The Finish Line (Post-athon day 21)

I did it!

I made it!

You thought I wouldn't be able to post today, didn't you? Well, I did, and I feel so relieved I may actually cry.

The preassure is over, the Post-athon is completed and I have to thank many of you for that.

Your comments have kept me going through these eternal three weeks, and I have barely missed a post.

Therefore, here we are today in the 2011 Post-athon Awards (Cheer, applaud and scream please):

- Best Reader Award goes to Anuska and Agnes, for their comments and support, reading and commenting every post no matter how boring or random.

- Most Obnoxious Reader Award to Paula, my sister, like you didn't expect that.

- Shy Reader Award goes to Isa Conde, for her first comment in Such is Life on the Ultimate Top 5.

- Early Bird Reader Award goes to Bece, for becoming a follower and commenting all in the same day.

- Follower-at-last Award goes to Anonymous, for becoming a follower before the Post-athon is over!

and finally:

- The Ultimate Blogger Award goes to myself (of course) cause this has been a real challenge, and I feel like I deserve it. Please do not comment if you think otherwise.

This has been it.

Finally I will be able to think a little bit more about what I post, and that will definitely improve the quality of this Blog.

Thank you so much for reading.

Such is Life.

The ten worst things squash edition (Post-athon day 20!!!!!!)

If this Post-athon has proven something it's that no one should ever be allowed to post unless they have something to say. Otherwise, you better stay quiet.

I may have exceeded the limits of what is considered as acceptable random ramblings in the past few days, what with all the fill-in-the-gap posts, but do not fret, once today is over I have something which I hope you will enjoy, and then... then I can begin with the "Christmas Countdown Post-athon!!!"

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Please please don't do this again!!

Ok, I won't put you through that.

I will instead opt to post a very absurd picture of the 18kg squash my uncle brought us the other day. And will dedicate this post to my sister, and the 10 WORST THINGS THAT COULD EVER HAPPEN TO YOU  (when you hate squash)

1.- Your uncle is kind enough to gift you a 18kg squash when november comes, this is something he has been doing for the last couple of years, and you are oh so thankful.

2.- Your mother needs to get rid of the squash but there are not so many people willing to take home a 2kg slice of squash, therefore...

3.- After your mother gets rid of half the squash you still have 9 delicious kg of squash all to yourself.

4.- Squash is one of those vegetables that freezes oh so nicely and there is stored squash at home for months.

5.- Your obnoxious sister, who loves squash cream insists your mother cooks squash cream weekly.

6.- You not only hate squash but also hate cream.

7.- Your mother adds squash to all her dishes, including the traditional cocido every saturday.

8.- Boiled squash leaves little pieces of squashy mush everywhere, so no matter if you get rid of the bigger pieces, there is no way you can erase that orange aura from your food.

9.- Farmville makes you plant squash and pumpkins all november long.

10.- By the time you finish all the aquash... is november again and your uncles comes home with AN EVEN BIGGER SQUASH.

Oh, lucky you.

Such is Life

A breath of fresh air (Post-athon day 19)

Christmas is near! And with the coming season Such is Life is in the mood for good deeds.

Today I want to present the Little Lungs Foundation. Created to enable and improve research on rare lung diseases specially in children, support their families, provide and share information, create a healthy environment and all in all try to make the life of sick children and their families a little easier.

They arrive at Madrid next December 17th with a beautiful Concert in the National Auditorium. Click in the picture below to learn a little more about them and the concert.

This is it for today.

See you tomorrow for the penultimate post of this 2011 Post-athon.

Such is Life!

The Ultimate Top 5 (Post-athon day 18)

Good morning! it is a lovely Sunday morning, it's cold outside and the sun is shining, and I have a new post, one of those with content, not random silly ramblings.

Over this post-athon I have offered you a couple of TV show lists, and even though I tried to make a good list at first, I realised it was not my list.

I lied to save face, but when you run out of posts, you must either face your demons and post or just write some crap from a taxi and press send.

I choose both.

So, without further ado, I present, the Ultimate Finalest Realest Top 5 TV shows of my choice:

5.- It is a powerful program that which makes you cry every time you see it. These people are made so happy... (And in that last sentence there is both irony and truthfulness). Number 5 goes to Extreme Makeover, Home Edition.

4.- This is the real place this show really deserved in my initial list. All that make it work has lead to incredible designs, and hours of entertainment.

 

3.- Oh what this show has given me... the music, the characters, the story, the ideas, I wish other sagas would give fans so much material to feed their thirst as this one. Some may object, but this is awesome!

 

Oh, no wait, that wasn't it...

2.- Good morning upper east siders, yes, I admit it, I really enjoy this show... The looks, the city... It is drama for drama, and they are frivolous and all that stuff, but I enjoy it a-lot.

1.- Number 1 will always be number one, for the years to come and the shows to be invented, I have not seen another show like this. Number one is always for them! F.R.I.E.N.D.S!!

And with this the show is over for today! Comment and suggest, but do not judge.

Such is Life

The stressful life of a social media addict (Post-athon day 17)

A taxi is just a good a place to post as your living room at home. I have to thank blackberry for that.

I don't thank bb when it decides to let its servers die and takes four days to fix them, at that time, i loathed bb for keeping me away from fb, my friends and google maps.

But today it is going to save me from failing to post! I have to admit saturdays are a terrible day to post. With my job I would never have thought that being normal one day a week would get in the way of posting daily, but actually saturdays are a terrible day for posting.

It gets even worse when you realise you have to manage three facebook accounts, five email addresses, linkedin, twitter and... This blog. I may have reached my peak internet wise, and I have to admit I'll be very glad when the posting preassure is over and I can focus on my various other social media addictions.

Must get off the taxi now, the most useful taxi ride of the week!

Mischief managed!

Such is life

Excuse me, is there a doctor in the room? (Post-athon day 16, PhD edition)

Excuse me, is there a doctor in the room? You said yes? May anyone please point out who the doctor is?

Oh! I see, the girl with the big smile to whom the waiter is offering a drink? (What a fancy place with waiters and all!) Oh, that is excellent news.

And is she the only doctor in the room? Really? I thought many of these people could pass as doctors... of course the girl with the shiny headband does not, (yes, the one with the pretty skirt that looks totally borrowed from her fashion forward sister), but the rest?

Oh, and of course the five ladies in that corner are not!! I can tell valid from null. Paz... What did you call them?

And what about the grey-haired gentleman with the brown jacket and the tie, or that worried looking man with the white shirt and the blue jumper? 

What do you mean they were doctors for a day? That is a ridiculous notion! 

Aaahhhh ok, so now I understand, what a curious phenomenon! 5-6-7 years as pre-doc, one day (some would even say second) as doctor and a post-doc for the rest of your life! This science thing is complicated (that's the way the cookie crumbles guys)!

Ok, I came here with a purpose, so I will just walk to her and say my speech: "Congrats Dr. Ferina, you make a hell of a doctor!!"

Such is Life

Author's note: It seems I can't expect anyone to understand this post. Don't try, even my critics, who should understand it, don´t.

That's the way the cookie crumbles (Post-athon day 15 revisited)

Have I gone insane?

Yes. There is no other explenation to posting twice a day in the middle of a Post-athon.

Why fool myself with the idea that my synapse works just fine when I know my neurotransmitters are more similar to fireworks than...

... Than whatever scientific explanation there is to neurotransmitters (I will never understand why I get into these puddles of mud so often).

A conversation with my sister this morning made me give some serious though to today's previous post, and I am somewhat ashamed of posting that crappy stuff.

Apologies to all, permanent and eventual readers.

The conversation with my sister made me also realise (more accurately my sister pointed out) that the only "quality content" of my blog is limited to:

-lists of (either music or TV shows),

-poscards from... and

- the 10 worst things.

The remaining fill-the-gap content is crap.

In my posting crisis I started surfing the web trying to find additional inspiration to improve the F I've given myself for today's previous post, and I found a few ideas:

1.- synonimes for such is life: I could dedicate an entire post to expressions like: "that's the way it goes", "c'est la vie" or my personal favourite "that's the way the cookie crumbles".

2.- explaining synapse, neurotransmitters and how it may be similar to fireworks (unachievable).

or

3.- commenting on current affairs, such as the economy (boring).

Either of them or all, are crap. But now you may realise that I've managed to:

A) write more than 3 paragraphs,

B) mention my sister (thrice)

C) use three types of bullets, and

D) redeem my F, which may be now a C-.

That's the way the cookie crumbles.

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I really can't stay... (Post-athon day 15)

In such cases as these you just have to be brave and type. I am officially exhausted, you are exhausted too, no wonder, and the quality of the posting may be decreasing steadily, but I promise this will all be over soon, I'll go back to posting once in a lifetime and you'll go back to being surprised when I post.

But till then, this is it, and I need a story to tell.

For the last few days (I think weeks) I've been feeling this knack for Christmas, I keep listening to Christmas Carrols, buying cds with Christmas Classics (plenty) and all in all getting ready for Christmas. The only problem is this year my list of giftable people is longer, and I am totally out of ideas.
 

Christmas socks are a good idea right?

Excellent idea when you are asking for an iPad or diamond earings in return. Brilliant.

I need help. I need ideas! And I need a posting break. I will just listen to the music and think of nothing.

This is the second time I post this song here, so please, if you didn't listen to it the first time. It is totally worth it.

Such is Life

Postcards from London: Good morning Chelsea (Post-athon day 14!)

I've been to London several times, first when I was nine, I still remember the cold, the food and the Disney Store.

But I had never had the chance to walk down the King's Road and to get lost in Chelsea.

There was a time, before my mouth went all radical on me where I could eat and taste solids, and enjoy a great brunch, when I could speak and not sound like a 5 year-old or a drunken homeless (I am not sure which of the two is more accurate).

 Focus M, focus! As I was saying, we started our morning stroll down King's Road (so gameofthrony!) and even though is was misty at first, the weather was amazingly nice for a weekend in late November.

On the random side, during our walk we came up a very funny Canadian guy who recognised us for our chit chatting and told us he was the first Canadian to import Spanish clementines to Canada, awkward conversation, a few laughs and he kept walking and do did we.

We walked and walked, past the National History Museum and several other museums, rows of houses all neatly painted, better decorated and framed with luxurious cars, and started to feel hungry, mmmmm what can anyone do on a Sunday morning but to enjoy brunch? Nothing, just enjoy brunch.

So there we went to PJ's, where I had my last solid dishes in days: Eggs Royale with smoked salmon (just like eggs benedict but with salmon instead of ham), and dessert for 6. I still remember that apple crumble and smell the cinnamon and the walnuts...

I am starved. The only good thing about this tooth ordeal is knowing I will get rid of the few pounds I put on over the summer.

We all need to find some solace don't we?

Such is Life

In sickness and in health... (Post-athon day 13!)

Oh how I suffer!

My wisdom teeth have decided the best time to cause havoc is a few weeks before Christmas, with a post-athon on the go, a wedding, dinners, several celebrations, shopping and work to sort out before the holidays.

This is f*****g painful. I can bearely speak let alone eat solids. I cried over breakfast and it was just soggy biscuits drowned in cocoa (yes, I am back to age six). Worse, haven't eaten solids since sunday (thank God for that Holandaise sauce over eggs benedict, it may keep me going for another week).

My left ear hurts like crazy too, all part of the same wisdom disaster. If this is wisdom, I want it gone. I'd rather be unwise but unsuffering.

To add more pain to the aggravation, we had a fire drill today at work. The sound of the alarm nearly made my battered left ear bleed, I am certain. Worst of all, as a friend said, being in the top floor sucks, we will be in serious trouble when the drill becomes reality and hundreds of panicking lawyers try to exit the building at the same time.

I think my wisdom teeth are affecting my sense of humour, but here I am, in sickness and in health, posting every day!

Such is Life
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Liar liar my pants on fire (Post-athon day 12)

Ok, so maybe I lied.

Maybe my top 10 TV shows are not the 10 you I showed you the other day are not exactly my top 10, maybe I was not totally accurate and truthful. Maybe I feel a little ashamed of the TV I really enjoy? Maybe NOT.

I hereby present M's real TOP 10 TV shows of all time (Part 1):

10.- Sunday afternoon after sunday afternoon these three sisters fought against evil and charmed (hahaha that was easy) teenage me:

9.- The best chef ever. I drove by his restaurant at the Claridge's in London yesterday and have made the purpose to go sometime soon, maybe not while being strangled with a mortgage though. Can't help but love Hell's Kitchen (and Kitchen Nightmares, it makes me miss HK a little less in between seasons!)

8.- Blood, blood, blood and Eric! (and Alcide of course, but he's not in the video sorry)

7.- Another HBO hit which lead me to the books and is now in the limbo of "will I like next season less now I've read the books?" that is what happens when you "play the Game of Thrones..."

6.- This is the most awesome Cartoon show I've seen since Dave the Barbarian and notwithstanding my Top 5 choices. BLUE is AWESOME.

I could actually dedicate this little blue friend a whole post! But I still have many other things to post! The final real Sich is Life TV show list is coming soon, and it is going to be AWESOME!

Such is Life

Postcards from... London (Post-athon day 11!)

Hello darlings, how lovely yo see you all again.

I am going to be a little naughty and say I am consistently publishing posts, since yesterday I made it to post something even if it was something with little consequence.

As I said yesterday, I spent the weekend in London visiting a friend. It's been a great weekend, shopping laughing, chatting, eating and chatting a little more, and shopping a little more.

 After a few weeks listening to Christmas carrol's at work, the sight of Christmas decorations filling the streets quenched for a little while my thirst for Christmas.

South Kengsinton and Chelsea offered a beautiful picture at seven p.m. when we made it back home full of shopping bags, exhausted and stressed thinking how on earth would we be able to fit all the stuff we got in our tiny easyjet friendly suitcases.

There was a stop we couldn't miss, Hamley's! and it was full of Christmas Legos!!

I behaved very well in the morning and tried to spend moderately, but then I went to Urban Outfitters and I went a little crazy... so crazy that on the way down from the first to the ground floor I had to stop by the cashier to return a t-shirt... that made me feel a little better, but still, this weekend was not the best in saving terms. I have decided that January will be the start of some serious saving new habits, my new year's resolutions are going to be very very interesting!

I will be back with more London pictures soon! But today is election day, and there is some very important stuff going on right now for is 46 million Spaniards.

I have to admit I missed you all, now I'm back! and I promise to look for the damn email address to post from my bb.

Such is Life

I won't be able to post today... I am sorry. So sorry. But I'm in London city for the weekend and still can't remember the fhfdsddufjkh email address to post by email.

My sincerest apologies, I promise to bring London goodies!!

Cheers!

Such is life

The 10 worst things that could ever happen to you (Post-athon version)

Like you didn't see this coming... ha.

I have ran out of posts, not only have I left a very very interesting one half written, but I am leaving for the weekend and won't be able to post till Sunday evening again... I should have programmed posts till then but my life got on the way, and I find myself writing this post in an email hoping to remember the address I set to publish posts by email.

This is being a hell of a challenge, and my daily routine is not making it any easier. In fact, the planets seem to have aligned to prevent me from posting. Here are the reasons why.

The 10 worst things that could ever happen to you (when engaged in a Post-athon):

1.- You commit to publish not 7, not 10, not 15 but 21 days in a row (First colossal mistake)

2.- The list of planned posts is not longer than... 7 posts.

3.- You write some posts during the weekend and decide to find some time to post during the week (Second colossal mistake, don't you know where you work??).

4.- You work till 2.a.m. on the planned night to write some posts in advance.

5.- You get home at 2 a.m. and go to bed. You can't sleep thinking you need to post something by 12:00 a.m. Friday (Shit, it's Thursday already!).

6.- 3 a.m. You seriously consider getting up and writing, but you feel your family would think you insane. Agreed. You'll write something at lunch time.

7.- You skip lunch to write a post from work (Third colossal mistake, I'm famished). The browser of your work computer is not compatible with blogger (Why oh why). Ok, don't panic, just try to post from your bb. You can't. Why did you have to upgrade blogger? It is not compatible with either explorer 6 or bb internet explorer! You seriously consider to upgrade your work browser, but then decide to be reasonable. Your IT department would not think reasonable that you needed the upgrade your browser to post on your blog. No wonder. 

8.- While thinking this is all an international conspiracy to keep you from delivering to your faithful readers, you remember you configured blogger to post directly from an email address (Oh joy).

9.- You can't remember the iihgiashgpfugpçiofgpçàoidfg address. You remember you copied it to your bb address book.

10.- You then remember you lost it when your bb died last summer.

And now, here you are, praying that you'll convince your wonderful loving sister to post this on your behalf.

I hope she does. (Yes she did! She is the best sister ever!) I would feel very disappointed with myself if I failed so soon in the race for Post-athon success.

Oh well, Such is Life

And on the eight day she rested (Post-athon day 8)

I am chewing on the idea of taking a day off, today may be a great day to do it, I could just post a video and leave you to it.  Or I could choose a song, post the lyrics and the video clip and... Oh, I could do that! and there's this song I like... huh.

I enjoy this song so much, it's hilarious. I like it so much I couldn't believe my luck when I found it on iTunes, and I bought it. Not that I don't like hipsters, I actually like their aesthetic a lot and what with my haircut and fake glasses, I am a hipster sometimes, and I like it. But taken to the extreme, as everythinghey are ridiculous. Totally ridiculous. And it's not only me, but a great may normal people think that some things are just... well, just watch the video and judge yourselves.

I wasn't surprised to see that Mr. Oatmeal, had dedicated them one his awesome comics. Btw, I totally encourage you to drop by his page and read some of his stuff, true as life itself, fun and intelligent. Excellent for that two minute break you need at work to stop feeling miserable.

I know this was just a filling post, but give me a break! I've managed to post everyday for more than a week, and I am running out of ideas. Do not judge me, please.

Thank you! Such is Life

PS: All the interesting stuff in this post is NOT mine, but his: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/hammer_vs_hipster

The TV show Show Part 2 (Post-athon day 7)

Oh joy! I made it through the first Post-athon week! Two more to go and I will have over come my greatest bloggong challenge so far.

Ok, enough of that, today's post is the continuation of Monday's TV show Show. I am sure you are waiting for the top five, so I will end your agony and provide you with this extremely valuable enternaintment insight.

5.- Mckinley High has provided me with hundreds of hours of good music and even though this new season is being a little bit of a disappointment, they still deserve a place of honour in my LIST. Here's to Glee!

4.- This show reminds me slightly of my number 1 choice, it's NYC, it's a group of young people spending most of their time together, and they are fun (well not Ted, Ted is not fun, I don't like Ted). Big round of applause to How I met your mother, for making me miss my number 1 choice a little less.

3.- This is getting interesting... 3, three is to a good cop show filled with irony and sense of humour, intelligent and entertaining, even though Beckett is silly because he is awesome and he loves her. Mr. Rick Castle, you deserve it!

2.- I declare this guy the best TV character ever. Best humour I've ever seen. Also I have to admit I feel identified with them some times, and that makes it even more awesome. Math, science, history, unraveling the mystery and all started with...

1.- 1994-2004, I grew up with this show and cried when it ended. I know episodes by heart, I never tire of watching it over and over again. That is the secret of a great show, you never tire of it, you laugh with it and you cry when it's over. First place goes to FRIENDS, for so many years of feel good moments.

I have to admit I keep laughing out loud as I watched this clip. I think Jennifer Aniston is genuinly laughing too.

Anyway, this is it. Or is it?

Muahahahahahahahahahahahaha


Such is Life.

Postcards from Russia - The name game (Post-athon day 6)

Ok, maybe you are wondering when I find the time to write so many posts now and why, if I have so much time to write, why don't i do it more often. Well, it's Saturday and this is the third post I'm writing today. And I still have another one to do at least before I can relax a little. Jeeezzz, the life of a regular blogger is exhausting.

Anyway, my point, Postcards from Russia is here, fifth post dedicated to this country, and maybe not last, cause the week I spent there left me full of posting ideas.

Today I want to play a game with you all, the name game. Cyrillic is an alphabet very similar to greek, and once you've seen it for a couple of days you can actually read it with some ease.

Once you know what a PECTOPAH is, the rest is easy.  It's actually funny to walk about the streets of Moscow articulating letters as you read them. Russians may think we tourists are idiots, but we tourists feel very intelligent when words start comming out our mouths and make sense. Cause Russian has many words that sound like a mix of Greek and latin, and I don't know what else

I made a selection of the best known brands worldwide and offer you to play the name game. Can you guess them all?

 Most of them are easy, with the giant M and the little syren, the last two are a bit more difficult, but I am sure that at least my friend Agnes will know. I would be very dissapointed if she doesn't.

I am officially exhausted. An this post only ensures I have posts till Tuesday... This is going to be hard... Why do I put myself through this?

Such is Life

The TV show Show Part 1 (Post-athon day 5)

I promised yesterday to post this and here it goes. My Top 10 TV shows of all time, well, maybe not, maybe I should say My top 10 TV shows of all time from an adult perspective, cause if you had asked me let's say 22 years ago I may have included Falcon Crest in the list below together with Saint Seiya (better know as Caballeros del Zodiaco here at home).

So be thankful I grew up and that my mom never let me watch more that the opening credits of that show cause this could have been a very... interesting list actually. I've decided to split this post in two parts, so today numbers 10 to 6, and next week the top 5. You are, as always, most encouraged to comment on my choice and suggest some changes, I am always eager to discover new TV shows, so drop by and leave a word.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present you, the LIST:

10.- I admit I would put this TV show in number 5 or 4 if my common sense didn't tell me that many will disagree and think me a little shallow. I may only need to say three words for some to guess which show it is: Make it work.

9.- I started watching this show when its last season was about to start and it was such a great discovery that I watched all the seasons, episode after episode some time in the autumn of 2008, frack, it took me days to do that. Awesome show. Can't say the same about the prequel. Please cheers to Battlestar Galactica.

8.- Number eight goes to a show I watch intermitently, a show that I don't watch while it is ongoing but wait for the season to be over and watch episode after episode in a Show-athon (anything can be athoned this days!). She is bad, she is twisted and she is brilliant, that why everyone loves Patty, cause when she is through with you, there won't be anything left.

7.- Seven goes not to one show, but to a genre, those cute TV shows that make you like them just because they are cute, characters are cute, the town is cute, the story is cute... I think you get it. It's a pity general audience doesn't seem to like them as much as I do. Clear examples are Men in Trees and ongoing and recently premiered, Hart of Dixie. 

6.- Weird, inexplicable and odd. Fringe is just that. Walter Bishop is one of those characters you can't help but love. Peter is awesome, Olivia may or may not irritate you, in my case she does, but the show is great. And this way I cover not only Fringe, but also other J.J. Abrams shows, looking all modern, ha.

Curious to know which shows made it to the top 5?

In other circumstances you would have had to wait months, but that is the good thing about the Post-athon! You'll have your top 5 in a few days. Come on, leave me some comments.

Such is Life.

Hard times for M (Post-athon day 4)

Someone should  have told me the minute you start thinking about buying a house something twitches in your brain and all becomes a matter of saving.

I am so not ready to save! I would have to quit on stuff like taking taxis to go everywhere, and not buying everything I like. That sucks. Even I feel guilty about the last pair of shoes I bought, and that is just cause I bought them right before seeing the apartment I WANT (and need to have, it's a pity it is so damn expensive). I seriously thought about turning them back, but they are so lovely, and duck blue!

But I've started adapting my ways to this new idea of saving, for instance, last night, instead of taking a taxi, or two, I took my mom's car, and not only did I save around 30€ in taxis, but gas is free, since mom pays for it.

Or Thursday, thursday I spent zero € overall! I got lifts to and from work and I got invited to lunch... Maybe this saving thing is not that difficult, all you have to do is make someone else spend the money for you right?

I felt so good about doing such a great job saving that I spent 70€ shopping on amazon. That is the spirit.

I feel so Rachel Green right now.

and this also helps as introduction for Monday's post in Such is Life 2011 Post-athon, "My top 10 TV shows of all time".

Such is Life

Dear France (Post-athon day 3)

(WARNING: This is one of those angry posts only very few will understand. If you wonder, yes, it is totally ironic)

Dear France,

Oh, how I appreciate that you treat us so fairly.

It is admirable how you respect our public holidays and keep us away from our laptops, emails, blackberries and offices, and allow us time to relax and forget the trials of our proffesional lives. We are so thankful that you kept us from a boring and tedious Wednesday with our insupportable friends and families. We know you do it in our best interest. In this economy, we need to be more productive, and if you don't make us lazy Spanish work in our public holidays, trust me, we are not going to do it.

How cheerfully you informed us that Friday is a public holiday in France, and that none of you would be working. How admirably you encourage us all to work non-stop from Monday to Thursday so that you can get your well deserved rest. How complete a person feels when your job is well done.

How awesome to have produced more than one hundred emails in a day making us feel needed and appreciated, and our work and time so incredibly valued.

I was moved by your capacity to keep calm and try not to panic with the smallest downturns. We Spanish should learn from your organised and efficient working methods.

Thank you so much France. You are a dear.

Kind regards