Yummy snacks!

I´ve been trying to cut down on the amount of snacks I eat in-between meals. Occasionally, they´re alright for cravings. I tend to crave savory things over sweets, so the switch over to no-snacks or "healthy" ones such as carrots and celery or no snacks isn´t too bad. I do love potato chips, though.

I´ve discovered that the best method of not eating unhealthy snacks is to not have them in the house, hahaha. I couldn´t resist buying a few ones on Jlist, though. I´m always curious about strange new flavors.

Don´t they look delicious??

They´re spicy chicken flavored (bottom left), strange soup flavored (bottom right) and cheddar cheese flavored (top--not as wierd, hahaha).

I´ve tried the soup ones already. They´re not as great as the chicken tandoori ones I tried a while back (someday, I´ll find those again....), but they´re quite good! I´d absolutely recommend them.

Eating chips that are hard to get also encourages me to keep my snack portions small, so as to make them last.

What kinds of snacks do you enjoy eating?

2 months

It´s been exactly two months since you left us, but I´m sure you´ve given us a great gift.

Today I got the results for my teaching exams (the final ones); I´ve been placed 15th out of 185 people in my Autonomous Community. And those 185 are out of the over 3.5k people who did the exam.

I feel happy; I feel accomplished, and I know you must have had something to do with it, up there in Heaven.

Thank you, Mom. I know that you were really worried about the results; I know that you left convinced that I would make it. I have, thanks to your support.

Today at your old school they did an even commemorating you. It was so touching. I want to become a teacher who touches the hearts of as many students as you; that´ll be my future goal. You´re still my role model, no matter what.

For everything.

Con haul

Last weekend was the Expomanga in Madrid. Between having to substitute for a sick teacher the whole week (I worked enough for two people--since I had my own classes as well) and putting the finishing touches on my cosplays (an in one case, not-so-finishing), I barely felt like doing anything but sleeping.

Sorry, blog!! You weren´t my highest priority.

I´m pretty satisfied with the haul of what I bought at the con: a figure and some manga.

The figure is from the Detective Conan series. I´m a bit of a mystery geek (I´ve only recently realized this); I love mystery series, whether dramas, books, TV series or manga. Detective Conan is one of my favorites. So, I was really happy when I found this figure at the con.

I saw other figures of Conan as well--dressed in a tux, and as a pirate--but I liked this one best. I´d also give my left eye for a Magic Kaito figure....

I think it´s a very cute detail to have the box "decorated" on the side with Conan´s trademark phrase: "There is always only one truth". That said, I need to find a spot for my figures....they´re all in their boxes at the moment....

I also found some manga, like I said, from the series Majin Tantei Nogami Neuro--yes, another detective series. It´s particularly great; I love the wierd relationship between the two main characters, Neuro and Yako. It´s a bit sadomasochistic.....

This manga apparently wasn´t too popular here in Spain, or was published several years go, because it´s quite hard to find. 

It was great, because I got them at a discount--only 3 euros, which is half-price!! I´ve only ever found them at the Expo, so I´m keeping my fingers crossed that I can complete it all, eventually. I´ve got 9 out of 23 already.....

The covers always confuse me, though. They´re all upside-down (on purpose, of course--Neuro spends half his time on the cieling, after all), and I always somehow end up opening the book wrong-side-up.

Buying this manga marks the one-year anniversary since I last bought any manga (coincidentally, it was numbers 4 and 5 of this same series). Recently, I´ve been much more interested in figures. My passion for artbooks continues; it´s just hard to find ones that I don´t have/that I like lately at cons.

I´ll make a more detailed Con-post tomorrow or the day after; depending on when I update my cosplay blog with pictures and such.

Ciao!

Avengers, assemble!! Just for Laughs.

I´ve been searching for nice funny things these past few days, and here´s yet another one. This time, related ot the Avengers: what would happen if they had a group and profile on Facebook.

Here´s the 9Gag link so you can see the image in all its full-sized glory: http://9gag.com/gag/3982713