Maira Martins

Tag: weeknotes

Week 25: The flood

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

weeknotes, Astro

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...

weeknotes, Luna, 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. πŸ”₯ So far, the air fryer was used for: ikea plant balls, ikea vegetab...

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Week 22: Easter

Once again, a week note longer than a week. 🍳 Bought an Air Fryer! This is my first one and I went with the Cosori Turbo Blaze. ⌨️ Bought a Logitech MX Keys Mini. My 4th keyboard, in search of relief...

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Week 21: Fallas Edition

Better one week later than never. This "week" covers March 9 to 22 and the entire period was basically all one big birthday celebration. My mother-in-law turned 74 a week ago and she wasn't super happ...

weeknotes, fallas

Week 20: 11 Years Later

Back to proper weeks that last seven days. This one spans March 2 - 8. Bought the Canon Selphy CP1500 printer to print photos of Astro, but I have been printing everything: tiny photos for my illustra...

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Week 19: Time is relative

I did it again. This week note is twelve weeks long. Clearly, the concept of time is completely relative and a week can be as long or as short as I see fit.

weeknotes, Astro, photography

Week 18: New smartphone

πŸ€§πŸ’‰ Did a prick allergy test! Allergic to all kinds of pollen and stratospheric levels of dust mites allergy! Doctor thinks the immunization shots would be nice in my case. 🌢️ Bought a Peugeot Paris pe...

weeknotes, Astro

Week 17: November

I fell off the wagon completely after my blogging partner (mom) went back home, and this weeknote is three weeks long, lol. πŸš— I started my driving lessons! AAAAAAAAAH! 🎨 Gifted myself a Disney colorin...

weeknotes, Astro, coloring book

Week 16: Home alone

😍 My mom flew back to Brazil – his mom had gone back to Sweden a couple weeks ago. We are finally alone at home in Valencia, for the first time in three months, just the two of us and our dogs, and it...

weeknotes, journaling

Week 15: Illustrated journal

πŸ“Ί Finished season 5 of Only Murders in the Building. 🎨 Watched an inspiring video on illustrated journals by Danny Gregory (from Sketchbook Skool) and decided to give it a try. I've been very inconsis...

weeknotes, journaling

Week 14: Wild pomegranates

✈️ MIL flew back to Sweden. It was great having her here for five weeks, but also somewhat stressful for me, as my daily routine and food habits change a lot when she's around. I was honestly dying to...

weeknotes, Astro

Week 13: Astro is getting old

I didn't write my weeknote last week as I was in Italy with my family, but I'm here now, two weeks later and two kilos heavier happier. Rome was amazing! It was our mothers' first time in Italy and ex...

weeknotes, Astro, Luna, dogs

Week 12: Autumn Vibes

This week's notes are coming in two days late, on Wednesday instead of Monday. I've just had too much on my plate, too little sleep and didn't feel like writing. We are traveling to Rome in a few days...

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Week 11: Driving theory

We started the week by taking our mothers to Aras de los Olmos, to drink coffee and snack on sandwiches and cookies under the core of our beautiful galaxy, Via Lactea. 🌌 I took a day off from work to...

weeknotes, Astro

Week 10: My birthday

This week I turned 41. I'm pretty happy with how everything is, love is good, home is good, career-wise could be a little better but I'm working on it; health-wise all good, apart from a rotator cuff...

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Week 9: New mails and vets

Mom helped me make beans in the Instant Pot! I have made lentils a few times, but failed at beans. Mom shared her "secret sauce" and the beans turned out delicious! It's the step I needed to stop buyi...

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Week 8: Instax printer love!

Two days after my Photolab 8 trial ended, DxO Photolab 9 came out and it has local AI masks! I bought it right away. I then spent the next 4 days troubleshooting a million bugs, crashes and performanc...

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Week 7: Sketching artist

I will start my week with an honorable mention: I forgot to write last week about our raclette night! It's still a bit too warm for raclette, but it was so nice to sit outside in the garden and watch...

weeknotes, sketchbook

Week 6: Back to work

Vacations are over, nooooo! 😭 Just kidding. This first week back to work was actually really nice. Now that I am self-employed and work as a day trader, work days are always nice and something to look...

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