Today's mood!

Today's mood!
Originally uploaded by margiana.

The Government crisis gives my mood the tones of black and grey.
I feel imprisoned in a country with uncertain future. The hopes and dreams I keep cherishing are less and less shareable! It's sad! Of course I know I'll keep them alive and I will act following my ideals but it is so difficult when the querrels are constantly coloured by insults and poor respect.
In the afternoon I went the Social Security Office to present my unemployment request (since last year I did not work from jan to march and also almost 1 month between oct-nov. After this experience I decided to enjoy the city but I forgot that today is Thursday and most of the shops are closed.

I am desperately looking for a winter jacket since I just washed my favourite one and it didn't succeed. But I have a bad relation with the sales.

Usually when the sales start (mid-jan) I feel too fat to buy outfits and trousers (Christmas season's fault:-)), then, once I feel a little better I can't find what I need and now it's all about spring.
So no good luck and no new jacket.
But Spring is ahead and I hope that this barbed wire will free me soon!

Tylosand the new sofa!

Tylosand the new sofa!
Originally uploaded by margiana.

Here's our purchase: the new Sofa-bed! So if you want to visit Bologna and live in a family-environment with no privacy at all, experimenting the small european spaces and with a cat probably sleeping on your legs, Come Visit Us!!! We have some spare space (maybe some 50square cms each!) to share with you. I know it's not a king size bed but here in Italy it's a double bed!
We now have almost finished to furnish the house. I know that now it looks like a block of the Ikea shop, but the thing that I love of Ikea is that I can at least furnish the house in a stylish way.

We visited several sofa shops and found great and beautiful sofas but they costed 3 times the cost of Tylosand and they had no washable coating or a smaller bed. Monocolo will for sure have a blast for his nails on this sofa and I didn't want to spend a lot of money on something that will be ruined by my 'beaten' ('cause I beat him a lot) cat.

But see? Ikea has the solution. I can change the coating whenever I want with not a big expence; if I want I can add another seat building an L sofa and I can renew it whenever I want. I can personalize the sofa with other pillows and I can use my new sewing machine to create some more cloth thing. Basically I don't care if my house has the same sofa of other thousand homes, I believe the personality of its inhabitans will show off in a way or another:-)

Other than that, the last week has been a cooking week inspired by Sarah's cookery book. Andrea also tried to do some vegetarian maki (not those recipes but very similar) and it all turned out very good!
We invited friends over and were very happy to taste other flavours.

Yesterday I went together with Zita to the sewing-machine-shop where a nice girl explained us the basic function of it. We both subscribed a 6 hours class to learn how to take the hem up the trousers or how to sew zippers. I'm so happy about that. We also had a long breakfast in a nice Bakery-Cafè dressed with lots of political and social talks (those that I love), then on the way back home we decided to stop for a lunch at Trattoria Fantoni...hummmmm I love that place. It is so basic and the food is so genuine and typical.
It turned out a perfect day to fix my tired and disturbed mood.

Lazy days

I have been at home from for the last 4 days. I've been sick. Not THAT sick but sick enough not to go to work.
I cleaned the house and ironed the epic tower of clothes and tried my new sewing machine(yahooooo). Read my magazines and book.
I had enough sleep at night and had time to relax on the couch, I also had time for dreams (usually I don't remember dreams) and loved to have breakfast at home!
Today, I switched on the TV to watch the news and stayed tuned for an hour or so. The preamble is that I only switch on the TV for the news and for a couple of TV series I watch but this afternoon I indulged on the laziness of the day (it's raining outside and it's sort of cold) and zapped a little. It was years I did not watched MTV so I got over it.

That is what I saw:

1) Room Raiders - 1 girl/boy search in the rooms of 3 boys/girls for interesting things...at the end the girl/boy has to choose 1 of the 3 rooms' owners....

2) One boy has to go on a date with 3 mom and then choose one of their daughters. I'm curious if there's one where a girl has to date with 3 dad to choose one of their sons.

3) Sweet 16 - it's how a girl or boy organize their own 16th b-day party spending how many money possible to satisfy their wishes: big discos, expensive clothes, luxurios cars, expensive Djs etc. The parents of the 'today' girl just spent 300.000$ for a b-day party.

I may have been unlucky and maybe MTV promotes also other kind of programs but I found those shows so stupid and disgusting that I kind of understand the decadence period in which we are living.
I am sure there are a lot of boys and girls who do not watch those silly things but I know there are a lot who do and it somehow scares me.

I just shut down the TV... and go back in my world.

Museum and Borghese Gallery

We had a beautiful week-end in Rome this time. Flew to Rome (the cost of the train tickets is rising to the stars and now it's almost cheaper to fly) on Friday and came back last night.
On Friday had dinner in a romantic restaurant on the sea. I had a swordfish tartare with crostini and a pasta (only flour and water) with rocket pesto, shrimps and zucchini and a coconut creme caramel...mmmmmmm
On Saturday we went with mom and dad to visit one of the most beautiful museum of Rome: Museo Borghese. This building was thought as a museum. It is small and crowded with Correggio, Tiziano, Bernini, Canova and other famous painters and sculptors.
It is a jewel.
I almost cried while watching Apollo and Daphne by Bernini and got caught by the beauty of Pauline Bonaparte by Canova.
I really wish you could all come to visit Rome and simply drink a little of its beauty. There's so much to see there.
It has been really an experience!
Yesterday it was a summer day. Families walking on the seashore and children dressed in costumes for the carnival.
Today we went to the hospital to support our friend and read the results of her biopsy and ... thanks God she's ok. No bad cells!
Before going to the hospital I saw a crocus bloomed in my garden. Poor little flower it feels the springtime but doesn't know it's still the 5th of feb. :-)
After all this waste of energy I think I'll call sick tomorrow at work since I think I got the intestinal virus... but I am ok. I may need some rest after the rush of the last days:-)