I'm Back!

Here is the last part of my blogless blogging while in Italy. I've been home for about an hour and I'm coming up on 20 hours without sleep (on three hours I got last night). Please excuse any typos, I don't have the energy to fix them.

I will be posting a picture of Luigi right now!

1/16/07 5:20pm FIT
I am a bad woman. No I take that back… I am just thrifty and I get into trouble sometimes.

I’ve been shopping at the grocery store here and storing things out on the window ledge of my room. I bought a nice mixed salad last night but ended up going out to dinner so I put it on my ledge (on a bit of a tilt). When I came back tonight it was gone. Hopefully someone just took it off the ledge and it didn’t take a dive bomb onto someone’s head down below. The window overlooks a courtyard that they get deliveries in, Hopefully it didn’t hit on a seam and send arugula, corn and olives all over the place… I guess this means I have to go out to get something for dinner.

Today we climbed up to the top of the duomo. My firm bun and thigh campaign paid off, I only hurt a little bit – I’ll let you all know tomorrow how I “really” am.

Rumor has it that I want to F%@# Luigi. I love being subject to rumors… I just referred to him as my future husband… those of you who know me well know that I say that about a lot of people. Like the game of telephone things get blown out of proportion – let people think what they want, it makes me seem more interesting (or slutty!).

10:45 FIT Tonight I had dinner at the Osteria del Cinghiale Bianco (the white wild boar) with a few of the other girls. The food was really good, I had pappadelle pasta with wild boar sauce and fried artichokes. For desert I had cream puffs with marscapone and chocolate sauce. The food was great the service was a bit sketchy. Not sketchy in that it was bad, but we had some cute young girls at our table (I being 20 years older than the youngest) and the young Italian waiters were acting inappropriately with them. Being friendly is nice to a point but when you start rubbing up against someone that’s just disgusting. I can just imagine what those waiters will be fantasizing about the next time they jack off.

I think I need to take a shower to clean off the filth.

1/17/07 9:40pm FIT
Today we went to Chianti for a tour of some wineries and a group lunch. I bought some Grappa to bring back for the Fibers posse… they’ll like it a lot.

Tonight Carmina and I went back to Casalinga for dinner. I had minestrone di faro (yummy de yum yum) and the spaghetti al pesto (again)… and to top it off tiramisu (again). As I’ve said before I will need a serious intervention when I get home. I am happy to report that I have no regrets but I’m a bit afraid to see how much weight I’ve gained. The great thing about weight watchers is that it works – I just have to follow the program and I will lose the weight.

Tomorrow is our last full day and I have a few things to do. First off I have to buy another suitcase to take back with me. Then I’m planning on doing some research about the paper I’m writing, it’s going to be about the Della Robbia family and their glazed terra cotta work. I will go to the Ospedalle della Innocenti (I think that’s it but I don’t want to look it up for the right spelling.). Tomorrow I would also like to buy either some boots or a purse of some sort… I am in leather country and haven’t bought any yet.

After that we have our last group dinner (I promise to take it slow) and then we leave the next morning at 4:45 in the morning to fly back to Chicago.

I’ll try to write tomorrow night but I can’t promise anything… if not then it will be on Friday or Saturday from the windy city.

1/18/07 FIT
So I am double posting here… there’s a group from Pacific Lutheran University here at the hotel. A few of them were a bit drunk when they came in tonight. Yeah Washington – way to represent! I think the drunk ones are in the room upstairs from me, if I don’t get any sleep I’ll be cranky.

Well I better sign out. Luigi is here tonight for my final hurrah. Hurrah! Maybe I’ll come back someday and he’ll show me the town. We can ride off on his motorcycle with me in my new leather jacket (now I’m just assuming that he owns a motorcycle… I really doubt that he does.) but it’s a nice visual.

1/19/07 (somewhere over the Atlantic ocean)
Yes, right now I’m on the airplane. I’ve only been up 14 hours (on about three hours sleep) and I’m going to try to stay awake until at least 7pm tonight (that’s 8 more hours if you’re counting).

My future husband Luigi made us breakfast this morning at 4:15 am. What a guy – he even let me take pictures of him. He said he looked horrible, but I think he’s kind of cute.

At the duty free shop in Milan I bought some chocolate (okay, by some I mean a butt load). My laptop battery is not going to last long - it says 25 minutes but I’m guessing more like five so this might be short.

Tonight I’m going to try to take a bath with a bath bomb and sleep long and hard and have dreams about the Italian countryside (with Luigi on his motorcycle).

On the plane we watched the Queen and the Illusionist with Ed Norton (he’s another one I wouldn’t kick out of bed) HELLO! Both good movies… I’m now sort of watching an Italian movie called le Chiave di Casa (the key the house roughly translated). It’s pretty good from what I can tell.

I guess that’s it for now. I think I might try to watch the rest of the movie and eat more chocolate… you know point eaten in between continents don’t count.