I changed to my new home two years ago and I still don´t know who are my neighbours, something normal in these days. This situation is different now, just because my hand blender brokes. This was the best way to be forced talk with my neighbors.

I think that nobody likes to eat the soup with huge chunks of vegetables like in the stone age, instead the creamy and smooth soup. With my hand blender broken make a creamy soup was something impossible, the only way to change that was ask the hand blender borrowed to a neighbour and ask for a folders sync .

The chosen neighbour was a very helpful and nice old lady, that lives with her husband and son. In the first time I´ve asked her the hand blender, she invited me to see her house. For me it was a surprise known that my neighbors are so nice.

After three or four weeks I couldn´t continue using her machine, finally I decided to buy a new one. Oh yeah!! In that moment I had just a few dollars, so my buying choices were reduced. I feared that the hand blender that I could buy wasn´t good enough.

I was surprised again when I bought it, because was from an unknown brand, from Becken. It was just wonderful, great speed and simple design.

Now my soups are delicious again.

The hand blender

Have you seen the last movie from the self-proclaimed biggest director in the world, Lars Von Trier? The same director from “Dancer in the dark”, “Breaking the Waves”, “The Idiots”, “Europa” or “Dogville”. If you haven´t saw you must see, it´s not easy watch this film but it is an spectacular masterpiece.

The story is about the grieving of a couple (Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe), after lose their son, the plot of the film is made up of a Prologue, four chapters and an Epilogue. The four chapters are “Grief”, “Pain(Chaos Reigns)”, “Despair (Gynocide)” and “The Three Beggars”.

The film starts with the couple losing their son that falls out the window while they have sex in the other room. After the death of her son the mother is in the hospital suffering, and her husband, a therapist, brings her to home intent on treating her depression himself.
Her husband thinks the best treatment is confronting her with her fears. He dicover that her fears come from a cabin in the woods, “Éden”, where something untold happened when she stayed there last summer. They decide to stay there, and during the treatment emerged some events that explore the dark side of nature outside and within, that produces strange and terrifying acts of cruelty.

The critics had different opinions about the film, some said that was amazing, others said it was ridiculous. However Lars Von Trier was nominated to the golden palm and Charlotte Gainsbourg won the award for Best Actress in Cannes.

Go to the cinema today isn´t the same thing that a few years ago. Fifty years ago people didn´t have television and there weren´t so many new movies every week like now. Cinemas had one or two movies in exibition for two weeks or more, and now cinemas have between eight to twenty movies with new ones coming out every week.

People used to see many times the same movie, and now we don´t like to see more than once. Probably the reason for this is the imense world of movies that we have. It´s true that now exist an huge list of bad movies too, and nobody want to see them more than once.

Everything is in constante mutation, and cinema too. First the black and white films, second the sound,in third place colour. Then the digital cameras and all technic evolution, the filmstrip and later to the videotapes, the dvd´s and now the blueray. The dvd´s takes less time to be on sale after the presentation of the movies in the cinema, and we can buy it for a few dollars, sometimes see the movie in the cinema is more expensive than buying it.

But for me the most incredible invention was the Home Theater Projectors, because this equipment aren´t too expensive. With this equipment we can see movies when we want, at any hour or any place, with the same quality and with a big screen like in cinema.

Now cinema is different, it´s in your home. Perhaps the cinema´s market will change with this invention.

In all my life I had some difficulties to eat some walnut, break the walnuts was something that almoust drove me crazy. The reason of this is the technicality that walnuts have, the shell, sometimes difficult to break.

We can break walnuts in various ways, we can break them with our foot, with the technique of breaking the walnuts in our hands pressing one against the other, throwing them against the wall or the floor, with our head when we are crazy, or finaly, using a nutcracker.

So, what´s my problem? You ask.
My problem is the difficulties that I have in break the walnuts even with the nutcracker, maybe because I don´t have the necessary strength, or all nutcracker I used until now were a crap. I´ve used the normal type, the hand´s technique, even with the nutcracker with the squirrel form that my mother bought I´ve had difficulties.

But now my life changed, I discovered the great nutcracker, the god of nutcracker. I´ve never seen something like this in my life, so easy, so smooth. Now I´m eating walnuts like I never did before. The most incredible thing in this story is the place that my girlfriend found out this nutcracker, in a skateshop, no no, in a kind of chinese dollar store.

The image below is from a nutcracker like mine.

this is not the kind of nutcraker you wanted?

the nutcracker