weddings!

2010 seems to be all about weddings! I love it! (that's also a reminder of my age though)

I received, what I think is the best "save the date" ever, from my old roomie. Well, I couldn't really expect less from her, she is the most creative woman I've met! She is also a fashionista from New York so you can only imagine how the wedding is going to be like. I would go only to see her dress and the brides' maids, and of course the groom too, Im sure that she will dress him in something extraordinary as well. It's not only gonna be the wedding but I guess more like a fashion show. Maybe Chanel and Burberry should book a front row seat already?!

Where the wedding is going to be at? At a sugar plantation in Louisiana! I just love it! While waiting for the wedding day, they put up a website so you'll be prepared! What is better than that? after all, it's supposed to be the day of your life no? so why not have your friends as excited as you about it. well, let me tell you that-I AM! can't wait!

however, that is not the only wedding I'll be attending next year....

there are another 2-3 weddings, gosh, instead of working next year I will be traveling the world for weddings! that is the "problem" when you have lived all over, you have friends from all over too, that invite you, well that is the best part of it!!! Maybe I should contact a publisher and tell them that next year I will write a book called, "My year with the weddings" or something like that.... (hm, gotta come up with a better title to that one...) the book will be about these weddings, imagine how fun that would be, you know there are ALWAYS things going on at weddings! and then maybe the ending of the year and my book would be my own......

post its

Im a sucker for post its. I gotta have them available at all times. or at least notebooks. cause I have millions of things running through my head at all times, and when I think of something, I have to write it down immediately. and Im very random. very. I can talk to you and then all of a sudden I switch the subject to something completely different. that's just a part of me. but to help you out though, so that you'll understand when im switching subject, I always say "oh just a paranthesis", makes sense or no?

so i got a tip today. it was this www.foundmagazine.com it's amazing, it is from normal people like you and I who have found notes and post its from other normal

people, on the street, and then they've sent it to this webpage. here is an example worth reading;

i was right no? maybe you should take a look! ;)

i should've been somewhere else

tonight. but I can't leave the country. i was there virtually though. technology is fantastic! they all called me to make sure that I could be part of it anyway! love them!

christmas is knocking on the door though.... ;)

restless

Im restless. today I woke up, didn't really have to go to work, but obviously there are always things to do. so I went in to the office. it's nice to sit there with your collegues. and there is internet. while I was sitting there I received a nice message from an old friend. a sign? maybe. it gave me some hope and strength, and it made my day, until i got a phonecall, that topped that one! hihi a good day!

yesterday I went to buy some make up and I since I had bought for over 100 dollars, they gave me a free product. i picked "eye hope" with their philosophy:

"with new eyes, a new world can emerge. see the beauty in others and your days become magical. see the beauty in nature and preserve it with all of your heart and soul."

however, it is an advanced anti/aging creme. I thought that because of the numbers of my years, maybe it's time to start? ha.

on different time

i am. i must be. cause here I am again. up. it's past midnightish and im awake....

no, i gotta try and sleep. close my eyes and just drift away. right, if it would be that easy. i think i gotta count some sheeps before. and Ill probably arrive at 1 million...

not easy to be with

Im not easy to be with.... so




this is for that someone that listens to me, understands me and loves me. =)

slight panic

is what Im feeling right now. I'm done in a month! with both school and my contract for work. Where to go, what to do?! well, if I could decide with my heart, I would go back home to Rome, no doubt about it. But unfortunately the job situation is not that good there, with a 900 euro salary per month (if even). It's even worse if you are a girl, and foreigner like myself. Sexual harassment is not illegal in Italy, it's part of the day. So the only way would be for me to open my own company again, but see, that's what I've always wanted to do anyway. so maybe I should just do that!?

Isn't that why I choose to study business too, so that I could do a better job this time around? YES, it is! OK, so time for me to grow up, and actually face that Im closer to 30 than to 20. uhhhhh scary thought! but it's reality.

and it's about time to face reality my friends!

ehtos, logos and pathos

Logos (Greek for 'word') refers to the internal consistency of the message--the clarity of the claim, the logic of its reasons, and the effectiveness of its supporting evidence. The impact of logos on an audience is sometimes called the argument's logical appeal.

Ethos (Greek for 'character') refers to the trustworthiness or credibility of the writer or speaker. Ethos is often conveyed through tone and style of the message and through the way the writer or speaker refers to differing views. It can also be affected by the writer's reputation as it exists independently from the message--his or her expertise in the field, his or her previous record or integrity, and so forth. The impact of ethos is often called the argument's 'ethical appeal' or the 'appeal from credibility.'

Pathos (Greek for 'suffering' or 'experience') is often associated with emotional appeal. But a better equivalent might be 'appeal to the audience's sympathies and imagination.' An appeal to pathos causes an audience not just to respond emotionally but to identify with the writer's point of view--to feel what the writer feels. In this sense, pathos evokes a meaning implicit in the verb 'to suffer'--to feel pain imaginatively.... Perhaps the most common way of conveying a pathetic appeal is through narrative or story, which can turn the abstractions of logic into something palpable and present. The values, beliefs, and understandings of the writer are implicit in the story and conveyed imaginatively to the reader. Pathos thus refers to both the emotional and the imaginative impact of the message on an audience, the power with which the writer's message moves the audience to decision or action.

The above text drawn verbatim from Ramage, John D. and John C. Bean.

aristotle gave us some education. nice of him. no?! :) when we think about it though, ethos,logos and pathos are not only used in persuasive writing, but I believe that we use it in everyday life. but then again, this is my blog, so this is only my opinion. :)

my time is almost up

when i was in highschool i met this dear friend of mine. we had an agreement. the agreement is as follows; to get married by the age of 30 if we still weren't with someone else. he reminded me recently that he'll turn 30 next year.

my family would be thrilled. he charmed them on my brother's wedding, and that's where he charmed me to, to chris de burg's lady in red. sweet.

i hate them Im right

i hate that I am. right. almost all the times. it's my intuition. if I have a feeling about a person, it's like that. and I'm the one that in the end always says; "I hate to tell you I told you so."

This time i'm only relieved that I was right though.

shady

"something's shady, and I don't like shady!" quote from the city. watched the first episode today. nice. i like it, and I hate that I like it, cause now I want to continue watching it. i wanna live in new york and work with PR. for a while. then I wanna go back home, to Rome.

I don't wanna get stuck on watching stupid episodes of series though. cause I know I love them. seriously though, my life could be one too.

my quote

//Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.//

-R. Emerson

night owl

why is it that I, no matter how tired I am, wake up at 23.30-midnightish? EVERY night???

I was out for dinner, and almost fell asleep, not because of the company, but because I was sooo tired. then I got home, and sit down, do the normal facebooking/skyping (I know Im sorry, Im an addict) and then when everybody goes to bed, then my brain decides to wake up. it's just great! but I kinda like it. nobody around, im at home listening to my own music, as loud as I want (yes, Im wearing the headphones;)

and Im sitting here with my own thoughts.

this past year has been nothing what I thought it would be. the total opposite actually. well, not really, but kind of. it's been hard. difficult, and I've been angry, sad, upset, well I went through the whole spectrum of feelings

it's not easy. at all. it's like my life went from white to black. or the other way around.

then slowly, slowly I adapted. got used to my "new" life, my new friends, my new surroundings. but it has always been something that wasn't right.

it was probably me.

All I feel now, is that I'm really tired. not tired as in sleepy, but tired as in emotionally tired.

a good day!

today I had a good day. monday morning meeting with the Swedes. Then lunch with my beautiful Laura who is here visiting me. I haven't seen her for two years but it feels like we never separated. I love her!

then i got some nice phone calls, then I did a little bit of studying (thank god I have a photographic memory=). Now Im actually in class. Shouldn't probably be writing (sorry prof!) but really, it's worse than learning Mandarine, and I was actually good at that, but with this SEO I don't understand that much, AND we are talking about blogging so I guess it's half okay, no?! ;)

after class we are gonna have sushi!

then tomorrow I will see my sweet, sweet Laura again!

heavy head

my head is really heavy today. went out with the swedes yesterday. and mamma mia, that's all I have to say!

my new tattoo

my new tattoo. it says "amor vincit omnia" love conquers all. it's true. i did it on a special day. my brother designed it for me. i just love it!

did i mention...

that all my really close friends who know every inch and bits of my life, good and bad, happy and sad, drama, yeah you name it - they know everything! then we have my other friends, whom I love very much too, but who don't know me that well that they know all of me (they should probably only be happy about that;) and then we have the brief friendships that I've made over the years, yeah all of them more or less, when hearing about my life and experiences, or just by hanging out with me, experiencing my crazy life with me, they all tell me, "Anna you should write a book, you're life is like a movie!" and my answer is always the same "Who would want to read about my life? + even if I did, nobody would probably believe it and think it was all made up anyway!"

Now I'm reading this book that there has been a buzz about; Eat, Pray, Love. and while reading it, Im thinking to myself. Gosh, she wrote a book about her life, people are reading about it, so why couldn't I? But then only to realize that she actually IS a writer, she is famous, AND she actually gets paid to write, so she can afford to put the time aside. not to mention her writing skills! who knows though, I might, one day, just do what people tell me to do, write that damn book. But really, would you read it?

again!?

I got an invitation on Facebook for an event in Sweden. it said that they would introduce a new shoe brand, and the people presenting it will be two of the most popular bloggers in Sweden, two 17-year olds!? I mean who cares about them?

Blogging is the new social media tool, everybody CAN do it, almost everybody IS doing it, but I doubt that no where else in the world, but in little Sweden, has it become that popular, and the bloggers become famous??? ahahha it's a joke! i really believe it is. I mean they are just normal people, writing about teenage things, and people read about it, the top blog had 380,000 readers (Sweden has a small population!) and this girl http://www.foki.blogg.se writes about her days and how now she has to travel Sweden to do promotions for stores and brands.

I find it pathetic. I'm sorry, no offense to her, not at all. she can't help that a whole population has nothing else to do but reading her blog. I mean, all cred to her, she is smart, she probably gets paid for it. But really? Her blog is not outstanding at all, she doesn't even write well.

btw, don't think I'm writing this because I'm jealous, cause Im not, I love to write in my blog, and I don't care how many readers I have, cause as my headline states, I don't write for my readers, I write for myself! ;)

my friend Angelo

is brilliant! he told me last year that he had started to paint. I was thinking that is great! i mean everybody has a hobby. then more and more often he told me that he was home to paint, so then I got more curious thinking it would be nice to see his paintings, i mean if they took up that much time of his, so i asked him to show it to me..... he seemed surprised that I was interested, then he said that he hadn't taken any pictures of it yet, so I told him to do it, cause I really wanted to see.

then one day he came to me and he said, anna I finally have some pictures, if you still want to see my art?! he showed me the pictures and I remained.......shocked! IT IS BRILLIANT!

see for yourself!

www.whereismymind.weebly.com

Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize?

Wow, crazy, and as Mr. Obama said himself that he wasn't sure why he was awarded the prize. I second that. Why?

Someone told me it's because he knows people who knows people that are well connected and that knows people who give out the Nobel Prize. Gotta be something like that. Because what did Mr. Obama do for the peace? I do wonder. Or maybe because they couldn't find another one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9XarOkBz1Y

she passed me

this artist passed me by. maybe time for me to get that TV set up afterall?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWFp4KcMJsQ

To be honest though, im not quite sure what I think. It's kinda dull (only heard two songs of hers

though) but there is no ups and downs if you know what I mean?!

in a way it's ....as W would put it, lame.

chanel's catwalk

You just gotta love it. I do. I like anything that is different. This is.

at university

today i was walking on campus and I felt like I was in one of those college movies. There were so many people around me and I was just walking around there by myself, observing all the new excited college students, ready to learn (or probably just have fun).

I went into the bookstore, for those who knows me and have experience shopping with me, they know that Im impossible, I get lost in my own little world and I got to look at everything, well with books it gets even worse cause I gotta to read them, touch them, smell them, look at the pictures. I can spend hours in there. So today I got not only the book I need for school, oh no, (i told you I have a shopping problem) i even got another book-Alice in Wonderland. Everybody calls me Alice in Wonderland, or Amelie, and now I've watched the movie, but I haven't seen or read about Alice, so when it was on sale today, i had to get it.

BTW i still haven't figured out how I can blog from my iPhone.....

new technology

i got the iphone. well got and got, i had to buy it. but it's worth every penny!!! it changed my life already. and it's white, just like my computer! and now I can blog more often and on the go! how nice isn't that??