Week Review

 

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This last week was particularly busy and a bit... demoralizing. But there's no time for depression, there's only time for good vibes and activities.

Someone could think that I’ve lost a lot of time making efforts for something that, in the end, didn’t work. They’re right, even if I prefer to see the good side of everything. Although this week I’ve wasted a lot of time, I’ve learned something new and I’ve added new knowledge to that I had before.

Luckily, the weekend had been softer. I spent a bit of time baking and cooking for my daddy’s birthday lunch, on Saturday. I spend also a bit of time playing computer games. I tried a new game that is keeping me so much addicted. I will write a review for it in one of my next posts.

What’s more? It’s cold… not too much for the season, but too much for me. If I would be able to feel less cold, I would really love fall and winter. I don’t know why, but I can’t stand temperatures below 18°. Well, it’s time for me to wear my warm and soft pyjamas and put me under my warm and soft blankets, with my boyfriend warming my feet and my cat cuddled beside me.

How was your week? Something new in the past days? Let me know in the comments.

Night blesses you all

Emily

Fall Favorites 2021

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It's said that Fall is the season of death, but I think that it's also a season of life because people seem to be more productive, maybe because they "revived" thanks to the summer holidays.

Fall isn't my favourite season, but I like it anyway. It's a colourful season, sometimes more than springs, and it gives me so many suggestive landscape... its brown, orange, and red trees, its fog, and its cloudy and rainy days. 

TEA: Fall and Winter are the best season for hot teas. I love Earl Grey tea with milk and a piece of apple cake. The perfect mix for an afternoon break.

COFFEE: long coffee or cappuccino provided that they have a lot of hot milk.

CANDY OR COOKIES: I think cookies are the perfect break in Fall afternoon especially Belgian biscuits. Apple cakes and apple pies are delicious too.

DINNER: any kind of vegetable soups, and cream of carrots and pumpkins, sometimes with some spelt or barley.

SCARF: it's not enough cold for heavy scarves, but when it's cooler like in the morning or in the evening, I usually use a blue light scarf.

COAT: the woolly coats made by my mom are perfect for this period.

SHOES: a pair of brown booties as it rains, or a pair of black elegant shoes when it's sunny or cloudy.

SCENTED CANDLE: cinnamon, apple, and every smell that would remember fall.

ACTIVITY: reading and playing computer games are my favourites, but I like also go out for a walk into the wood, looking for chestnuts.

What about your Fall? Feel free to copy this post and to tag me. I'll be happy to comment your post.

Night blesses you all.

Emily

 

3 things I've loved this week

 

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Sometimes we need a bit of relaxation, and this week was quite relaxing. 

1. My boyfriend and I helped E. freeing her home from some furniture she couldn't bring with her to the new home. She's really a wonderful woman.

2. Given that E. would have left on Saturday for her new home, my aunt organized a meeting for Thursday at lunch. We met earlier in the morning and we helped E. with the last preparation and then we went out for lunch. We ate in a traditional restaurant. The place was a little full of people, but the food was very good! 

3. I was particularly inspired by cooking. I prepared some delicious dishes and today I prepared a tasty and beautiful apple cake.

How was your week? Did you do anything interesting? Let me know in the comments.

Night blesses you

Emily

3 things I've loved this week

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I'm so tired this week... but I'm very happy! I've been busy, more than the one before, but I was able also to find a bit of time for fun and for my lovely cat. 

1. I renewed for the first time my driving license. They're already ten years I got it and this year I had my first renewal. Nothing particular, they asked me to read some letters from a certain distance and if I have any dangerous illnesses. My sight is perfect, as usual, and I don't have any illnesses that can be dangerous for driving. 

2. My aunt asked me if I accompanied her to a friend of hers who had sold her home and she's moving to another city. This friend, E., had a lot of old and new things that couldn't bring with her to the new home, she asked my aunt if she needed anything. Meeting me, she asked me if I needed anything, and given that my boyfriend and I are starting to look for a home to buy, E. offered us to keep some furniture for the bedroom (a double bed, a couple of night tables, and a chest of drawers), a little table with two chairs and another old little piece of furniture. With my car I could only keep the smaller furniture, but, for the others, we will come back next week, in a van of the company of my boyfriend.

3. Today has been the birthday of a friend of ours and he invited us to eat Japanese food in our favorite all-you-can-eat restaurant.

How was your week? Did you do anything interesting? Let me know in the comments.

Night blesses you all

Emily

Welcome September

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OMG! September came so quickly! 

Summer is almost ended and autumn is at the doors. This means that cold days are coming too and also those beautiful colors of the leaves on the streets and on the fields. 

In my idea, Fall means also hot teas and chocolate, hot soups, Yankee candles and incense, sofas, books, and soft wholly blankets. People seem to wiggle a little more, maybe for getting back the retired works of the summer holidays.

Do you like Fall? What are your favorite activities during this period? Let me know in the comments.

Night blesses you.

Emily

Just a Minute in...August

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Hello readers!

August has been a very busy month. Full of news and full of satisfaction. I left back a lot of negative thoughts and now everything is going better.

READING: "The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring".
WATCHING: "The Boys" and "Alias Grace".
LISTENING: "The Elder Scroll V: Skyrim" original game soundtrack.
BUYING: some new clothes, I need to renew my wardrobe.
LOVING: last sunny days...autumn is coming.
WANTING: I'd like to go to the spa...I miss it so much.
FEELING: I'm happier than last month. I hope things will go better for the next one.

What about your August? Did you go somewhere for your holidays? Let me know in the comment below.

Night blesses you all.

Emily

3 things I've loved this week

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Another week has gone by. It was very funny and productive.

1. The first thing I've loved this week had been Tuesday. In the morning I had a very good walk with two other friends and then I had lunch with my two older nieces. We spent the afternoon playing "Cards Against Humanity". They had so much fun that they've already asked me to repeat the afternoon.

2. I spent a bit of time with my mom. On Monday morning we got our manicure together and on Thursday morning we went together to the hairstylist.

3. The best thing that happened was on Saturday morning. My boyfriend and I had a long walk in one of our beautiful mountains. The weather was cloudy and high there was almost cold.

Lunch with a spectacular view.

We live somewhere down there

On the way back...

...we saw also a beautiful butterfly

How was your week? How did you spend your weekend? Tell me in the comments.

Night blesses you all

Emily

3 things I've loved this week

 

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This had been a very nice week.

1. I went shopping with my sister to discover a nice new clothing store, it's very cheap! I bought two pairs of shorts, one skirt, and 4 t-shirts. I was happy like a child on Christmas.

2. After the shopping I spent a bit of time with my sister and her animals: one dog and three cats. It has been a lovely day.

3. I finished the translation of the book and uploaded it... I think it will be published soon.

August is almost at its ending and the summer too. What about your holidays? Have you been somewhere? Or did you stayed at home? Let me know in the comments.

Night blesses you all.

Emily

Network Marketing

Everyone has done Network Marketing at least once in his/her life! Have you ever suggested a restaurant, a movie, or a professional to relatives or friends? Did you know, at that moment you advertize that restaurant, movie, or professional? We know better it as "Word of Mouth", free and essential for companies, especially for those new that need more to make themselves known. The Network Marketing is the paid version of "World of Mouth".

Advertising made by advertising agency costs, it's a fact. To decrease this cost, a company proposes to its customers (ourselves) to suggest its products in exchange for a profit on the turnover we bring to it: the company acquires new customers meanwhile it helps us create a small payday or rounding the salary we still receive from our work. And this is only the beginning!

Sometimes it happens that a relative, or friend, needs to round his/her salary and asks us to help him/her to promote the products of the company, as we're doing. At this point, the company decides to give us a further reward because we're helping our friend to do the same for us, and because, in this way, we're helping our company to increase its turnover. The most the company gains, the more it can reward its customers-collaborators.

This system doesn't only bring more turnover to our trusted company, it brings also a profit to us, which is never stable, but tends to increase. It's about a meritocratic profit that we acquire based on our commitment. Has it never happened to you to complain about a co-worker who receives your own pay and works half of you? With this method, such a situation can't occur! Everyone only reaps what they sow.

Summing up: Network Marketing is a paid "Word of Mouth", based on how much we chat.

What I love about...Spring

I love Spring, it's one of my favorite seasons: full of colors and life. You can find new energy everywhere and you can use it for the best activities you prefer: running, walking, working, cleaning, and so on. 

Some weeks ago, before they forced us to stay at home, I went out for a good walk and had to take some pictures of those colorful flowers. 

This is also the period of Sakura blossom in Japan. I'm following a FB page where they're publishing some beautiful pictures of cherry trees blossom. It's so suggestive. One day I will go to Japan, and I will see this beautiful event with my own eyes.

What do you like about spring? Is there somewhere you would like to visit, more than others, in this period? Let me know in the comments.

Good night lovelies

Emily

There is something new...

There is a new lifestyle for a new me.

I reached a point of no return and I could do nothing more than take a few steps back.

First of all: I started a healthier diet. I decided it was time to see a nutritionist and let him to suggest me the better way for losing weight. And he suggested me very well! In 5 months I have lost 10kg, and I'm still losing weight! I'm very happy and satisfied.

In the second place, I needed to change my job. I was no more able to effort all that pressure from those 2 cold persons I worked with and I was no more able to accept to work for making richer rich people. I want to make real my dreams and no one except me can realize them. So I started this healthier and beautiful new job.

Now I'm spending more time at home (quarantine or not), and I'm dedicating more attention to my self-care and family. When we can go out, I go on walking almost every day, and when we can't go out, I do some workouts twice or three times per week.

In this period I found again my passion for cooking, so...I often prepare something delicious.

Well, I'm printing again with the 3D printer. I'm so happy. We had some problems with the machine, but now we fixed them and we're printing again almost full time. The theme of the moment is Pokémon.

I also discovered a new passion: nails and everything concerns with them. I really like nail art, and I'm trying to do always something new. My boyfriend's mom is always ready to offer herself as cavy giving me the possibility of exercise on someone else's nails.

Well, what else? Nothing more for the moment. I'll write something new soon.

Good night everyone.

Emily

August 7th, 2019

I'm so busy now, more than before. I'm starting a new working activity, by myself, because I'm sick of being kidded by companies. They never accept your qualities, whatever they are, they always have to find someone better than you, because you aren't enough (at least, it generally happens here in Italy).

Well, if I'm not enough for companies, I'll be enough for me and those whose going to appreciate my job, my knowledge and my passion. I studied and I'm still studying learning new techniques for drawing everything I want with 3D software and keep all I draw out of my computer screen. The feeling of seeing my creation come out of my computer is so satisfying. So, I want to feel happy and satisfied again and again.

What about you? Do you have any passion that makes you feel very happy? Have you ever started a working activity with something you loved?

See you soon.
Emily

Summer purchases

Hello readers! How's going your summer?

I finally recovered almost completely my leg. Now I can start again working even if I still have to pay attention. I have to be patient too because sometimes it still hurts. But it doesn't matter! Now I'm fine and yesterday morning I went for a little shopping.

I took advantage of sales and I bought some new makeup products so I can through away some old ones. I bought also two swimsuits, a pair of jeans shorts, a bathrobe and a pair of slippers for the pool...yes, my boyfriend and I will go to the spa also this year, but...in summer this time. Now that our jobs let us have vacationed in summer, during the same days, we want to enjoy them!

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Took by me - I like both, but I love the one at the right

Took by me - the slippers are so sweet

Took by me - I'm so happy about finding shorts of my size

How about your summer projects? Do you go somewhere on vacations? What do you usually prefer: sea or mountains? Feel free to leave comments.

Have a nice weekend!
Love
Emily

Little walk around home

My leg is almost completely healed and the physiotherapy is going very well. Now, I'm able to walk normally, more or less. I'm still slow, but less than before.

Yesterday morning I went out with my mother for a little walk around the home. We went to our little vegetable garden. She picked up vegetables while I took some pictures of some beautiful flowers.

Roses

The flowers of my uncultivated oregano

Yarrow

Canna Lilies

Gladiola

Roses

I didn't do anything special, but I was so happy and these pictures are so good. I'm not a photographer, but I like taking some pictures, especially of nature.

Have a nice day.
Emily

Nice and Different Thursday Evening

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Hello readers!

It's almost 2 months I broke my  leg and now, finally, I'm starting to walk again. Yesterday evening my boyfriend bought his "new" car and than came to me saying "Change your clothes and let's go out together!". What a really lovely idea he had.

We drove for 10 minutes, more or less, and then we decided where to go for dinner. We went in a nice alehouse, where they cook some nice dishes and where we found also a friend of us. We eat, we drunk and we chat, having a beautiful improvised evening.

Have you ever improvised an evening with friends or boyfriend? Which kind of locals would you like to go in? Leave comments with your answers and...nice Friday everybody!

Emily

Welcome October!

And here it is my new idea. The first day of each month I want to publish a post where I share my projects for the new month.

For this month I want to start studying for my IT exams. I want do them within June 2018. So I need to study hard. Another thing I want to do this month is to program a stay for my vacation in a good SPA, maybe in that suite I saw some days ago on the net. I want and I really need it. I'm feeling really exhausted because of work. I's beeing more and more heavy and I'm hating it more and more.

Well, at the end of this month I will give you new informations about my goals.
What are your projects for this month? Tell me something about them.

Nice Sunday
Emily.

5 Fall Favourite Activities

Fall has finally arrived. Outside is raining and it's being more and more cold. It's time for my favourite fall activities.

1- Drinking hot teas. I love tea and I love it more if it's hot. In autumn and winter I drink a lot of hot tea of every kind. My favourite shop is "Peter's Teahouse"

2- Watching animes. But also films or tv series. With my boyfriend is always the best.

3- Spendidng time with friends. I love to stay in my favourite locals with friends in front of a good cup of hot chocolate.

4- Playing computer games. I like hanging out with friends, but not every day. Often I prefer stay home playing my favourite computer games, wrapped in my soft and warm blanket.

5- Listening to music. I've never liked the silence of any kind of buildings. At home I'm always listening to music. During wetter days I like listen to my favourite jazz music and write.

What are your favourite activities for Fall days? Tell me in the comments.

Nice Monday everybody!
Emily

Taking Care of Myself

Hello readers!

This week I've been busy with my new lifestyle. Don't misunderstand me, I'm still a nerd a I will always be it.

First of all, I started a diet. Yes, I need to lose some kilos for my health. So I started this program, not so hard in gneral, but for me...it have been really hard. I love eat and I eat a lot (too much!). Since when I have started to work in a Mc Donald's restaurant I got more and more fat because, I admit it, I love that food. It's so tasty. But I touched the bottom and now it's time to rise again.

However, eating better isn't enough for getting fit. Now, every morning I get up early for my daily brisk walk. I leave home and I'm not back before one hour at least. I really love this new habit I'm keeping, I'm more relaxed than before.

So, have you ever needed to change something of your lifestyle? How was the change for you? How did you decided to start it? Let me know it in the comments.

Have a nice Sunday!
Love,
Emily