....i'm in love ( Read more... )

everyone i am okay. i had no idea that people were even worried about me. i received an email from mom ten days ago saying that i need not look for hotels for them for their trip here, and therefore i did not feel the urgency to check email as frequently. also i began working eight hourse a day instead of just four and therefore am a little pressed ( Read more... )

Laura and Julia, it is now your turn to post about your trip to italy. in fact, i will say that you should not read my post about it until after you've done your own. don't you think it would be more fun to have three different perspectives on this trip? i think it would...so ( no peeking... )

to really like someone even if you know they are a despicable person. you know? i was trying to explain this last night to francesco, but he just thought i was naive and silly to think so. here's what i say. i want to(and think i do most of the time) understand who people are...their fears, their insecurities, their spiteful actions, the things ( Read more... )

that i've always been not trusting(my english is getting worse, what word would i use there?) of men ever since i was little. that i don't trust their intentions, etc, and therefore stop short every relationship before anyone gets hurt, mostly me. let me say a few things about this...and finally, in list form(i know you've missed it ( Read more... )

we've been repainting the entire house. rinalto moved out because, well, he never paid the rent or the bills. therefore, there is another spare room, and i think francesco just got the urge for a fresh start after all of the changes he's been going through, etc. guys, it's like a freakin' cartoon house. everything is pastel(pink, purple, blue, ( Read more... )

that was for laura mostly ( Read more... )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BETSY, LATE!!!!

And

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO LAURA, EARLY!!!!

I LOVE YOU BOTH!!!

i met francesco's daughter last night. she is ridiculously cute. she's ten. her name is dana and we danced and made paper airplanes and paper frogs that actually jump and objected to her father's assertions that it was too cold to be wearing what we were wearing and that we both needed jackets ( Read more... )

also, i've thought of all the things i'm missing and will miss being here and not in the states, and it makes me sad. weddings, births, childhoods, changes that i feel incredibly disconnected from. and at the same time, i know that relationships are difficult and there are problems that would occur there too.