OMG! That was our life for the first 2 months! Same exact thing with the internet hookup, waiting all day for weeks for deliveries, and the suction cup on the sponge holder not sticking! Same! The other night, we got woken up by the stick-on toilet paper holder falling off the wall and into the metal trash can. Fun stuff!
We gave up on our stick-on toilet brush actually sticking on to anything. What did you end up doing for a sponge holder? We're still working on that one ...
UNDER the sink. Oh interesting. Hadn't thought of that. I actually turned our sponge holder into a soap holder in the shower stall because the suction cups stick to the glass of the stall and we had no other place to store the soap. But under the sink is a possibility I need to explore. Thank you!
Well, I don't know what MEO is, and I don't know how to use a hotspot or some of the other tech you mentioned, but I do know how to slow down, sit on the lanai for a couple of hours with cat on lap and just contemplate the nature outside my door. I highly recommend it.
Nice post! Slowing down is the best plan. Even WITH devices. Good luck "next week." We're still waiting for the new locking mechanism for our evil bathroom door - 2+ weeks. Talvez na proxima semana.
Lovely photo of Josie,but then,she is so photogenic!
The climbing nasturtium behind the bike made me think of Grandpa. He liked them. I have a dwarf variety planted in a container as we don't have a lovely stone wall.❤️
Since blowing out my knee at Sunday River in March, I have been forced to slow down a bit. It's irritating. But I am also sure it's a sign from the Universe that I need to refocus some of my energy on being more at peace with the world. I will watch a sunset in your honor this evening! (Right after I get home from PT.)
Oh no! I hope the knee recovers quickly. And also that you are able to take in the lessons of slowness and make them part of your life even after you have full freedom of movement.
I'm very bad on small talk with strangers, and of course anyone who is working e.g. in a supermarket doesn't have time to stop to chat, so I have yet to engage with falantes de português, of which there are many around here. Enough that the City of Malden actually arranged to make a local high school an official polling place for the recent Brazilian election.
I've only just started learning Portuguese. I did reach the stage where I now say "I speak a little Spanish" using online lessons and language companions.
If you actually have a chance to spend ten or fifteen minutes with someone, what I've found is very helpful is to have something printed--a book, magazine, printout of a website--in the target language that features relatively easy language. In the case of Portuguese, what I'm using now is Turma da Monica gibis--comic books. Apparently it is a cultural universal in Brazil that everyone reads them when they are learning to read. You can find them online at no cost in archive.org.
You can use them in so many ways. You can, for example, just try to describe what is in the panels. "Cascão is looking out the window. He thinks it is raining. I see an orange rug. I see a purple sofa. I see green curtains. Cascão hates baths and hates getting wet."
Of course you can read the dialog, and try to ask questions about words and expressions you don't understand.
Of course this only works with someone who is actually willing to teach you.
I've been paying for lessons via an online service called Italki. There are others, that's the one I know. The other features of the website aren't very useful, but the marketplace for connecting students and teachers is good, and I haven't had a bad teacher yet. The cost of lessons is typically on the order of $12/hour. Well, now that I think about it I wouldn't be surprised if teachers living in Portugal charge more than those living in Brazil. The lessons are just human lessons via videocalls, and there isn't any uniform structures, every teacher just teaches in their own way.
OMG! That was our life for the first 2 months! Same exact thing with the internet hookup, waiting all day for weeks for deliveries, and the suction cup on the sponge holder not sticking! Same! The other night, we got woken up by the stick-on toilet paper holder falling off the wall and into the metal trash can. Fun stuff!
We gave up on our stick-on toilet brush actually sticking on to anything. What did you end up doing for a sponge holder? We're still working on that one ...
It’s hanging precariously by one suction cup under our sink.
UNDER the sink. Oh interesting. Hadn't thought of that. I actually turned our sponge holder into a soap holder in the shower stall because the suction cups stick to the glass of the stall and we had no other place to store the soap. But under the sink is a possibility I need to explore. Thank you!
Well, I don't know what MEO is, and I don't know how to use a hotspot or some of the other tech you mentioned, but I do know how to slow down, sit on the lanai for a couple of hours with cat on lap and just contemplate the nature outside my door. I highly recommend it.
It is quite nice, yes (and MEO is our internet/tv provider - sorry we weren't clear).
Nice post! Slowing down is the best plan. Even WITH devices. Good luck "next week." We're still waiting for the new locking mechanism for our evil bathroom door - 2+ weeks. Talvez na proxima semana.
HA! Literally as I hit POST on that comment, the phone rang and it was the guy with our new lock!!
Whooo!!!! Parabens!!!
Lovely photo of Josie,but then,she is so photogenic!
The climbing nasturtium behind the bike made me think of Grandpa. He liked them. I have a dwarf variety planted in a container as we don't have a lovely stone wall.❤️
The morning after we moved to St Louis, I walked out onto the back porch and there were blue morning glories. It's nice to have Grandpa here as well.
Since blowing out my knee at Sunday River in March, I have been forced to slow down a bit. It's irritating. But I am also sure it's a sign from the Universe that I need to refocus some of my energy on being more at peace with the world. I will watch a sunset in your honor this evening! (Right after I get home from PT.)
Oh no! I hope the knee recovers quickly. And also that you are able to take in the lessons of slowness and make them part of your life even after you have full freedom of movement.
I'm very bad on small talk with strangers, and of course anyone who is working e.g. in a supermarket doesn't have time to stop to chat, so I have yet to engage with falantes de português, of which there are many around here. Enough that the City of Malden actually arranged to make a local high school an official polling place for the recent Brazilian election.
I've only just started learning Portuguese. I did reach the stage where I now say "I speak a little Spanish" using online lessons and language companions.
If you actually have a chance to spend ten or fifteen minutes with someone, what I've found is very helpful is to have something printed--a book, magazine, printout of a website--in the target language that features relatively easy language. In the case of Portuguese, what I'm using now is Turma da Monica gibis--comic books. Apparently it is a cultural universal in Brazil that everyone reads them when they are learning to read. You can find them online at no cost in archive.org.
You can use them in so many ways. You can, for example, just try to describe what is in the panels. "Cascão is looking out the window. He thinks it is raining. I see an orange rug. I see a purple sofa. I see green curtains. Cascão hates baths and hates getting wet."
Of course you can read the dialog, and try to ask questions about words and expressions you don't understand.
Of course this only works with someone who is actually willing to teach you.
I've been paying for lessons via an online service called Italki. There are others, that's the one I know. The other features of the website aren't very useful, but the marketplace for connecting students and teachers is good, and I haven't had a bad teacher yet. The cost of lessons is typically on the order of $12/hour. Well, now that I think about it I wouldn't be surprised if teachers living in Portugal charge more than those living in Brazil. The lessons are just human lessons via videocalls, and there isn't any uniform structures, every teacher just teaches in their own way.
I do have a tutor, and yes it is very helpful. Thanks for the ideas!