tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008463968111291625.post5068992552699257776..comments2023-11-05T11:06:57.841+01:00Comments on The Salty Cod: A New YearMallory Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901050934484369605noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008463968111291625.post-78633348056378162582011-01-07T18:52:49.900+01:002011-01-07T18:52:49.900+01:00Hi Mallory! haha, I have no answer to your questio...Hi Mallory! haha, I have no answer to your question. I would love to move live in Boston, MA again one day. My husband think of going to Oregon sometime too... but it's just dreams for now. His dream is to move to Austria one day. We will see. <br /><br />Thank you for offering to make me a banner, I would be glad to pay for it! I just don't have the time to think about it now, and I don't know if I will keep this background I have now for much longer. But I will let you know if I decide to change to something more definite. Thank you!!!! Hope 2011 will be a better year.Nanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05802492142900190123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008463968111291625.post-75464701615326780372011-01-07T18:51:44.056+01:002011-01-07T18:51:44.056+01:00Hi Mallory! haha, I have no answer to your questio...Hi Mallory! haha, I have no answer to your question. I would love to move live in Boston, MA again one day. My husband think of going to Oregon sometime too... but it's just dreams for now. His dream is to move to Austria one day. We will see. <br /><br />Thank you for offering to make me a banner, I would be glad to pay for it! I just don't have the time to think about it now, and I don't know if I will keep this background I have now for much longer. But I will let you know if I decide to change to something more definite. Thank you!!!! Hope 2011 will be a better year.Nanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05802492142900190123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008463968111291625.post-36194875886175505692011-01-06T21:23:27.168+01:002011-01-06T21:23:27.168+01:00I was disappointed to see one or two people offend...I was disappointed to see one or two people offended by your Christmas post (which I found to be on the definite mild side when it comes to whiny posts). <br /><br />Holidays, events, and the emotions wrapped up in them can be pretty personal. This was my 4th Christmas in Brazil, and the 5th in a row far away from the US, and it's something I'm still struggling with. For a long time I got by by feeling like since it didn't "feel" like Christmas, it should be easier to get through. But this year, I found myself missing "my" Christmas more than ever. <br /><br />Homesickness for me is often tied up in food, and Christmas is a lot about food for me. I'm sure there are some expats out there who really miss Easter. I don't, but it was never a big deal in my family. Point being, everyone has the right to be homesick for whatever their personal reasons are.<br /><br />My Brazilian Christmas sounds pretty similar to yours. My husband's 65+ member family descends upon a chácara in the interior, since the family farm no longer has enough room for everyone to sleep. There's an epic gift exchange, heavy drinking, live pagode, and even a fully costumed live enactment of the Christmas story from the bible (in a family that big, there's always a cousin who's pregnant to play Mary). <br /><br />I do enjoy it, but with all those people hanging around a pool, drinking beer, eating potato salad and chicken on paper plates, the whole thing is a lot more akin to a summertime family reunion to me than what I knew as Christmas for the first 25 or so years of my life. Fun? Yes! Christmas? No! And if it were held on any other day of the year, it wouldn't even phase me.<br /><br />I also baked 5 types of cookies, which was probably more for my self than anything. I certainly ate more of them than anyone else.<br /><br />So, don't let the comments get you down. Your photos are gorgeous. And if you're ever in the big city, let me know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008463968111291625.post-19254551918076428232011-01-05T23:49:50.773+01:002011-01-05T23:49:50.773+01:00Don't change a thing I want to hear the real r...Don't change a thing I want to hear the real raw deal, that is what makes interesting reading, and gives character. Perfect if boring and frankly I don't believe it when I hear it no one can always be happy with everything its not possible. I too do not like huge loud groups of people. I appreciate the honesty and the awesome part is that your putting yourself out there and telling the truth and that takes guts.<br /><br />With that said I am interested in your blog because currently I live in Boston, and have also met a Brazilian man, and will be moving to the south of Brazil to Parana residing in the city Cascavel, probably within a year. I am scrared excited SCARED sorry did I say that already? But also looking forward to it, I need a change and would like to learn a new culture<br /><br />Maybe some day our paths will cross as we are both Americans and I am guessing that expats need each other (just a guess).<br /><br />Anyway keep up the good work and don't let anyone derail you. In the end all we really have is the truth.Skarrlette's Hammerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08562022102196183737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008463968111291625.post-49045996236855650532011-01-04T09:59:44.363+01:002011-01-04T09:59:44.363+01:00thank you all for the kind words, the best sort of...thank you all for the kind words, the best sort of motivation :)<br /><br />Nina i should, but that would have to come after the driving part. ahk ahk. <br /><br />parabems Elaine! nursing school in NM! but when are you going to move out of the American dessert! :P<br /><br />Dinnersanddreams; perhaps Spanish someday. it all depends on where we are living. and who ever really knows!Malloryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14186983983626357305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008463968111291625.post-41420521751728699402011-01-04T02:43:34.563+01:002011-01-04T02:43:34.563+01:00Languages fascinate me. I wish I had time to learn...Languages fascinate me. I wish I had time to learn Spanish. Maybe one day.<br /><br />Happy New Year!<br /><br />NisrineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008463968111291625.post-24690707011853300882011-01-03T11:35:12.688+01:002011-01-03T11:35:12.688+01:00Your blog writing is always endearing and often ju...Your blog writing is always endearing and often just plain lyrical. Don't change a thing.<br /><br />And your photos! Jaw dropping.<br /><br />All the best throughout 2011.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14003236423048071844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008463968111291625.post-78575845931984623842011-01-03T02:51:06.011+01:002011-01-03T02:51:06.011+01:00Just stumbled across Salty, loving it and looking ...Just stumbled across Salty, loving it and looking forward to reading in 2011. A very Happy New Years to you!!Janahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16257177126103532551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008463968111291625.post-258305342661181922011-01-03T00:33:43.876+01:002011-01-03T00:33:43.876+01:00Oh, I am so sorry to hear about your deception wit...Oh, I am so sorry to hear about your deception with Brazil's Xtmas Mallory! You know, my Christmases in Brazil were always sad because my parents always worked so late and we never had time to make the food and stuff. And they were always stressed out so it was hard. I do like Christmas in America a lot more, it's something about the "xtmas spirit". But I know many families in Brazil have great Xtmases, perhaps you should make next Xtams your "own way" together with your husband, start your own Xtmas tradition, how cool would that be? As for New Years, I do think New Years in Brazil is a lot better than New Years here. I love the energy, the fireworks at the beach... here it is just so plain! You have all the right to express your feelings about your experiences in Brazil, after all you are an expat. Happy New Year to you and H!!! By the way... I moved!<br />My husband and I moved from Tucson, AZ to Farmington, NM just a couple of days ago. It's not forever, just for a couple of year while I go through nursing school. Farmington is small town, not very pretty, but we are excited to be in a different place for a while, we needed some change. We hope to move back to Tucson in a few years. Good luck to all of us! :)Nanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05802492142900190123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008463968111291625.post-16580067715542967132011-01-02T22:18:10.038+01:002011-01-02T22:18:10.038+01:00Happy New Year (Feliz Ano Novo)! I wish you all th...Happy New Year (Feliz Ano Novo)! I wish you all the best. And your pictures, by the way, are to die for. Really beautiful.Cláudia Bertoluccihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07215762584643508408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008463968111291625.post-54289203382297010402011-01-02T00:40:25.677+01:002011-01-02T00:40:25.677+01:00Happiest of 2011s to you and your man! Thank you ...Happiest of 2011s to you and your man! Thank you for everything, and come see us soon in the Great White North!Corinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05012625970533603440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008463968111291625.post-10204516424092910102011-01-01T22:02:13.289+01:002011-01-01T22:02:13.289+01:00come take Portuguese at Unicamp with me!!!!!!come take Portuguese at Unicamp with me!!!!!!Ninahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15346687833675750566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008463968111291625.post-56123429205617251812011-01-01T21:04:23.943+01:002011-01-01T21:04:23.943+01:00Cant' wait to keep reading Salty... and P.S. s...Cant' wait to keep reading Salty... and P.S. some people like to read the complainy blogs. It helps me feel real and not alone. <br />Keep up the delicious blogging :)<br />Happy New Year!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15421142287093429996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008463968111291625.post-43722344975764732642011-01-01T20:12:21.875+01:002011-01-01T20:12:21.875+01:00Happy New Year, Mallory! Here's to a tasty 201...Happy New Year, Mallory! Here's to a tasty 2011!Sirihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04414867945458292512noreply@blogger.com