The Worlds of YaYa

And then there was only football

2006-06-14T06:43:00.000+02:00

Yes, quite obviously I had a lot of other things on my mind instead of blogging, mainly the running Worldcup which has the first round of group matches down and entering the second round by tonight. Both the teams me and the Bf are rooting for won, so far so good. Might be getting funny if they actually meat each other in a match of direct elimination. oO Obviously one of those teams is Italy. And oh I hope they get far, distracts those Italians from the mess their national championship is. However, overall I must say I was quite disappointed by some of the really hyped teams and I freely admit that I hoped Croatia would manage the draw yesterday evening although I generally couldn't care less about them.

Sunday evening we were invited to a friend's birthday and the bf had made some rice dish to bring along, shame that with all the food the rest had brought, we now still have rice to eat! :o

The rest of the time I spent mostly answering letters or just maliciously lingering around the place which I am now promptly going back to.

TTFN

World of Disbelief

2006-06-09T09:26:00.000+02:00

So I went over to read my house guests blog (click to the right), and what do I see ... those brits actually voted the chick that should be beheaded and dismantled for writing about the glass wearing little punk to be the greatest living english author.

So I ask thee, did you lose any and all taste recently or did you never have any to begin with? Hah!

World of Cups

2006-06-09T07:55:00.000+02:00

No, I am not talking about B, C or D ones. Today the FIFA Worldcup 2006 opens, meaning four weeks of Football (grrr soccer for you heretics) and ergo meaning that I will likely slack a bit with entries because I will be busy watching matches or re-runs or best goals or something like that ;) We already stocked up on the most important groceries.

Last two days I ate some more books and watched some nostalgia cartoons from my youth - sigh, it's a tragedy I can call something a nostalgia from my younger years - and trained to stand still in one spot. Fred has not learned yet to bring the mail. I am about to give up on him.

That would be all, except that I noticed this morning that there have been only 5(!) people clicking on the picture of this weeks house guest. I think it would be a good idea to check her out, and - applying some mind tricks ... now ... - you think that too. Just move your cursor a bit to the right and press the button. And after you done that, forget everything you read here.

/snip

World of Renting

2006-06-07T09:04:00.000+02:00

A'right, I finally made a decision! Oh the novelty.

I think I must have clicked every blog that had applied to rent my space at least 5 times, reading through posts to get a feeling for it ... however, that didn't help much, on the contrary, so in the end, I choosed to go with the one that has the same vice as me. WoW.

So welcome 'Void-Star.Net'! Now, if you Ladies and Gentlemen visiting this site (I know you are going to be here at least 20 secs!) could go and click over there ----> (if you saw flight girls, imagine THE gesture just with both hands pointing the same direction) you would help me tremendously with being a good, no superb landlady. Infact, just open her blog in a new tab/window and you can go on surfing for credits whilst reading hers!

My house guest - Dee - is a 22 year old girl from Australia who plays too much WoW and is a design freak as well as a bureaucratic office drone ;) She makes some damn interesting points in her posts, well worth to check out. I actually added her to my short blogroll.

You also should definetly take a look at:

My life in italy2 , she doesn't live that far away from me I think and you can read on her blog what the US does to help Mexico recover from earthquakes!
Modern Princess , Chelle Belle , who both have very beautiful designs;
Two Sistas and a Dude, the baggage post is quite true;
Scooter, talks about music and Veronica Mars and other things deemed worthy;
Karolczak , is that contest still running Jason?;
Recommended , who as the name suggests, recommends all sort of things;
Coffee Crotchet , who is the 'best' hammerer - read why;
Beauty Tricks , who gives handy tips for all things concerning beauty and looks;
MTMD , a blog about water, nature, landscapes, experiences - incl those of guestposters; Shauner , who calls himself an internet entrepreneur and liked his stay at the casino;
Stupid People Shouldn't Breed , well written posts, 'rarely stupid' award and might still be looking for a guest blogger;
Blogs of the Week , reviews/talks about other blogs;
Sparks and Butterflies , who made me really curious who she was talking about in the third post from above.

Gawd this was the hardest post I had to write so far. I wish I could have taken in all of them!

P.S. I am still wondering about the stuff in the post below |

World of Words

2006-06-07T07:06:00.000+02:00

So yesterday was the day that all superstitious people dreaded or welcomed, depending on the general affiliation because it had three times six in it ... the beast huh? I'd call it the other side of the same, but anyway ... did anyone have anything mysterious happen to them?

I spent most of the day turning the pages of 'The Truth' by T. Pratchett, the day before I went through 'Night Watch'. Rats and Thunder, I read too fast. Couldn't help but wondering what kind of pc games the protags would be playing if ... Vetinari for example seems like someone who would enjoy SimCity, but I could be wrong and he'd just go all out on FPS customized with 'real' faces. Vimes I'd give a racing game (he does enjoy a good chase after all) or streetfighter ...

Only incoming letter yesterday was from P.Y. (Malaysia) but the day before I received three lovely postcards from the US. The collection is growing!

Ah yes, I put up my blog for rent and uh I figured no one would be interested much, but rats and thunder, I got a bunch of bids during the time I was reading and sleeping. I'll decide asap who is going to get the spot, it's not going to be easy, I hate to disappoint people.

TTFN Snuggles'

World of Pain ...

2006-06-05T07:41:00.000+02:00

... Hah! Actually no, not really, I am exaggerating, my legs do ache a bit when climbing stairs, but otherwise I took yesterdays bike tour better then expected. Certainly enjoyed moving my butt. Could get addicted to it.

We saw X3 on Saturday and I liked it. It was what I expected from a movie based on a superhero comic. Cool Lads and Lasses battling it out in an special effect explosion. Besides, Hugh Jackman pulled his shirt, so all is good (obvious bf taunt! /kiss ).

- - - mild spoiling now - - -

I've seen discussions pop up whether they can continue after changing the storyline so much, but yes, I think they can without too much problems. Infact, I'd be friggin disappointed if that cure lasts forever because uhm ya you get one shot and your whole DNA is reworked or part of it made useless and you then turn out to be perfectly normal human down to the last nucleotide? Seems fishy to me, but then I am not a biology geek.
Although, if it would turn out to be everlasting everafter ... after the scene in the prison truck I find Magneto to be very unsympathic (actually liked him before). He can stick to chess. And I wouldn't miss Rogue, the only time she ever did something usefull or was interesting was when she had a scene with Wolverine.

Btw, I wondered, the younger lasses out there, do you prefer Wolverine, Scott, Bobby? Or maybe Pyro? Angel? Admittedly, I don't even know the names of the actors. Poor sobs, known only as mutants. Just like some people call ProfX either that or Jean Luc Picard I guess. It's just not something really important for me, I've never went to a movie based solely on what actor's in it. Either the story interests me, or it doesn't. The only exception I make is for Leonardo di Caprio. Guy is so creeping me out I refuse to watch any movie with him. And yea, this means I never saw Titanic or Gangs of New York.

Ciao Ciao

Hot and Cold

2006-06-03T07:36:00.000+02:00

You just have to love our anti-climatical appartment with it's massive old stone walls. It soaks up and keeps the heat when it's warm outside and does it's best not to do so if it happens to be cold, rainy, cloudy, snowy, or in short tempo di merda. And here in Italy you generally don't turn the heater on during the summer half of the year, ie mid april to mid october.
So you can imagine why I spent half of yesterday drinking hot beverages and jumping up and down to keep warm, because the weather man decided that just on the day of the 'Festa della Repubblica' it should be grey and crappy.

But, I shouldn't complain really, because the weather is golden right now. It's the summer I dread, here in the Padana. Closed in by mountains from three sides, with one big and gazillions of small rivers as well as several big lakes this place turns into one of those houses you use to grow exotic jungle plants during the summer months. I hate being an exotic plant!

Suchia (Sucks) that I have that little phobia of not being able to sleep with closed windows. Using our portable airco makes me choke - or at least I am immagining I have to. And our bedroom is the coldest room of the appartment in winter and the hottest in summer no less. Ahah so the bf already told me I'd have to sleep on the couch so he can actually get the bedroom to an acceptable temperature for himself ;)

Due to it being a holiday yesterday, there was no mail for me, but two of the cards I had sent off for postcrossing.com arrived, so I shall get new ones for my collection soon. The curiousity and suspence about where it will come from is the best part of postcrossing I think.

Today we are off to the parrucchiere (hairdresser). Technically, the bf is not going to the parrucchiere but to the barbiere, however, it's going to be the same signora in the same shop anyway so I am not sure we have to be technically correct with those gender distinctions in regards to hair cutting.
After that, a little trip with the bike to burn some calories, 'dress with less'-season is one step away from coming around the corner and then finally tonight we will go to see X3. Busy busy day.

Oh yes, I still ought to tell you how was last sunday at the medieval town, drat, but I had not had the chance yet to get the pictures developed - yes, I do not own a dig cam, how sad is that nowadays?

Tata snuggles'!

Nuovi Prezzi - New Prices - Oh djoy

2006-06-01T05:43:00.000+02:00

Yesterday I did my weekly run to the post office here in town. There they told me, that they had changed the prices. Funny people at the post office couldn't even tell me what the new prices are (not unusual) nor did they have an updated price list. To cover up they declared I could toss in my letters and cards at the old price for a few days still. And that I should look up the new ones on the web-site of Poste Italiane.

A'right, I did that. Found a probably very insightful declaration of the Ministro delle Comunicazioni in wonderful legal italian with some pricelists attached. From one of these lists I figured they would only offer posta prioritaria from here on out. Asked the bf to confirm. Yup, only prioritaria available anymore. With slightly raised prices. Bugger.

I used ordinaria, because it was 15 cents on average cheaper for only a semantical difference in delivery time. A loop hole so to say, since all the post was going via airplane and courier transport anyway nowadays. For my not inconsiderable amount of letters this was a bliss. Now I am looking at 20 euro cents increase for letters to America and Asia and 25 euro cents more for Ozeania Area. Blergh. Blergh.

On the positive side, I received two viewcards thanks to Postcrossing yesterday. Lovely website that for people who like cards. You send a postcard to a random person which you get assigned by the system, you receive a postcard from a random person. Rinse, repeat as often as you want.
Mine came from the Netherlands and Finland. My collection on the wall is slowly growing, but still not hiding the fact it needs fresh painting ;) Also got a letter from J. (Canada) and send out replies to T. (USA), A. (Netherlands) and S. (Japan)

Now waiting for the bf to get to the office and pointing out my grammar mistakes during his coffee break :p

/kiss

P.S. Fred still doesn't fetch the mail =(

Questionaires - Do you ...

2006-05-30T03:36:00.000+02:00

... knowingly cheat when taking one of those silly quizzes from quizilla and similar places? I know I do ;)

Do you think it is even possible to answer absolutely 'honest' unless you never heard of the movie/book/game/etc in question? Have you ever been really surprised by the answer you got?

On the odd occassion that I am taking one of them, it's because 'What XY Character are you?' is about a movie/book/game/etc that is liked by yours truly in the first place, ergo I already have a pretty good idea which characters in the movie/book/game/etc I like and which I don't. The chance that I'd end up being Frodo in a LoTR quiz is smaller than winning the lottery because I'd rather be an Urukhai than Frodo.

Oh heavens! It's here! YATD

2006-05-29T07:13:00.000+02:00

Maniac Monday!!! Also known as Bangles Monday. Or Yet another theme day. Yay!

Poor Monday is the most underappreciated day of the week. Why you ask? Because in reality it marks a new beginning and not the end of the world! Finally the old week is over, you can leave it behind with all it's crap. Rise and shine, snuggles' ~
What you say? Monday sucks? Tell me why! And no cheap stuff like 'I hate standing up in the morning after sleeping long in the weekend' or 'school sux because I cannot manage to stand my ground' or 'my colleagues hate me because I'm a dork'. Common, you can think of a better reason ;)

Btw. don't take me serious. Until this point at least ...

Well so anyway, I've been wondering what's up with all those 'theme days' ... does humanity have a hidden inner strive to be a lemming? Are we maybe closer related to them then to the apes? Questions over questions. If so, it's probably offending the apes that we claim we have had some ties, somewhere gazillion years ago. Remember, this is the part where I am not kidding.

In other words, only like 10 days to go till the Football World Championship. I am looking forward to it, but I am very much inclined to start a campagne to bring back the pulling off of shirts after goals that so unwisely has been made yellowcardable offense. Why? It harmed no one, instead, it was an inclination for women to watch football even if they didn't care much for the sport. Which means, you could have gotten more money from merchandising ... sell that Lipstick Beckham wants to have on his chest, sell that perfume that sways Totti ... etc etc. The possibilities would have been endless ... more sold tickets, more merchandising, more fan articles ... money money money. And you, old farts in business dresses, tossed this away ... jealousy? What do you think?

Bleh enough drivel for one morning.

Sayonara, snuggles'

Small Blurp before coffee

2006-05-28T07:56:00.000+02:00

Lately, Ginny (the Aloe plant) and her offsprings Ginnya and Ginnye drink way too much. And still seem to be barely moving along. Ginnye is in the best condition of all three tho. Might move the rest to the family over to her spot, see if it helps.

Fred (the rubber plant - lol, is that actually how you call them? I looked it up, but it sounds weird ) still hasn't learned to fetch the mail from the box downstairs! :(

If you are wondering why I am giving my plants names and try to train them to fetch the newspaper/mail, well one word - allergies. I have the full array, from food over animal to hayfever and thus I just cannot get a dog to teach little tricks.

Anyway, outside the sun rised in full glory, so it looks like it's going to be a wonderful day to go to the tournament. We'll leave around 1000 here, together with friends. Now to dig out that camera of mine!

Ci vediamo, snuggles'

Argh Argh Aaaaaargh!

2006-05-27T15:57:00.000+02:00

Ok it's official. I hate our neighbour. The stupid wench that is playing her Dio and Gesù music day in and out. Now that in itself isn't really a problem, each to their own after all, but ... she does it in a volume that could possibly ressurect the bloody dead. And it's spring now, warm outside, windows are open, birds are singing ... ehm. Meaning I hear it in our appartment as clear as if I'd be the one playing that stuff. If it's not her own discs, i'ts the latest mass on Radio Maria - the only radio station worldwide that you can receive if you plug speakers to your microwave. Talk about being unintrusive.

In the evening, music changes to television. Up to 3am in the night. Volume only slightly lower. About the time you got used to it and are about to fall asleep ... BANG! ... someone got shot or something similar and you are wide awake again. Complaining is pretty much pointless (and not really a common thing to do here anyway). Yes she does turn it down ... for the day. The next day and maybe the day after. Then she has all forgotten about it. No, the real permanent solution is either Ohropax or a cozy little fire ...

No letter in the mailbox today. Good. I really need some time to catch up. Not sure if we go out tonight, but I won't count it out. Tomorrow we plan on visiting a museum/historical/medieval town where they are holding a tournament. Hope it doesn't rain. I'd be pissed if it would rain because I am looking forward to this. And I'll try to remember to take my camera :o Anyway, this weekend I won't have much time to answer letters.

A small blurp after coffee

2006-05-26T10:02:00.000+02:00

Slept a decent junk of hours last night, thank heavens. Feeling somewhat energized today and motivated to write about more then the latest itsy bitsy design change I made to my blog. But first I gotta run and bring a long overdue letter to the post office and fetch our bred on the way back. See you later, snuggles!

Edit(h):

Coming back from the post office, where I suspect they think I am crazy for actually writing letters to other people, I found a letter from an unknown sender in our mailbox. According to the stamp it's from Germania ... oh the suspense when slicing it open. It's from a girl that had written me an e-mail a couple of days ago.

After making an entry for my WoW blog and also one for my review blog - that's what I put the energy from the lengthy sleep in heh, are you curious to read them? - I am planning to write a couple letters this afternoon so my pile shrinks a bit and I get some space to work on reviewing my old short stories.

Unfortunately for you, well ok maybe lucky for you depending on how you view my writer skillz, I am not writing these in english.

Right now ...

2006-05-25T14:15:00.000+02:00

... I am dead tired, slept like three hours last night then was awake for four, slept another three, thanks to my asthma that woke me up at around 3am.

Anyway, I changed a couple of things about my design again, mainly the colors and the picture on the left, which is called Ravenlocks, made by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law, an artist that also did/does book covers and graphics for rpgs. More of her work can be found at her site Shadowscapes . What do you think? - I think you think that you are tired of hearing me talk about my design ;)

P.S. The postino had one letter for me today, from Joni (England). And the pile is growing whilst I am faffling around creating a blog no one will ever read.

Yes, I admit ...

2006-05-24T04:05:00.000+02:00

... I keep editing my posts, change a word here and there, hit enter to create a new paragraph, turn the order of sentences around. This seems to be a problem of mine that also hinders me when writing stories - and to an extent in life. I look back so much that I forget about the future until I suddenly realize that another year has gone by and I am still where I was just shortly after finishing high school, if you know what I mean.
For stories that translates into: I change so much around on the first two pages after re-reading and re-reading, that I never manage to get to page three before I loose the grip on the tale ...

And yes, I also realize my blog entries are a bit random, moving like a butterfly from one 'topic' to the other, but that's just my nature, I can't help it. Infact I sometimes have the feeling it gets worse as I get older. What's the problem behind it? Short attention span?

P.S. Today I had two letters in the post box. One contained a couple of FBs sent by a girl from England and the other was a letter from A. (Netherlands)

Oh dear, time flies ...

2006-05-23T16:17:00.000+02:00

... by so quickly on the internet!

I've got seriously lost surfing through the blogs listed on Blog Explosion but thanks to that I also stumbled over BlogRolling.
As you can see, I already incorporated it to my site /grin.
And hot damn, there's a huge number of terrific blogs out there, some very serious, some very silly. Of course, there's also an infinite number of totally useless ones, like mine hehe.

In other news, I am still a newbie and toying around a lot more then writing serious entries. Not much to say about my day so, I doubt anyone really cares to know what I ate or that I did some laundry.

However, I received a nice card from A. (Japan), which is now up on the wall together with all the others from around the world. One day I might get a digi cam and actually publish pictures of them.

The beginning ...

2006-05-22T10:23:00.000+02:00

... actually turns out to be more then delicate. Spend a good hour on modifying the CSS of my blog yesterday, with so so success. Strange thing, in the preview it looked fine and dandy, but the published version just didn't want to come out as it was supposed to be.

Well this works for now, I am settling to keep it as a picture bar, what do you think? Next step is fiddling around with the colors, then I will work on a nice little background image and update the left site with some more pictures.

On Saturday we went to see 'The da Vinci Code'. Posted a review about it on my lil review blog.

Ci vediamo

The beginning ...

2006-05-21T08:49:00.000+02:00

... is a very delicate time. Know then, that it is the year 2006. And please allow me to introduce myself ...

I'm just a girl in this world who has had too many names during the last 6 1/2 years of online gaming, names which have Y and A as the smallest common denominator.

Quite obviously, I like to add music and movie quotes to my talk - every now and then, when it kind of fits. Most other things that are to know about me are inside the profile that I shall fill out promptly.

On Friday the final piece for the new pc arrived. Hoorray! Finally we don't have to share this one anymore! Which also means I get all my graphics and poetry back that is still on the old harddrive. As well as all those bloody e-mails.
But most important, no more having to leave Alterac Valley midway because someone else needs to use the pc ;) Hell, most of the time it bores me anyway, but as a matter of principle, it never did when the bf wanted to have his share of the pc. Go figure.

I am hopefull to pick up on my writings again as well once this here had done it's re-formatting and clean install. I have like 10 short stories that all need some attention, and possible a gazillion ideas for more stored on that aforementioned harddrive. Grmph, if the whole incident taught me one thing then it's to not solely rely on modern technique for all the little things I want to remember.

No letters in the post box that day, shame, in a way :) But on the otherhand, since I still have to catch up with a couple more (almost done, almost done!) it's probably good that there are no new ones entering the pile. The one for M. I want to get out by monday, since the poor girl is waiting the longest for a life sign of yours truly.

In the morning I spent most of my time browsing other blogs, to see what people make out of them. To get an idea maybe on what to make out of mine other then random blubber about my day. I mean, no one cares about that now, do they? I have a stinking normal life, no teenage problems, no eating disorders except for liking choclate, I have no psycho problems beyond the usual insecureness about my looks and about what I do (praise the internet for being a place where people at least can pretend and hide behind masks so much better then in real life)

Back to the mental dashboard. Too boring.

On Saturday not a whole lot happened. I faffled around some more exploring blogs and what blog hosts offer. Then whilst washing the dishes I had the idea to create the Team YaYa ID (my Team YaYa, I am sure there's already plenty others out there).
In the afternoon, we reformatted this pc and re-installed what's needed. I hope this will get rid of the fps problems I have playing WoW. For sure I am going to use 'The Monster' for PvPing during the day so. It's just sooo smooth.

Had 5 letters in the mailbox, which means I have to get cracking and write some replies over the weekend. Going to inquire if the girls mind if I post their first name and country in this blog of mine.

Finally ...

2006-05-20T12:41:00.000+02:00

... I have decided that I will stick with this site and this id for my blog. At least, for the general 'me info' and babble. And transfer the test blogs into little projects.

Now, onto shaping this one into more then a blank site!