I feel fine

Yes, I do. It's been a good day so far, though nothing extraordinary has really happened (up to now). I woke up early and went to work. The general mood was good there, not too much work to do, everybody smiling (Will it have anything to do with the fact that tomorrow Spain will meet Germany for the Euro2008 cup final? - I wonder...) Anyhow, it was a nice morning. Then I came back home, took a little siesta and afterwards I put away everything that disturbed me in my room, helped F fix some things in the house while listening to Adele and everything was smooth...
Now, I've just taken a good shower and am ready to go have something to eat and drink for the night. What new things and people will I encounter my way...? I don't know, but it seems that I'm ready for anything tonight.

Floating

This month will soon be over, tomorrow's my last morning shift day and on Monday I'll start the afternoon one (from 2pm to 9pm). It'll give me the chance to work overtime in the mornings.
Now, I'm heading for L's place. We'll have dinner there and then will come back home. But tomorrow night I'll go to El parque Santa Catalina for a good feast...
Anyway, now I'd really like to be the cloud on this picture, lightly suspending...

Dans les rues de Paris

Oh là là là là! Ça fait déjà un an que je me suis rendu pour la première et seule fois à Paris et je crève d'envie d'y retourner. J'aimerais tellement être millionaire... Je veux partir mais il me manque l'argent. En plus, en Espagne on ne parle que sur la crise, la crise et la crise. Il faut se serrer la ceinture et ne pas trop dépenser, il faut penser à l'avenir et faire attention à son portefeuille, il faut travailler, travailler et travailler... J'en ai assez de mon boulot, ça me fatigue... Mais bon, vas-y! Il faut pas perdre ses nerfs. Refflechissons donc... Sans boulot, pas d'argent et sans argent, pas de voyage... Alors, du calme, du courage. De meilleurs temps viendront. Dieu merci j'ai l'internet qui me permet de voyager n'importe où depuis mon canapé...

A tribute to Love

These are F and R, long ago an (I figure out) odd couple and now best friends with a beyond-the -word relationship (as almost any relationship F keeps with each and everyone of his real friends). Nowadays she's experiencing a bad time as she's been diagnosed with f**cking cancer...
This picture was taken some five years back and it's one of my very favs of that time.
I hope everything fits into place for her very soon.

Love.

Life on a stage

I took this picture in Madrid last October and I quite like it because for me it looks like kind of a theater stage where life is going on: the ice creams stall at the bottom, the statues on the right, the couple speaking on the left and the "relation" between the man with the hat and the little girl in the center of the image, and then the sun shining through the trees branches. It's not one of my most favourite pics but I still like the idea of artificiality and reality that seems to emerge from the whole...

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Ceci n'est pas Amsterdam (Hommage à l'Hollande)

Ce ne sont pas de photos d'Amsterdam ni ceci est un hommage à l'Hollande comme pays, mais un souvenir du match d'aujourd'hui (France vs Hollande) où l'équipe néerlandaise a montré comment elle pourrait gagner l'Euro2008 sans trop d'effort. Il reste à savoir ce que l'Espagne fera demain.

L'utilisation du français reste comme petite reconnaissance personnelle au jeu des Bleus.

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My overtime at work and I (Should I stay or should I go?)

I've been very busy since last week. I'm working an average of 10 hours a day and when I get home I'm too tired to think of anything but rest. Anyway, when there's some time left for myself I try to dedicate it to watching the Euro2008 football cup either on Spanish TV or on the Internet.
Overtime makes me feel more and more tired each day and by (nearly) the end of the week I'm almost exhausted...
Tonight at 8pm, there'll be an opening party at a friend's store, they've just reopened as a clothes store (nice and cool style) and it's supposed to be a good chance to meet up with people outside work. F will be definitely going but I'm seriously considering the matter. It may be as well a good opportunity to offer my body and mind a good rest at home watching tonight's match or doing whatever facies me the most. Tomorrow I'm not working overtime but on Saturday from 8am to 3pm I'll be al pie del cañón once more, so I'll have to make up my mind...

Espetando en la Malagueta

If you ever go to Málaga, Andalucía, birthplace of Pablo Ruiz Picasso, don't you ever miss trying their fabulous Espetos, a unique way of broiling any kind of fish with only the heat of red hot coal. They put a piece of cane through the fish and then into the hot coal taking into account the direction of the wind so as not to let the smoke intoxicate the fish taste. It's pure taste.
Two times I've been there, two times I've been to la Malagueta (its beach in town) in the first place to devour Espetos and to really feel I'm in Málaga.

22:07

Mañana, como todo comienzo de mes, empiezo nuevo turno en el trabajo: de 8 a 15, lo que me permitirá disfrutar de las tardes. Entre mis prioridades está plantearme, como mínimo, meterme de una vez por todas en la autoescuela a sacarme, de verdad, el maldito carnet. También, dedicar algunas horas a la semana a buscar el pasaje más barato a Amsterdam para principios de julio para visitar a N y E y poder ver un poco la ciudad (de la que tanto hablan) y algo del llano país.
Y, como es lógico, aprovechar los días en que se pidan y en los que me encuentre con ánimos y ganas, para hacer horas extras para permitirme, entre otras cosas, pagarme el viaje a Amsterdam y no estar a dos velas una vez regrese.
Por otro lado, tengo el deseo y, casi más bien, el sueño (que, como tal, tiene casi más de idealización que, quizás, de realidad) de en algún momento vivir en otro sitio que no sea esta bella, tranquila pero a veces demasiado conocida o vista ciudad en medio del atlántico. Me gustaría hacerlo en algún lugar del Reino Unido o Francia o, por qué no, de EEUU, aunque no le haría ascos a algún punto en el norte de Europa: Noruega, Dinamarca, Suecia, Islandia... Me doy cuenta a veces de lo importante que es tener "sueños", aun difíciles de lograr, porque el hecho en sí de tenerlos te ayuda a vivir con ilusión por mejorar en una vida en ocasiones demasiado llana y aburrida. Así que, ¿por qué no?, ¡todos a soñar!