get off to a good start

After some hard time, with so many changes (for good - fortunately!), I just want to restart my life in the best way... Healthy, surrounded by friends, with love and a job.

I was never someone very ambitious, wanting to be rich, famous or was always seeking what is not made for me, what I can't or should not have... My worries were other ones. I've always looked for well-being.

Now, my time has just arrived, and I think I have the right to, and I am not asking too much (!) : happiness, satisfaction, peace of mind, faith, goodness and a world of new and great possibilities, with less injustice, violence and illness. 

Each one writes his own history. I've just start a new chapter... a new life even. Maybe that one it is going to the best one. We never know... I hope write for that, funny and delight words. 

My 2015 resolution is being happy - totally possible! Thank God. Amen.

     

deadwood

I'm not taking current circumstances as a tax. No... Let's look on the bright side: each obstacle we pass through, make us even stronger.

Difficulties adduce the truth. Barbs, grief and bitterness come along. It's impossible hide to it for long time.

Before, I was alone... Now, two years on, I'm happy, settled, sharp, hearty and powerful. After all, who has good friends and a family who loves you, has everything ♥

I'm married and blessed. And you?!

The giant has just awoken to finally make a living. 

que sea eterno mientras sonriente ♥

amor, naquelas...

Fato: quando a gente está amando (do diabo), a gente some... Então, romance nelas!

Dizem também que o amor atrai... mas, num mês de tantas comemorações a dois, quanto mais distante a uruca, melhor!

Xô, inveja!

Todos felizes assim ♥

masterwork

Liniers

Couples mate and mesh for supporting each other.

Love, the strongest pillar... Immensurable lift.

Life is like this! Happy for building it together ♥

gratitude

Maybe because I'm getting old, becoming more mature and wise, then start to see things im a different way... Perhaps also inpired by some movies as Le Scaphandre et le Papillon, Amores Perros, among others we've watched. 

The fact is that, by now,  I strongly feel we should thank for being fine. Only this. In other words: not just realize while bad, sad, or sick, how both pleasant and great is being happy, having good health and peace of mind. Thus, praying heavily to heal as soon as possible, summoning all saints, God and nature.

Life might change so fast... we never know. So, I've thought about that, when well. Furthermore, I'm very grateful when I can smile freely, easily, with no pain, no ill(ness). And then, remind all of them (that are always there), spellbound by beauty of life, possibility of changes... as butterflies one.

Thanks! ♥

le secret

"Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé"

Savoir faire les bons choix - voici le chemin du bonheur.

Cette est une année qui promet...

Avec beaucoup d'amour ♥

happy Chinese new year!

The year of the snake.

So much good luck, professional success and prosperity in love for everybody :)

(I also wish all you guys, who like it, lots of "snakes" during this year!)

However, when it comes a catty and treacherous animal as serpents are, I prefer to be prudent.

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I sincerely and strongly want that all 'snake-women', the spiteful, jeaulous and envious ones (who try to poison others' happiness, both betraying and cheating), stay away from me, my couple, my house, my family and friends - even if making part of them. Not only by this year, but forever!

 

nothing more

Today, (e)specially, I just want to be happy.  

Peace and love wishes!

 
As in 2012, when I answered, pleased *(unlike ever before), the crucial question: 'Would you like to marry me?'.

"Yes", I said... One year of our engagement, so. Of couple's dreams which are coming true while married.

A whole life ahead, together. Towards felicity.

votos de ano novo

de Ziraldo

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además

 

de Liniers

love means no shame

Well, everybody recognizes that, once in love, we do crazy things. Passion makes us behave as insanes.

Yes, a romance may turn you into silly person, a fool of you! Sometimes, even exposing you to ridicule while declaring yourself flamed.

And you know what? You don't care (actually, maybe, just until this state of euphoria end... blow out. Then, you might repent it. Anyways, you live it intensely, with all your heart and soul.).

Public declarations of love, photos, phone calls, sms and messages... cute gestures, cherished statements.

Towards both of you, but it can contaminate others... everybody! After all, this is delightful, pleasurable, ineffable, gratifying. Not tawdry, indeed.

If the happiness of the others bothers people, probably they are 'un'- or badly loved. Unfortunately, it happens oftentimes! Therefore, I wish them for 2013 to find their other half. Having a hubby is the best medicine in this case. Seriously.

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novelty! (like it or not) 

Having said that, I can say I love Montreal, its four well-defined seasons - ergo: snow during the winter (despite that sometimes may be too much).

It's something new for me, and for my friends and family. To all of those to whom it is not understandable, I do not give a shit!

Lots of photos will still be posted (such as on Facebook), liked, and commented as well. Many texts will also be written about that once in a while - whether they mean to or not. 

For some, boring; for others, magic!

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ame e dê vexame!   
(in a loud and clear Potuguese)

Luis Fernando Veríssimo said: "...eu desconfio que a única pessoa livre, realmente livre, é a que não tem medo do ridículo". So do I. 

Hence, please, DO NOT feel embarrassed for me. My love and happiness are not worthy of your empathetic embarrassment. I absolutely do not deserve that!

I am, in fact, very well (enough) - with all my utterances and exposure. And you? 

 

happiness

In spite of The Grand Finale of Saltimbanco, among all other great gifts received in this Christmas, the best one was Lis. Without a doubt! 

It came antecipated, in November, and has surpassed all expectations by now. Fortunately.

Top top!

therefore

Smitten, we wish a Merry Christmas for everybody.

balance of the year

Personal

Very briefly (before its term, the world's end):

- crucial decisions taken;

- turning a Balzac woman;
- engagement;
- visiting family and relatives in Brazil;
- my mother and her husband's in Canada;
- our wedding;
- a new being abroad;

- recent friendships;

- steady and strong virtual blinds;

- different possibilities;

- seeking self-improvement;

- another philosphy of life;
- fresh verve and plans;   
- maternal support;
- Saint Nicholas and Saint Patrick aid;

- integrating Houde's clan;

- taking care of home;

- still working with kids; 

- movies, books and libraries;

- French immersion; 
- Quebec feelings; 
- North American food integration;
- sinusitis and healthy cleanliness;
- bycicle rides; 
- blog revival; 
- adopting Lis;

- forming our own family;

- some saudade;
- worries, patience, tolerance and hope;
- wise resolutions;
- true love;
- happiness.

mais amor, menos rancor

O quanto podemos suportar desajudados?

Alguns dizem que quando falamos algo, isto ganha força ao exteriorizarmos.

Ao mesmo tempo, pergunto-me quão mal nos faz o fato de remoer sentimentos interiormente, sem desabafar a respeito. Com o tempo, podem tomar conta da gente!

Compartilha-los parece-me ser afim de aliviar as tensões, as agonias e transtornos pessoais, não?! Uma vez divididos, penso que enfraquecem dentro de nós.

Se fôssemos capazes de superar sozinhos tais problemas, creio que seria dispensável o trabalho dos colegas psicólogos e psiquiatras. E não é o caso... Ombros e ouvidos amigos se fazem igualmente necessários.

Bom, o que eu sei é que as coisas tem a dimensão e importância que damos a elas. Independemente. Só tememos o que (a)creditamos.

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resolução

O primeiro a pedir desculpas é o mais corajoso.
O primeiro a perdoar é o mais forte.
E o primeiro a esquecer é o mais feliz.

hello kitty!

Uma invasão do bem. 

Meu coração está repleto.

Transbordo satisfação, espirro felicidade.

Esse é o amor de Lis bela.

feLIZ

Comme peut être simple (et, en même temps, majestueux) le combustible du bonheur, de la joie:

Des câlins avec les pattes, des frôlements sinueux, le miaulement naïf en demandant pour jouer, des regardes qui finissent pour un doux clin d'œil, le ronronner qui n'arrête pas, l'envie de faire dodo ensemble, collée, un 'me suit partout'... 

Tout ça veut dire 'Je t'aime' en "miaowais".

la déterminée

Moi aussi, j'ai décidé de ne plus être correcte.
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Pochoirs, j'aime ça! 

Ici, d'autres (bonnes) verités par l'art de Miss.Tic. 

*En temps d'élections, pour Miss.Tic présidente! 

mettre le cap au sud

Laisser faire, se faire laisser, ou laisser - lui, nous... la ville, le pays (la planète, si possible!)?

À chacun, son destin.

Pour le bonheur des autres, d'une façon ou d'une autre.

Moi, j'ai déjà choisi: le mien. Au revoir!

danse gastronomique

Salades, hamburgers 'maison' (de bœuf ou de porc),  filets de poissons, sandwiches à l'œuf frit ou aux tomates et oignons,  croques-monsieur, œufs bénédictines, grilled cheeses, tacos,   poulets marinés au vin blanc ou tikka masala,  lasagnes d'aubergines ou de courgettes, pâtes (à la carbonara, à la sauce à spaghetti ou pesto), légumes grillés, saucisses miel et ail, saumons au jus d'orange, riz aux poireaux, crevettes, fondues, sauces hollandaises ou aux champignons, viandes panées, lentilles, patates pilées ou écrasées au fromage, sandwiches à la crème glacée,  gâteaux, 'caipirinhas', des jus, thés glacés, cafés (brésilien, au lait, à la crème ou cappuccino glacé)... Tout ça, chez nous, goût l'amour! 

Alors, on en profite. ♥

C'est le festin de "Vavette"! 

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Malheureusement, on ne fait pas (encore) du sushi à la maison.

Miam-miam... mesant que j'ai hâte! 

Bientôt, au restaurant.