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the city girl will surprise you…

yeah, that’s me.  City girl, born and bred.

If you don’t know, I was born and spent all my childhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil– “the most populous in Brazil, in South America and in the southern hemisphere.”

Then my family immigrated to the U.S. and I’ve lived in NYC for most of the rest of my life.  So, I am a city girl.

What [...]

The drastic changes

New York City population: 8.2 million – “the most densely populated major city in the United States”

Dublin Borough: 2,083

NYC land mass: 304.8 square miles

Dublin:3/4 mile square

NYC landscape: islands and skyscrapers and government housing

Dublin: farms (dairy, veggie and beef)

Our previous apartment: 2nd floor of a 3 family home

Now: 2-story house

before: no yard

now: 1/2 acre

before: not enough [...]

guess what this is…

yes, one of the best things so far, about our neighborhood…

I can get milk from a farm that is about 2 miles away. Yeah, in the glass bottles and everything!

I paid the deposit and the price of the milk today, but after today, I will just be bringing back the bottles, and getting fresh [...]

posts will be scarce…

I have so much to write about, but I’m too busy to write.

We’ve moved in and the kitchen is almost all unpacked.  Only spices and cookbooks to unpack.  I forgot a bunch of pots inside my cabinet in New York, so I have to get some new ones, and cooking has been a bit challenging.  [...]

we are 7/8ths moved

Yesterday was the big day. we had asked everyone to be here at 9am to help us move.

The day before we’d gone to get the U-Haul truck– a 24-footer, which Fabio had to drive around in Queens.

We stayed up til 2am packing, and we got up at 6am and continued packing, in order to be [...]