07 Sunday Jan 2007
Posted in fun stuff, life stuff, quizzes
You Are 73% Perfectionist |
 You are a true perfectionist. You are both demanding of yourself and others. While it’s great to have goals and standards, they don’t need to be sky high! |
07 Sunday Jan 2007
Posted in health & happiness, life stuff
It’s finally here!
It’s about 9.30 on birthday morning and I am sitting all snug and warm in bed using Nog’s laptop and being totally spoilt. Nog has brought me some lovely hot coffee and a plate of our favourite arabic pastries for brekky. Mmmm . . .
Later on we are going to open some 
and then go out for lunch at our favourite restaurant – it might even be warm enough to sit outside on the terrace.
And of course there is still the Barcelona trip to look forward to (next Friday). 
I’m also thinking about what ‘being 50’ means to me. Sure, you can say it’s just a number, but I think it’s quite something that I’ve made it this far and feel that this should mark some sort of turning point in my life. At least it’s a time to take stock and finally get to work on all those things I’ve been putting off, as well as accepting that I’m not actually young anymore and need to take better care of myself.
I was considering having a mid-life crisis but then decided that would be somewhat overly optimistic. Anyhoodle, welcome to my birthday – help yourself to some bubbly and pastries (there’s more in the kitchen).
Glad you could stop by. 
06 Saturday Jan 2007
Posted in fun stuff, humour, media, miscellany
From this BBC article.
A washing machine complete with a warning not to put anybody inside has been given an award for the “wackiest warning” by a US lobby group.
Have you seen any particularly wacky warning labels on things? My hairblower has a warning on it saying it should not be used in the bathroom. 😕 Seems to me that’s where probably 99% of people use them.
06 Saturday Jan 2007
From The Brick Testament.
Found this over at Dan’s Samovar and thought I’d steal it for my blog too. It’s quite an impressive project and I was hardpressed to choose one image, but since today is Epiphany it seemed appropriate to have lego magi.
05 Friday Jan 2007
 
Tonight’s the night!
Tomorrow is Epiphany, also known in Spain as Los Reyes Magos – the magic kings.
Of course referring to the three wise men – the three kings – who visited the baby Jesus bearing gifts. The tradition of gift giving in Spain during the Christmas season focuses on this day and, instead of writing letters to Santa, children here write to Los Reyes Magos.
And on the eve of Los Reyes (January 5th) there is a huge parade held in most towns, cities and villages called the Cabalgata, with floats pulled by small tractors – each one depicting the characters from various fairy tales and traditional stories for children.
The last float carries Los Reyes Magos – meanwhile, all of the floats have lots of children on them who toss out sweets to everyone waiting along the parade route. After the parade has passed the streets are sticky with broken candies and melted sugar …
Another tradition of Reyes is to eat roscon – a somewhat gross looking pastry filled with whipped cream and topped with candied fruit and toasted almonds. I’ve never tried this myself but this morning I convinced Nog that he had to go for it, as our favourite brekky bar serves slabs of this stuff during the festive season. He said he liked it but couldn’t see himself eating mass quantities of it . . . typically vague 😉
casa azahar 