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loki

28 Sunday Feb 2010

Posted by azahar in animals & pets, cats, change, home, hope, love

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Welcome Loki!

I am probably tempting fate by choosing this name (the original choice “Tapita” just didn’t feel right when I said it out loud to him) but he is definitely a source of mischief and mayhem. Just getting these few photos was extremely difficult as the little thing doesn’t sit still long enough … made me realise that it’s been over 16 years since I’ve had such a small kitten in the house. My goodness, they get absolutely everywhere! All the time!

Anyhow, after much ado, the little guy arrived here on Friday evening. He was a bit confused at first, and Azar (still recovering from his mystery illness) wasn’t very pleased to see him. But after a bit of hissing and spitting by both parties, we seem to have reached a place where they can be in the same room without any obvious rancour on Azar’s part. Loki was keen on being pals from the first minute he arrived (he was living with several other bigger cats in his foster home), but I think it’s going to take a bit of time for him to win Azar over.

Adorable watching him though. And yesterday I actually caught Azar playing with one of Loki’s toys – batting it around the livingroom – and my heart almost burst with joy. Though of course, it turns out my whole apartment is a huge cat toy – who knew?  Loki will play with anything and everything, including thin air. But to see Azar playing like that, especially as we are still having to force-feed him, really made my day.

So whaddaya think? Cute or what?

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25 meals

17 Sunday Jan 2010

Posted by azahar in change, food & drink, friends, home, hope

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food, home

It came as a shock when Nog & I realised it was time to do our monthly “big shop” at the supermarket the other day … and then also realised that there wasn’t enough money! Nog has lost some students over the past couple of months, and I have not yet been able to rebuild my student client base since starting back to work – I only have 2 classes a week. In the end I had to use a credit card I keep for emergencies only (my other one is maxed) and we were able to stock up for the next while or so. And it got me thinking it would be better to stockpile some meals, also using what had been in the freezer … so two days and many hours spent slaving over a hot stove later, the result was about 25 single serving meals. How cool is that?

Yeah, I know. I should have used the gift donations over Christmas for more practical purposes, but as they were given for the explicite purpose of going out for tapas (and I also wanted to get more photos for Sevilla Tapas) that is what I did.

Anyhow, check it out. Clockwise from upper-left: spicy chicken burrito sauce, bolognese sauce, pork & veg stew, pork & spinach garam masala, and chorizo & prawn risotto. Of course, by the time all this was made neither of us felt like eating it, so last night I made some beer-battered prawns and chips with the left-overs …

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anything for a laugh

26 Thursday Nov 2009

Posted by azahar in animals & pets, change, home, life stuff

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cats, home, love

Azar is such a hammy drama cat, and is also the only cat I’ve ever met with such a silly sense of humour. He loves playing tricks on people and seems to derive great pleasure from getting me to laugh. He’s certainily been extra frisky and silly since Sunny died last week, and one of his new “make az laugh” tricks is his death-defying walk along the back of the sofa, which he has been performing almost daily. The funny bit is, because he only has three usable paws, the various turns and twists he does  as he walks back and forth end up being quite comical. I tried to catch him in action yesterday and this was the least blurry photo I could manage. Am going to video him next time!

So, I don’t know if it’s on purpose or coincidence, but this past week Azar really has been pulling out all the stops. He’s been extra demanding in a “hey, look at me!” sort of way, but it seems mostly so he can do something silly and then get me to laugh and make a big fuss over him. He’s also being extra cuddly in bed, purring me to sleep and otherwise being totally adorable, bless his furry little heart.

Missing Sunny still hurts but thanks to Azar I can also smile again.

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jessica

15 Sunday Nov 2009

Posted by azahar in food & drink, friends, home

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dinner, friends, home, pulled pork

jessica

Back in October, after one of the tenants next door abruptly moved back to Ireland due to a bad case of homesickness, I placed a few ads online and one of the responses I got was from a young American woman living in France who was going to be staying in Seville for awhile to do research on ants in Doñana Park (heh, an antomologist). We corresponded back and forth a bit, but in the end a very nice German guy showed up who was interested in taking the room immediately, so it went to him.  Jessica found other accommodation and moved here at the beginning of November, but told me she was still interested in seeing the apartment as Philipp will be going back to Germany at the end of February and her place wasn’t feeling very comfortable.  So we arranged to meet last weekend.

After a tour of the apartment we went out for a couple of tapas and ended up talking all afternoon. I had such a great time that yesterday I thought it would be a nice idea to invite Jessica over for dinner and make my famous pulled pork butties. A wonderful time was had by all and I am happy to have a new friend here in Seville, at least until next summer. Though I’m also going to hook her up with some kids her own age to play with, like the nice folks I’ve met on Twitter and also the Spanish girl who lives next door, Nieves. So losing that tenant actually turned out to be a stroke of luck. Cool, innit?

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sunny likes it too!

01 Sunday Apr 2007

Posted by azahar in animals & pets, cats, fun stuff, home

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cats, home

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He’s such a big old softie…

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Caught Sunny partaking of the new cat bed a couple of times this week. Pretty much all you have to do is leave anything out for a week or two and they’ll have to sit on it sooner or later. 🙂

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