Clothes wait for me, prepared and patient, hanging on the chair since the previous night. I get dressed, still asleep, while I can almost feel him moving slightly among the sheets. Another good thing about summer: one piece of cloth or two. Ready.
I get dressed in the dark.
So far, no problem apart from that it is an unnatural attack against my biological clock. But the thing is when a pair of shoes fit me I sometimes buy two pairs of different color, for variety’s sake. And I knew this would happen one day or another.
Yesterday I wore a black shoe and a red shoe.
And I have no excuse, because I do nothing in the dark apart from getting dressed. I’m in such a state of shock at that early hour that I did not realize the problem until I was on the train. And I got ready to spend a day in black and red.
I open my eyes an instant before the alarm clock sounds.
I got on the street. It’s a nice day.
I look at my shoes and curse.
I think in my morning stress. I smile.
A hard day at work is coming.
I listen to one of my favourite songs in the Mp4. Still can look through the window to the newly born sun with bare eyes.
There’s a little crisis at work.
A dear retired colleague pays us a call.
The morning crawls heavily.
He picks me up at my workplace.
I’ve got heaps of things to do.
I’m home and the bed invites me to a good nap.
I can’t. Those heaps win the battle.
I finish up everything and my parents are coming to dinner.
We can not talk for very long after the meal: they realize how tired we are and decide to go.
It’s the weekend… and we’re on holiday for a week!
See you soon. Nothing is forever nor absolutely black.

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Aug
21
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Hi all, my friends. As you already know (and it’ll be the worst for you if you don’t) I am Whity. Laura planned to include a gastronomy section and I volunteered because I think I the perfect one to be responsible for it, as I can eat as much as I want and keep a smashing figure.
Laura haas correct-it mhy spelling beecoz eat woud bee reetn light deeze an shee sayz joyndz will neber lrn hoow two right. Sheez nod bed anyweigh, azer porke me cuida i me da pasteles.
Todos los platos que irán saliendo en el blog los ha hecho Laura en casa y han salido bien. Como le gustan los pasteles empezaremos con uno que tuvo mucho éxito. Es un postre especial para golosos y también para personas que desarrollan mucha actividad y tienen que estar bien alimentadas, como por ejemplo los taxistas.
Brownie de chocolate
Aquí tenéis todos los ingredientes (yo sólo salgo en la foto, no soy un ingrediente). Os pongo debajo cuáles son, no os vayáis a hacer un lío y acabéis comprando boniatos y espárragos.
Con estas medidas se pueden alimentar de seis a ocho personas, depende del hambre que tengan. Para acoplados sería la medida individual.

Ingredientes (de izquierda a derecha y de detrás a delante):
85 grs. de nueces troceadas
1 cucharadita de azúcar “avainillado”
300 grs. de azúcar
140 grs. de harina
150 grs. de chocolate negro
170 grs. de mantequilla en trozos
sal
4 huevos pequeños o medianos (o 3 grandes)
Com podéis ver, es un postre light, adecuado para todo tipo de regímenes. A mí me gustan mucho las cosas light.
Laura utiliza un molde de unos 27 cm. de diámetro. Aquí me veis dentro para que os hagáis una idea del tamaño del molde y también para que veáis que tengo el culito pequeño como una ciruela claudia.

Antes de empezar, graduad el horno a 180º con los fuegos encendidos de arriba y de abajo.
Primero hay que fundir el chocolate con la mantequilla. Queda muy bueno, pero no metáis la lengua porque os la achicharraréis. En realidad, más vale que pongáis el chocolate en el bol que utilizaréis para trabajar y la dejéis enfriar unos cinco minutos. Podéis aprovechar para ir al lavabo, rezar algún Padrenuestro para que el pastel os salga bien o dar de comer a algún acoplado, si lo tenéis, que siempre lo agradecemos.
Pasados los cinco minutos, ya podéis añadir la cucharadita de azúcar con sabor a vainilla, la pizca de sal y el azúcar normal.

Recordad que la sal tiene que ser sólo una pizquita. Si os pasáis, ya os digo ahora que los Padrenuestros de antes no os servirán de nada.
Después hay que verter los huevos de uno en uno (esto debe ser lo que llaman “echarle huevos”). Es muy importante abrirlos antes y tener en cuenta que al bol va lo de dentro del huevo; la cáscara se tira o se utiliza para manualidades.

Entre huevo y huevo podéis remover la pasta para que se mezcle todo bien, pero no creáis que estáis haciendo huevos revueltos, eso es otra cosa. Esto es un pastelito.
La harina se tiene que añadir poquito a poco y con cuidado, como yo hago aquí.

¡Ya estamos! Ahora tenemos que acabar de mezclarlo perfectamente, porque queda bastante espeso. Hacerlo con una espátula de madera no es muy recomendable, porque si lo hacéis así:

No quedará bien la pasta. Y si lo queréis hacer más rápido:

Os pasará como a mí, que acabo mareada y una hora después de terminar el pastel todavía me estoy moviendo, por inercia.
Laura utiliza el minipimer, que es lo mejor. Esto es un minipimer:

Yo no lo puedo utilizar porque pesa mucho y trepida demasiado, el algodón acrílico no ofrece suficiente resistencia y yo me caería al suelo con el “repris”. Como vosotros sois humanos, lo podréis utilizar y os quedará una pasta estupenda.

Sólo queda untar el molde con bastante mantequilla, como si el molde fuera un papel pintado y la mantequilla fuera la goma de borrar. Dejadlo bien embadurnado.
Ya podéis ponerlo en el horno y esperar unos 40 minutos. Los hornos son muy temperamentales y todo dependerá de la fuerza que tenga el vuestro, claro está. Con respecto al tiempo va muy bien tener un relojito de esos con forma de zanahoria, de tomate o de lo que sea para hacerlo sonar al cabo de los minutos que se quiera. Eso último no es obligatorio, pero a la gente se le queda una cara muy fea cuando después del trabajo se les quema el pastel.

Como podéis ver, el aspecto final es imponente; el sabor también. En casa se sirve con chocolate caliente por encima, para reforzar el efecto light.
Y con esto termina la receta de hoy. La próxima vez espero que Laura me proporcione un delantal y un gorro de cocinera. No tiene sentido que Arguiñano tenga y yo no. Al fin y al cabo, yo soy más guapa … y tengo más pelo!
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Aug
14
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This summer is going to be fully romantic. Last monday I had one more proof of that.
I think Ratatouille is a masterpiece (I’m not only talking about animation films). I got absolutely enchanted by the script, with unforgettable paragraphs like the article written by the critic, at the end, by the visual luxury and by the expressions of the characters, especially the animals.
And however, if a film is to be valued on account of the amount of tears you have shed while watching it, Wall-e would be the winner.
In Ratatouille I could not help crying in a unique and fully-sensitive moment that takes place in the restaurant. In Wall-e I was all the time either holding my breath not to start crying or just not being able to hold it.
When this mp3 and p2p software began to be fashionable, I gathered some songs that had some kind of charm for me, and looked for one with special interest: It only takes a moment from Hello, Dolly! sung by Michael Crawford. As naive as you may think it is, I have always liked this song. When I heard it in the film the history completely got me.
“It only takes a moment
For your eyes to meet and then
Your heart knows in a moment
You will never be alone again.”
Wall-e is a space story, but I think it’s just the frame for a sweet and none a bit cloying tale about endless love and tenderness.

The small robot is such an innocent and cheerful character but also of such fragile appearance that I spent the film praying for him not to get hurt, full of that discomfort you get when contemplating defenselessness. There is no dialog at all during the first minutes, but who cares? You can just watch and be amazed at how the creators have been able to transmit so much using characters that even lack mouth or human-like eyes.
“I held her for an instant
But my arms felt sure and strong…”

By the way, I congratulate the authors and I am happy for them because it’s absolutely clear that in some way, sometime, they have loved. Otherwise they couldn’t have been able to put on the screen small exquisite details that can go dangerously unnoticed during the action but are treasures of delicacy. Like getting a surprise ready for the one you love in a joyful mood, or seeing a magnificent sky all of a sudden and look for your love to share it with you as a first reaction.
Wall-e is lonely. He is restless, curious and cheerful. But every time he watches the happiness of sharing on the screen of an old television he feels he has a painful need of being loved. And however, when love comes he doesn’t claim nor ask for anything; he loves without any plan and also without excuses. He forgets about himself and looks for happiness in that of her girl’s. Through difficulties and confusion his love grows even deeper, always faithful to whom has made him feel the sweetest emotions of all after having lived surrounded by garbage and dirt for so long.
It is not by chance that the robots’ feelings are more human than those of the men themselves; the film also speaks about a scarcely desirable future, it gives us a “knock” on our stubborn, predatory and lazy head so that we can understand we must take care of us, our inside and the Earth.
There are highly poetic scenes you’d better discover for yourselves. There’s nothing to say about the virtuosity of the drawing and the animation, except that it is spectacular.


Cast aside the happenings with which the adult life hardens our hearts, go and see the film; when you hear Wall-e’s tiny voice saying “Eve!” in a thousand different ways, with a thousand nuances of tenderness, you will realize that the scripts that really move you can be sometimes written with a single word.
“It only takes a moment
To be loved a whole life long.”

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Aug
5
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Well, I’m a little late, I’m afraid. I have my hands full lately, that’s the thing. I had not planned to partake in Jesus Tibau 65th literary game, that consisted in writing a story aboyt gargoyles, but I decided to do it when I read Cèlia’s tale. Still influenced by the Històries Veïnals, I continued with what she had begun. I also did because I’m really fond of true love stories.
Just not to “steel” her text, here you have a link to her blog, where you’ll be able to read the first part of the story (I strongly recommend you to do it if you want my part to make any sense), and my text is at the end of this post.
Cèlia, forgive me to have entered your imagination and maybe ghange the end you could have had in your mind. And, on the other hand, thanks for your tale which has led me to write a little more of the story…
- Què ha estat, això, cara de cargol? Quin cop més fort i quina trencadissa!
- No ho sé… espera! És la sirena! Mira-la!
- Reina! Què t’han fet?
- Que no ho veus, imbècil? Li han trencat mig cos d’un cop de pedra. Quins desgraciats. Amb les gàrgoles sí que s’atreveixen.
- Pobreta. Ara ja no resulta atractiva a ningú.
- Ja veig que ets un monstre tan pansit per dins com per fora. Jo la trobo preciosa.
- De debò? Noi, veig que n’estàs ben penjat.
- No n’estic penjat. L’estimo.
- D’acord. Li vaig prometre que no t’ho diria però ara suposo que ho puc fer. Si la sireneta no et parlava no era perquè no li agradessis.
- Doncs per què?
- És muda.
- Muda? Què vol dir que és muda? És un coi de gàrgola, totes som mudes.
- I tu ets un coi de caracargol. Vull dir que és muda a la nostra manera. Que no es pot comunicar amb nosaltres. M’ho va dir un pardal. No em preguntis per què, però amb els pardals sí que hi té alguna mena de conversa.
- I per què no volia que jo ho sabés? Jo pensava que era una vanitosa i que em menystenia.
- Perquè et trobava valent i simpàtic i li semblava que t’acabaries avorrint amb una noia que no podia parlar amb tu.
- I per què m’ho dius, ara?
- Perquè m’ha donat la gana.
- Vull la veritat.
- La veritat és que ets un caracargol i un pesat de tres parells de nassos. D’acord: Perquè m’ha semblat que te la mereixies i ella a tu. No veus com et mira?
- No li havia vist mai una mirada tan dolça.
- Per a tu sempre l’havia tinguda. Però no te n’adonaves. Au, ves a dir-li que està igual de bonica que sempre.
- Li diré tots els segles que calgui.

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A gift from a special woman: Cèlia, author of the blog "Transparència", in a special date: 2008's Catalonia day.
Xmas 2008 present:
Amazing image and words from Carme Rosanas, author of the blog "Col·lecció de moments".
Symbelmine award:
A magic present from Cèlia, author of the blog "Transparència".


