Twenty-Six

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I’m officially twenty-six. June 17th signed the milestone: I’m one the way of the 30′s by now. I know, I’m probably too pessimistic about age, but sometimes I feel like I’m split in half: half of me is still the same child as I used to be up to 5-6 years ago, the other half is fully conscious of time passing and tries to remind me of that every day.

You know what? I don’t care. I’m twenty-six but I will never stop sleeping with my dolls, collecting and playing with robot toys, watching cartoons, sneak in toy shops and look at Barbies in absolute fascination. The little girl in me will never die.

Snuggling with my doll Arianna. ^-^

The little girl in me is MYSELF.

Now for a summary of the events:

June 17th

The day of my birth. I woke up at 8 AM to finish my freelance work so I could be free of any duties to celebrate my birthday with my family, at grandma’s. I dressed up in casual clothes to stay comfy in a countryside house, and I left with my dad and brother at 12 PM. Mom and sister were at grandma’s already: mom preparing lunch, my sister studying for her diploma. As soon as I arrived, everybody greeted me, and lunch was ready after minutes: sitting around the dining table, mom, dad and grandma told me tales of my birth. Looks like I was born at 1:30 PM and I was so hungry as soon as I came out. LOL. That could be a reason while I love food so much, ihih. Anyway, after lunch I spent some time with my aunt Annita, helping her sort out an issue with her PayPal account, and then I left with dad to come home, at 3:50 PM, as there would have been too many packages in the car later in the day for all five of us to fit in. I enjoyed some reading and some extra freelance work in the evening, even though I wasn’t feeling well with my tummy (been sick for a week already with a flu that hit my intestines *sigh*). Of course, I had a good long chat with my sweet fiancee Simone, my greatest blessing in this life.

June 18th

This is the day I celebrated my birthday with Simone. He arrived at 12:40 PM, and I was ready to go out for lunch. We spent a little time with my parents and then left for the Tinello eating house. The little trattoria is located about fifty meters from my quarters, so it wasn’t a lot of walking, but guys! Their food is delicious! We ate really a lot (in fact, I ate again at lunch of the following day, ihih!) and all that for only €55! *_* Truly amazing. To keep it short, we ordered one appetizer to split in half (a delicious ham and mozzarella dish), two first-courses (a portion of pasta with salmon and cream and half a portion of a special recipe, square-shaped pasta with a ricotta plus pine nuts cream inside), mixed grilled meat as a second course and some asparagus to complete the meal. For a dessert, we had a creamy pudding with some Nutella on the top. Oh my, writing that way makes it seems like we ate mountains of stuff, but they were a tad more than regular portions in the end, since we split in half most portions (to taste everything, you know). But hey, it was my birthday, so I was entitled to eat a lot, ihih! That eating house makes delicious food, I hope I can eat there again in a few months.

That ends my twenty-sixth birthday tale. Uhm, 620 words… perhaps I exaggerated here. XD