September recap & Good News!

September is ending in a very up note. After 2 and a half monts, my friend Norbert has been given an "all clear" from his neurosurgeon. It is quite amazing that he has recovered so completely from a brain injury that had him in a coma for a couple of weeks. He's of course very happy and ready to catch up with things that had been left on hold all this time. Interestingly, as soon as they got back from the doctor, his sister went back to Las Vegas. They just didn't get along at all, and it will be better for both of them to be apart from each other, it just surprised me that she left so quickly!

Other happenings in September...Lizzie was here the first weekend of September and we enjoyed eating in a new Restaurant. My sister Mia celebrated her 60th birthday and even though I was not able to fly to Sweden, I enjoyed her videos and pictures of the event. September 11 is a special date for me, not just for the terrible happenings in New York City, but because is also Catalunya's National Day (diada) and it was celebrated with a huge display of Catalans making a huge V with Catalan flags.

On the 24th Marvin and I celebrated out 50th meetniversary (Lizzie's word), September 24th is the day of La Merced, who is ther Patron Saint of Barcelona, is a holiday and there's all kind of festivities,going on that day. And that's how we met, right in Plaza Catalunya. 50 years later we went to Black Angus for lunch :)

Here's a list of the movies I watched in September:

Life of Crime (2013)

My Life in Ruins (2009)

Slightly Single in LA (2013)

Family Tour (2013) Catalan/Spanish

Carmina y amen (2014) Spanish

And So It Goes (2014)

Fading Gigolo (2014) Woody Allen


And the books I read:


Susan Wiggs -The Beekeeper's Ball

Karen Wheeler - Tout Sweet

Mary Higgins Clark - Where are you now?

Emily Giffin - Where We Belong

Barbarella Fokos - Diary of a Diva

Beth Harbison - Driving with the Top Down

Ferenc Mate - The Hills of Tuscany