A tag and an award!

Deva from Always Carried Away has tagged me! Random me. 25 random things about me and my life. I also received an award from Ella from Here. There. Everywhere.


The Rules:

1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award.
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award.
4. Name 7 things about yourself that people might not know.
5. Nominate 7 Kreativ Bloggers.
6. Post links to the 7 blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them know they have been nominated.

Thank you both!

Since they are both almost the same and right now I cannot think of 32 (!) things about me that you might not know (25 + 7), I have decided to combine them and write as many as I can.

Let's start...

1. My favourite colours are pink, violet and purple. But it wasn't always like that. In the High School I loved blue, light green, yellow and orange. I was wearing the most colourful clothes at school and I used to wear ribbons in my hair. Yes, you could say I had Pippi Longstocking style...

2. I love my Smart car SO much that I treat it as a person. She's called Smartina (in Italian a car is a feminine gender).

3. I love soups and cannot survive winter without them. Even in Sicily.

4. Every year I buy my planner-agenda in Poland and I write in Polish in it. I'm really attached to my Polish identity and I like having on me sth that proves it. Plus, no one can understand anything which is good because things I do or plan are really only my business.

5. I always knew I would live abroad. Never imagined it would be Italy.

6. In the winter time I'm addicted to white chocolate, especially this one

7. My deepest dream is to have a dog. This has been an unchangeable dream ever since I was like 6 years old. Hope it will come true one day.

8. I never take off my 3 bracelets (2 are from my Mum and one from my aunt) and a ring I received for my 26th birthday from my bf. They are all extremely precious for me.

9. I like ironing, I hate passing the vacuum cleaner and dusting

10. During the whole high school I wanted to be a singer and I took exams to the musical school.

11. I was in love with Bartek Wrona, one of singers of the first Polish boyband called Just Five...

12. I love sleeping. I think I need at least 8.5h of sleep/night in order to feel really good during the day. I never have time to take naps during the week but try to catch up during the weekends : )

13. I'd like to be able to do a split. During my preparations to the musical school I took ballet lessons and after 6 months of intensive training I was really agile... Now I'm really stiff...

14. I love tea. Since Italians don't have the habit of drinking tea a lot (they boil water for tea in the microwave, can you believe it?!), I bought myself a special porcelain teapot in Poland and everytime I'm in my country I bring myself tons of packets of tea, my favourite one is Dilmah.

15. I never thought blogging will become such an important part of my life. Really. And it's thanks to you.

Ok, it's 6.55pm here now and I started working on this post today in the morning... I think that's all I would like to write about me today. As Sarah would say: "this was a very self-absorbed post" : )

I'd like to nominate: Al, Jordan, Deva, Mary Evelyn, Sarah, London Girl and Kate Funk for this award! : ) Congratulations!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone! : ) I really hope to stay more at home this weekend, read some books and watch some movies with my bf : ) You?

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Update!

I have noticed that during my short holiday some of my best blog friends mentioned me in their posts! : ) Thank you for the tags, awards and thinking of me, girls!

• Sarah gave me this special "Circle of Friends" award. In turn, I should give it to 5 bloggers who have become friends! Well, here you go:

Al, Jordan, Ella, Natalie and Mary Evelyn!

• Jordan has tagged me!

Show Your Heart
"With as much creativity as you can muster, show your heart in: a picture, a poem, a song (or piece of music), a phrase (or quote), an item of clothing, a place, and (just for fun) a Disney princess. if you want to join in, tag 6 more blogs."

1. Picture: this is a picture I took of a white chocolate heart that was waiting for my bf and me int he restaurant in the evening of the last San Valentine's Day. Since I started the blog a few days after (Feb 19), I never had a chance to put it here. The evening was great: the food delicious and the chocolate as sweet as my bf : )


2. A poem. I'm going to put here "Milosc" by a Polish poet, Maria Pawlikowska- Jasnorzewska and then try to trnaslate it so that you at least get the gist of it.

MILOSC

Nie widzialam cie juz od miesiaca.

I nic. Jestem moze bledsza,
troche spiaca, troche bardziej milczaca,
lecz widac mozna zyc bez powietrza!



LOVE


It's been a month since I saw you.
And it's fine. Maybe I'm a bit paler,
a bit sleepy, a bit more silent,
but apparently it's possible to live without the air!

I know, I know in English it's just not the same thing. I have heard this poem when I was like 14 years old read by my favourite Polish teacher and it made sucha huge impact on me, I never really tried to memorise it, it was there, just stuck in my head. Even today.


3. A song (or a piece of music). I'd say my and my bf's song. But here instead of translating the text (it's in Italian), just listen to it! It became our song not because of some corny lyrics (at the time I met my bf I didn't speak Italian at all) or because of some romantic notes (there are none) but because it was a song I heard just before meeting my bf during the most significant and romantic New Year's holidays in my life in Rome.



4. An item of clothing. A baby doll dress. Always : )

(taken from angiehearts.net)

5. Place. Now definitely Milan.

(Image: getty images)

6. Disney Princess. Well, I'm sorry, I'be repetitive... Ariel too.

As for the tag, I'm tagging again: Al, Jordan, Ella, Natalie and Mary Evelyn!

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4 lists.

I haven't been blogging in a while, it's all about the hard time at work we're having at present. I really hope that next week will be much easier and that I'll be able to catch up with the posts.

8 THINGS (PART II)

Anyway, some days ago I was tagged by Ella (thanks!!!) so I'd like to answer some more "8 things" questions:

8 Things I'm looking forward to:

• having my parents here, in Sicily for holiday in July
  
• going to Poland in September
• looking for a new appartment in about a year
• choosing the paint colours (you can be sure there'll be a lot of violet, purplish, lavender and lilac) and the furniture to be put in it (most from Ikea, I bet)
  
• getting a puppy
• planning my trip to a nice ski resort in December or January
• going to New York and Japan
• buying some new clothes

8 shows I watch

• Grey's Anatomy (episode 10, series 5)
• Everwood (about to start series no.3)
• Lost (episode 22, series 1)
• Brothers & Sisters (about to start series 3)
• Prison Break (espisode 16, series 4)
• Verissimo (Italian entertainment & gossip show presented by Silvia Toffanin that I watch every Saturday from 3.30 to 6.30 pm while I'm ironing)
• Amici di Maria De Filippi (Italian talent show)
• I loved Felicity!!!

Some posts ago, Sarah has asked me to post the:

MY MUST SEE MOVIES

here we go then:

• Ocean's Eleven
• Amélie
• Notting Hill
• Erin Brockovich
• Lost in Translation
• L'ultimo Bacio
• Love Actually
• Gladiator
• American Gangster
• Man on Fire

Then, Sarah again asked me for a list of

MY FAVOURITE CELEBRITIES

Here you go:

• Edyta Gorniak, a Polish singer, please visit this website and listen to this voice: isn't she amazing??!!!
  
• Jessica Alba (see my previous post)
  
• Michelle Hunziker (beautiful, intelligent and talented: a real Miss Independent)
  
• Leonardo DiCaprio (first I considered him a gorgeous heartthrob: I went to the cinema with my friend M. 3 times to see Titanic and 2 to see Romeo & Juliet but then I grew up and I think he's an outstanding actor with an incredible potential)
• Marilyn Monroe (I know I'm not very original but I really love her for everything she was and everything she did as a person and actress)
• Barack Obama (because he made us believe that WE CAN)
  
• Beyoncé (for her heavenly voice)
• David Beckham (OF COURSE)
• Jennifer Lopez (she can't sing neither is she a great actress but she has THIS something. Definitely.)
• Elisa (another singer and another Italian: I love her for her voice and being descrete and normal like us)

I'm sure that the more I think, the more I can add to those lists. Well, that's what blogging is about: you can always deepen and elaborate on the arguments : )

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Another tag! 8 things...

I was tagged again! This time by Mary Evelyn. It's about responding these questions:

Eight things I like:

• the sea in Sicily
  
• hot chocolate
  
• Vanilla ice-cream
  
• light suntan
  
• pink and violet
  
• sleeping
  
• reading in bed
  
• presents (giving and receiving)
  
  

Eight things I did yesterday:

• worked 10 hours with one 20min break
  
• recharged my cell phone
  
• had pasta con pomodoro for dinner
  
• watched "Yes, man" with Jim Carrey. Very VERY good. I highly recommend it! : )
• read some of my favourite blogs and posted some comments
  
• bought plane ticket to Poland (yes, I'm going to PL for 2 (TWO) weeks in September, yuppppiii!)
  
• had a shower
  
• rode my scooter
  

Eight things I wish I could do:

• have 60 days of holidays/year
  
• ride a horse
  
• dance ballet
  
• meet Beckham in person
• play the piano
• knit and sew
  
• go out right this minute and buy a dog
  
• have more time for reading

Eight things I don't like:

• the smell of fish and seafood
• hoovering (vacuum cleaning)
  
• teaching cheeky, dense and mindless students
  
• feeling helpless
  
• waking up early (before 8.00 a.m.)
  
• travelling by ship (seasickness)
  
• lying
  
• being at home when there's no water or/and electricity
  

So now, according to the tradition I should ask my blog friends to answer these questions as well. I'm curious, so Sarah, Al, Hezabelle, Sara, PMA, Cee, AJ go for it!!

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