Sometimes you find an app that just speaks to you. I have finally found mine.
Love
“A mixture of whitening toothpaste and baking soda can brighten up the yellowist of fingernails in a few minutes.”
Ma!
This is a video of my grandmother, Ma, making this Trinidadian candy that she's been making for decades. My mom shot the footage and my brother Gary cut it together - and it's fantastic.
Penguin Buddy
"Unlikely animal friends” is probably my top Google search of life.
Mom Says
“If a black cat walks towards you, it brings good fortune, but if it walks away, it takes the good luck with it.”
Airbnb Lists Replica Of Van Gogh's 'Bedroom' Painting In Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago has built a life-size replica of Vincent Van Gogh's famous painting, The Bedroom, in River North, and they're renting it out on the short-term rental website Airbnb.
The Art Institute's exhibit of Van Gogh's Bedrooms runs at the Loop museum from Feb. 14 to May 16, and during that time the museum will apparently be hosting Airbnb users at its Van Gogh bedroom in River North for a mere $10 a night.
"This room will make you feel like you're living in a painting," the listing reads. "It's decorated in a Post-Impressionist style, reminiscent of Southern France and times gone by. Its furniture, bright colors, and artwork will give you the experience of a lifetime." The bedroom, which is designed after a painting of the Dutch post-Impressionist artist's bedroom in Arles, France, sparsely decorated a la Van Gogh's painting with a painted wooden bed-frame, red bedspread, a side table with several water jugs and a couple of chairs. The listing advertises that the "entire home/apartment" is available for up to two guests a night, with one bedroom and one bed, a TV, wifi and kitchen.
Ummm, that's neat as hell. This would be such a fun room to spend a night in.
“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.”
Plant Nanny
“Plant Nanny combines health with fun to remind you to drink water regularly. The cute plant keeps you company every day by living in your phone.”
Does it seem foolish that a grown adult would need hourly reminders to drink more water? To some, maybe. To me? Not at all! I am forever being told that the secret to beautiful skin is drinking your body weight in water each day. (Are men told this too? Or is it just women who are constantly expected to worry that, oh fuck, the wrinkles & fine lines are COMING FOR YOU IF YOU DON'T START PREPARING NOW.)
That being said, I do need to drink more water. Not because I'm deathly afraid of becoming some sort of trollish, water-hating ogre, but because drinking water is so easy to do. It's, like, the easiest possible thing you can do to even be 1% better at taking care of yourself. I mean, it's everywhere and it's free. It's almost ridiculous not to be drinking lots of water at this point.
And the absolute cutest reminder of doing such? This app. You type in your body weight, your level of daily activity - and then it lets you know exactly how much water you should be drinking daily. And for every cup you drink, that water feeds a growing plant. Simple, right? It's honestly cute as hell.