Daily life at Casa TulStig - Our adopted home in Spain.
From what started as a blog about my journey along the Camino Frances to now what is about my daily journey along life's rich pathway.
Well the sun came out again today. After three days of rain we were muchly relieved. That is bit of good news number one.
Good news number two is that my new phone arrived. It is on this that I am typing now. It is a Galaxy SIII and is truly amazing. The text predictor is so clever that it even offers the next word and is more often than not right. Ican even dictate to it and it types word for word what I say. There are still a load of features that I've not even found yet. So a hearty thanks goes out to Nick for suggesting it to me. It wasn't cheap but is so worth it.
As well as this in the post there was another packet. Inside was a jar of extra strong Marmite. A delightful present from a great friend in London Nigel. More big thanks going out to him too. Good news number three.
And if that wasn't enough tomorrow is a holiday here. It's May Day.
I started the morning off with a Skype call with Michelle in Australia, who is also doing the NaNoWriMo challenge. We had a great chat about our writing projects and other things , and I felt even more than inspired by the time we had finished.
I had set myself a goal to have at least 25,00 words written before turning the computer off tonight, well I am happy to say I have now written 26.066 words and had done by five thirty this afternoon despite:
Having to go to the supermarket to get a new microwave as ours had started 'sparking'.
Wrangle with our neighbour who had crashed into our car while reversing in the road, then lied about it- lucky the boys in the bar were watching and called him on it.
Then had to spend nearly two hours talking with the insurance company and copying and sending them documents by e-mail.
Had a 'long' interruption when two women came from the electric company to check our bill, and wanted me to sign something without reading it.
Had to prepare lessons, and actually teach some English (can you believe the inconvenience of it all)
SO I'm signing off for now to go give myself another pat on the back. Oh and BTW I am having such a great time travelling with my characters.
Today's Photo Challenge:
Drink... A Bailey's bananacolada -just one of the delicious cocktails we had whilst cruising the Adriatic back in September. Mm could do with one of those now!
Thought I'd start things off slightly differently - We loved this song back in the day, and as I get techno advanced I was thinking of it again today.
As many of you will remember I was a little panicked a while back when I got my first android phone- well of course, just like everyone else, I love it now. My latest addition to the phone, thanks to advice from Julie, is VIBER - A free programme for making free calls and texts (SMS) mobile to mobile all across the world. SO if you haven't got it yet, but have an android, i-phone, windows phone, blackberry go to your phone download store (I use Play store) and download it and we can chat for NOTHING!! A a back up I also have WhatsApp, but this is just free texts (SMS) internationally- which is a great back up service and something I used loads whilst on the Camino back in June.
So that was the phone techno'd.
I've been looking around for an Internet hosting site as I want to set up a professional site for House of Tulstig' and upgrade 'Tulstig.net'. I think I've got that sorted now, but it's all so complicated with so much jargon I have to look up so many things.
As well as getting a new website host I downloaded a new website creation programme which I've spent the last few days messing around with. Frustration has been followed by 'Ahh' moments as things fall into place in my head -Still not quite got the hang of it all yet but getting there.
One way I want to improve the websites is to get moving images on them -Flash programmes. So 've been checking into those too. I think I've found a pretty simple to use one ofn the web and during the wek will have a go on its test software.
So all in all watch this space for a new 'House of TulStig' and 'WWW.Tulstig.net' with new features. I may even give our personal site a complete overhaul.
