Maira Martins

Week 18: New smartphone

πŸ€§πŸ’‰ Did a prick allergy test! Allergic to all kinds of pollen and stratospheric levels of dust mites allergy! Doctor thinks the immunization shots would be nice in my case. 🌢️ Bought a Peugeot Paris pe...

weeknotes, Astro

Did an allergy prick test yesterday. Tested positive to a ton of stuff -- some known: birch pollen, dust mites; some suspected: almonds, cypress pollen; and some surprises: all other kinds of pollen, nuts, cats and DOGS!

Week 17: November

I fell off the wagon completely after my blogging partner (mom) went back home, and this weeknote is three weeks long, lol. πŸš— I started my driving lessons! AAAAAAAAAH! 🎨 Gifted myself a Disney colorin...

weeknotes, Astro, coloring book

Watched: Alien Earth Season 1 πŸ“Ί

Watched Alien: Earth Season 1 πŸ“Ί Full of plot holes and nonsensical things, moderately entertaining. The best actor was definitely the octopus-eye, such a character! πŸ‘½πŸ™πŸ‘οΈ

tv

Xmas present to self

a coloring book page

Already gave myself my own early xmas present: a Disney colour by number book and a box of crayola markers! πŸŽ¨πŸ–

No desire to blog this week, but just wanted to write for posterity: started driving lessons last week! Drove all over town and on the highway too! Anxious and insomniac AF over this, but also having fun.

Week 16: Home alone

😍 My mom flew back to Brazil – his mom had gone back to Sweden a couple weeks ago. We are finally alone at home in Valencia, for the first time in three months, just the two of us and our dogs, and it...

weeknotes, journaling

Recipe: DIY Baileys

I've been perfecting this recipe for over a year now, and I think this version is really good. It's so good we need to purposefully NOT make it, otherwise J. and I drink it all at once. Be warned, ABV...

recipes

My sourdough starter died! πŸ₯– With the travel to Italy and our mothers here trying to take over my kitchen, I ended up not baking for 3 weeks, and now Ryan is gone. Completely moldy, smelly and beyond salvation. RIP. πŸͺ¦

"Drawing... it is the best thing that I ever do. First of all because it gets me to be so silent. To not be blurting out what I think about this or feel about that. Second, I become an open observer, jotting down visual notes about something I see. And third, it puts me in the world of praise. To be looking upon an object and taking the time to sketch it is an innocent, unaggressive, and grounding act. It is where bliss resides. It is pure being..."

β€” D. Price, The Moonlight Chronicles.