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Life has been really well sucky lately. I won't go into details right now but will when I have more time to post. Please send positive thoughts my way :)

Thanks

Dan/Gio

Current Mood:
indescribable indescribable
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While it's not a set of Gwen's wonderfuly pottery... My table set is now complete and I've taken a few quick shots to share with you all.

 

Cut to save space for the non-interested. )

 

Dan/Gio

Current Mood:
blah blah
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I've grown to hate this word TDY. TDY stands for Temporary Duty and too me it means time alone without the man.

He's leaving Monday morning for a conference in the states (NOT THE WEST COAST) and I'll be alone for two weeks. In all honestly I have to admit I enjoy the first couple of days. I read, I watch movies, he's not so into and call friends to just shoot the breeze. But after a couple days I find myself sleeping with his pillow just to breathe him in... I find myself trying to do things as if he were here.. Only problem is he does the dishes and I HATE the dishes... I don't think I can explain this enough I truly hate the dishes I would do anything to get out of doing them. The truly sad fact thou is that I do them and cuss under my breath at my high maintenance self and get angry at the man for not being here too do them... Silly ehhh...

That’s all my friends just letting it out before Monday.. I now return you to your regularly scheduled bloggers.

Current Location:
Office
Current Mood:
annoyed annoyed
Current Music:
The fan blowing across my desk
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This evening was one of those evenings where for some reason I've let my weight get to me. I know it's depressing me that I'm wearing the largest size clothes I've ever worn and then I stop and say to Dave I'm eating cause i'm depressed and it's making me feel better... WTF... I'm depressed cause I'm freakin fat and I'm eating to feel better... Gotta love my life.

Me

Current Location:
Office
Current Mood:
depressed depressed
Current Music:
None
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Earlier this week the inspectors showed up to inspect our programs and their still going to be here through tuesday. I need somthing stiff to drink right about now... I've working so hard and damn it all it's the stupid small things they find that I clearly know need done but overlooked for some odd reason.. Like labels on all the plants we just planted.

I'm off to bed to get some rest before I work tomorrow and yes I know it's a Saturday.

Gio just tired o' Gio

Current Location:
Office
Current Mood:
cranky cranky
Current Music:
Who has the head for music now
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I went to a wonderful city called Ghent this weekend and had the opportunity to visit one of it's castles. Here are some pics I thought might be of interest to some of my artist type friends :) If you know someone who you think might be interested in any of these items feel free to repost or let me know and I'll send them better pics :)  the bottom most picture is part of  a blade that was used to behead people .  I thought those who do scribal work might find it interesting :)

Horns )

Current Mood:
cheerful cheerful
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Have Fun this weekend I'll be thinking of you all and missing you.

gio

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I know I've not posted in some time to let everyone know I'm still alive. Work has been crazy, did I mention crazy? I'm taking a four day weekend to get some rest. When I get back from my mini vacation I'll try and catch the blog back up to speed. I know I suck for not reading/ writting. Forgive the Gio
Current Location:
Office
Current Mood:
tired tired
Current Music:
Some freakin bird out the window who has no clue it's 21:30hrs
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As I was sitting in the dinning room eating something most likely not so good for me, I saw a new friend out the window. I've named him Bob and three days later he's still there I think eating the algie thats growing on the post. It's an odd excitement I get these last few days as I scurry down the stairs in the morning to check on Bob.

Meet Bob

Current Location:
Kitchen
Current Mood:
amused amused
Current Music:
You Shook Me All Night Long
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for the birthday I got a new camara. Here are some pics of spring in the local area from the camera.
Current Mood:
busy busy
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Happy birthday [info]krazyfiberkat darling... I miss you and send you MUCH love.

Giovanni
Current Location:
Office
Current Mood:
accomplished accomplished
Current Music:
None I'm trying to figure out this damn Ipod
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After two and a half weeks the mom, grandma and her husband left at 4am this morning. It was wonderful getting to watch them explore Europe. I hope that someday thaty can do it again...

Now, who's next to visit.

Gio just Gio

Current Location:
office
Current Mood:
sad sad
Current Music:
I've lost track daves downloading a ton to the idop I got him for Valentines.
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The mom made it safely to Germany on Saturday (with grandma in tow). I was teaching a class that morning so Dave took the shuttle to the airport 2.5 hours away and helped them get back to the house with their rental car. After teaching, I scurried home and barely beat them to the house!


They settled in, unpacked and then we were off to Luxemburg. Our evil goal keep um awake... After Luxemburg we went to a German eatery that's been in the family for over 200 years!

On Sunday I took them to the local little town of
Bitburg where we visited the walk platz and bought fresh bread for lunch, and had Italian ice cream. Then we came come make sandwiches on our bread and watched movies. Not much of a point to touring Germany on a Sunday almost everything is closed. So overall it was a nice relaxing day.

On Monday I sent them off to
Belgium.... I can't wait to hear what they thing of it when they get back.

P.S. The user pic I choose for this pic is one of the maid items they went to see in Belgium... Madona and Child

Current Location:
Office
Current Mood:
angry angry
Current Music:
The voices in my head
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These are five things that Krazy Fiber Kat associates with me and what I have to say about them. If you comment, I will give you five things to comment on, and then you can pass it on.


Fun
Bridesmaid
traveler
Happy
Intelligent

Fun: For me this is the one word that I think I have the hardest time relating too. I've never really thought of myself as fun. I've more thought of myself as the tag along friend who everyone tolerates.

I do like to try and have fun but sometimes people misread my fun (sense of humor). If you want to know fun, meet Dave.

Bridesmaid: Where does one start? First and foremost I have come to the conclusion that sometimes it's best to just keep ones mouth shut as what you say may truly come and bite you in the arse! After an offhanded comment to the beautiful and CRAZY Krazy Fiber Kat about wanting to be a bridesmaid she surprised me some time latter with a call requesting I be hers... Long story short just because I'm gay does not mean I can do hair!!!

Traveler: If you asked me or most anyone who knew me five years ago, I think traveler would never have come up in conversation. I'm very lucky to have found a man with a passion for working overseas and who loves to explore... He drags me along thankfully. I thank the gods daily that I get too see so much of the wonderful world. BTW..
Thailand is still my all time favorite place... Yes Europe is a DREAM but Thailand is simply magical.

Happy: I was amused to see this word on the list it's one that has taken some time for me too come to terms with. I have a very hard time thinking of myself as a happy person. I always want more or to make things better... I think I try and act happy to please others but I truly have an internal struggle that makes happy hard to acknowledge within me.

Intelligent: What makes a person intelligent is the company one keeps.. The illusion of Intelligence comes from each of you :) For this I'm thankful!!!

Current Mood:
bitchy bitchy
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Current Location:
Office
Current Mood:
artistic artistic
Current Music:
Dave whinning in the Background about cleaning the cat box
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Wow I can hardly believe that this saturday I will visit my 10th European Country...

The nine I've visited are;

Germany
Luxembourg
Belgium
France
England
Italy
Ireland
Netherlands
Poland

The tenth will be: (drum roll please)

Czech Republic.

Current Location:
Office
Current Mood:
contemplative contemplative
Current Music:
The tap tap tap of the keyboard
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I was just using the DVD-ROM on "the Book of Kells" and WOW, it breaks down everything.. The inks used where they would have been gotten from and so forth.

Not to mention how interactive it is. It classifies the illuminations into groups in one part. So if i want inspirations for snakes it will show me all the snakes. If I want a G it shows all the illuminated G's with references etc.

I think you all are gonna love this!

Oh and did i mention on each and everypage you can zoon in and out on any part... and the zooming in does not effect the quality of what you see!!!

Gio

Current Mood:
excited excited
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Dublin has been one of my favorite adventures thus far here in Europe. The city is rich in history and the people are super friendly.

Our first Day (evening in Dublin) we walked about the city and took a tour to get a focus on where we wanted to go…

Stop number three on the city tour was Trinity College, Upon realizing that indeed Trinity College was on the tour I quickly told the 6 other people in our group that the next morning Trinity College would be stop number one for us to tour. To my surprise everyone else wanted to go there as well so I was relieved to not be monopolizing their time with my wants.

On day two we made our way to the city center and boarded the bus to Trinity college. I was excited to get to go and see “the Book of Kells” Yes that’s right the Book of Kells!!!

I could hardly contain myself. We wondered the yards of Trinity College as any good tourist would and eventually found ourselves at the Old Library where the book is housed. As we made our way in we heard a bit of rumbling from people about the book not being on display. We found the rumblings to be true, apparently there was an issue with the display case for the Book of Kells and sadly it could not be safely kept on display at this time. They however were offering in its place an artist’s copy of the book. We choose not to see the artist copy.

I did however buy something most wonderful at the Trinity College Library, A DVD-ROM copy of all 340 folios of the manuscript. The DVD-ROM is the first digitized version of the Book of Kells to have been authorized by Trinity College. I was very excited to find this.

“I am going to mail (loan) my copy of the DVD-ROM to [info]mrq_laurellen so that she can share it will you all, in what ever fashion she deems most approriate. Maybe a class on the styles used or something of the sort.

[info]mrq_laurellen  would you please write me off the list so I can arrange this with you!

From Trinity College we made our way to Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. Wow is all I can say. I’ll post pictures in the next couple of days as it was truly worth the visit and the history was such a rich tapestry. I never wanted to leave the Cathedral, every corner I turned was something new to explore/ learn about.

More to come…
Current Mood:
bouncy bouncy
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I am off to Dublin, Ireland for Valentines... I hope each of you have a Wonderful Valentines filled with much love.

Love,

Gio

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