Still looking for a good cause today?

If you have not done your good deed today, this is just your chance (and if you have: twice is always better): help the angels continue angeling.

As some of you may already know, I have been volunteering with Chemo Angels for quite some time now, working as a card angel. Chemo Angels is a program dedicated to supporting people undergoing cancer treatment. In addition to providing helpful information and cancer related resources, we match patients who are going through the difficult time of chemotherapy with "Angels." The function of these Angels is to bring a bit of cheer and encouragement- through little notes, cards each week and occasional care packages. The goal is to simply brighten the life of someone going though a rough time in their lives. There is absolutely no cost to patients.

Being a charity, Chemo Angels is entirely funded by donations made by the general public just so that they can keep paying off their day-to-day running costs. Please consider to donate a small something (or a bigger one), to Chemo Angels to make sure the Angels can continue to make a real difference in someone's life -

it is really easy!!!

You can donate by mailing a check or money order, or you can donate online with a credit card on their secure site, OR you can donate with Paypal.
Here is the link:

http://www.chemoangels.net/Donation%20Pages/donations_main.htm

Please consider contributing. Additionally, if you know a lonely senior or someone undergoing chemotherapy, please consider signing them up! You can do so, and find more information on Chemo Angels on their website: http://www.chemoangels.net/

How many pesetas do you still have?

It is very common to receive little papers when getting out of the metro, advertising different services like painting your apartment, changing your garden fence etc. This seems to be a good way to get new customers. At least it seems to work good enough in order to put somebody (usually the girlfriend/wife of the painter) giving out these papers in the morning. Usually I receive those papers to put them directly into the next bin, where already thousands of the same papers are waiting. Sometimes I even think that the girl that distributes them at the end of the day just takes them out of the bin to distribute them again the next day.

Anyway, here you see a photo of the paper I received yesterday. The person is offering to do different repairs in your house, painting stairs, painting apartments, tiling your floor etc. I was about to throw it away when I saw the prices! He'll paint your apartment for 95,000 pesetas!

Great!

But what if I do not have any pesetas left, because as everybody else I turned them over to the Bank of Spain to exchange them for Euros in 2002. And although you can still turn over pesetas in order to change them for Euros, you cannot do it the other way round. So, in case I want to paint my apartment, where the hell do I get those 95,000 pesetas???? Just in case you wonder how much that is, some banks still offer a tool on their site to do the conversion (http://4w.cajaduero.es/atclient/simula/eurocalc.asp).
95000 pesetas are 570 Euros.

Welcome

This will be the fruit of my first full salary. Have a look at our sofa-in-the-making. From July 25th on you may pay us a visit and have a look (or a night) on our first real sofa.
By the way, to find an L-shaped sofa with the option to turn into a bed and for a decent (well, almost) price is quite a challenge in Barcelona. But we made it:
And voilá: that's what it looks like with the bed. Actually there is enough space for 3 people to sleep.
copyright: shiito.es

I'll be back later

So, this is where I spent 90% of my non-working time awake. The other 10% is for eating ;-) I am SO looking forward to finishing my thesis and spent some quality time with other things...