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no more elves!

24 Monday Dec 2012

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feliz navidad
So you almost got a very silly video of me, Luna, Loki and Peter doing a rousing rendition of Feliz Navidad, but after I uploaded the pics I found out I couldn’t share the vid without paying an annual fee to JibJab.com. And when I looked at the original Elf Yourself site the list of TERMS AND CONDITIONS was so baffling that I dared not share anything here without risking a massive lawsuit. So fuck it. No more elves.

But I’ve been having a lovely Christmas Eve so far. Got up early and got some work done, then went to the gym. After that Peter and I did some final food shopping at the market and after that we went out to say Feliz Navidad to some of our friends at their bars. And now we’re back home, all comfy and cosy. I’m going to prepare a whole fish baked in salt for the first time and we’ll watch a couple of Christmas films. I kinda like how Sevilla totally shuts down after 6 pm on Christmas Eve, including bars and restaurants.

What’s Christmas Eve like where you are? How are you spending it?

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one more snibble

22 Saturday Dec 2012

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I came across this short video in my files while looking for something else and my heart stopped for a moment. I took this just over a year ago, one afternoon when Azar had been feeling poorly and came over to me for some comforting. And so here is one more snibble with my darling boy. I can still feel his soft soft fur and how he’d rub his cheek against my hand…

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design flaw

10 Monday Dec 2012

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IKEA design flawWell who doesn’t remember my latest IKEA saga, when I first bought this bed and after getting it home and going through two days of IKEA hell ended up with drawers that didn’t fit in the frame!

About a month later IKEA sent out a couple of guys to replace the frame, but they ended up fixing the original one so that – finally! – my bed looked like this and everything worked. Except it turns out that perhaps it works too well…

Yesterday morning I was enjoying a Sunday lie-in until I heard a soft whooshing sound, like the sound the closet door makes when it rolls along the runners in its metal frame. Except I had kitten-proofed my sliding closet doors by placing a plank of wood between the two outer doors so that Luna couldn’t open them and start noisily rifling though everything during the night. Then I heard the whooshing sound again, and then again, so I got up and saw that Luna had learned to open the goddamn bed drawers! *sigh*

Yet another of those “there goes life as we know it” moments that happen so often to those of us who live with cats. But the clincher came a few minutes later when there was more whooshing followed by some seriously frantic scuffling and scrabbling. Turns out Luna has not only learned how to open the bed drawers, but she also knows how to close them… with Loki inside! How did I not notice the now obvious design flaw which has a small opening there just big enough to both arouse curiosity and allow a little paw to fit through? I have to admit that my discovery of a very flustered Loki inside my drawer was pretty funny, though I’m sure the hilarity of this activity will decline with frequency of occurrence, especially in the wee hours.

adiós central heating?

29 Thursday Nov 2012

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Although at first I was thrilled about finally having central heating and air-conditioning in the new casa az, after one and a half winters here I’m not sure I can afford such luxury. And although I’m not actually sure if this new method will prove any more economical, it’s worth a go. To wit… I have opted to try using a wall-mounted electric space heater and an oil-filled electric radiator in my livingroom (which is really the only room that needs heating during the day) to see if that makes a difference. I used both of these in the old casa az, but there I was able to close off the living room, though I didn’t have double-glazed windows. As you can see, Luna is very keen to show her appreciation for anything that gives off heat.

It’s weird because back in Canada, and even when I lived in England, it was just a given that you had to pay crazy amounts of money to stay warm in winter. I think because here an extra sweater or scarf can actually make a real difference – even in mid-January – it’s often preferable to do that than pay more. Gone are those -30º days when I would walk around my carpeted Canadian home barefoot and in short sleeves. And good thing too, because that was just stupid (come to think of it). It’s not so much the extra sweaters I mind, it’s that first getting out of bed moment, that from now until February will just get more and more painful.

How do you stay warm in winter without cranking up the heat?