After Micke Stays... thoughts&words :)

Me and Micke on past thursday in Milan

So... all my plans and organization for Micke's coming at me and Stef got quite wasted by a number of events that have occurred...
The weather was not as good as I did hope, so the fog prevented me to bring him in Pavia...

Stef had to help Angelo the butcher in a thing about Angelo's wife (not time nor space to explain here....) so on Saturday and monday morning he couldn't be with us going around...

But no matter that, I am sure Micke had a lovely time :)
Me and Stef definitely did with him.
So I hope the meeting can be renewed and I also hope me and Stef will visit Micke in beautiful Sweden, cos I am sure the thing is worthy :)

I will prepare a description in pictures of Micke's stays, as I have already done with Oasis gig and as I will do in these two days so to update my site.

Work keeps haunting me so time to be online stays short... but ehy, things are fine :)

Stef will move from MTV to All Music and L'Espresso Group (Radio Deejay included) so new things at the window are expected.

I am 14th in Gazzetta dello Sport list in Serie A... too bad stef gave HIS name and his team's name to the one callin ;) but it should be all solved in the next days. Glory's mine after all ;)

Gotta go now.... enjoy all and be fine everybody :)
Hugs&kisses, Meli :) (the one who hopes to answer mails at least this weekend....)
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Such a Beatiful Day :)

Oasis!Oasis!Oasis!

So I need to update the blog immediately, although a proper review&description of the Oasis Day in Milan will be posted in my Online Music Magazine :)

Just wanna say it has been lovely.. we got up to the front stage, and so we could take very close pictures of them, and of the Coral too :)

Best thing has been Noel playing the Masterplan (I had that hope so strong in me I even predicted it and put the song in the Mp3 I took along me at FilaForum in Milan...) and Liam following that with Songbird :)

Both things were departures from the meant-to-be songlist :) they probably wanted to thank the crowd, cos they just looked and spoken amazingly of our response to them ;)

It has been a great day :)

I'll share more in the site of course, but you gotta at least see Liam as me and Micke did from our privileged position yesterday night ;)

CU soon :)
Kisses, Meli :)
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Tomorrow Micke comes to us :)

Po, Italy's largest river: isn't that a beautiful sight?

Hola everybody...
Yep, time's short as usual, but a brief update is needed :)
(oh.. I hope you like some of the pics I took from top of soon-to-be-built bridge over Po river...it inspires peace to me :))

Tomorrow I'll take Micke from Linate airport.. he will have to wait a bit cos I can't skip morning work at office.. but I ma sure he won't get lost... I just cros fingers that there won't be any fog... that freaks me out and I am already not that skilled driver... :P

I am sure it's gonna be a fine time together... Stef's a bit scared about his English, but he'll do well I am sure :)

Work keeps being a flash in the pan... : It's all about that work that we might have NOT lost... argh! which means MORE and MORE and MORE charge for me... Oh, well!!

This past weekend (long one,I took friday free) I was in Florence :) Ilaria and Massy witnessed amazing Fiorentina at the stadium on saturday, sliding over poor Parma with immense Luca Toni (one of my player at Fantacalcio ;)) :) :) :) They're doing very fine :)

We went with Monia and Mauro catchin Benigni's latest movie: it's a very nice one: I was expecting something not that good (after that horrendous Pinocchio), but I was wrong :) It's not "Life is Beautiful".. but none could match again that one after all :)

I advice everyone in seeing "La Tigre e la Neve" :) It deserves :)

So... update's ended :)

Gotta get ready for work :) Hugs&Kisses everyone :) Meli xxxxx

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few hopes to be online this month...

Me and Monia in her kitchen :)

I was hoping to get some chances to be around these past week... lately my job has taken me a bit and it seems like everyday all my hopes to talk a bit here with you get wasted for sudden new duties...Unlikely my predictions, this week sounds as busy as latest ones... I think no chances to be actually around online till my friend Micke comes down to me and Stef... namely for two weeks more?

At work the connection got troubled by storms last week, so it's difficult to connect (although briefly) till technician won't repair all properly (and that's meant to be this incoming tuesday...)Patience, I guess, it's the only solution I have :)

Up above you see me in Monia and Maurro's house kitchen: it was shot ten days ago when me and Stef got invited for dinner while we were in Florence. Lovely house, and lovely couple they are :) . We should be back in Florence next week's weekend, but no more diners.. just exiting at evening :) with the others gals too I hope :)

Of course I haven't replied any mail yet.. apologies, but really I haven't got time, and as usual I hope to patch this as soon as possible (but no more days called for that.. cos every single time it seems things gather enough to break my good intentions...)

So... catch you as soon as possible, and when I will, me and Micke will probably have to tell you about Oasis gig in Milan on 30th of October, ok?Hugs everyboody, again :) :) :) Meli :)

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Week past in building areas around Northern Italy... COOL!

Me witnessing the towers above Po River, bases for the incoming fast railways upper bridge. almost 100 meters above water level :)

I haven't been quite online these past ten days, and you can see the reason above...eheehh:)
Although the look isn't exactly"cool fashioned", and make up is virtually untakeable (there isn't any, in fact), what you can see in the frame is one of the coolest things I've ever done in my life so far. Workingly speaking, and maybe not just.

I have been in building areas around Northern Italy to witness methods and Safety Procedures and how they are applied and implemented . My task will be, after creating a Safety manual for PSG, to make a number of wallpapers about these procedures. So I went to check real areas along Stef's father and the team, to have a clear set-up in my mind.

Here I was up above Italy's largest river, River Po, onto a tower build to create the support for the future Bridge.
You can see the twin tower behind me.
We were almost 100 meters above water and you could see all the landscapes around.. amazing :)

I have many pics but they are needed for work, so I have no idea what can I show so far.
There will be a couple of the landscape in my Life Pictures section for sure, when I will update the site (I think in November) , but not much more than that.

So, I am quite taken and I fear there won't be space for art sites for a while more, unfortunately.
I miss that... but I have just too many things to do for work: and I am loving each one of them :) so it's all okay :)

I have to answer mails this week, and I am sure I'll make it between today and tomorrow... this past weekend I was in Floreence along Stef and we've been hosted for saturday dinner by Monia and Mauro :) there are pics of that too, you'll see all sometimes soon :)

I miss my kids at volunteer centre, but taking my therapy at gym place for incoming allergic vaccines, it's hard to find more than two spare hours every five days for them :(
I am sure soon I will make it back there too, though, takin a convenient space of time to be more helpful, as I wish :)

in three weeks Micke comes.. can't wait :)
yesterday I miss on MTV an Oasis special... I have to catch it again this week so I can show it to him :)

Tonight is dance class ;)
And with this (surprise, surprise...) I let you go: catch you soon again :)
Hugs&kisses, your Meli :)

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Time for fallish routines... and my mail system was gone!

Waiting for Fall Dinners...

You might have this one *huge* question in your mind right now: why did she tell us she would have replied our mails if she wasn't going to?
Well, I actually did.... only to discover thanx to phone calls with my Florence mates none of what I have written (and sent) reached any of the supposed targets.
Another "updating" of tin servers?
Probably.
But this service honestly sucks.
Today it seems to work, but the point is as regular life of fall has started back, I have time for "senseful" mails only at weekends. So... this incoming saturday, crossing fingers no more mail troubles will occur, you should get your answers.

What's goin on here?
Well... lots of gym training.
I need to be perfectly strong for the incoming allergic vaccines.Which means 1 hour and half at least every day (Ban Sunday ;)): I will force Micke to come with me at Litium club too cos I can't suspend the activity when he visit next month.
Talkin about that.. do you see people in this picture? there are the girls I usually have the pleasure to hang with at Restaurants around (there's all the male sides as well, but this pic is better ;)): well, next fixed meeting should be on the 28th of October for Gianmario's 40 Birthday.. but I won't be able to get in as Micke can't stay home alone... and I can't ask nobody to pay 200 euros for a dinner (yes, that's the prce of Restaurant we should get in...).
Mmmh.. Stef wasn't happy about this *little* problem, but he will have to deal with it smoothly.
And after all maybe everything will be postponed:) That's be my option favourized.

Another mess at work... tomorrow I will probably have to stay more at office. But everything should go fine enough :)

Fiorentina's triumphs are ongoing.. but I fear on Sunday evening against Inter (in Milan) we might meet our first competitor able to win over us. Still a great team this year, with an excellent trainer :)
My FantaChampionship goes well enough too and it has to do with the fact I have Viola Players in it ;) (*pride of Florentinian* :) )

Talkin about Florence stuff... I would love my mates from there coming here in Lodi this weekend, but as I haven't yet heard any call about this, I fear it won't be makeable, so we are gonna postpone THAT too.

Miss my town&people.. Florence is amazing when Fall starts... but I get there first weekend of October, so all is okay :)

Hugs everybody,
your Meli :)xxx
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meli, the cat lover...
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Brief Update: he took me at Latin Dance Class in the end ;)

I couldn't answer e-mails yesterday cos evening turned out as Stef did hope for: we started the Latin American Dance Class at Litium , and contrariwise to my reticence the evening was absolute fun.

So beside the training at gym place every Tuesday we will try to learn how to dance together for the incoming four months ;)

Work should be easy this week, which is fine enough, considering next week is looking to be overdemanding instead :)

Well, it's all for now... Mails will be written this evening as Stef's got his football game along the guys here, and I am gonna watch Doc House Medical division instead :)

Tomorrow is Madagascar :) The cartoon ;) of course :)

Catch you soon, bye bye, Melixxxx

Today all starts back!!!

Starting Regular Life 4 real... Bye Holiday Feeling!

Hi there!
The weekend in Florence has been rejuvenating :)
We've passed a wonderful evening (till 2 am to be correct) at Ilaria and Massy's, along with Chiara and Marco and Vale and Francesco.. Monia and Mauro weren't there due to a brief holiday they took.
It has been just amazing :)
They should all come back in Lodi to pay us a visit in two weeks hopefully :)
Vale and Francesco found a house in Campi Bisenzio :) :) :) :) :) :)
I am so happy for them.. now we all have a house to share with our significant others and that's amazing :)

My long road to allergic vaccines starts properly today (effects of the gone past vaccin are already here, that's why I am starting to be weak&stuff...): yesterday I signed up at the local gym place called Litium and today I start the training that will bring me in perfect shape to the end of November, to get a massive vaccine dose that should save me for one entire year this time.
Stef and I try this evening also to the Latin Dances.. this of course if Champions League won't constitute too heavy call on him ;)

Micke fixed his flights and he will arrive and leave from Linate, which is way better than Malpensa :) :) :)

Yesterday Stef got hisoperation to erase the "nei" (can't find the translation in my head now.. those black spots you can have on skin, smoothed or in relief... the ones Marylin Monroe was famous for at the side of her mouth? that thing ;)): so now he walks with two medications over his face ;) No trouble.. two days and all's gonna be okay :)

Work goes... normally :)
I start back at volunteer centre also from this thursday :) three days a week by now, then we'll see.
I am already pretty occupied, in fact. But I wil answer mails today, this is solemn promise :)

Hugs and kiss everybody :)
Melixxxxxx
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Weekend in Florence... :) *happy Meli*

a smile...as I am goin to Florence in minutes!

Yeah, it's early sat morning and Stef and I are ready to go to Florence for the weekend :)
I will see my parents after holidays and my beloved Florence Creek has organized a mega evening "all together" :)
I am blessed in having the friends I got :)

I updated my site... here http://www.angelfire.com/me4/gallimel/meli_interactive_albums.html you can find the three sites dedicated to events in my August holidays, namely the Gran Canaria time, the time in Puglia and Elli and Luca's beautiful marriage (the picture above is taken from there, in fact :)).

You can visit and leave comments under the pics if you like :)

Ah, yesterday Micke and I settled finally the time of hs coming to our Lodi's house :) 26th of October to November the First :)
It's gonna be great to have him in our house.. and then we will go to the gig, which is always a great plus :)

Ah, if you wonder, yes, I still worried about hijacks.
Every morning I wait for 9 am to pass, and realizing they didn't make any Milan Tube collapse with a bomb-man...
I know it's unrational... but I guess my emotional side just can't take current events without fearing the ignote.

But ehi... I still fight that.
They can't have my soul. At least they can't so easily.

Wish you all a great weekend.
:) I will answer all emails this incoming Monday :)
Kiss&Love, Meli xxx
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End Of Holidays... *sniff*

Summer is gone... Why Can't I Turn Back Time?

Hola Everyone!
I shouldn't use any of my Spanish likes actually to celebrate my gone away summer time... In fact, the only BAD situations in the weeks away have been linked to Canary Islands experience...
Nothing *that* bad, but bad enough to trash my "hopes-for-perfection" referring to my past (sniff!!) holidays.
But I'll have time to describe all the "sections" of my month away in the picture albums that I will prepare this week in my site.
I have about... 400 pictures ;) (200 are just for Luca and Eleonora's marriage and batch party...eheh ;)).
Anyway, I am back to work, already stressed...
But everyone's got to stand work, we know.
I am terribly touched by Katrina's fury, and sad for all those who've lost their lives and health and wealth too in the hurricane's tragedy.
It seems that horrors never stop.

I just share the pain around, innerly and widely.

PS: after so many years, I got the chance to read BOOKS this summer.
7 in 3 weeks is not bad.
My pick of the year so far is the AMAZING book by Alessandro Piperno "Con le peggiori intenzioni" (sorry for english speaking buddies... the title means "With the meanest/worst intentions").
Absolutely amazing piece of writing: witty, modern, groovy, cynical and so very 2000.
My advice to everyone.

Catch you soon :)
Bye, it's good to be back :)
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Bye for August!

I still at work... 10 hours so far!

We're preparing this big offer to Italian Railways.

I would love to do some Sudoku online, but I am honestly unable to think...my Chief sneaks and lurks so I cannot really do entertaining operations here.

I am tired.
Stefs tonight goes out to play football, and considering I am struck here probably another three hours I won't see him at all today.

This morning I told him I fear everytime he leaves to work.
But then, it's true life tries always to take over on fears: I just read on NME online and MTV Italian site Coldplay will be back in Italy, in Milan and Bologna on 14 and 15th of this incoming October.
I felt immediately I want to get there.
I know a big gig is a perfect trial for a carneficine from terrorists but... I wanna go there.

Let's see, okay?

We're planning also the BIG Board Meeting at Sabine's in Hannover next June... and that's alwso something I would never miss out.

People have to come together... right now!
To fight that sudden scare, that terrible feeling of losing confidence in everything we were just taking for granted merely some months, or years, ago.

I just wanna live... No, it's not any Good Charlotte's quote, be sure. It's just how I feel.
It's hard but we have all to.

Hugs from "still-at-work's-desk-Meli"

Back after the week with kids... Feeling unconsistent...

Jean-Marc's Rulier beautiful last gift to me...

So, finally I ma in after the week past with kids and my working team away from usual land.
You know, I have been quite emotional lately: and during this last week especially, the news about new bombs in my beloved London, and the horrifying (but expectable, at least by me) hijacks in Sharm El Sheik, my mood keeps being a rollercoaster.

I am someone who loves serenity, but I have to face the fact I can't feel so till world will be this madness.

What can I do about it?
Nothing, just ... live.
In the weekend we've been at my parents in our mountain house. Mauro and Monia, and yesterday Marco have joined there me and Stef: my parents have been happy to pass time all together.
I have felt well too.

But always... you know... demanding myself to feel fine, which means after all I keep being scared a lot.

Yeah, I know, this is what they want.
But the whole of our system is based onto confidence in a stable system of life. It's not that easy to mantain it once confidence is washed out by sudden attacks aimed exactly at revolving everything we use to know about ways of life.

I am starting to feel like this is not a good world to give birth in the future.
But I know myself... in the end I will find a way to go one the way we all have to.

I wanna thank JMRulier for this beautiful interpretation of myself.
This picture so ghostly and intense today defines my mood pretty well.

A big embrace to everyone whom reads here.
Your Meli.
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Pieces of poetry, today...

Just feeling needin' goodness...

I did touch
loneliness,
or it might be She touched me instead,
tanglin me up in her embrace...
It's like she went here
to block and dry my blood within,
and now I feel so cold,
in and out this thick skin.
People who won't ask a thing,
because they did already accept
someone else's reasons in it,
are haunting me and say
those who leave go to the joy,
and that should be our peace
inside and out to rest and stay...
But all I see is pain,
questions nobody can solve
trash souls whom were happy one back day...
and then a raging why surfaces,
afraid and unable to make anything right,
and then I just look out to get
why words remains just themselves,
why do they stay so senseless,
ethereally fading away...
Those who leave leave to the joy...
Go and tell it to the one who stands
awkwardly bashed by speed of time...
Go and tell it to the one whom used to hope
in some present justice,
go and face the one whose hand
will never reach again
the shape of a loving man...
I'm over this hill
rushed by windy caress
from Winterly Sir:
and I find no peace
in any of these myths...
But watchin still
towards the one that still rise
although he's breakin inside,
I feel like wishing them to believe
in that sense I just can't perceive...
I wish that those who left
can get him back
all of the gone hopes, and life and all that
they wish to feel touched by again.
I did touch Death onto this unmoving hill:
and She did also touch me.
I wonder who you are,
you seem to have no plans...
You seem to not confide
your razor will erase the broken bones...
You have put onto so young shoulders
decades,
while sometimes you let badness
ruling all of our ways...
And still this empty hill
frozen by the wind
it's gonna rebirth...
And we are gonna remain
unconscious,
afraid...
here wondering why,
here answering ourselves by...
and here we're gonna still stay,
feeling so small,
feeling so bound to be break,
and always unaccepting what we should just take:
what we can't avoid to be...
In this slow game of the seasons,
the only things that change
is our illusion to be ready to make anything
and breathe...
but then why, why, why...
like flowers too beautiful
these illusions will
be flowering all over and over again?
Glittering my mind and heart again?
Again? Again...again?

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at MTV Barbecue Sunday, trying to find some peace...

Last sunday, to try and finding peace...

So here I am again.. it took a while to feel quiet enough to write again something around the web.
I have answered only Gun, Ilaria and Monia's mails this week...
I have yet to send all the pictures of last sunday barbecue with (and to ) all Stef''s collegues at MTV.
This picture comes from there too, and yes, I smile there.
Last sunday has been a very sweet and relaxing, comforting day, along with very pleasant people.
Gotta thank again Angela and Mauro (not Monia's Mauro, ndr) for inviting us: the time spent at their home canceled for a while my nightmares on terrorism.
But not enough: I keep thinkin of all that too much.

Nothing did help me feeling better these days: not even the fact I leave this incoming week to take my kids to a week on sea (the centre has organized the whole stuff with my Company, so I work regularly and at the same time I spend afternoons with them .. it's gonna be lovely!); not the fact along Stef we've booked just days ago our week from 8 to 16 of August in the Gran Canary Island, in a luxurious hotel near to Maspalomas and Puerto Morgan beaches...

I can't think well not even at the days that we'll pass, after that week, in our beautiful Gallipoli, till we'll seen Elli getting married by the end of August...

Nothing seems to help my anguish: I fear the terrorism is gonna steal me Stef, or some of my dears, in horrible ways, like it did happen in London...

London.. all the places touched by infamy were those we did walk in last time I went in the beautiful town...

Can't rest, I have in front of me bloody scenes, and I just suffer.

Why hate has to take over people this way?

But I won't bend to hate.

G's okay, she tells me all therapy have worked, and she's healed :) I am happy. I told her I should learn from her and her won battle against cancer the way to survive my fears, and just keep on living.

I will trust those words. Friends please... keep help me. Always.

Hugs, catch you soon again, after the week at sea I guess. If I won't find an usable pc there, which I don't think. Kisses, Meli :)

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London tears are my own... those are tears of the world...

Feel like all parties are over... Peace for London casualties, and the world...

I just wanna wake up and realize world is not this madness of hate and violence anymore.
But it won't work: we live here, in the core of human ferocious dismissal of sacred life.
I am sad, desperate and scared.
I won't write for the incoming days anything, cos I just feel down and destroyed.
I know even too well next in line is Milan... and my Stef works daily there, exiting exactly in the Duomo metro station at the same time blasts have happened yesterday in London did.
I have so many fears inside I can't hide it...
I can't see the end of all this hate.
And still, and luckely, I know I am not able nor willing to hate.
The only possible answer to the insanity that dominates our current days, I know, still love.
It's hard: but it's teh only way to walk in.
Today even more.

Peace for the families who've lost their beloveds, hope and strenght to those whom have got casualties , and heavy hards from the blasts.

Love you all.

Meli.

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Got a week at work.. kinda insane!

Back to old times of unsane scheduling?
well, just from the half of past week included THIS past Sunday... the average amount of worked hours (regardeless even eating breaks.. indeed) was 11.5, splat from a peak of 13 to a "good" amount of 10 on Saturday and Sunday...
That's why I haven't kept contacts of mails past week.. you'll forgive me please?
The only mail I answered at was G.'s one: the operation went okay!!! It was the best thing happened last week.. I am so happy... all of our support did work :) :) :)
This week at work is better, I should be ready to answer mails finally.
But I'll say it low, cos everytime I put a plan up it gets erased by life facts ;)

Oh... I recorded G8, just to get in awe of PINK FLOYD REUNION!!!!!!!
I am mad about them, can't help myself... :)

More next time, now I just have to work ;)
but in one hour I am home...ahhh!!!! :)
Hugs, meli :)

Images developed out of fires and wedding!

Me and my cousin Cinzia at her wedding party

These days Italy resembles an oven..
I live with headaches and this heat is also damaging all my pcs, at office and at home. Oh well!
A few days of troubles, I can't say I am not used to.
I developed images from Florence Fires last Friday and those of Cinzia's marriage: I will prepare the albums soon so you can all see how beautiful she was :) Just like Botticelli's daughter.

She left her bouquet at Stefania's grave... that is right, she has to feel none felt her away from us on Saturday.

I am really taken these days: I don't see my kids since three days cos at work it's insane moment: we have two big projects running and I have to work in afternoons too.

Catch you soon again, hugs, Meli :)

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yesterday the marriage of Cinzia...

Days of thoughts, happy and deep...

Hi there everyone!
First of all, sorry if I haven't replied emails or come in Yahoo... my Lodi pc got under repair due to a brilliant move of Stef, who downloaded tons of virus in there trying to have a new Fantacalcio setup... *sigh*!

I am writing from Florence, where yesterday my cousin Cinzia got married!!!

No church this time, she di d in the Pontassieve Mayor site, but believe me all has been great!!! she looked like Botticelli's spring, you'll see in the pic album I will make in a few days :)

The day before, on Friday, I took Stef along Ilaria and Massy, and Monia and Mauro (lovely after their honeymoon) seeing the fireworks of San Giovanni, patronal saint of Florence. He LOVED them a lot :)

It was about time he were seeing them!!! all these years and he had always missed them :)

Heat in Florence is insane.. but I have to write about at least one thing...

Izzi's back shaped as a bee in web waves!!! Sabine, you're adorable.. to have you back on board fills me of joy:)

My statement about losing fanship in Oasis has quite shattered boards universe but hey, it happens. It's not that I don't like them anymore it's just... that I feel nor as deep as I used to towards them. I guess my motherly instinct starts to focuse now on having my own children?!? Prolly ;)

So.. I go... thinkin after lunch me and Stef have to go to highway to get back in Lodi, and thinkin we'll have to with 40 degrees outside, kills me and my forces.. oh well!!!

Catch you soon again, hugs, meli :)