Lo negro,negro y lo blanco, gris

¿Porqué hay días en que todo se oscurece? De repente todo es grisáceo y negro. En vez de ver posibilidades, se ven fracasos. En lugar de valorar futuro, se toma lo peor del pasado. Posibilidad de aprender cosas nuevas vs lo que no se sabe. ¿es algo químico en el cerebro? ¿Es una cuestión de falta de endorfinas? ¿Falta de autoestima? ¿se puede combatir?

Acabo de encontrar una posible noñez en internet, os la dejo más abajo por si tenéis un día así y lo quereis probar. Yo me inclino más a intentar disfrutar pequeñas cosas que te ofrece la vida a diario y evitar en días así pensar acerca cosas que abarquen un amplio espacio temporal o muy significativas. Algunas cosillas que pueden ayudar: hazte un café y disfruta del olor cuando se está haciendo, ponte tus canciones preferidas, hazte un huevo frito con patatas?, si tienes gato (u otra mascota) juega con el y relájate, si no lo tienes (que haces que aún no tienes un gato!!!) a lo mejor te vendría bien!, llama a tu BFF (best friend forever) y evita hablar de lo que te corre por la cabeza, no le des la oportunidad de magnificarse, habla de cosas livianas, que te alegran, escúchalo, que te cuente que hace... Intenta buscar espacios abiertos, con naturaleza.Necesitas ideas nuevas en tu mente. Déjalas entrar por cualquiera de los métodos.

A propósito, deberiamos hacer casi todo esto que he dicho muy frecuentemente, sin necesidad de estar viendo todo oscuro. Tu gato espera que juegues con el y tu BFF que lo llames.

Técnicas para aumentar el nivel de endorfinas:
La visualización mental nos puede ayudar a lograr la estimulación de esta hormona. Cuando empezamos a sentirnos mal y a perder nuestra vitalidad es útil realizar el siguiente ejercicio que es sencillo y solo nos llevará algunos minutos. De esta manera aumentará naturalmente la producción de endorfinas, nos invadirá una sensación de euforia, nos cargaremos de energía y se obtendrá una actitud positiva para poder enfrentar la vida diaria. En primer lugar debemos buscar una habitación tranquila, donde no haya distracciones, luminosa y sin ruidos molestos. Luego podemos escuchar una música suave y relajante, o simplemente escuchar los sonidos de la naturaleza como el viento, el correr del agua, etc. A continuación comenzamos a relajarnos, eliminando la tensión muscular, reduciendo la velocidad de la respiración mientras nos concentramos en la música. Cuando logramos la plena relajación debemos imaginar una pequeña esfera en el medio de la frente, donde se encuentra la hipófisis, trataremos de imaginarla de color rojo y que de ella salen numerosa rayos de luces azules, que brotan rápidamente y se van esparciendo por todo el cuerpo, dirigiéndola primero a las manos y luego a los pies, orientándola también a alguna zona dolorida.

Viejo y merecido tributo. Bailando sucio??? IDK

Eras de los/as que vibrabas con estas escenas? Y además cada año (pq telecinco la reponía todos los años). Que le vamos a hacer, uno tiene su lado sensiblero. Lo que aprendió esa chica en un verano!!! Muy productiva.

the sad logic of the PhD student

Never happened to you?? how many times did you go to bed to read a paper and fall asleep?? What lead us to do this kinda things if it is clear what is gonna happen...

Ferraz vs Génova, pasado retrógrado vs presente y futuro esperanzador

Una vez las posiciones y proyectos han quedado dibujados diafanamente, fijándonos en las formas, Zapatero estuvo una mica tristón y Rajoy desafiante y despectivo. Animo ZP!!! No pasarán. (por favor, que no pasen!!!)
Decir que Zapatero ha agredido a víctimas del terrorismo es de lo más bajuno. Para mi el Sr. Rajoy no tiene ya la más mínima de credibilidad (si es que le quedaba alguna después de los hilillos de plastilina).


"Salen unos hilitosssh"



Rare Debate for Spanish Candidates

New York Times


MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Spain's prime minister and the opposition leader clashed on the economy, Basque separatism and immigration Monday night as they staged a rare election debate -- a potential momentum-builder in a race that is now a dead heat.

Socialist Premier Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and conservative opposition leader Mariano Rajoy deluged each other with statistics Monday on everything from the price of eggs to funding for university scholarships while arguing over the state of this deeply polarized country as it heads toward a general election on March 9.

In Spain's first such debate in 15 years, the two men interrupted each other often, did a lot of head-shaking and at one point engaged in what verged on a shouting match over failed peace talks with the armed Basque group ETA.

But there were no personal insults, and neither committed a major gaffe or scored a knockout punch.

The debate was important because the two men's parties are neck-and-neck and polls suggest there is an enticing number of undecided voters.

Rajoy attacked Zapatero repeatedly over his failed peace talks with ETA, saying Zapatero had raised the possibility of making concessions to the group -- a taboo for any Spanish government. Rajoy also assailed Zapatero's recent admission that the government had been in contact with ETA even after it broke a cease-fire in 2006 and killed two people in a car bombing.

''You lied. You fooled all the Spanish people,'' Rajoy said. ''You toyed with the law.''

Zapatero hit back saying ''You were the ones who lied'', alluding to the March 2004 Islamic terrorist attacks in Madrid, which Rajoy's party, in power at the time, initially blamed on ETA, even as evidence of Islamic involvement emerged.

Spanish voters ousted Rajoy's Popular Party in elections held three days after the attacks, which killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800.

Enchanted Rock II

Finally we went camping again!!! Tony, Cindy, Eric, Leo and I. Pretty sweeet dude.
To sum up:
-Good diner in fredericksburg Brewery,
-some new dirty words learnt,
-nice chat,
-awesome hiking,
-scary T's climbing,
-screamy boyScoutts,
-delicious Eric's sandwich,
-burnt skin!!!



Thanks guys, you are pretty sweet dudes!!!!

Obama vs Clinton

Empieza el debate en unos 20 minutos. Despues de unos 15 coches y motos de policía escoltando, acaba de pasar la comitiva Clinton/Obama por aquí delante de nuestro edificio, obviamente a toda leche. Solo unos 100 estudiantes de LBJ school (políticas) han conseguido entrada! Los demás nos conformaremos con verlo en television. Matt (uno de los nuevos estudiantes de este año) ha convocado una debate party en su casa. Iré.
Se torna emocionante esto de Clinton vs Obama, más que nada pq la gente se desvive por uno de los dos, cuando realmente no hay grandes diferencias entre ambos!!!
En fain, serafain,
Mañana cuento como fué si es que merece la pena...

complemento el Post con estas fotos y este video donde les preguntan si EEUU puede ser una nación bilingüe.

Something to remember

Remembering good times... 4u

When Facebook substituted the communication with your friends...

Facebook and other on-line tools could be really usefull for knowing about your friends. You can know how they feel at the moment, what they are gonna do at night, what the did in the last days, the pictures they took or were taken (with or withour their permission), what other friends tell them...Maybe, TMI (too much info).

Are these tools substituting the regular communication??? Do you feel that you talk less with your friends cos they already know everything? (or you know everything about them). Definitely they can be really usefull for keeping in touch with people you dont usually talk but under no circumstances they should private you from a good talk with your close friends to know about how are they doing and how do they feel.

signed,
jp,
a facebookaholic in rehab!

Great discovery!!! (or not)

I just realised that the guy (lets say guy and not old men) who shitted in front of me in Broken spoke is the one that you can see in the video on the 17th second!!!!!!!
OMG!
Sorry about the story, but it was real! uaghhhhhhh!

For those who love country!!

Yesterday night I went finally (and I say finally because it was the end...) to Broken spoke. This is a country bar, the most texan you can find all over the world I guess. The experience was... lets say horrific. Let me explain myself: although I dont hate country, I dont like it very much. In spite of that, I could have enjoy it but:
-it was crowded,
-full of not so young people (doesnt have to be a big problem)
-a single beer costs 3,5$!!!!
-to get a beer we made a line of 30 min and at the end we could not make it (the keg was over!)
-I went to the restroom, this kind where you have like a huge sth to pee, but a huge old man got into the restroom and just "pooed" in front of me!!! When I say in front of me, I mean that the toilet was there and he decided he should not wait till I finished. that was more or less DISGUSTING! I finished faster than ever!!! I weirded out! OMG, I was hearing the farts!!! and when I started smelling... I just run out of there. TERRIFIC.
-there was a cover of 12$, that means, you have to pay 12$ only to get into (with no drink included).

what else can I say???
I'll show you some pictures and a video that I uploaded in Youtube.
I hope you will enjoy it more than I did.

Homenaje merecido aunque tardío

Tiempo atrás pudimos ver este espectáculo en televisión. Alguno/ass disentirán, pero estuvo muy bien, de lo mejorcito visto en TV ultimamente. Es mi homenaje a ese momento.
Enjoy!




Ahora mismo me acaba de venir a la mente que ya lo he puesto esto tiempo atrás!!! Es un deja-vi o de verdad lo he puesto. Como con todos los deja-vis, no lo voy a averiguar (y eso que esta vez podría!!!!, solo tendría que revisar los posts!).

For those who love cats: nom nom nom and Nom pop nom pop pop nom

I would love to introduce you two of my friends <;) link here, it is hilarious!

http://tinyurl.com/244ktx

Their are called LOLcats. Why LOLcats??? LOL means "laugh out loud". LOL: When sb send to you sth hilarious by e-mail (in internet lets say) and you not only smile but also laugh.





http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/
http://icanhascheezburger.com/
According to wikipedia: Lolcat is a term used to describe an image combining a photograph of an animal, most frequently a cat, with a subjectively humorous and idiosyncratic caption in broken English referred to as Kitty Pidgin^[1], or lolspeak. The idea originated on 4chanCaturday.^[2][3] The name "lolcat" is a compound word of "lol" and "cat".

No me puedo resistir a ponerlo? verdad? falsedad?

La voz femenina agota el cerebro del hombre

(PD/Agencias).- Seguramente, al hablar con su marido, un amigo o su hijo haya sentido que él "desconectaba" y no la escuchaba. Probablemente sus conversaciones con el sexo masculino se vean frustradas antes de terminar. Pues bien, que un varón no pueda escuchar durante mucho tiempo la conversación de una mujer puede deberse a una razón fisiológica o así lo afirma un reciente estudio.

En una pareja, generalmente, ella se queja de que él no la escucha y él de que ella habla demasiado. Cuando se está frente a un conflicto, la mujer tiende a hablar al respecto y el hombre prefiere esperar a que las aguas se calmen. En definitiva, los varones eligen el silencio y las féminas, las palabras.

Un estudio británico reveló hace pocos días que los tonos femeninos abarcan toda el área auditiva del cerebro, mientras que la voz del hombre requiere del sector subtalámico.

El informe se realizó a través de una tecnología especial para poder captar los movimientos de la misma manera que pueden visualizarse en una resonancia magnética.

“Las mujeres tienen una voz con sonidos más complejos”, aseguró uno de los investigadores a cargo, Michael Hunter, profesor de la Universidad inglesa de Sheffield.

Este hallazgo pretende demostrar por qué el hombre no puede sostener la atención en el dialogo con la mujer durante mucho tiempo.

“Las mujeres se quejan de que nosotros no prestamos atención cuando hablan o nos desconcentramos, pero detrás de esto hay un fundamento científico que ahora se puede explicar”, comenta el especialista en otorrinolaringología mexicano Vicente Juárez Saavedra.

Es más, “un esfuerzo en atender durante mucho tiempo la conversación femenina podría afectar la zona cerebral masculina”, indica el profesional.

COMUNICACIÓN MASCULINA Y FEMENINA

Ambos sexos suelen diferenciarse a la hora de encarar una comunicación. Las mujeres hablan en forma circular, mientras que los hombres son más directos y simples para manifestar sus pensamientos.

La resonancia fue efectuada en doce voluntarios varones y se comprobó que la voz masculina y la femenina activan diferentes áreas del cerebro. “El sonido que percibimos, dependiendo del género es recibido y procesado de manera distinta”, confirma Saavedra.

El autor del estudio explica que la mujer emite un rango de frecuencias de sonido más complejo que las del hombre debido a diferencias en el tamaño y forma de sus cuerdas vocales y su laringe.

Lo que hace el hombre es simplemente “desconectar” debido a una razón fisiológica. “La diferencia en la recepción explica las dificultades de los varones para mantener una larga conversación con una mujer”, relata Saavedra, intentando confirmar la explicación científica del especialista británico.

El tono suave y melódico de la mujer provoca la dispersión masculina. Según los especialistas, “más allá de toda broma, si una mujer quiere conversar con un hombre, lo deberá hacer en períodos cortos y si no es posible tampoco eso, habrá que dejar las conversaciones para las amigas”, comenta sonriendo Saavedra.

La mujer cree en el intercambio comunicacional. El hombre teme que las palabras lo confundan o comprometan.

“En una relación de pareja podemos ver que el hombre no es que no le guste hablar, sino que no sabe cómo hacerlo.”, comenta el psicólogo chileno Nicolás Amenábar.

“Hay una predisposición fisiológica como revela el estudio, pero también cultural a la diferencia en la recepción del mensaje”, continúa diciendo el especialista.

Ahora que parece existir justificación que alivia las conciencias, lo ideal es encontrar un punto medio. Intentar conversar en capítulos para que él no se canse ni desconcentre.

Es la idea más coherente ya que es muy difícil hacer que una mujer espere a otro momento para mantener una conversación que necesita ser expulsada.

La última parte que?? Insinúa que las mujeres no controlan??? Al leer esto me vienen a la cabeza (cansada de tanta mujer habladora!!) las fantásticas conversaciones de futbol!!! Directas, sin dobleces, sin dobles sentidos, ¿no son geniales??? (evil's lawyer). Lo de habrá que dejar las conversaciones para las amigas es de lo mejorcito que he escuchado en mucho tiempo (OMG!)

que pensáis??

You know I'm no good

Amy Winehouse Lyrics
Meet you downstairs in the bar and heard
Your rolled up sleeves and your skull t-shirt
You say what did you do with him today?
And sniff me out like I was Tanqueray

Cause you're my fella, my guy
Hand me your stella and fly
By the time I'm out the door
You're tear men down like Roger Moore

I cheated myself
Like I knew I would
I told ya, I was trouble
You know that I'm no good

Upstairs in bed, with my ex boy
He's in the place, but I can't get joy
Thinking on you in the final throes, this is when my buzzer goes

Run out to meet your chips and pitter
You say we married, 'cause you're not bitter
There'll be none of him no more
[You Know I’m No Good lyrics on http://www.metrolyrics.com]

I cried for you on the kitchen floor

I cheated myself
Like I knew I would
I told ya, I was trouble
You know that I'm no good

Sweet reunion, Jamaica and Spain
We're like how we were again
I'm in the tub you on the sink
Lick your lips as I soak my feet

Then you know this little carpet burn
My stomach drop yeah and my guts churn
You shrug and it's the worst
Who truly stuck the knife in first

I cheated myself like I knew I would
I told ya I was trouble, you know that I'm no good
I cheated myself, like I knew I would
I told ya I was trouble, you know that I'm no good

Clinton vs Obama in Austin!

Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama (AP)

Austin will host a debate between Democratic Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

It will take place Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. on the UT Campus. The Texans for Obama Web site says the debate will be at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

"The fact that both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama have agreed top come here Texas and spend a significant amount of time in Texas goes to show how important Texas will be for these campaigns," Texas Democratic Party Spokesperson Hector Nieto said.

Democratic leaders say this debate could urge Texans to go to the polls.

"Over the past couple of weeks we've been doing a massive voter registration drive. We've got 2000 voters registered in two days and so that's really going to bring a lot of people out. And having a debate here is really going to drive that number up even more," Andy Jones with University of Texas Democrats said.

CNN will broadcast the debate. The Univision Network will air the debate in Spanish at 10:30 p.m.

Univision and CNN each will each provide a journalist to pose questions in the debate. CNN will provide the moderator.

Organizers are still working out how tickets will be distributed to the public.

Obama announced his Texas campaign headquarters would be in Austin. They will be located on 816 Congress Ave., just south of the Capitol. There is no word where Clinton's headquarters will be located yet.

The debate is just 12 days before the March 4 Texas primary. Early voting begins next Monday, Feb. 19, and ends Feb. 28.

Would U, would u give me your first born child?

RUMPELSTILTZKIN

Once upon a time there was a poor miller who had a beautiful daughter. One day the miller was called to the palace to meet the King. He wanted to seem important to the King so he told him that he had a daughter who could spin straw into gold thread. The King was very impressed with what the miller told him. The King said, "If your daughter can really spin straw into gold thread, bring her to the palace tomorrow so that I can put her to a test. I want to see for myself."

The next day the miller brought his daughter to the palace to meet the King. She was taken to a room that was full of straw and given a spinning wheel, spindle and hundreds of bobbins to hold the gold thread. The King said, "Now get to work and spin all night. If this straw is not spun into gold by the time I come back in the morning, you and your father will be banished from my kingdom forever. Then he closed the door and left her in the room alone.

The girl sat down at the spinning wheel and didn't know what to do. She didn't know how to spin straw into gold. She didn't want to be banished from the kingdom with her poor father. Where on earth would they go? This was their home. She was so unhappy that she began to cry. Suddenly the door opened and in came a tiny little man. He said, "Good evening, young lady. Why are you crying?"

"Oh!", answered the girl, "I have to spin all this straw into gold by morning and I don't even know where to start."

"What will you give me if I spin it for you?", asked the little man.

The girl looked around and said, "I can give you my necklace."

The little man took the necklace and sat down at the spinning wheel. The wheel went around three times and the bobbin was full of gold. The he put on another bobbin. The wheel went around three times and the second bobbin was filled with gold. He did this all night long until all the straw was spun into gold.

As soon as the sun came up the King arrived. When he saw all of the gold and no straw, he was amazed. But seeing the gold made him greedy and he wanted more. He had the girl taken into another room full of straw, but this room was much bigger than the first. He told her once again to spin all of the straw into gold before the next morning or she and her father would be driven from his kingdom.

When he left the room, the girl began to cry again. The door opened and the tiny little man came in and said, "What will you give me if I spin the straw into gold for you?"

"I have this ring that belonged to my mother," answered the girl.

The little man took the ring and began spinning at the wheel again. By the next morning, he had spun the room full of straw into glittering gold.

When the King returned after the sun came up, he was very pleased. But still his greed for gold was not satisfied and he had the miller's daughter taken to an even bigger room filled with straw. The King told her, "You must spin all this into gold by the morning. If you do, then I will marry you and make you my queen."

When he left the girl alone, the little man appeared again and said, "What will you give me this time if I spin the straw into gold for you?"

"I don't have anything else to give you," answered the girl.

"Then promise me that when you are Queen you will give me your first born child," said the little man.

The girl thought about it and though it was not an easy decision she knew no other way out. She promised the little man that he could have her first born child if he once again helped her and spun the straw into gold. He went to work right away and by the time the sun rose in the sky, the straw was spun into gold.

When the King came in the morning and found this room filled with gold, he did as he promised and made the girl his wife. The miller's daughter became a queen.

After a year had passed, a beautiful son was born to her and the King. She had not thought any more of the little man during that time. All of the sudden one day he came into her room and said, "Now give me what you promised me."

The thought of this frightened the Queen. How could she give her beautiful child to this man. She offered him all the riches in her kingdom if he would just leave her the child. But the little man said, "No, a living child is worth more to me than all of the treasures in the world." When the Queen began to cry uncontrollably, the little man felt sorry for her. He said, "You can try to guess my name! If you guess it correctly within three days you can keep your child."

All night long the Queen thought and thought over all of the names she had ever heard. She even sent a messenger out into the neighborhood of the castle to ask the people their names and make a list of all that he could find. When the little man arrived the next day she began with Sheepshanks, Cruickshanks, Spindleshanks and all the other names that she could think of, but each time the little man said, "That's not my name."

The next day she sent the messenger to search throughout the land to find more names. The messenger brought back a long list of the most uncommon and unusual names that could be found. When the little man returned the Queen said, "Is your name, perhaps Kasper, Melchior, Belshazzar?" But he always replied, "That's not my name."

On the third day the messenger came to the Queen and said, "I have not been able to find any new names, but as I came over a high hill in the corner of the woods, I saw a little house. In front of the house there burned a fire and dancing around the fire was the strangest little man I have ever seen. He was hopping on one leg and singing:

Tomorrow I clean, today I bake,

And then the child away I'll take;

For little knows my royal dame

That Rumpelstiltzkin is my name!"

How happy the Queen was at hearing that name. When the little man arrived a short time later and asked, "Now, my Queen, what's my name?" she asked first, "Is your name Conrad?" "No." "Is your name Harry?" "No." "Is your name Rumpelstiltzkin?"

"Who has told you that?" the little man screamed. "A demon has told you that!" He jumped around the room in a fit of rage. He was so angry that he ran from the room, out of the castle and into the forest, never to be heard from again.

THE END

For those who love my puré (puré de gatito)

Here we go with the recipe (by Allison D)


Gatito Puree (so easy, yet soo good):
Step 1: Put Kitteh in da pot.
Step 2: Apply heat.
Step 3: Put chunky soop in da blender.

kthxbye.
~Bree
P.S. I hate you.

How many people have to die In USA to ban guns????

11 muertos en dos tiroteos en Estados Unidos

Mourning in Missouri as Shooter’s Motives Emerge

Woman Kills 2 at La. College

Missouri gunman kills five in row over fines

Central Market,

I love buying my food in Central Market. Definitely there is a huge difference in quality between HEB... and Central Market.
As you might know I really enjoy coffee, right? There you can choose between 40 types of coffee from all over the world. That is AWESOME! fan-tastic.

Also in case your hands get germy you will be able to wash them!!! yeah!

If you are breadaholic, you will find around 20 varieties of bread: olive bread, sesame bread, parmesan and nuts bread...., and the most important, you can test most of them.

While you are buying stuff, they are preparing food and you can taste it! De-licious!












Here it is the stuff I ended up buying!
OMG, Where I am going to put all of this????

Al más puro estilo...PEPE (Partido Eclesiástico Popular Español)

"Sin mencionar siglas, pero de forma más clara y rotunda que nunca, los obispos pidieron ayer a los creyentes que no voten al PSOE. Al rosario de reproches que vienen formulando contra José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero --regulación de la bodas gais, la asignatura de Educación para la Ciudadanía, la ley de memoria histórica...--, los prelados añaden uno nuevo: la negociación con ETA. La nota episcopal también alerta contra los partidos nacionalistas y sugiere a los católicos que el 9-M apoyen a los "que sean compatibles con la fe y las exigencias de la vida cristiana" y defiendan la "unidad de España". En resumen, los obispos animan, aunque subrepticiamente, a votar al PP."

El señor este, ya en la foto da miedo!!!

Ave María Purísima, sin pecado concebida.

Every one can find fault, few can do better: It is easier to find fault in other people's actions or methods than to do it properly or correctly.