If I Ever Leave This World Alive

There are many things I could say about the majority of September, but travel was not among those words.  I have been trying to decide life plans and what I am doing with myself, I have work(which is PHENOMENAL by the way) but what else.  I am here in this fantastic city with none of my usual vices: my crafts, sewing machines and the nearest AC Moore is 4014 miles.  Yeah I googled it.  So now what?  I need a project.  Its not that I don't have things that I could do, I am an expert time waster, I in fact have whole folders devoted to the most inane and useless websites you could find.  Its not even like I spend hours on TFLN or postsecret, no these website are much worse.  Alas, I need focus or a direction of my personal life that I have yet to find.  I have very little athletic skill(See hand eye coordination) so joining some sports team here is out of the question, I like baking but baking does no favors for me and thus forces me to run jog awkwardly canter around the city.  My attempts at running have been vividly compared to that of a baby dinosaur and a horse stuck in the mud.  So that rules picking up some kind of cross country.  I bought a basil plant, and aptly named him Phillip, but he is already shedding all his leaves.  I hope he will survive the month I have grown quite fond of him.


FOCUS.  No really, I just need focus.  I think once I find my own personal project to work on.  That is my goal.  For right now, I have too much dead space, which is fine because apparently its still summer here in Italy(yes, its October and yes it was 80* yesterday) but I am searching for a project for when winter comes.

I went to Fiesole which is beautiful, well basically everything is beautiful there.  The view was beautiful, the buildings are beautiful, and even the doors are works of art!  Who does that?  It is only 20 minutes by bus outside of Florence but it is well worth the motion sickness from the crazy bus.  The view of Florence is amazing, and there was this deceptively large museum there.  At first glance it looks as though it is just a small garden with a few modern sculptures but once you get inside it goes on for miles and that museum on the inside that I thought only had one room took us two hours to get through.  There was just hall after hall of pottery and artifacts from the Etruscan and Roman periods.

It is one of those small beautiful towns that would be amazing to live in.  Close enough to the city to go there when ever you want, but with the added benefit of being drop dead gorgeous.  We then walked all the way down to a cute little pizzeria and then caught the bus back to Florence.  Over all it was quiet a fantastic day.  It is definitively a place I want to visit again.

I found this little Philippine store right off of my street where there were these fantastic Llama's.  They were made from really alpaca fur and the big one was as tall as me!  I couldn't believe it.  Not only did they have life size replica's of llamas they also had palm sized llama's.   There's a llama, here's a llama, everywhere there is a llama.  Had to do that.

Right now I am planning the sickest vaca ever.  I am going to spend a week in Italy with my sister then heading over to Ireland to meet up with Kelly!  It will be the first time in two months that I see one of my friends for realsies.  Which is fantastic.  I am so excited, but more on that later.