rodveiga

@rodveiga (333)

Portugal • Age 58

Joined myLot 17 years ago

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Discussions (38)

rodveiga's Discussions

Carnival - are you planning to have a good time?

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 18 Feb 09

Do you enjoy Carnival? or is just another party time you hope passes as soon as possible? Till a few years ago, when I have no children of my own, I didn't like Carnival too much. Here, in Portugal, people do some tricky...

carnival

funny things

masks

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Chocolate with pepper

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 4 Feb 09

Last week a friend of mine gave me a small piece of chocolate with... pepper. Yes, it's true. Never thought it could be such a good thing. It tastes like sweet and spicy, all mixed. This was my first trying. I'll try to find...

chocolate with pepper

strange flavors

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Imagine your marriage is over but you don't have anywhere to go...

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 3 Feb 09

Would you conceive to live together with your ex-spouse, just sharing a house? I am living a similar case: I'm not divorced (yet) but my marriage is over for almost an year. We don't sleep together (in marital meaning) but we...

marriage

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7 people

Are you going to buy John Grisham's new book, THE ASSOCIATE ?

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 23 Jan 09

I love Grisham's books. He is such a great writer... I can read one of his books in a weekend, so interesting is his writing. The plot of this new one seems quite good, too, so much alike the others before. I know books are...

grisham new book

the associate

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Have you ever thought about adopting?

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 20 Jan 09

Last night I was talking with a friend. She has 42yo and one child of 12yo. She is thinking about trying to adopt a child, now that her daughter is grown up. Here, in Portugal, is a very difficult task, since one can have to wait...

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2 people

What do you use to drink during your working day?

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 17 Jan 09

I was preparing me to reply to janyen question "How often do you drink coffee/tea?" when I start to think that I drink several things during my day: a lot of coffee (about 8 or 10 a day), tea between meals (I drink a cup of tea...

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1 person

Simple Ways to Increase Your Intelligence - Not watch TV????

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 15 Jan 09

I was reading an article yesterday about things people do to, apparently, increase their intelligence. There are simple things like - Reading challenging, mentally stimulating books, learning new words and getting new ideas about...

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4 people

Do you believe Microsoft will sell Zune?

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 15 Jan 09

I read it on http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11427 Zune really has the potential to be a great mp3 player, with wi-fi built into, some people think it is even better than IPod... Then, there was "New Year's Eve" mass...

microsoft

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1 person

How many social networks are you registered in?

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 15 Jan 09

I know there is Hi5, Facebook, Linkedin, Shelfari... and so on, and so on... I'm in FaceBook and Linkedin, but never tried Hi5. I'm tented to try Shelfari because it is all about books but, really, how many social networks can we...

social networks

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What system do you use?

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 13 Jan 09

US, Liberia and Burma are the only countries that have not yet adopted the metric system, using other measuring systems. There are also the Imperial units and the U.S. system. I don't know if there are any more than these. In...

measure systems

measuring

metric systems

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1 person

If FDA approve Gardasil for boys, will you give it to your kids?

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 12 Jan 09

Merck has submitted a request for approval to use Gardasil (vaccine for the human papillomavirus), in boys. It is already approved for girls. If you have a son, and if FDA approves it, what do you think about giving this vaccine...

boys

gardasil

vaccine

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2 people

What would you do?

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 9 Jan 09

I just watched this new movie "Changeling", the true story about an abduction of a little boy in the earlies 1920. It made me think what would I do if one of my boys disappears suddenly... my heart aches just to thing about...

2 responses

How did you choose your children names?

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 9 Jan 09

It was after someone in your family? some name that marked your childhood? a name you always liked? Have you imposed a name or let someone choose for you? My youngest son's name was my choice but the oldest was my husband's...

names

naming children

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1 person

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 23 Dec 08

My dear fellows, these are my wishes for all of you, the ones I already met and the ones I still didn't. May your Christmas Day be full of blessings, joy, around your family and friends. Merry Christmas!!!

happy holidays

merry christmas

AUSTRALIA - Have you seen this movie already?

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 23 Dec 08

Tomorrow it will be showed, for the first time, this movie here in Portugal. I'd like to see it but I'm afraid it will be below expectations. Have any of you seen it already?

australia

movie

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What is the most devastating Insult in your country?

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 18 Dec 08

All we have heard about Bush and the shoes, don't we? That made me think about this issue: what is the most insulting thing or phrase you can (but shouldn't) do or say in your country? Here in Portugal calling "Filho da P***"...

fingers

issues

shoes

An now, the end of 2008 is near...

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 18 Dec 08

Do you still remember your resolutions for this year? Had they all happened? I know a girl who does the same resolution every year, "quit smoking", for about 14 years, lol. When the year finishes she always tell us that "next...

new year 2009

new year resolutions

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Have you done all your preparations?

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 16 Dec 08

I'm almost done with the gifts, I have already choose what I'm gone serve on dinner, my house is full of lights and ornaments, all gifts completed are wrapped on beautiful papers, all the e-cards are scheduled... it's almost...

christmas is here

christmas preparations

ornaments

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Lucid Dreaming - Have you heard about it?

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 12 Dec 08

Today I found a text about Lucid Dreaming, the practice of “wake up” in dreams. It has to be learned but it's obviously something that changes a way the person dream after. Do you practice lucid dreaming?

dreams

lucid dreaming

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I received my first Christmas postcard today

rodveiga @rodveiga (333) • Portugal 12 Dec 08

It's too early but my friend is far away and he was afraid of mail slow delivery. it is a beautiful postcard, from Iceland, with reindeers and Santa on his sleigh, full of presents. I guess some are for me, lol What about you?...

delivery

first postcard this christmas

postcard