Tags & Lainy Blog Contest

Hi everyone. TGIF!
Lainy, from Lainy Musings and Our Journey to Forever, invited me to participate in two tags. Thanks for rememering me for this fun tags!
I already did the Birthday tag, you can check my post: Birthday Wishes Tag.

The second tag reminds me a letter game I used to play when I was younger:

Copy the questions below. Simply use the first letter of your name/nickname as your answer for each questions. You can't use any answer twice and don't use your own name for questions # 3 & 4. After you're done, tag 10 people (I pass this part)

1. What is your name? Maria aka Mizé
2. A four letter word: Make
3. A boy's name : Michael
4. A girl's name : Marzie
5. An occupation : Mechanic
6. A color : Magenta
7. Something you wear : Mocassins
8. A type of food : Meat stew
9. Something found in the bathroom : Moisturizer
10. A place : Montegordo, Algarve
11. A reason for being late : Missing the bus
12. Something you shout : My god!
13. A movie title : Matrix
14. Something you drink : Martini
15. A musical group : Metallica
16. A street name : Mercado
17. A type of car : Mercedes
18. A song title: Mea culpa (Enigma)
19. A verb : Move



Lainy is doing a blog contest and I´m one of the sponsors. This contest starts March 15 and there are many prizes to be won.
If you like blog contests check it out!
You can read all about it in Lainy Musings Blog.

Picture Tag

Hi everyone.
I´m back with my "Must Do" list and today I´m posting a fun picture tag.
I was invited to do this blog tag by Mariuca from "Whishing on a Falling Star" and "Mariuca´s Perfume Gallery" Blogs. If you haven´t meet Mariuca yet, just click the link above and be surprised :)
I found in Mariuca a great friend and I discovered that, although we live in different parts of the world, we have some things in common such as music, cats, perfumes, blogging, blog design and arts.
Mariuca has included me in many blog tags and bestowed my blog many awards. I haven´t posted some of them yet. It looks like I can´t keep up, so I´m sorry for that. I´m happy to receive all blog tags and awards but sometimes I just don´t have time to cope with everything.
Anyways, I´m in this fun picture tag :)

Here are the rules:

"Use Google image to search the answers to the questions below. You must choose a picture from the first page of the results, and post it as your answer. After that, tag 7 people."

(1) The age of my next birthday



(2) Place I'd like to travel to: Palma de Maiorca in Spain.



(3) Favourite food: Seafood rice, cooked by me :)



4) Favourite place: My Hometown, Setúbal.



(5) One of my nicknames: My only nickname is Mizé.



(6) Favourite color: White



(7) College major: Humanities



(8) Name of my love: S



(9) Hobby: Stained Glass



10) Bad habits: Smoking



11) My wishlist: A Country Home (but not so big)



Ok, this was a fun tag!
I´d like to invite my top droppers to join the fun. Hopefully, some of them haven´t been tagged yet.
See you soon.

Blog Tag from Monica: Photo Challenge

My friend Monica, from Turn you Off blog, invited me to join her in a photo challenge.
First I thought I had to take a picture with a specific topic, but it´s simplier than that. The rules are, go to the 6th folder in the folder with all your photos and select the 6th photo and post it. It´s simple.



Since my notebook caught a virus while bloghopping, I´ve been using my hubby´s. Most of my pictures are in my notebook but I´ll join the challenge anyway. The photo above was taken by S. in Algarve´s rally in a sunny afternoon.
Thanks Monica for tagging me!
I had fun and the opportunity to post more Algarve pictures :)

Blog Tag: Birthday Wishes

Hello everyone.
My friend Mariuca, from Mariuca Perfume Gallery and Wishing on a Falling Star, invited me to join the Birthday Tag. I´m supposed to list my 10 birthday wishes and tag 10 friends.
Although I don´t have ten friends to tag, I´d like to thanks Mariuca for her wonderful support and for always remebering me!
My 10 birthday wishes:

1. Health
2. Peace
3. Concentration to do my thesis
4. A car (can be second hand)
5. Luck for my online endeavours
6. Fix my notebook (it´s not fixed yet)
7. Luck for my tenants so they always pay the rent
8. A job
9. A better digital camera
10. A new matress (really need one)

Well, my birthday is near. I don´t think I´ll be able to have all the things in my list because some of my wishes are pretty subjective. At least, I shared with you my deep thoughts.
See you soon.

Valentine´s Love

Hi everyone.
Love is in the air all over the blogosphere, have you noticed?
Well, I did. My fellow bloggers didn´t let me forget. Thanks all for your comments!
I was tagged by my fellow bloggers Mariuca, Monica and Metz, from Empty Streets to participate in this Valentine´s Meme created by Jean. Triple tag, lol!
Thanks so much for your Valentine´s Love, you´re the best!
I´d like to tag Mira, Allena and Mahr to join us.

***start copy***

Rules:
1) Once you're tagged, install the corner banner at your blog as a third party html code. (The corner banner need to stay at your blog for at least 2 weeks).
2) Post about this meme, Valentine's Love.
3) Add your blog/s with link/s to the Valentine's Lovers list and leave a comment at this post HERE.
3) Tag all your special friends.
4) Please remember to update your list regularly so that you would not miss out anyone in your Valentine's Lovers list.


Corner Banner

Valentine's Love

p/s: The wordings on this banner with automatically changed to 'Tagged with Love! xoxo' on Feb 15.

Please get the code for the corner banner from Jean's blog.

Valentine's Lovers:

1.A Great Pleasure 2.Time Goes By 3.Listen With Your Heart 4.Glossalicious 5. Wishing on a Falling Star 6. Mariuca's Perfume Gallery 7. Simply Shinade 8. A Simple Life 9. Mommy's Little Corner 10. Ramblings of the Phat 11. 0007 Undercover TAGMEMAWARD CAT 12. Notes by Marvic 13. Maiylah's Snippets 14. Picture Clusters 15. This is a Miracle 16. purplefrogcat 17. Also Mommy 18. Both Sides Now 19. illusionaire 20. Candles, Crafts and Whatnot 21. The Brainy Bimbo 22. Sweet Nothings 23. Turn-u-Off 24. Chopsticks 25. My Views On My So Called Life 26. Gagay 27. Empty Streets 1027 28. Life According To Me 29. Yummy-as-can-be 30. Mom...Check Nyo 31. Everything Under the Sun 32. My Sweet Escape 33. Never Enough Stuff 34. Windmill on the Hill 35. Snapshot 36. Twinkletoe Writing Space 37. A Piece of M.I.N.D 38. Life is too short to be ordinary... 39. Our Journey to Forever 40. What a colourful life!! 41. Oh Fer Cryin' Out Loud 42. My Online Paradise 43. My Life Story 44. Moments of Colours 45. Lynn's Chic Spot 46. Simply The Best 47. The Spirit of Blogging 48. Tales of A Pinay Single Mom 49. Simple Life 50. Hit-or-Miss 51. Show Me Your Interest 52. Soy Wax Candles Blog 53. Night Clicks

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Happy Valentine´s to all!
xxx

Blog Tag: "Have You Ever"

This week, I was tagged by Mariuca, from the blog "Wishing on a Falling Star". Mariuca: I´d like to send you a big thanks, your´re awesome!
The "Have You Ever" tag is simple, I just have to answer a few questions so my fellow bloggers get to know a bit more about me.
I had fun playing this tag, here are my answers:

1. Have you ever been on TV?
*No, only in a radio studio.

2. Have you ever sung in public?
*No. I already played music but never sang.

3. Have you ever dyed your hair blond?
*Me, blond? Nahhh, only other colors.

4. Have you ever eaten frogs' legs?
*Never, and I intend to keep it that way :)

5. Have you ever received a present that you really hated?
*Yes, in my wedding. A black metal basket. Only recently I had the courage to
throw it away.

6. Have you ever walked into a lamp post?
*Yes, several times, but never got seriously wounded.

7. Have you ever cooked a meal by yourself for more than 15 people?
*Yes. In a New Year´s party. I was the best cook around so got recruited by my friends. I was lucky, I only had to cook different types of seafoods, very easy.
As usual, the worst part was cleaning everything afterwards.

8. Have you ever fallen or stumbled in front of others?
*Yes, on several ocasions. One time, I skiped breakfast and when I got hungry I rushed to a pastry. When I was entering the shop I fell right in front of everyone because I didn´t see one step...I was so hungry that I only saw the cakes, lol.

9. Have you ever done volunteer work?
*Yes, several times. Recently, in University, I helped organizing a coference and one other event.

Ok. Tag done!
See you.

Blog Tag

In December, Lainy from “Our Journey to Forever” and Mira from “Random Thoughts” tagged me with the “Shot on the Spot” game.
Here are the rules of this tag:

1) Take a picture of yourself right NOW!.
2) DON'T change your clothes, DON'T fix your hair... Just take a picture.
3) Post that picture with NO editing.
4) Post these instruction with your picture.
5) Tag 10 people to do this...

I´d like to thank Lainy and Mira for remembering me. After much though I realized I´m not ready to play this tag but I want to acknowledge you, my fellow bloggers, for all your support.
As you may have noticed, I never posted personal pictures both from me or my family members, only from my cat :)
In personal posts, which I label “Blogger Status”, “Blogger Personal Stuff” and "Student Life", I disclose some details of my personal life but when it comes to our pictures I rather have a low profile.
Lainy and Mira: Please don´t be sad, you´re going to see my picture. Both of you are good friends so I took the shot on the spot and soon I´m going to mail it to you.
I hope you can understand my decision.
Cheers.

Blog Tag: Things I Love

Hi.
Lately, thanks to Social Networks, I´ve been socializing more with other bloggers than when I started blogging. I found some bloggers trough this networks, while others found me.
This is true both for my English and Portuguese blogs. Trough my Art blog I´ve meet some very friendly bloggers that already know this blog too.
Some Portuguese bloggers also play awards and tag games. Recently, I was invited to post about "Things I Love". I promissed to post this tag as soon as possible but, as usual, I´m taking too long :)
I don´t want to end this year without completing this task, so here it goes.
In this game, I have to reveal seven things I love. The link part was done in my Portuguese blog.

Seven Things I Love:

~ My Daughter
~ My Hubby
~ The Sea in the Summer
~ The Countryside
~ Cooking
~ Live Concerts

Bear-iuca Travels Around The World

Hi.
Mariuca and Roxy invited me to join Bear-iuca meme and help him travel around the world. Thanks ladies!
Well, Bear-iuca already arrived to our cosy and sunny Portugal, safe and sound. He´s loving it :) He´s such a cute bear! My daughter is already his fan:



Join us and help Bear-iuca´jouney around the world:

The Spirit of BEAR-iuca -START COPYING HERE- Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there lived a powerful Genie Princess named Mariuca who was known throughout the land as the friendliest, most popular blogger in the blogosphere kingdom. Adored and admired by international visitors and commentators from around the world, the Genie Princess travels the blogosphere on her magical flying carpet, always looking for ways to share her good fortune with others.Over the past two years of blogging, Mariuca has met so many new people, from all walks of life and all over the world, each one bringing a little of their culture and lifestyle when they visit and comment on Mariuca’s two sites. So on her 2nd Blog Anniversary, Mariuca wanted to celebrate with all of her international blogosphere buddies by hosting a bear-naming contests at Wishing On A Falling Star and Mariuca’s Perfume Gallery and to pass her two lucky, cuddly teddy bears along to the winners who came up with the best names. On the opposite side of the world, from the moment Roxy (the prolific Roxiticus Desperate Housewives blogger) and her sweet daughters London and Maddie saw the teddy in his personalized t-shirt and blue muffler at Wishing On A Falling Star, they knew that he needed to come to live with their family in Mendham, NJ. The three New Jersey girls named him immediately and burst into a wonderful song for BEAR-iuca: BEAR-iuca, BEAR-iuca, amazing teddy cheer. BEAR-iuca, BEAR-iuca, we’d love you to come live here! Mariuca received 16 possible names for the Mariuca Teddy Bear, making it hard for the Genie Princess to choose just one…then Alakazam! A bolt of lightning delivered the perfect way to share BEAR-iuca’s good fortune to bloggers around the globe. While the soft, stuffed, cuddly BEAR-iuca is on his way to live with Roxy, London, Maddie and Rex in the Roxiticus Valley, the Spirit of BEAR-iuca is racing through the blogosphere to bring happiness, holiday cheer, and beary best wishes to everyone who welcomes him into their online home and passes along the BEAR-iuca good luck charm to ten friends. Please play along with us by following a few important rules: 1. Add your site(s) to the list once you have received the Spirit of BEAR-iuca badge of teddy bear cheer. 2. Pass along the Spirit of BEAR-iuca and his cheery badge to as many people as you like. 3. Leave a comment HERE once you’ve passed on the Spirit of BEAR-iuca. 4. Once Roxy and the Genie Princess have visited your site to make sure your links are complete and proper, you will then be added to the Master List. 4. To ensure everyone receives equal link benefit, please UPDATE your list regularly! BEAR-iuca LOVES 1. Mariuca 2. Roxiticus Desperate Housewives 3. Mariuca’s Perfume Gallery 4. Roxy’s Best Of… 5. Bay Head Blog 6. Roxiticus Best Blogs 7. Emila’s Illustrated Blog 8. Metz - Empty Streets 9. The Spirit of Blogging 10. Speedcat Hollydale Page 11. Snapshot 12. purplefrogcat 13. Turn-u-Off 14. Simple Life 15. A Little Girl Talk 16. Life in the Lapadula House 17. Spicybugz World 18. The Mom With Brownies 19. Our High School Homeschool 20. Our Five Dangerous Boys 21. The Big Dog 22. LadyJava’s Lounge 23. Moments of My Life 24. Life is too short to be ordinary 25. A Great Pleasure 26. Time Goes By 27. Life According To Me 28. Laketrees 29. This is a miracle 30. Porcelain Doll 31. Moms…CheckNyo 32. Wonderful Things In Life 33. Sweet Nothings 34. Hot Shit Form Here 35. Not Just a Mom Site 36. The Life of a Mom 37. Wiehanne Lounge 38. The Painted Veil 39. My Crossroads 40. Little Mermaid 41. LOVE’s Haven 42. Also Mommy 43. The Journey 44. Comedy Plus 45. Making sense…(somehow) 46. The Modern Mom 47. Stay At Home Mom 48. Picture Clusters 49. Maiylah’s Snippets 50. Sweety tots 51. My Discoveries 52. A Life to Remember 53. Rekha 54. Crissy’s Haven 55. Crissy’s Library 56. Crissy’s Zone 57. Shopping Blog 58. Crafts and cooking 59. Asian Mutt International 60. A Simple Life 61. I AM KCAT 62. A Girl For All Status 63. Berry Blog 64. Carnation 65. Pinaymama’s Diary 66. Life’s sweets and spices 67. The Callalily Space 68. Butchay 69. Blessings in Life 70. Pinay Mommy Online 71. The Ruby Posts 72. Day Break 73. R…E…B…E…L?!? 74. VDAY CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY 75. Just the Tip of the Iceberg 76. Honeysweet Learning Center 77. Vsk8shop 78. A Diva’s Hammer 79. Arlene - Joys in Life 80. Listening..Learning..Living 81. Mommy’s Little Corner 82. YOU Next! FINISH COPYING HERE

The meme ended here but we would like to participate in Mariuca´s Perfume birthday contest. We would love to receive Bear-iuca´s sister!
My daughter likes to sleep holding her pet friends. She already has a brown dog and a white lamb and she would love to have a bear to join her while she dreams. A great reason to send her to Portugal.
Every night she would be holded by a sweet girl and would sure stay warm & cosy :)During the day they would play with Atos, but carefully.
We will call her Mimi, Mimibear!



We hope she can joins us.
Cheers.

Blog Tags

Moving on with blog tags. In November I was tagged by Babette, with 6 random facts about me and also received the ABC tag from Mariuca.
Thanks to both, I appreciate you remember me and cherish your ciber friendship alot!
Once I already had been tagged by Mathias with the 6 random facts, this time I´ll do the ABC tag. So, here it goes:

A. Attached or single? Married to S.

B. Best friend? A few online and offline three girls of my age.

C. Cake or pie? I like both but I prefer cakes :)

D. Day of choice? Friday night because then comes the weekend.

E. Essential item? Depends, maybe my notebook.

F. Favorite color? A few: Pink, green, black & white.

G. Gummy bears or worms? Gummy bears for sure.

H. Hometown? Setúbal.

I. Favorite indulgence? Chocolates and cakes.

J. January or July? July, it´s summer here.

K. Kids? One adorable girl.

L. Life isn’t complete without? My family, music.

M. Marriage date? In church 30-10-2000.

N. Number of magazine subscriptions? None.

O. Oranges or apples? Apples.

P. Phobias? Cockroaches.

Q. Quotes? I like quotes and proverbs, today I´ll choose "What goes around comes around".

R. Reasons to smile? I make a joke out of many things. My family makes me smile alot, for different reasons.

S. Season of choice? I prefer summer and spring. I suffer when it´s too cold.

T. Tag 5 people. Oh my! that´s the hard part. How about my top droppers of this month?

U. Unknown fact about me? Online: My profession; Offline: My online life, lol.

V. Vegetable? Many, I love soups and salads, just don´t like much broccolis and aspargus.

W. Worst habit? Smoking.

X. X-ray or ultrasound? X-ray.

Y. Your favorite foods? Italian, Portuguese, Chinese and Mexican.

Z. Zodiac sign? Solar: Aries; Ascendent: Scorpion; Moon: Virgo.

That´s it, I had fun doing this tag and you get to know a bit more about me.
Good Night.

Funny Stuff for Blogs: My 1920´s Name - Do You Know Yours?

I came across another funny thing I´d like to share with my readers. In one of my Night Clicks session I found this site called Blogthings.com that has this 1920´s name generator.
So, do you know what´s your 1920`s name?
Mine was Ozella Clarabelle, imagine that! I think it´s a funny name. So, if your curious about your 1920´s name use the link bellow to visit this Site. All you have to do is type your real name in the box provided and discover which is yours. You´re welcome to leave a comment and let me know which is your 1920`s name.

Your 1920's Name is:

Ozella Clarabelle

What's Your 1920's Name?