I ordered Martha Stewart Living by telephone the other day. A full year's subscription. Please don't hate me now, I really do understand what a bad thing it is to be Martha Stewart dependant, but I can't help myself. I will break myself of this when Giampaolo quits his ciggarettes ( Read more... )

Saturday, an average day in my Italian Wonderland ( Read more... )

La Mancanza della Pioggia (The Lack of Rain ( Read more... )

( The Random Question Meme! )

My cat has eaten a goodly portion of the yellow carnations I bought two weeks ago. I adore him for it ( Read more... )

1.) Let Your Father and Brother Be In Charge ( Read more... )

Today, I created a giant pot of spaghetti sauce to freeze for our sailing trip, and then went to an orchestra concert ( Read more... )

Flew home Wednesday and Thursday (my low airline budget tends to make my flights a two day process), and am settled in to my parents house ready to celebrate little sis's college graduation!!
Am brain dead and readjusting to English.
If you live round about here, give me a ring, eh?

Pronunciation in Italian can be a wee bit tricky. They have this thing about double consonants, things like maggio, pappagallo, cappello, etc. You have to pronounce a double consonant differently from a single consonant. Anno and ano are not the same thing: one means year and the other means anus. In English it isn't such a big deal, and in ( Read more... )

As Mr. Danielson so loquaciously pointed out, March 8th was Internation Women's Day, or in Italy FESTA DELLA DONNA!!!! What began as something serious (albeit a bit politically hazy) has become here in Italy an excuse for GRRRRRRL POWER! and lots of women/girls going out dancing, to pubs, or to judge drag queen shows?! without thier boyfriends. ( Read more... )