The 10 worst things that could ever happen to you... vol. III

There I was, entering a restaurant with 12 other members of my family... I should have read the signs then, I should have turned around and leave the place for good, but I didn't.

The following, my dear readers (Thanks Ana for increasing my followers' list by 16,66%) is a list of the TEN WORST THINGS THAT COULD EVER HAPPEN TO YOU (when you go on a family lunch)

1.- There is a horrible painting of some horses riding through a storm on a beach at night hanging on the main wall of the room.

2.- The waiter announces the entrée you asked for is not available.

3.- You go to the ladies and the door doesn't shut.

4.- You try to gracefully keep the door shut while you... you know!

5.- Your sister likes your choice of second so much she eats half (ok, here I'm exaggerating, a lot, but I need 10 things, so let me have this).

6.- The waiter announces the dessert you asked for is not available.

7.- Your sister's dessert arrives before yours.

8.- You steal her complementary biscuit (which looks like this:

9.- You bite the biscuit, then seriously think of blowing in the hole just for fun. You randomly look inside the hole and...

10.- Your fate is decided. When you randomly decide to look inside the hole of the biscuit THERE IS A GIGANTIC GREEN WORM INSIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I chocked and almost died at that same moment. There is no excuse for such a disgusting thing to happen in a decent or not so decent restaurant. 

I could only picture Mr. Gordon Ramsay screaming at the cook, the waiter and anyone in the kitchen, just like I wanted to do... 


Never going back there, the complementary wine and the free desserts could not compensate such a disgusting situation.


Why do these things always happen to me?


Such is Life.

The Glist

 Ok, so I think it is high time to post something, march is almost over, spring is coming and my lack of posting is starting to worry me after such a good start of the year.

I've been thinking on posting something on one of my favourite TV shows as of late, and considering how many of the songs of the show feed my iPod's playlists I could go no longer without paying my humble homage to a show that has joined the best songs of the old times and the current ones.

Ladies and Gentlemen, please raise your glass to... GLEE

If you pay a little attention to my blog you may have seen a little list of songs on the left hand of the screen, well, those are or may have been at some time or other my favourite glee songs, but right now, here's my top ten:

10.- Old but fun, and maybe one of Glee's underdog song if there is such a thing for those guys: RUN JOEY RUN

9.- I am so glad they started to give Santana the spotlight she deserves...: VALERIE

8.- Number eight is just plain sweet: BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE

7.- Again an all time classic, awesome song, awesome voice (awesome guy too): SWEET CAROLINE

6.- This is not just the song, but the performance (I want this in my wedding)... six goes to: MARRY YOU

Now here comes the TOP 5, most of them from the current season, but just so awesomeI can't stop playing them again and again and again (I've got a problem called song-burning, the good thing is the show keeps feeding me songs on an almost weekly basis)

5.- Another old song, but so relaxing!: LANDSLIDE

4.- Bon Jovi in Glee means success, but in this case, it is just perfect!: IT'S MY LIFE/CONFESSIONS Pt. II

Sorry for the interruption again, but I need to explain my top three a little bit! This next three songs just make me feel great, they rise my spirits, make me wanna shout and dance and scream. For that, they have earned this special place in my Glist. No further explanations, the songs speak for themselves... Enjoy!!!!!

3.- FIREWORK

2.- THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER

 1.- RAISE YOUR GLASS

I like posting a Glee song on FB every week, so if you like these songs and want to hear some more, just stay tuned. Considering how these guys get better and better episode after episode I may have to update this Glist completely before the end of the year!!

I was going for a Saint Paddy's theme but....

... Shabby blogs got in the way... so this is going to be March!! Hope it is a little bit more fruitful than february, the lemons didn't inspire me much.

Have a great week!!!

The business of fashion

Dedicated to my sweet and always optimistic friend and blogger collab (one likes to think!): Agnes.



Twice a year Madrid hosts an increasingly popular fashion week.

Designers, models, socialites and wannabe socialites, bloggers, journalists, actors, and a very wide range of fashion lovers (from undisputed dickheads - I mean hipsters, sorry - to myself) go to the world's end (20€ taxi ride on the way back home!) to enjoy a taste of what fashion is going to be about next season.

My dear friend Agnes got us tickets for one of the shows, and, despite the fact that I am not a huge follower of the designer, I enjoyed every minute of that atmosphere (specially being comfortably seated in the fourth row). A fashion show is a at the same time a theatre play, an art exhibition and a concert, your eyes go from one side of the runway to the other hoping not to miss a single detail of all that goes on. Different styles mean different music, and you fell how the show evolves from Act I to the Final Act.

Fashion is fun, and frivolous, and I love the fact that for an afternoon I could indulge in my hunger for trends and be just as frivolous, hearing Mr. Gunn in my head, with his "make it work" moments and his "wow factor" as I commented on designs and shuffled through clothes.

I can very well understand those who wish to make fashion their life, and try to fight their way in a world full of ideas, beauty, color and, let's be blunt, money with a huge envy factor.

It's Siberia out there, I could see it even for a while in a little style contest, and you have to be particularly strong to climb up the ladder of the business of fashion. And I know you are, just keep climbing!


Such is Life.


 AUTHOR's NOTE: As usual, pictures NOT MINE but theirs: MARIE CLAIRE (http://www.marie-claire.es/fotos-francis-montesinos-cibeles-2011)

On the lack of inspiration and other disasters

Sometimes I just need to start typing to come up with a good post. Sometimes it takes a bad post to find the inspiration to write a good one, or at least one up to my posting satisfaction.

Truth is, february is half gone and I haven't posted anything yet. Sure there are at least seven drafts waiting to be posted, but I am just unable to come up with something really good. I suppose sometimes you have to lower your standards and just let go of all the things that bug you while writing and let your fingers run through the keyboard and build your thoughts, and... amaze the whole world with a piece of trully enriching writing. NOT.THE.CASE. I know, I am just letting my fingers type and my brain go blank.

 I've tried to hide my lack of inspiration behind a new change in SiL's design, but I feel I am fooling myself and you.


Maybe I should go to the easy, the mundane and trivial, for example I could just wish everyone a happy Valentine's Day, but I just don't feel like it. Again, mundane and trivial...

10 worst things is not working either, no frustrating taxi rides, no internet failures, no bitting dogs or noisy cats, just a bunch of thoughts scattered through my brain with little to no connection between them and even less interest.

I admire those bloggers who force themselves to write regularly, who have a purpose and make a weekly/daily effort to feed readers with something new. I cannot.

So after blurting all these absurd thoughts I'm going to go to bed and hope this week brings me some much needed inspiration.

Thanks for reading, if you do.

Such is Life.

PS: After insisting with Denmark with little (no) response on Denmark's side (not too happy about it but I totally understand), I've travelled a little south and now insist on having just a teeny tiny hello from the Netherlands, I know you are reading right now, so stop and say hi (please?).


PS2: The picture pops up on google when you type "Netherlands", I thought it my help... Of course it is not mine, I got it from here: http://www.metrolic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/3the-netherlands.jpg


I thought it would help improve my terrible post. Not sure if it helps at all but makes it look even sadder.

Run mad as often as you food... No, wait, that's not it!

A great author once said this to a friend, and ever since I heard them quoted in a movie, these words have been among my favourite quotes ever:

"Beware of fainting-fits... Beware of swoons... A frenzy fit is not one quarter so pernicious; it is an exercise to the Body and if not too violent, is I dare say conducive to Health in its consequences--Run mad as often as you choose; but do not faint--" 

After devoting my weekend to the study of these words, I've come to my own version of the magnificent quote itself, here it is:

"Beware of chinese food... Beware of ice cream... A baked zuchinni is not one quarter so pernicious; it is an exercise to your cooking skills and if not too burnt, is I dare say conductive to Health in its consequences-- Eat baked vegetables as often as you choose; but do not mix them with pizza."


I have entered a dreadful food comma state, and I may not recover till the morning. All along, it was totally worth it!

Such is life!

The power of Stats

I discovered, not long ago, that there is a very useful "Stats" option in blogger wich provides you with very useful information.

For instance, right now, in two years of existence, Such is Life has been visited 666 times, creepy number, but quite a successful one, at least for me, considering the untimely updates. More than 300 of those page views took place in the last 30 days, which means my new year's resolution of posting more has paid some results in the short term.

I used to hate Statistics in business school, statistics sucked, it was just a bunch of ridiculous data to me. Then I discovered Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics and my views on the subject started to change. And then, then I clicked on the Stats button and I found out...

1.- That Such is Life has been read in 4/5 continents, North and South America included (Oceania, I still don't understand why you are not in my Stats).

2.- Someone found my blog by typing the words "ugliest feet" on Google.

3.- My sister is not an online phenomenon.

Finding number 1 was awesome, finding number 2 embarrasing and finding number 3 was just plain hilarious.

It seems, my sister makes only number 7 in my Top 10 posts list, and here is the proof:

So sorry sis, I tried, I really did!

Thanks to the Stats I found out United Kingdom and Denmark make #3 and #4 in countries with more pageviews, I get United Kingdom (more or less, I can imagine who could it be at least) but Denmark... you guys have to understand my insistence!

Anyhow, I must go now. Such is Life.