Life
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Written by my sister, translated by me, as I couldn’t have said it better. The picture shows grandma with me and my siblings. I’m the very skinny one in yellow next to her. I had 2 grandmas that taught me a lot. One was an artist, sort of an airhead. On her house we had no Read more
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My own keyboard. Right now. The big corporation that happens to be my employer had to let go thousands of people yesterday. I was spared and still have my job. Should feel relieved and happy. But my feeling is far from anywhere close to happy. I feel sad. For those who are going. For the Read more
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Do any of my loyal readers remember my post last year The numbers tell? Well, it’s that time of the year and I had my Know Your Numbers appointment this morning again. All the numbers got much better from last year. And most even better than 2 years ago, when I was rocking! Yay! Here’s Read more
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Big milestone today! 40! Not half a century quite yet, but, as as say in Brazil, I’m today ‘entering the house of the entas‘, from which we don’t leave until we turn 100 (what unfortunately is not as common as people would like ;)) In the morning, hubby woke up the girls really early so Read more
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I just need to take the step to leave… But already working on that. Slowly but going… http://zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoonists-advice/ With a written (on email) permission from Gavin, I copied the file and placed here, with the promise of providing the proper credits. So here you go: The words are copyrighted to Bill Waterson and the drawings Read more
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Today a friend from work came back from vacations. Her brother came to visit her and they decided to go on a 2-week road trip, leaving from Redmond, Washington, going down all the way to Los Angeles, California, then from there to the Grand Canyon, Arizona, then Yellowstone, ID,MT,WY, and back from there. As usual, upon Read more
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This week, a friend posted in his Facebook a video of a doctor in a Brazilian hospital talking about a study made by an Australian nurse that lists the top 5 regrets of the dying. I could not find a nice video in English, so posting here the link to the blog of the author Read more
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It doesn’t take much to make me happy. But here are a few little things that help. Sample of good happy music (couldn’t add a link to the picture using the gallery…) This post was written in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy Read more
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I grew up in a house where we were a family of 5 people living on it (mommy, daddy, big sis, me, little bro) + a maid, her kids, a caretaker, once a week a cleaning person, and several dogs. And I used to share a room with my sister. That all meant that one Read more
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The title above can summarize my day so far, and it’s only 2:00 PM. My 2 daughters have a cough that’s been going on for a couple weeks now. So earlier this week we called the doctor and scheduled a visit for both of them to happen today afternoon. But last night the little one started Read more
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