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

First Things Come First

Happy New Year

=)

How do I love certain ideas...

(and how a postcard can say them so right)

2nd July 2009

Well, I don't know where I will be or what I will be doing on most part of my days, but on this day I'm going to be at London, in Hyde Park, to see (and listen) the waited return of Blur =)

My London-company has lovely ideas :P

It still misses the ticket Lisbon-London, but since we already have the concert tickets, #39 (if not before :P) is scheduled!!

First Aids

Compared with the “ideal-one” showed in Wikipedia, my first aid-kit is very very simple, but even though is done and ready to go to the car. When I start to get together all the little things for it I couldn’t avoid in thinking in how in a more serious accident it could be completely useless. All those things inside are for “little damages” and unfortunately car accidents so many times bring “big big damages” and for those a first-aid kid is nothing… Despite that I want to focus on positive things and if in a little trip someone get hurts or feel bad, yes, my kit can help =)

So, my first aid kit already has:
* Gauze roller bandages
* Adhesive bandages
* Sterile gauze pads
* Adhesive Tape
* Gloves
* Scissor
* Antispetical Povidone Iodine Wipe (Betadine)
* Pain-and-fever-killers (Ben-U-Ron, Nimesulida, Tylenol)
* Sugar
* Needle and Line
* Tweezer
* Thermal blanket/Space Blanket

Still missing:
* A gel for some skin problems (burns, sunburns, itching)
* Aspirin
* Anti dhiarrea medication (we never know!)
* Sterile Eye Wash
* Digital Thermometer

It isn’t much, but are all the things that I know how to use in little situations =)
I know that the idea can sound idiot, but I’m still going to study the cost of a fire extinguisher…

Others
* Yesterday I saw “Le Fabuleux Destin de Amélie Poulain”, my 2nd movie from the 101 movies to see from IMDB List
* It’s being much more difficult to read a whole newspaper than not to turn on the TV one day for week…actually, I think I’m doing that about two nights for week, while the newspaper is only full read about two or three days after I bought it

#72

"It isn't possible to love and to part. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that poets are right: love is eternal."

On friday I received a wonderfull little pack from England with this book and a dvd full of music and yes, it's sunday and I'm still happy with that. My computer in every fifteen days looses a function and now I'm reaching the point where I can't download anything. Literally. Photos, videos, attachments, files, office documents... what a mess! So, when someone from the island remembers to share some music - and in a dvd fits a lot of music =) - we feel really good. It's like to receive the "all pack": the book in english and hours of good songs. Those two things and the image of my couch... it sounds so nice!

Yesterday I went to a friend's wedding and, in the middle of that party-and-hapiness-environment, I stood a little bit thoughtfull. It's a friend that I really thought that would never get married (at least formally, on that traditional wedding idea) and that makes my mind think in how people are always surprising us. At 2 a.m., when half of the guests had already gone out, I still was looking for her and thinking "She really got married". On their wedding rings ("Titanium rings" - as they said to everyone!!) is carved "We must never be apart", a little piece from a song lyric. And how I wish that they never get apart.

After a few weddings we start to think in which ones are those that are going to be the exception. The ones that will get through all problems, the ones that I'm going to look to them after 15 years and say to myself "Yes, they are still in love". Probabilities theories devastate my romantic expectations. And I don't like that.

Finally, how can a friend that is working at Dubai for about ten months can help us with our crazy lists?
Answer: This week the friend said that he's going to buy a motorbike when he comes back to Portugal. And I have now company for #49 =)