Friday, January 30, 2009

#32


I feel that I have so many things to start....


(this is going to be next one... and it won't be very easy)

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

#83


It's going to be the "Bach's Cello Suites" =)







[#2 I've heard that becoming a donnor doesn't hurt...it's just by giving a blood sample! I think that what really hurts it's when you have to give the marrow, if someones need it
#10 yeah, I thought in that one too, but we use it for the Zodiac sign also called Cancer...in portuguese "Caranguejo", so I didn't have sure
#29 Well, I liked the "End of the Affair" ;)
#12 Just have to see where their office in Lisbon is :P
(You want cards from "hard countries to get", I'm seeing...)
#87 No... I stood so sad and thoughfull... There's such a tiny line between life, dreams, madness, luck, reality...]

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Sandra's 101 Things to Do in 1001 Days

On Friday I read for the first time (and I stood very happy with it) the 101 Things to do in 1001 days of my friend Sandra. I talked with her about it some days ago, occasionally, and this week she has join the craziness and started her own list too. The funny thing it’s how in reading her things my mind automatically was thinking “I can do this with her!”, “I want to this too”, “I also want to take more photographs”, and so on. It’s also good to see that I’m included in one or two of her “to do” things, like the one of the picnic or the other of being part in one of her journeys =)

Now it’s going to be funny to show the lists to other friends and see their reaction =)
(if Manela and Sandra can go with you to Madrid to the museums-tour, you three can also go with me to Italy or Czech Republic…after all we still have many days to plan it!!)

(and yes, I have to take a photo of you and your list…after all, you’re my #30)

Hard Questions

Reading this week newspaper I saw a movie advertise that I simply loved. It has one of those “smarty-and-intelligent” lines (in this case, a question) that I couldn’t resist to, and yes, I even cut it to put it in my agenda. After a little research on the internet about it I saw that was the poster of the so spoken film “Smulldog Millionaire”. I knew that the film had won the some golden globes, that has several nominations for the oscares and someone had already told me about it something like “it’s a film where we learn very much about people, about how they are”. Despite all that the little thing that really conquered me to want to see the film was that simple question…






Which will be the right answer?



Sunday, January 18, 2009

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Studying...


...the gym prices and timetables!!



Friday, January 9, 2009

Cold

Today it’s the coldest day of winter in Portugal.
Despite the cold, the shudder when we go out, the news that shows the “special-plans” for the homeless and coldest areas, and the “orange alert” in most of the continent regions, I am sure that definitely we are not a cold country. First, the coldest year, in Lisbon, has temperatures between 0º and 9º C (last year, in April, I was in France and in Paris during the day was always between 0º and 9º C) and, secondly, because I found out that I don’t know were my pair of gloves is. If we were a really cold country I should have about 5 pairs of gloves, a woollen hat (or something to put in the head) and wear about 3 pairs of socks at the same time. I looked to people today and or they don’t know of their gloves also, or the cold in Portugal is not so unbearable. And I’m tilted for this last one.

Today I also bought a Pearl Jam DVD.
Pearl Jam is probably my “adolescence band”. I am perfectly remembered that my first CD was from Pearl Jam (before that I only had some vinyl records of don’t-know-very-well-what) and I get it in one of my birthdays. When I entered the store I was far of imagine that I would be buying that DVD few moments later. It wasn’t expensive and what captured my attention was the songs-alignment. In the first line I read “Long Road” and right away in my mind a voice talked “Long Road?? Wow, a rare song in the opening of a DVD”… my eyes kept reading and the voices in my mind also “Dissident also? I only had this one in a tape! “It’s OK” – what music should be this??” and the almost 30 songs convince me to take it. No “Black”, No “Alive”, No “Last Kiss”… Like they say on the little pamphlet “…a half a bottle of wine left to go and the perfect atmosphere to break out an obscure b-side”. The DVD is playing for about an hour and I’m glad for had bought it. It feels good to hear all this songs so many years after. To notice that I still remember the lyrics and the feelings that they gave me in that time =)

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Time breaks

My mind works in time breaks.
Really.
Today is Wednesday and I’m already thinking in Friday and in my Saturday’s morning (that yes, I intend to spend all in bed or something like that). In Mondays I always want the middle of the week, so when that arrives I can count till Friday evening. If I want to go a little bit further, behind the “days-of-the-week-countdown”, I suddenly found in my mind the “months-countdown”. January has now started and I want the quickly arrive of Easter time (April, where are you?), when I’m going to have 2 or 3 free weekends and who knows visit some other country in one of those weekends. After that I’m going to wait for July (to finally go to London) and after July I’m going to be waiting for October (to have the famous “big holidays”!! Hurrayyy).
I even have a calendar in work that has literally all these year-divisions. Office makes me feel like one of those teenagers that use 8 different colour pens just to write the summary of maths and the english exercises that the teacher wrote on the board! Stupid Excel! In purple the days that I intend to have for holidays, in red the ones that I already know that I’m not going to work, at grey all Saturdays, Sundays and Official holidays, in light blue the ones that I already worked…arghh!! I don’t need that!!

Friday, January 2, 2009

Meanwhile...Things from the List



Well, this wouldn’t be hard to get, but I already have the company from my godmother (I don’t like this word in English…”madrinha” sounds me always so nicer!!) to go to a SPA with me somewhere in the Spring =) It’s really so good to see our friends (and family) trying to help us in our lists. One of the gifts that I had this Christmas was a handmade cookbook from a friend (#65) that had the care of doing all by herself. Literally she started with white sheets and in the end, after choosing the theme and the colours, and printed them, she literally sew the sheets and made the little book. When she gave me the present we were on a coffee taking breakfast with other friend, that even before seeing her present (I was the 1st one to open) said “I don’t know what it’s mine yet, but I already think that I like her gift most than mine” =)

I already one recipe written there (from a sweet dessert, typical from Sintra, my region): now misses the ones from my aunt.

I also saw the film “Requiem for a dream” and honestly I still don’t know what to think and say about it. Definitely is not an easy film, quite the opposite. The journey that we take to the life of that four different persons it’s so hard that makes us sometimes just close our eyes and not to watch. One more time, I don’t know yet what to think about the film. Is it a warning? Is it the desperate path that all our lives can take in a briefly and unexpected moment? Is it easy, to end up like them? Is the world out there most like the film, full of ruined dreams?



To reflect, and think, and see again, and not forget, in the remaining 1001 days.

Updates



After a little disappearance in the last days of December, here am I again, disposed not to leave this blog to laziness and desertion =) Yesterday was the first day of the year and “first days” are always good moments to look back and forward and try to understand and unveil things that we did and things we want to do. I have some friends (two at least) that believe that in every seven years something really important and different happens in someone’s life. Something like a big change. Personally I don’t have big conviction on that (I think I’m not a life-theories fan) but I believe that are moments of change and 2009 gives me that smell of difference and I think that I just don’t want to miss it. I am perfectly aware that changes are made by ourselves, and that there isn’t a specific hour to that, but I also think that not every moments are moments of change. Am I definitely growing up? This change is specially an interior one and has nothing to do with wanting life-lists, like get married (even without marriage), have a good house or a job for the rest of the life. It’s more like a feeling of self-confidence, the will of getting higher, be more happy and not to bother with small things. I look back and I see that I stood so sad and furious with things that didn’t deserved my sadness and anger, and I think that I’m in a moment where I want to leave that behind. Dream higher, dream colourful. This is what I want for 2009 =)

Today is the 2nd day of the new year and also the first day in many that I have to myself. I stood sick on Christmas time (four days in the bed…25..26..27..28…and finally when I got better…29…day of work!!) so for the first time I’m enjoying some of my Christmas’ presents. At least the “musical” ones. I got two musical DVD’s and I spent a big part of my day hearing them.
The first one is probably from my favourite band, Radiohead, and it’s a kind of “special edition” with 2 cds and 1 dvd. I come to the conclusion that it’s impossible to me to say what is the song that I most like from Radiohead. I tried to think that to myself and it was such a mess in my head…I would have to say at least about five or six songs that really make me feel in an incredible way, but there are so many others that “take me to the clouds”. If one genius of the lamp suddenly granting me 3 wishes, to be part of Radiohead since the beginning would be a funny thing to wish =) *
The other one is also a pack with 2 cds and 1 dvd, this time from the band Nouvelle Vague, with the live concert that they gave in Lisbon in December 2007. It’s a completely different thing (for start, all their songs are covers from other well known songs) but I like the well-mooded way they play them.
Am I not a lucky girl for had this two wonderful packs in Christmas?
Music makes me happy =)

I have to admit that I am a person that like Christmas. I like the smells of Christmas, the colours, the idea of being warm at home on those days, enjoying my family company, laughing and talking, with no rushes for anything else. How many days in the year I have like this ones? We do all, the preparations, the special cooks, the sweet and different desserts, having in our mind being together for a few hours. And I like that. I even like the presents’ part. To spent so many moments in the work-hours thinking and wondering in what funny things I could buy (or do) to my sister, to my cousin, to my godmother, to my friends, to the people that I really like. To have one or two brilliant (and crazy) ideas for some gifts and just try to arrange a way of getting them, because they sound so perfect to that specific person.


So, I have the all the first 2009 weekend to enjoy calmly my Christmas presents and I know that I’m going to love it. To look carefully to the books that gave me, to wash my new Miffy’s Pajamas, to guard the “house things” and the “alcohol gifts” (that this year were a lot…I received about 8 bottles of different alcoholic drinks! Is this a softly way of people call me drunk?) and even to undo the Magic Cube (Rubik’s Cube) that gave me and that I simply loved. I know that I had one when I was little, but I never solve it. I have a chance again =)

Happy new year.
For me. For you. For the people I love. For the people you love.
For us.

* P.S. I’m also probably the only person in the world that already lost a ticket for a Radiohead concert, a ticket bought with so much love months before the show

Thursday, January 1, 2009