Back again to Florence...

With all my dearest friends away to take a precious tan (Monia and Mauro on cruise to celebrate their first year as married couple, Ilaria with her parents in Sardegna, Chiara too taken with the pregnancy, but as well on the beach in Viareggio...).
I could have reached Chiara at least, but my allergic sympthomes can't allow me actually, plus yesterday marriage drowned me down heavily (7 hours of eating stuff... God I won't eat for a week!!)
So I just can rest in preparation for tomorrow therapy. I miss my Stef who's remained in Lodi...
Anyway I'll be again in Florence next week to see also the newborns in the family, so I'll see my friends certainly. They'll be black and I'll be white as usual, but I'll take the rejection of tan with Zen phylosophy ;)
See the picture, in fact :)
I have also created an account in http://www.splinder.com so I have actually another italian blog account, but to be honest I can't see how I could spend time in there, having practically no time for my personal site, and spending time updating Denise's Site for Raffaele exclusively cos Denise deserves this. Can't break a promise made to her, you can understand me of course. She would be crying down tears from heaven, if I would disappoint one of her last requests.
When I was younger though, my energies were undoubtedly stronger, and way more than they are now.
So, I better leave to customize some stuff.
Just one last note: the programming on tv now that sundays are matching summer is PATHETIC. An ongoing series of crap broadcasting... I wanna Sky in my Florence house too (yeah, we have the digital decoder, but no way I am ever gonna see any Mediaset Praemium. NO WAY.)

Have everybody a serene sunday evening,
catch you soon , Melixxxxxx 

from Florence, after watchin "Da Vinci's Code" movie...

I quite appreciated yesterday evening with Ila&Massy, Monia&Mauro (and obviously Stef)... we went to Warner Village to catch THE movie of the week, and although I still believe Hanks was not fitting the role, and Howard wasn't the fitting kind of director to this fictional story, I have to say it wasn't the disaster many spoke about the past days. It's all about what one wants to find, I guess. I had no expectations, beside have under my eys two great actors (Jean Reno and Paul Bettany) and one genius of the acting (Ian McKellen, extraordinary performance), so I couldn't be "disappointed". It is a nice movie, not a masterpiece, just like the book is a nice book, not deserving all the fuss around. Why people cannot just appreciate a fantasy story, and always have to see beyond things that nobody can confirm (nor dismiss, to be honest)?.
Well, next movie gotta be Volver by Pedro Almodovar, and Kim Rossi's Stuart directing debut "Anche libero va bene".
Then, forcedly, X-Man III (ehy! cannot resist to these stuff!!) and Pirates of Caribbean II.
Next week Monia's on crusade, and Ilaria goes ten days to Sardegna: they'll be both DARK skinned as they'll be back.. while I still be Moonskinned forever this pre summer of 2006.
*sigh*.
Gotta answer mails next days (this past week has been horridous at work) and I'll do that. My allergia still a puzzle of sympthomes, always getting worst... Fiorentina is destined to B series and I have to live with that.
Luckely there are sweet sparkles in the web waves, that made me happy all the week.
Hugs everyone, mum's cooking is finally ready!!!
Kisses, Meli xxxxx 

Well, if my team is involved in this Moggi's scandal...

If Fiorentina were in the football scandal...

I HOPE all of the Forentina's people who would be, in that case, dismissing all of the tradition historical and moral of my team is passable of any kind of insult in my book.
I just can hope isn't as bad as it looks for us, but for my principles if others fail, I pity them; if WE fail, I am twice as hit and as angry in my feelings, rather than just scandalized like I would be towards some "external" person doing the same actions.
This whole situations with Moggi, Vialli, Juventus, referees and who's got more, then put'em in also is simpy disgusting.
This lovely sport that we so much love, and which should make us italians happy is really going downhill. I'm embarassed, truly.

On a lighter note, my days in LurkerLandia are facing some cracking events: after the hyperfunny moment in Daveblog (trivia solved, finally, thanx to somebody called "Stellina"... TY 4 ever!), yesterday, due to a communication I HAD to make, which my mails system for some unknown reason wasn't allowing (???)at all, I even posted in the Fanclub Yahoo of Raffaele (that's quite an event, indeed).
I take this moment to thank also in my blog Alice, Sara and Tiziana (whose mails have brought tears in my eye yesterday night: thank you all SO much), and I renew my request to Chiara A. : STOP calling me "your guru" darling, cos this things is driving me mad.

To complete this blog update, this weekend I will be in Florence, when I will be planning along Ila and Massy their staying @ Gallipoli this summer (YYYYEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!!!!) and hopefully lift up MOnia and Mauro's mood after they destroyed their LCD Philips two weeks ago (what an unlucky thing.. and the term "sfiga" arises in my mind up quickly....).
Next friday is Da Vinci's code day: can't wait to see Jean Reno, Ian McKellen and Paul Bettany there. (yes, I know there are especially Audrey Tatou and tom Hanks there, but to me they don't fit their characters. I hope to be wrong, of course!)

Kisses everybody... and please, pray for my Fiorentina.
Meli xxxx

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Finally, a calm weekend :)

Gotta solve this Trivia... :D

Heya people!
After a surprisingly relaxing coupla days (!!) I get back here, to update at least some of you about current Meli's Life.
Well, the best news came just yesterday late evening, while I was watchin as per usual History Channel on Sky tv (I LOVE that kind of cult-tv) : Ilaria and Massy phoned from Florence to tell me they're gonna come at Gallipoli too this summer... WHOOOOOO-HOOOOO!!!!
I am over the top, it's so many years that Ila and I are parted for holidays.... I truly strated jumping while talkin at the phone :D
Schumi won the Formula one race so I am happy for that as well, the *gift* to Raf/project was accomplished and I made it to clean deeply all the balcony in the house regardeless of allergic sympthomes (these three things have absolutely NOTHING in common, but they came into my mind in this order :D)
Like all the 29 years old who beahve like children, I saw Ice Age The Meltdown this past saturday along my stef, nadia and stefanodella and we were laughing all the time more than kids around us ;)
Fiorentina is THERE to catch the Champions League, but I have lots of bad feelings that we're gonna be in tears and not for joy in one week ... Let's hope I am wrong.
Last but not least, aly's trivia on music on the http://www.daveblog.net is getting personal: gotta solve it or I won't sleep anymore (well, not quite, be calm ;)).
We can make it.... and we will!
Gotta go at boring work ;)
Catch you soon, (next weekend I am in Florence, but let's see) :) Hugs, Meli :)
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Today, a kind lady shot me down with a GATE onto my front... :P!

Meli, the cartoon person ;)

Heya my people from the web waves!!!

In a very fullfilled day (tell me which one of my life isn't...) what I will keep (I presume for a few days... argh!!) of visible inside and OUTSIDE is this big BUMP over my spacious front, that a sweet lady unwillingly gifted me with this morning, while I was coming to my office.

She wanted to open the gate for me to make my passage free.. but she used way too much power, so the mobile gate bounced back directly over my front.

I cried but just from one eye ;) nothing bad, as my head's of course made of stone so.. (well, let's make it made from diamond, it's classier !! :D)

Today I also finally paid for *that special secret gift* my collegue and her cousin tried in every way to subscribe at :) I am happy I finally did, I hope the plan goes to its final success.

Micke called me telling me bad family news.. I cross fingers for that (hugs Micke!!!).

On a very light note, a post about an "impossible music request" drove me to exit from lurkerLand in @ the http://www.daveblog.net... but it has been JUST an episode!
That place is heavenly cool but I prefer to just read and avoid to write... I past my time of preaching quite a long ago :)

Have all a great day and.. I am sad (but I can perfectly understand him) great President Ciampi won't accept another mandate at Quirinale.

After such a Premier for 5 years, I am sure he's fed up ;)

Kisses everybody, Meli :)

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Just some words.. and a Site made!!!

Nadia and I... some weeks ago :)

I have been completely destroyed for the entire past day: I even thought I might have been pregnant cos I got stomach disease and will of throwing constantly... till I properly rejected all the meals I had in my.. erm.. inside.
What a pain of day!

So today I have still to customize the house along Stef... and *luckely* tomorrow we're all home!

Anyway, things beside that go regularly.
I have completed the Site http://www.angelfire.com/planet/raffa/1.html which little Denise did ask me to create before she sadly died, and I think is somehow near to her idea, at least I hope it is, cos I made it with my whole heart.

Around pollens and plants are growing, which causes me a terrible allergia, but ehy! May it's this thing for me and right now I am used to that.

Wish you all a great 1st of May.. my friends in Florence are all at the beach...*sigh*!!!

Next weekend I'll be there for sure :)
Hugs, Meli :)
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brief update... ah, yes, I'm 29!

Let's forget that 30's area is almost ready to get me and wrap me up in its shading aura... :

I write down a couple of lines to -as usual- let people know I am okay.
Work still a bitch but the 4 days passaed in the Montegrotto SPA (5 stars hotel luxury.. awwww!!!) was a special gift from Stef that I MORE than appreciated.

Tomorrow I leave to Florence to celebrate with parents.

In the maintime my battle with Dreamweaver is ongoing: to create the scratch for the Staring @ The Syn site is dryin me down.
I don't have much time, but I did promise to little Denise before she died I would have made this fansite for his idol in the past edition of "Amici", so I will make it!

By now I am creating a static version, then if the people at the Yahoo Fanclub will allow me, Iìll gift them with a regular domain name and probably a dynamic site.

I should also restyle my own site (and maybe update it... it's November 2005 old!!) and visit my boards and those lovely people.. but what can I do? Time is never enough *sigh*.

Hope yer' all fine, kisses and catch you soon, your Meli :)

UPDATE! **************
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My post election sadness for my beloved Italy...
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A Smile for Springtime :)

A smile for springtime!

New Season, new appearance here to let everybody knows all's okay, (still hectic and very overloaded as for work, but anyway fine ;)), and to write some small update in this site.

My time's so limited the only thing I am able to update is this blog (unfrequently, though): I have tons of pictures from November 2005 to share, but I just can't see when or how I could find the space of time convenient to set up some sites album for the webpage.

Argh!

This weekend I am in Florence and something very lovely is planned by my friends: a sort of reunion with ALL of the former friends (males and females ) of our company/creek to share memories watchin pictures and films of our kids/teenage times :)
I LOVE the idea: 8 hours of blastin g laughing!!!
Love my people dearly ;)

Me and Stef have also bought a lovely gift for Davide who's getting 2 in two weeks :) I love to dress the lil boy!!! Can't wait to have sons myself ;)

On the "subject-with-no-sense-apparently" I see with relief that "Amici 5" (a famous (infamous?!?) tv show has closed its edition with a winner nobody could have predicted, but anyway somebody I am not sad has won (my two favourites there could have never won the league, conscious their own supporters would have blocked the others, causing damage to both ;)): the sad thing is that edition was on one side completely crap due to PURE TRASH behaviours.... on the other one though (maybe for the same reasons?) t was a total laugh and fun which I am gonna miss a LOT ;)
God, I' ageing... some years ago I would have never even though idiocities such as these!!!
One of my collegues at work properly lost her head (she's 30) over the one she calls as "Sweet Pet Raffaele" (one of my two choices along the actor affectively called "Satan Dianetti ;)"; really insane, considering these guys are 18 and 19 years old ;)
In the madness of all that, I found two amazing websites devoted to irony and fun (with brain). http://www.daveblog.net it's Daveblog, and http://www.freeforumzone.com/viewforum.aspx?f=32766 which is Nemici Forum: these two places have made me have hours of complete fun ;)

For that merely, I am even happy to have followed closer than ever Amici this year (and let's confess it, I DID like Raffaele, can't help that ;), and I would have loved his team with Andrea would have lasted forever, as they have from the start been my two choices for the leadership of the year.... *sigh*)

Okay, the clock reminds me it's time to get ready for work ;). Another normal day in normal Meli's life :)

Hugs :) catch you soon , your Meli :)

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February Thoughts...
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some lil update on Meli's Real World.

Okay.. who knows if the image is gonna be visible...

I'm updating this from office pc, just to let my friends know I am still okay.

Busy as hell, with lots of news... but as always lately (well..."lately" means at least the past 12 months, I know....) I have absolutely no time to be on internet.

I'm ready to newly get a further master degree, I'm having conferences to do again, I work and basically I have no way any freakin spare time.

I guess I will update my website not before April...

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Hope all is fine for you people.. know that I ma very okay. In my Real World Chiara is PREGNANT!!!!! All of us Florence girls are absolutely over the moon :)

Last week my parents were here... I did a conference and all went fine down to Tuscany.

I bought through wonderful ebay the original Adobe Standard 7.0, so my working commitments will be easier to do.

Two saturdays ago I attended to a new marriage up to Treviglio: it was lovely and.. international :) which I love a lot.

Can't wait to catch all online people... but it takes a lil while more, yet.

The Olympics are okay and in Italy everybody is starting to understand curling ;)

A mega kiss to you all, Love, *Meli* :)

Don't worry friends, I'm alive and kickin' well :)

Hi people!
Hi know that some of you have sent me mails a bit worried since after the Xmas/New years eve mails and sms (I hope they have reached all of you... in the mountain chalet where we did pass the changin year time the camp wasn't really good...) I have been not reacheble as I wished I would have.

I am workin&traveling through a few places and it's not easy to stay connected (also because of my laziness about it after a truly demanding work, I have to admit...); plus I am approaching to a changin timetables at work and I suppose till the middle of February there's no much way for me to do any different from past weeks.

I hope you're all okay, and that you're not too sad about my lack of communications. I'll get back the time lost in speeches as soon as possible :) .
I am missing so much you all :)

About new stuff... well today I'll get back to Milan, at late evening, and I hope train&tube&bus is gonna work okay, no matter the freezin ice around roads and tracks, and the mess we're currently sperimentating in Italy about energy.

I saw "Match Point", the new Woody Allen movie, the other day and I truly loved it. Then, to see again London, so beautiful and bohemienne like in that film, increased my wish to get back there immensively.

But I have to mind about the German meeting this June :) so I guess for this year my traveling for fun in Europe has to be contented with that only (which is much, as I am dyin for will of meeting back all the friends, Izzi and the others :))

Okay, time for me to go. I hope also to update my site soon and share the tons of pics I have from months ;) When I'll be back I'll have also the pics of the marriage me and Stef have to attend at on the 11th of February :)

Stay weel & supersonic :)
Kisses, Meli :)

I'm back soon :) Till then... love for the Year :)
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Happy Xmas 2005!
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This evening... the bloody boring Rotary Club dinner...:/

happy red holidays!

Hi there!! :)
Hope everything's fine for you all :)
Up above you see an avatar quite like the way I'll be this Xmas (I bought a dress just alike ;))
Xmas that I will pass in Florencealong Stef, my family and my gals :)

To obtain this, I had to agree in attending this evening Lodi's Rotary Club dinner for Xmas (I'll be dressed in long black with cover-shoulder champaigne like shoes and bag ;)): thing that I find *extremely boring* and absolutely unlike me.
I'm not upper-class, I'm not liking these kind of "all-rich-and-pretentious" kind of things....
But as we won't share Xmas with Stef's family (they go all in Puglia, connecting New Yearìs Eve time too, and me and Stef have not such long holidays to spend to be along them), me and Stef were someway bound to agree, and in fact, it's gonna be nice (for the people there, at least, at our table :))

This saturday I'll be sending and spreadin worldwide my calendars to all the friends :)
I will be also answering mails in apt way :)

Have all a great time till then :)
Hugs, red meli :)
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4 days in Florence.. starting in two hours ;)

Go Viola!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Viola RULE

So.. we are about to leave to my parental house (Stef and I) to be with my Mum&Dad (yesterday was my mum's BDay, and I have to be with her at least for a few days :)) to be with my Florence Creek and with Lil Davide on saturday, too.

Life's hectic and time never seems to be enough, but I am quite happy :)

I made the calendar and printed 50 copies, so I can share it with lovely people from all around web waves whom I have missed so much this busy year.
I am so sorry to have been this away from them (especially from the closest).. but sometimes in life you just can't avoid to choose and when Stef told me I had to dedicate to US my little spare time, I just couldn't say anything but "of course my angel".

If somebody hasn't undesrtood this, I guess they just didn't understand me, after all.

anyway.. house's all gold and red for Xmas :)
I love to see rooms coloured so!!!
I'll be also in Florence for Xmas and this makes me endless happy.

I just hope nobody's gonna be attacked by terrorists, and I wish people a Xmas in Love and Peace.

Things sometimes look so perfect, it seems quite like they have to be about to fall.
But I don't wanna bend to this sad thought so... let's go and smile :)!

Have all a lovely weekend. Catch you soon :) Meli :)
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we did meet lil Tommaso :)

Make your life musical!
Last saturday... All the countryside was under snow, and we pay visit to newborn lovely Tommaso :)
Micky&Ale are over the moon, and the baby's simply awesome, lively, and with such cute features he made me and Stef amazed, truly :)

We also went to visit Giacinta, and she's doing better: today or tomorrow they'll move her to rehabilitation therapy in San Colombano's Hospital, aso things may develop faster for the better :)

Snow's not here anymore, but it's truly freezing: my visit to Florence will be postponed to Immacolata's Bridge, due to working stuff and the chance I have to get Uni letter here in Lodi instead than not :)

Mamy&Papy will change their car in favour of a Musa at the middle of January, while I ma gonna get a better job position around the same time: I will pass from half to complete timing, but I'll have a better structure around, which make me very happy.

This week I have to send mails to ask addresses for teh Xmas calendar sending.. let's cross fingers I'll be makin it all ;)

I'll keep playin Madge's record all time along, though: she ROCKS!!!!!!

Hugs and kisses, Your Meli will catch you all soon again :)

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14th of November, 05: on the day of Marco's BDay...WELCOME TOMMASO!!!

Welcome Tommaso! Congrats to ale and Micky :)

The first son of Micky and Ale came into our chaotic world on the 14th... some more hours, and instead of sharing the date along with Marco (we went to a dinner for him) he would have done it along his father Alessandro ;)

What to say in such a beautiful occasion?
Just... JOY& Deep happiness :)
Shine on dear, and make your parents shining even more now :)

Congratulations... Stef and I are wearing all smiles :)

Catch you all soon: but next week, cos for a few days I am in Florence to take my allergic vaccines :)
Hugs, Meli :)
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8 mile of sore throat ;)

Feeling cartoonish today :)

Okay... yesterday we did not go to the dance class: Stef came hom very late and my sore throat just would not make me fine there.

Let's hope we did not miss too much, and that next tuesday we can cope with the rest's talent ;)

I ended up watchin 8 Mile dvd, including the extras ;) I love that movie a lot, gotta say :)
Eminem's a very skilled fella.

My Fantacalcio with Gazzetta sees me down to 23th place, with Stef in at 24th. The reason?
The insane idea to keep Ibrhaimovic on my bench, and allow Suazo to share forwards duties along with Toni and Bonazzoli.
I KNEW it was a mistake.... SIGH!!! the 6 points I have of difference with the first would have been just 0,5 if Ibra were in.

ARGH!!!!!!

But it's gonna be a long ride: we have hopes.

This weekend I'll be in Florence, and the one after I'll be there again since thursday evening cos on friday 18th I have the vaccine for allergia and in the evening Monia's BDay celebration ;)

A long way.
Now let's get ready for boring work ;)

Kisses, Meli :) Your cartoon-type of devoted friend :)
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