tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30977492009-11-07T08:19:45.191+01:00mental irrigationmen•tal / 'men-t&l
1 a : of or relating to the mind; specifically : of or relating to the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality
' ir•ri•ga•tion /"ir-&-'gA-sh&n/ noun
1 : WET, MOISTEN: as a : to supply (as land) with water by artificial means b : to flush (a body part) with a stream of liquid (as in removing a foreign body or medicating)
2 : to refresh as if by wateringsarahnoreply@blogger.comBlogger917125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-76292880927577851532009-11-01T22:20:00.002+01:002009-11-01T22:40:57.648+01:00So it's getting better right?The answer is well you guessed it... No. More bad news. Oh yea... well we'll keep that for the new blog that I've not yet started but will... and damn it maybe that blog will make my millions as dear lord so much misfortune is just comical... comedy sells yea? It somehow just doesn't feel that funny. Funny tragic I guess more than Funny Ha haPositive things.... *deep sarahnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-61179987361249068052009-10-18T19:36:00.004+01:002009-10-18T19:46:02.695+01:00I'm going to start a new blogIt's going to be called "where the bad things go" Then I'll have place to put them all. I'm thinking i may take off... everyone can stop by and drop off their bad things... bad luck, bad karma, bad thoughts, bad actions... then we'll keep them all safely there so this blog can perhaps re-join the realm of not-so-grim-all-the-bleeding-time.Shoes help, so the fact that sarahnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-74574939691350445772009-09-24T12:38:00.003+01:002009-09-24T12:49:09.283+01:00And again... Only in Spain...Does your bike get stolen and a few weeks later your boyfriend's professional camera worth more than 2k with a lens you just bought and have not finished paying for worth 700 euros on it... from right under your nose while sat in a completely empty fast food restaurant with your mum and your baby (and boyfriend of course)... I swear the theif was a magician or there sarahnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-30307150954432265852009-09-07T20:34:00.002+01:002009-09-07T20:36:12.019+01:00We are mostly very very proud of Sureshee!He's been working hard while finishing his masters at RCA! Selling at Bonhams that is!Amazing amazing amazing!sarahnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-36734377686880392392009-09-05T20:51:00.002+01:002009-09-05T20:53:56.389+01:00Well... it's all over folksThe bike is gone... Alfredo's locks remain. Guess the bloke was really as horrible as we thought and apparently has re-stolen the bike. Sigh. A new bike for eric it will be.I hope he enjoys it (the theif) and I hope all the karma he deserve finds him swiftly.sarahnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-39256772910661761312009-09-04T14:29:00.004+01:002009-09-04T14:34:07.775+01:00The lock-off continues...The person who "stole" the bike finally got the note we left for them on the bike... I told Fredu to leave his mobile number on the note... Low and behold the 'new owner' of the bike rang yesterday... in a hail of expletives he screamed down the phone that he had found the bike in the street and that it was his... all in English of course. Because we live in Spain yea? sarahnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-51119059013627383732009-09-04T14:29:00.001+01:002009-09-04T14:29:35.338+01:00The lock-off continuessarahnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-46456437787799779882009-09-03T11:42:00.003+01:002009-09-03T11:51:19.830+01:00Only in Spain...Would someone steal your bike.. then lock it up at another bike rack 200m away with another lock... So in response, Alfredo bought two new locks and locked them to the bike and left a note for the person who had stolen his bike to please remove their lock and give him back the bike... it's a lock off baby! No movement yet. The bike still sits there with 3 locks on it (2 alfredo'ssarahnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-51358861746943629522009-08-30T20:45:00.003+01:002009-08-30T21:03:46.409+01:00There is a secret time here in BarcelonaIt's usually near the end of August when most people are smart enough to leave the smoldering heat of the inner city and head for the beach and enjoy summer... The streets are significantly more empty than normally especially up town. It's quite the peculiar thing as many shops simply just close down for 4 weeks and happy announce they'll be back after sarahnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-29033609229877176702009-08-03T22:04:00.007+01:002009-08-03T22:15:16.815+01:00We're still here...but summer and work seem to have zapped time away faster than money though our account.It's not been the easiest times for us for the past little while but summer sun and the wee one sure do help get through until the next day.Now we've the added bonus of a visit from my mum in mid-sept to look forward to.Not quite sure if using a beach ball to keep your chins up is a viable sarahnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-65298853203812450432009-07-06T13:41:00.004+01:002009-07-07T07:36:26.884+01:00To say that I was gutted…Would be a huge understatement.Devastated is a bit closer… my beautiful present from the lovely and wonderfully talented Suresh Dutt met a terrible terrible end. We were all sat relaxing in our living room when completely un-provoked his piece tumbled off the top shelf above the television where it lived. I think my high pitch scream of NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO could be heard sarahnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-45821165619891230372009-06-30T21:44:00.003+01:002009-06-30T22:00:48.066+01:00Life has beenPretty darn trying these days... for a plethora of reasons. The is now clear and surefire way though times like this. It takes patience and perseverance of course but it's never easy when literally every step you take lands you deeper in quick sand. Bear Grylls would say the best chance you have of staying alive is to keep moving... so that we do and whether it will simply aid the sarahnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-58507249592375663062009-06-23T06:30:00.003+01:002009-06-23T06:57:29.309+01:00In a blinkSummer has arrived and things are in full swing here... We've just had a lovely visit from the ever fabulous Ollie. He has however been struck by the ryanair curse and missed his bus to the out of town airport and is now on a mad dash to still catch the flight...It was the sonar music festival this past weekend so the city was flooded by norther europeans. The weather did not disappointsarahnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-25350563765108575302009-06-07T19:36:00.002+01:002009-06-07T19:56:02.740+01:00It's a baby bonanza!It's been a busy week... seems like March and April this year were indeed fruitful baby making months as we've got joyous news from both seestor and the lovely vero! Both are expecting bundles of joy. For Vero it's her first and seestor her second. Seestor's is due the same day as her first which is just before xmas and Vero at the end of Jan. Lots of waiting to be done sarahnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-11931792452281601492009-05-28T15:03:00.001+01:002009-05-28T15:03:46.642+01:00Shoes are a delicate issue...And even more so when you are forced with the reality of having to buy practical shoes for a 1 year old with tiny feet. She needs something that she can romp around in at school and that the teacher’s don’t go mad with her feet slipping out all the time (such as they are now with her current sandals). So off we trotted on a dubious mission to find a cute and practicalsarahnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-19842469713768175632009-05-27T08:15:00.001+01:002009-05-27T08:15:45.232+01:00When life gives you tea… drink coffeeYea well I know it doesn’t make much sense but that’s the way things roll these days. My office houses quite a few avid tea drinkers and we all whimpered a little bit when our ‘proper tea’ supply ran dry a week so so ago. The tea gods must have heard our cries as the very next day our colleague returned from his work related trip to Sri Lanka with armfuls of sarahnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-19035114079646868182009-05-25T09:01:00.001+01:002009-05-25T09:03:31.684+01:00It’s a good reminder…To slow down sometimes and really make an effort to appreciate life. Speaking with miss Andrea last night she told me of the very unexpected death of a dear colleague of hers. He died last week only 34 years old. He took ill after a night out with her and some other friends… he thought he had the flu but by the following week he was not feeling better and then on the sarahnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-33873099288690790472009-05-23T09:25:00.002+01:002009-05-23T09:39:10.419+01:00Dodging PhotocallsOn Thursday night we slipped off into the night for a rare evening together. Tucked in at home was the wee one under the careful watch of her godmother... In store for us was an interesting evening at a club/restaurant on the beach that we sometimes send our BL clients to... It was an evening sponsored by Laurent Perrier which of course caused my left eyebrow to raise in sarahnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-91385090280028747562009-05-17T10:15:00.002+01:002009-05-17T11:49:10.045+01:00I really get the point...That my blog is abandoned when Fredu mentions to me just that last night.It's pretty sad really as I think it kind of reflects me as a whole right now... I'm not too busy I think I'm just disconnected which makes writing all that much more taxing.I had a wonderful five days away time in London to myself which I thought would be a bit hard on my heart strings as the sarahnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-91013237759539771392009-04-26T20:57:00.006+01:002009-04-26T21:20:07.028+01:00Beware of ninja-like sashimi snatchers...I would never have thought it but certain parties are swifter than we think... We had a lovely sushi lunch with uncle Eric this afternoon and while the three adults at the table were busy chatting away we failed to notice the ninja-like swiftness with which a certain someone swiped an entire piece of Sashimi Salmon and chomped it down with her four humble sarahnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-87775638907302605112009-04-15T20:56:00.005+01:002009-04-15T21:08:18.090+01:00Hello 900!This is officially my 900th blog entry. Would would have thought? Who on earth really keeps track of these things anyway? Clearly I do. Only 100 more and I'll be at 1k.London is calling and I'm jetting off next month for the wedding of the year (Mitt's) my sari is on the way from my seestor who lives in sarilandia... I'm so excited. I've not been back to visit the London peeps in far sarahnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-57828426348878700682009-04-08T11:54:00.000+01:002009-04-08T11:55:17.839+01:00I can’t quite believe it’s been 7 years ago already today…since my dad died… It seems a lifetime ago that day when I sat in the office of my new job in London working away… I got an email from my aunt telling me to ring my sister urgently… it was all a big blur of rush from that moment onwards until I touched down back in Toronto at midnight that same day.I think a small part of me still can’t sarahnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-61913539969648202292009-03-28T19:30:00.005+01:002009-03-28T20:06:04.707+01:00Sometimes I'm quite certain there's a jertain in the curtain...And sometimes I'm subtly reminded that Sienna really is my daughter... While walking through the rainy streets this afternoon she was insisting on going into every shoe shop we passed. The girl spends a lot of time playing with all my shoes and she just loves to take them all down off the shelf. A few days ago Fredu found a pair of sarahnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-39595389723353340752009-03-21T18:15:00.009+01:002009-03-21T18:26:58.385+01:00Ooh lots of fun an giggles were hadThe girlies decended into London last week to help me celebrate my 33rd Birthday. Oh how brilliant it was to have some well needed girlie chats and giggles. We went shopping, ate out... went to the cinema too (something I've not done in god knows how long). They even baked me a fabulous birthday cake!Work seems to be just insanely busy and thus blogging and all sarahnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3097749.post-18872474354368506582009-03-11T12:14:00.002+01:002009-03-11T12:34:19.632+01:00And just when you thought it couldn't possibly get more exciting...it did.Sunday afternoon saw me checking into the hospital by the sea... by 11pm I was being operated on for appendicitis. Not a nice thing. But luckily it didn't rupture and the procedure went well.I've not much experience with hospitals thank goodness but this was enough to let me know that I'm really not so into them. I'm back sarahnoreply@blogger.com3