T-Shirt Project

Hello there, I'm not sure whether somebody reads this or not, but well...

The other day I had this daft idea, after being fifteen minutes in a shop and not finding a t-shirt nice enough to catch my eye... so I've decided I'm going to design and sew my own T-shirt. I already have tons of ideas about how it would look like, and from all those I already did a sketch, we'll see how it turns out. Before I upload a picture of a decent drawing I'll try and describe it. It would have two main parts, the top part, which would end just under the breast, and the bottom part, which would be aprox. two handspans and pleated inwardly (I don't know if any of this is understandable, my sewing jargon is awful, so I don't know whether I'm being accurate or just plain silly). Then the sleeves would be asymmetrical, one of them long, the other short. I have this fantasy of it being with this sort of kilt fabric (rather unlikely to find it in Spain though hehehe)

This is going to sound rather geekish, but I've spent the two last hours looking up patterns and ways of sewing in the sleeves, etc etc. It's all rather complicated for my simple intellect, but since I am the impersonation of the term "headstrong", I will spend as much time and energy I can spare in this project.

I'll post here any new stuff I come up with, wish me luck, it's going to take me ages to do this...

xxx

Ps: sorry I abandoned my Swiss guide posts, but I couldn't find anything really interesting to say, not that there aren't LOADS of interesting things to say about Swiss towns, but I was just lazy and lacking imagination :(

Grüezi Maintenant! Since I've been living in Switzerland this year, and I really like this

country, I've decided to post an entry about all the cantons I've visited so far, and those I'll visit in the future.

I'm going to start with the canton I live in: Kanton ZUERICH

This over here is the flag/shield of Zuerich, it's on all the cars' number plates, Rathaus, hung from balconies, etc etc. Every canton has one, and so does every town in each canton. There are loads of wee flags all over the place.

About the language, here they speak a dialect of German called Züritüütsch. It's supposed to be the easiest to understand of all the Swiss German dialects. To be perfectly honest, I've only studied German for two years now, but after living here seven months I still don't get half of what the people say.

The town I live in is called Winterthur (a lovely place really). It's a little bit up north from the actual Zürich (ten minutes by train)

this would be the flag of Winterthur (Löwen von Winterthur; you don't get town flags in

number plates though) These flags are called Stadtwappen

by the way.

This town is not very big, but in my opinion it's a very nice place to live in. Everything is 15-20 minutes away, and the closest Migros is about five minutes from where I live. (Migros and Coop are very important aroud here)

The most "interesting" street here would be the Marktgasse, which has all the nice shops and so. If what you are looking for a bank, the best street to go to is the Stadthausstrasse (parallel to Marktgasse)

Actually, I don't really now what to write here... I could go on for hours writing about Switzerland and all the nice stuff that's going on around here, but I wouldn't really know where to start. I'll just add some more pictures (of Zürich city though) and I'll think more about it when I post the next canton.

Zürichsee (you can see the Alps in the distance)

Picture taken while sitting in the Lindenhof Park

Taken from the bridge

HOW DO WE DEAL WITH ALL THAT ANNOYING PEOPLE?

Tomorrow, I've got to endure something that only convicted and prooved-guilty criminals should endure, something that could try the patience of ANY saint up in Heaven. That "Thing", also, is something quite common in our society given the fact that everybody has some kind of study worthy of a nice, swollen chest (no matter how insignificant the degree), and that there is no licence required to be a parent (driving a car? yes, bringing a human being to life? naah).

What I'm referring to is a nice combination of two vexing and unsufferable character aspects that can very easily converge in the same person; maternity pride, and self-importance. Unluckily, for me, tomorrow I'll have to spend 3 hours in the company of a person with such virtues. Who cares about her son's likes and dislikes? I do not bore her with the details of my father's sleeping customs or the effect lentils have on my brother's metabolism...

When a woman decides to have a child, becomes pregnant, and finally gives birth to her baby, she doesn't necessarily do it to brag about it. I confess, I sometimes wonder, if boasting about how long and painful your pregnancy has been, is actually an equivalent of men's banter about their engines, the speed of their bikes and so on... that would mean we women cannot complain about daddies and boyfriends any more. I have witnessed too many of this kind of conversation... when your mother, your aunts and your grandmother get together and then one of them gets started on big bellies and babies I know it's time to get lost... not that I wans't having the time of my life already. I've observed that this kind of exchange is possible in nearly any situation in our daily lives. But I did not want to digress so much from the main subject, that is, annoying people. Particularly, I meant, proud parents who are self-important. The fact that they are so egotistical only makes their parenting pride worse; because they think we all care about it. In my next post i'll see if I can give you a few tips on how to deal with them.
For now, I won't write any more, because I have calmed down... but this is not over, that's for sure :D

To be continued...

Keine Lust

Nur im Gott kann man vertrauen, wenn man ein Problem hat.

Ich bin erschọ̈pft. Ich muss meine Hausaufgabe machen, aber ich habe keine Lust. Ich will ins Bett gehen, aber ich kann nicht schlafen.

Was kann ich tun? ich soll etwas zu tun... aber was?
Ich darf viele Sachen zu machen, aber ich habe keine Lust.
Heute habe ich vier Stunden geschläft... ist das normaler? Ich glaube nein...
In letzer Zeit könnte ich nicht schlafen, und das ist weil ich keine Lust habe.

Jetzt frage ich mich, warum schreibe ich auf Deutsch? Keine Ahnung. Ich hatte Lust :D

This actually has nothing to do with what I wrote, but I'm tired, I can't sleep, I just felt like it...

It's a chalk horse in Salisbury plain ;)

Switzerland 2010-2011


That's Lindau, a small town in Germany. It's near the border with Switzerland


That's a man talking to a seagull... funny


Sunset in Lausanne, lake Leman




All previous three are of Lausanne





The rest were taken in Ebnat-Kapel and near abouts
It's a beautiful landscape, and I'll be uploading quite a few pics of Switzerland this year :D

Yayo. Ahora estás en un lugar mejor, un lugar en el que no hay dolor, en el que puedes andar, libre de todos esos cables y tubos que te ataban a la cama. Ahora eres libre de ir en bicicleta como solías, por tantas carreteras como quieras. Ahora no estás perdido en un mundo sin sonidos, ya no estás solo en tu propia cabeza.

Sé que estás mucho mejor ahora, sé que ya no sufres más, pero aún así te echaré de menos. Cada vez que vea tu sillón vacío, o tu tablero de ajedrez abandonado y lleno de polvo, se me ensombrecerá el rostro, frunciré el ceño, pero sé que estás mejor ahí donde estás.
También sé que algún dia nos volveremos a ver, porque yo no viviré para siempre...

Ya no me quedan abuelos, dos hombres a los que no pude ver tanto como quisiera, pues nos separaban cientos de kilómetros de distancia, pero los volveré a ver, y entonces, no habrá distancias.