April 11, 2012

Casual night our with friends on a week day for trying out a restaurant in my home town that everyone is talking about: Bistro Buena Vista.

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Casual night our with friends on a week day for trying out a restaurant in my home town that everyone is talking about: Bistro Buena Vista.

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Got this neckless in the cutest indian store at Haight Ashbury in San Francisco almost 3 years ago. It's made in India and lovely!

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Some more details on the leather bracelet and the neckless.

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Got this pants less than a week ago. Hence why I'm so obsessed :D

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Date night com o marido

Depois de semanas trabalhando horas e horas por dia, eu e o marido resolvemos tirar uma quarta-feira pra conhecer um restaurante chique da nossa cidade natal, Maringá. O restaurante se chama Bacco, e é realmente muito bom!

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Ganhei esta bolsinha de natal do marido, e desde então não largo mais! É super pequena cabe só o celular, carteira de motorista e cartão de crédito. Perfeita pra quem não que carregar uma bolsa pesada e cheia de tranqueiras!

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Comprei as duas peças na mesma loja na José Paulino em São Paulo. Paixão a primeira vista. A calça com tecido imitando cobra é SENSACIONAL! A queridinha do momento!

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Sapatinhos da Triton que comprei em super promoção. Meus primeiros sapatos vermelhos... me apaixonei!

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Esta blusa também virou queridinha :) Ainda mais no friozinho que está hoje. Perfeito.

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Top reasons why I love living in California

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- Sunday is like a normal week day, everything is open!
- Listening to the radio is like listening to my favorite CD's;
- Our song (first kiss & wedding) is always being played on the radio;
- Summer is not so hot, winter is not so cold;
- Clothes and electronic devices cost 50% less than in Italy, 70% less than in Brazil;
- I get to learn new English words and improve my 3rd language;
- I am finally understanding why in all movies Halloween and Thanksgiving are so special for Americans;
- I am a Software engineer living in Silicon Valley, I know I said that before, but this is really cool;
- I go to classes in Stanford and in the UC.
- California way of life is not stressful nor chaotic.
- I take 30 minutes to go to the beach ( and 4 hours to go to the mountains =/)
- The nature around here is priceless!
- I get to say: I live in California! :D

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New Like Me

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Check out this new blog I'm doing with some friends who also are expatriates:
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I hope you enjoy it :D

Long time no see uh? heheheeh. I've been lazy to write here lately. Besides I couldn't switch on my home laptop for a while... stupid ME dropped beer on it!!!! And I wasn't even drunk... But the good news is, it's alive and running now ;)

Well... the news is: both university courses finished and I got A in both! So happy! Now I've already started the second class for UC PM certificate... these classes are on Saturday, almost 8 hours! but it's worth it, I'm finally learning how to use Microsoft Project, nice indeed!

Life in California is getting better and better. Now that the weekdays classes are over, I'm having more time for fun and to myself. I was finally able to do my laundry before my underwear finished, hehehe. We didn't travel lately... even if it's summer we've been a little laaaaaZY. Today we were supposed to go to the lovely Brazilian restaurant in Santa Cruz, or to Sanfran for a festival Roberto invited us... but ended up we didn't do neither. The weather wasn't so nice in any other city, but even if it was sunny in San Jose I didn't put my foot outside today. Well at least I cleaned the bathrooms urght!

Ah, I got a nice one. I went to zumba classes with Vivi and LOVED it, it's so fun! it's very similar to body Jam in Brazil, but it's only latin and kind of hip hop songs. Really fun. I wish I could move my hips like the other girls do... but well practice leads to perfection, and in this case also to loosing weight! good GOOD! :D

We've been to 2 nice concerts in the past weeks: Coldplay and The Fray. Both were really nice, but I just have one thing to say: concerts here are completely different from anywhere else I've ever been. Probably because they are so used to go to concerts here, people are really relaxed. So relaxed that they don't even sing... but that's probably because they don't know the songs. You see many families with small kids, so it gave me the impression that it's a normal family program... they go even if they don't know the band... just go there with all the kids, put their blankets in the lawn and do a nice picnic while the band plays. Different isn't it?


Today's new word: bumping uglies!!!!

Studying and Having fun!

It's been more than a week I don't write in my blog... but that is for a good reason: After my classes started I have no time for myself during the week, and on weekends I've been away traveling and having fun :)

So, the classes: I'm enjoying both of the Project Management courses I'm taking. The one in Stanford is lighter and easier... but the one in university of California is REALLY good! The instructor is great he knows everything about project management, and he is not just a theory guy, he worked for 30 years, so that's how good he knows his stuff. He gives us very realistic examples which makes it easier for us to understand.

I didn't start yoga classes... there is no time for that now, but I did start tennis classes, and I'm enjoying it. It's a pity I lost the first class, and i had to miss the last class to go to Coldplay concert, but it's ok... I will try to follow up with the rest of the girls.

We had a wonderful time in the past 2 weekends. Friday 3rd of July was holiday here, so we had a barbecue in our complex, it was fun, Vivi and I bought food for a whole army, hehehe, so it was a it expensive but we had food for 3 days after that :). The day after Rafa, Fernando, Andriana and I went to LA!!! So much fun! we went to Disneyland on Saturday, then we slept in LA, and had a little walk on Hollywood Blvd Sunday morning and then we headed to Universal Studios: SUPA COOL! :)



Last weekend, we had a Friday dinner in our house , Robi came too, it was nice but I had this huge headache, so I wasn't the nicest person on earth... hehehe But I did had fun after the medicine started making effect.
On Saturday we went cycling in Santa Cruz, and by mistake we found a great Brazilian restaurant Roberto knew about: loved it. I'm thinking of going there periodically... Santa cruz is just half an hour away, and you can enjoy the beach after having a feijoada! We rode our bikes until Capitola, easy and nice ride.
On Sunday we went to have breakfast in Palo Alto, a cute place which I don't remember the name... something Italian :). After that we went to Sanfran and did more than 20 miles on our bikes, from Robi's house to Tiburon, it was wonderful. I even felt from my bike (I'm not very good on using my brakes yet, hehehe) , so this week I have a very ugly hurt in my elbow: urght!






This morning we went to do our California ID's, I can't wait too see them!!!! :D


Today's new word: potty!

What could I ask more?

It's hard to express how happy I am these days... really life is being so good to me that I can't fit in my own body anymore :) .

Think about it: I'm a software engineer, living in silicon valley, having tuesday classes in USC, Thursdays classes in Stanford, I already have some good friends around here. Ok I don't work for Apple or Google but I do like my job and that is what counts isn't it? Speaking of Apple, I actually have a MacBook Air now, which , by the way, I bought in craiglist for a REALLY good price... Ain't I the coolest person??? I almost becoming a californian... I even do tennis classes on Monday and someone here told that it is a super californian thing... I just have to work on my english speaking + californian accent, hehe.

Then... besides all this California thing. I married the love of my life (and had the most wonderful wedding party), who fortunately aims the same things I do for life, who works in the same company as I do, getting then all this travel advantages together, who get along with me even with all my strange woman psychology, and who I can see from far loves me more than anything.

I always dreamed about the day I would be able to live abroad and go to Brazil every once and while to see my family, friends and have some of that wonderful brazilian life... and guess what? This year this will probably happen: I was in Brazil until february, I'm coming back there in September for Rafa's and his nephew birthday and I will probably be there for Christmas as well... what can I ask more???? Yeah getting rich would be fine... but that can wait, and it depends only from our effort.

I know this is a very selfish post... but really I'm so happy that i can't get enough of thanking God, our parents and also our employers for all this great things that are happening to me. THANK YOU!

Ah! By the way: today is Thursday and tomorrow is holiday here... :D :D :D

Today's new word:

Potluck