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Hanging out with our good friends, Debbie and Saevar

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Monday, May 15, 2006
Bom día! I love Portugal...

Greetings from Portugal!! I´m currently in Braga staying at a lovely quinta and we just ate the yummiest Arroz con Mariscos dinner at Da Bouro restaurant. Today has been our first opportunity to jump on the internet since there´s one at the hotel. Since I´ll want to write about the entire week we´ve had in chronological order, I´ll wait until returning to give the full scoop on that. Meanwhile, I just wanted to share some wonderful news...

Matt and I are engaged!! He completely (like, totally shocked) surprised me when we were in Casçais, staying at our lovely fortress by the sea. We had just finished having dinner with Debbie & Saevar and had returned to the hotel. Matt had wanted to take a nice walk along the beach but I wasn´t having any of that because the Guincho Beach was dark and insanely windy (we learned that this beach often hosts the World Windsurfing Championships---that tells you how windy it was). So then he resorted to Plan 2 by pouring some port and going out to the balcony. Next thing I knew, he had whipped out a ring and was proposing to me. Of course, I said yes.

So that´s the super exciting news so far from this trip! We´re heading to the Douro Valley tomorrow and then slowly down South, eventually back to Lisboa. Can´t wait to share all the wonderful things we´ve seen and done here in Portugal! Ciao!

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Friday, May 05, 2006
10 hours to go....

...before Kutta takes us to the airport and off we go to Boston. I've got a ton of work stuff to complete and basic packing stuff to do. Yeah--pack. I have yet to do that. I've got the suitcase open and that's about it. I've started jotting down a list of everything I need to do: that's the type of organizer I am---a list person. Before every trip, I write down a huge list of things I need to do. I also write down a list of things I need to pack that I haven't packed yet, just so I don't forget last minute. So much to do...

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Thursday, May 04, 2006
Itinerary in Portugal

As y'all may've noticed by now, I'm about to take a lil' trip to Portugal next week for about 2 weeks. Am I excited? Damn straight I am. Here's the itinerary that we have laid out:


Day 1
Arrive in Lisbon. Relax.

Day 2
Explore more of Lisbon

Day 3
Explore more of Lisbon. Maybe check out some Fado.

Day 4
Head over to Cascais and check into a 17th century fortress on the beach. Suh-weet. Explore Cascais and Sintra.

Day 5
Explore more in the area. Maybe head to Obidos and Nazare if there's time.

Day 6
Drive up to Oporto---port region!
Check into the Hotel Pestana, which forms part of a block of town houses dating from the XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries and is classified by UNESCO as part of the World Heritage site which extends along the Douro River. Nice.

Day 7
Explore more of Oporto and check out some of the port vinyards.

Day 8
Check out Braga and Guimarães

Day 9
Drive to the Douro Valley and explore the countryside and any other port quintas. Stay in a cute B&B.

Day 10
Start driving back down south and explore Coimbra, Conimbriga, and the Buçaco Forest. Check into a former royal hunting lodge.

Day 11
Explore the area and look at Fatima (a pilgramage site that Mel Gibson may make a movie about), Batalha and Leiria

Day 12
Drive back to Lisbon and celebrate our last day in Portugal

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Work people on IM

Over the past few years, I've experienced different IM clients, from ICQ to Yahoo to AOL to MSN. During that time, as an employee at Amazon, if I ever wanted to chat with my co-workers, I had to add them to an internal Windows Messenger IM client (mainly because all other IM clients were blocked). As a result, the majority of my buddies on my MSN Messenger are actual, personal friends. Since joining Microsoft, I notice that a lot of people use MSN Messenger and I get requests often from co-workers for my MSN Messenger account name so they can add me to their buddy list. So I'm now moving into the territory where my IM experience is muddled with both personal friends and coworkers. Hmm. I guess I feel strange about it because I want to be able to sign into Messenger from home and not have coworkers see me go online. It's that feeling of being unattached from work--to be able to IM with friends and not feel like your coworkers are in the room too and can contact you as easily as your friends. I use Communicator at work, which works for most people. But what do I do with coworkers who ask for my MSN Messenger address? Do I give them my usual? Should I create another account and maintain that one? (which I'll likely never sign into?). I wish there was a feature where I could "hide" myself from a particular group of messenger buddies. Call me paranoid.

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Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Last day at work...kinda

I got kicked out of my office at 5pm today because the movers came in. My whole team is moving literally across the street to the building next door, but because it's a massive move, none of us really have offices available to work in until Monday morning. Meanwhile, those with laptops will chill out at home and continue work there (that's ME!). What that also means is that today was essentially my last day, physically, in the office before I take off for Boston/Portugal this weekend. Woo hoo---cuz that means I have time at home to pack my stuff in between the e-mail and spec updates I'll be doing.

I'm meeting a bunch of former and current Amazon ladies for dinner tonight at Pasta Freska, this Italian restaurant on Westlake that has a "no menu" policy: the chef walks around and asks people what they don't like..and then constructs a dinner based off of that. Shall be interesting! I can't wait to see how the experience turns out!

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