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[19 Jul 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
Photo of Grilled Sardines Portuguese Style
Image by foodistablog via Flickr

Yesterday it was my last working day before my vacations and my older boss made me the favor of ruin everything. For the last 6 months I am doing the work of two people. I work my lunch hour, I arrive earlier in the morning, I stay after my leaving hour but even so the …

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[2 Jul 2009 | Comments Off | ]

My 40 a week working hours were turned into 50. I am under tons of papers, plastic parts and work to do. I have been too busy to write or even read other blogs. I can’t go on like this otherwise I will go nuts with so much work. I am too tired, even to write. I must change this. …

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[21 Jun 2009 | 3 Comments | ]

From time to time I am surprised with some interesting questions from my daughter. This week she asked why do I wear two marriage rings and my husband none.

Well, first of all one of the gold rings I wear is on the right end and it is what we call a dating ring. The diamond engagement rings thing is …

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[19 Jun 2009 | Comments Off | ]

My car is back from repair. It is like new, the motor was all revised, new parts, it’s like a brand new 0 kilometers car.

My FIL says we will have car for more 10 years. As we couldn’t afford a new one right know, fixing the one we had was an option. Having my FIL as the mechanic, we …

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[28 May 2009 | One Comment | ]

Who said life was easy? Not me for sure.

The month of May was a totally disaster. From my son’s headaches, tooth ache, my tooth ache, car problems, gadgets that stopped working, etc etc, we had everything.

I wish I could tell my son’s headaches were gone but I can’t. We are still on a limbo stage, we don’t know …

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[24 May 2009 | Comments Off | ]
Tesla Roadster Engineering Prototype at Yahoo!.
Image via Wikipedia

(No, this is not our car!!)

My husband’s car died. Although I was hoping it could be fixed, that doesn’t happen because the motor is broken. Once it is an old car (more than twenty years old) it is not worth to spend money on it.

Fortunately my father in law has another old car (eighteen years) …

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[20 May 2009 | One Comment | ]

My car is being rebuilt. My FIL and BIL own a car repair shop and once I was having problems with my car they decided it was time to rebuilt it.

Engine is the same but inside all the small parts are new, meaning I will have a almost-new car for more 10 years.

The bad news is that my …

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[7 May 2009 | One Comment | ]

…I was getting married.…

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[26 Apr 2009 | Comments Off | ]
Brown cup of coffee
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Coffee is my best friend and my worse enemy. You might ask: How can it be possible?

Well, I love coffee and in working days I drink at least three a day. It is not regular coffee it is an express Portuguese coffee that is much stronger than those usually found in other countries.

I love the

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[8 Apr 2009 | Comments Off | ]

My daughter is in the mom’s shoes phase. Every day when she arrives home she puts on my shoes and walks around the house. I know all girls go through this phase, but it can turn out to be very annoying especially when the shoes make a lot of noise.

Yesterday after having a bath she said she was cold …

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[4 Jan 2009 | 6 Comments | ]

Sometimes I feel that my life is like sand in the wind, where I’m going to land?

New year was just a day after yesterday, life is the same, unsolved issues are the same, life situations are the same.

After 11 days away from work tomorrow I’ll be back to the office, the need for money makes me go back…nothing …

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[21 Dec 2008 | Comments Off | ]

As promised here is our Christmas Tree. No gifts under it because we don’t trust the kids.  On the floor we have the too chocolate calendars that they check every day for the daily chocolate. The decorations are the same from the previous years and we decided not to spend money buying new ones this year. As we have no …