Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | Author: pri
From Veggies and Verl

Summer is definitely here, and a new thing in my life is our veggie garden! We have zucchini, peppers, Thai and Italian basil, and oregano. The spices are great - we’ve harvested them several times already, and they are so yummy!! We’ve got a small zucchini to try, and the peppers are still green, but I am excited about them - all look very happy! We also have 2 tomatoes, and the dozen of blueberries that will turn blue eventually - but they are still greenish.

I’m enjoying the summer, not only with flowers, but also our own veggies.

The other V was Verl’s visit (with Sue and Michael). It was fun to have them here for a week. Verl is growing fast and he is a very sweet and polite boy! Good job, Sue and Michael!

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Wednesday, June 03rd, 2009 | Author: pri

Nossa….

I loved my whole birthday weekend! I started with a 1 hour massage with Millie and then the party - lots of friends came to our house for a game-party and it was FUN!

On Saturday we flew to Cleveland to surprise David’s parents - it was the day of George’s 70th birthday party. it was a gift for him and also for all of us - it’s always very fun to visit! I also had the opportunity to glaze my own little ceramic “pots” that I had made in our last visit in December. (right?)

On Sunday, back to Indianapolis, David took me to a Spanish restaurant  (Barcelona?) and we had great, really delicious food (the idea was to go to San Torini, but it was closed - so we’ll go there next time).

I was pretty happy!! We drove to Mason, to our next adventure for my actual birthday: Kings island!

2009-06 Pri Birthday

9:30 am we arrived in the extremely empty parking lot - very unusual!! We actually entered the park, but had to wait until 10am for the “streets” to open to general public, so we gathered there with some dozens of adolescents. The excitement was building up - everybody was getting more and more anxious and at 10am we heard the National Anthem in the speakers all around the park. It was sung very beautifully by a woman - no instruments.

At10am the sidewalks inside the park opened and we kind of run to our first ride:

Face-off (now called InVertigo): its was a great ride to start! and actually one of my favorites!

David:”The 2 fee-requiring “rides” were on sale from $25 to $5, so we did both of them, and they were amazing.”

Slingshot: I loved it! They aim you to the sky and…. VUPT! There you go like a little ball shot in the air! I felt like I was levitating - I opened my arms as if I were meditating - it was almost a spiritual experience. I recommend - and it’s not scary at all.

Xtreme Skyflyer: It was like a dream - I didn’t know what this ride was about (David knew) and the woman explaining was talking real fast. We had to put on a heavy “front vest” that had a hook in the center of our backs. We walked up to this kind of podium, in the center of this “ride”. Then, they said hold on this kind of low wall (that appeared from nowhere) to help you continue to be standing up… Then they continued talking and David and I had to hold to our arms in a specific way, and then suddenly “VUPT!”we were facing the ground! There was a hook pulling us up from the ground until 153 feet high. Well, after the shock of being so high up in the sky I remembered that I was the one to pull a cord that would unlatch us and make us “fly”. David had decided way back when they were speaking very fast and told them that I would do it.   Ah! It was hard to release that right arm (that was grabbing Davids arm) to find the yellow thingy that I had to pull. But then, when I do it - nothing - the free fall was really scary in the first second or so. Then it was just the amazement of flying. Really really REALLY unforgettable. I recommend to anyone that is not afraid of heights.

David: “After that, we rode every single (grownup) coaster, multiple times as we wanted - 4 on The Beast, 3 on the very nice new coaster (Diamondback). About half of the coaster rides were “walk on”, that is, there was at least one empty stall when you got into the boarding area.  We did a lot of waiting for the front car, which Pri loves. By late afternoon we were almost tired of roller coasters and quite hot, so we spent a little over an hour at the water park, to which we’d never been.”

I happily bought a swimsuit for me as part of the gift that Donna had given to me for my birthday, and also paid for the lockers, then David and I could enjoy the water park together. It was the refreshment I needed, since I was feeling really hot and tired. I even tried a water slide, which confirmed that I don’t really like this type of “ride”. But being in the water for an hour made me feel ready for more!!

So.. we still went back to more roller coasters, including the Racer, according to David, his first roller coaster. We also had a lot of fun in the “Scooby-doo” castle - for kids - we had to shoot the targets while the car was moving to make the cartoon move. David beat the record of the house! :)

I had a blast. It was a very fun, exciting and relaxing day!!

What a lucky person I am! Thanks David for wanting to share this unique celebration with me!

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 | Author: pri

Well, sorry to take SO long to post, but I’ve been busy!

:)

Well, loads of things happening in our house, which you can see soon in our blog.

With me, not too much, besides this link

More gardening

to more pictures of our garden!

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 | Author: pri

So… now it’s decided! We are going to Kings Island for my 35th birthday! (June 1st).

The funny and the cutest thing is that David and I went there together (as friends!…) in June 2006, a little before we started dating. I’m looking forward to it!!

Click the image for more!

David and I in Kings Island

David and I in Kings Island

Sunday, April 19th, 2009 | Author: pri

And if this doesn’t work… try this link.
Se este slideshow nao funcionar, tente este link aqui.

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Friday, April 03rd, 2009 | Author: pri

To celebrate my hundredth post, I found these incredible beautiful pictures, and wanted to share with you!! (Click in the image)

Pra celebrar meu centesimo “post” escolhi estas lindas fotos pra vcs verem! Cliquem na imagem)

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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 | Author: pri

” all the greatest and most importnat problems of life are fundamentally unsolvable….. [ they are] not solved logically in [their] own terms but fade when confronted with a new and stronger life urge.”

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 | Author: pri

How do you immagine your mom before she met your father? How do you immagine your father before he even met her? What personnality traits are still recognizable after they met, and after they started a family? How much of their beliefs, aims, habits and pass-times are different since they met, and/or since they started a family? Of course part of this we can’t answer but I wonder.

How much people change once they have a family?
If we have a unique personal essence, how much of it continues shinning with us independently of our choices/phases in life?

…………………………..

Como voce imagina sua mãe antes de ter conhecido seu pai? Como vc imagina seu pai antes disso? Quais traços de personalidade continuaram presentes? Quais as crenças, objetivos, passatempos e hábitos eles tinham antes, e quanto disso se manteve depois? Quanto fica da essencia original de cada um separadamente depois de casar e formar uma familia? Parte disso nao podemos responder, mas vale a pena pensar…

Se temos uma essencia só nossa, quanto dela se perpetua e se mantém viva e radiante durante toda a vida, e quanto nós abandonamos dependendo da circunstancia/fase em que vivemos?

Coisas pra pensar…

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 | Author: pri

Well,

This weekend was a bunch of cancellations:

I haven’t been working since Thursday afternoon, our Movie-Thank you party on Saturday would have been an invitation to make people sick, and the Cheesy-Rock-Band party at Fiona/Doug’s would have been a frustration, since I can’t barely speak, imagine sing!

Well, then David and I,  every time I was awake and felt a little better (probably when the fever went away) we/I did some productive/fun things. So…

- we finished painting the Hoosier Cabinet. (pictures will come soon)
- I marveled the beautiful little flowers growing everywhere by our house!
- I almost finished the new Sugar Hill flyer and logo for the T-shirt
- I’ve been researching webdesign in the internet - Thanks, Ian!
- we watched one of the movies that we had rented for the party
- we hid all the cables in the ceiling, making our home theater very professional-looking
- we made fresh pasta!! For the first time I saw how fun and easy it is! Check the pictures…
- When David was at Kroger’s today I played piano - so good to have the ability to make music even when my voice fails… (check previous post)

I’m so blessed…

Here you have some of the pictures I mentioned:

miscelaneous March2009
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 | Author: pri

Hoje tenho estado muda ja que estou com laringite… Foi um imensa alegria sentar ao piano e tocar esta musica que eu estudei quando eu tinha 11 anos. Imaginem so’… Nao eh nada complicada, mas tenho um carinho especial por ela. Enquanto eu tocava percebi que as frases musicais eram como frases com palavras. Nao que eu soubesse cada uma das palavras, mas era como uma estoria que eu estava contando Esta estoria era a minha estoria. Uma menina agitadinha, com ares romanticos, imaginando todas as coisas maravilhosas que a vida me trara, mas que num belo dia caiu doente (como nesta semana, por exemplo!)… Dai, vem todo o processo de se curar e olhar pra tras e rir das dificuldades encontradas. Nao eh facil descrever, mas eu queria compartilhar com voces que se interessam por mim, este momento especial de hoje (o David estava comprando ingredientes pra minha “piscina de vegetais”).

Estou estudando outras que eu tbm adoro. Quem sabe gravo tambem, quando eu estiver fazendo menos erros!

A musica eh um dom… E eu sou abencoada por poder me expressar atraves da musica, mesmo quando a voz nao sai, como hoje. Obriga mae e pai por terem me dado a oportunidade de estudar musica.