Uma Bobeirinha in Portuguese

A expressão da água pro vinho teria mais efeito se fosse: Ela mudou da água para um milkshake de ovomaltine do Bob's. Ai seria uma mudança que realmente chamaria atenção. Tou com fome de besteira.

New Book

Have started reading a new book by Marian Keyes. She's the author of Watermelon. You've probably heard of her. It's an entertaining book. Easy read, although she's Irish, so if you speak American English there are lots of unfamiliar terms. For example, fags are cigarettes, but you end up getting the idea. Even though it's a "let's-relax-book" compared to Khaled Hosseini's books, I liked what she put at the beginning of the book and seems to be the idea to the story. (I haven't finished yet)
"There are 3 sides to every story. Your side, their side, and the truth." - Anon
It's obvious but the obvious is always worth remembering. The Theory of Relativity...
Amos is making a lot of noise chewing on his food and keeps distracting me. So are my children who just finished watching "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and have decided to "make" chocolate and keep trying to sell it to me for absurdly high prices.
Have to go help them clean up their chocolate factory.

Quickie

This not what you think. Just had to come here real fast to say that I finally made it to the gym after a month and a half. Not exciting to anyone else but me but I feel like ... I couldn't think of anyone I feel like. I feel like me, but better. So, that's the news. Just a thought: why is it that people are so serious at the gym? Like they're solving some life or death matter. Makes me feel like I should be real concentrated, too. I smiled at this girl when I walked in and she gave me this glare. I almost said I was sorry. Well, this is supposed to be a quickie, so I'm off.

Morning "Excitement"

As usual, got woken up by my three-year-old daughter. Danced in the kitchen to Madonna while waiting for my toast. Then, I went crazy and didn't do the dishes right after finishing breakfast! What a sense of freedom! How's that for going wild. lol
Came to the computer to see what was up. Nothing much so far.
My husband's clothes were hanging on a hanger on the closet door and my five-year-old slipped into them while they were still on the hanger. Then, he said "Look mom! I'm a mayonnaise ." He meant marionette. Cute, isn't it?
Well, I guess that's a lot of excitement for one morning. Have to go wash the dishes, am beginning to feel guilty. But I'll make the beds way later!

ps: Haven't found a video of Kabul I really liked yet. Most of the ones I watched seemed too sad.

Another Day with my Family

It was really cold then all of a sudden it got really hot. So, of course someone had to catch something. I've spent the last 4 days taking care of my youngest daughter get over a flu. She's a lot better today. Have been having to fight with the rest of the family to use the computer. I don't often win so it's hard to get to sit here and write. Going off to the mall today to see if I can get a new book to read. My throat has been hurting from talking so much while teaching. My students are probably sick of listening to me. Have to go to talk to a little 5 year-old rebel. Why is it that kids can play by themselves fine up to the moment they see you are on the phone or on the computer. Then they just have to start acting up.

Continuing

Just finished reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. It's a beautiful but veeery sad story about friendship. I cried A LOT. He's the same man who wrote The Kite Runner which I think I liked more. The Kite Runner was also very sad but there always seemed like there was a way out. There was something that could be done to end or change the bad that was going on. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, maybe because the story was about two women, the suffering seemed heavier even permanent. The book became suffucating at times. I had to skip some paragraphs because I didn't even want to imagine being in the same situation. Got me more interested in the Middle East culture though, and in visiting Kabul. Saw some Youtube videos on the city. I'll find a good one and post it.

Starting

Wow, I'd never thought it would be so hard to just start writing. Just writing. Anything I want. Whatever comes to mind. Well, procrastination. No, it's not that. You know that feeling you have sometimes that other people can always do things better than you can? Well, they can. So, I'm going to have to wait, just till this feeling goes away. I'll be back.