joi, 27 septembrie 2012

A new hobby...

As if I didn't have enough on my head right now, I have been obsessing for some time about horses. I want to learn how to ride a horse. These beings look so beautiful and elegant, and I've seen so many movies about the relationship between the horse and the rider that I really really want to try it out.
I'm shure that not everybody likes horse riding, but I still want to try it, although I am.....taaadaaaaa...afraid of horses!!!! I'm afraid of them because they are so big and powerfull, but at the same time I want to learn how to ride one especially because they are huge, muscle-packed animals, with high intelligence and emotions.
Did you know that they can remember things very well? For me it is not like they are some pets you can play with, they are way to big for that! but because they are so big their brain is so big and their hearts too, I feel like the relationship between a horse and its rider is infact a partnership. I mean, apart from the fact that we have opposable thums, how are we superiors to these perfectly shaped animals?
credits: google images

And, just as another thought, they can be so devoted, feature which we tend to lack more and more...Whom do we love except ourselves and maybe our children? I mean unconditionately??
In fact, I'm not keen on learning how to ride right now, I want to get closer to one horse and see if I can build a relationship, if I am up to it.
When I started thinking about riding my own motorcycle I had this feeling that I need this freedom, this feeling of power, of control, and many mixed emotions...but now that next to all that I could add up a relationship with a soul, not just cold iron, I am getting more and more tempted to try it out. I have only two options: I could get even more scared of these huge animals (at my hight of 1.85m almost anything looks huge...) and  forever forget about ridig, or I could fall inlove with the feeling and become stubborn just like I did with my motorcycle.
Well, in order to do that, I must first get closer to a horsie...which is not that easy...since prices here in Timisoara and the surrounding are steep...I mean 1 hour of practice with a trainer would cost me my entire week's meals...I really find it ridiculously expensive and snobbish. Especially since I don't just wanna go and ride and go home...I want to make a bond with a horse, to get to know him or her better and thus know myself better and my bounderies...
As usual, I'm not loosing hope, there must be some way to help around the paddock or what it is called and thus pay less! Now that autumn is here and winter is coming I think I will have the best opportunity to start visiting some horses....I just have to find the right location with the right people....
I would really appreciate tips of any kind, for beginners!


I just have to post this video, which made me smile:
I would looove to ride like that!Notice at some point the barefoot girl on the green lawn with the beautiful horse and beautiful violet tree??That's my kind of paradise!!!
Bisous!

miercuri, 26 septembrie 2012

Crazed day....

I am very very very desperate today since Jackie took a plunge from our balcony last night...she's at the vet right now, because she can't properly use her hind legs. She was so desperate last night because it hurt when she tried to walk, she even bit me when I tried to stop her from walking!
She slept with us in the bedroom, under our bed, and poor Eisi came by the door many times during the night calling for her! He's so caring! If it weren't for him, I probably would have realised that she's missing much to late. I tried to take her to the vet last night, but it's ridiculously expensive to use pet ER. So we had to wait until this morning.
Half the night I peted her so she would't feel alone, and the other half I spent almost sleeping, namely looking at her each time she turned. She broke my heart the way she looked at me, holding my hand between her small paws!!!
I really hope nothing will happen to my poor little crazy cat!
Here's the cuteness in person:

 



and here she is with her savior:
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Oh God I hope she gets well and can play again with Eisi like that!!!!!



27.09.2012 Update: She's feeling better, but I am still on my toes...I hope she'll be ok, but we still have to watch her closely for a few more days. She actually did break the last vertebra of the spine right where the tail begins...that's why she couldn't move her legs without hurting, but today she already walked better. I don't know if she will use her tail again though...maybe yes. The most important thing right now is that we keep her under surveillance so in case of internal trauma signs....which could be fatal. But we are a little more confident today...the vet also said that he thinks she will recover nicely, let's pray God!

luni, 24 septembrie 2012

Post-wedding impressions...part 1

Well, been there, done that! Finally Alida's wedding came and went! After much stress and crazy weather changes right before the big day, Saturday finally came, with a huge bright sun! I was so glad, since I feared it would rain for their big day, but it was sooo nice!
Just to fit my life's pattern, we were of course almost late, since M fell asleep after I went to do my hair and I couldn't reach him on the phone and wake him, and so we left Timisoara very late and almost missed the religious ceremony.
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Alida would never had forgive me if I did so, she even called me while we were on our way to Petrosani to tell me that she would break my legs if I am late, so I was in despair when we were almost in Petrosani but we entered a traffic jam. Thanks to M's driving skills we overcame that, but when in the city, we were aghast...how many wedding do they allow in one day???
We almost crashed three weddings until we found the right one, and then, while in our car pursuing the cars of the other guests, of course we took the wrong turn, since in fact they were not only our wedding's guests, but there was yet another wedding!
Could it have been easier for me??? I'm afraid I am jinxed when it comes to this sort of events...I'm always in a hurry, I always take the wrong turns...but thank God I reached the church in time...otherwise I think Alida would really have turned into Bridezilla and killed me!since I was a bridesmade with her sister, Giani, and I really had to be there in time to walk with her down the aisle.
need to read this!source: google images

 All in one, I was there in time, we hade a wonderfull time, they were both beautiful and photos are to come after they return from their honey week!
I whish you all the best my darlings!May you be happy ever after!
And here's their song and  the one they opened the wedding with:

Bisous!

miercuri, 19 septembrie 2012

Trip to the past (part I)...

I've remembered, while reading a blog I'm following, about my first trip to Italy, with my friend Ena. It was such a magical thing! It seemed to me that even the grass was growing differently, and Ena's mother laughed when I told her so.
Of course I was most impressed by all the usual tourist attractions, like the Colloseum, Fontana di Trevi, Piaza Navonna, Boca de la Verita, etc... but most of all by  the Musei Vaticani and Saint Peter's Cathedral. I have hundreds of photos, not all of them of very good quality, but here are some that remained in my memory:
my hands were so shaky when I saw Michelangelo's chef d'oeuvre, that this is the best photo I managed to take of the Pieta inside St Paul's:

the Egyptian Museum was so full of oeuvres that I took tens of photos and it was difficult to decide which one to post here:
When I was little my mother received photos from a friend who had strolled in the Vatican Gardens, I still wonder how she did it...all I've seen of them are some sneak peeks from windows:

The tour allowed to get out in some interior courtyards, in one of those we found this amazing orb:
which I have no ideea who made it:
 but I still find amazing:

Of course that when we started touring the pinacoteca I was crazed out, and look how shaky I was when seeing da Vinci's  St. Jeronimo:

I'm also proud to have seen a Dali:
and a Cranach:
and this Laocoon Grup, which if I remember correctly, was a reproduction, nontheless beautiful:
We've also passed through The Library, but to my utter dissapointment I could not get even a glimpse of a book, but we still saw many things like these, which are also fascinating, even though not as much as the books:
 When we got into the Stanze dei Chiaroscuri (I really don't remember if that is exactly how they're called) I was living a fairytale...


...but when I saw the Stanza della Segnatura I literally cried in front of the Scuola di Atene

 and I still can't believe I've seen it in person! with my own eyes! I'm obsessed with this painting, I have it as a google background image so that I can see it everyday, and it occupies a special place in my heart as the only work of Rafael; next to all Michelangelo's works, which I worship!
I thaught to finish this post with the sight of St. Peter's Cathedral:

          I must still say I'm not a big fan of what the Christians, or what the Catholic Church did at times during the Middle Age, but I have to say that I especially admire the Church for managing to preserve all the beauties that we can see today in Vatican, and for supporting all those artists. Just strolling through Rome I had this feeling of huge relief that there was someone to preserve this magical city, where the old is ever present and ever much more powerful than the new, which hardly gets noticed.
         Also, without the fear of God the medieval man would not have been controlled, without the monasteries ancient books would not have been passed on nor translated, nor copied for that matter! so, all the sins that the Church had during those dark ages are washed clean in my eyes due to all the good that they did.
So I can say firmly that I am an admirer, a believer, a worshiper of beauty in the arts and nature, an heretic in the matter of books and beliefs and a lover of everything aesthetic.
I would love to have or at least to read Pope Benedict XVI - Joseph Ratzinger's autobiography book :
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Until next time,
Bisous!
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marți, 18 septembrie 2012

Small treasures....

Here are some of the small treasures I found during this weekend:
a little bit of Mozart...
 a little bit of religious music.....
 a little bit of Mozart once more, I guess it's obvious who my favourite is.....
 Jackie was curious too!...
 a little bit of Gheorghe Zamfir...
 of course a little bit of rock!....
 And these are my gifts from last Christmas: sweet Bach Christmas music:
And ...what else? Mozart again!

 Here's a little sneak peek at a small part of my library: of course it's a mess:
 just as my nightstand is:
 And here is the gift I made myself for Christmas...or was it Easter?? Daruieste-mi aripi (Give me wings/Schenk mir Flugel) by Heinz Janisch
 a wonderful, wonderful book...


 I just looove the drawings...
....they make me smile! I hope I could make you smile a little bit too!
Until next time,

Bisous!


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luni, 10 septembrie 2012

There is much pain in knowledge

All my life, or as long as I can remember I've dreamed of being born in another time, long befor today. Just now have I realised that if it had been so, I would have probably been dead by this age, or my spirit would have been at least. I can't imagine my life without my books, without curiosity and desire to know everything. I can't imagine I would have been otherwise, even if born 2.000 years before. Just now have I realised how the life of a woman from as near as the dark ages would have been; a woman wanting to learn would have been hated, and maybe  even stoned to death, if lucky. How is it that, blinded by my love for ancient books, have I not realised until now that I would have probably had no access to them? Why is it that the religion I was born in and I truthfuly believe in pushed women aside? why were we denied knowledge? I have only one answer for it: "Because truth will  set you free!"


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                                                                              Agora.




Bisous!

sâmbătă, 8 septembrie 2012

The day I got my imagination back....

It's been such a long time since I've forgot how it's like to dream, how to emerge into a dream, a story, and to live it with all my heart; like during my childhood, with the same sparkling eyes. Ididn't even realize when it faded away, I just found myself not being able to feel that warmth which pourred inside my chest each and every time a good deed made me lose a tear and smile gently towards the book I was reading or the movie I was watching.
When did I become this cold and serious person? seriosity is the last thing I really need in this world. Who was it that said that we shouldn't take ourselves to serious or we will never get out alive??
In this meantime I've lost the capacity to forgive and forget, the capacity to regenerate, to go back to the good and innocent roots.
I didn't even realize it came back to me. My childhood has come back while watching a movie, or maybe reading a book...
I don't even really know, but what I do know is that after years of living in the shadow of past feelings, suddenly these are back, and that  familiar warmth is back.
Only stories can give us that, only they can take us back to innocence, to the goodness we've forgot, to the ability to dream. For where would we be without dreams?




This came to me last night while I was watchig The Chronicles of Narnia- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Why did I wait so long to watch it? I must say everything happens for a reason, maybe I wasn't ready yet to receive its message. A wonderful story, now I have to read the books! 


Wishing you a happy Saturday!
Bisous!

vineri, 7 septembrie 2012

friday...finally!

At last it's friday, after a hell of a week, and not in the good way!
       But fortunately this weekend I will have some time for myself and catch up with some things I've been missing, like the 4th book of A song of ice and fire, Latin and my sweet lessons blog, which I inted to update alot.
        I am also going to Raca, to meet my sister and my two lovely nieces, Teodora is going to school!!! first grade already! I can't believe how fast they both grow, Flavia is already saying my name! and a few other words which sound so qute!!!
       I've already bought some presents for school for Teodora, sweet Le Petit Prince notebooks, special for Ist grade, pencils, colouring pencils,a pen, all very sweetly coloured so that my brilliant niece will love school!
       For the start in this huge journey which school is, I whish you, Teodora,  all the best, the curiosity to know everything, te desire to be the best, the power to learn from the good and to be yourself without hesitation!   one day she will be big enough to read these words!

      On another note (sic!), today my favourite and only radio station is celebrating it's 20th birthday! I'm so inlove with this station and its presenters with their great knowledge and beautiful soft voices that I've even posted a small article on scrieliber.ro ! I'm shure life would be such a lonely and dull place without this genre of music!
photo source: classicfm.com.uk


Love you Classic Fm and Happy 20th Birthday!


Have an awesome weekend,
Bisous!

miercuri, 5 septembrie 2012

time crisis....

          Have you ever felt like you had no time to do anything for yourself? Well, that's how I feel lately, although I'm doing exactly what I want, but I don't really have the time to enjoy it, or to do everything that I would like to do.
For example, I would like to work as a volunteer, I have already contacted an organization, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to keep my promise, although I am very tempted to try and work with them. I would have to translate from English to Romanian, which is easy, but still occupies alot of my time, and I don't want to take on some responsabilities without being shure that I can honour them.

On the other hand, I need to write more on this site (last night I was writing at about 12.00 o'clock!), because it gives me much satisfaction, but I don't want to neglect this blog and my other blog either.

So, I'm in a little bit of a problem....how should I manage working 10 hours a day, and writing, and translating?? Is it that I'm not managing my time the right way?
I find myself in this illustration by Tim Burton!


Beside the all- above, I have one boyfriend and three cats at home, who all need my attention, food and cleaning -up. And on top of that I have alot of friends whom I adore and also need some attention from time- to -time.
I bet I'm not the only one having this problem, but as my blog tends to become a public journal I needed to virtually scream this out loud...
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I would also like you to meet our newest addition to the family: Jackie! Don't let yourself be fooled by the qute appereance, she's the devil in disguise!

And in the end, I found out that I want this:
very very much; of course this French edition with the author's illustrations! I can only remember the snake swallowing an elephant and looking like a hat from the lesson I've had sometimes in my second or third grade, but still it had a huge impact if I can still remember it, after more than 20 years! After a few searches I found out there is an entire site dedicated to French books! Yupeeeee!!!

Well, that's it for today...
Bisous!



sâmbătă, 1 septembrie 2012

Saturday morning happy feeling...

I'm writing ....I'm writing.......! I woke up this morning suddenly with these two verses of T. Arghezi ringing in my head:
"Nu-ti voi lasa drept bunuri, dupa moarte,
Decat un nume adunat pe-o carte".

and my translation would look like this:

Upon my death I only leave thee
A written name- a book upon.
                                                        (this translation is my own and I assume it as is!)

This will be the starting point of my new adventure....

This whole thing about writing...it is all infact about self confidence, about the fear of what others will say; or if they will mock you or admire you. Both will bring such intense feelings within you that it is worth trying, even just for the sake of the feeling; to express yourself. This is infact expression: testing the waters, in order to see the judgement of others. You may say that you are writing for yourself, and it is true, but then you would be only writing down ideas- after all it is you who created them in your mind, so you should be able to remember them. But no, you are expressing yourself nicely, with well thaught words, which shows that you like eigther defying or delighting others.
I'm also somewhere inbetween those two feelings; and so I will continue writing until I will have it figured out.

As you can see, I'm feeling much better than yesterday, my sales are up and I have started voyaging again! Have a wonderous weekend!

Bisous!