I’m still taking a break, but wanted to put a little memorial for George Harrison, one of the people who made part of the best group in the history of rock (in my opinion anyway). I cried this morning when I heard the news about his passing away. I cried not only because of the talented musician the world has lost, but also for the person who lost the battle against nasty cancer. May his wonderful music be in our hearts forever.

I want to take this little posting time to say a big Thank You to Kristin, who sent me a present for my Birthday and Jennifer who bought something for me from my Amazon Wishlist (and of course, thanks to Marilyn for organizing the Secret Santa!). I’m certainly going to enjoy these books I received and use them for my personal growth.

From Maggie, I’m stealing this idea of being grateful for something everyday, and today I’m grateful for my Mother in Law.

I’m a little bit tired of bloggin, or just don’t know what to talk about Guess I will take a break for a couple of days. That will give me time to think what will I do with Bluetterfly.net (redesign for xmas) and a few other things in my life; mostly think about my health, learning to set up priorities and give myself the chance to do other things rather than just geeking around 24/7.

Sitting in front of the computer to ramble and babble is not that fun these days and well, I mentioned getting lonely for holidays… it’s just that my Depression has come back (I’m used to it, so no big deal…), and I feel pretty much like doing absolutely nothing, except for work because I have to; but I don’t want to bother anyone with my stories. Prozac is always good and I know that this is the time of the year for my diagnosed recurrent depression to show off, so i just take care of it.

I’m still around, so talk to me if you feel like. Take care everyone… see you soon!
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Well, I’m done with my Christmas Card writting It was so much fun, that I’m thinking of making of it an all year long habit for the holidays… he he he!

I’m soooo tired… it was a long week and the weekend was not enough, I think. There’s another big pile of work coming this week and I just don’t know what I’m going to do… he he! I didn’t even have time to put my Xmas decorations! Not fair..

The holidays make me a little sad, longing for family and friends because even though Patrice is wonderful and I love him with all my heart, my real friends are back in Colombia and I just want to have them close to me. Guess we can’t have everything in life, eh? But well, it’s better to be alone, than in bad company, they say… ha ha! Anyways, I could use a close friend now… just to laugh a little… or have a cup of coffee… or… oh well!

Bah! sentimental stuff… I better go to make myself busy doing something else here. Have a good one, people!

It’s a quiet Sunday here at home. I’m organizing my Christmas Cards Exchange List and I hopefully will send everything this week; for those who sent me their addresses: Thanks a lot! I hope we’ll have so much fun! I appreciate each one of you very much

We’re suppossed to go to the office later because the owner of the company is going to spend a few days with us, covering the Montreal’s office manager who left for Hawaii (lucky guy!) and we need to have everything shiny! Actually there is no pressure at all because Cambrian is like a big happy family, but it’s nice to welcome people as they deserve it, isn’t it?

Other than that… nothing much to do. We’re cooking a ham to enjoy our last days of meat-eating for we’ve made kind of a New Year’s Resolution here: becoming vegetarians in 2002. I do it mostly for health reasons; I’ve heard many stories of people who are veggies and live such a healthy life and also people with Diabetes who manage perfectly normal sugar levels and I want to give it a try. Plus, the food is great We enjoy a restaurant called “Le Commensal” so much, that I want to learn how to cook just like that!

Ok, no more babbling here. Have a nice rest of weekend everyone!

There’s so much to do today! Cleaning, finish a little painting, puttin the Christmas Decorations… Patrice is at the condo board meeting in the church and I hope he will come back home soon. We rented movies last night and I watched “Crazy/Beautiful” with Kirsten Dunst and Jay Hern�ndez; I loved it! I felt like a teenager again… don’t know why! But I found myself crying in the middle of a scene… ha ha ha!

1. What was the last book you read? Did you enjoy it? “Retrato en Sepia” (Portrait in Sepia) by Isabel Allende. Of course I enjoyed it! She’s my favorite author and she doesn’t have a book that isn’t just wonderful. The way she makes the descriptions of places, people and events is just so magic; and the historical content is absolutely fabulous. For someone who wants to read this book, I recommend to read “La Hija de la Fortuna” (The Daughter of Fortune) first

2. What’s you’re most favorite book of all time? “The Little Prince” by Anthoine de Saint-Exup�ry. I don’t know why, but it has captivated me and in it’s simplicity many people can learn about the values of life, love, friendship and other beautiful things. My favorite quote of all times is “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eyes”. That is just so true!

3. What’s the worst book you’ve ever read? That would be all the books I had to read in school for my Spanish courses. I just didn’t like the stories, even if the authors are good and the literature is rich. I just didn’t like them. I don’t think there are bad books… we just have different tastes.

4. What book that you’ve read would you most like to see adapted into a movie? Good question… I really can’t think about one now, but I know that many times when I read a book I just feel like wanting to see a movie based on it. But now that I think better… I would love to see more stories by Isabel Allende brought to the screen, and definitely Gabriel Garc�a Marquez’s!

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend? Simple: cleaning LOL! Anyone interesting in coming to help me?

Well, it’s 1 a.m. here, I’m a night owl… But having fun! I’ve had a long nice chat with Nancze through AIM, but somehow she disappeared and went off, so if you read this, Nancze… good night! LOL

I also found myself a new read, Kristin and her Cool Mom’s Blog. She speaks Spanish and knows people from my country. How cool is that? Giving the credit to Maggie here for this new finding And thank you, Kristin for the nice messages!!

And to finish the list of the new things I’ve come to today, Daisey introduced me to the wonderful style of Ani Difranco. She’s great! Wonderful voice, wonderful guitar and powerful lyrics (check the 9/11 poem she wrote!). Definitely, so different from all that commercial music flooding our ears these days.

Now I can go to bed

I can’t sleep… Something’s in my head. The thoughts of a 12 years old girl who came online tonight:

- She: Hello!
- Me: Who’s this?
- She: (Her name)
- Me: Hi (her name), how are you?
- She: Good. Are you coming to (event) on (day)?
- Me: No (her name), I haven’t been invited
- She: But my mom said you would come
- Me: Nope, I don’t think so.
- She: Oh… What are you doing?
- Me: Sending Thanksgiving greetings…
- She: Oh… you’re busy? I have to go to bed now.
- Me: Ok! Take care! Byeeee!

Weird. It’s hard to explain kids when things are not going well. But it’s really weird that their own parents kind of lie to them? Or maybe it’s better to hide the reality from them? Or at least, wouldn’t it be better if the parents didn’t say thing that are not true? Geez! I don’t know. I really would like to know what the heck is going on. Kids are NOT the people who have to get hurt when adults don’t get along. Because this girl must be thinking that I just don’t like her anymore…