As I sat down in the cinema chair and got my 3D glasses on, I didn’t know what to expect from Rio, apart from it being in Brazil. Its beginning, the character’s human insight and travels to South America in search of something missing is similar to Pete Docter and Bob Peterson’s hit UP. Despite these crucial similarities, Rio contains certain differences that make this film a magical work of art.

As I sit here, covered in routine and mental boredom, and this is when I think of quitting. Is it all worth it? All the pain, anxiety, nights without sleep and all that for what? Or better yet, how badly do I want it that I am willing to carry on my life pursuing a dead dream?

“Erm…October, I don’t recognise you!”

This was my friend Joanna’s facebook status earlier this week, and my god she’s right! The weather this Autumn has broken records, we have had sunny and very hot days in September and my god, last week I was out with my coat on my arms rather than wearing it!

It’s been a week already since our lastminute.fiasco.

Ever since I found out they were doing a new production of The Tempest by William Shakespeare, I wanted to go. So bad! But as they say, I fell asleep along the way and when I finally got around to look for tickets, they were all sold out! Devastated, I decided not to give up and booked one of those theatres and dinner deals with lastminute.com for £31 ahead. Now, thinking about it, if I knew what approached us, I wouldn’t have bothered. For weeks I was very excited, looking forward to this evening until the day came.

Abstract things and tangible things.

Good things and bad things.

Day and Night.

Oceans and skies.

Fantasy and reality.

Time has gone by so quickly this summer, that I don’t even feel it arrived.

With so many things going on in my life right now, I don’t even recognise myself anymore. The truth is, not many things have been happening, just one major event, our wedding.

It’s not the end of the day but I can describe it as a Mermaid Day. Today is the day that I woke up and for some reason I felt so anxious that my brain was going to explode. Don’t understand why as yesterday was a quiet night. ( Long gone are the days of excessive drinking and eating) until the weekend, that is!

It’s not the end of the day but I can describe it as a Mermaid Day. Today is the day that I woke up and for some reason I felt so anxious that my brain was going to explode. Don’t understand why as yesterday was a quiet night. ( Long gone are the days of excessive drinking and eating) until the weekend, that is!

Today is a good day.

I wake up to the sound of the rain.

I reach my arms to my right, but Jon’s not there today.

Anyways – I smile, stretch and get out of bed.

We are in January 2011. Another year has passed and most of us are full of joy, happiness and with new resolutions to face this year. Yet for me they are not new, I face the same fears, same issues, same things as I did last year, with the difference that I’m a bit older. I am sitting in front of my computer, trying for my life not to be the same. It is the same because I am always trying for it to be different, get my point?

Latent powers, or talents not yet revealed, are very much like ingrown hairs in the skin.

You know you have them, you see them there, yet is it hard to get them out!

You can try, but it might leave a scar, and you can even bleed.

Today is Christmas Eve here in Santo Domingo, and a very early Christmas morning in London, which is waiting for me with its cold weather, naked trees, rain and possibly snow. But there are also people there that I Love and care about. And while I am here enjoying my family and the beautiful Caribbean weather, I wonder what is happening four hours ahead in the UK.

Here I am, watching the Caribbean Sea from my window, yet it is still surreal.

There I was. And after four years living in this amazing city I finally made it to a screening of the famous London Film Festival. I love film, which is one of the reasons why I moved here in the first place, yet I had never been to this festival, until now. Why? I kept procrastinating my plans. Less important things got in the way.

Hellodotcom. I want to believe there is something, a tiny little thing underneath the sun. there is nothing to discover. It’s all gone.

Yesterday I had plans to go training for the second time this month with my friend Marcia and little Anya. I woke up at 9am, (early for a Saturday morning). But I kept snoozing the alarm clock.

I love the sun and the snow the same.

I was excited yesterday as I was planning on cooking for Jon a nice and interesting recipe from Gordon Ramsay’s Makes it Easy book that Justin gave me for my b-day. I should say it was interesting…

They say variety is the spice of life, yet it is so easy to fall into habits and routine. I see it everyday. Whether it’s choosing the same pizza every time, going to the same bars and restaurants, even staying with your partners simply because we are used to them rather than love. Unfortunately, this is very common in human nature. It is not easy to change that pattern, to get out of our comfort zone.

Sometime in July I broke my elbow and I’ve been on a self-discovery journey ever since. How it happened is really not important. I’m also fed up of telling the same story over and over and over again.

Anyways, now I’m moving, changing and learning many, many things about myself and others.