lessons in motivation and luck and humility and goals and superstition

"Everybody is a star" (Sly & The Family Stone, 1969)

This song has been a part of me for a long time and it never fails to give me security and hope.

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Blanca and Isabel have decided that what I need in my life is horse shampoo. Used it once, and I know already they are right. I know lots of people were into horse shampoo a while back, but I thought it was just a silly trend. But hey, Blanca is a vet.
In Nuevos Ministerios I browsed El Corte Ingles (surprise, surprise, what else do I do...) on Friday and found these amazing leather shorts for like 400 euro:

Alice by Temperley: too expensive

Didn't buy, obviously. I have to get my act together for Semana Santa aka Wallet Destruction Week. I did however buy a chirimoya for dinner! This fruit tastes like a bubblegum-flavored watermelon. Crazy, guys.

Chirimoya, native to the Andes but grown in Spain too

Sat in my room yesterday watching "The Walking Dead" and eating pastries after a wonderful hike in the Guadarrama and I was in heaven. Today I went book shopping (Tiempo de Silencio in Seix Barral for 3 euro!) and got back into the reading funk. I WILL finish Laura y Julio by the end of tomorrow. I've decided not to weigh myself down anymore with a book that I can't read.