she was there, so was he.
she was lost, and he was too.
She felt a relief
"Thank God I found you"

she is by his side
even if he doesn't know
she won't change her mind
even if she needs to show

he is full of fears
she knows how much he did cry
he doesn't miss his tears
and she would never lie

he is there, and she is here
she cries before going to bed
and so does he
Without each other, all is so sad.

She wishes she was there
So he could easily understand
How much she does love and care
And that here she will always stand.

She hopes he understands
That she will never mind
To wait for his heart to mend
"No, we have all the time"

She is so in love with him
She wishes he could know
She has never this happier been
And doesnt plan to ,ever, from his side, go.

By Ana Livia

"Take time to realize, I am your side.
Didn't I tell you?"

sweet song.

xoxo
Ana Livia

Throw all your ingredients in the bowl, let it boil for 24 hours...give it a cup of coffee accompanied by a patient roomate and wait until it explodes.


That's Ana for you!

Trying to be good.

I've been trying to keep myself busy and healthy and studious, which is hard considering I have a serious case of ADD. Noo, I am joking.

Randomly I find myself reading through Nutricional Info. searching for "grasas" y "omega". :P
I also find myself opening my persona to new things too... It's like me running in the park for a minute concentrating on negative things hoping that with each step they will flow away and stopping to admire a little duck to absorb the good things.
Yep, the trips to Retiro are being quite beneficial, and I need to thank David (and most of all the Spanish doctor) for convincing me to do that.
Being so against Ipods gives me time to realllyyy think and relax when I am in the park, and to read a book in the metro. However, I have to say sometimes I miss my good old rap while walking around...

I am also reading a book - in Spanish! - called "Perdona si te llamo amor" (Excuse me if I call you love) from Federico Moccia.
The author is supposed to be famous in his country - Italy - especially with the femenine public, for writing books about this love full of passion that many believe are "hard-to-believe".
It's not a deep book or anything, and the plot is simple, super entertaining and easy to read. Sometimes I catch myself smiling in the subway while reading a paragraph and then noticing there's a weird Spaniard (as any Spaniard) staring at me and trying to check what I am reading.
I love how in the subway almost everyone carry a book - and a LOT of people hide the cover of the book so no one knows what they are reading :P
I wondered the reason for such habit until the day I saw this man, in his suit, who seemed VERY serious coming in the metro, opening his laptop case and starting to read "Harry Potter"! :P

Nothing else is new. I miss my family so much, it's ridiculous. I miss my mom's food and my sister's jokes. I miss the conversations the three of us would have randomly about the most embarassing topics... Me always being shy and saying "come on, stop it" while Carol and mom are making fun of me being so "prude". I miss Carol "mooning" me and me getting sooooooooooooooooooo angry at her...
I miss my adorable grandma, using bad words and not letting me cook (Oh now I would DIE for her food!!!!), and her carrot, chocolate, walnut, yellow, strawberry...whatever...cake. I miss her homemake bread.
I miss carving pumpkings, making coxinhas and going out with Carol and Brett and getting that feeling of a family from those two.
I miss David. Everything. Every minute of the day.

I miss it...I miss...

Life is a bunch of missings. But you know, missing something means you have something special waiting for you, or something special that happened. Missing someone means there's love, just for you, just the way you are waiting for you.
So what I am really trying to say is: I miss, but I love. I am not complaining whatsoever. I am glad I having wonderful people to miss. Spectacular places to miss and amazing moments to miss.

Well, I am heading to bed. 8/7 hours of sleep! Getting healthy, I told ya.

Love,
Ana Livia (By the way I hate when people sign with their inicials. ALC. Seriously?!?!?)

"Somewhere out there is another little freak who will love us, understand us, and kiss our three heads and make it all better." (Sex and the City)

I miss sex and the city

Andrea and I were talking whose personality in Sex and the city is the best for us. Without a question, she said I was the perfect Charlotte and that she was between Carrie and Samantha.

So I was bored, couldnt sleep, and decided to watch some of it on YouTube and found these hilarious parts of Sex and the City.
Best ones of every character:



Another dirty one.


Thats a short one, but that is veryyyy funny.


This one is when they get food poisoning. Which reminds me of the night David and I ate a bad paella


Funny.

Happenings in Conde de Casal (my neighborhood)

This are my roomates: Katie and Christian.
With Katie our new "member" of the Conde de Casal family: Lola. We got her at some old lady's thing on Diego de León this afternoon. :D Welcome Little Lola!!!

The second pic, is Christian. When I opened my window I called him and he opened the kitchen window and smiled for this pic!!! The lovely view out of my bedroom window!

Katie and I decided a little flower would be nice for your apartment. Not only to make it prettier but to make it happier. My mom always says how flowers cheer for us so I thought it would be nice.

Finals ended for me, thank God. I was so stressed, and I can see Katie is too. Christian is still doing finals, but more excited about getting hammered (word Katie proudly taught him) on Wednesday. So, I proudly suggested caipirinhas...to start. We all have class on Thursday but at this point, who cares?

Our nasty-neighbor is still banging on our wall. She should be the one getting banged, in my opinion. Such an unhappy, miserable, rude, stupid bitch. Last time she yelled at me I told her I wouldnt tolerate her rudeness. Her husband came to talk to Christian the other day and said for him to be patient with her. Seriously?! Christian is so polite, so he said "Yeah, whatever". Good thing he didnt ask me...

Other than that, nothing. I am preparing a nice little dinner for some friends tonight. Some salad, meat lasagna and strawberries with ice cream.

Well, so far, thats my day.

"Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure." (The Alchemist)
That quote made me smile :)

Some sleep.

I know I put too many videos and songs here instead of actually writing. It's just that I love how songs can express how I feel or what I think what that week or couple of days. I love the whole lyrics of a song, and the melody and how it moves some people. Every person I know I have a song that reminds of me of them, and every situation in my life that was important there is a song. I'll never forget.
SO anyways, this week I have been having problems to fall asleep. I dont know if its because exams, PMS, homesickness that builds up to anxiety. It's like I go to bed and everything I could think floats around my brain.
And then as browsing through some Jack Johnson (best thing to relax in the whole world) I found this song, that perfectly defines how I am feeling now...
It's called "No Other Way".
I found this live version. Cute.
It reminds me of the first day I moved to this apt, Katie turned on her music and it was playing "Flake" by him and she said to Christian "Did you know that he is going to secretly marry me?"
I think it was the first joke we managed to make here. ;)

I promise next week my writing skills will be more developed. :)



But at least we can sleep, its all that we need
When we wake we will find
Our minds will be free to go to sleep

Good night.