these are a few of my favorite things:

Dole frozen mango chunks + homemade vanilla maple yogurt (from my Waring Pro!)
+ Magic Bullet (must get one!) = delicious smoothies every day!

clean and simple in the city

The Selby featured a gorgeous house this week:

Artists and designers Lyndsay Caleo and Fitzhugh Karol's Brooklyn home is inspiration right up my alley - clean white with warm wood and antique found objects make a cozy but minimalistic interior that I am loving!

I'm even enthralled with their (what I think is IKEA) medicine cabinet and above-comode toilet paper array! Check out the post over at The Selby for many more pictures!

And if their stuffed-animal of a dog goes missing soon, don't look in my apartment because I definitely DID NOT steal him!

ch-ch-ch-CHANGES!

I just can't stop singing it! But since my last post about the ridiculousness of flight-prices and the difficulty of getting from st. thomas to jamaica (and it's still stupid) a lot has changed! In short, our entire move-home timetable has been pushed up by about a month! Now, instead of leaving stt in July and having to work out how to get to jamaica and back and eventually home, it's all happening right now and much more simply... sorta.

Jake is going to be leaving stt by boat. He's sailing two farr40s up to s. carolina two separate times beginning next weekend. Super exciting for him and I'm super jealous. But he's missing the wedding.


I'm leaving by aeroplane on the 17th. So soon! Sad to be leaving all our friends and work, but excited to fly to jamaica on the same (much cheaper) flights with two of my siblings! And then, I'll be home a month ahead of our previous schedule with much more time to look at apartments and jobs in:

PITTSBURGH!
THE NEXT BIG ADVENTURE
begins 07/2010

ridiculous

my brother is getting married in jamaica at the end of the month and i have procrastinated booking our flights because it is SO FREAKIN RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE to fly there from STT that i just couldn't do it! i'm talking $700rt/person!! we are already IN the caribbean for pete's sake!

i can literally fly to DC, fly round trip from there to jamaica and back and then fly back to st. thomas and back home in july for the price of one round trip ticket STT-MBJ. that is 5 flights for the price of 2. SERIOUSLY?! seriously.

and that may be what i do.

we just wanna go here ;(

souvenirs

things you can find at the st. john spice co. in cruz bay:

spices galore!

mocha mint coffee, raspberry vanilla tea, habanero dipping oil...

trindad charlie's, miss anna's and a multitude of other island hot sauces...

hand crafted bowls and other artisan gifts...

OH AND THIS:

pack of playing cards - keepin' it classy ;)

unexpected day off

and aren't those just the best kind?! and it is because Oasis, ie. the Ass of the Seas is not coming into port today so we don't have two full trips of the stupidest tourists to float around the Caribbean!

none of this shit today, thank god!

to do today:

• straighten this hot mess we call a bedroom in anticipation of visitors tomorrow (yes, more! yay!)
• get more water since the cistern still tastes a little *off* - may be the coki frogs and cucarachas? mmm!
  
• surf teh internets for tickets to jamaica under $600RT per freakin' person, for christ's sake!
• share this gorgeous short film by ben briand, found on gypsy*diaries and watched in the quiet of midnight last night. enjoy!!

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just a round-up of things I've been reading/digging/loving right now:

why oh why wasn't it i who took this photo?! ie. i want to be there!

Prêt à Voyager is quickly becoming one of my favorite blogs, mostly because she resides in paris but also because she hails from baltimore!! i lovelovelove the boarding pass series and frequently find new blogs to read through the interesting travelers she features. also, great paris blogs and generally fabulous links on her page!


she recently returned to charm city for a wacky race around (and in! eek!) the harbor called the baltimore kinetic sculpture race - check out the post and pics here!

gabby the gypsy in budapest

one of the blogs i've found through her and become devoted to is gypsy*diaries by a chica living in budapest. oh man can i tell you i've had a thing for budapest ever since seeing how cheap the housing is there on househuntersinternational? i want to mooove there! the city looks gorgeous and i am totally living vicariously through this girl

a sneak peek from england!

emma and james emmerson of greeting card and stationery publisher 1973 show off their gorgeous victorian home in brighton, england. click the picture for more!

the sneak peek feature on design*sponge is one of my favorite recurring posts because of all the inspiration garnered from real homes around the world. granted, i may be partial to the european aesthetic, but i like them all in their own way ;)

other newly-found blogs intéressants:
bikinis and passports - vicky, living in vienna - travel, pics, fashion
5 inch and up - sandra, finnish fashion student in london - some beautiful pictures


ciao for now! bedtime!!