Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Super-duper fast week

wow, one week has passed. Once again, I am marveled by the fact that I didn't see time go by. Last week indeed went very fast, but looking back at it, it was a pretty busy one.

At work... Today I was looking at my desk and I starred at the pile of errands
I have, its quite tall actually. I was amazed and thought how it got to that point. So, with little thought I remembered that last week I had a client visit, a general meeting, a workshop, a selection process, many reports to complete, besides from my usual duties. With that said, its not difficult to imagine that I was at work during morning, afternoon and night.

So, after home I got home and relaxed, right?! Not quite like that. Now, my philosophy is: "if you are going to do something, do it right". Which brings me to the dating topic... If I am going to date someone I should devote my time and effort to it. But... what time is left for dating??? With my kind of scheduling, its going to be pretty late at night.

We planned to see each other at night. At about 10pm she would come here and a couple of times she actually spent the night here. Now, c'mon, don't think we did anything kinky!! Actually, I live with my extended family (quite common in brazilian culture but not my first choice), so theres absolutely no chance of anything happening here. The end result, sleepless nights (a only a couple of hours at dawn).

Now, the past couple of days I haven't seen her so I was able to have at least my normal amount of daily sleep (which is about 5hrs). This is still not enough to recover from last week, but its the best I can do. Right now if I stay steady in one place theres a risk I will take a nap, lol. One day I will figure out how to create a day with 28 hours, then I would be happy. In the meantime I will try to figure out other time management techniques.

For next this week. Nothing quite planned yet. Theres a big party mid-october I want to go to but I still have to check a few details before making the investment. Its an enormous yearly party that happens in our city but so far I haven't gone to any.

I have another training scheduled at work that we had planned to start on Monday but the trainee gave up. So, maybe we will start one this week. Right now, after I get done writing I will return to work and try to eliminate my pile of To-Dos.

peace & lots of fun to all!!


Artwork: Sheep Can't Sleep: Dona Turner (top-right); Dream: Pablo Picasso (bottom left).

Sunday, September 18, 2005

More days, more news...


ok, One more week since the last post. Between posts, a lot of work hours, a lot of good moments, stressful moments... Everything is normal.

One more week dating, most of the things are settling well. Not everything, but not is perfect so I wont expect that much.

A movie that I've recently seen, twice to be exact (not actually by choice...) is Fever Pitch. In it theres an interesting quote:

Can you even remember what you cared about 23 years ago? how bout 10? even 5!!! do you care about anything that you cared about 5 years ago?" (not verbatum, but thats asking too much)

Having something like this, something you care about for that long (10 years, 15 years or even 5 years) does take a lot of effort and dedication. Personally speaking that is good, but at times it is a double edge sword. Something that receives this unfortunately receives the burden of demonstrating this dedication too. Unwillingly this happens. I said this is unfortunate because it is unfair for anyone to be given this burden. But, this time will solve.

So far everything is peachy, a-okay. A friend has returned from his trip, Bia finally has gone out with us, yey!!

I beleive this is it for now. I've got a lot of sleep to catch up on. 'Night and have a very pleasant week!!

Artwork: Birth of Venus, Red - Andy Warhol; Lovebugs - Unkown author

Sunday, September 11, 2005

and the time goes by...


ok, so time flies, it doesn't wait, it doesn't slow down... It just doesn't pause, even if you are having fun and don't want it to go. In the past weeks I feel a lot has happened, which I think is good, but it seemed like yesterday...

Ok, so lets go for the recent facts. Wednesday it was a day off, thus it was rightfully used as a movie day. I went once more to see Fever Pitch with my girlfriend. No better movie option so we went to see it. But, the movie is good, its a nice chick flick (I hate to say it...), it has a few nice things to it.

Thursday was the day to stay home. Friday we (myself, my girlfriend and Bia) went to our currently favorite bar, but our favorite band wasn't there. And... like any healthy couple we had a bit of a disagreement there but overall the night was very nice.

So, yesterday not much happened, although much was planned. Friday I got a bit wasted, but that was because I had dinner close to midnight and started drinking a bit before then. So, instead of getting my hair cut after work I went straight home. I had a birthday party to go (our co-worker's daughter) but I couldn't reach anyone I was going with. So... although I really wanted to go I stayed at home.

At night, I was planning to do something, it's been a month. However, I don't know why but I wasnt much in the mood to go out. It might be because I was tired, a bit sick... I have no clue... So, my girlfriend came and she spent the night here, pretty much in my room, since it wouldn't bother the people in our house. We talked and talked. It's quite interesting to date long time friends because although there is a lot you know about the person, theres still plenty more to learn. It was a very pleasant evening.

I believe we have quite a number of facets. We smile differently for almost everyone we know. A story that happened in our lives is told to a friend one way, to a confidant another, to an acquaintance... It's quite interesting how much but yet how little you might know of a person. So far this has been fortunate because it is less tedious then it might've seen.

Anyways... last hours of my weekend, I will stay at home listening to music and reading something. This is expected to be a busy work week, tomorrow I will be visiting a company with a team, pretty much all day.

So far this is it then. Peace and luvs to all!!

p.s. Artwork: Sun-Kissed - Rabi Khan (top left); Goodnight Moon - Clement Hurd (bottom right)

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Independence Day!


Brazil
Originally uploaded by madeinbrazil.
On September 7th, 1822 we declared independence!! yey!! And today we celebrate a holiday!! yey!!

I was just thinking about that now... One day I was very critic of those who didn't care much for the reason of the holiday, didnt care or remember the true meaning of the day. However... today I was one of those people.

A consequence of a life full of activities, of a lengthy work schedule, of a chaotic (timewise) life... I was honestly just looking for an extra day that I could use to sleep a little more.
Consequences of the so called modern life... I will try to remember more.

But, here I am, paying respect to it. My homage to our country that complicates a lot our lives but is indeed a nice place to live.

So... my activities... Dating has been going very well. Luckly we were able to spend a lot of time together these past few days.

Work... sheesh... thats going hectic... Training, monitoring, a little bit of selling, teaching... But, so far things are going along.

Ok... Now I'd better go to sleep... Tomorrow will be a loooong day.

And as a final note, I'd like to express a little frustration to the fact that my cousin (Bia), once mentioned so much here is not being mentioned as much anymore because of her unwillingness to go out with us. I have idea why... I will think of plans to extract her more from her house.

Peace & luvs to all!

Monday, September 05, 2005

Slooooow week

ok... this week was a bit tough.

Work life... my bosses have been pressing a bit harder for everyone's efficiency. Now, the way Im used to work is: work hard, give my best and thats all I can do. Altough I completly understand, most of my work is done without close supervision. So, when my supervisors start monitoring, its when the pressure builds a little. So, I had a busy week at work.

Besides that, an employee got sick and gave us many problems to solve... sheesh... But everything so far is under control, its going, theres no need or efficiency in desperation.

Ok, personal life... a bit frustrating also. With this new relationship I've had many, many signs that it just wont work. Although its something that I've longed-for for so long, its something that is still uncertain, of course. At one point I thought these signs would've been enough to make me quit.

However, we sat, we spoke and lets improve on it. That was the conclusion. Its a very complicated situation, but we've been through so much that maybe this we can manage. At least this one obstacle may solved. Lets see.

On friday I stayed at home, I had some scheduling conflict with her, so it didnt work out. Saturday... We had planned to go to a big techno party. Ended up not working out... I went to a forró party (regional music genre). This genre is soooo not my cup of tea, but... I went. It was ok, nice experience, I felt like a tourist being introduced to the local people and customs, lol.

Today I went with Bia and her brother to watch Fever Pitch. Its a nice chick flick (added with baseball). A good, relaxing movie. My gfriend didnt go, she was sleep cause she didnt have much sleep for the past few days.

As a side note, one of my best friends in the whole wide world got married today. Congratulations to Loren and Liz!!! I luvs ya veeeery much!!!!! I wish I were there, but I thought about yall!

So.. another week to come, but this looks like it will be better, specially cause there is a holliday on Wednesday. Yey!!

peace to all!!