11

Last Saturday was our 11th anniversary. Big number for a big thing.

T'estimo.


Dancing In The Dark from Matt Luck on Vimeo.

Halloween, All Saints, the Castanyada...

Halloween is wining the battle against our traditions for the 1st of November.

Spanish people used to get dressed and visit their dead relatives.

In Catalunya we also gather together on the 31 of October and celebrate the Castanyada, eating roasted chestnuts, backed sweet potatoes and panellets.

I specially love the Castanyada it allways makes me think about my grandfather sitting next to a barbacue cooking some "Rovellons" the best mushroom ever. Seriously with some good toasted bread and tomato, olive oil and Rovellons your live is complete.

Even so, Halloween in winning. why?
1. Who wants to eat roasted chestnuts and poanellets when the weather is nice and almost 20 ºC outside?
2. All traditional meals of the Castanyada are hipercaloric, and nowadays people is obssesed with being thin. 3. Cementeries can be depressing, if you still miss your dead grandpa going there will make you cry, if you don't miss them, why bother?!
4. Our traditions don't invite anyone to get drunk and have fun but Halloween allows you to put on a sexy Supergirl dress and hook up with some hut guy (if you are lucky).
5. A picture is worth a thousand words:

Cleaninung up

I'm absolutely obssesed with this images from artist  Ursus Wehrli  it reminds me when my mums goddaughter used to come home and tidy up everything. She was about 4 years old and spoke like she was 70, she was just amazing, she could spend two hours putting organising, classifiying and studing everything that was on my table. 

I remember one day she asked me to organise my bags, neckalces, bracelets and other stuff that was all over the room, she made little groups by size, colour. I always have some (new of course) tampons in my bags,  just in case, so usually my closet is full of them, all the ones she found where in a perfect row by colour!

When she asked what those "weird pens" were, I told her to ask her mum ja ja ja !


It makes me feel so old to see she is a beautiful young woman now!


See the rest here.

Moms of the world

In Spain mothers day was yesterday but in Switzerland they wait until next week.

Dedicated to senior mums, recent mums and mums to be!

(this is my first attemp to do the shitty-stupid rimes I usually do in spanish, sorry in advance).

Mum my dear
Now I see it clear
Nomather what I do, nomather where I go,
If I do my homework or not you allways know!!

Supercool and wonderful mum,
I hate it when you don't buy me chewing gum
But I know I'm luckier than my spoiled chum,
When I see the way you love me I raise my thumb

Muaks!!

This is going to be fun

Yes, after 9 years together we are ging to make it official, its nice, I'll be able to say "my dear and beloved husband... clean the cat little box!!"

like the picture? go to etsy.com!

Cool (and not expensive) Christmas gift

So its time to spent money like crazy in 100 different secret Santa again!

I wrote about my mum before but today its something special because she is the designer of these super cool aprons you can buy here.

 My favorite is the angy chicken, everything tastes better with it!! And they are flattering too, what to surprise your significant other? match them with a nice pair of long johns...

Mushroom, Pilze

Thats something that I miss. My favourite autum meal is rovellos, roasted chestnuts ans sweet potatoes. I'll aks my mum to make a picture of it to show you.

She just wrote a really good post about what these mushrooms mean for catalan people, here it is.

I also stole a beautiful picture, she is my mum, she can't complain!

Sad

At the end there was no way to save our dog Becquer so we decide to end it up, it didn't make sense to get her awake from surgery when she wouldn't been able to recover and probably die with pain in a short time.

I 'm sad we didn't find it before, the last month hasn't been good for her.

Its sad, dogs are really missed, since I was born I've been lucky to have a parents who wanted us to enjoy the god and bad things about having a pet I think this made me a better person. 

Dogs have something special, they interact with you like no other pet does they reflect what you do and feel and make you see the good things in life like eating, playing, being with the ones you loves and of course, let someone scratch your belly :-)

They come and go, each of them different, with their own little things and character. Becquer was a cool dog, a though girl and the smartest dog I have ever meet.

She will be missed.

Long weekend

So, this weekend we got the worst weather ever, it was raining like hell but we did everything we had planned.

We went to Sprüngli, got fat in Zeughauskeller, picked some flowers here, visit Luezern (a rainy and foggy Luzern), saw 200 cows in Weggis, visit the Kyburg Schloss and a Charterhouse (I don't know where) and got wet! a lot!


all the pictures by estrellaesteve.com

Kiwi

This weekend my parents are coming to visit and they won't come alone, my grandmother is coming also!

She is pretty small but she has a great creativity to invent words. Cuina (kitchen in catalan) turns into Cuña and the fruit Kiwi turns into Wiki and so on.


Of course she has nothing to do agaisnt my brother, when he was a child he came one day extremely exited about the "perografico" (instead of "pornografico" which means pornographic) cinema where there were movies about tits and chicks)!

Something nice to spice up the day, this lovely little green bird called Kiwi.

Familiar feeling

One singing and playing guittar on his underwear, another other getting naked the put on a pijama, the other one danching and the fourht one asking where are the forks to eat the cake.

Nobody plays guittar at home but this picture remids me when my family gets together screaming, eating and making wathever they want in a well organized and home-loving chaos.

It makes me feels like home (and also kill them a little bit or take a Valium of course).

Via Mociun

French fries

I have two brothers, I love them for sure but when they were childs I had to figth with them for some food!

Thsi is one of the main reasons I'm not used and I don't like to share food. French fries were the big thing.

We didn't get pizza (that would have been the 3rd world war).

3 kids, 3 dishes full of french fries, 6 eyes comparing like crazy,

- Your fries are longer
- Yes but you have more of them.

After stealing some from the other dishes and licking them carefully (you do this to avoid your brother to eat something, it worked with Marc Albert but not with Xavier the yourger one, he was able to eat everything) we started to eat.

We also made competitions to get the longes french frie, we used to stick them with saliva or whatever trying to cheat.

These stupid memories often come to my mind and are one of the main reasons why if I ever decide to have kids I'll try to have more than one, siblings are cool.

My mum 2

Yes she did

My mum

If you don't know her go here.

Today my mum post this on Facebook:

MADRES DEL MUNDO! ESCUCHADME CON ATENCION!
Por más que améis a ese fruto de vuestro vientre llamado hija. Por más que en ella se aunen todas las virtudes habidas y por haber. Por más que se haya ido a vivir a la cochimbamba y os sintàis más mamá que nunca. A pesar de todo esto y mil cosas más que en este momento no me vienen a la cabez...a.
JAMAS DE LOS JAMASES! LE DEJEIS USAR VUESTRA LAVADORA PARA TEÑIR ROPA

Translated (pretty difficult) would be:

MOTHERS OF THE WORLD! LISTEN TO ME!
Although your wonderful daughter, no mather how marvelous beautiful and talented she is. No Mather how far away she is living now never... ALLOW HER TO USE YOUR WASHING MACHINE TO DYE CLOTHES

She wrote this after a huge amount of white clothes went out the wasching machine full of green dots, green like the romper I dyied last sunday while I was in Barcelona.  :-P She doesn't know I do this things on purpouse so when I leave to Zürich she doesn't miss me so much!

Pretty clear

Last saturday we went ot a wedding (extremely nice I have to say) and we got another pair of Playmobil for our house.

I guess their message is pretty clear ja ja ja

We got the first ones in September and now we have another pair its funny that two of our friends have the same taste!