Hard To Swallow

Over the last 24 hrs, I've learned that finding out someone you love has simply ceased to exist is a really hard fact to swallow. It's so hard to wrap your mind around the fact that someone you JUST hung out with a few days ago, you'll never see again (in this present life, anyway...). It's so heartbreaking to witness the parents and siblings struggling with the same concept... also trying to wrap their mind around what just happened... their struggle being much more painful compared to yours.

Some words to describe him:

Goofy, a typical Gouveia teen :)

Smart

Stylish... Oh so very stylish...

Confident

Fun-loving

Clever: Always found a creative way to get out of doing the dishes... lol

Mischivieous

His younger brothers' hero

His older sister's (that would be me) source of joy and non-stop amusement

His parents' pride and joy, their firstborn

It's so unfair that he had to go at such a young age. I hate the disease that took over his strong, seemingly unbreakable body and turned him into a frail shadow of his former self in a matter of hours, struggling to breathe, struggling to do anything necessary to live. I do know that the 18 years he lived were filled with joy, love, battles, and incredible adventures. We keep him in our hearts and memories, and I assure you our grandchildren will be hearing stories about their Great-uncle Gugu. For such a short time on this earth, he left quite a legacy.

We Love Him. We Miss Him. We will Never Forget Him.

In Loving Memory of Mesaque Paulino Gouveia, aka "Gugu".

1992 - 2010

Oh, It's Been Brought

Sunday I start the P90X training I've been wanting to start forever. I read the guide, looked over the recipes and nutritional plan, and saw the introductory video... and then spent all afternoon running all over the city trying to find one of those silly resistance bands since I don't have any dumbbells to workout with. But I couldn't find it anywhere. I went to every single store I could think of that sold fitness items, and boy oh boy talk about limited supplies! They have very little variety of fitness-related goods and they're over-priced and dusty from sitting on the shelves forever... Nobody buys that stuff here, lol. So needless to say, I'm still on the hunt for a resistance band to use with my new workouts, and today more than ever I realized how for granted I took the consumerist paradise that is the U.S.!
Anyway, my new coach Tony Horton has gotten me pumped up and motivated to BRING IT! And that, my friends, is EXACTLY what I plan on doing :)