Kapow! Bam! Smack! Thump!... Ouch!!!

Once in a while my life life gets sort of stable and I doubt the whole "it only happens to me" and "my life is a TV show" idea. I mean, weird things happen all the time and to actually believe that I'm "special" (not in the "short-bus" way) enough that in actually ONLY happens to me, it would be crazy. Then:

Something happens that it simply makes it impossible not to get on that crazy waggon. I am sure the things I go through have happened to millions of people and I am pretty sure some have even happened to the same person. However, sometimes I wonder if I actually have a target hanging over my head. In neon colors and sound, screaming: "Here, here, here"

I look at myself and see a pretty down to earth girl that has learned a lot from her mistakes and pretty much don't get shocked with much anymore. Jaded? maybe a little, specially with the unusual I guess. I mean, you can only get flabergasted so many times before somethings just becomes normal...

I have been dumped a few times and I admit that the first time that it happened through txt message, email or even a message in a social network (orkut, facebook...), was a little shocking but I learned how to deal with it and even find it appropriate nowadays, IF it's a new relationship.

Now, finding out you have been dumped after almost 2 months by being deleted as friend on facebook and seeing that the other person has added "in a relationship with" someone else, when the day before you talked to the person and it all seemed ok... Now that is something that even me might find at least "interesting"...

Well, I needed to vent a little I guess. Life keeps throwing these nice surprises and all I can do is deal with it and move on. I am glad I have friends that are always by my side and support me whenever I need it...

Just another day in Larissa's Life...

Thanks for watching!!!

What's on my mind...

I have many things I want to talk to you guys about that I cannot divide them in different posts :P

First and foremost, I am so happy for being here in this amazing country these past 2 years. They were a couple of the best years of my life. I met so many great people, I have been through so much here; good time, bad times, incredible times, nightmares and everything in between. I do not regrets and I feel I have learned so much from everything.

Thank you all you people that have been part of my life, people that were just passing through and people that showed up to stay... You have made my life better, you have made me a better person, and for that I will always be grateful :)

Thank you for you that always shows up here and allow yourself a few minutes to read my rants, please know that everything that I put up in this blog means the world to me :)

*Wipes away a couple stray tears...

Now, moving on to some laughter (hopefully)

Thursday night I went out with my girl Melina and a friend of hers from Costa Rica... A few beers and some vodka later we decide we should make a telenovela (soap opera)... well, at least the opening for it anyways... hehe!

So, we get to it and after my master editing and directing (ham ham! :P) this is the result:



Thanks to Melina and Maurice for playing along and for providing so much fun :)

I stole this meme one from a the blog of an author I really enjoy (Carrie Vaughn): Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

In no specific order:

- He is just not that into you (Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo)
- The Killing Dance (Laurell K. Hamilton)
- Why didn't they ask Evans (Agatha Christie)
- Curtain (Agatha Christie)
- Twilight (Stephanie Meyer)
- Eclipse ((Stephanie Meyer)
- New Moon (Stephanie Meyer)
- Breaking Dawn (Stephanie Meyer)
- Shadow Kissed (Richelle Mead)
- Iron Kissed (Patricia Briggs)
- Lover Avenged (J.R.Ward)
- HP and the Deathly Hallows (J.K.Rowling)
- HP and the Prisioner of Azkaban (J.K.Rowling)
- The Return of the King (Tolkien)
- The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)

Ok guys, that's it from now... Thanks for stopping by... and stay tuned a lot more to come... soon

and a big release from the blog during this summer... you can't miss it!!!!!

:)

"The wedding ring phenomenon"

It has been a while, but I am back :)

I am not going to come up with an excuse to not write here for this long, I simply felt I had nothing to say and was not ready to share the things I did.

I have a few things on my mind and I wanted to talk about them... I mean, rant about them is more like it :P

There is a phenomenon that occurs when you are involved in a relationship that I would like to discuss. I had heard about it from friends, but since it had been such a long time since I was in one, I had yet to experience it first hand.

I am going to name said phenomena as: "The wedding ring phenomena"

What's up with all these people that decide you are suddenly so very compelling the exact moment you find yourself in a monogamous relationship?

I mean, I kind of get that happening a lot to married men. Single women tend to gravitate towards them for the simple fact that since they are already in a committed relationship, they MUST be relationship material.

I said I KIND OF got it, not that I remotely agreed with it though. I mean, I know how hard the dating world/game is, but setting your sights on married men/women is never healthy.

Now, what about the weirdest part of this phenomenon? I mean, you don't really need a wedding ring for it to happen, that is just the name of it. You find yourself in a monogamous relationship and out of the sudden all of these people come out of the woodwork interested in you. Seriously, what's up with that?

Is there some sort of vibe a person exults by being in a couple? Is the attitude of nonchalance (usually, cheaters excluded) that attracts?

What about when these people that "appear" out of the blue are people you haven't seen in long while and out of nowhere they get to calling you?

Ok, time to get personal. I am asking this because I am actually trying to understand it. Currently I find myself in a monogamous relationship, very happy for that matter and these past almost two months, I have been hit on a few times (even by people I would never thought would), an ex has invited me to dinner and another ex has invited me to visit...

I admit to being flattered, but what the hell is up with that? Seriously...

I don't have an answer; I really just wanted to rant on it...

Please leave comments on the subject, I really appreciate it :)

Ps: Today is my 2-year aniversary in Israel... A post about it is coming soon...

Ps2: RIP Michael, You will be missed...

The "You" Within...

Wow... that is such a corny title, but I like it :P

Purim was a couple days ago and with came the time to dress up in costumes and party like there is no tomorrow (Im pretty sure that is NOT how the bible explained it, but that's how I see it lol)

I love costumes parties and I was just thinking about the criteria we use to chose our costumes...

For the past 4 years I have been dressing up as a vampire for Purim and/or Halloween... Everytime someone asks me why, I respond saying that those are the only nights of the year that I can be myself...

Though I have to admit I don't mean that literaly, there is some truth to that... Whenever we come to a point that we need to chose a costume, we dig deep within ourselves and sometimes let out hidden characteristics of our personalities...

One might argue that since I am addicted to vampire novels (I plan to write about that soon), dressing up as one would be the next step... However, the point we should focus on is WHY I am addicted in these novels in the first place...

I LOVE the night, I have always felt more at home beneath the stars... I'm weird in a way, I feel like I don't fit in with what most people call "normal"... not that it bothers me, but it's true... Vampires are outsider s by nature and that's how I have always felt... I connect with them in a deeper level and to be quite honest blood doesn't taste bad (not that I have tasted any other than my own, by accident) and I love bitting :P

I promise I'm not trying to freak anyone out... but this is my platform and I'll make use of it as I please :P

If you could have the costume of your dreams, what would that be???

FRIENDS Forever...

I am a declared TV addict; everyone that knows me knows that. I have never tried to hide that fact; in fact I am proud to love the TV shows I do. However, there are only a handful of shows that I could watch over and over again and never really get tired of...

FRIENDS came into my life during it's third season. The date is not very specific for me because at the time I followed it on TV in Brazil and they were always late comparing to The US. Those six characters became part of my life so fast that I didn;t even have a chance to fight it (not I wanted to); little did I know that they would be forever in my heart.

I have all the seasons and I have seen each episode at least 15 times. When it aired back in Brazil, I used to watch it at it's regular time and on both it's rerun times. I never got tired of it and I don't think I ever will. Even nowadays, whenever I see it on I have to watch it.

I have to admit, watching FRIEND's reruns induces two possible reactions in me. One, I laugh like it's the first time I am watching that episode, even though I know all the punch lines And Two, I don't nearly laugh as much, but I get a certain comfortable feeling in seeing those characters that it simply puts a smile on my face.

Some people like to say that the show lost its luster on it's later seasons. I don't agree with that at all. I have to say that my least favorite season is number 8, I don't really like the whole Joey-loves-Rachel thing, but the season does have some great episodes; such as: "The one with the rumor" where Brad Pitt pays a visit. However, I do believe that the 10th season is one of my favorites with Joey learning French and not sharing food, Ross dressing up as a girl and getting all worked up about Mark (AGAIN!), and Phoebe changing her name to "Princess Consuela Banana hammock" to her dear husband “Crap Bag”... Classic episodes!!

Fans were divided at the finale, some hated and some loved it. I personally loved it, I thought it was a perfect ending and it still makes me cry whenever I watch it... It was the saddest goodbye I ever had with a TV show... FRIENDS will always be in my heart...

MY RELATIONSHIP WITH FRIENDS:

- After the Cheesecake episode in season 7, I became so obsessed with finding a cheesecake just like in the show that I nearly drove my dad mad :P (I found it years later and HATED IT... lol)

- I used to show episodes in class and use the show as a teaching tool. One day I showed the Gag Reel from season 7 and got complains from classrooms on the floor beneath me because the laughs were too loud. (BEST GAG REEL EVER)

- At on the school's I taught, I was known as the "FRIENDS Encyclopedia". That's because whenever any of the other teachers wanted an episode with certain vocabularies or Verb Tense to use in the classroom I could always name the best episode and it's season.

- To this day everyday situations still take me back to a specific episode. I always see myself saying: "remember that episode of FRIENDS where..."

- I have this poster on my wall:

Click HERE to watch a montage shown on the last clip episode before the finale. The editing is amazing, with the images working perfectly with the great song "Walk on - U2". I just cried watching it... ENJOY...

Saudades...

Here I am, awake at 7:13am... No, I didn't wake up early, I haven't slept yet hehe...

I decided to write this post after surfing around some old friends' profiles on Orkut. It's funny that despite the fact that I will never forget all those people that came into my life, when you change your life so radically as I did, you do leave too much behind...

Since I was a kid I always heard that "goodbyes" are easier for the people that are "leaving" or "moving on" because they are "going", they are on the move to a new adventure and those who are left behind stand still... It might not be completely true, but it is valid somehow...

Looking at some friends' pics I realize how much my life is disconnected from theirs. I know it is normal, after all the distance is so great... however, it is still painful to see that you are not really a part of their lives anymore... I am sure that they still love me as I love them... but that "day-today" relationship is over and that is when the "saudades" come in...

"SAUDADE" is a very special word and it only exists with it's intensity in the Portuguese language... the closest to it in English would be "to miss someone/something".

"SAUDADE" is an extreme sense of longing for people, places and things you love and that the absence hurts a lot...

There are so many people I miss, so many people I left behind and in different places... I know I will never forget them and they will always have a special place in my heart... I also know that I will see them all again and we will celebrate life together again...

On the mosaic above I show some of these people, in different moments of my life... Moischa, meu bebe, Mimi, Vitti, Aline, Nigga, lil' nigga, Leny, Manu, Iroca, Mammy, Flavio, Rodo...

*Some people are not there simply because I don't have their pictures (pics with me I mean)...

I lost so many files when my computer crashed...

**To name a few of the missing ones: Isabelle (my bitch), Leidy, Gaby, Fafa, Nando, Rodrigo... (sorry if I forgot anyone...)

***I didn't add any pics of my great friends in Israel... this post is about who I left behind... I do love you all...

Ps: To anonymous: I do watch a lot of TV shows, I DL about 25 a week...

Thanks for the comments: Anonymous, Gooooood girl and misfit :) keep on coming :D

The perfect ending...

Through the years I have become addicted to a great amount of TV shows. That obsession caused me to have my "don't talk to me I'm watching..." moments.

However, a show that I was never too obsessed about was "Six Feet Under". I knew the characters, I saw a lot of episodes, but it was never a comitment for me to watch the show and I was never dying to see the next season.

It came as a surprised for me that "Six Feet Under" produced the best Series Finale EVER.

The show ended in 2005 and I remember catching the finale by accident on HBO Brazil the following year. A couple minutes ago the finale just aired on Channel 2 here in Israel and it made me cry AGAIN. I can't help but shed tears everytime I watch it. The combination of images and the song chosen to follow them is exquisite and incomparable.

The last scene follows each characters future until their deaths, cutting back and forth with Claire (the youngest of the main family) driving toward her uncertain future in NYC.

Seeing each characters future and how their demise arrived is heart wrenchingly beautiful. There are no loose threads and story lines. A true end for a great show.

The cast of the show was so talented that most of its actors are currently in great shows out there. Michael C. Hall (David) is Dexter, Frances Conroy is guest starring in Desperate Housewives, Rachel Griffiths is Sarah Walker on Brothers & Sisters and Peter Krause was starring in Dirty, Sexy Money.

The creator of Six Feet Under has also created the season hit True Blood, which finished its first season las week and has a second season guaranteed.

*if you've never seen the show, you'll probably not get the strength of the ending... Though you might still enjoy the song... which is:

Breathe me by Sia

Here's the video... Enjoy: