Brazil Trip Getting Near

[dotinthesky]

In less than three weeks I'm catching a plane to Brazil. I've already started putting stuff into my suitcase so I won't forget it behind, like my mother's Good Housekeeping magazines. The shorts are coming out of the drawers as well as the few t-shirts that survived the Winter. I'm overdue a shopping trip for Summer gear. I also need to buy other things for my mom, like the perfume "Beautiful" by Estee Lauder and Bisto (there's none in Brazil despite our love for read meat.)

For my brother Nicholas, I'm buying two pairs of shoes that are commonly found in Portobello's market and which contain a type of lamb fur inside. His feet get very cold in the Winter (he has poor circulation because he can't walk). For my other brother, Martin, I'm buying some books, a CD or two, and some Beatles memorabilia for his girlfriend. I haven't met her yet but he told me she's a big Beatles fan.

I return from Brazil on the 27th of March. I hope Winter will be over by then.

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Comments

[synesis.livejournal.com]

Swimming in the morning is wonderful. However, I have been going slightly later recently (about 9 am), and have ended up trying to negotiate my way through a pool full of floating fat people. I felt rather like the Titanic trying to avoid an iceberg.

I didn't know they made speedos in waist size 42. This wasn't knowledge I ever needed to see a demonstration of, either.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

When the weather was warmer, I'd go swimming in the mornings all the time. I get up at 6.30 so I can be at my gym for 7a.m., when the doors open. Still, the pool is usually busy and there's always one or two people who should not be in the fast lane.

But swimming in the mornings is much better than later, when the pool gets very crowded.

As for fat people, how are they supposed to lose weight if they don't exercise? I don't mind seeing people of any size or shape, to be honest. Everyone has to start somewhere if they want to lose weight. ;-)

[synesis.livejournal.com]

I have no objection to fat people. I have objections to fat people floating aimlessly in lanes designated for swimming. Although, I do confess the occasional squick at seeing men with pendulous, wobbling breasts, despite my best attempts to be body-positive.

When the weather was warm, I occasionally went swimming in Hampstead Heath swimming ponds - it's really quite invigorating, and a lovely place to swim.

[ex-stanza602.livejournal.com]

Dangerous buying gifts for someone you haven't met yet. The girlfriend could be a Beatles nut and might already have everything you bought. :)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I doubt it... there's nothing in Brazil compared to what we have here! I could get her Yellow Submarine playing cards for example. Or Beatles' mugs.

[i-am-scowling.livejournal.com]

how long will you be gone for in the warmth & sunshine, love?

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

five weeks of pure bliss!

[roguejournal.livejournal.com]

you'd better not forget that copy of Q magazine...or i will spank you!!!



uh, kinky........

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Ok! So nobody sent you a copy yet?

[roguejournal.livejournal.com]

no...evil people!!
:(

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I'm fucked! Have to go to bed in two hours if I'm going to wake up so early.

[violentlyhappy.livejournal.com]

Quanto tempo vai ficar no Brasil? =o)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

cinco semanas. Bastante tempo.

[violentlyhappy.livejournal.com]

CINCO SEMANAS?! =oD Oooft, quem me dera que eu passasse cinco semanas no Brasil! Vai ficar em Londrina ou vai viajar também?

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Vou ficar mais ou menos uma semana (ou duas) em Londrina... talvez viajar para o Nordeste do Brasil e visitar meus amigos em Sao Paulo tambem.

[gorecky22.livejournal.com]

He he he... is kinda funny reading about somebody else's suitcase!! You really treat your family well!! What an effort to make them happy!!!

And yep... exercise is good!!! My back can tell... swimming eases the pain!!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

So how much have you been swimming now?

Those things I'm taking to my family are requests of theirs. ;)