Goodbye dinner with Merve

Oh I am so sad. Once again one of my best friends are moving away from Milan. I have already lost Stefania, Francesca, Una and Louise that moved away last year and now Merve is moving too... :(

Tonight I invited her for dinner in my place and we stayed together for while. God know when we will meet next time... Well well, better be positive, I am happy for all the amazing people I have got to know and many of them will be friends for a life time.

xoxo

Busy Mondays

Once again Monday and the beginning of a new week. As always I start off the week stressing at work (I got sooooo much to do these days before going on holiday) and then I went running for 30 minutes plus my usual dancing course. The 30 minutes of running was part of my running challenge. I did intervals of 9 minutes running and one minute walking so in total 27 minutes running and 3 minutes walking. I also run slightly quicker than usual. 

I don't like the stress at work but I like to keep Mondays busy, in that way it passes quickly. Now you might think I hate Mondays and in some kind of way I do not like them but at the same time I don't mind Mondays... I like to think it is a new start with new opportunities! And then I got my dancing on Monday that I am always looking forward to so Mondays are not bad but I like to keep them busy anyway.

Below are two pics from my sushi dinner with my boyfriend yesterday night at "sushi 189". They have completely changed the place and I think both the internal design and the quality of the food has become much better!

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Wonderful weekend in Desenzano

Delicious dinner out

With Gambii at Coco Beach

Massive Ananas? 

Great weekend! I write more later as now I have to hurry up and go for dinner with Torri, it´s sushi time :)

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Festival latinamericano with Stefii & Steppy

The amazing latin american festival has started and yesterday me and my girls spent the evening there. We had Brasilien meat dinner, saw the concert of Maria Gadu (the one that had the mega hit Shimbalae last summer) and we danced like crazy. It wasn't lots of people because they had said the weather would had been bad but the weather was fine and we had fun!

Now time for Lago di Gardaaaaa!!

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We are all the same

This one is circulating the office and I felt I wanted to share it on my blog. We are all laughing but in the end it is so true that we are all the same...There is always something to complain about....

I wish you all a great Friday with positive thinking :)

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Fresh fruit shake from Viel

A nice Thursday evening! After my usual upper body gym class I went home for dinner. Then my boyfriend came and took me to a smoothie bar in Corso Buenos Aires called Viel. They do all different kind of smoothies, slash puppies, milk shake, ice creams etc and all made with fresh fruit. I took a fruit shake only made with fresh fruit and ice and choose only berries (blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and strawberries). It was so nice!

Today is Friday and Stefii is coming to town. Jippi yeay!! :)

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Some luxury after a hard day

I have closed the financial month of June and it feels great. Stressed days rushed away and now I realize that tomorrow is already Thursday and then the week is almost over. It is really true what they say that busy hours just disappears....

I am not only busy at work but also with my intensive training at the gym. Today it was time to go on with my running challenge. So far I am still just trying to get myself to be able to run longer without having to stop because I am out of breath. Today I did interval training of 7 minutes of running and then 1 minute walking and so on for 40 minutes. Felt satisfied when I reached the goal.

Then I got home and I found a box outside my room with some products I have ordered. For example this lovely shampoo, balsam and hair masque from The Nutritive series by Kerastase. I tried it already tonight and I felt in love. I am sorry to say but my Elvive Vital, that I normally like a lot got nothing compares to this shampoo series. Perfect now when my poor hair has to resist sun, swimming pool, salty sea water and so on. Some luxury is just what me and my hair needed.

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Pictures from the sailing boat

Claudio and I

Edo & Lore

Lunch time

Tommi and I

Lore & Francii

Some more pics from Saturday...

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Month closing at work almost done

A random but beautiful church we found on our way...

The month end is always very very stressful for me. It starts the last day of the month and gets on until the 5th-6th of the new month. Like half of all my job has to be done during, lets say, one week so it is really lots to do, lots of keep in mind and to focus on. I get out of work with a head feeling ten times bigger than it is...

That is when the gym is very important. To go there tired as crazy, to just focus on something else and lay your last energy on that and then walk out feeling relief and no longer got thoughts on the work. That is what I call meditation.

Today was a day like that for me and I enjoyed 1,5 hour gym with Luisa after my terribly stressful day at work. I felt destroyed walking into the gym and felt fantastic walking out. Great feeling!

After the gym I went for dinner with Steppy and then for a long evening walk. It was only 24 degrees tonight and it almost felt chilly as we are used to much warmer evenings but it was nice with some fresh air and we walked for long.

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Medical visit in the office, some running and the dance course

Have anyone every had a medical visit in the office? A real Doctor that comes to check all employees...? I have never experienced something like that before and I can admit I was a bit suspicious about it. However, today was my turn and it took a while for the doctor to check me out. He asked lots of questions about my health, medicines I take or have taken, what training I do etc. Then he checked my eyes for a while and wasn't very happy about the result. Then he checked my height and my weight. Then he checked my lungs, my heart, my blood pressure and squeezed my stomach, my back, my arms and shoulders. The only thing he was happy about was my very strong back! I felt it so strange to have a doctor visit in the office but when you think about it it is good that the company cares about you...

After work it was time for running again. Did 30 minutes intervals and I was happy to see that I already now, after one week of running training, feel that I can run longer before taking a walking break. I like that. Quick results are always good for the motivation. I gonna keep on going!

Then finally, the best part of the day - my dancing course. I can just smile when I think about it. It always makes me so happy. I wish I could go dancing every day but my gym only offers dancing once a week :( Well better than nothing. I already look forward to next time.

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