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Let's talk about 90210 for a minute - can I just say that either you were a Brenda fan or a Kelly fan
I personally was a Brenda fan and my friend Eliza was a Kelly fan--- blasphemy. How can you go for the
blonde, rich girl whose biggest problem in life is choosing a boyfriend - which she steals from her "best friend"
Of course, she pays for this in the end by

1. having her mother marry her geeky friend's father and having a late in life baby
2. overdosing on diet pills
3. becoming a victim of a sinister cult
4. becoming a crack whore
5. getting burned in a fire
6. stalked by her fellow burn member
7. shot in a drive by shooting
8. ????

It seems a lot, but as Brenda says, "if i looks like a duck and quacks like a duck..."

All I have to say is DONNA MARTIN GRADUATES!!!

All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go.....

Ok, so here I am Wednesday July 18th - only 3 days away from vacation and Maddy Moo is sick, I haven't packed, my cousin is arriving tomorrow, I feel naseuous , but I happened to catch a rerun of an old 90120 - the day that Valerie arrives, which cheered me up for a moment, the heat is out of control in Florence and I still have a million things to do before I leave at the butt crack of dawn on Saturday morning.

How does Butter Fly????

No one really knows the origin of this word. It is possible that it arose from the butter-yellow color of common European butterflies called sulphurs. I personally like the French and Italian words Farfallina and Papillon

Hebetudinous????

Are you tired?

Tell us why.

19.15 Monday evening

ok, so I should so be working, but I have had enough for today. There were problems starting at 10am this morning and I am tired and thinking about all the things I need to do to get ready for my vacation that starts this Saturday!!!! I am really pumped. I am going to see my fam and we are going to eat yummy food, and lay in the sun and hopefully just Ree-Lax! Sicily has wonderful Granitas that are similar to the famous Looziana SnowCone...and I love the mint flavor as does Maddy Moo. What I am super excited about are the desserts in Sicily.

Everybody's Workin' 4 the Weekend!

Who knew that these guys were Canadian?

Thursday once Again

It is Thursday once again and every morning I debate about getting up and going for a run know full well that there is no way in hell I am going to actually leave the house and run. The number one reason being I hate to run. The number two reason being I HATE TO RUN!!! and I don't often get much sleep. Last night I actually used ear plugs and slept in the living room to escape the grand central station that my bedroom has turned into. Amazingly, I slept from 3am to 8am which was pretty great. I actually went to bed at 11pm but was awakened at 2am-3am by crying child. I am not sure but I am about to KICK THE ASS of whatever scary monster is making him wake up every night.
In any event, the day is passing quite nicely and I am looking forward to the weekend. I just realized that in less than 10 days I will be in Sicily with my family (sans Cardene) for a week- and needless to say I AM PUMPED!
So I am sitting at my desk feigning work, which is a nice plus about this job, admiring the sunshine outside and thinking that at some point I would like to go see the new Harry Potter movie....

Stop and smell the flowers!

Madison has been sick lately with a sore throat and fever (according to the expert Italians it was too much PISCINA - swimming pool over the weekend) I am a believe in germs and bacteria as opposed to weather conditions causing fevers and other ailments. That is neither here nor there for this discussion. I decided to stay home with him while he was sick, normally he stays with his grandmother when he is sick and mamma has to go to work, but I have just been enlightened to the fact that mothers of children under 3 have the right to take off work to stay with their children. Didn't know this, but now I do. Anyway, since anyone who have ever met my child knows that it is virtually impossible to keep him inside all day even with a high fever, we decided to take the 2 second walk down the street to the coffee bar and get a popsicle for his ailing throat. As we were walking he noticed this large gelsomino bush growing near the sidewalk. He stopped (literally) to smell the flowers and it made me think how the most of us are so wrapped up in the crappy details of our lives that we don't stop and realize the important things that are all around us. I have been feeling down lately, but the "maudlin" phase is over - I decided! I refuse to waste even one day feeling down when all around me there are wonderful things to do and see. I have also discovered that there is a new machine that cures allergies with light therapy. Basically you stick these two nodes in your nostrils and a light comes on a does something so you don't suffer from allergies anymore. I am really interested in purchasing this product. If anyone has tried something like this please let me know before I go "spending the big bucks".

How to Scramble Eggs - The proper technique

EAT ME??

I saw this picture of toast and it appealed to me (yes, ok I am a bit of a perv)....mostly because I was having my second breakfast of the morning at my desk ---spilling the requisite crumbs and what not on my key board etc. As you will know if you read the previous bit . I awoke at 4.30am and never went back to bed this morning. So at 5.50am I meandered down to the coffee bar at the end of my street and had a whole wheat brioche and a cappuccino..now at 10am I was getting the stomach rumblings of a person who needs to eat and therefore decided upon a second breakfast of toast with sugar free jam (strawberry) and low fat yogurt along with a cafe latte. So here I am at 10.15 - came into work 1 hour early so I can have a long lunch today as one of my colleagues has taken the day off and the other is arriving late...........oh, guess what? TGIF --- or was it GFI Piscopal Hi -go 4 it!!!

GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE

Ok, so insomnia reigns at Via Enrico Baroni #13...was up at 4.30am to settle an unsettled child who was apparently fighting demons in his sleep and wanted his mamma. So of course I ran (the whole 2 feet) to his room and hugged and cuddled him and laid beside him until he was back in the land of sugarplum fairies and broom brooms (translation - cars) peppe (trucks- imagine a horn honking peh peh) and fanté (his new favorite we go to school with it we sleep with it plastic elephant that was bought to calm him at the discount German grocery store that I frequent ever since I was put on a restrictive budget by my hubby! (No Commnet) It has it's good points- they frequently have "Americany type stuff" that I pick up.
So I definitely think that this lack of sleep is the main cause of my - dare I say it "mild depression" that I have been feeling lately - just not my usual sunny self. My dad's advice "drink water". While drinking water is a good idea I am not sure that it is going to solve my problem. However, a relaxing weekend with a pool party, sunshine, grilled hot dogs & hamburgers should do the trick - I am counting on it.

What's been going on with me lately - I am not feeling my usual sunny self. Well, not entirely true, when I talk to a good friend who exceeds in gaining a unexpected giggle out of me I feel great, but on the whole I am feeling a bit down these days ..........could it be lack of sleep? Maybe. Change in the weather? A possibility. Or am I just looking for a new adventure and haven't found it yet. Hard to say. Work is monotonous, I have started smoking again, my back hurts...... I am not longer feeling like the spritely Clinton that I long to be. Hmm I need to reflect on this.

I have a pool party with friends (kids and hubbies included) this weekend and I plan to ROCK OUT with my um um out... For real, we will grill out, have a splash in the pools, drink a little and hopefully have a few laughs. Maybe it will be just the trick to turn my frown upside down

TACO TRUCKS??? HOT DOG CARTS???

Ok, so talking to my dad today he was telling me about how N'awlins is crawling with Taco trucks. This is not an unusual site in Italy to see on the roadside or at outdoor markets, not Mexican food, but roadside trucks offering tasty treats such as tripe sandwich and the such. We had a particularly interesting roadside stand near my house a few years back called Ciccio & Ciccia which literally means Fatso and Fasta (the feminine of Fatso). I found this name particularly amusing but however quite appropriate as the two proprietors were rather on the chubby side of the spectrum. They were very popular with the late night motorino after disco crowd - much like the famed late night hotdog runs of my friend Natasha. Anyway, I am happy to see that the new locals are installing their own traditions and giving the local folks a bit of their Latin flavor - a one man quoted "it's better than Taco Bell" - that's good enough for me!!!

The Magherini Family

Summer 2006

I know it's old but I really wanted to put it on here!

Look I have my own store in LONDON!!

I just thought I would add this picture of my little choc-a-holic

at Easter time ...

Wednesday Again

So here we are in the middle of the week. So far exciting news is that I have been granted Italian citizenship and once I decide to schump my way downtown to Palazzo Vecchio to make an appointment for the swearing in ceremony then we will be on our way. I can only do it on Mon. Wed. and Friday from 8-30-1pm so probably I will make it down there this Friday. In the meantime the chiropractor is going well - I am sore and feel bruised but apparently there is a noticeable difference in my mongy arm - so that is well worth it. What else - Maddy Moo is now pretty much sleeping in his own bed which is great, but he is refusing to do "pee pee" or "poo poo" in the potty. He is also reverting back to not using utensils and has started to do lots of grunting and pointing instead of talking - I am insisting that he "use his words" on that one mostly because it drives me crazy to be grunted at. So that's it for now. It is now 10 to 9am and I must get going - work has been crazy but today should be calmer so I might get a chance to write more.