What is up with all the clouds? It has been cloudy for almost a full week and a half. There was a tiny ray of sun that came through the clouds the day before yesterday and it felt so weird. I was sitting in the car waiting for a friend of mine to come out of his dentist appointment, when my arm started to itch. I looked down and there was one little strip of light that was running across my arm. I looked at the street and there was no other place it was hitting. It felt weird to think that quite possibly I was the only person in the whole city who felt the sun that whole day. Is it possible? Weird if I was. Almost as weird and impossible as being the only one awake in the entire city at one given time. That would feel really weird I think. Hmmm now my mind is wandering. I should bring it back.
So, Brazil without sun is a little depressing, but I am sure soon enough I am going to be begging for the clouds and rain.
I swear I have not stopped.
I swear I am not done writing in this blog. I have just had a lot of things going on this last month. I will be back this week just as before. So... please stay tuned :)
Happy (belated) Independence day Brazil.
Brazil gained independence from Portugal on 7 September 1822, when Dom Pedro I, stood his ground against the rule of the portuguese king.
Here is a little bit from wikipedia about the event.
When King João VI finally returned to Portugal, in the early 1820s, most of the privileges that had been accorded to Brazil were rescinded, sparking the ire of local nationalists. Pedro, who had remained in the country as regent, sided with the nationalist element and even supported the Portuguese Constitutionalist movement that led to the revolt in Porto in 1820. When pressed by the Portuguese court to return, he refused. For that, he was demoted from regent to a mere representative of the Lisbon court in Brazil. This news reached him on 7 September 1822, when he had just arrived in São Paulo, from a visit to the port of Santos. On the banks of the Ipiranga River, he unsheathed his sword, removed the blue and white Portuguese shield from his coat, and declared "Independence or death!" This later became his famous speech O grito do Ipiranga (The Cry of Ipiranga). He was proclaimed Emperor of Brazil on 12 October his 24th birthday, and crowned on December 1.
Happy Independence day Brazil!
I took the week off... sorry!
I took a week off from blogging, not because I had something important to do, but because I didn’t feel much like writing last week. I woke up this morning feeling a lot better and decided to go ahead and get this out of my way. I have done quite a bit this morning in the short hour I have been awake. I don’t usually find the energy to get going right away, but I did today.
* cleaned bird poop off the wall,
* threw the blankets the dog peed on in the wash
* cleaned up dog poop from the sun room.
Actually come to think of it, the whole time was spent cleaning up pet messes. I guess that must be just a little of what it feels like to be a mom, you wake up to clean up the mess from yesterday. I am not complaining, just wish these animals more control of where they decide to relieve themselves.
* cleaned bird poop off the wall,
* threw the blankets the dog peed on in the wash
* cleaned up dog poop from the sun room.
Actually come to think of it, the whole time was spent cleaning up pet messes. I guess that must be just a little of what it feels like to be a mom, you wake up to clean up the mess from yesterday. I am not complaining, just wish these animals more control of where they decide to relieve themselves.
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