Finally managed to arrange all my new pretty make up bought in the US. Took some creativity to make it all fit in my closet while still being practical, but I did it! Even my Mum is proud of my tidying up skills, and she's almost OCD about it ( Read more... )

I know I've been AWOL, but ( Read more... )

And Brazil is out of the World Cup.

I feel sad, of course. After all, this is still the selecao, and there are some players that I do really like a whole damn lot (and some of them won't have another shot at World Cups because of their age) - but good Lord, this is Dunga's team. And no Dunga's team deserves to be in the semis ( Read more... )

Thanks everyone that sent me e-mails, private messages, tweets and virtual gifts in the last couple of days! You guys are really the best! *hugs*Situation here in Niterói is better, mostly because it's stopped raining so goddamn much, but the weather is still weird. People are still working in the affected areas, but there's no hope that we'll find ( Read more... )

So this week became a lot more tragic than we originally thought it would be ( Read more... )

Oh, Haiti. If there's a country that really doesn't need this kind of catastrophic tragedies, that's it.

My heart and prayers are with those who lost their lives, their relatives, their homes.

( The Good. )