?Good Mood Effect' Italian Chocolates
From At Home In Rome, 6 month ago Similar articles
Oh, man. Sign me up. Where can I buy an entire case' Loving this. The “good mood effect” chocolates. I guess you’re supposed to get the good mood effect from the fact that the chocolates come with accessories from Camomilla Milano. I’m trying really hard not to hold it against them the fact that their webpage has an entire tab dedicated to the odious Hello Kitty. (Sorry B.dette but, you know, different strokes for different folks.) Anyhoo, I just like the pink roses,...
New Theme: A Simpler Time
From Baroness Tapuzina, Today, Similar articles
There’s something about this time of year that always makes me wistful for the good old days'the simpler times, if you will'when all that mattered were family, friends, and a whole lotta blogging about everything under the sun. I miss those days, don’t you' Fear not, my fellow blogging friends. We’ve got you all covered today with a theme that will make you want to stop time and write about everything in your lives until you can’t write anymore. A Simpler Time,...
A satisfying run
From Lioness in Japan, Today, Similar articles
I used to run the 11km around Macritchie Reservoir with the kangaroo. I would always find it so hard to drag myself there and dodging trees roots and tripping over rocks would always make me groan inwardly, “Why the hell do I do this to myself'” But it always feels so damn good after I emerge from the jungle of trees. It’s one of my favourite places in Singapore. Do try and go for a hike or a run at least once if you are in Singapore. What’s the point of being in a...
Half Time
From Ali Blah Blah, Yesterday, Similar articles
I did it! My first half marathon. Two hours twenty-one minutes. 99% running, 1% waiting to go to the bathroom. 10lbs lost over six months and nearly 200 miles of training runs. It has been an amazing, exhilarating and crazy journey.  The icing on the cake was feeling good and being able to enjoy the whole race, having friends cheering from the sidelines, and then running across the finish line with Anna and Lucy. What a perfect way to spend Mothers Day weekend.I'll write more when I...
Tuesday evening games-fest II
From This is Cyprus, Yesterday, Similar articles
It's nearly eight months since my good friend Joan and I, in the temporary absence of our husbands, held a five-hour 'games fest' evening. It so happens that this week, once again, our menfolk are away at the same time. So we thought we might try a re-run. Â Not that it was quite the same... for one thing, I knew I would not be able to walk even as far as the local Souvlaki Express. Â I thought I had bruised my toes badly three weeks ago. The advice and observations of various...
Even Silence Has an End
From Plantains and Palm Trees, Yesterday, Similar articles
From the memoir of Ingrid Betancourt, a Colombian politician held hostage by the FARC for 6 years: A few months before I was captured, I visited the Good Shepherd women’s prison in Bogota. I had been impressed by those women who wore makeup and wanted to lead a normal life in their isolated world. Prison was a microcosm, a little planet of its own. [...] I felt sorry for the women, and I was touched by the anxious way they had of asking for little favors, as if they were asking for the...
May In Seattle
From Here There and Everywhere, Yesterday, Similar articles
From the bone chilliing 47 degrees mid-day on my arrival, the temperatures in Seattle flew up up and up. By Sunday, the American Mother’s Day, the temperatures were up 30 something degrees, in the mid to high 70′s, and Monday and Tuesday were the same. Good thing we got most of the heavy sorting and tossing andhauling done during the beautiful, but cooler weather before the weekend. We had a lovely Mother’s Day, Mom got to sit out in the sun, under a huge umbrella, got to...
The house is taking shape!
From Africa Expat Wives Club, 2 days ago, Similar articles
? The trees are still standing. Note the wobbly/homemade ladder. ?  ? looking forward to having coffee on the balcony off our new bedroom ? ? old kitchen downstairs, new one on the left seems huge and caverous ? The house/palazzo is taking shape, very exciting! Enormous crashes and bangs going on around my ears as I type - but no death or injury yet'! (We are all getting good at scaling up wobbly ladders that don't look to be able to stand our weight).
A Storm on my Parade
From Real Life Online, 2 days ago, Similar articles
The past few months must have been the happiest moments of my life. Got married, happy with my loving husband, got pregnant, got even more love from hubby... I have been in cloud 9 and I appreciate every moment of it.Yesterday, my blood pressure has risen to a level I have never seen before. That is not a good thing and it made me very very sad. You see, I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't use illegal drugs. I sleep 8 hours a day. I eat right. In fact, that time I started feeling that...
Imitation Snow Crab Sandwich Recipe (Surimi)
From Nami-nami, 3 days ago, Similar articles
In the ideal world, of course, I would use freshly picked and cleaned proper crab meat to make this open sandwich. However, good-quality crab meat (actually, any crab meat) is hard to come by here in Estonia. Instead I have to settle for imitation crab, or surimi. Here's a quick and simple topping for a slice of toast or soft roll that I quite happen to like. Imitation Snow Crab Sandwich (Lumekrabist saiakate) Makes four 120 g packet snow crab (surimi; make sure you use the best one...
More Eating & Drinking in Sao Paulo
From Londonelicious: A food blog, 3 days ago, Similar articles
Back to Brazil  in March. I like the food in Brazil. (Name me a country where I don’t like the food! I am too easy. But I do really like the food in Brazil.) Here’s where I ate and drank. Living Lounge Bar & Sushi, Renaissance Hotel, Jardins. The sushi here was very good, but it was the staff that got me smiling, plying me with free treats even though my basic sushi set of the usual suspects was really enough for two people. The Verdict: Not a destination, but convenient for...
