1 of 5: Trying more muffin flavours. And happiness

It’s been a long time, I know… I’ve been really busy with a lot of different things. For example I worked for a month!! I was so excited when I started… but it only was a month…
I was upset when it finished, but I didn’t want to get depressed so I redirected my energy and enthusiasm to other opportunities. I’ve even attended to a 50h course in the medical emergency’s sector, and I loved the experience even though I didn’t find a job with it, and it was nice to meet people there.

Ok, I’ve been busy, but not only with work-related things, I tried some things in the kitchen too, of course! I have five different posts I’ve been delaying, and today I’m going to show you the first thing I did since the last time I wrote here:

Little muffins again, but this time with two different flavours: kiwi and banana

I have to improve the fruit proportions, but they were tasty… So I’ll have to bake them a few times more for both reasons!

They were tasty, right, but I won’t keep writing about them because there is something I want to say to everybody. In my opinion, the best way to be happy is to learn something essential. To be happy with the little things in every day’s life will help you to be happy in general. Just to appreciate the breeze on your face when you go for a walk, the smell (flowers, freshly cut grass, sea…), the sun or just the colour of a cloudy sky. Or something you see on TV (or anywhere) that makes you laugh or just smile for a while. Some words someone says to you. Or just to have a friend’s ear (or even eye, through the web) when you need it, and he/she don’t even has to be a friend. A book you like or even just a paragraph. Any animal playing or cuddling. Trying something new and to see you can do it. There is always something worthy, something that can unleash a wave of happiness. And little moments of happiness can lead to bigger moments of happiness.

Don’t give up, there is always another day to keep fighting for what you deserve.

Hang on to hope, to illusion, to anything with the potential to make you happy, because you deserve it!

Today I’ll end with one of my favourite quotes:

 

“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”   –   Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

 

A Chance

“How am I supposed to prove myself a hero if nobody will give me a chance?”   –   Hercules (1997)

 

Yes, a quote from a Disney movie. But it is a great quote, one I could say any day… well, not literally of course, I would say: “How am I supposed to have work experience if nobody will give me a chance?”.

I just wanted to share this quote. Recruiters always ask for job experience although it’s not always needed. If you’re eager to work and learn, if you have a lot of energy and illusion, if you’re willing to help, you can achieve anything you need in a new job. At least that’s my opinion. I have all this, I am reliable, loyal, easy-going and helpful, but how can they know it? The answer is simple: They can’t, unless they give me a chance.

I’m applying to jobs I would love to do and many others, but no calls yet. I’d be happy with any of them, and I won’t give up, I’ll keep fighting for my future.

But I haven’t been only sending application letters. I’ve been riding my new-old bike and moving and piling up wood with my father (an afternoon and a morning, more than 8 hours in total). I have a lot of energy and as long as I can’t use it in a job, I’ll keep doing a lot of different things, not only trying to find a job and learning German and improving my English.

If you are in a similar situation, my advice is: do something, anything you want. It will make you feel useful, and this feeling helps a lot.

Best wishes,

Sabela

My bicycle

“I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there isnothing wrong with enjoying one’s self simply, like a boy.”   –   León Tolstói, Responding to criticism for learning to ride a bicycle at age 67

Today I’ll only write some lines, the picture will resume everything.
I haven’t used my bike for years, but this year I wanted to use it again. When I cleaned the bike I discovered it was rusty in some places where the paint had fallen, so I decided to bring it back to life.

I’ve sanded the whole bike and bought orange and purple paint… and after some problems (different kinds of paint, so many layers of orange paint needed, and some other problems), this is the result. It still need some touches but I’ll be able to ride it soon! I have to say in spite of all problems I’ve enjoyed the process, the challenge.

It was blue before, with some ¿brand? yellow stickers, but I wanted a change. What do you think about the colors and the design?

The inner tubes seem to be fine, I hope they really are, because I’m eager to finish and to ride my bike!

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”   –   Albert Einstein

That’s what I feel, so I need to do things – whatever it is. I can’t stay with my arms crossed waiting until some company actually reads my CV and decides to give me a chance and call me to an interview. So I hope you like my posts because I’ll write a new one now and then with some things I’ll be doing!

Sabela

Muffins: This time (very) little ones

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”   –   Samuel Beckett

 

Today was not my first time with muffins (third? forth?), but every time I try something different. Last time, I tried with strawberries, this time I tried with almond… but that was not the only difference. I’ve always used paper moulds, but this time I had silicone ones… LITTLE ones. And that was a major change… so I’d have to try again!
The almond is nice, but the strawberry ones are sill my favourites!

Left to right: almond, strawberry, chocolate.

The almond ones have small pieces of almond mixed with the dough. The strawberry ones have small pieces of strawberries inside and over them. The chocolate ones have chocolate powder in the dough and a bit of dark chocolate over them. It’s my third or fourth time with the chocolate ones (it was the recipe a friend gave me some time ago), second time with the strawberry ones and, as I said, first with the almond ones.

I’ll keep doing them (not so often), and improving them, but more important: I’ll try different things. Maybe next time banana or kiwi… I’ll let you know.

See you in my next post! It will be the other major thing I’ve been doing this summer (if I don’t decide to do something else in between).

 

Sabela

Summer almost gone

“The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.”    –   Voltaire

 

 

This summer has been a busy one for me, but not as much as I would like as I don’t have a job. I say busy because I did a lot of things. I’ve had three weddings (as much as I’d ever had until this year in all my life!), I’ve done two online courses (one in Spanish and the other in English) and I’m doing another one. I’ve helped my father to put another door in the basement (a sliding door he was making, he has been crafting things all my life and I like to help him) and I’ve helped him too with the greenhouse (he designed it too!). I’ve baked a cake, cookies and cupcakes (the strawberry ones were delicious, so I’ll make them again sooner or later and post it here). And that’s not all but the other two time-consuming things will have more space here. The first one in this post.

As a wedding gift for the last wedding I had this summer, I decided to do some air fresheners, filled with lavender from our garden. That was not my first idea, but the previous ones were too complicated for me right then (maybe I would be able now to do some of them, but not then). I knew how to sew a few things, but in order to do this, I learned how to embroider and to do hemstitch. I used ribbons too, not only as bows, I introduced them as a decoration too through hemstitch in the little air freshener. The candy-ones are to have into drawers, the bag-ones to hang in the hanging bar inside wardrobes or directly in hangers, and the small one, the linen one, maybe to hang from the rear mirror.

 

I put de air fresheners inside a cardboard box decorated with paper gift and flowers (made with blue ribbon).

 

It’s not so bad, right? I have to say I’m proud of myself, the effort worth it. It was really satisfactory to finish all this and see a good result.

And that’s all for now!

If you’ve found my blog and you’re reading this: Thanks! I hope you enjoy it!

 

Sabela

Eager Me

“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.”   –   G. K. Chesterton

 I suppose I should start this blog  with the reason why I’m starting it.

Although I’m eager to work, I don’t have a job right now. Despite I’ve tried different things, I couldn’t find my chance yet. But I won’t give up, I still have a lot of energy!

For now, I’ll continue doing a lot of different things I can’t put in my CV, with one difference: I’ll share them. Here. Because I’m not standing with my arms crossed, I like to do all kinds of things I can finish and see the result.  And at the same thime (but I won’t put images here about that) I’ll keep doing online courses, most of them in English to keep learning and practicing the language not only in my English classes (oh, and I’m also learning German).

I’m enthusiastic about anything I do and I hope you like it, but hey, I’m a grown-up and I can handle criticism. In fact, I would love to receive your oppinions. Almost everything I do it’s improvising, and your comments can help me to improve any of my skills, and I would also be practicing English. So feel free to make comments!

Welcome to my blog!

           Sabela

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 I’m a native Galician speaker, so feel free to write in English, Galician or Spanish (not in German, I have a lot to learn yet, and French… I’ve amost forget everything since highschool).