The thing on my head

When I was a single woman if after a couple of dates with a guy he started to not call me, nor to appear on the weekends, we were over. No more dating and not even care about that boy anymore. I'll take him out of the key chain! and eventually move on. I'll still talk with him from time to time, but I'll no care.  Now, What to do with a ghost friend? the type of friend that is never around, and when is around is because is "connivance" for him. That friend you feel you can not ask for anything because you never know what to expect. That friend that just call you when is single again. Can you say then that those types of friends don't show interest in you?; therefore should you brake up with then and move on?  In general, we have this idea of friends are unconditional, and we don't have to be around each other in order to be a good friend. It is also common to think that you have different types of friends; for example, some friends are your confidants, o...

Yo solía pintar y dibujar cosntantemente cuando vivía en Medellín. Creo que no pasaba un mes sin que algún mamarracho resultara de mi interacción con el papel y el lápiz. Como ejecutiva que era, el tiempo libre para dedicar a pintar no era mucho que quedara después de largas jornadas laborales y de vida social. Siempre pensé que si contara con mas tiempo libre en mis manos dibujaría aún más, lo haría mi rutina, como, mi rutina de ejercicio. Ahora, aunque con una agenda apretada, el tiempo libre para dibujar es mas abundante, pero tristemente la interacción/relación papel- lápiz y mi imaginación es cada vez mas reducida. Tan reducida que he llegado a pensar que mi musa se perdió en inmigración, o que quizás, por estar rodeada de pensamientos en ingles esta confundida y no quiere salir. Bueno, no creo que sea justo decir que esta perdida, pues sin lugar a dudas ahora escribo mas antes, pero igual no se compensa o compara con la cantidad de obras pictóricas de los años anteriores. ...

Last year I was working as a server in a burger place in SE. I couldn't say NO to a burger with fries on my shift meal. Yes, fries, what is a burger with salad? for me a joke, a bad joke!, so I add to my diet for almost 8 months, burger + fries at list 2 times per week. Thanks to this place the compensation law shows up in my life, or at the list I put a name one it. At that time the law was simple: Burger+fries + 45 min bike ride each direction. ( from my house in NE to work and from work to my house) = Nothing happens ( about food diet) So = calories X burger + X calories fries + bike 90 min = 0 Calories total. Easy, no? And I guess it works! mostly because I didn't get like a cow, what will more likely happen with this type of diets :) Now the compensation law is back, and I say is back because after been working no more than 2 days per week or even month, I'm now with a busy agenda :)

(Español Abajo) The Portland International Film Festival (Piff) is showing 2 Colombian movies: "Los Colores de la Montaña" and "El vuelco del cangrejo". I'm planing on seeing both, and well many more. Last night I watched "Los colores de la Montaña" (The Colors of the Mountain). The story approach realities of my country without going to morbidity or sensationalism. It is beautiful, sad, touching and a honest. I loved it! This is a link for the trailer, and if you have the chance to see it, you should http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTlLpaD0Axs Link to piff: http://portlandartmuseum.org/nwfilm/piff/32/ --------- El festival internacional de cine de Portland (Piff) tiene en carteleras 2 peliculas Colombianas: "Los Colores de la Montaña" y "El vuelco del cangrejo" Yo estoy planeando ir a ver las dos y otras mas. Ayer vi "Los colores de la Montaña". La historia trata realidades del pais sin ir a la morbosidad o ...

(Abajo en Español) Last week my grandfather, on my dad's side, turned 102 years, a really long life. I'm happy to be a grandchild of a simple man with a good heart and great health! My grandfather never has been a guy of lots of words and is a serene man. Always happy to share his time with someone and be around his family and friends. His is really popular, thanks to his old age and great health, and an even young look. He was for more than 80 years the barber of his neighborhood, the profession of which he retired after well into his 90's. As a child, it was common to visit my grandpa every Sunday after church. Usually, one of my dad's sisters or his brother, were there too visiting with their families, so we were, usually, a big group of people. Boys and girls, grown-ups and teenagers, all at their grandpa's house on Sunday was so normal for me growing up, just like eating ice cream on a warm day. My cousins and I used to spend part, if not all, of our ...

I saw a movie today: DUE DATE, a comedy with Robert Downey Jr.& Zach Galifianakis, but this post is not about that movie, although it did inspire me to write it. I will like to talk about how Hollywood loves to sell us the idea of how "easy" are friendships and love. In so many movies perfect estrangers get together and after overcoming a couple of difficulties became soul mates either as best friends, lovers or both. Perfect romantic comedies. I say "easy" ironically why?, usually nothing is easy on those movies (easy and simple don't sell tickets), but yes easy, if after 1 week or so of adventures the characters connect for the rest of their lives. I'm thinking about my friends. Thinking why and how they became my friends. Yes, we have overcome a series of difficulties: long distance, overdoses of alcohol, asshole boyfriends and girlfriends, lack of money for parting, so and so. Isn't because of the overcome of difficulties that we are close to...