Sunday, June 27 2004

It's a beautiful day!

Today was great... this weekend great... besides the fact that I just found out I need to pay 221 Euros for extra taxes everything is just dandy...

I got back a few hours ago from my parents' and I spent the whole weekend with them. Who'd have thought that hanging out with the parentals would be so fun?

Well, on Friday afternoon we went to this store near where they live called Happy Moda and there I bought a gagillion things and only paid 31 Euros!

I used to hate that store cuz it had really small sizes but now everything fit! Here's what I bought:

1) Orange miniskirt dress- E9,99

2) Green skirt- E3,00

3) Black gipsy-like skirt- E3,00

4) a pair of green capri pants that look great!- E3,00

5) a matching green shirt with a very wide neck and car racing symbols on it- E3,00

6) a 1-shoulder white and black horizontal striped top- E3,00

7) a pair of jeans- E6,00

Amazing huh????

Then on Saturday I went to see my parents' new house in the mountains that they bought. It's really really cute and in a nice valley surrounded by green and such. Plus the house has a fireplace and everything... my mom had it custom built just like she wanted... really a jewel of a house!

I spent the remaining Sunday resting and reading Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. It's a great read... and I totally recommend it. Before I leave for Sicily I must buy his other two books because I love his writing.

Wednesday, June 23 2004

The evil you do ALWAYS comes back to you

Not that it changes any of my life plans or future but I just found out that my ex boss, that SUPERBITCH from my ex-company was FIRED!

And I am looking forward to hearing further info about this but it's big news... and I feel EXTREME pleasure knowing that she finally took it up the you-know-where.

So there... that's enough great news for today.

Monday, June 21 2004

About politics and such

So today I was totally, negatively surprised when I went into work and was talking to my course coordinator. We were speaking about an article from a recent Time Europe magazine about Berlusconi and Italian politics.

And so he looks at me and asks me if I like him (and shit, that's personal information right?) Well, thank heavens I'm not a nazi or even better a communist and so I tell him, yeah I like him.

And he goes totally bananas asking me whyyyy how can you like a whacko like him, he's manipulating television... bla blaaaaa and so I tell him well, he owns a network of private television stations and that's one thing but the public television stations RAI are even more and more corrupted and they shouldn't be.

And he goes well Berlusconi is putting his people to work for the public television, he's a fake and terrible person... it's not possible to watch a non-biased newscast because everything is corrupted.

And if it wasn't for the fact that he is my boss I would have given him a journalism lesson of how virtually EVERYTHING in the news is bias, whether the journalist tries to make it so or not.

And so I tell him, well I'm not Berlusconi's n.1 supporter because I think he could do a lot better but I certainly prefer him to Prodi, Rutelli and those other slimy creatures.

So we go on to talk about immigration and I tell him I don't support ILLEGAL immigration.

So he says well these people are escaping persecution! They have nowhere else to go! They need jobs!

And a part of me really wanted to say to him, sure, I'm an Italian citizen, with an international degree and good working experience and I find it impossible to even find a stable job as a receptionist... what kind of job do you think they are gonna find here??? (but I didn't say that, I just limited myself to telling him that I don't think Italy is the land of opportunities).

So I ask him if he thinks it's right for thousands of people to come into a country by means of a small dinghy with absolutely no intention of paying taxes and contributing to this economy (but favoring prostitution and drug smuggling... oh, and I forgot about TERRORISM).

And he says we need people like them because Italy is the coldest country in Europe (ehmn, doesn't he come from England??) and Italian people are old and we need new, young people (who says illegal immigrants are young?).

---- DON'T GET ME WRONG- I have absolutely NOTHING against foreign people who live in this country... I lived in the U.S. for 8 years as an immigrant and most of my friends are foreign.

I love for example seeing young Asian children speaking Italian to their parents and talking about school. I love seeing how two people whose skins are different colors can be friends or colleagues. But I definitely don't love seeing 7-year-old children asking for money in the subway or 2-month-old babies being carried around a city by a woman who sometimes borrows them from their mother to look the part of the poor family in dire need of help.

So I figured this guy has completely lost his marbles. If it wasn't for the fact that I was at work I would have told him "are you fuckin' insane?" one thing is to be a Left Wing supporter, another is to be totally clueless... and an EXTREMIST!!!!!

And so I came to two conclusions:

1) I refuse to talk about politics with close-minded, Left Wing extremists who don't respect other people's opinions and support illegal immigration.

2) He obviously must be an illegal immigrant because only one of them would say shit like that.

Sunday, June 20 2004

Dunno Why

Dunno why I am still awake: it's 12,22am and tomorrow my ass needs to wake up real early... I had the dullest weekend in the history of weekends, I did absolutely nothing!

I also don't know why the assholes as Piramide still haven't paid me. It's been 6 months and they owe me over 800Euros of sweatin' stressful work compensation.

I dunno why my boyfriend is so hyperactive. He works from early in the morning to the evening, plays tennis professionally, goes fishing, does house work... I am a couch potato, even if my latest job requires me not to be so.

I also dunno how people can be so talented to make these cute little animated Japanese faces. I love visiting Asian sites, they've got all these very cute animations. I wouldn't even know how to begin making one.

And to end this painfully stupid entry I dunno why I even bothered to write and publish this. It says nothing... and it's boring. So I'm sorry.

PS: I dunno why people tell me WordPress is real easy to install and I'm having trouble. I'm an dumbass...

Oh, and when was the last timeI ate carbs? I haven't had bread and pasta for 3 weeks now...

Pluggin': Dodo | World's Tallest Ice-Cream

Sunday, June 20 2004

Warning

I think my computer is gonna die soon. I mean, honestly, yesterday it wasn't able to read my hard drives... dammit I hate having computer hardware problems... but I was somehow able to fix it with a kick and a punch and here I am now... miraculously...

Here's today's Daily Dirt:

1. When nobody's watching, what do you do?

I pop my zits, I eat pumpkin and sunflower seeds and then I do other things that you shouldn't know about cuz I would be doing them alone no?

2. When you're in the lift alone, what do you do?

I look at myself in the mirror and hope it's only the lights that make my face look like that of a corpse

3. You're in a busy supermarket and you feel like farting, what do you do?

I do it anyway... while nobody's around

4. You're wearing leather pants out on a date and you accidentally trip and rip your pants, what do you do?

I would die

5. While taking a shower, what's the silliest thing you've done in there?

Once I tried to imitate my ex roommate Val. She brushes her teeth in the shower. And so I tried it myself but it didn't work cuz the water was too hot and I kept spitting on myself.

Friday, June 18 2004

Temptations

I don't know why I even bother coming online. All I see is interesting shopping sites that sell cute dresses and nice make-up and beauty products. And so I ask myself "for how long am I gonna have to avoid temptations? Cuz it's been this way since last September."

I've been struggling since then. And it looks like the next three/four months are not going to be any better at all.

Whenever I go to a mall or to the center of the city I see cute bathing suits, colorful shirts, shiny shoes and other goodies (ehmn, mountains of books and DVDs too) and I say fuck what the hell, now I have lost weight and could very well be able to wear a miniskirt or a daring tank top but nope, without dough I might as well be as big as a whale.

The problem is that really, I could have dough, as in I'm not poor. But I get sad feelings of guilt whenever I think of buying something just because I like it and not because I need it.

Problem is: am I becoming a scrooge?

Possible answer is: yes, that might be the case.

My friend invited me to go with her boyfriend and his friends to Gardaland this Sunday. But besides the fact that I'm on the rag I think to myself that maybe it's better to save the 23 Euros for admission.

And then again, when I get invited to a bar or something. I prefer eating something at my house (1) because I don't want to eat junk (2) because I don't want to waste the money.

So I ask myself, am I:

a) becoming a scrooge

b) exaggerating too much on the saving

c) dirt poor

?????????????? Problem is, dunno...

I looked online and here are the many things that I would like to purchase. There is an "S" next to it if it's a splurge and an "N" if it's a necessity. And oh, it's organized in order of desire...

Electronics: Xerox printer cartridges N

Beauty: Sunscreens and After sun lotions N

Books: A shitload N/S *

Clothes: To look fab this summa N