A glimpse of souvenirs

It's weird but cold and rainy days make me think back to my childhood, when mom would dress us up in our big blue school uniform coats and we were supposed to stay inside the classroom waiting to be picked up. It's either that, or some random rainy, chilly, grey walk at the Champs Élysées, running to catch a movie.

Minds do work in mysterious ways... 

"hanging around, nothing to do but frown

rainy days and Mondays always get me down"

Just take a look around...

Wandering through São Paulo streets on these sunny winter days...

From out of space...

Long time no see... about 8 months.
No, I did not plan to get away from blogging (which I love) but, somehow, life got in the way.
But, well, one had to come back, eventually. Right?
And after a few unsuccessful tryouts, here I am.

Let's see what we've missed out since Semptember 2012.
I saw the Berliner Ensemble perform (Lulu and The Three Penny Opera) directed by Robert Wilson and it was AMAZING. (Berliner ensemble performance checked out of my to do list)
Alonso did not win the F1 championship (even if it was very very very close), and I was really upset.
Had an unexpected and very pleasant visit from France (always miss my French friends), and now I have one of my best friends from my French University who's here in Brazil.
I turned 30 last December, and the world did not end in 21/12/12 (although turning 30 was quite close to it a few days earlier... lol)
Went to Bahia for new years on a quiet family party.
One of my childhood best friends got married and I cried my eyes out!!
Went to spend "carnaval" (mardi gras) in NYC with my french BFF big brother who I miss so so so so so much and we had a blast under the snow storm. Opera at the Metropolitan also got checked out of my to do list.
Nina was born! She is the cutest and she's one of my best friend's baby, so I feel I can call myself an aunt if I want to lol. And I'm longing for us to have a more accurate schedule compatibility, so I can spend more time with her and I already fantasize about how is it going to be years from now. :) (btw, if you read Portuguese, you can fallow her and her mommy's adventures here).
Joined a gym (the place where I don't belong) and started swimming again (4 times a week). I know all about the "no pain no gain" stuff. Hate the gym! But must keep going!!!
Work's crazy as always. (but I still love it) I'm crazier than ever! (and becoming a facebook expert. Watch out Zukerberg!!!) (if you have facebook, here it is)

Well, I guess that's it!
Some images for the road (I have so many rolls to develop that my iphone pics will have to do for now)

Remember the days...

...the warm sunny days, followed by cold nights around the fireplace...

Last week was just crazy busy at work. Now it's just busy...
There's a lot going on in every single aspect of my life and I just don't feel I have the time to deal with it all... 

in a Lennon mood.

Sorry, you will have to put up with a few more images of my amazing break!

It's Manhattan, babe!

Lennon says it better than I do, so:
"Well we did the Staten
Island Ferry
Making movies for the telly
Played the fillmore and
Apollo for freedom,
Tried to shake our image
Just a cycling through
the village
But found that we had left it
back in london.
Well nobody came to bug us,
hustle ud or shove us
so we decided to make it
our home
If the man wants to shove
us out
We gonna jump and shout
The Statue of Liberty said,
"come!"
NYC...NYC...NYC
Que passa Ny?...Que passa NY?
NYC down in the village
What a bad-ass city!
Que passa Ny?...Que passa NY?"

There you go... my last vacation post (from the vacation I took more than a month ago lol).

Anyhow, I do feel I should travel again just so I can bother you with a bunch of pictures once again... :o)

NYC shades of grey...

in a city like that, everything seems to catch your attention...

Crazy buzy week! (loving it, btw!)
Hope you don't mind the NYC shots...

"There's enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.

What do I think about the world?

I don't know what I think about the world!"

(Alberto Caiero) 

(I found this old Pessoa's - my favorite poet - book while I was cleaning my bedroom this week...)

One way or another...

"I love everything that has been

Everything that no longer is

The pain that does not hurt me anymore

The old and mistaken faith 

The yesterday that the pain left

What joy left

Just because it was, and flew

And today is already another day."

(Fernando Pessoa)

sunny central park...

a black and white walk in the park...
care to join us?