Maira Martins

self-taught in everything

Junited 2026

Junited is a little blog-loving adventure where the blogging community gets together to share posts they enjoy and discover new bloggers along the way. I am joining Junited for the first time! During...

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Week 28: The Workflow

Another two-weeks long week, productive and filled with A-HA! moments. 🚗 Failed my driving exam again and now on a five months-long waiting list! At this point I am so pissed at this system that is de...

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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

He-Man 90s TV Show Poster

I watched He-Man on TV as a 90s kid and was so happy about the new movie! But then I saw the trailer and it looks terrible. Has anyone seen it? Yay or Nay?

I suspect they'll only show it for a week here in Spain, so I need to decide kind of NOW if I'm watching in the theaters or not.

Disappeared for a few days for a good reason: we went for a quick road trip around Costa Brava and Occitanie!

In only five days we drove 1600 km and visited Tossa de Mar, Peratallada, Pals, Tamariu, Cadaquès, Besalù, Collioure, Narbonne, Lagrasse and Carcassonne. 💙⛵🏰

I took my illustrated journal with me and tried to draw and write about the trip while on location, which proved impossible, so now I have half the trip on the journal and the other half I'll get done this weekend. I'm pretty happy with my drawings, will definitely publish it for the world wide web to see and rejoice in my art.

Decided to leave all cameras at home and shoot only with the Xiaomi 15U. Told myself I would be super mindful about every frame and shoot like film. Instead, got all excited about the different lenses, found a leica filter I liked, and ended up with 750 photos (and Jaanus shot about the same on his phone), lol. Hopefully, Excire will make it easy to cull. We'll see!

Watched: The Mandalorian and Grogu 🍿

Yesterday we watched The Mandalorian and Grogu at the movie theater. It was great, and in fact it would be impossible for me to not like it, as a Star Wars fan, a Mandalorian fan, a Grogu fan, so my o...

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Week 27: E.T.

A two-weeks long week in the homestead. 🌱 This year I decided to not worry about vegetables and starting seeds in the garden; instead I was going to plant some hardy flowers and that's it. But basil i...

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Watched: Person of Interest 📺

What a show! Visionary, prophetic, ahead of its time and a must-watch!

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"There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side."

— Jesse Livermore

Bougainvillea

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Seen during our morning walk today. And my first time posting to the blog from my phone! 📡📲

"I have two basic rules about winning in trading as well as in life: 1) if you don’t bet, you can’t win; 2) if you lose all your chips, you can’t bet."

— Larry Hite

Luneta

Luneta

Luna woke me up extra early today. We went out before the first rays of sunshine showed up. We saw five or six wild rabbits, a squirrel, a cat, millions of colorful wildflowers everywhere we looked. Love spring!

Week 25: The flood

📚 Finished reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 📚 Finished reading Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie 🍿 Watched Anaconda (2025)! Preposterous, ridiculous, highly entertaining. :D 🍿 Watched Mike...

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Finished reading: Brave New World 📚

It took me forever, but I'm finally done reading my first fiction of the year! Last weekend I finished Brave New World, a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley, and I needed some time to digest the turn th...

books

Week 24: The perfect crime

🎹 Played 5 days out of 7, for at least 30min a day! Currently working on an étude by Elena Gnyesina. The score suggests "moving" as a tempo and I can play it comfortably at 100bpm. But my teacher seem...

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Restarting my piano practice

The pandemic changed many things, for a lot of people. Personally, I bought a treadmill. And I decided I would learn the piano on my own, no teachers, just me, a book, and my musical geniality (ahem!)...

piano

Week 23: The Air Fryer

I don't know why I didn't get one before? I love this thing. I have used it every single day since it entered my life, 14 days ago. 🔥 So far, the air fryer was used for: ikea plant balls, ikea vegetab...

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