Friday, September 22, 2006
Just a cute pic that HAD to be posted.
Bruiser has this burning passion to go everytime we leave the house. He rushes to the car so that he is not left out:)
Umm..go Dawgs????
So we aren't really Tech fans..but what the heck! Katie and Try invited us to some fancy clubhouse seats lask weekend and Enzo needed to go to his first college football game.. It was quit humorous because the drunk guys next to Enzo kept asking him questions about the game and of course Enzo knew nothing about American football..the rest of us were laughing so much! Finally, Enzo confessed and the guys loved it that it was his first game and thought it was their job to explain all the rules.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Broadvoice - Unlimited calls to 35 countries
This is Enzo "speaking".
I've been using Broadvoice, a VOIP telefone. It uses a little adpater to conect a regular phone to the internet (cable or DSL) modem. The quality is the same or better than regular phones. You can call the U.S. and Canada UNLIMITED with the basic plan, but you can also sing up for their UNLIMITED WORLD PLUS plan that allows you to call UNLIMITED TO MORE THAN 35 COUNTRIES. That's how I've been talking to my family and friends for ours and only paying the $35/month for the phone line.
Basic plan for UNLIMITED WORLD plan is only about $20/month and that includes 21 countries. Broadvoice also has features like voicemail that you can listen to over the internet, call forwarding, minutes balance online, etc, etc... much cheaper than any other phone company and you get to keep your old number. Oh and you can use it wherever you go in the world that has broadband internet connection, just take the adapter with you. By the way, VOIP phones now offer 911 service free.
I love it!
I'll leave a referral link here. Whoever wants to sign up, please sign up through our link:
Sign up for BroadVoice!
I've been using Broadvoice, a VOIP telefone. It uses a little adpater to conect a regular phone to the internet (cable or DSL) modem. The quality is the same or better than regular phones. You can call the U.S. and Canada UNLIMITED with the basic plan, but you can also sing up for their UNLIMITED WORLD PLUS plan that allows you to call UNLIMITED TO MORE THAN 35 COUNTRIES. That's how I've been talking to my family and friends for ours and only paying the $35/month for the phone line.
Basic plan for UNLIMITED WORLD plan is only about $20/month and that includes 21 countries. Broadvoice also has features like voicemail that you can listen to over the internet, call forwarding, minutes balance online, etc, etc... much cheaper than any other phone company and you get to keep your old number. Oh and you can use it wherever you go in the world that has broadband internet connection, just take the adapter with you. By the way, VOIP phones now offer 911 service free.
I love it!
I'll leave a referral link here. Whoever wants to sign up, please sign up through our link:
Sign up for BroadVoice!
Bono Em Barcelona. "Unos, dos. tres, quince..."
Bono explains why he says "Unos, dos, tres, catorze..." In the beginning of "Vertigo".
O Bono explica mais ou menos por que ele diz "Unos, dos, tres, catorze" no inicio de "Vertigo".
And still has fun with the Spanish reporter.
E ainda se diverte com o reporter espanhol.
O Bono explica mais ou menos por que ele diz "Unos, dos, tres, catorze" no inicio de "Vertigo".
And still has fun with the Spanish reporter.
E ainda se diverte com o reporter espanhol.
Monday, September 04, 2006
No internet, no cable, no phone, but we got paint!
There's not much to do in a home that has no internet, no cable, or a phone line, so we decided to take the painting plunge... Even Bruiser did his share of work!
Friday, September 01, 2006
Cozinhando / Cooking
Anteontem eu cozinhei arroz, feijao, carne moida e sopa de batatas. Como eu tambem o fiz sabado passado e ficou igual a comida da mamae.
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Update on house
We closed last Thursday on our new house...very exciting! We have till the end of October to move out of our apt so we are in no rush. Just about 2 months ago I was telling Enzo that I didn't want to buy a house and that I was completely happy living in our apt for another year or two. He told me I was being dumb...hehehe..I am glad we did it now! Thank God I didn't have to make that decision by myself..
Introducing Poppy and Maxotic
We've been busy lately acting in a dinner theatre...here are the pics. Our names were Poppy and Max (AKA Maxotic). Both of us we ex-exotic dancers..sounds intresting eh???
Saturday, August 05, 2006
New Home
For those of you who don't know, we are buying a new house! Scary but fun... Here is a picture of our mailbox.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Friday, July 21, 2006
Immigration Laws of Mexico
My mom just forwarded this to me and I find it quite interesting.
1. If you migrate to this county, you must speak the native language.
2. You have to be a professional or an investor.
No unskilled workers allowed.
3. There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools,
no special ballots for elections,
all government business will be conducted in our language.
4. Foreigners will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are here.
5. Foreigners will NEVER be able to hold political office.
6. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers.
No welfare, no food stamps, no health care,
or other government assistance programs.
7. Foreigners can invest in this country,
but it must be an amount equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.
8. If foreigners do come and want to buy land that will be okay,
BUT options will be restricted. You are not allowed waterfront property. That is reserved for citizens naturally born into this country.
9. Foreigners may not protest; no demonstrations,
no waving a foreign flag, no political organizing,
no bad-mouthing our president or his policies,
if you do you will be sent home.
10. If you do come to this country illegally,
you will be hunted down and sent straight to jail.
Harsh, you say?
The above laws happen to be the immigration laws of Mexico.
How about that??
1. If you migrate to this county, you must speak the native language.
2. You have to be a professional or an investor.
No unskilled workers allowed.
3. There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools,
no special ballots for elections,
all government business will be conducted in our language.
4. Foreigners will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are here.
5. Foreigners will NEVER be able to hold political office.
6. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers.
No welfare, no food stamps, no health care,
or other government assistance programs.
7. Foreigners can invest in this country,
but it must be an amount equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.
8. If foreigners do come and want to buy land that will be okay,
BUT options will be restricted. You are not allowed waterfront property. That is reserved for citizens naturally born into this country.
9. Foreigners may not protest; no demonstrations,
no waving a foreign flag, no political organizing,
no bad-mouthing our president or his policies,
if you do you will be sent home.
10. If you do come to this country illegally,
you will be hunted down and sent straight to jail.
Harsh, you say?
The above laws happen to be the immigration laws of Mexico.
How about that??
Monday, July 17, 2006
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Thursday, July 13, 2006
GREEN CARD RECEIVED!
Whooo..today Enzo and I went in for our green card interview!!! It was awesome! Nothng like what we expected. We got to the location and went through security. We brought my parents with us just because they had the day off and we thought it would be fun. It was on the 5th floor so we headed up there, gave our papers to the man at the desk and the began waiting. We probably only waited 20 minutes (which wasn't bad because we arrived at 2:00 and our appointment was at 2:30). We heard the call "Enzo Silva" and we got up for the long awaited interview. Mom and Dad stayed back so it was just me and Enzo. The interviewer looked to be our age or maybe a few years older. He was smiling and very friendly. As we got to our office and found our seats he told us his name and where he is from. He then asked us to stand up and lift our right hand. We pledge to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. As we sat down he opened our file and asked to see my driver's license and Enzo's passport. He then needed Enzo's birth certificate. I asked if he wanted the translate copy and he said no he had seen so many foreign documents he could tell what was what, he even read some of it smiling at us porud he could translate the birth certificate from Portuguese to English. Enzo said he was doing good. Then he went through our paperwork and asked enzo a few questions that were VERY common sense. Things like: what is your addess? What is your full name?
He then asked more questions with dealing the law which we common sense as well. They we questions like: Have you ever been an illegal immigrant? Do you have citizenship in any other country, and he even asked if Enzo was married to more that one woman...at the one he kinda giggled. We laughed too:) He also asked laughing questions like "Are you part of any communist or terrorist organization?" and stuff like that (all questions on the forms). He just asked to see the vaccination sheet and even said that a lot of people don't take the document to the interview and he's even given up on asking why sometimes, "people will come up with the weirdest excuses", he said laughing...
He looked though my tax returns and asked if I was still a teacher and I said yes. I told him also that my mom and dad were co-sponsors and that her tax returns were in there as well. He said all of that was unnessary. He said that the law has changed some of no more is that such a big requirement.
He asked Enzo if he had ever been to the US beforeand we said no because he was denied. The guy seem to completely understand how hard it is to get a tourist visa and almost looked sympathatic with us. He said that in cities like Seoul, Korea they interview 12,000 tourist visa applicants a day (or a week, he wasn'yt sure) !!! He also said that some countries don't want the US to give so many tourist visas away so that well educated people stay in their own country (and other weird situattions like that). It was a good discussion that we had with him.
Towards the end of the interview Enzo and I felt so comfortable with him that we were asking questions about whether he felt Enzo's family would have a better chance of coming to the US as well.
I also told him that mom felt important to be a part of this process and that she should have come back. He laughed and had a funny idea to prank her by calling her back and asking a ton of questions. We all laughed about the thought of pranking her. ("Do you want me to call her back here so we could pull a joke on her and I can ask her some questions?" or something like that ws what he said)
Then he signed the passport and explained the next steps of the process for us. He said Enzo can apply for citizenship in 3 years! (he said: "Some of the most implortant things for the test will be English proficiency, which isn't a problem here and American History..."). Then Enzo said that even to Americans the questions are hard. Another officer that was in charge of citizenship overheard us in the next room and said he was going to given the hardest ones. Our interviwer said: "At least I know what the stars on the flag mean!!" and laughed. SO soon! He said congratulations and excorted us to the door.
He then asked more questions with dealing the law which we common sense as well. They we questions like: Have you ever been an illegal immigrant? Do you have citizenship in any other country, and he even asked if Enzo was married to more that one woman...at the one he kinda giggled. We laughed too:) He also asked laughing questions like "Are you part of any communist or terrorist organization?" and stuff like that (all questions on the forms). He just asked to see the vaccination sheet and even said that a lot of people don't take the document to the interview and he's even given up on asking why sometimes, "people will come up with the weirdest excuses", he said laughing...
He looked though my tax returns and asked if I was still a teacher and I said yes. I told him also that my mom and dad were co-sponsors and that her tax returns were in there as well. He said all of that was unnessary. He said that the law has changed some of no more is that such a big requirement.
He asked Enzo if he had ever been to the US beforeand we said no because he was denied. The guy seem to completely understand how hard it is to get a tourist visa and almost looked sympathatic with us. He said that in cities like Seoul, Korea they interview 12,000 tourist visa applicants a day (or a week, he wasn'yt sure) !!! He also said that some countries don't want the US to give so many tourist visas away so that well educated people stay in their own country (and other weird situattions like that). It was a good discussion that we had with him.
Towards the end of the interview Enzo and I felt so comfortable with him that we were asking questions about whether he felt Enzo's family would have a better chance of coming to the US as well.
I also told him that mom felt important to be a part of this process and that she should have come back. He laughed and had a funny idea to prank her by calling her back and asking a ton of questions. We all laughed about the thought of pranking her. ("Do you want me to call her back here so we could pull a joke on her and I can ask her some questions?" or something like that ws what he said)
Then he signed the passport and explained the next steps of the process for us. He said Enzo can apply for citizenship in 3 years! (he said: "Some of the most implortant things for the test will be English proficiency, which isn't a problem here and American History..."). Then Enzo said that even to Americans the questions are hard. Another officer that was in charge of citizenship overheard us in the next room and said he was going to given the hardest ones. Our interviwer said: "At least I know what the stars on the flag mean!!" and laughed. SO soon! He said congratulations and excorted us to the door.
Friday, July 07, 2006
Bono - Message About Poverty / Bono - Mensagem Sobre Pobreza
The question was:
"How to make poverty History in Africa?"
Making everybody aware of it is the initial idea.
And this could be done not only in Africa, but also in Brazil, in the US, in Europe, Asia, anywhere, if everybody played their part. Like Bono once said something like he knew he couldn't change the world but he could change the world in himself... this could be a start...
A pergunta era:
"Como fazer a pobreza na África ficar pra História?"
Fazer todo mundo ciente dela é a idéia inicial.
E isso poderia ser feito nãp só na África, mas também no Brazil, nos EUA, na Europa, Ásia, qualquer lugar, se cada um fizesse a sua parte, Como o Bono mesmo disse algo sobre não ser capaz de mudar o mundo mas sim de mudar o mundo dentro dele... esse pode ser um começo...
"How to make poverty History in Africa?"
Making everybody aware of it is the initial idea.
And this could be done not only in Africa, but also in Brazil, in the US, in Europe, Asia, anywhere, if everybody played their part. Like Bono once said something like he knew he couldn't change the world but he could change the world in himself... this could be a start...
A pergunta era:
"Como fazer a pobreza na África ficar pra História?"
Fazer todo mundo ciente dela é a idéia inicial.
E isso poderia ser feito nãp só na África, mas também no Brazil, nos EUA, na Europa, Ásia, qualquer lugar, se cada um fizesse a sua parte, Como o Bono mesmo disse algo sobre não ser capaz de mudar o mundo mas sim de mudar o mundo dentro dele... esse pode ser um começo...
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
4th of July
It was Enzo's first fourth of July celebration yesterday...he watched fireworks and ate a hamburger straight off the grill. We watched it with friends and had a good time.Foi o primeiro "4 de Julho (Independência Americana) do Enzo ontem... ele assitiu aos fogos e comeu hambúrger direto do grill. Assistimos com amigos e nos divertimos...
World Cup Fever
Even though the last Brazil game wasn't a good one, we still watched with excitement. You can see from the picture that we have a lot of Brazilians living around here. It has been great for both of us to be around them. I get to practice portuguese and so does Enzo...hehehehe...
Mesmo o último jogo do Brasil não sendo tão bom, a gente ainda assistiu com empolgação. Vocês podem ver pela foto que tem muitos brasileiros morando aqui perto. Tem sido ótimo pra nós estarmos com eles. Eu pratico português e o Enzo também... hehehehe...
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Bush's Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2)
Nice video editing...
Boa edição de vídeo...
U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday...
A música Sunday Bloody Sunday do U2...
Boa edição de vídeo...
U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday...
A música Sunday Bloody Sunday do U2...
This Guy Travels / Esse Cara Viaja...
If God wishes I'm still gonna travel like that... (without the dancce)
Se Deus quiser eu ainda vou viajar assim... (sem a dança)
Se Deus quiser eu ainda vou viajar assim... (sem a dança)
Friday, June 23, 2006
Ode to Bruiser
I just had to share with everyone how sweet my little Bruiser is...Eu só queria compartilhar com todo mundo como é doce o meu pequeno Bruiser...
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