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Candid Thoughts on Taking Pictures

Candid Thoughts on Taking Pictures

Last Friday, I decided on taking a break from procrastinating editing the thousands of pictures I have on my computer. When I say thousands I am not exaggerating. Sadly, I’m that kind of person that takes the pictues and never does anything with them. But I’m trying to change that about myself; hence, the three day picture editing marathon. Throughout the editing process, I’ve come to a few…

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Mindfulness Monday: Waiting

I wasn’t planning on writing any #mindfulnessmonday post today, but I find myself waiting for my husband to finish his office hours. We had planned to have a picnic while he waited for students to show up, it apparently they are freaking out with natural deductions. So while I wait, I decided to share with you my candid thoughts about where I am in my mindfulness journey.

Firstly, I have…

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Free Time Ideas - #2 Touch Typing Lessons

Free Time Ideas – #2 Touch Typing Lessons

As a kid, my parents bought my brothers and I a computer game that would teach us to touch typing. The problem with that, was that I understood the purpose of the game, but going to the next level was more important than learning. 25 years passed and I still feel the need to look at my fingers when I type.

So about a year ago I decided thatI should use my free time to get out of this terrible…

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Mindfulness​ Monday: Silence

In this crazy world we live, sometimes Silence might seem unachievable. The funny thing is that our brain needs silence to be able to function better. There’s a Huffington Post article from January 2017 with 4 science-backed reasons for why our brain needs silence, which are:

1. Silence helps relieve stress and tension. 2. Silence replenishes our mental resources. 3. In silence, we can tap into…

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Easy Cooking: Polenta and Greens for One!

*Bare with me right now. I’m going to try something completely new!*

Who said that cooking for one had to be boring? When I used to live by myself, people at my work thought I was kind of crazy to put so much effort into making meals for myself – especially since I didn’t have a stove in my apartment.

I’ve always found pleasure in cooking the food that I make.So it doesn’t really matter if I’m…

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Mindfulness Monday: Mindfulness and Curiosity One of my favorite things about living a more mindful lifestyle is being more curious about things.

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Free Time Ideas - #1 Have a Picnic

Free Time Ideas – #1 Have a Picnic

We all have to eat, right? And if you are like me, you really need to eat or else you’ll get hangry*. If you have a longer lunch break than usual, why not make it special and eat outside?

My husband was on winter break the last few weeks and we’d been spending so much time on our couch watching TV – we watched all the seasons of Game of Thrones in 10 days so you have an idea of how bad we are. If…

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Mindfulness Monday: How to Start a Mindfulness Practice.

  Now that the holidays have ended and my husband is back with his classes, it feels like the new year has officially started. We had guests over and extra quality time with my husband that I sort of had to put my mindfulness practices on hold.  I have to admit that a ton of overeating and mindless time in front of the TV was a huge part of the last three weeks – and I am not proud of it. That…

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Mindfulness Monday: New Beginnings

Coming from Brazil, the new year is much more than just a change in the calendar, as I’ve noticed here in the U.S. It’s a huge celebration of life met with an abundance of food and fireworks. For some, the new year is met with the marking of what life was the year before, for others it brings the idea of purging mistakes made or bad experiences lived. For many, it’s a much needed fresh start with…

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Mindfulness Monday: Comma Meditations

Meditation can be something intimidating if you never tried it before. The idea of being still for a certain amount of time can sound even impossible for some – sometimes even making time for meditation might not be achievable for some. What if I told you, that there’s a simple solution to that problem? Comma Meditations serve a break for your mind as well as an easy start for people who want to…

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Watching the birds fly

I have always lived in places where you can either see or listen to birds. The bedroom I grew up in had a tree just beside it. I’m not much of a morning person, but I would wake up every day with the sound of birds singing by my window. It would naturally put me in a good mood. I don’t listen to birds singing that often since moving to California, but here we get to see different kinds of birds…

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For those of you, who like me live in the United States, November is a month to be thankful. We shared meals with families and friends and took the time to appreciate them. Although we are very new to Orange County and that I don’t really get the cultural meaning of what Thanksgiving means, this November, Fabio and shared not one, but three Thanksgiving/Friendsgiving meals. It showed us the hospitality of the people here, as well and Christian love towards us – not to mention three amazing meals.

For the last few weeks, I have been thinking about the things that I am grateful for, and I realized that most times I’m complaining about things instead of appreciating the good parts of life. It’s so easy to complain, isn’t it? But complaining about things doesn’t really help me with my mental health and my relationships. I learned that I need to change focus and look at the good things and be thankful for them, trying to avoid complaining about the obvious bad things in life. I’m incorporating this into my life with the help of my trusted bullet journal. I’m adding a note to my daily entries with something I’m thankful for. I’m also adding a code for thankfulness to my tracker so I can see the big picture and focus on the frequency I remember to be thankful. What I need to keep in mind, is that I’m trying to be more thankful, but I’m also trying to show kindness towards myself, by not judging when I notice that I’m complaining or nagging.

Would you like to know what I’m thankful for? Sounds cliche, but I’m extremely thankful for friends and family. This month I have received so much love in so many different ways form friends and family. I’ve received two completely unexpected gifts by mail from friends that I hadn’t seen in a while; the constant support and readiness from my friends when they saw I needed them; the unconditional love, patience, and support from my husband; the care that my parents give me even with them so far away; I could go on and on.

Life throws some hard balls every now and then that doesn’t make it easy for us to see the good stuff, so we got to be vigilant… let me rephrase: I have to be vigilant and look for goodness even when nothing seems to be there. Thank you for letting me share my lessons with you.

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  What I Learned in November For those of you, who like me live in the United States, November is a month to be thankful.

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Mindfulness Monday: Are you Really Listening?

We’ve all had that moment where someone is talking to us, but when you stop to think, you don’t really know what was said. As I started to try to be more mindful, I found myself noticing that I wasn’t really present in the conversation I was having. Not that it was a topic I wasn’t interested or I had something more important in mind, I just spaced out and wasn’t really there. I then put myself…

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What is a Bullet Journal and How It Changed my Life

A little over I year ago, I ran into this thing called a Bullet Journal – bujo for short. You’ve probably seen it something about it already. If you don’t know what it is, a bullet journal is sort of a personalized planner– you’ll usually see them full of cute lettering and inspirational quotes, and people showing off their artistic talents. I’m far from an artistic person – I wish I was, to be…

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Mindfulness Monday: Are You Still Breathing?

  Isn’t it interesting how we forget we are breathing most times?  I was going through some mindfulness meditation activities and the proposed question for the exercise was: Are you still breathing? That got me thinking: how often am I really aware of my breath? Personally, I think more often than others, since I use breathing techniques to help me with anxiety attacks; still, not often enough. I…

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If you are a cat lover, or you know anything about cats, you’ve probably noticed their love for boxes. When we get a packaged by mail, our cats seem as excited as we, since they have a new place to hang out and do their thing. We have an empty shoe box in the bedroom for them to sleep in – that’s how important boxes are to our cats’ experience. So when we moved to SoCal, I started to look at the empty boxes and thought that maybe I could get a bit Experimental with them and make our lovely cats a castle made out of boxes.

So I developed a plan, and thought of all the materials that I would need to get this house cat house going. Do I need to say that they pretty much ignore it *face palm*. There’s not enough catnip in the world that would get the cats inside that house. I, personally, think it looks super cool but I don’t fit inside it. I did make a scratcher out of the leftover cardboard from the project, which ended up being quite successful. It’s the small victories that count, right?

The AMAZING cat house and scratcher my cats don’t use

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Initial Project in my Bullet Journal

Wilson sleeping in a random box

Blackie not using the house

  Experimental Cat House If you are a cat lover, or you know anything about cats, you've probably noticed their love for boxes.

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Mindfulness Monday: Free Mindfulness Online Classes

Mindfulness Monday: Free Mindfulness Online Classes

Mindfulness seems to be one of the biggest buzz words at the moment. When I started this journey into living a more mindful life I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I had this misconception that mindfulness was another word for meditation and that to meditate all I need is to be silent. How wrong was I! Luckily, the internet is full of great resources. Let me share with you all one that…

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