If you want to protect your head while skydiving

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

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

via hjärtasmärta: really old babies and their hidden moms

Ingen annan blogg

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

Entertaining thoughts about last minute trips.

Your new bag?

I love monkeys.

how do you like your wine?

- 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.

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

Glöm inte

DU HAR FORTFARANDE CHANSEN!!!!

What celebrity do you look like?

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.

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

2011 - looking back

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

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

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

Quiz

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

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

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

Love

My love for this person could easily melt the ice he's skating on. Had to remove myself.

And as I did, ran into this nice fellow.

Working out with Christina

Today went running with this. I tell you, do this. Go running with dirrty. Ladies. Gentlemen. Just let it happen to you. Let it carry you. Give it a try. If it doesn't work for you, you can take the bus home.

Personally, I'm going to repeat the experience tomorrow.

Working out with Bob

Just made a playlist that's perfect for your next 5k run. Get inspired by a legend and his athletic stance. I dressed just like bottom picture for my run last night.

Here's the playlist, for those of you who don't have Spotify.

Bob Marley & The Wailers – Three Little Birds
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Jamming
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Is This Love
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Could You Be Loved
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Waiting In Vain
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Stir It Up - Original Album Version
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Satisfy My Soul

But Fame costs...

At what point of celebrity does posing like this seem like no big deal?

I'm going to try it now.

Looking sexy/serious/successful was the hardest part.

ps. For a minute, I thought cropping might be the clue to the other pic looking fairly ok. So I tried cropping too. Now you know what I'd look like...if I had bangs made out of real fingers!

What fame can do to hair

Just tripping over loot

Couldn't make it up

Ahola Transport offer their services with the tagline "always there".

Finally!

I've waited for this snow like an elephant mother waits for her baby (gestation: 22 months). Or like I waited for Niki (12 days overdue).

SNOW I WELCOME YOU INTO OUR LIVES AGAIN; I LOVE YOU.

My favorite quotes so far this year

WE'RE TOO YOUNG TO WEAR CLUBFOOT SHOES.

-Maja.

If I'm on time these days, it's by chance. That's so not like me.

-Sara.

People who ROCK MY WORLD

DR RAMIREZ; I SALUTE YOU! I don't know much about you, but I would love to see the upcoming show. Will see how that works out. At least when you google yourself, know that thre is at least one person in Sweden dying to see your show.

Winter running into her summer self