About

Hi, I’m Maíra. Welcome to my blog :) This is my little corner of the internet, where I write about whatever I feel like. My dogs, recipes, travels, trading struggles, piano progress, learning to draw, baking bread, life…

daytrader 💸 photographer 📷 pasta lover 🍝 mother of dogs 🐶 plant lover/killer 🌵☠️ wine enthusiast 🍷

A photo of me drinking beer, stylized with a watercolor filter.

A few random facts

  1. 🎡 I’m a futures trader. Before that, I was a frontend developer. Before that, a professional wedding photographer and videographer. And before that, a video editor in the TV and film industry. I think I finally found my thing, I like trading enough that I can see myself doing it until I get old.
  2. 🍿 I watch a lot of movies but I’m not a Godard-or-nothing kind of girl. I’m interested in all genres, from silly comedies and super hero movies to French Nouvelle Vague. I can rewatch the same thing many times and it always feels new to me
  3. 🌎 I’ve lived in five countries: Brazil, Chile, France, Sweden and Spain. 💬 I speak fluently five languages: Brazilian Portuguese, English, Spanish, Swedish, French. I’m entirely self-taught in English. I also learned Esperanto years ago and I love it, unfortunately the creepy old dudes wanting to see my photos instead of practicing the language on the web have put me off forever.
  4. 😍 I am a proud atheist and freethinker!
  5. 🎹 I’m self-learning the piano since Jan. 2021 with the help of an online piano course. Progress has slowed down immensely, after four years I’m still only around Grade 2. I really should commit to playing a bit each day.

Slash

GNR was my favorite band and I loved Slash more than anyone on the planet. I dreamed of marrying him. Anyway. Here are the Slash pages on my site.

Photo of guitarist Slash