

2012-02-02T02:33:00.000-08:00

I once read how Donald Trump's son had said he wouldn't change his babies nappies cause "Trumps don't do diapers".

He thought it made him seem powerful. All I could think was what a complete moron. Changing diapers is one of life's highlights. I mean it. I've changed thousands.

Not every diaper change is memorable, but so many are. Helping that tiny little person, blowing air over his or her tummy, tickling a little, laughing together, lavishing the child with encouragement and love. Getting intense wordless love back, first giggles, sensing the heartfelt relief of getting rid of that old diaper. It's about connecting.

Trumps don't do diapers. How much else have you not understood about life?

I LOVE MY BABIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the people they've grown up to be!

look at that loose skin, that shadow of hair, that toothless grin, the arms that can't contain their joy! can't take it!

Pga livet

2012-02-02T02:28:00.001-08:00

Displayen på min iphone4 är trasig och jag får 10% på lagningspriset om jag bloggar om att jag gör det på IPHONEREPARATION.SE på Odengatan.

Visst kan jag blogga mot rabatt. Eller för pengar. För lite vad som helst.

Just sayin. Och när jag säger det ser jag ut så här:

Hur

2012-02-01T13:37:00.000-08:00

Hur många desperat thörstiga människor hade krälat fram med sin enda fråga: "huuur lååångt äre till ssssysstemet" innan de satte upp skylten?

What were you doing

2012-02-01T13:30:00.000-08:00

At this hour:

what were you doing?

I looked out the window, saw this:

So I fried some pancakes for the children

Looked at this little guy:

decided a run and picking up the kids would me feel like him, all warm on the inside.

Geared up:

decided this is my SIGNATURE WEIRD MUSHROOM HEAD STYLE. Went out into the snow. Ran. Got home, showered, took kids to karate, negotiated 500 different things, took a bath, put kids to bed. Feel warm on the inside.

Now bed. Over and out.

Every time I read about the SAG awards

2012-02-01T03:19:00.001-08:00

I think to myself, "too bad no one is proud enough to show real saggage as opposed to cleavage".

How can you stand it?

2012-02-01T01:23:00.000-08:00

Ballads. I hate them. I wish there was a checkbox at Spotify with the headline "exclude ballads from search results".

To concentrate

2012-01-30T05:23:00.000-08:00

For years, I thought concentrating meant closing your eyes and waiting to exhale.

Recipe for happiness

2012-01-30T04:26:00.000-08:00

I'm a happy person. We've been through this before. But it's true and I often get asked why I'm so happy. I TELL YOU HOW TO BE HAPPY

Surround yourself with great people

Love your job

If you don't love your job, leave your job

If you can't leave your job, find life beyond job

Dance, daily

Sing daily, especially if you believe you can't sing

Eat chocolate

Run

Take every opportunity to laugh

Limit shopping. Shopping doesn't bring the happiness. Am serious.

Have children in your life. They don't need to be your own.

MAKE SURE THE CHANNEL TO YOUR OWN INNER CHILD REMAINS WIDE OPEN! THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS OF ALL since it means you will never cease to marvel at both small and big things you see, around you, every day. Also, staying in touch with your inner child gives you permission to be ridiculous which is a great way to achieve happiness.

Find art that works for you.

Wear shoes that lets you be a person. A person who can actually walk, even run, freely.

When possible, climb trees.

Make peace with yourself.

That's all.

A message for Stockholm fashion week

2012-01-30T02:41:00.000-08:00

I already have what I need. Music, running gear, happiness and what you would probably call MY TRADEMARK STYLE.

I'm posting this video because my mind tells me this is not what a woman of my age and profession should be sharing and that's why it's essential to share it.

best foundation?

2012-01-30T01:13:00.001-08:00

I'm asking you! I have very thin skin. You can see the veins under my skin like violet and red highways. My skin gets red and blotchy. I need some magic foundation that takes away the highways and blotchiness but steers clear from the "I'm introducing BEIGE as new KABUKI"-color crisis.

What body part IS THAT? IS IT MY NECK?

I've never seen such an image on the internets.

you're welcome!

ps. Yes, putting needles where they belong is EASY.

Happy ghost in our kitchen

2012-01-29T04:06:00.001-08:00

Hello!

THANK YOU CHRISTER

2012-01-28T03:59:00.000-08:00

We should all be this generous. Or I guess women do this ALL THE TIME, this kind of posing, but men, you should join! Cuddly and cute wild beast appeal.

Pause Facebook

2012-01-27T02:20:00.000-08:00

Engage your brain in something worthwhile. 3 X Toni interviewed by Charlie Rose.

On running

2012-01-27T00:43:00.001-08:00

I don't currently have an office, so I work from home. It's nice but lonely. To break the monotony of such a workday, I go running, so I can come back home, refreshed and happy. I run in the snow, I don't mind, it kind of makes me feel heroic.

I love coming back home from a run, even love the running itself, at least after I've ran the first km of each run. But like most people, I don't often find myself yearning to work out. Lately, I've started to say to myself "you've got to walk the dog". That's my mind's view of my body. A demanding dog that needs to be walked, fed, petted, washed. All the time.

It works though. When you don't want to work out, remind yourself, you have to. What kind of horribly lazy dog owner would you be otherwise. Walk that animal. It needs it.

Ni är galna

2012-01-26T06:43:00.000-08:00

Om ni inte springer till detta. Mariah! Jag vet ej vad som händer på bilden nedan. Jag kan inte sluta titta på den.

Missing: staff, blondes.

2012-01-26T06:41:00.001-08:00

Egocentric Megalomaniac Take on World

2012-01-26T06:13:00.000-08:00

Confession: Whenever I see a satellite pic of our planet, my initial thought is: "I wonder what I'm doing in this picture. If you could close this pic up, real good."

Admit it, you do it too. Or will, from now on.

Ps. I don't often see individuals I'd like to look like besides Marion Cotillard, Sade, Lisa Bonet, Salma Hayek, Scarlett Johansson, Bianca Jagger, Niki de Saint Phalle, Rosario Dawson, Eva Mendes, Ashwariya Ray, Freida Pinto, Georgia O'Keefe, Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Giselle, Diana Agron, Rosalind Russel, Claudia Cardinale, Toni Morrison

<--INSERT MORE OR LESS ANY NAME HERE-->, but damn,how cute is this fox?

Proof of time travel

2012-01-25T02:33:00.000-08:00

My favorite daydream is time travel. My favorite superhero ability is also being able to travel through time. I keep looking for ways, signs, methods of doing the impossible.

So far, the most convincing proof of time travel I've found is Jan van Eyck's painting. How could he do this? Don't you think he traveled from a different place in time, sneaking in a camera? Zoom in on those slippers, on everything. How did he do this?

Every time I see a van Eyck, I think to myself "I love you Jan".

Ps. The same applies to Holbein, just switch Jan for Hans. Janne och Hasse, ni äger.

Ps 2. Yes, the Madonna at the fountain in post below is also by JvE. JAN VAN EYCK.

I like to think that he painted it outdoors, with the beautiful textile background mounted just so. Perhaps not supported by angels though. But who knows.

Niki says

2012-01-23T10:32:00.000-08:00

that what she loves most about me is my neck. Seeing this painting for real, in NYC, I broke down in tears because of the love loaded impact it had in real life.

I think this illustrates why Niki loves my neck. Why any child loves a parent's neck above all. It is a remnant of that early baby closeness, before there are words. We don't have that anymore, yet we kind of do. When I put her to bed, when we turn out the lights, when we lie next to each other, waiting for sleep to sail away with her, there are a few moments when the feeling is exactly this, and her little arm is slung around my neck.

To be a mother. I love it so.

OH NO!

2012-01-23T01:27:00.001-08:00

SEAL AND HEIDI SEPARATING? NO MORE OF THIS?!?! THE SADNESS!!!

Dear NATASHA

2012-01-22T12:05:00.000-08:00

I WANTED TO GO TO LONDON SO BAD.

Especially to the Leonardo with you.

But it seemed like there was no way of even making sure we'd even get to see it together?

I tried to buy tickets over eBay, but found out in time they'd be invalid.

To travel to another country for an exhibition I wasn't even sure I'd get into, it was too bleak a project.

I'll come to Paris to see you, with no kids in tow. Just have to make some money first. But I will.

Life, lately

2012-01-22T02:22:00.000-08:00

Went to Moderna Museet yesterday, with my brother and various children.

We saw this work of art:

It was called:

To which I would like to reply:

"Watching a 2-year old approach a work of art containing hundreds of loose glass bottles without interfering the highest form of art"

Not a day goes by

2012-01-22T00:40:00.001-08:00

Not a day goes by without me thinking of ways I could simply get on a plane and go to NYC to see this exhibition. I've seen many of the paintings before, in museums around Europe and the US, but to see them like this...it hurts not being able to! Must figure out a way to afford it. Or at least buy the catalogue. But it's not the same. The impact of the real painting, the layers of paint, the knowledge that this was the very canvas touched by the artist, the very painting observed and treasured for centuries can not be compared to looking at a page in a book or viewing it on your computer screen.

I'm often overwhelmed by paintings. I never know in advance when it will happen or why. And it's only sometimes that I comprehend exactly why I'm suddenly crying or laughing. My favorite experience is that of FLYING THROUGH TIME with the help of a painting, the sense of seeing what the painter saw, not necessarily with his or her eyes, but with her soul/intellect/core/insert what you think the painter is working with here. It's that experience I'm always looking for, the one that's now urging me to go to NYC.

I wrote a museum blog last year. I once wrote a post on a painting which is considered to possibly portray the young Lucrezia Borgia. This painting intrigued me so that I got all worked up about the Borgias series that turned out to be a huge disappointment to me. Why is it that historical dramas so often portray individuals who're only able to host a single emotion or ambition at any given time? And why is that one ambition/drive so often either power or carnal desire? It makes everything so flat. Where is the mockery, the everyday chitchat, the friendly banter, the self deprecating funny remarks that make up regular daily life for people all around the world now and historically?

I missed all of that in The Borgias. It didn't do anything for me beyond admiring the skills of the costume department.

I'd dreamed of seeing a portrait of the Lucrezia I see in the portrait; enigmatic, thoughtful, unattainable. What I got was a renaissance cupcake, which is not at all the actress fault, but what we've come to expect of female characters in too many series. No thanks. Perhaps I stopped viewing too early, please inform me if the portrayal of the highly intelligent, intriguing, interesting and vital Lucrezia changed over the episodes?

Yesterday I watched Hanna with Anders. I loved Tom Wrights Pride and Prejudice and am so looking forward to his Anna Karenina. Hanna was ok. but more than anything - there was my Lucrezia! So please Tom, make a Lucrezia movie, with Saoirse Ronan as the lead. It would be SO SO SO great. That's Saoirse as teenage assassin Hanna above, next to a Lucrezia fresco. And are any of you in NYC? have you been to the Renaissance Portrait Exhibition? Should I let go of everything and just go or should I simply buy the book?

curious greetings

-e

Things I can't get enough of

2012-01-20T05:17:00.000-08:00

Stockholm. I LOVE THIS TOWN. LOVE IT. EVEN AT IT'S BLEAKEST.

Having these people in my life on a DAILY BASIS.

Har också skrattat mycket åt grispaniken och risottokollapsen

2012-01-20T05:16:00.000-08:00

TACK MALIN!!!

2012-01-20T05:08:00.000-08:00

Roligaste klippen, direkt från Malins blogg.

och!

Blev så nyfiken på Mitch, var tvungen att googla honom. så tråkigt, då var han redan död.

Rolig, med bra hår.

Ska ta med den här bilden nästa gång jag går och klipper mig. Vill se ut så här. Kanske utan mustasch, men vad gör man? Närmar mig ändå mustaschålder.

Run with me and Stevie. For once in your life.

2012-01-20T05:00:00.001-08:00

Get playlist here. 34 minutes for a perfect 5k + cool off or just post-run dance.

Or just a great moment in time.

Looking for a hotel in Rome

2012-01-19T05:01:00.001-08:00

Came across this pic and I love it. Rome, you're already bringing it. Stare on, bossy cat.

What's important

2012-01-19T04:55:00.000-08:00

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Trees are really really really important to me. I crave trees. I need to have them close by.

Advice to young people

2012-01-17T05:21:00.001-08:00

Every now and then, young people ask me for sagely advice.

HAHAHA. No they don't, but if they did, I would tell them: PICK YOUR PARTNER WELL; so that in 15 years from now, he or she will still make you laugh.

I can't believe my luck in living such a life in luxury myself. The other day when I asked Anders how he could look exactly the way he did now as he did back in '99 when we met, he looked at me and said, in perfect a perfect Scottish accent "I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And I am immortal."

I guess what I'm trying to say here is, pick a funny partner. Or at least someone who's immortal.

Ps. Or just a Scotsman.

THANK YOU JENNY

2012-01-17T03:28:00.000-08:00

For posting this on your facebook-wall.

If you want to protect your head while skydiving

2012-01-15T23:36:00.001-08:00

You can now buy a Guner Bonehead.

greetings, Guner by birth, have never understood the appeal of skydiving. More interested in Batsuit flying.

Dear Google

2012-01-15T15:11:00.001-08:00

Answer: No, I did not mean immoral women.

Ps. How come you didn't ask that when I googled "immortal men"? Your double standards infuriate me. ETERNALLY!

Ps 2. Specify immoral.

I love this gallery

2012-01-15T14:58:00.000-08:00

via hjärtasmärta: really old babies and their hidden moms

Ingen annan blogg

2012-01-15T14:32:00.000-08:00

gör sådana nerdykningar som Nuskadetbliandrabullar. Ni som älskar Fisher Price, här är Helenas present till er. Ni som inte älskar Fisher Price, varför gör ni inte det? Är det något litet fel med er? Det kanske inte är för sent att åtgärdas!

Suddenly

2012-01-14T08:15:00.001-08:00

Entertaining thoughts about last minute trips.

Your new bag?

2012-01-12T03:22:00.001-08:00

I love monkeys.

how do you like your wine?

2012-01-12T00:19:00.000-08:00

- Mrs Guner, how do you like your wine?

-Winehouse, please.

I LOVE THIS SONG. Not only do we get Amy, but we get NAS too!!!!

The stuff I don't buy on Etsy, but you could.

2012-01-11T23:46:00.000-08:00

Buy my favorites, so someone gets to wear these wonderful things!

Glöm inte

2012-01-11T22:58:00.000-08:00

DU HAR FORTFARANDE CHANSEN!!!!

What celebrity do you look like?

2012-01-11T22:45:00.001-08:00

This question comes up a lot:

"What celebrity do you look like?"

I've given it a lot of thought.

In the end can come up only with one answer: one without makeup.

What we in Sweden call sist på bollen.

2012-01-11T04:10:00.000-08:00

Lisa Lucas posted this:

Had to try it myself. Didn't do as well as four year old.

And here you go, if you've never heard of the original:

Move it

2012-01-11T00:19:00.000-08:00

2011 - looking back

2012-01-10T23:16:00.000-08:00

So 2011 was a shitty year. I look back on it like a terrible relationship. But just like you would after ending a crap romance, I find myself going "but we had some great times too".

Highlights of 2011

Going to Florence and Rome to see an amazing exhibition.

Then went to Tenerife with the family and it was warm and I've never seen the kids happier. They still talk about it.

Annika's 40th birthday party!

Lisas 40th birthday party!

Brita & Kalle's wedding!

Sarah & Jonas wedding!

Gotland!

Christina's 40th birthday party!

Mark & Karina's wedding!

Sofia singing at said wedding. In church, one of my own life's most perfect moments and I imagine it was even more blissful for the wedding couple!

Researching and writing an article for Swedish Elle. Finding Pilates through that article.

My friends hosting a surprise dinner for me because of 40th b-day!

Celebrating 10 years as a mother of world's best kids by going to Paris with the oldest one!

Lisa & Calle's halloween party!

Getting Sara and family back!

Having Petra visit us in Sweden!

Every run I've taken even when I didn't feel like it that made me feel so great afterwards.

Meeting up with my old band!

One of the best nights out with Anders we've ever had. December 16th!

Watching Elf with Anders and the kids. Such a small thing, still remembered as one of the best things of 2011.

ps. why is reading about people's happy moments so boring? These were my best times, still even I feel like yawning when reading through them. I don't understand the weirdness about happiness.

Honestly, from one end consumer

2012-01-10T23:08:00.000-08:00

I hated 2011 and in the midst of misery, did what many women (and some men) do when down - I thought perhaps luxury could help lift me out of the pain.

I'd aged rapidly from all the sorrow and thought this was the one time in life when La Mer could be justified.

So bought the expensive cream and used it and liked it.

But now, when I'm using Revitalift for a fraction of the cost, I honestly couldn't say La Mer was any better, for me.

I'd be interested to read a little pamphlet called "why I bought La Mer". Am pretty sure it would contain many many a sad story. There are many ways to find solace, if an expensive facial cream works for you, go for it. But if you can't afford it, don't cry, use a cheap alternative.

More reliable counter grief aid was found in running, pilates, friends and family. La Mer/Elizabeth Arden perhaps we'll meet again, but hope there will be no reason to.

Ps. Isn't the jar really ugly too, considering it should be such a premium product?

Ps 2. Think perhaps bought the jar because my dyslexic subconscious read it phonetically as MOMMY.

January

2012-01-10T00:01:00.000-08:00

I hear that this organization is what they in Glee call "amazeballs".

Quiz

2012-01-09T01:06:00.000-08:00

I watched a quiz show with Anders and realized how very little I know about Brussels and Belgium. It was appalling.

Also knew very little about New Delhi.

So sat down to make my own quiz, about stuff I know about.

1. What is the Swedish title of the book in which Harriet Vane returns to her old skool?

2. My youngest child refuses to wear anything but?

3. How long does it take to commute from IKEA Barkarby to Lidingö?

4. What computer do I wish would just drop down in my lap?

5. How far should I run later today?

Honeybee -about the house

2012-01-09T01:01:00.000-08:00

This is our house. The second from right. See how two out of four walls are adjacent to a neighbor? Means heat doesn't spill out into the open air. The house is very well insulated so yes, it's warm. We have a fireplace, but never make a fire, since it's so warm anyhow. But recently, a beloved friend who lives in LA came to visit and she didn't think our house was warm at all.

So to answer your question: I think both. We're warm and the house is warm. Outside, it's currently -6° Celsius. Or as we call it: PERFECT RUNNING CONDITIONS.

Young logic

2012-01-09T00:30:00.001-08:00

Me: sure you want to go ice-skating now? After all you just went to a 3-hour workout at that kids camp thing.

Joel: mom, working out makes you stronger, not weaker! Let's go skating!

Different temperatures

2012-01-08T13:57:00.001-08:00

letters from the end consumer

What I loved about the Rome trip

Back from Rome

Enigmatic spam

Italian women

Does this happen to you?

Flying

Travel with my brother

I'd like to wear this explanation as a tattoo or t-shirt

Tomorrow - a gentle breeze

Leaving Stockholm (Sweden)

going to:Rome, Lazio (Italy)

What I miss

Believe me

Armani

Långläsning

Det mystiska folket

Funny or sexy - you decide!

Funny or sexy - you decide!

Funny or sexy - you decide!

Seriously

Rome - do you know

Or those?

Light up your day and others!

Whitney!!!!

Thank you!

Pregnant and proud!

Mi Mamacita

JOSH - BEST IN SHOW

Running for and with the president

Restylane people

St Petersburg

Anders, please

Runners, help me

Focus on other important stuff!

Focus on what's important?

Top 5 regrets of the living

Monday morning

Am against this

You just said no to a glass of beer

ROME!

Staying strong

Toves löparblogg

Parisa, den här är till dig

3 years after core training with babies

Jobb jag skulle kunna få

Finally!

Do you remember when

Life at home.

Svenska nutidsproblem

Today

Ladies love him

Oh Wislawa Szymborska

Trump

Pga livet

Hur

What were you doing

Every time I read about the SAG awards

How can you stand it?

To concentrate

Recipe for happiness

A message for Stockholm fashion week

best foundation?

Happy ghost in our kitchen

THANK YOU CHRISTER

Pause Facebook

On running

Ni är galna

Missing: staff, blondes.

Egocentric Megalomaniac Take on World

Proof of time travel

Niki says

OH NO!

Dear NATASHA

Life, lately

Not a day goes by

Things I can't get enough of

Har också skrattat mycket åt grispaniken och risottokollapsen

TACK MALIN!!!

Run with me and Stevie. For once in your life.

going to:
Rome, Lazio (Italy)