Happy New Year

My Wishes For You for New Year 2015

When you are Lonely, I wish you LOVE

When you are Down, I wish you JOY.

When you are Troubled, I wish you PEACE.

When things look Empty, I wish you HOPE.

May You be surrounded by HAPPINESS, PEACE & JOY ALWAYS

WISH YOU & YOUR LOVED ONES A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

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The Substitute Book III

Chapter 3

“Where is my baby?” an anxious Konrad von Lintorff asked the minute he got out of the car.

“Kurt is in the nursery. He's playing with Birgitte,” Guntram answered as he crouched down to embrace the two boys firing him with questions about his own trip to Augsburg. “How was everything?” he asked to nobody as he did his best to keep his balance under Klaus' happy attack of his father. Konrad walked away in a whirlwind.

“Papa can't ski,” Karl informed Guntram. “Never again with him to the pistes. It was embarrassing.”

On Family and Friends

Chapter 21

Everything was warm and cosy, when Julián moved his sore back, trying to push the sleep behind him. Without opening his eyes, he stretched his back like a cat and snuggled again under the blankets.

Everything had been a weird dream and his brother was still the Nazi he had learned to cope with or keep distance from.

'Hello Guardian. Do you feel better?' the voice reverberated inside his head and Julián nearly jumped out of the bed.

“You can speak!” Julián cried to the wolf snuggled on top of his bed.

Not Forgotten, Just on Hiatus

It's so long... that it should do for a week or so.

The Substitute Book III

Chapter 2

Guntram de Lisle's Diary

February 24^th, 2014

Konrad and I had one of our “friendly” arguments as he calls them. The reason? Ski week.

Here in Europe, you die if you don't “enjoy” your ski week. Why? I don't know, but people love to tumble down the snowy slopes while they pay a lot of money for the privilege of doing it and getting the most ridiculous photo in your facebook.

In that sense, I'm glad my father shipped me to Buenos Aires and never considered that it was essential for my well-being to go skiing every winter.

On Marking your Territory

Chapter 20

The fist connected hard with Julián's face when he stepped out of the kitchen.

“Fucker!” his brother roared as he contemplated the fallen youth rubbing his cheek in great pain. “You insulted my girl!”

“Which girl? The Indian?” Julián sat on the ground with difficulty, looking for an anchorage that would allow him to stand up again, knowing that remaining in the floor was the worst thing he could do.

“Paula is my girlfriend, you moron,” Carlos growled before he launched himself against his brother without any further notice.

Working Again

I would like to apologise for the delay in updating the blog and my lack of attention towards all the many comments I got. Usually, I keep the the blog updated in advance but this time many things prevented me from doing it .

The past two months were tough. On the family side, we had to change our son from schools and it was quite of a sudden thing. Fortunately, he's very happy in his new British school now.

On the personal front, I suffer from two rare diseases. One is calle Thoracic Outlet Syndrome due to cervical ribs (that blocks the blood coming to your hands or makes pressure on the nerves) which renders my hands quite useless now and then.  The second is called Arnold-Chiari Malformation and it is a congenital malformation of the brain. This one causes terrible headaches (e.g. if you sneeze or laugh too much), dizzines, lack of balance, speaking problems, seeing double and it's very difficult to predict when you'll suffer a crisis.

If getting that a doctor makes a decision with something out of the ordinary is difficult, imagine when there are several of them trying to reach a consensus.

With the change of seasons and the stress I got a simple cold and the sneezing provoked the mother of all headaches :) In the meantime, doctors changed prescriptions and increased the doses and my body did not adjust to them very easily.

Sometimes I have to stop until everything goes back to normal.  I'll do my best to organize things here but Chiari is a treacherous thing.

I thank you for your patience and support.

All my love to you.