Thursday 30 September 2010

My present(s)

Was a bit more edible.....
I like:)

Welcome home:)

I just spoke to the Italian and he is on his way:) I am going to go and meet him at Liverpool Street Station and then we'll spend the afternoon together. Yay!
I've bought him some flowers as a welcome home gift, well actually they are more of a hospital visit gift, but since I didn't bring him any flowers when he stayed in hospital, which would be a normal thing to do, he'll get them now instead.
They smell gorgeous and have lovely autumn colours about them.
Today I've been quite busy, I got up early and went for a run and then I had to go to Tottenham Court Road for an appointment at 10.20. I didn't really feel that great after it, so I decided to go to a sample sale and do some retail therapy.
It was just around the corner from my house by Brick Lane, but I have to say that I was disappointed.
I went mainly for the Acne jeans that they had advertised, but I only saw two and one of them was a size 25 (which I can't fit into - read the previous post and you'll understand why:)) and the other ones were broken.
They had some stuff from See By Chloe but nothing that caught my eye, they even had some things from Biba which surprised me since they have only just relaunched.
I did however see a nice scarf for men so I bought it for the Italian - and that can be the welcome home present, and maybe also a bit of an apology because I was a grumpy cow the first few days in Italy.
I can't help that I wear my heart on my sleeve and I was so disappointed that our time together had been taken away from us and I couldn't help but show it....
But I just needed a bit of time to adapt to the idea and then I was happy again.
Anyway - back to the scarf, it's quite unisex so I might well borrow it a few times. I love it.
What do you think?
I've put it back in the bag, so I can pretend that this picture never happened:)
Now, off to get a biiiiiiig cuddle.
Later

Thank god

For the 1kg chocolate bars they have in Italy. When the Italian was in his surgery I kept eating, and eating to keep myself busy.
His mum had also bought me one with whole nuts in it,but because his surgery was on the wednesday and we arrived on the Friday, that one was already long gone.
She knows that I am a chocoholic and always keeps the chocolate stock high when I am due for a visit:)

Wednesday 29 September 2010

Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow

 My man is coming home tomorrow!!!!!
And that makes me this happy:)

I've missed him so much.
Hurry up 2pm tomorrow, when we can have a big cuddle.

Italian run

I went for a run every other day in Italy as well, you know, since I found myself with some extra time to myself on my hands;)
It was so beautiful. It's lucky that my route here is as beautiful as it is, otherwise I think it would be difficult to run when I came back here after seeing this....
And when you get down to the water there is this beautiful peace (at least when I was there at 7am..)

But if you are running down the hill to get somewhere you need to run up the hill to get back again...
Where I run here there are NO hills at all so it was nice to give it some up the hill.
My bum loved it:)

Sneaky Dinner

Our second sneak-away went to Villa Fortezza which is an absolutely gorgeous restaurant in his town.
We went with P & M again and we were sent some starters, and it was a table full of different little plates with different foods on. YUM!
Everything was delicious.
The happy newly-in-love couple:)
A "sick" Italian
We even got a separate table to make it all fit.
And then for main course we had a lovely pasta dish, and then dessert came with a nice selection as well.
I walked to the restaurant but rolled home:)

A little Escape

On our first excursion out of the hospital we went for a walk around the area where the hospital was.
It is right in the centre of Naples which is completely different to Monte Di Procida.
It is a lot more rough. Even though I thought it was cute and buzzy when I was just walking passed it, it's not the greatest place to live, or to walk through either for that matter, but I like it.
 
Mini Lizards in a park next to the hospital
Kitchen anyone?
And the famous hospital, that kept an innocent man hostage for eight days...

Finally

Let me now tell you about our "lovely" trip to Italy.
When we first arrived we went home and had some lovely lunch that the Italian's mum had made us, and then we jumped on the scooter (no it's not just a myth - everybody in Italy drives a scooter...) and went down to the sea. 
Isn't it gorgeous, if we were in a film you would hear an Italian opera in the background - can you hear it..?
This is what happens when you eat Italian Mama's lovely food, you get strong arms but a pot belly;)
And then we went around on the scooter for a bit and everything is really just so beautiful there, this is what most of the shopping streets look like.
In the evening we went out for a bit with the Italian's best friend P and his girlfriend M, we didn't stay out long because we had to be up early the next day.

But then..... something changed, the next day we had to be up early because the Italian had to go to the hospital for a quick check up so they could make sure that he was ok before doing his surgery the Wednesday after (which was the reason we went to Italy in the first place).
Only they decided that he was supposed to check into hospital that day instead of on the Monday like we had first thought....
Yep that's right, did you hear it too, the opera stopped with a loud sound of the record being scratched as it did so...
Good bye Capri... good bye spending some well needed time together.... good bye well needed holiday for the Italian....
This is where it was spent instead... (obviously I made him make room for me on the bed and I slept for the first two days I think. It's unbelievable how tired you get when you do NOTHING:)
And instead of beautiful sea and sun this was our view for the next six days (eight for the Italian)
Fun right...?!?
We did however sneak him out occasionally and more about that later now I need to go to Sainsbury's so I can get back before Ugly Betty starts at nine.
Later

Saturday 25 September 2010

I give up

I am bored of trying to upload these photos now.
I have tried about a million times. This one is the only one that will let itself upload and I don't know why.
So this is all you get for now, a photo from the air on our way there.
I was very excited to have a whole week together with the Italian:)

I will keep trying though so more about our trip later....

Sometimes I love my job - part II

Two bags like this with Krispy Kreme doughnuts arrived yesterday. They both had two boxes in them each.
One with a selection of twelve (!!) different flavours, and then underneath was another box with twelve plain ones with icing on top, so altogether 48 of them....
I was trying to be good all night and I didn't have any. And then just before I left I thought I'd try half of one that looked extra nice. After that I saw another one that looked nice, so I tried half of that as well. And then I realised that what I thought was true - they were amazing, so I ate the other two halves as well.... Two doughnuts later and I felt quite full (read ill).
But after a cycle ride home I felt a bit better. I have never really liked doughnuts but these Krispy Kreme ones are something else. Delicious!

Friday 24 September 2010

Let's try again

While I sort the flat out, unpacking and washing etc I'll give you the video I was talking about earlier.
I filmed it from the terrace on the Italian's parent roof.
I hope it works better this time

Ok so now it only seems to show half the video. Ah well at least you get a bit of a feel of the town. I can't be bother to upload it again....
I am now trying to upload the photos but it keeps rejecting them so I can't guarantee that I'll have time to do it before I have to go to work....

Good Morning

I finally went to bed just after 1am and then my neighbours decided to have a massive fight and slam their front door about a million times and then they made up and thought they should celebrate this by inviting some friends over. So they were on the phone to their friends trying to explain where our house is, and they thought a great place to have this conversation was right outside my front door...
I have never really heard my neighbours before so I was surprised how well I could hear them last night.
Anyway I finally went to sleep about 2-2.30 and then I woke up at 9am this morning when the Italian called me to say good morning. Just hearing his voice made me miss him so much so I couldn't go back to sleep again.
I stayed in bed for a bit and read some blogs on my mobile, but now I've decided to go for a run and then I'm going to look through the photos from Italy and show some of them to you as well.
I was going to give you a video of Monte Di Procida which is a cute little town where his parents live.
The whole town is surrounded by water and it is gorgeous, but it took forever to upload the video so I give up.
I'll try again later, now I really need to go for a run.

Eminem - Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna


I can't be bothered to write about Italy tonight, I will post some pictures tomorrow instead. The Italian is still there for another week and I am finding it hard to go to sleep. I keep thinking that he will walk through the door any minute now and that it is just a normal night at home and he is at work.
It is 2am Italian time though and I have been up for almost 19hours. For some reason I couldn't sleep on the plane or on the way back from the airport either, but I don't feel very tired. Might be because of all the nightmares I had last night and I feel a bit scared to go to bed on my own.
Anyway I give you Rihanna and Eminem for now. I LOVE her red hair in this video. I am not too keen on Eminem but Rihanna makes up for it with her gorgeous voice kick-ass attitude and beautiful looks.
The girl in the video is also absolutely stunning and nice to look at.
So that's it from me after a week of silence, but I am going to try and go to bed now.
Hope you are all well and good night. Sweet dreams. x

Wednesday 15 September 2010

Sometimes I love my job

I got a nice little goody bag from the girls in the Chanel office yesterday:)

Tuesday 14 September 2010

In a few days

We'll be on a plane to Italy and I can't wait.

I am so excited to spend some time with the Italian. And there are worse places where that can be done:)

Late Post

I have been waiting for the post all morning since I knew that Dear John was in there somewhere from Lovefilm.
It didn't arrive until 12.15 so I can't finish watching it before I have to leave for work, but I have started at least and I really like it so far.
I am already in tears like fifteen minutes in;)
For some reason the couple really reminds me of me and The Italian so far.
We'll see how the story goes later.

Sunday 12 September 2010

Two Years Ago....

The Italian and I are celebrating a kind of anniversary today. Two years ago we had our first kiss...
I bought him a little present but it didn't arrive in time so he will have to get it tomorrow instead.
It was a box set of a TV series that we are watching together so it was a shame that it didn't arrive since we are now going to have to wait until after we come back from Italy to have a night in together and watch it. The Italian is working tomorrow night and I am working Tuesday, Wednesday night. I HATE this life we have together at the moment. We NEVER see each other and we keep working completely different shifts...
But never mind, on to something nicer.
When I came home from work today (our first time together this week), he'd cooked a lovely meal for me and I got some beautiful roses.
Some scallops and smoked salmon with a gorgeous sauce.

And then afterwards we had a mountain of frozen berries topped with white choocolate. Yum!
I was absolutely exhausted since I worked until midnight last night and started again at 7am this morning so as a thank you for the lovely meal I fell asleep on the sofa while we watched a film:)
But after a little power nap I was sociable again and we spent the rest of the evening together.
I should probably go to sleep soon though since the alarm is set on 4.45am for another early start tomorrow.
I hope you had a great weekend as well.

Friday 10 September 2010

Last night's film

I ran home from work last night and then I thought I'd reward myself with a nice film.
I had just gotten this film from love film so I was super excited.
I've wanted to see it for ages, but for some reason I never went to see it in the cinema.

I was extremely tired last night and maybe that was why, but I have to say that I was disappointed.
I thought it was really slow and nothing really happened in it.
A real shame because I really wanted to like it.

I don't start until 3pm today so I slept til 10am.
I have cleaned up the flat a bit and had some breakfast and now I am bored.

I am thinking of crawling back into here with the latest issue of Vogue that arrived the other day but I haven't had a chance to have a look at it yet.
I love their cover girl - Cheryl Cole and I can't wait to read her story inside.

I didn't make the bed properly this morning so I think it's a sign that that's what I should be doing now.

Thursday 9 September 2010

Wednesday Night

A friend of mine has produced a new play in the West End and we got some tickets to go and see it anytime until next Thursday. I really wanted to go to Fashion Night since I missed it last year, but this was the only night the Italian and I had off together before we go to Italy so it was the only night we could go.
I am so glad we went, the play was really really good. You have to go and see it. It is on at Noel Coward Theatre and it is called Death Trap. It's with Simon Russell Beale and Jonathan Groff from Glee. Great acting and a great play with lots of twists...