miercuri, 25 decembrie 2013

Merry Christmas!

May our hearts be full of joy, and may we have our loved ones near!
Have a wonderful Christmas!


M's gift from me this year: glass chess game! can't wait to play with him!
Bisous!

joi, 19 decembrie 2013

The Desolation of Smaug...

All I have to say is that I loved the movie, of course, but that I am so frustrated that I can't remember what happened in the book...I have to finish my projects and re-read it ...Critics may say that it's been made too long, too much action where in the book there is not, and was Legolas in love in the book?? why can't I remember? probably because it did not seem that "epic" (this is the word everybody uses, right?) as the rest of the books...
So what if the movie is so much loaded than the book? if it makes the book better and does not disfigure it, I say let it be! let it rock! because The Hobbit movie rocks!

If the Hobbit is this wonderful, how about The Children of Hurin....and The Silmarillion???

Good job, guys, you made me forget about absolutely everything for 2 hours and a half....
...and liked the sad tone in the end...this song is nice, despite all the critics...maybe a little too pop...but nice all the same....songs like Over the Misty Mountains are born only once.....

marți, 17 decembrie 2013

How about a fashion post?

I haven't been speaking about fashion in a long time, and even then, I don't think I've been very convincing, as I am definitely not a fashion blogger (as all might have noticed); but every now and then a girl feels the urge to dress up....even though my latest urge implied leather and lace....
I still am a huge shoes worshiper, and nothing can truly change that, so here's what I've been making one evening, when the weather was much warmer, and the light...well, let's just say my smartphone takes great photos when the light is good...

...and for a little bit of rock...
...and back to girly stuff...
..some of my loves..
...too bad I couldn't fit my motor and a horse in these picture...my self portrait would be complete...
....and for my sensual, darker side...


I hope everybody has a wonderful week, and all your Christmas shopping is not causing you to panic!
Bisous!



luni, 16 decembrie 2013

The Black Widows...

Despite the usual misunderstanding among women, due maybe to too much pride, little time for anything, lack of trust or maybe just because they do not want to be implicated in anything that they cannot fully control, at times we get together and do exactly what we like doing best, standing up for that thing, facing everybody else and showing them just how strong we can be. Together!
We are the girls who decided to show the world that we can be united in our diversity, united through the thing which we love so much: riding! Nothing else matters, we don't care about jobs, salaries, boyfriends, height or weight, tastes or beliefs, we're just here for the ride, and we're enjoying every minute of it.
can't even explain how this photo makes me feel..
On Saturday evening we've introduced ourselves, smiling and happy. We'll do our best to make this our best experience yet. And we love the idea of crazy girls, united despite our differences, proving that it can be done.
Together!

joi, 28 noiembrie 2013

segmentary reading...

As some of my friend already know, I am a little bit pretentious when it comes to my time, and most of my spare time (which is actually very very limited) I like to spend reading or watching movies or riding my bike. And because my spare time during the day is separated by work, home chores, friend visits, pet/boyfriend attention; I have special books for every time of the day: I read one book during the day and another in the evening, in bed before sleep. Currently, my nighttime book is The secret life of trees by Colin Tudge, and my new daytime book, after I just finished A dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin; is ....tadaaaaaaaaaa...Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone !!!! Yep...I finally decided to read the series...
Of course at times the day book overwhelms the night book and the other way around...yesterday Harry won...and I guess tonight also....why did I wait so log to read them???? Until now...the movie is quite faithful to the book. Did I mention I love the Internet for finding so many books for free? I've got:
H.P. and the Sorcerer's Stone
H.P. and the Chamber of secrets
H.P. and the Prisoner of Azkaban
H.P. and the Goblet of Fire
H.P. and the Order of the Phoenix
H.P. and the Half Blood Prince
H.P and the Deathly Hollows

The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Fantastic Beasts and where to find them
and  Quiddich through the ages

nice, huh?
Of course  also want the written word, the beautiful books, preferably the old and full of personality ones, but I will settle with these for now. Great writing! Great characters, Great all!
If anybody might want the copies, I can send the links!
Bisous!

miercuri, 27 noiembrie 2013

first night with snow, first day of winter...

I started breathing last evening, once snow started to fall. I've been agitated these last few weeks, it's been too hot for winter, and I guess this is the main guilty thing for my down disposition during the last period. I guess having a strange warm weather in mid-November, when trees have started sprouting again can be reason enough to make anyone go crazy.
I've noticed I'm very moody when something's wrong with the weather, and the only time I felt good these past few weeks was when there was fog outside, and when it was really hot, like 15-18 Celsius degrees, I was down and crazy.
Now that it's started snowing, I feel like myself again, even my post yesterday, when the weather outside was starting to get crispy is a proof that my brain started to function once again!
Last evening I managed to cook enough food for 2-3 days, as per the thought that I'm not feeding myself good enough; so I've made some vegetable soup that's really yummy and I've even experimented something really new for me: lentil and sliced tomatoes food; and it's really good, considering the fact that I've never cooked lentil before in my life, and I just tossed in some sliced tomatoes and onion...without any recipe.
M was also working, he made me my dream shelves in our bedroom:
the lighting is poor, but they look so great in reality that I just had to share...
my esoteric shelf...
my history and others shelf...
My Lord Of The Rings altar...
...and although I made tens of photos, I'll stop at this one:

.....just to show off....loooove my new shelves!!!!
M's going to make three white shelves in our living room also; for my pot plants ...if he can, I'll have new photos tomorrow....
Winter is here...youpieeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bisous!

marți, 26 noiembrie 2013

strangely repetitive...

I just realized that I am very constant in some things, if not on a regular basis, at least on a timeline basis. This might sound strange, but in fact it really is very simple. what's the season? I am searching for Christmas gifts, just like last year, just like the year before... And who am I thinking of first? of course ME! In this respect, without even looking for what I craved last year, I've been searching for this book, and see if I can gather all my Christmas gift from my boyfriend, which I want to be in...well...cash.....and what I can spare for myself; so that I can gift myself with this wonderful piece:


but the price got my head spinning; so not this one, or at least not until I strike gold somewhere...and just as I wanted to write here I knew already that I've been speaking about this book for some time now...but had no idea it was exactly one year ago!! how about that??? So I must repeat myself...strangely repetitive!
I find manuscripts in general fascinating, and if they are illuminated ones, the much more extraordinary! As mentioned some long long time ago, I already have Les Tres Riches Heures du Jean, Duc de Berry


which I utterly love, and any book explaining and depicting old manuscript has a huge vote from me, I really wish for the "twin brother" of the latter, but it looks harder to find, Les Tres belles Heures du Jean, Duc de Berry
So I will probably have to content myself with something less expensive and more down to earth, as I think all these to be beautifully intangible for now.
My options would be something between:
 

or maybe:

or even this one, looking more like for kids, but beautiful contemporary drawings, if well made, can really bewitch me as well:
 
I'm thinking now that I surely am not the only one obsessed about these books, which are in fact a small compensation for not being able to see the original manuscriptae, which would surely make me cry ....if there is such a wide offer to choose from...all you need is money, and can have your very own library:

If you are wondering what a Haggadah is, then you are just as ignorant as I am, but because I'm a good gal' I'm not going to let you struggle and find what the meaning of the word is, but here is the Wikipedia definition:

The Haggadah (Hebrew: הַגָּדָה‎, "telling", plural: Haggadot) is a Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder. Reading the Haggadah at the Seder table is a fulfillment of the Scriptural commandment to each Jew to "tell your son" of the Jewish liberation from slavery in Egypt as described in the Book of Exodus in the Torah. ("And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: It is because of that which the LORD did for me when I came forth out of Egypt. " Ex.  13:8)

link to the above material
 And last, but not least, there is yet another book on medieval beasts:
I saved this for last, as I found an online source where all the book can be read, and I have to say I feel a tingling on my back each time a find such a good book to read online or to download.  Don't we all?

 And of course that, if I am obsessed with medieval bestiaries, and I am also obsessed with Tolkien's world, this book is very very very high on my wishlist:

They are all so beautiful, old or new beasts inside, old or used books; and there are so many more that my list would be extremely long, but as I don't have the resources to buy them all at once, I will have to keep them here, and buy them in time, making this post like a "must have" list, just as I have such a folder in my bookmarks menu (a really really long list btw!).
This love of books disease is not an easy to live with condition, but I am handling it pretty well, I must say... my last acquisition was for my birthday, a book I am currently reading and find it extremly interesting. It is so fascinating that in order to not underline every other idea I love I decided to put thin post-its that peek out on one side, and it's already looking like a hedgehog.... and as the reviews say, it really is a book you would like everyone has read so that you can discuss it while you' re reading it:

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Have fun and a great shopping/reading session, or at least fill your eyes with these beauties! I know I have!
Bisous!

luni, 25 noiembrie 2013

Monday brainstorming...

I'm currently in a loop, in a gap of inspiration, and I don't know how to get out of it. What I do know is what brought me here in the first place. Even just thinking about it makes me head hurt, just like now, when I'm writing these lines. These lines are the first ones, in a long time, that I am writing without a certain purpose, a certain result, just for the love of writing, and not premeditating what I am about to write. I write as my thought come to my mind. And my thoughts bring me to the conclusion that if I want to write for money, on certain subjects, I am not that good at it. I can't let my quality down, just because then I can no longer write at all; I am that kind of writer that can write only what his agitated mind is dictating, and not what some oversea guys who ask for this subject or that. I've been doing the latter for the last two months and I find myself exhausted. And when I think that I dreamt of getting a job as a journalist I think now "what the heck was I thinking?".

my nightstand a few days back
 I am a little desperate, I must admit, as I realize that is not really a job for me, and as I realize that writing for money becomes more and more difficult everyday. It's nerve-wrecking, but at the  same time I must admit it is a wake up call; my mind is not really a toy I can squeeze for answers or creativity. I am creative up to the point where it is asked of me to be so; after that point I am plain useless. And just now, when I found out that I can make good money from writing, the stress is even bigger, since I really need that money, but my brain refuses to cooperate! Is that wacky or what? I am indeed so strange that I cannot understand myself either! And I hate myself for that....
I had five articles to write this weekend, and each time I started I gave up in about five minutes. Usually I could write 5 articles in 2-3 hours, not I couldn't do that in 2 whole days! Is this brain exhaustion? I can't say I've been writing much even the past week; and this way I'm going to loose my clients, which I really like. I've decided to work with them because I liked them and their subjects. Now why can't I write those God damned articles? see? now my stress level is going higher. I think I need a vacation...
I also feel extremely tired, probably because of the stress and the stress also comes from feeling tired, so it's a damned circle I can't get out of!
I've even noticed I can't read a whole article from beginning to the end, even if I love the subject; I used to read tens of articles a day on my favorite sites, now I can't concentrate. I need to do some yoga or meditation or something...to slow my brain down,. or else I think it might tick. Am I getting sick or something? I think it's just the stress and that makes me kind of attention disorder-like affected. I'm aware of the fact that I've not been taking care of my diet either these past few weeks, eating something that I come up with on the spot, not really cooking...and some cabbage leaves and a carrot cannot be brain food, I know...
So while writing it down I feel a little bit better, this is the reason I'm writing, letting it all out and understanding me as I go... I came right now to these conclusion:
- cook winter foods, and need to eat more nuts, these are good for the brain, fruits are also required..I am already eating that, but they can't make up for the other type of food;
- meditate a little every day, like not starting the computer immediately after I enter my home, I bought some books on meditation - I shouldn't leave them collect dust;
- write a little in my spare time and try to not write late at night; I won't get any rest afterwords; and I must get in schedule with these two clients;
- going to bed earlier, my brain needs to unplug in order to function better!
- writing on my blogs more; I've been missing this a lot!

Now that would be nice to do! I hope I can make it!
 Have a wonderful week and bisous!

luni, 11 noiembrie 2013

beauty and the darkness...

Last evening, while watering my flowers that I have to keep in obscurity because of my three dragons who would chew at anything green and leafy, I had a shock:
...this poor little thing, so beautiful I gasped..my eyes filled with tears...as it had flowered in darkness, the little red beauty cramped between the pot and the window...and I have been so distracted lately that I haven't even seen it make buds.....I tend to ignore so many things lately...just need to get back on track...how the heck could I miss this? my poor flowers need much more light, one of them lost all the leaves, but her rose-like buds still flowered....
I knew this flower doesn't like straight light...but to make this flower so cramped up that its petals are twisted...woooow!
 
Oh nature, how strange can you be?? and how can you make beauty from even the worst situations ever??
bisous!

vineri, 8 noiembrie 2013

I hate A Game of Thrones!!!

I'm really hurting right now! because my second favorite character is probably dead, I hate him for being so stubborn and letting himself get killed, just as I hate George R.R. Martin for killing him, and not being quicker about writing book 6!!! So I hate everybody today, I'll bury myself in writing and I'll refuse going out, as I'm in mourning for my fave character!!
Remember this site?
here's how I fell right now:
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as if it wasn't enough that I'm totally sleep deprived for more than a week now...
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...and as if I haven't made this face yesterday evening....
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...I was so pissed, that I refused reading more.....I went to visit my friend neighbor...but when I cam back home....I couldn't help myself of course, and today I'm....
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and I can't think straight, all my colleagues back at work were like:
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so I'll probably die of hunger/poverty...as I can't work on anything....!!
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So should I continue on this matter?
For the ones who haven't yet read the first book of the A song of Ice and Fire series: DON'T!!!!!! please don't!!! it's viral, and you'll end up just like me, crying and disappointed, sleepless nights and a feeling of helplessness...why, oh why!?!?

For the ones for which my advice comes too late: Romanians, you can find the Nemira 40% off offer here (below and on the right side), I wouldn't miss it for anything in the world...
For the Others (ooops!! the ones who've read some of it know!!! :D:D:D) see my up and right offers, from Amazon!
For all of you English speakers out there, who happen to have a Kindle, (or if you want to buy one see my amazon cravings again!) I have all the 5 books in e-format!! Yuppie! just don't tell anybody OK? write a comment below with email address and I'll send them!! but shhhhhhhhhh!!
I know I'm disappointing some by not telling what I discovered in the end of A dance with dragons, but I really don't like spoiling the fun....I'll soon write a review, not giving everything away...
Until then..
Bisous!!