Happy 2012

It's been awhile:)

Happy new Year!!...  No big resolutions... but have a feeling that will be the best one yet!!!:) Almost done with the dessert!!!

"Mangas arregassadas" .

1st 10K ... 1:11... Bday number....1105... :):)

Fall in Atlanta - 2012

My Photography class is paying off.. I feel very inspired lately!

The man who seeks beauty will find it!!

The truth about magic!!!

This made me wonder.... magic always comes and in and out of our houses and lives... but we can always be believers.. in Santa, in love, in magic...... and maybe she is right!!! maybe we just need to believe in things that we can't touch or see...  at least it make it easier to go thought our darkest moments:)

"A few months back, the Tooth Fairy got busted. She left a note for Alice up on her computer, and Lucy figured the whole business out. The Tooth Fairy cursed her need to write notes in elaborate fonts and tried to come up with a cover story, but it didn’t fool Lucy.

To her credit, Lucy has kept the secret from her little sister, who still hasn’t lost a tooth and deserves to wake up with money under her pillow.

But the Tooth Fairy knew it couldn’t be too long before Santa was similarly unmasked. She didn’t know when or how, but she knew the days of magic in her house, at least magic of a certain sort, were coming to an end.

And the Tooth Fairy—by which I mean myself—was pretty darned sad about the inevitable, which finally arrived last week.

Lucy and I have been exchanging notes since the school year started. We’ve talked about all sorts of things—sports, books we’d like to read, adventures we’d like to have, even stories from when I was in third grade. For the most part, though, it’s been light, casual stuff. Until last week.

I NEED TO KNOW, she wrote, using capital letters for emphasis. ARE YOU SANTA? TELL ME THE TRUTH.

What do you do when your kid asks for the truth? You tell it, of course, doing your best to figure out a way that keeps at least some of the magic intact.

Here’s what I wrote:

Dear Lucy,

Thank you for your letter. You asked a very good question: “Are you Santa?”

I know you’ve wanted the answer to this question for a long time, and I’ve had to give it careful thought to know just what to say.

The answer is no. I am not Santa. There is no one Santa.

I am the person who fills your stockings with presents, though. I also choose and wrap the presents under the tree, the same way my mom did for me, and the same way her mom did for her. (And yes, Daddy helps, too.)

I imagine you will someday do this for your children, and I know you will love seeing them run down the stairs on Christmas morning. You will love seeing them sit under the tree, their small faces lit with Christmas lights.

This won’t make you Santa, though.

Santa is bigger than any person, and his work has gone on longer than any of us have lived. What he does is simple, but it is powerful. He teaches children how to have belief in something they can’t see or touch.

It’s a big job, and it’s an important one. Throughout your life, you will need this capacity to believe: in yourself, in your friends, in your talents and in your family. You’ll also need to believe in things you can’t measure or even hold in your hand. Here, I am talking about love, that great power that will light your life from the inside out, even during its darkest, coldest moments.

Santa is a teacher, and I have been his student, and now you know the secret of how he gets down all those chimneys on Christmas Eve: he has help from all the people whose hearts he’s filled with joy.

With full hearts, people like Daddy and me take our turns helping Santa do a job that would otherwise be impossible.

So, no. I am not Santa. Santa is love and magic and hope and happiness. I’m on his team, and now you are, too.

I love you and I always will.

Mama"

from 

http://www.cozi.com/live-simply/truth-about-santa

30 DAYS TO A BETTER PHOTO SERIES

1. Find Your Camera Manual
2. Shooting Fast vs. Shooting Slow
3. Controlling the Faucet – Learning ISO
4. Understanding Aperture, Part 1
5. Understanding Aperture, Part 2
6. Tackling Depth of Field
7. The Exposure Triangle
8. Scales
9. Meter Maids – In Camera Metering
10. Tips for Shooting Manually – Link Up
11. What’s White Balance?
12. Setting Custom White Balance
13. Histo-huh? What’s a histogram?
14. Histograms in the Field
15. Exposure Compensation
16. The Low Down on Lenses
17. What camera do you have?
18. When natural light won’t cut it
19. Art in Photography
20. Elements of Composition
21. Post Production
22. Levels vs Curves in Photoshop
23. What’s a Layer Mask?
24. How to Install Photoshop Actions – featuring Jodi from MCP Actions
25. Photoshop Actions Resource List
26. When too much is too much.
27. How to Resize your Images to Share on the Web
28. 12 Steps to a Sharper Image
29. My Workflow
30. Thank you & Live the Moments

http://my3boybarians.com/31-days-series/

Fortune Cookie

Apartment therapy

Happiness

Is it true????

I never learned to count my blessings

I choose instead to dwell in my disasters....

Bon Voyage

You are....

Wedding Video + best song ever for it!!!

http://vimeo.com/13652150

The best things.....

http://www.danatanamachi.com/

Dusty Tunes -

Decorative

Alexander - A million Years

When I feel in love!!!

Ceil Chapman - Vintage Chiffon Dress

If you want to view paradise

Come with me and you’ll be
In a world of pure imagination
Take a look and you’ll see
Into your imagination
We’ll begin with a spin
Trav’ling in the world of my creation
What we’ll see will defy
Explanation
If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it…
Anything you want to, do it…
Want to change the world, there’s nothing to it
There is no life I know
To compare with pure imagination
Living there, you’ll be free
If you truly wish to be…
There is no life I know
To compare with pure imagination
Living there, you’ll be free
If you truly wish to be

– “Pure Imagination” from the soundtrack to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), lyrics & music by Anthony Newley

My week long date with Donald Draper starts tonite!!!

Affair with coffee!

I started to really crave for coffee!! Is it the office world???

My 1st 5K

Making time to see!!

Home...

Garden State


- You know that point in your life when you realize the house you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of a sudden even though you have some place where you put your shit, that idea of home is gone.
Sam: I still feel at home in my house.
- You'll see one day when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it's gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist. Maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't ever have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I don't know, but I miss the idea of it. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place.

Mad Style!!!!!!

10 Good things:)

* fresh flower - specially Tulips
* chocolate eggs
* polka dots
* spring
* mellow music for a lazy sunday
* flip flops
* dog licks
* playing in the dirt
* fresh herbs
* quotes that make me feel good

Take this broken wings and learn to fly....

Found this little baby on the ground after the big storm last night! Took him to the bird sanctuary... so fragile... hope it can make it...

Street Art ...

Dear World,

You’ve been giving me a tough time lately (a cocktail of hormones, chemical imbalances and a couple of unfortunate life events) but I still love you. I know, that there will always be a calm after the storm and...

Rosemari

Happiness Project - !!!!

I believe happines is my DESTINATION!!!

"If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you."

When we were young:):):)

All the Sand in All the Sea!!!

To my Friend!!

From Eat, Pray, LOVE - Elizabeth  Gilbert

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long. I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and Braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

Tonight, this strange interior gesture of friendship—the lending of a hand from
me to myself when nobody else is around to offer solace—reminds me of something that happened to me once in New York City. I walked into an office building one afternoon in a hurry, dashed into the waiting elevator. As I rushed in, I caught an unexpected glance of myself in a security mirror’s reflection. In that moment, my brain did an odd thing—it fired off this split-second message: “Hey! You know her! That’s a friend of yours!” And I actually ran forward toward my own reflection with a smile, ready to welcome that girl whose name I had lost but whose face was so familiar. In a flash instant of course, I realized my mistake and laughed in embarrassment at my almost doglike confusion over how a mirror works. But for some reason that incident comes to mind again tonight during my sadness in Rome, and I find myself writing this comforting reminder at the bottom of the page.

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a FRIEND…

I fell asleep holding my notebook pressed against my chest, open to this most recent assurance. In the morning when I wake up, I can still smell a faint trace of depression’s lingering smoke, but he himself is nowhere to be seen. Somewhere during the night, he got up and left. And his buddy loneliness beat it, too."

"When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings."

Free Will Astrology

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When you travel to Mozambique, the Ministry of Fish and Wildlife gives you a warning about the frequency of human encounters with lions out in nature. "Wear little noisy bells so as to give advanced warning to any lions that might be close by so you don't take them by surprise," reads the notice you're handed. I'm certain, Scorpio, that no matter where you are in the coming week — whether it's Mozambique or elsewhere — you won't have to tangle with beasts as long as you observe similar precautions. So please take measures to avoid startling goblins, rascals and rogues. If you visit a dragon's domain, keep your spirit light and jingly. If you use a shortcut that requires you to pass through the wasteland, sing your favorite nonsense songs as you hippety-hop along.

Today I (am)...

enjoying my new apartment

looking forward all the homemade meals that I'll cook at home

loving my doggies that give me so much emotional support

appreciating a whole night sleep in my bed

moving slowly after a high energy wekend

appreciating a whole night sleep in my bed

feeling grateful for my new discoveries

hoping for a smooth and gentle day. Let it start by being gentle with ourselves...

Good Morning!!!!!!!

It was such a great dream!!!! For a second I thought it was real.... and we could have it all!!!
Welcome back!!!

Spring Has Sprung!!!!

Strange face, with your eyes

So pale and sincere

Underneath, you know well

You have nothing to fear

For the dreams that came to you

when you were young

Told of a life where spring has sprung

You would seem so frail

In the cold of the night

When the armies of emotion

Go out to fight

But while the earth

Sinks to its grave

You sail to the sky

On the crest of a wave

So forget this cruel world

Where I belong

I'll just sit and wait

And sing my song

And if one day

you should see me in the crowd

Lend a hand and lift me

To your place in the cloud

Cello Songs - Jose Gonzalez

Powerful Quake and Tsunami Devastate Northern Japan

(N.Y. TIMES – March 11-2011) TOKYO — Rescuers struggled to reach survivors on Saturday morning as Japan reeled after an earthquake and a tsunami struck in deadly tandem. The 8.9-magnitude earthquake set off a devastating tsunami that sent walls of water washing over coastal cities in the north. Concerns mounted over possible radiation leaks from two nuclear plants near the earthquake zone.


Thousands of homes were destroyed, many roads were impassable, trains and buses were not running, and power and cellphones remained down. On Saturday morning, the JR rail company said that there were three trains missing in parts of two northern prefectures.

On Friday, at 2:46 p.m. Tokyo time, the quake struck. First came the roar and rumble of the temblor, shaking skyscrapers, toppling furniture and buckling highways. Then waves as high as 30 feet rushed onto shore, whisking away cars and carrying blazing buildings toward factories, fields and highways.

By Saturday morning, Japan was filled with scenes of desperation, as stranded survivors called for help and rescuers searched for people buried in the rubble. Kazushige Itabashi, an official in Natori City, one of the areas hit hardest by the tsunami, said several districts in an area near Sendai’s airport were annihilated.

The station also showed scenes of people stranded on a bridge, cut off by water on both sides near the mouth of the Abukuma River in Miyagi Prefecture.


Japanese, accustomed to frequent earthquakes, were stunned by this one’s magnitude and the more than 100 aftershocks, many equivalent to major quakes.

“I never experienced such a strong earthquake in my life,” said Toshiaki Takahashi, 49, an official at Sendai City Hall. “I thought it would stop, but it just kept shaking and shaking, and getting stronger.”

On Friday, television images showed waves of more than 12 feet roaring inland in Japan. The floodwaters, thick with floating debris shoved inland, pushed aside heavy trucks as if they were toys. The spectacle was all the more remarkable for being carried live on television, even as the waves engulfed flat farmland that offered no resistance. The tsunami could be seen scooping up every vessel in the ocean off Sendai, and churning everything inland. The gigantic wave swept up a ship carrying more than 100 people, Kyodo News reported.

The tsunami assaulted Hawaii with seven-foot waves, although it caused little damage. Powerful surges that hit the West Coast of the United States caused boats to sink in Santa Cruz Harbor.

When such quakes set off a tsunami, the devastation often comes from a succession of waves, which can cross oceans at 500 miles per hour or more.

Moving on....

Or at least I'm trying...

This is a little piece o my new home... It makes me happy to see a stack of things that I"ve been collecting for awhile.... sometimes feels that home is not just a imaginary place!

Love ... What it is...

I found this site called www.relationshit.com..... brutally honest dating advice for the cynical, bitter and jaded.  GREAT!!!!!!

"'This is the best definition of love that we've heard yet.

Love is when BOTH of you think you're "dating up".""


In other words, you feel as though you're getting someone better than you deserve. You think you're getting away with something.


Or, as Artie Shaw was quoted as saying, "Love is an agreement between two people to overestimate each other." Brilliant.


But it ABSOLUTELY has to be mutual.


We can't stress this enough. And the only way to tell is through actions. Are they acting like they wouldn't rather be anywhere besides with you?


This is the basis of respect and it's the only thing that will keep a relationship together the next time some 19-year-old with tight buns smiles at one of you.


Love isn't the romantic crap they spout on TV-movies or in Romance novels. Because no one can read your mind well enough to provide that. Love is a partnership with sex thrown in for fun.


Love is not about "completing" someone.


It's not a healthy relationship unless both of you are fully formed, well-adjusted adults already. And it's not about "needs". It's about "wants". If you really need someone, maybe you're a little too desperate and should seek serious counseling. Wanting someone is a conscious decision. It's selfish, but in a healthy way.


Just don't kid yourself that you're in love when you're not sure the other person feels the same way. If they do, you might be. If they don't, you aren't.


You'll recognize Love because it will be unlike anything you've ever experienced. That's why people say, you'll know. Because you will. (You must then, by definition, not marry the first person you date or you'll have no basis for comparison...)

Tell Your Story

a card... to my inner me:)

I wish you enough:)

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray the day may appear.

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more..

I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.

I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger.

I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting…
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.

I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good- bye.

AMIGOS:)

To my Mel.... always sweet!! Happy Bday DEAR FRIEND!!!!

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” – Ben Okri

Candice Olsen

My faorite designer!!! my favorite bedroom!!!

Pile of goodness!!!

Dasch Sunday Funday!!! We like to hang out like that ......piled up:):)

10 Decisions change your life!!!

What a great song!!! I must confess that I had bigger expectantios for the movie Somewhere! But the stillness, the song, the photography and the conection between people (in this case the lack of) made it worth it!!!

Mini-midlife crises:)

Sometimes I can't help but think ...
The biological clock is ticking away;
my eggs are dying..
and my ovaries are screaming for something warm and cute to cuddle.

Little Projects!!!!

I'm proud of our guest bedroom project!:)

Wayne Coyne

Do you realize/ Flaming lips

One, two, three, four -

Do You Realize - that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize - we're floating in space -
Do You Realize - that happiness makes you cry
Do You Realize - that everyone you know someday will die

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun don'-go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round

Do You Realize - Oh - Oh - Oh
Do You Realize - that everyone you know
Someday will die -
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun don'-go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round

Do You Realize - that you have the most beautiful face

Nem tudo que parece eh!

I started my new job today... at the consulate... fingers crossed.... I'm excited!!!!

"OUVIRAM DO IPIRANGA AS MARGENS PLÁCIDAS

DE UM POVO HERÓICO O BRADO RETUMBANTE,

E O SOL DA LIBERDADE, EM RAIOS FÚLGIDOS,,

BRILHOU NO CÉU DA PÁTRIA NESSE INSTANTE....."

Happy 2011!!!

I'll make this a great year!!!
A more mature, and disciplined Rosemari... is about to enter the world...
I'm not a Big fan of new years resolutions.... but what would be of Jan 1s without them???

Ss here it goes...
I'd love to commit myself for longer times in things, friends, books, photography, writing..
Would love to visit Paris.....
I'm not a junkie eater, but healtier is always better:)
The wind of change is coming throught!!!!!

WELCOME THE BEST YEAR OF OUR LIVES!!! (so far)