2013 Fender Bender

This past Friday – May 17th, on my way to my Summer League practice, I was involved in a fender bender. It wasn’t my fault at all though! I simply stopped at a traffic light and BAM! I got hit from behind :/ The accident happened near the intersection between Blackburn/Haskell and N. Central Expressway (pictured). [...]

Oh! The Things That Make My Day (OTTTMMD) v.1

Everyone knows about the infamous duck or myspace face. This .gif beats them all! It made my day… Saw the video below and then created a post-it with the letter B and put behind a co-worker of mine’s chair. It made my day…  What made your day today? Let me know!

Amazing Mind Reader’s Scary “Gift”

For the past month or so a couple of friends of mine and I have been meeting for dinner and drinks on Wednesday nights. A couple of weeks ago, my friend C mentioned that, while in a recent trip to New York, she went to a psychic to get her fortune read. It was the [...]

I miss my hometown!

I was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil and because of my being in graduate school for the past few years (and getting paid as a graduate student) going back to my hometown has not been a priority. In fact, the last time I went back “home” was in 2008 and I was there only for about [...]

Addy Version 2.9

Yesterday, November 28th 2012, was the day I completed 29 years of life. While I don’t mind being the center of attention during regular gatherings and soirees, I am not much of the “today is MY day” type of girl on my birthdays. As a matter of fact, I always feel that I will be [...]

10 on Tuesday v.12

[1] Oh-Em-Gee!!! Today was a big Apple daaaay!! New announcements for the iPad mini, new 13″ MacBook Pros and mega thin design for the iMac made the nerd in me jump up-and-down!! I just need $$ to get ALL OF IT!!! I WANT THEM AAAAALLLL!! [2] Last weekend we had the last tournament for the Fall series [...]

Halloween Swap: REVEAL

A Few Weeks ago, while perusing through my fellow blogger Linda’s blog I saw a call for a Halloween Swap. Since, I had never participated in such endeavor I decided to sign up. The instructions were simple: A few days later, we got an email with the info of the person we were supposed to [...]

10 on Tuesday v.8

[1] I recently stumbled upon this video today and it is a little disturbing. It’s about eating fertilized eggs. I have a good apetite, but this…I pass. [2] I recently watched the movie Vanilla Sky and IT WAS AWESOME! How come nobody has told me about it before! I hope that death is like the [...]

10 on Tuesday v.7

[1] Yesterday I had a brilliant idea for a new series of paintings. Portraits of my friends on canvas, but instead of their faces I would paint their fingerprints with the grooves and all and then color with colors that I would think are appropriate based on my relationship with that person. I thought! what [...]

10 on Tuesday v.6

[1] Went to Disneyworld this weekend and it was GREAT! (full detail blog post to come). [2] The guy in this video. PERIOD. Watch it and you will know what I am talking about. [3] I love Shipley Do-nuts. Every morning when I have to be in Waco for work I get myself 1 sausage [...]