Happy New Year!

Buon Anno Nuovo to you all... may it be crowded of good news, happiness, HEALTH, love and joy! Baci
Germana e Andrea

Fango - Jovanotti - Versione 1

The music can sound too repetitive but the words are really touching. I like him very much.

Fever!

Maybe I found out why I was such a dormouse in the last days.
Yesterday I was going to get out to do some errands when I felt suddenly dizzy and warm. I thought it was because I woke up at 3 to work in the cold night but then I felt strange... it was fever.
So I decided not to go and I lie down on the couch hoping to read something. But my eye bulbs hurted so I just rolled up in a couple of blankets and closed my eyes.
The momories suddenly ran to my childhood when fever meant MOM. My mom was always there when I needed something... to go to the bathroom, a glass of water, something to eat, a caress, a kiss... there she was.
My fever raised and I felt lonely. Monocolo did the possible by lying on my feet and creating the 'cuddles' athmosfere but... I felt lonely, until Andrea came back, prepared a camomile tea, gave me water and caresses and sweet kisses...
I can tell you it's not like Mom's hands, but it's my present and my future.

Ghiro!

You say "to sleep like a log", we say "to sleep like a dormouse".

I am really a dormouse lately. I don't know what it's happening, maybe I am simply into hibernation. Maybe it's the cold in the morning that once at home, after the shower transforms me into a sleepy, red-cheeks, comforter-lover girl. I don't know what's all about... I feel like if I live with a jetleg! I wake up at 4, I work in the cold (today 1st snow -which somehow it's better because the thermometer doesn't go too much below 0°C), come back home for lunch, eat a quick lunch without even cooking and collapse on the sofa... then wake up after some 10 mins and move my sleepy body to the sleeping room... possibly under the comforter... usually I set an alarm clock for an hour sleep... but lately I fail to hear it and keep sleeping and sleeping. Today I set my afternoon-nap records: 4 hours!

I can't believe I have been seeing the daily light only for 6 hours and a half... from 7.30am (when the sun raised today) until 2pm when I started sleeping as a log or a ghiro... depending from the language!

A life less dolce.

NYT writes about Italy. :-(

Winter

Winter
Originally uploaded by margiana.

Had a week end in Val di Fassa, on the Dolomiti Mountains. One of my friend owns a small home in Moena and decided to take a break from work driving 3 hours to reach the snow.
We stopped in Bolzano for an Apfelgluehwein and a small visit to the Christkindlmarkt. On Sunday morning we woke up early, had breakfast at home and then went out for a 2 hours walk to Passo San Pellegrino. At the end of the beautiful walk we stopped at this small church. The nature of those places is OVERWHELMING!
The cold strengthened our spirits and the view 'enlarged' our inner visions. We have been silent most of the walk... not because of the physical effort but to respect the mountains. At the end of the walk we stopped at this small church and talked a little... we all had this need to thank God for what we had just done.
After this 'religious' experience we drowned into hot chocolates. Later on we walked back to the car... at that point we opened our mouths and started talking without interruptions until the monday lunch when we reached our homes to meet again at work in the afternoon.
The walk opened a path to a mutual life stories... It has been fun and encouraging to know that we all have black holes in our lives but at the same time we try to live better lives and to learn from our past mistakes :-)

Winter season is definitely here!

Strike a pose!

Strike a pose!
Originally uploaded by margiana.

I've got good Angels in my life!
I've got old friends with whom I share grudges and memories of a past life or acquaintances with whom I entertain small talks.
I've got new friends, people who wants to know me or are interested in my 'world', those who see me as a good girl, those who always criticize me, those who I listen to and those who patiently listen to me.
I've got friends who read me and those who I read or others who share a cup of tea every once in a while.
Those I never talk to but can read my heart no matter what the physical distances are... and those who facilitate my everyday life in a practical way! In this last category I can put my 'Spice-Friends' in the picture.
I just got back home from a Spice-Fondue-Bourguignonne-dinner they organized to celebrate my b-day. It was fun because you keep dipping those small meat bits into the boiling oil (with a potato inside to avoid the fried oil smell - I can tell you it works!) and then choose the right sauce to dip the cooked meat while chatting about pretty much everything and most of the time laughing!
I loved it. I also had my b-day cake with candles on it and I still have some breath to extinguish them all :-)
Patty cooked a supercake for me that never reached our palate because it fell on the ground of her kitchen and she had to buy one at the confectioner's shop. Poor girl!
I also had a b-day present... a Bread Making Machine that will help me reduce the expenses to buy the bread sold in this italian region and that I don't like... and last but not least... a free entrance to a spa, included infusion drinks, thalassotherapeutic and thermal baths, relaxing room and musictherapy plus a cranium-sacral massage called Oriental Kerara that sounds so relaxing!
What can I ask more? My life is wonderful and I've got plenty of Angels who support me.
My everyday thoughts, prayers and thanks go to you all my FRIENDS who smooth the path of this special journey which is my life!

P.S. :35. This journey keep adding numbers... did anyone found a way to stop it?