And
to keep you company during these special days I have just made a new Archives > December 2004
And
to keep you company during these special days I have just made a new
<< E-magazine update >>
featuring holiday entertainment tips for you and your entire family.
Plus here are some new creations I made for the holidays:
You can follow procedures in the clay section. In the future I might make a real tutorial section dedicated to this art cuz I think I'm really getting a hang of it!
I
am going to go to my parents' later on this evening but I just wanted to check
in to wish you all happy times until we see each other again. I'm not sure if
I'm going to have time to update before the 6th of January but if I can I sure
will.
Get your resolutions going and keep up with them!
Personally,
a lot is coming up for me in 2005, including a new job as executive assistant
for a pharmaceutical company starting on January 19. I intend to keep teaching
privately because I love the job so much but finally a job I can count on!
So much love and happiness to everyone, I love you and hope to see you in 2005!
For
those of you who are married, were married, or are contemplating
marriage under the assumption that men need (or ought) to be trained for
marriage...
TWO YEAR DEGREE COURSE
A new two-year degree is being offered at the University that many of you
should be interested in:
Becoming a Real Man. That's right, in just six mini-semesters, you, too, can
be a real man as well as earn an MA degree. (Male Arts)
Please take a moment to look over the program outline.
FIRST YEAR
Autumn Schedule:
MEN 101: Combating Stupidity
MEN 102: You, Too, Can Do Housework
MEN 103: PMS-Learn To Keep Your Mouth Shut
MEN 104: We Do Not Want Sleazy Under things for Christmas
Winter Schedule:
MEN 110: Wonderful Laundry Techniques
MEN 111: Understanding the Female Response to Getting in at 4am
MEN 112: Parenting: It Doesn't End with Conception
EAT 100: Get a Life, Learn to Cook
EAT 101: Get a Life, Learn to Cook II
ECON 001A: What's Hers is Hers
Spring Schedule:
MEN 120: How NOT to Act like a prat when you're Wrong
MEN 121: Understanding Your Incompetence
MEN 122: YOU, The Weaker Sex
MEN 123: Reasons to Give Flowers
ECON 001C: What Was Yours is Hers
SECOND YEAR
Autumn Schedule:
SEX 101: You CAN Fall Asleep without It
SEX 102: Morning Dilemma: If It's Awake, Take a Shower
SEX 103: How to Stay Awake After Sex
MEN 201: How To Put the Toilet Seat Down
(Elective)
(See Electives Below)
Winter Schedule:
MEN 210: The Remote Control: Overcoming Your Dependency
MEN 211: How to Not Act Younger than Your Children
MEN 212: You, Too, Can be a Designated Driver
MEN 213: Honest, You Don't Look Like Brad Pitt
MEN 230A: Her Birthdays and Anniversaries are Important
Spring Schedule:
MEN 220: Omitting %&*!@ from Your Vocabulary (Pass/Fail Only)
MEN 221: Fluffing the Blanket after Farting Is NOT Necessary
MEN 222: Real Men Ask For Directions
MEN 223: Thirty minutes of begging is not considered foreplay
MEN 230B: Her Birthdays and Anniversaries are Important II
Course Electives:
EAT 102: Cooking with Tofu
EAT 103: Utilization of Eating Utensils
EAT 103: Burping and Belching Discreetly
MEN 231: Mothers-In-Law
MEN 232: Appear to Be Listening
MEN 233: Just Say "Yes, Dear"
ECON 001C: Cheaper to Keep Her
Just a thought for all the women out there.
MENtal Illness
MENstrual cramps
MENtal breakdown
MENopause
GUYnocologist (poetic spelling)
Ever notice how all of women's problems start with men?
Send this to all women you know (and men with a sense of humour) and brighten up
their day!!.... and when we have real trouble, it's a HISterectomy.
BTW... I'M EMPLOYED!!!!!!!!!!
This is what was written on my beautiful and delicious cake. It was full of fresh whipped cream and pudding and it was decorated with a yummy chocolate star, edible roses and amazing cream filled swans all around it. I even ate the almond sugar plate that my mom had made write out (Federica, you are our star).
Here are the only pictures I took, I had a very nice birthday with the people who love me. Fabio is not in town until the 28th of December (sigh), some great friends and acquaintances sent me messages, emails and called me, I really appreciated it because it shows they care about me. And those who I know remembered my birthday but didn't call me because we have drifted apart I love you anyways... and hope we'll reunite soon enough... I miss you!
This was quite a rich birthday! Considering the fact that I usually get darn combined gifts since my bday is so close to Christmas.
In all I got pajamas, a nightgown, 50 Euros, my desired Bruno Vespa's History of Italy from Mussolini to Berlusconi book, a teddy bear, many things to decorate a holiday table, from decorations to beautiful plates, champagne glasses, holiday tablecloth, holiday napkins... beautiful!!
And oh yeah, I also got a new cellphone!!!! Damn, that's not something I expected even because I was pretty much in love with my ole' Nokia. However it's bootyful (not one of them gay picture phones but you can buy the accessory) it's a flip phone, has a color screen, polyphonic tones (a gagillion of them already in the phone) and some more cute features... I like it!
I still don't know what I got from friends and Fabio but maybe I'll find out when Christmas comes along!
A few people who I actually considered my friends didn't even send me one of those gay automated cards that one sends like a month in advance with birthday delivery so they don't forget. Nothing- zilch- obviously they are too busy thinking about themselves and their own lives to think about others. I'll know next time not to bother with calls or gifts on THEIR birthdays.
Family members who didn't even send me a message - thanks a lot - now I know who not to invite to my wedding...
Pretty much 99% of the people who I care about called me, and for that I am thankful... to the remaining 1%... fuck off.
ps: WHAT THA FUCK!?!?!? WHATTAFAK ????
A strange way to spend my birthday eve... this past week has been pretty hectic, ranging from "cross your fingers" situations (shhh, if all goes as hoped I'll let you know all about it) to hectic evening and Saturday work schedules... let's just say that I've been taking every available teaching hour, whenever, wherever.
As a result I'm quite down with myself because I've accepted some new courses that are located somewhere that's not even indicated on a map... it sucks but that's all I've got for now so it's appreciated and better than nothing. Hopefully I'm keeping my fingers crossed well enough...
I'm sick, cramps, I hate it when my period doesn't come... and I have a feeling it'll once again be able to arrive when I least expect it! Whew, what can I say, this past week I've been completing my Christmas shopping and discovered that I have to buy less presents than I thought.
The fact that I haven't been hanging out with lots of people is at least going to be a good thing for my pockets which at the moment are not even half full anyways...
I even bought Fabio's gift and I love it... however I'm quite concerned because I know he's very picky with things, I just hope he'll truly appreciate it and not just say he does.
So
I'm waiting for my mother to call me, they are coming back from the mountain
house since the kitchen arrived this
morning,
and after they call I'll get dressed and head for their house outside of town. I
can't wait to see my puppies, I haven't seen them in three weeks... I love my
puppies, even if they poop a lot.
Teaser Tailer for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
I'm so happy, yesterday I received my package from an EBay auction and inside I found the first pieces to my Christmas village, here are pictures:
Isn't it delicious? I've also finally taken more pictures of my Polymer Clay creations, I've added them to the clay gallery.
My next challenge will probably be this.
This is a big update huh? I just got done reading Tolkien's
The
Hobbit late last night and I have to say I thought it was a GREAT book, so far I
liked it better than The Lord of the Rings" maybe because there is only one big
battle at the end. After this I've decided that I'm finally gonna pick up Lord
of Rings and actually CONTINUE reading where I had left off, somewhere in
Isengard during a was against evil. They've been standing there since last year
when I just decided to take a break from it. But now I'm back! Now that I've
read how it all began I'm even more motivated to read how it all ended!
You
know, when I had set up my guestbook (all technological ASP whatever language) I
didn't imagine it wouldn't send me email notifications for new signatures and
comments!
Out of curiosity I was checking it out and found like a "gagillion" people signed my booukkk!!! And so I am finally starting to hope that some of you are actually READING my blog! Someone even read my bio, I could tell by the comment!
But I think I must be quite unpopular with the gals cuz for some reason only guys signed! Why???
Anyways, thanks to all
those wonderful people that check out this lil' site of mine, it means a lot to
me! 
I think one person has signed my book like 5 times (yo I can tell it's you cuz it's the same ISP number) so it's either I'm being stalked or very liked...
I just got done seeing The Incredibles and let me just tell you that I wasn't disappointed. I've always been a child at heart but I think anyone would love this movie (or at least find it amusing).
My favorite guy was the Chinese stylist he was a trip, here's a picture:
I'm definitely gonna get the DVD when it comes out, it's a flick worth seeing again!
Someone sent me this and I thought I'd take the lil' quiz. This is what came out:
"You're
caring, warm, and the girl that nice guys want to marry.
Uncomplicated and simple, you've got an easy going attitude guys love.
But this doesn't mean you're dull - far from it!
You're a great conversationalist, and you're an expert at living the good life."
The girl watering the plants doesn't really fit me since I always forget to water them! In fact, my mother is currently babysitting all my flower pots and houseplants.
You can take the test too, click here.
I
actually baked my first cookies ever. And I mean without using prepared mixes, I
saw the recipe at All
Recipes (amazing amazing site!).
Well they came out way too sweet. I know they are sugar cookies but still they shouldn't be nauseating!! Also I think one cookie counts to about 500 calories...
Am I the only person that loved the Bridget Jones sequel?
The critics had said such bad things about it but when I saw it I found it really cute and funny. Well, of course it wasn't like the first movie, but sequels are often that way. I decided to get off the Christmas mood a bit and changed the song in the background to Mary J Blige (this amazing cover is in the Bridget Jones soundtrack).
Fabio
and I might be in a fix this New Year's Eve. We were planning on bumming out at
my parents' new mountain house but alas the furniture is late and hasn't all
arrived yet.
We were thinking at first about going out to some fancy restaurant and doing the dancing and stuff but then we just decided to do something nice and romantic at home.
I just don't want us to spend all that money like we did last New Year's Eve and
then
spend the 10 seconds countdown throwing up in the bathroom.
I didn't mention what happened last year, did I?
Well, we went to this amazing Spa in the mountains, I had just gotten over a terrible stomach flu and of course he had to get the same virus off of me. I remember during the big dinner I had regular food while he only had some soup. It was really sad, because he was extremely sick (then with fever and such).
I still remember that being the worst flu I've ever had, like projectile vomit, high fever, chills and head spins... all that during New Year's Eve, isn't it horrible?
So
not this year, we'll stay in... it'll be interesting considering the fact that
for the past 5 years I've been partying like crazy for New Year's.
I'm
home. This month is going to suck because I am not going to work a lot... you
might say are you friggin' crazy? Well, if I don't work I don't make money.
It's national holiday next Tuesday and as a consequence my students take long ass breaks because they can and get paid anyway... sigh, I remember when I worked at Tamoil I used to hate it because I was too controlled and the job was monotonous.
I've always dreamed of working on my own but I never thought that with that I have different problems...
Well, going back to what I was beginning to say, this afternoon I'm gonna go do some Christmas shopping in Milan. This time I'm not going to be among those who buy crappy things shoving people around the day after Christmas, I think by December 15/16 I will have finished buying everything. Well, everything, not like I can buy great ass presents.
Two years ago I bought a pair of Chanel sunglasses for my mom (450Euros), a DVD player for both my parents, two tickets to the Nutcracker ballet for my father and his girlfriend, a boombox stereo and CDs for my aunt and grandma... well not last year and not this year I can't...
I love buying presents for people but with a bit of money it's not easy... but then again I believe that sometimes one can find the best things at a lower cost while other times a person goes out to spend a lotta money on some bullshyt that is not even appreciated.
I bought my mom something from EBay that I know she wanted, I'm still thinking about what to get for my dad, Fabio, well, I have two things in mind but it's going to be hard for him because it's also his birthday on December 23.
As far as friends are concerned, I have a clue about a few of them, it's just a matter of going out to get it.
So this afternoon I'll do my Christmas shopping and put everything in my closet so all I have to do is wrap it.
I just hope I resist the temptation of buying stuff for myself!!
Not only have I been wishing for the usual DVDs, books, clothes and such. I guess that since I have been getting a little closer to the kitchen (and because this time next year I'll be a married woman) I have seen a few things I'd like, such as a machine that cuts, washes and dries lettuce or this multifunction appliance that even rolls out fresh dough and prepares the sauce, juicing, mincing, slicing and the works.
Wow, now that I think of it, in January I'll have to go out to choose my wedding
dress. And I think I'll be going on an intentional-uncontrollable diet pretty
soon. I'd like to look like Barbie on my wedding day so in order to do that I
might even need more than a year 
.
I started to lay out my book yesterday, setting out chapters and writing down a few ideas and memories. I tried looking into my old diaries I had lying around but I only found stupid stuff about my obsessive teenage obsession for Take That, my many school crushes (one on Monday, another one on Tuesday...) so I guess this will be a long going process. I wonder if I'll ever be able to carry it out to the end.
I've been downloading this Platinum CD collection of a famous "oldies" artist, her name is Mina. Yes, I'm old inside!! It's driving me insane because the songs are a gazillion (3 CDs) and are very hard to find. I've been looking for the last 12 for a bit now and I'm about to lose it and go out to buy the damn CD but nope I won't do it cuz that shit costs 29 Euros!!
I think record companies have seriously gone bananas... I mean, how do they expect people to spend 29 Euros (which I think is about $34) on a CD?? No way, that's not gonna happen.
Are you asleep? Good mwahahahhahahaaaaaaa!
Just
a few things that made my shitty year a bit better... Fabio told me they are
finally starting to flatten the ground and build foundations for our house... we
are going to get the house later than expected but AT LEAST now we are closer to
actually getting it at a reasonable time.
Also, I finally received my 450Euro credit from my internet provider. It took a gotdarn year to get it but finally... it was just like getting a present at Christmas.
Now I can feel a bit safer after paying condo fees (850Euros) and getting decent presents for my loved ones. Yey!
I have been in this country for 2 years now, in this world for almost 24 years and what I witnessed on the tram yesterday is the first and hopefully last time.
There
were a lot of people getting on the eagerly awaited tram in Via Torino. I needed
to get to my next clients in Via Giambellino so I needed to get on no matter
what.
While I was standing I heard two young men behind me talking to each other about lesbian women. They were saying things like "it's disgusting, it's against nature, their job is to please a man, I'd teach them what it's like to feel ashamed..." and stuff like that. I first thought that they were the typical narrow-minded men that had been turned down by some lesbian women.
A seat finally freed up and I sat down. And that's when I finally got a chance to look at their faces. They were both about 35 years old, one was bold with a leather jacket and the other one had messy long black hair under a hat and was wearing a leather jacket with 2 Swastika pins on it.
Their faces were COVERED with small scars and damn, they looked like criminals. And what's worse is that they were talking loud on purpose because they wanted people to hear them.
They started looking at a few immigrants on the tram and were saying "their dirty asses should go home they deserve a lesson" and, needless to say, everyone was petrified.
As they finally stood to get off the tram one of them stepped on a lady's foot and she said impulsively "at least watch out where you step" and the other guy said "what the fuck is wrong with you are you on fuckin' menopause? You are imagining things."
The woman was surprised but despite that she was still mumbling. So the man that spoke to her said "go back to your damn country, we should just put you all underground" and with that they left.
I know that if they had run unto some healthy, NORMAL men they would have gotten their asses kicked but unfortunately in that moment there was nobody (myself included) who actually had the balls to say something to them.
That just made me really sad. I knew there were still a gazillion skinheads in the world but I didn't know they were so ignorantly upfront.