Posted in Holidays, Jessica on Dec 14th, 2007 8 Comments »
Today is National Bouillabaisse Day! The one and only day to celebrate the fish stew, Bouillabaisse, that is popular all throughout the Mediterranean.
Also happening today:
in 1503 Nostradamus was born
in 1799 George Washington died
in 1955 Italy joined the United Nations
in 1972 the last of the Apollo missions returned to Earth
in 1983 yours truly was born [...]
Posted in Holidays, Jessica on Dec 11th, 2007 14 Comments »
One year ago today, I landed in Rome to take some chances. The biggest chance I took was moving on the other side of the world to see if D and I could start a life together. The second chance consisted of taking everything I knew and flipping it inside out. Starting from scratch in [...]
Posted in Jessica, Learning Italian on Nov 27th, 2007 5 Comments »
So I have been slacking again at posting. SO much is going on right now! We have literally taken a bulldozer to our apartment to make it shiny and new. Our whole house now exists solely in the computer room…the rest is under construction! I am really excited because when it is finished our house [...]
Posted in American Stuff, Holidays, Jessica on Nov 22nd, 2007 8 Comments »
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Posted in Jessica on Nov 22nd, 2007 5 Comments »
Well I am notoriously bad about doing Meme’s and since I have been tagged a few times in the last month I decided to combine a few. The original tag was from Tui at Mental Mosaic for 7 random things about me. I decided to combine it with a picture Meme where you google the [...]
Posted in Jessica, Postcards from Rome on Oct 22nd, 2007 14 Comments »
It was so wonderful!!! Here are the first of the pictures! More to come!
Posted in Italian Politics, Jessica on Oct 3rd, 2007 13 Comments »
After months and months of waiting, yours truly is now 100% legal! My Carta di Soggiorno is in my possession! Next steps are going to London (my prison sentence is over!) and then starting the process of getting citizenship.
It was actually a nice surprise because they initially told me when I applied that I had [...]
Posted in Jessica on Sep 6th, 2007 15 Comments »
Well, a most of you know I am married, and I posted about our civil ceremony at Villa Lais before. Well, it was always our intention to have a bigger (fatter, Italian) wedding. We FINALLY set the date, and it is drawing nearer by the second: October 20th, exactly 6 months after our civil ceremony. [...]
Posted in American Stuff, Jessica on Aug 27th, 2007 9 Comments »
I got an interesting comment on my Valley Girls post yesterday. I wanted to share my response so that it is clear what my intent was and perhaps you will get to know me better.
Here is the comment unedited, followed by my response I sent in an email but was returned as undeliverable (surprising):
ancientroman:
“And not [...]
Posted in American Stuff, Jessica, My Neighborhood on Aug 26th, 2007 7 Comments »
I had to go to the store today. I am deathly ill with the flu and/or the sketchy butter I ate 3 days ago (2 more days and I’ll go to the doctor). I felt ok enough to take off my sweats and my fast food friends shirt and put on real clothes to go [...]
