Category Archives: friends

pablito’s belated birthday lunch

12 Thursday Feb 2009

Posted by in birthdays, food & drink, friends, home, photos

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pablo-carbonara

Honestly, I just forgot!

Pablo insists that he reminded me when we got together on my birthday, but as I don’t even remember going to bed that night I think expecting me to remember a birthdate was a bit overly optimistic. Especially as Pablo & I have only recently started seeing each other again, after about six years of not being in touch (otherwise his birthday would be in my trusty daybook). But never mind. Yesterday I made amends by making Pablo a belated birthday lunch including his favourite casa az dish – spaghetti carbonara. Well, except I used tallarines (in English?) because I’ve recently come across a brand I really like. An arrugula salad and garlic bread on the side, a glass or two of cava … it was very nice.

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going to morocco!

11 Wednesday Feb 2009

Posted by in cancer, friends, health & happiness, holidays, morocco, travel, trips

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tangerina-room

And that is going to be our room! Cute, huh?

It all started when Pip and I went on the unplanned road trip last October (for those who weren’t here at the time, here is Part One and Part Two) … the running joke was that, since there was no plan, that we should just hop on a ferry and go to Morocco. And we might have actually done it if we’d had more than one night away, but Pip had to get back.  And so we decided that we would definitely have to go to Morocco before I started chemo again, maybe for my birthday. But as you all know now, things have changed since then…

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benjamin button

08 Sunday Feb 2009

Posted by in films, food & drink, friends

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the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button

Banal, boring and waayyy too long …

As I have mentioned here on many occasions, there is only one cinema here in Sevilla that shows films in their original version (not dubbed into Spanish) so there is usually a very limited selection of English films. So imagine my surprise when I saw that there were four films in English showing this weekend that I’d heard good things about: Benjamin Button, Revolutionary Road, Frost/ Nixon and Doubt.  And then early yesterday afternoon I got a message from Flor, inviting me out to a movie and asked me to choose between Benjamin Button and Frost/Nixon (she’d already seen the other two) … and, just like always happens with supermarket queues, I chose the wrong one!

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situation normal…

06 Friday Feb 2009

Posted by in cancer, computers, friends, gadgets, health & happiness, hope, hospitals, work

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Yay! My CT scan and blood test results came back normal!
So that means a happy thumbs-up “all clear” until next time (in 3 months).

It was such a relief when Ricardo called me late yesterday afternoon with the good news.  And today he is going to set up an appointment with his oncologist friend Ana so that I don’t have to go back to those other oncs I’ve been seeing. I was a bit confused because I thought each oncology group was for a specific type of cancer, and I’ve seen all three oncs in my group. Well, it turns out that Ana is not only a specialist in breast and colon cancer, but she’s also the second in command of the whole department.  And I’ve been told she’s a very no-nonsense kind of person, so I hope I feel more comfortable with her.

So … should I go get that mini ‘puter now?

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