Christmas eve and day are not my cup of tea, mostly due to how we generally celebrate it in my family. In fact, it took me a while to realize I'm actually not the Grinch, I just haven't been celebrating it the way and with whom I'd most enjoy the Holidays. But the part that I do enjoy, not surprisingly at all considering...
Melancholy is a part of my soul. Looking back, reminiscing and analyzing past moments are everyday activities in my life. Which can be cruel to my present moment or enlightening to my future self. When we take a look back at what we have been through, the mistakes we've made and the decisions that lead us to our now, everything becomes clearer and...
Generally, I'm highly put off by people that describe themselves as oh-so-weird-oh-so-different for the main reason that 99,99% of the time, they are absolutely normal and have nothing crazy to share other than that time they said good night to someone while it was still 9 a.m. But oh, not Jenny Lawson. Not this girl. Jenny Lawson is that 0,01%. Jenny is the...
Last Sunday I went to a Los Hermanos concert. Los Hermanos is an old but forever young carioca band, which has been pleasing the youths of every generation for years now in Brazil. Despite not officially being together anymore, they do play random concerts with their old material every now and again. The concert was amazing, the day was perfectly cool and the...
I watch a LOT of Youtube videos and lately 90% of them have been Halloween-related. So I decided to compile some of my favorites from this year over here! 1 - The Donald Trump Hair Tutorial Kayley Melissa has been my favorite Hair-Stylist/Youtuber for years now. Everything hair related I've learned, I've learned with her. Every year, she does a series of hair...
A while ago I started feeling very unsettled and unhappy with myself and how life was going. I felt like I was waking up just to go to work and come back home to sleep again to work again to sleep again... I felt tired. All. The. Time. I felt stressed and suffocated. I had 3 trips to the hospital in the span...
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, as you most likely already know. Although this blog is pretty much non-serious and very hobby-inspired, I felt this was a subject that needed a bit of attention, worth a serious moment around here. Breast Cancer is the number one cancer to affect women around the world. In 2012, 1.7 million breast cancer cases were detected worldwide,...
The irony of this review relies on the fact that I got pickpocketed by a 10 year old-ish boy at 10 a.m. while going to my internship and carrying this book around for some commuting reading time. Oliver Twist is a classic story told and retold through theatre, movies and music. Written by Dickens and initially published as a monthly installment, the book...
If you haven't heard of The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up or the KonMari Method at this point you either live under a rock or you are not as obsessed with organization as I am. I'm gonna guess it's the second reason. Marie Kondo is a Japanese organization guru whose book got every one and their mothers desperate to declutter and rearrange...
This was never an idea of a post. I don't understand fashion and I'm not quite sure I'm able to even write a sentence on the subject, but these past few days I have fallen in love time after time with Selena Gomez's outfits and I HAVE to share this. I know there has been quite a lot of articles stating they are...
I was extremely wary on reading this book. I had heard wonders on Hemingway's writing and specifically on this book. However, I had also heard worrying things about Hemingway himself, his history, his personality, his vices. Those worried me. It was a matter of seconds to solve this issue, though. Hemingway's writing is indeed fantastic. It's raw, direct, transparent. Somehow, this man does...
I was not sure I was ever going to read The Casual Vacancy once it first came out. The reviews were not that great and I was slightly frightened of ruining the picture of Rowling I had in my head since Harry Potter. However, a dear friend and my sister both bought me a copy of the book as a gift and that...
4 months is how long it took for me to be able to think about writing this review. This book hit me like a ton of bricks directly on my head, knocked me down and destroyed me completely. It molded my end of the year, changed a relationship and scared me in multiple ways. But let me take a couple steps back. I...
