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floating like a cannonball

i feel like i haven’t been such a good blogger, lately.
all the exams, the overwhelming happiness of having p. around again and the re-adjusting to him actually being here, on this timezone. i think to myself all the time: “we made it”. yes, we did. all these months apart, we’ve more or less patiently hanged on to each other and now, well, i guess we’re sort-of emotionally recovering and packing for the next adventure. together.
which is why i need to get blogging again – i don’t want to miss on the details, one day.

other things i’ve been meaning to blog about:
* my wists. i found wists through rosa, and i liked the concept very much: a universal wishlist, that tracks all the pretty things you love. it saves a link to that webpage and you chose a photo of the product to go with it, so that you can show the item to other people. it’s simple and very nicely done.
* contagious magazine (in pdf), the most contagious ideas of 2006.

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a stitch in time saves nine.

A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today.
This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say.
I don’t know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I’d have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you’re wrong? What if you’re making a mistake you can’t undo?
The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost.
We can’t pretend we hadn’t been told. We’ve all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day.
Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today’s possibility under tomorrow’s rug until we can’t anymore.
Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant.
That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.

meredith grey, grey’s anatomy

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in portugal just life photography

3, 6, 9, 12, 3.

this new years, i’ll try to photograph what i’m doing at 3pm, 6pm, 9pm, 12pm and 3am. a sort of “a day in the life of”.
we’ll be staying at home, i believe, so you won’t get any grand party pictures, but we’ll see. this entry will be updated around those times.

if you can, do it too, and then link back to binary bonsai (the author of the idea). let’s see what people come up with. :)

here’s the first one. 3 o’clock, joão was showing me how to control the tv+dvd using his qtek. troy is playing on tv.

3 o'clock

at 6pm, mom and i are cooking “mexidos”, a typical portuguese dessert, for those days around xmas. look at the mess in the kitchen :P

6

at 9, i was on the phone with my nanny, who has a terrible cold. :)

9 o'clock

well, fireworks and champagne at midnight, naturally… happy 2007. and i guess that will be it, at 3 i think i might be sleeping… :)

midnight :)


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re-shuffle.

i like new years. not so much for the party, or the new figure on the date, but more for the excuse to wipe our whiteboards clean and start again. i like these fresh days, where you can begin something, a project, a vision, just a new set of rules. people reinvent themselves each new year, on better people, on new motivations, on fresh wishes. suddenly, there are more smiles out there, more willingness to improve.

this year was such a full one, and a good one at that. a year of discovering countries and people, of crossing the ocean, of finding what i wanted – and a year of waiting for it.
it feels strange, it feels funny. in a way, it feels like being a pregnant woman, waiting for a baby for 9 months. all those months patiently dreaming of that special day, of that life changing event in the future. 22 days left now, and i know, with all the tiny atoms of my body, that it is worth every second of the time i spent waiting.

i wish all of you a happy 2007. may you be able to embrace your challenges this year and look in the bright side of them.

ana

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sometimes…

me as a kid

… don’t you wish you could go back at being the little well-combed kid you used to be?