Girls who wear glasses

Girls who wear glasses constantly make passes.

YOU CAN*T STOP US.

Thanks for making me pick these frames!

One-trick pony

It's like 25 years between those pics but I keep doing what I do best.

Pausing

Too much work. Pausing blog till it all calms down

Hardcore businessmen at 7

When I found that pic from 9th grade, I also find this. Pretty, right?

Well, who ever I traded this with wanted to make sure it stayed that way.

It says NO RETURNS! on the back.

Tonite

I hear my children talking.

Vanja: I'm going to an 80's party.

Joel: What's the 80's?

Vanja: Well. It was a time when people partied all the time!!!!

That's me in the 80's. This was before blogs. We had to carve out little identity clues best we could. Many people wore t-shirts with their favorite bands or zodiac signs or prints they ironed onto their t-shirts.

Personally, I wore a fez all through 9th grade.

ps. Why does the nose keep on growing? What's the purpose of that? Not that I mind, I like big noses and the people who have them. I just wonder why it doesn't stop like the lips do.

ps 2. God I love that sentence "Personally, I wore a fez all through 9th grade."! You can use it for practically anything! "Does my butt look big in this?" - "I don't know. Personally, I wore a fez all through 9th grade." "Do you believe in God?" "Perhaps. Personally, I wore a fez all through 9th grade. " Did you buy milk?" "Sure and I also wore a fez all through 9th grade."

ps 3. You can even see the fez in this pic if you look closely. It's the black thing at the back of my head.

If you have limited resources this season

Now something unexpected - make-up tips! I've tried to make myself famous for my au naturel-look, which is easy cause that's what it is. But even I try, sometimes. I have very little money and what I have I already owe in taxes. So buying clothes is sadly out of the question right now. Instead, I have to make do with what I already have like always - forgotten closet and all that.

BUT! I felt I needed some glamour in my life this summer and bought two eyeliners - one gold, one black and the gold has already yielded more compliments than almost any item of clothing ever has. So sell something if you have to - get a liquid gold eyeliner. If you can't afford that either, just go gold eye shadow, the cheapest brands have them too.

That blank expression is my photo face, used by models of all sizes and nationalities for decades. As a bonus _ check out my forehead. Those FINE LINES are here to stay so am thinking of putting them to practical use - for instance might plant some flowers there.

Not even Shakespeare could stop this kind of thing though he tried, by begging time:

"O, carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow".

Time, really, it's ok. I know you do this to everybody.

ps 2. My kids already do that photo face too.

Ett varningens ord

Har ätit ute tre gånger den här veckan och blivit så besviken. Vill därför varna er andra matkonsumenter.

1. Tully's, Götgatan. Bulgursallad. Nej den var inte bra. Det var den inte. Så synd. hade varit så praktiskt med bra bulgursallad nära jobbet.

2. Ljunggrens. Gör dig aldrig besviken - om du vill bli besviken. Nudelsalladen med sotad tonfisk jag åt igår? Sallad som badar i medioker dressing, några torra nudelsträngar, 5 deppiga bitar tonfisk som troligen hellre skulle fångats i samband med delfinfiske än slutat sina dagar i den här sorgliga salladen. Har gett Ljunggrens så många chanser, har ännu aldrig ätit något gott här. Så synd. Hade varit så praktiskt med bra lunchställe nära jobbet.

3. Jernet, Lidingö Centrum. Här slog jag på stora trumman och beställde Osso Buco med saffransris igår. Huvudrätten serverades ljummen och smakade uppvärmda rester. Tråkigt. Riset som serverades till smakade ...fot. Jag vet inte hur jag vet hur fot smakar. Det måste vara ett minne sedan min egen bebistid när man optimistiskt satte tänderna i det mesta.

Ni som jobbar på ovanstående ställen: Ni såg maten. Ni provade den. Ni tyckte den var bra nog. Sedan tog ni mycket bra betalt för den och serverade den. Varför?

I'm just putting this here because

I love kids and color.

I've done the impossible

So far, I've never heard the Jonas brothers OR Justin Bieber! Never!

How did this happen?

Sometimes I feel I live on a separate planet.

BUALA

Today's link

Perfect listening for tedious chores

Det är JAG som bestämmer.

Lägger upp den här ögondanstolkningen i väntan på Nikis version.

Bästa låten.

Både barnen och jag säger numer till varandra: Härereja som bestämmer såereba. En komprimering av allt det viktiga som sägs i denna hit. Kommer eventuellt en video med barnens tolkning så småningom. Måste bara KÖRA VÅR BIL TILL SKROTEN FÖRST.

The reward - Patricia Highsmith

Never mind that it was some internet robot/bot who said that I was in any way similar to this amazing woman! I'll run with it like Gollum treasured his ring. Even if it is in no way true, I WILL CLING TO THE FACT THAT I'M 63 % PATRICIA HIGHSMITH. Don't take it away from me, as the remaining 27 % are likely made up of, I don't know, Laura "you're really scaring me with that weird stare" Bush?

Anders is away

Miss him so much, especially at meal times. Today, served myself the sad remains of a bouillabaisse, after all the fish had been removed by hungry children. Had to complement the meagre soup with 2 nourishing white russians (with ice cubes cunningly replaced with frozen raspberries). Will now go find inspiration in "A tree grows in Brooklyn" which has already given me excellent advice on how to run a household on little more than stale bread.

Face recognition

She's a genius and I'm flattered, but would anyone really go: "oh you look so much alike!"

Same with this man.

Tell me if you see these

I love these limited edition Karhu sneakers, a tribute to the Sami, the indigenous people of the Nordic region.  I can't find them in my size. WIill perhaps try to dress like a Sami tribute instead. Stay tuned.

Superspecies

It takes guts to stand next to royalty. All comparisons are to your disadvantage.

If only

There were plays or tv-shows with quotes like this real one

"We have not nurtured and cherished this one for you to make him die like his brothers or to go mad like his father, or to become English like you. I keep him for my own. Come and take him away, if you dare."

Dear world

I love that this is a poster for a show where single parents look for love. I've got enough prejudice to think this poster would be unusual in a different country. In the US, could you put up a naked baby against a man's bare chest like that? Discuss.

Also asking for your help.

I might go to a doppelganger party. Do I remind you of anyone famous?

Feeling I wouldn't be the only Tina Fey/Sarah Palin there.

Feel free to bring on your most flattering and unflattering suggestions.

I've heard everything from Madonna, during a phase when she looked quite unlike herself:

to Lovisa Burfitt:

To Zlatan:

I find all these flattering mind you.

Have also gotten BARBARA STREISAND!!!! LOVE THIS!

Me as Babs in my new glasses.

Me as Babs in my sexy intellectual "I've read Proust AND Kafka AND Jonathan Franzen AND you can discuss Louise Bourgeois with me, but what you really wonder is: am I wearing undies?" Argyle-outfit.

Me as Babs in my "really, I AM AN AFRICAN WOMAN ON THE INSIDE"-outfit.

The real reason I can't have a real job

Few co-workers would stand my daily outbreaks of seated dancing accentuated by pointed fingers. Here celebrating the baby news!!!

LOVE ON TOP!!! DANCE WITH ME!

CHILLS!!!!

THAT FEELING OF BEING PREGNANT! THAT FEELING.

TEARS WELL UP. SO FUCKING HAPPY.

Baby at 30 is PERFECT, I KNOW CAUSE I HAD ONE THEN.

And then every morning looking at those kids right before you wake them up - the love is almost too much to handle. They balance it off nicely though by not co-operating at all once they're awake so you feel ok by dropping them off at daycare. Thank you children!

I have to remind myself now why I am so grateful every morning not to be pregnant these days. Why is that?

Om du springer

Sofias springblogg är bra tycker jag.

Hennes löparglädje smittar!

http://sofiaspringer.elle.se/

Or these?

Pretending I'm not taking my own pic.

Admitting that I am.

Proving have not yet had Botox/chewing on lemon.

Mantra to get rid of shopping fever

"You can buy whatever it is you fancy once you've worn everything already in your closet once more."

Or:

"You can buy it, as long as you have the energy to return it".

Revisiting the Marc letters

This is still funny.

wow will always ask you for advice

thanks for your overwhelming support in picking glasses!

I tried them on for Anders, he said "I like your old ones best", "please, I really want to read my book" and finally "didn't you just buy new glasses?".

"No I certainly did not", I replied, surprised that he didn't remember that the last time I bought new glasses, I had enormous boobs and was almost blind, in India. If you've been with me for a long time, can you believe how little Joel was back then?

MY PEOPLE!!!!

Joel a few minutes before first minutes of first hour of first day of first class of pre-school!

Vanja. She's on a boat, y'all.

Niki rocking a summer outfit that is both glamorous (gold headband!), cuddly (pet dog) and functional (bottle).

Any of these?

Have had the same glasses since 2006. Thinking of getting new ones.

Like any of these?

The face I'm making here is identical to the one I give my children when they don't do as they're told. Incidentally it is also my sexy angry librarian look as I don't know how to make that many faces. Can you feel it?