enlightened spirits help

Ok, it's a typical Brazilian thing... 

However, I love it. I feel myself protected.

Necessary. 

I'm blessed, I know. Thanks!
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Do as you please: as you sow, so shall you reap!

faire contre mauvaise fortune bon coeur

On respect les choses de qui on aime, en défendant de les prendre pour rien n'arriver avec. Cependant, une "n'importe qui" vient chez nous et fouille "innocemment" dans ses affaires ... Câline! 

Intrusion: franchement, personne ne veut ça.

Il semble qu'il n'y ait même pas du Semancol ici... PANTOUTE! 

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P.S. Je suis tannée de faire toujours la discipline, de jouer la fine.

turning things around

Don't freak out!

Keep calm and play the right game:

If you can't beat it, join it. 

Always including... being wise.

our time

I was very excited while seeing the London 2012 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony. The participation of many Brazilian celebrities as Seu Jorge, Marisa Monte, Pelé and (my friend) BNegão touched me, I confess.

From now, I hope we'll do a good job, administrating everything related to Olympic Games in a good way until 2016.

Rio have everything to achieve it with its natural beauty, our criativity and human warmth. Its success is within our reach. 

However (and unfortunately), I have my doubts...

the volleyball one

I insist to say: Brazil is not only the country of soccer anymore - and it has happened for a long time.

Today, when Brazilian girls volleyball team beat USA, I was one more time sure of that. We have won many games and championships.

Furthermore, our men's national volleyball team is even better! Tomorrow they will win the gold (or silver) playing against Russia.

I complain mainly about investments and incentive... After all, the very well-payed Brazil Olympic Men's Soccer Team 2012, as no one was expecting,  lost for Mexico.

like a Cheshire Cat

...which appears and disappears in memories.

In spite of its supposed (snide) grin, I don't get amused when it comes, not at all! Many praises...

I wonder myself how important can be a pet in our lives, reaching a point of being irreplaceable.

Can it bring up old feelings with him? Or even worse: may other people be tied to?

Well, until arrive another one, it will be always shrouded in mystery all this affection.

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it is almost that

In Brazil, by virtue of 'Simpatia é Quase Amor' (a lively Carnival group of Rio), among other iffy situations, we believe that sympathy is almost love...

Well, I have my suspicions. 

better choice

Sticks and stones
may break my bones
but names
will never hurt me!

I'm rubber
and you're glue
Whatever you say bounces off me
but it sticks on you!

not alone

Being in couple is great!

However, it's better to be alone, than in the wrong company. This stands also for people who don't accept these unions.

Frankly, there are many individuals who still must to learn this! (justly in order not to be alone...)

bridging people

It's astounding the way how certain people simply entered in our lives only in order to accomplish a mission. Sometimes, even unintentionally.

They come, and later they go... In some cases, we'll never see them again.

Could be they some kind of angels? Maybe.

In anyway, I would like just to thank these enlightened beings, specially for connecting me to others, bridging the gap between me and my dreams. They give them a chance to come true!

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Nothing happens by accident... let alone love.

one year has passed since then

366 days in Montreal (*2012, a leap year). Not even one of regretting, though.

I'm very happy about my choice, all changes.

Good luck maybe? Yes. I would also say: good FRIENDS.

Furthermore: I found love! (or he found me... actually, BOTH!).

Life giving us another chance... the universe conspiring in our favor.

Ok, I'm REALLY pretty lucky. I couldn't ask anything else!

Only good things to celebrate today and so on. THANKS, life!

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By the way, SPECIAL gratefulness to Dedé, Beto, Isadorable and Jeremy!

(besides my mother, evermore! ♥ ) 

Oh, and I couldn't forget: for that la pétanque redhead guy I fortunately met at Lafontaine Park, too. Their friend... An impressive story! After all, nothing happens by accident. 

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How could I foget Saint Nicholas? 

Once he pointed me to this destination (literally!), he is also responsible for my happiness.

conti

A harvest of 1982, imported from Brazil. Dark, full-bodied... Unique.

Drunken minds speak sober hearts. Flubbing it: there's no excuse, no lapse.

Pay attention not to get muddled, mainly in the matter of your speciality! After mess everything up, it's no use crying over spilt wine... 

(theres always someone sure about what is doing, thirsty and desirous of hitting the nail on the head, bask in Bacchus delight).

people under the stars

Maybe, there is nothing worse than reach a fourth place in an Olympiad. ALMOST there...). Well, maybe the Silver Medal has the same taste.

Gold is winner, runner-up means you lost the first place, and it's great when you got the bronze because, fortunately, you are between the three champions. 

It happened a lot in London with Brazilians and with Canadian athletes too (being ALMOST there...). What a pity! 

But that’s part of the game! Sport are like that: in its never-ending spirit of challenge, if you lose today, win tomorrow (in words of Daisaku Ikeda).

I hope in Rio things go better!

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Le Concours international d'art pyrotechnique de Montréal: I admit I haven't known about that since I started to listening fireworks presentations a few days ago.

Despite not being a novelty for people from here (actually, even for me, who is used with the reveillon at Copacabana Beach), the final of the 28th edition, tonight, had another taste for both of us: 

30 minutes of love (after all, better than just watch it, it's french while the show happens, lightened by it, besides a beautiful full moon!). So romantic!

About the competition, by itself, to tell the truth, we don't care about who won... In fact, the victory is ours.  

not having a clue

What is necessary to be considered extraordinary? Being a "pitoune", a model wife, an excellent professional, a good lay?! Eventually, the best mother of all as well?!

Ok, I've never been a "tchutchuca" (besides never have been interested of...). That is not to say, though, I am ugly or even I have uglified. Furthermore, no one had never complained before!

Of course my body is not the same I used to have ten years ago, but comparing with other women of my age, I'm pretty ok. It's true. After all, the older you get, the better you get... like wine.

Loving to cook, changing for good our lives, the home one too... As a latin woman, taking care exceptionally of my man; moreover, I can also say: as nobody else! Additionally (not to mention!), having a dirty slut in bed is not a bad idea for men, is it?! 

(* Is it yet not enough?)

Give somebody an inch and they will take a mile... They are never satisfied. By the way, grass is always greener on the other side.

A look or a shape bad joke, an awkwardly placed word as a comparision to another one, or complimenting exs (particularly on their appearance)... Well, sometimes men can be both very ungreatful and nasty. Unfortunatelly.

Once I take past contrasts as examples, more certain I am they usually are pampered rebels without a cause.

"Ordinary"... ?! So are YOU (and all of them), too! Sorry, but none are a mannequin (or even a standard: in this case, unhealthy thinness due to a regular use of drugs, hairy pussy, or large sagging breasts - typical of North Americans). 

So, I can say loud and clear, and in plain Portuguese : EU SOU MAIS EU! (exactly the way I am... with my 'bed room' eyes, dark curly hair, a nonsmoker smile, my skilled little mouth without bad breath, a scared little tummy, my tanned "snake" skin, a beauty spots constellation, my old and faded tattoos, nails painted, a nice pair for foot fetishism, firm medium sized natural tits, athletic legs, and a Brazilian wax and ass)

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Men: can't live with them, can't kill them.

cool in my way

What is necessary do to be accepted by others?

I may say: be in your own way. Well, that's what I've been doing, even if I err sometimes (after all, nobody is perfect!).

Exotic, shy, a little uncommunicative maybe (a insecurity on my part because of idiom)... I hope it is just due to that I feel myself put aside sometimes.

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step father

He is ALMOST a father, in many cases. 

Furthermore, if he has his own children, and, even though, he DOES deal with us as with them, well, it proves he probably likes us as his ones.

We must respect that! It's important, the minimum... Efforts of  both parts.

Time has gone and what is really important remains. That's why we should valorize who is closer, participating of our lives.

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Being a member of a the family or equally integrate a circle of friends: it could be a big challenge!

many women, few orgasms

Studies show that 70% of women has never reached orgasms with their partners. Ok, masturbating they come, but ... it would be better doing it together, wouldn't?!

I think so, besides hope for that. That's not to say, though, through penetration... It'll be easier for them with a long arousal period and foreplay games.

It seems that men are not efforting enough, once their partners fake orgasms. Really: women OFTEN do that, mainly in order not to disapoint them.

In this way, ladies help to build both lazy and impatient men, who will not be worried with women's pleasure. After all, they don't have to do their best in bed... by our own fault!

Well, today, in Orgasm Day, my campaign is to help boys to satisfy girls, before they leave them (joking...). In this article, some basic and simple efforts which men can do to change this unhappy situation. 

Good luck and practice!

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paradise

In the opposite direction of this occidental reality, in Mangaia, an island in the South Pacific, women live well (VERY well, indeed). There, while they learn to come, ALL men learn how to perform cunnilingus and bring their partners to orgasm (perhaps several times) before they have their own. 

Isn't wonderful?! Here, skilled gentlemen as those we hardly meet... Unfortunatelly.

Looking for a picture to illustrate this part of post, I found this kind of Aurora Borealis photo of there, its sky... a heaven for me.

Oh, my ("consumption") dreams... (!)

new life

Some old memories must be left behind in order to carry on.

We simply can't have a better tomorrow while don't stop thinking about yesterday.

So, today, I finally decided to release me, trying to make many of them remain only in the past.

No regrets, no ghosts, no lies anymore. From now, different moments, new records... A restart.

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Forgive/forget: 

ALMOST the same thing, having similar effect on me by now.

Hey ho, let's go!

desperate housewives

Wet, slow, continuum...

...  and she promised him (and her own self) not to complain about anything else if he suck her every night.

At that moment, nothing else matters!

Happiness secret is not so unreachable.

In the end, this is just what they want:

"Girls just wanna have fun". Simple as that.

someone's green

Surreal! It seems we still are children or teens... but, come on: we matured! (besides things have changed too)

At the same time, I'm "a little" proud that our relation is able to make others eat their heart out! (even if we DO NOT want it, or DID NOT instigate it!)

However, the limit is when jealousy becomes disrespect. Low blow... unacceptable at this point, in this way, between us. 

I swear I never thought I'd be in this embarassing situation... How deal with people who have bad intentions while we wish just love and peace? 

We really don't want any tiff. For the good of everybody, we'll work out a solution as adults we are. We think it will be enough...

Oh, I hope with all my heart the problem is ONLY this, not anything else!

a question of habit

A prove that it works:

Stimulated by the government to cooperate, Quebec people have reduced by 60% their consumption of plastic bags since 2007. It means around 1.2 billion fewer single-use plastic bags at nature.

It was more than expected! Nevertheless, there are still a billion which is being used. 

To change things, it's not so difficult... just willingness is enough. 

However, of course they were also encouraged by fees of $0,05 CAN each one (yes: here you pay for them - and its expensive!). If you have a big volume of grocery purchases, and you don't bring with you yours own reusable bags, you'll pay out some dollars. Many times in a year, it will be a kind of waste of money, a uncalled-for disbursement. Unnecessary.

On the other hand, and worse: environmentally, it becomes a problem. Actually, it's already a big one.

I admit when I just arrived, being really impressed by their eco awareness. Now, seeing this news on television, I was even more pround of living here as a green consumer who I try to be.
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Read more here.

specially for today

One swallow doesn't make a summer! 

Friends warm the life. 

I love mine. I miss them.

I'm very happy not to be alone, even far. 

Friendship has its internal feature. Genuine, it's something from inside to outside.... sincere.

My love is my best friend ♥ 

madly I do

Wondering myself about love notes of the past, I forget that the most important one came verbally, to me(!).

Incomparable, unrivaled, unsurpassed declaration of love... Silly, (married!) girl.

social climber passport

I really CAN'T stand (or believe in) someone who doesn't take off his wristband after going to a concert, party... any event! The possibility to keep it tighten (even worn) during the next day, just in order to show being a person of influence, a recent VIP area guest...  doesn't matter: It drives me crazy!

Sorry, but I think it is cheesy. We are not teenagers anymore. Moreover, I don't need to prove anything to anyone.

It's not something attached to my arm that will say who I am, or give me importance... My worth is not there. It's higher. 

Frivolousness - something which I hate of showbizz universe. I had forgotten how it's full of it...

Finally, (in Portuguese) "vão-se os anéis, ficam os dedos" - if you get what I mean...

take care!

Hell has no fury like a woman scorned...

Dia do Rock

 É nozes!

smooth biter

Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina - everybody knows... even children(!) This is a gospel!

So, when I discovered that, in French, vagina is masculine (a masculine word), I confess I was very astounded... After all, something so feminine would deserve a more delicate classification.

In my opinion (and head), things related to woman are in feminine grammar gender. It has been obvious... by now!

Un vagin - mon dieu! Il samble qu'il mordre! (bon, quelques fois, oui)

C'est la vie!

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Taking the opportunity, my favorite campaign of all:

the man's ultimate illusion

Marylin Monroe, a diva. One of the prettiest women we know.

Even almost fifty years since her death (on August 5, 1962), she is usually still taken as a model of beauty... (in the bargain: she was crowned best beach body of all time!)

Nevertheless, (even her, majestic!) she had a little tummy.

It's not a complaint about her shape, NOT AT ALL! I just want to illustrate how cruel the current esthetic patterns/demands may be.

Marylin is unquestionably gorgeous, "imperfect" as she was.

Nowadays, perfect women exist only in magazines covers and TV or cinema screens. On the streets and at home, with no Photoshop or After Effect, make-up or coiffeur, dressed as usual, we are all normal people, with some "defects".

Perfection is only both in our dreams, or expectations. The reality is other, though.

And David Burns, the noted best-seller psychiatrist, confirm that, continuing this post title, one of his quotes about perfection (the man's ultimate illusion), with: "It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do".

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By the way, this same (his) theory, I've applied for love.

(after all, "Men: can't live with them, can't live without them")

dutch sky

I always knew that dutch paradise is orange... 

As has happened since then, I discovered with my husband (at that moment my "chum", trying to impress me) la sauce hollandaise, in French.

It's creamy, dense, fort, heavy and, of course, fatty! Delicious. Furthermore, it matches perfectly with eggs, toasts and bacon (le méchant, which it's simply vicious!).

Well, while eating everything together, it seems we're in the heaven... the north-american one, indeed.

However, it was necessary come here, furthest, to taste it. Cruel. As it must be, though.
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How to make it? Here.

a place for everything and everything in its place

It's no use: other's mother IS NOT ours.

Lucky me to have mine, even far!

Going out of her way, truly pulling the universe out of her soul to help me and make me happy, this is priceless.
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everything has it's price!

Lately, Queen Elizabeth II revised the Royal Household Order of Precedence. Little changes involved only Kate Middleton, though, in order to remind her about her commoner roots.

At this newest protocol, the Duchess of Cambridge must curtsy to your husband's relatives unless she is with him. Probably the worst part will be do it, whether in private or in public, to Eugenie and Beatrice, two blood princesses, cousins of Prince William, when she meets them alone.

Well, if it is humiliation caused by Queen's jealousy of her popularity (as magazines have speculated by now) or if it is just respect for their old royal tradition, I really don't mind...(!) In my opinion, all monarchy stuff is completely old-fashioned and out of place nowadays.

After all, who pay for it? By the way, I sincerely don't understand how a country as Canada, for example, still maintains its political system tied with the British Royal Family, supporting them and their caprices (Kate's expensive new dresses, included!).

Tant pis au Québéc! (yes, unfortunately we are also paying for that...)
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in the bargain, I feel very blessed not to having a mother-in-law like princess Diana had.

Fortunately, I love mine! ♥

all is not lost

Each time that I watch some movie as The Corporation, among others (more or less political... doesn't matter!), I feel depressed. Serious! 

It"s not to say that I can't do anything to change it, but I really wonder myself about have children, for example... Why bring them to this dangerous world, where values are upside down (like money being more important than people)?

It seems that there is no solution, no future, no way... F*ck! 

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notwithstanding...

Of course if everybody who is unsatisfied does small (but important) acts in their own daily lifes, all of us, together, we can change something! By the way, we are the majority - 99% of the population(!)... exactly who suffers the most severe consequences of the capitalist system. Its not something we should disdain! In our actual situation, we can even say that its not worth doing nothing about that, just ignoring we have the most powerful power in our hands. And we do have... but only while united - refer to water privatization in Bolivia and its consequences.

Stopping drink Coke and eating at McDonald's (both with some difficulty, ok... but it's possible!), spurning Walmart specials, not buying at Zaara or using Nike, for example, I can do it. And these two latter, I've been doing yet for a long time... since I knew atrocities about them. Furthermore, recycling, not lying or betray people (including not cheating on my husband, for sure), and MAINLY voting in a good way, giving my vote for candidates who I think may be good to govern... yes, finally, I thing I've done my part! (phew!)

I sincerely DO NOT want my kids seeing me drinking coke, eating many McDonald's often.. or worse: taking me supporting psycho corporate bodies as a normal thing. After all, there are some standards that must be both explained and taught at home, since young. This is the minimum we can do not to leave wrong standards be got as the right ones. This is a matter of choice, but just when you have enough knowledge to do it by yourself, with no doubts.
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light-hearted
 

Today, in the 236th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in the USA, the international known "Fourth of July" (which I really don't care about!), I would like to proclaim myself independent too.

No, I'm not a slave (of my work, at least, not anymore...!), and I'm not even a sad married woman... No, I DO NOT feel my life miserable, NOT AT ALL - and I'm a (still) happily married! However, I just want to be more free than I am right now. 

It's a subtle thing... I want to feel the lightness of life. Surprising, this is one of the most difficult feelings for me, to dabble in. Free mind, free spirit, no worries, no regrets.

art never fritters time away

 

The opposite of (lots of) certain politicians.

By the way, to do this painting, it really seems that Pawla Kuczyńskiego was inspired by watching Charest during his speechs (and also the PQL material)... After all, practically nothing has changed by now.

Economical, social and political critiques through the nice (but heavy!) masterworks of this artist from Poland. This man simply shocks in a smart way! Check him out here.

Concluding my criticism, we are just waiting for elections. Coming soon!

des petits poissons

Michelle, 3 ans et demi - Elle nage toute seule dans une piscine d'adultes. 

Colin, 1 an et demi - Il se débrouille facilement tout seul dans l'eau de la piscine pour les enfants, sans des bouées bras.

Ceux-ci sont des exemples à être suivis pour tous les parents, contre la hausse de noyades au Québec cet été.

Il y a des bons conseils au Infant Swimming Rescue (ISR). 

Et félicitations à mes cousins pour son initiative, qui soit l'idéale, de leur enseigner à nager.

private garden

I support campaings of urban farming. However, differently of community gardens which exist in Montreal (an excellent idea, by the way!), I have my own organic one, which I cultivate alone.

Well, I'm also in favour of home gardening:

Mon jardin... I love that! ♥

horoscope

All astrological predictions she read her whole life were worthless. None of zodiac attributes she thought being about herself were true.

Born on a day of transition, the sun hadn't entered in cancer yet at the moment she came into life, that year... Aged of 30, she discovered she is gemini.

What a mess because of a detail... 

Only one hour, all difference!

welcome!

Verão: 

Que seja eterno enquanto dure.

pequenas GRANDES coisas

less = more

Better than do nothing sometimes, is do it TOGETHER, with who you love...

Being at home on weekends, calm, naked (or almost...), laying down on the bed or couch, just standing to get something to eat, or change movies on DVD... This is life!

Happiness = simplicity, in good moments - mainly married.

finalement

Aujourd'hui, il est temps de remercier ♥

Après tout, c'est fait. Pour toute la vie. 

toutou Anarchopanda

C'est le Jour des Amoureux au Brésil.

Et ici, au Québec, j'ai reçu le cadeau parfait pour l'occasion! ♥

Merci Pat,  non seulement pour les choses matérielles qu'on acquiert. Le vrai amour excelle ça.

Être avec toi, en soit, c'est déjà fantastique! 

printemps érable

J'y crois!

Soyons ensemble, en paix...

músicas para amar

Em função de meu casamento, dei início no mês passado a uma divertida pesquisa sobre o tema. Aliada a meu noivo, DJ de Montreal, juntamos preferências pessoais a sugestões recebidas de amigos - ligados à música, ou não, para compôr um setlist para embalar a hora H.

Inspiração + experiência e ‘voilà’! 
(o resultado dessa brincadeira pode ser conferido aqui em cima, no link)

surprises for good

After to be struck for someone who I thought could be my (new) friend, but won't - definitely... I'm positively surprise with other people's attention and affection with me. Ultimately, help comes from who we least expect it...

Even far from my close friends, I had acquired my new ones. True ones.

Life it's not a bed of roses, but there is always a person even better and more important than others who simply don't care of us. Though luck! Now I now who can I rely on... This is more important than everything else.

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This episode made me remember Julia Roberts in 'My Best Friend's Wedding', the movie... I never thought one day i'll think of me playing the Cameron Dias role, but that is it!

Good surprises at the end.

chá (de panela)

Adoraria fazer uma reuniãozinha básica, um encontro comemorativo com todas as minhas amigas...

Saudades! ♥