The new iPad from Apple
Ruud mentioned it yesterday and I didn’t know what he was talking about. But now I know. And I want it!
It’s going to take something though…
Ruud mencionou ontem e eu não entendi do que ele estava falando. Mas agora eu sei. E eu quero!
Mas vai demorar um pouquinho…
O frio está daquele jeito! Hoje foi de lascar: entre -5 e -7, com sensação de -15. E, no trabalho, o aquecimento não funcionava de manhã… brrrrr (temperatura em Celsius)
The cold is really something! Today it was a bit extreme: between -5 and -7 , but feeling like -15. And, at work, the heating wasn’t working in the morning… brrrrr (temperatures in Celsius)
Jasmijn está completando 5 anos amanhã. Cada vez considero-a um milagre na nossa vida: esperta, feliz, cheia de gênio, uma pessoa à parte. E alguém que nos faz crescer também, como pais e como pessoas. Nada como ter alguém que olha o mundo fascinada para fazê-lo perceber as pequenas felicidades da vida. 
Jasmijn is completing 5 years tomorrow. Every time I look at her I consider her a greater miracle in our lives: smart, happy, full of spice, a unique person. And somebody that makes us grow as well, as parent and person. Nothing like having someone looking at the world with fascinated eyes to make you realize the small happy moments life brings.
For some inexplicable reason I’ve decided to go for the NaNoWriMo again this year. What is this thing, you might ask yourself? It’s the National Novel Writing Month, a movement of writers and aspiring authors trying to write a novel or about 50 thousand words in one month, november to be precisely.
Good thing or bad thing? Just a thing, I’d say. And the desire to challenge myself to something different than keep trying to find a course I should follow just to keep my brain working.
So writing it’s going to be. I’m quite curious about what is going to turn out…
As the title says, we’ve been to London. For a couple of days, mind you, but it was wonderful. It was a sort of compensation for our unlucky summer vacation last August in France.
Coram's Fields - October 2009
We visited The London Eye at last! (absurdly expensive, by the way) Jasmijn was having a ball and I just couldn’t come close to the windows. Who’d say that.
View from above
And we’ve also been to Coram’s Fields and a nice park in Kensington, the one they’ve built in memory of Princess Dy and that has a Peter Pan theme to it. Nice! We’ve spent a couple of hours there, just allowing Jasmijn to climb and run around as much as she wanted.
And last but not least we’ve been to the Natural History Museum, where we’ve met some very interesting animatronics. The one of the young T-Rex is really impressive! It’s really worth a visit!
Jasmijn pequenina em comparação...
O outono realmente chegou a esta terra. O céu está cinzento, o frio está começando a bater… e ainda estamos no início de outubro! As árvores ainda mantêm suas folhas verdes e as ruas ainda permancem nuas. Mal posso esperar para vê-las cobertas de folhas laranjas e vermelhas. É uma das visões mais lindas que já tive!
The autumn has really arrived here. The sky is grey, there’s coldness in the air… and we’re still in the beginning of October! The trees are keeping their leaves green and the streets are still naked. I can’t wait to see thm covered in orange and red leaves. It’s one of the most beautiful sights I’ve seen in my life!
I’ve been to Brazil for a couple of days and everytime I go there, I come back with this feeling of strangement. Rio is not my city anymore. I recognize most of the places, a lot of the faces, but the city is becoming more and more distant from me. Maybe it’s because I’ve changed, maybe it’s because the city itself changed as well. The point is I don’t like it any more than I liked it before.
So why do I go there? Well, there’s my father, my second mother (stepmother is such a horrible word, isn’t it?), my brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces, and friends. And the warmth I get from them I’ll never get from anyone else, anywhere else. The differences in culture are then very clear to be seen.
And there’s one other very weird thing: I’ll never get used to people talking Portuguese all over me again. I can cope with meetings and parties, but on the streets? Weird stuff…
So most of you already know about “the nose job”. What you don’t know yet is that I’ve managed to have it done well, to have all good… until today. I went to the doctor today and she mentioned the septum is gliding back to its position. It’s just a little bit yet, and we will only know more details about it within 3 weeks, when I go back there for a follow up, but it’s definetely a bummer. So it’s not as successful as expected. Now it’s hope that when I’m back she discovers the damage has been minimal and that’s that.
On a “heavier” note: I really need to loose weight. Because if not… I’ll keep making weird breathing noises at night. Not a good prospect for a married woman with a caring and light-sleeper of a hubby. He’s under a lot of stress due to lack of sleep lately. So… it’s up to the salads and light food and down to all the chocolate I’d like to eat. Double bummer!
But that’s life. It happens when we are making plans.
Just heard about his passing. Had to check some info.
I’m actually sad. He was one of the idols of my youth…
Acabei de ler sobre a morte dele. Verifiquei algumas informações.
Estou até triste. Ele foi um dos ídolos da minha juventude…
Saw this one at our Ucranian friend Nadia’s weblog and couldn’t let it rest until I’ve tried it too. (sorry, folks, her blog is in Ucranian. But there are some patches of English here and there… )
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