Happy birthday Italy, 150 years old!

Today Italy celebrates 150th anniversary of unification with different celebrations and happenings around in Italy. Just some weeks ago the Italian government decided to make the 17th of March, today, a public holiday so all schools are closed and most people are at home.

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Fun night with fun people :)

A night at Old Fashion to celebrate 150 years of unity of the Italian nation; lots of Italian food, Italian music and Italian people :))

Waka waka ;)

Pyjama party

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Notte prima degli esami by Venditti

~ Antonello Venditti ~ Notte prima degli esami ~

One of my absolutely favourite songs. I get tears in my eyes every time I hear it. Looooove it!

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Rainy Wednesday

This morning I woke up early but as I heard how the rain was falling heavily outside my window I stayed in bed another three hours, so nice. I got up at 11.30am, went to the kitchen to have a caffe' latte, turned on the TV and found the film "Notte prima degli esami" on SKY and together with Francesca I saw it all. I have just seen it once before but as it is such a good movie I remembered it very well. Love it!

Favourite frase of the movie: "L'importante non è quello che trovi alla fine di una corsa... L'importante è quello che provi mentre corri."
(= The importance is not what you find in the end of a run; the most important is what you experience on the way there...)

Now I need to eat, shower, choose clothes for tonight and then put my Wellington boots on and head to work.

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The fighter

Tonight Torri and I went to the cinema to see 'The figher', a movie that many of my London friends have recommended. I liked it, it was a very nice story but I guess I had to high expectations because I was a bit disappointed when it ended.

However the true-life boxing drama has captured the hearts of the critics and it is nominated for seven awards, including best picture and best director, so for sure is a good movie worth seeing.

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Dinner at Panino Giusto + cinema

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Interesting lunch @ Osteria del Corso

Matteo & Fabrizio

My 'paccheri al ragu'

Vieri and his friends playing cards

Crap foto of Maldini

Just got out from a lunch at Ostera del Corso with Matteo and Fabrizio. Nice restaurant, lovely food and good company. But more interesting than that was that the place was full of football players and ex-football players. At the table just next to ours Christian Vieri was sitting eating and playing cards with his friends. I found it quite fun that they were playing cards at the restaurant, or actually playing scopa with normal poker cards, but I hardly recognized the players. BUT I lost my breath when Paolo Maldini got in...

Just a week ago, when playing a question game with some friends, answering the question which famous Italian man I would like to get to knew personally, I answered Maldini. And today he was there at the restaurant with his long brown hair and sparkling blue eyes talking to almost everyone at the restaurant (not to us). He is and have always been my biggest football hero and I should obviously had asked for a foto with him but suddenly I was too shy, damn it... :)

Now the little paparazzi Maria gonna relax with a nice book before heading towards Assago for a movie night at the cinema with Torri.

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Gelée d'Interdit by Givenchy

The new lip gloss by GIVENCHY

For the first time, a Givenchy gloss is formulated without wax. The jelly texture is non sticky, melts on the lips upon application and provides a balm-like cocoon sensation of extreme comfort.

A two-step result:

- An immediate plumping result: thanks to the hyaluronic acid micro-spheres, the lips become immediately smoother and get a plumper effect.

- A long term smoothing and skincare action: a vegetal extract revitalizes and smoothes immediately the lips.

Only problem is that it is still now realised in Italy :( I keep waiting!

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Mini London reunion

It's hard to believe that tonight was the first time since I got to Milan that I manage to get organize a dinner with Valentina and Luisa at the same time...

They are two girls that I got to knew when I lived in London, where all three of us were part of the same group of friends. Valentina was the first one moving to Milan, Luisa the second and I'm was the third.... I live with Luisa and I see Valentina maybe once a month, but we never managed to meet all three together. But tonight finally we did; I made fettuccine al Salmone, Luisa bought an ice cream and Valentina brought cakes and we had a nice dinner together talking about girl things and laughing about old times.

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Swimming

After yesterday's depression for the dancing this morning I woke up with a will of going to the gym.... but as I'm not a member anywhere and don't really fancy signing up at the moment I can forget about that and instead I went to one of the swimming pools in the area, piscina Cozzi, for half an hour of swimming. Great feeling:)

Now I gonna prepare a dinner as Valentina is coming over and we're doing a mini London reunion in my place.

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