Update Nepoleon

In class we were talking about fate.  The question did Napoleon believe in Fate?  The answer they gave was:   Napoleon believed in fate or destiny probably because his life was so eventful and the events so extraordinary, with so much depending on chance, that it must have seemed to him as though he were in the hands of fate. 

I thought this was amazing.  Absolutely amazing. 

Think about it… when Napoleon lived he never knew what lay before him all he knew was that it was always something big.

Sometimes people believe that their fate is no more than death.  I think when we are young we see the world and think we have some control over where we will be in 10 years, what our husband or wife will be like, what kind of job we will have, really all we know  eventually is that you cannot dream you fate.  Fate is what happens to you when you are busy planning your next move, your next big event in your life. 

Feeling Sick and Overtired

I am feeling the repercussions from staying up till 4:30 am last Saturday.  I have been unable to catch up on my sleep.  My friends left extra soda and lots of ice cream here as well so…I have also been eating a lot of that.  Immune system down and now I am helping to attack it.  The hot weather isnt healping either.  This is me. 

So, all is well here… just tired.  I am reposting my Napoleon Blog as I have updated it.

Ta Ta for now.

Quiet Time

Monday afternoon and everyone is naping. Shhhhhh.  I am going to sit here and Relax.

PARTY

Today...I am tired.  I had some friends over last night and it was a great time.   One thing about Brazilians is that thier parties either start around 12pm or 10/11pm.  I stayed up until 4:30 in the morning and this was the first time I have seen past 4 in probably 5 years.  It was fun and tonight I am looking forward to getting some sleep. 

We did laugh

Today we are having some new friends over for a BBQ.  This morning we woke up, ate breakfast and headed out to the store.  Now we don’t just need meat for the BBQ, we need chairs and other things too.  We have been holding off on these really because I can’t find anything that I like under $500.  Used or new.  I would prefer a used wood table… so if you are in Brasil and know of one… let me know.  Anyway, we wanted to go see what Makro had in store for us.  So, we went in with the kids and took an hour and a half picking everything out from a table and chairs to large bottles of condiments.  We were having as much fun as one could have with 2 kids shopping.  So, when we get to the end and ready to check out, we find out we need a card (it’s like Sams club in the U.S.).   So we get one and get to the front and realize Rodrigo’s wallet was not in the car, but she lets me get the card and finally we go to checkout.  I was going crazy because all of the prices were ringing up wrong.  The $7.57 bottle of wine was now $11.35, the Beer went from $16,.86 to $21.68 and the forks went up $2.00.  If you know me well, you know I was losing my mind because I stated watching her after ¼ of the stuff was already scanned.  I was looking at Rodrigo and saying “I don’t even want to buy my shit here if this is the way they are”, but we had spent so much time there with the 2 kids.  Then when it gets all added up the total was climbing and I was saying “are we going to get the table?”  Rodrigo was stressed saying, “Forget about the table”.  Then we get all done and our card doesn’t work there, they only take debit cards and my pin number from the u.s. won’t work here and he left his card at home.  Rodrigo was looking at me so sad and I just started laughing.  I mean what can we do and also this wasn’t the first time this happened to me, I was just happy to get to go through it with my family this time.  We did laugh all the way to the next store.