Just a minute in...February

Hello readers!

February had been a beautiful month, busy and rich of ideas for starting projects!
First of all, I decided to study hard for pass the First Certificate English at level B2 and second I will study hard also for pass the Microsoft Office Specialist exams. These are two important projects for me because they are part and parcel of my two best skills: languages and information technology.
In addition, this month I spent a week in completely relax. I refused any schedule and I did only the things I liked. That week I also started study the song I will play at the music school year-end concert: the main theme of Skyrim (my favorite video-game).

READING: information about FCE.
LISTENING: anime's opening and ending songs.
WATCHING: "Bram Stoker's Dracula".
BUYING: a tasty lunch at my favorite sushi restaurant.
LOVING: the weather and projecting the future.
WANTING: I want my FCE and MOS certificate.
FEELING: I feel very excited!

How was your february? Leave comments!
Have a nice week!
Emily

A Week of Time Off

Hello my dear readers! How are you?

This week I had a bit of time off and I had been more busy than when I work (laugh), but it has been very funny and relaxing.

Monday was a chilling out day. In the morning my boyfriend and I met at our friend's home for a huge breakfast and then I brought him to a job interview (he hasn't got a car actually). While he was having the job interview I stayed in the car, with my trusty Kinder (the kindle), reading "I am legend" (completely absorbed by the story) relaxed on the seat of the car and having a look out of the panoramic car window sometimes. When Diego came back to the car we had a long and restful lunch at our favorite chines restaurant: appetizer, first course, second course and dessert. We spent the afternoon chatting about this and that and drinking hot green and rooibos teas. In the night, we met with our friends for our weekly session of Dungeons&Dragon (extraordinarily moved on that night because Tuesday was St. Valentine's day and there were some girlfriends that would have killed their boyfriends if they didn't stay together).

On Tuesday I had to participate to the weekly class for my apprenticeship all the day and after dinner I took the early night hours for me, reading curled up in my sweet white blanket.

Wednesday morning I went to the open-air market of Schio, a city near home, and after lunch I went to the hairstylist. Later I gave one hour of English private lesson.

Thursday was the anniversary of my boyfriend and mine. We had lunch at our favorite sushi restaurant, having a big feast of the best sushi we've ever ate. We stayed together for all the afternoon and then we cooked together the dinner for us and my father: gnocchi with salami pasta (delicious!). I stayed at my boyfriend's home for the night.

Friday morning I came back home for lunch and in the afternoon I had my weekly violin lesson where I started studying the songs for the little year-end's concert. In the evening I left home again for reach my sister's house. We ate together and we watched one of our favorite films: "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (it's always beautiful, even if you watched it lots of times).

I slept there and on Saturday morning I followed my sister and her boyfriend in their commissions. I stayed there until 6 pm and then I came back home for dinner. That night I was so tired that I had to go to sleep very early!

Sunday morning I woke up early and I had a rich and delicious breakfast with the Krapfen my mother cooked and then I went to the annual dinner with all my relatives. For the afternoon my boyfriend and I went to the comics' fair in the city near my little home town. The evening we ate a delicious sundae and the night I stayed home, watching "Van Helsing" and writing.

How was your week? What did you do?

Hope you enjoyed my post and wish you a beautiful week!

Love

Emily

3 Technological Devices I Can't Stay Without

Hello readers!

Some days ago I was tiding up my bedroom and I realized that I have three technological devices that I can't stay without. They were two before January, they became three only 3 weeks ago.

1- My smartphone. My mother gave it as a Xmas present one year ago. I started to use it for my agenda, even if I'm still loving have the paper one in my bag, and for my e-mail. I really found it useful, especially for all my work schedules. Having different shifts I'm not able to remember every single day, so my smartphone helped me a lot.

2- My tablet-pc. Since one month, more or less, I have bought a new tablet-pc and I discovered that it synchronized completely with my smartphone (they are both Microsoft creations) and I found this so wonderful! I can take notes on my Picci (tablet-pc's name) and I will find them on my smartphone, or I can take pictures with my smartphone and then I can adjust them on my Picci. Lots of lovely things, more than I thought! I use it especially for writing, it seems made especially for it. I dreamed Picci for years, but I have never had enough money and now I'm sure it is the best purchase I have never had.

3- My Kindle. I like call it Kinder, like my sister called it the first time she asked me information about it, and I love it because I can bring with me all the books I want without breaking my back because of the excessive weight. It have been my first purchase when I worked in the library almost 3 years ago (many time passed!). I use it a lot, despite I still read some paper books (some emotions are unique!), but I bring Kinder everywhere! I don't know how many books I put in it, maybe 30 or 40, probably 50, in any case, a quantity that I couldn't bring with me with classical books.

Well, these are my three technological devices that I can't stay without. What about yours? Tell me which are your three (or more if you have more!) technological devices you can't stay without in the comments below.

Have a nice week!
Love
Emily

Just a Minute in...January

Hello dears!

The new year has started yet, and the first month is winding down. During it there was a little bit of snow that iced and now it's still here. Despite various economic difficulties I've been able to find the occasion of going out with my boyfriend and friends, having a good cup of chocolate at "Falcetto d'Oro" bar or a big dish of Chinese food in our favorite Chinese restaurant. I've also started a new course (obligatory for my job contract) where we talked about happiness and emotional intelligence (during our first lesson).

READING: posts on bloglovin'
LISTENING: the OST of the film "300"
WATCHING: the new film "Miss Peregrin's House for Peculiar Children"
BUYING: my wonderful little tablet-pc
LOVING: the landscapes of the place where I live
WANTING: for the moment I'm pleased so
FEELING: well improved

Have a beautiful weekend!
Love
Emily

Playing Character Background #2: Jane, the Brave Student

Hello readers!

Jane was a brilliant undergraduate that have been locked up in a jail because of a bank's theft. While she was in the jail, she had been freed by a werewolf that was chasing her since before the theft. Once she was free, she had been contacted from an unknown person who said her to meet other people in a monastery and there started her adventure that would brought the entire party to fight against the Four Horseman and Lucifer.

Jane was my first Playing Character, thought at school, during French class, and created two days later, with my actually boyfriend the night of my Role Playing Game's first meeting. The RPG was World of Darkness. The common setting is the contemporary era, even if Game Masters can move also in the future (something like cyberpunk style). The precise setting of that campaign was inspired by the fiction "Supernatural": obscure mysteries and a lot of occult.

At the end of the adventure she had to face Pestilence, one of the Four Horseman and it was a fantastic fighting in a disco full of skeletons and zombies.

Unfortunately I haven't got any drowing of this PC, but I hope you liked this description. Leave comments below: do you know the RPG World of Darkness? If you do, do you like it?

Have a nice week!
Emily

Game Review: Cards against Humanity

Hello friends!
Cards against humanity is a cruel board game that pull out the worst from people. And is for this reason that I love it.

It's a card game, with two kind of cards: black cards and white cards. Black cards have sentences wrote on them with missing words spaces that can be filled up with words wrote in white cards. The objective of the game is create sentences the most nice or nonsense you're able. And is because of the nonsense that people could be very bastard. On white cards are written words or little sentences like: Justin Bieber, The Rhapsody, Hope, The heart of a child, Adolf Hitler, Being fabulous...and so on (also something a bit vulgar, that I would not write in my blog respecting readers could be more emotionals). On black cards there are small sentences like: "My love, I'm here for...", "I got 99 problems but...ain't one", "...: kid-tested, mother-approved" and other and you have to combine white cards with black cards.

You can find this game for free in the net simply searching the name of the game "Cards against humanity". I played this game in December the 31st with other 6 friends and my boyfriend and it was really funny. More you are and more it is funny!

Does it inspires you? Have you ever played this game? What do you think about? Feel free to leave comments in the space below!
See you soon!
Emily

Film Review: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Hello readers!
Some weeks ago my sister and I went to the cinema watching the new film Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children made by Tim Burton.

The protagonist of the film is a young teenager, Jake, grew up with the strange tales of his old grandfather, Abe. While Abe was tragically dying saied his grandson to go to "the Cairnholm loop of September 3, 1943" and that the "falcon" would have told him everything. Jake decides to go to the current Cairnholm looking for what his grandfather told him. There he finds the loop Abe told him and finds also the children of the orphanage where his grandfather lived for some years. In the orphanage, Jake meets Miss Alma Peregrine, the headmaster of the place, and understand that the she is the "falcon". Miss Peregrine explanes him that he is the only one able to see the Hollows, monsters that feed themselves with peculiar children's eyes.

The film is inspired by the book of the same name that I have read two or three years ago. I found the film accurate to the book and I was really happy of this. It could seems a film also for children, but I think it isn't. There are lots of scenes that a child could not see. After all, we are talking about Tim Burton!
I really liked the film, something strange made by one of the masters of strangeness even if there is a vibe similar to "Alice in Wonderland" made by the same productor.

Have a nice weekend!
Love
Emily