Maira Martins

Tag: weeknotes

🤧💉 Did a prick allergy test! Allergic to al...

🤧💉 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...

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I fell off the wagon completely after my bloggi...

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

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😍 My mom flew back to Brazil – his mom had g...

😍 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...

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📺 Finished season 5 of [Only Murders in the ...

📺 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...

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✈️ MIL flew back to Sweden. It was great havi...

✈️ 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...

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I didn't write my weeknote last week as I was i...

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...

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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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We started the week by taking our mothers to ...

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...

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This week I turned **41**. I'm pretty happy w...

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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Mom helped me make beans in the Instant Pot! ...

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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Two days after my Photolab 8 trial ended, [Dx...

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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I will start my week with an honorable mention:...

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...

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Vacations are over, nooooo! 😭 Just kidding. Th...

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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This week my mom arrived from Brazil. We drov...

This week my mom arrived from Brazil. We drove from Valencia to Madrid to pick her up, and on the way back stopped to visit Cuenca. 💚 We visited Mora de Rubielos and Rubielos de Mora, two beautiful to...

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This week I decided to stop faffing around an...

This week I decided to stop faffing around and just book a date for my driving theory exam . Did the driving aptitude test and I was honestly expecting some kind of Rorschach test (because if I rememb...

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This week I decided to take my cameras out of s...

This week I decided to take my cameras out of storage and put them to work. The visit to Galactica last week was so inspiring, we decided to go back to Aras de Los Olmos to photograph the stars and th...

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Vacations, finally! Enjoying the alternating we...

Vacations, finally! Enjoying the alternating weeks of heat waves and cold fronts. R.I.P. Ozzy! 🤘🖤 A few days ago we went to Mercado de la Imprenta in Valencia. Such a beautiful building! I posted some...

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Finally, a simple and elegant solution to my bl...

Finally, a simple and elegant solution to my blogging anxieties: weeknotes! Instead of spamming people's feeds with short updates on movies and dinners, I'll collect everything into a weekly post. I s...

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