Today will be a long day with several meetings and our big company Christmas party. No wonder I'm dressed up with my drak suit... Before heading to the office I had a quick breakfast which Alex had prepared for me - just some cereals and a coffee. I couldn't survive a day without my morning coffee! (ask my colleagues) And with this quick breakfast shot it is official - I am strange! I collect kitchen timer! See the shelf in the background? There are 2 rows with timers... It started a looooong time ago, when I moved out of my parent's house and my first cooking experiments failed. They bought a kitchen timer. When the second cooking experiment failed they bought another one, then I saw a funny timer, then another and somehow.... you see the outcome! What shall I say? Hi, my name is Anja and I'm collecting kitchen timers. :-)

Bottoms are impressed with the name VICTOR. The Victor Insulator Company in Victor, NY originally made ceramic insulators for telephone and power lines and I believe these mugs were a sideline begun in the 1940's--but the company is no longer in business so no more of these are being produced.