Random Posts Lead To Procrastination

Last night Joan and I went out on a date. Nothing fancy, but dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, La Campana. This place is amazing and any of you who make it to Spain to visit me WILL be going there at least twice while you're here. It opens at 8:30 and there is usually a line to get in. We're always there at 8:25 to claim a place. There isn't a menu really, everyone gets the same thing so it makes things much faster. No joke, we went in, sat down,got our food and ate it in 30 minutes. We rushed out at 9 before the video store closed so we could rent a movie. We chose another Guillermo del Toro film, El Orfanato. I highly recommend it. It is a bit scary but it is done so well and by the end you are almost in tears. It is in Spanish which I love, but unfortunately I still must depend on the English subtitles.

Saturday morning in Spain is beautiful. The weather is warm and just begging me to go outside and enjoy it. Unfortunately Joan's father called an hour ago and "asked" Joan to go help his grandfather at La Vina, the family's land not far from here. Joan's abuelo is planting potatoes this afternoon and needed help. New Sunday morning rule: No answering the phone until 2:00 (the time we have lunch with his family).

So Joan is there now and I told him I would clean up the house and get things done so we could enjoy the day after lunch. I know I will take advantage of this relaxing afternoon because tomorrow I have Spanish class y despues I am teaching clase de Inglés to a new student at a las once y media. I am nervous but also excited about it. The rest of the week I will be knocking out my to-do list which is a mile long.

I really need a financial adviser/therapist/friend to talk to about everything. I always feel bad rattling off my small problems when earthquakes are happening every 5 minutes in China or children have gone missing etc but I suppose life cannot stop everywhere. I must soldier on.

Hope everything is muy bien in your parts of the world.

A prep talk

I am 45 minutes into Saturday and really should be in bed. Joan is on his way home from a dinner with his friends from University. It's nice to have the house to myself. I rented Enchanted, took a long hot bath and made myself a nutritious dinner. I also made a lot of phone calls home courtesy of Skype. I talked to a few friends of mine from back home, one is doing very well and the other just got a DUI. I don't talk to them much anymore but now and again it is nice to have a flashback and talk about "the good ol' days." Very relaxing and all that but I am ready for my sweetie to be home.

Tomorrow I am helping Joan's mom for an hour or so since Pepi is on vacation. Joan will be working with his father as usual. After that, hopefully SLEEP will be the top of the priority list.

C.M.

New Projects

My busy schedule has suddenly changed and I'm now free all week. I don't need to work with Joan because a course was canceled and my help isn't needed. I did go to Girona this morning to teach Jordi but he canceled on tomorrow because he has to go to Barcelona for a dissertation. So I have tomorrow free and Thursday and Friday afternoon as well. I know work will be upon me soon, things change so quickly that I want to take advantage of my days off.

Today I didn't use the computer until 11 p.m. this evening. Something I am quite proud of. It is my only source of communication so I can't completely rule it out but I am trying to cut back. When Joan arrived home from work this evening we went for a long walk. Finally we are doing what we always say we will. I am hoping we stay that motivated from now on. We did negate the workout a bit though by having dinner out afterwards but the rest of the week I have planned healthy dinners that Joan is still sure to love. (I hope).

There are lots of things I want to do tomorrow. Some things I have to do ( according to my goal list) and things I absolutely want to do. For instance, taking my Spanish homework to the beach (weather permitting) and studying. Research how to publish a children's book, I have started one but never got around to finishing it sadly. I also want to keep the house in order and work on some more tricks with Barney. At the end of the day I will treat myself with a dose of facebook, PerezHilton, CNN and of course Blogger.

Joan drugged me with a "herbal sleeping pill" and I am now starting to feel a tad bit drowsy. damn. However, it has been three nights without a nightmare so they must be good.

C.M.