I'm Still In Love With You

July 18th - What is a place that you would never visit and why? thegrownupthing

I honestly would gladly go anywhere! If I had unlimited funds and time I would go anywhere... I would travel for pleasure and for knowledge. I would visit beautiful rich cities and heartbreaking poor villages. There's no place I'd never go... :)

And I'm lucky Eric feels the same... He wants to go see the world and visit again places he has been already... All we have to do is win the lottery and we're set :D

July 16th - What are your favourite crisps (you can pick one for Italy and one for America if you want :)) thegrownupthing

There can only be an answer to this question: Stacey's Peeta Chips Simply Naked. I usually eat them with an Avocado, Tomato and Feta dip and I could have it every day for the rest of my life and I wouldn't even complain!

But also HarvestSnaps: Snapea Crisp Wasabi Rach are pretty damn good!

When I'm in Italy, now that I think about it, I don't eat crisps... Maybe because I have focaccia and that's my to go snack food! :D

(More questions HERE)

My lovely RL friend Ella (I guess you like this name better, right?) aka thegrownupthing asked: What happens to your books after you read them?

I'll start by saying: I keep them ALL, I never give them away or even lend them... I'm very jealous of my books... When I read a book I create a connection with it... It's sharing its story with me, only... He becomes a friend and I would never lend a person... I don't even lend them to my husband sometimes.

As for what I do with them when I turned the last page well, I wish I could say I put them in my enormous library (The Beauty and The Beast style or like in the Citadel in GoT) but for now, my books are shattered between Italy and America. In Italy I keep them in my old bedroom (my parents kept it how I left it for my cat who, apparently, spend there the majority of her day when I'm not here) they're all well organized in shelves, and I used to reorganize them ALL THE TIME! In the US they are I feel sad just thinking about it in my Storage Unit. I have tubs and tubs full of them and they're just waiting for me to move into an apartment and to be organized in shelves... That day it's close! I can't wait... It saddens me to think about them in that dark space!

(other meme questions: HERE)

Sorry... I'm late for yesterday's question!!! Time is passing way too fast for me right now... And it seems like I'm unable to do anything! (Lie: yesterday I spent the whole day catching Pokémon)

So yesterday question was: July 12th - What is the oldest fandom you are still in? verdande_mi

I think that technically, the oldest fandom I'm in is: Doctor Who. I haven't seen all the old school episodes, but it's difficult to get hold of them. Doctor Who started in 1963... so yes, technically it's the oldest show around... Even if I stepped into the fandom in 2006, I've been part of it for 10 years... The only other show I followed for 10 years is Friends, so I guess Doctor Who is the right answer to this question :)

endeni asked: Favorite GoT character(s) and why?

Easy...

THIS guy:

Thank you endeni for that (s) because if you wanted me to choose just one I would have been in trouble. My favorite (main) characters are 3: Tyrion, Arya and Jaime (I love Jon Snow too but just not as much as these three... He's close though...)

Tyrion: Loved him since the beginning. He's sharp and cynic and made of sass and, when least expected, he looks at you with these puppy eyes... As he said I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples, bastards and broken things and I feel that way too... I like him so much that I end up liking all the characters around him and, if he's part of a storyline, he makes it more interesting. Look at Dany... Her storyline before was not that interesting... For me it was too disconnected from the other ones, but now? It's great. Bronn? LOVE him because of Tyrion. Everything he touches it turns into gold to me!

Arya: I love bad ass girls and Arya is the ultimate bad ass girl! I'm just rooting for her and it would break me if she doesn't get what she wants in the end.

Jaime: I don't know how many people would put him among his top favorite but I find his character extremely interesting. He had a great development. I like him a lot when he's far away from Cersei. I think he's doomed unfortunately... I don't think he'll survive the next season, but I can't see anything good happening to him. :( I hope he'll get the chance to be reunited with Tyrion because they have such a sweet relationship...

HAPPY 4th OF JULY!!!
Did you guys see the GoogleDoodle of the day? So CUTE!!! With all the Stars celebrating!!! The hubby asked "What's going on with the Ku Klux Klan rally in the background?" LOL, silly hubby! These stars are waiting for their Hot Dogs... Awwww! Back to business now!

orangerful asked me: 3 random things that drive you crazy about the U.S.

I've been in Italy for 2 days now, and so many things already rubbed me in the wrong way/annoyed me that I can't think about anything I don't absolutely love and miss about the U.S. right now! So I'm going to have to really think about it!

1. Right on Red. I'm a biker and a pedestrian first. I use the car too, but I love to walk and bike to places if they're not that far... Americans, and especially the people that install traffic lights, like their cars and they don't care about the needs of a pedestrian as WE NEED TO GET SOMEWHERE TOO... So, if you have to cross one of the main streets (I'm looking at you, you damn US1) you have to press the button, and wait for the green man to appear... the only problem is: it takes that thing FOREVER to do what you're asking it to do! And when it gets green (and in the meantime you had time to check all your emails and answer them, like Instagram photos, comment on every status on Facebook up to a month prior that, wrote a rant about traffic lights on tumblr, etc) cars are allowed to run you over anyway because there is this rule that you can make a right turn on red! The green light for the pedestrian anyway lasts 20 seconds, so you have to dodge cars and RUN on the other side of the street, because if you don't get there in time, a wall of cars will come and get you!

2. The Cost of Health Insurance and the fact that they'll do whatever it takes not to pay for your crazy expansive Hospital Bills. Luckily I'm healthy and I didn't have to deal with any of this sh!t, but my husband had to in the past (before he met me). He had to go to the hospital to get his appendice removed. They did the surgery and then sent him home but something went wrong and he had to go back and he had to stay in the hospital for 5 days because of a mistake the doctors made. 5 days in the hospital cost >50k $. He was working with his brother and he had self insurance (and he was paying a lot) when the insurance saw the bill they went through their records trying to find an excuse not to pay. And they found it. Eric got a mole removed. It was on his arm and he decided to get rid of it for aesthetics reasons, it was a normal mole, not a melanoma. He never had cancer. And in the insurance forms he said he never did! The insurance said he lied, because they could see he had a mole removed and - if they knew in the first place - they would have never insure him. So, Eric had to pay the bill from his pocket. This insurance costed him money and for what? I hate it! It's so unfair! And me, as a green card holder, I can only self insure myself (or get an insurance through my job) and if I get pregnant (like we're planning to, not now but kind of soon) I'm not covered! And bring a life into this World, with no complications costs 15k $. (if you need a C section 25k $) WHAT?

3. Guns. I mean, why do you even need them in the first place? Just get rid of them!

Bonus: Donald Trump... That guy drives me insane...

July 1st - What was your first fandom? verdande_mi

First, Thanks for your question verdande_mi :)
This question it's somehow tricky. I can give you 2 answers, one more focused on the word "fandom" and the other on the word "first":

Acording to google:


My first fandom - as in "for this series I started surfing the internet looking for spoilers, discovered fan fictions, joined forums, start making music videos,..." would be House.
I remember when it started. It was the day before the fourth day of my High School Final Exam (in Italy your finals last 4 days: 3 days of written tests and one day with the oral test). I was very nervous because my professors were very difficult:  they wanted us to talk about our thesis (as the only girl in the class, mine was about the role of the woman in the evolution of the human kind from the 18th century until today) and also be able to answer questions about things that we learnt during the past 5 years... They were allowed to ask us about an author we've read on your first year, or a way of coding we've learn on the their year, or a chemical experiment we've done on your 4th year. Basically nerve wreaking.
So, the night before the exam I was going through all my notebooks, overloading my graphic memory and doing more damage than anything else. A friend of mine called me and begged me to please stop. "Turn on the TV and let your brain relax, you're going to be fine. Anyway you know what you know now... you can't learn anything else" so - for once, I listened to my friend and I turned on the TV and there was House. I crashed as hard as I could on Hugh Laurie and the morning after I felt relaxed and I passed my exam (the 4 other guys that were schedule on my same day didn't pass and they had to repeat the whole year... so yes... my professors were though and evil).

So House was now surrounded by a aura of luck and possibilities and marked the end of an era and a new beginning so it called to me. I loved the first 2/3 seasons, I was an hard core House/Cameron (Hameron, Cotton Candy) so I joined a forum where I met people that 11 years after that day are still in my life, and some are very close to me (we talk everyday about non-fandom stuff, we go on holiday together,...). That summer I started other shows as well. My english was awful in High School but I wanted to watch House so I started watching in in english and now I can speak the language. I owe House so much somehow. So I can't be mad at David Shore for fucking it up. Thanks to the show I met amazing people, I've learnt a language that led me to get an awesome job and marry an american... I won't be who I am today if I didn't listen to that phone call that day!

But the first show I started following and be interested in (without the internet part, that came later for that show too) was The Nanny I watched it every evening during dinner with my parents, and it was the first show I was actually interested in, as in: I was shipping and be careful not to miss the beginning of the show. Again, The Nanny was important to me also because we were watching it as a family, so it has a special place in my heart.

P.S.: If an anime can hava a fandom then Sailor Moon.

July has just began so feel free to ask me more questions :) HERE

Saw this on eowyn and I thought: why not? :D


Pick your five favorite TV shows (in no particular order) and answer the following questions. Don't cheat!


1. Friends

2. Doctor Who

3. Stitchers

4. Person of Interest

5. Firefly


( MEME )

Stolen from dine7184
because it's Shakespeare's day in the UK
and I love the Bard of Avon with everything I have in me!

01. What was the last book you finished?
02. What are you reading currently?
03. What is the next book you plan on reading?

BONUS: What is your favorite Shakespeare play?

Guys Community. The Office and The Big Bang Theory are BACK! I laughed so much today my tummy still hurts! Betty White was so awesome but I don't want to say nothing more about the episode just in case you haven't seen it yet but it was amazing! Oh and I missed Dwight and Sheldon so much! Oh and Jim, JIIIIIM ♥ I saw a movie with John Krasinski the other day: License to Wed and there were a lot of guys forom The Office on it! The movie was nice and he was so cute... I also saw The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson yesterday and there was The Big Bang Theory Night, I so love Jim Parson and he was hilarious, the best e-mail segment EVER! And he talked about Kaley who wasn't there because she broke a leg, poor thing and he said "I miss you Kaley" and I went gaga for the rest of the show! Such an amazing show!
I think I'm going to love my fridays even more that I already do! Fringe is back too and the premiere was amazing, I'm so looking forward the next episode.

But now it's meme!time.

Day 29- WHAT SHIP HAD THE BEST PROPOSAL?
I've chosen this couple for day Day Twelve too, but as I said before I chose a moment not a pairing and that day I also chose 3 different weddings so... You've been lawyered! :P
And how I could not choose this proposal? This question was maybe the easiest one.
OMG Courtney is so skinny!