Together Finally

English: Enjoy
Italian: Divertirsi
Spanish: Goce
:)

Good Fortune Foretells

My fortune cookie from dinner tonight at King Wah Chinese restaurant in Chinatown downtown Oakland said:

"Good news will come to you from far away"... :) GG, will be here tomorrow night!

Night After Tomorrow

I can hardly wait! I have Thursday through early January off of work and plans to see friends so they can meet my Giuliano. The excitement builds, but I am trying to keep a level head, concentrate on what I need to focus on for the next couple days and then let loose as I am on holiday with my baby! Unbelievable times as I count my blessings!!!

4 More Nights

Til GG is here! I can barely contain myself. I can't concentrate on any one thing at all, tripping over myself, repeating myself in actions and words, completely absent-minded - hee hee, true signs of love. He and I have been emailing more often now that we're sort of in the same time zone as he is now in Costa Rica, and he sends me sweet nothings and messages that make me all warm inside wanting him here now. Planning a dinner party so that friends can all meet him, and he is excited to meet all of them and vice versa! It is too bad that he can't meet my other good friends who are not here like my Sis Tammy and Roman, but maybe someday they will! 4 more nights!!!!!! :)))))))

Rio Christmas Picture Card

...Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by the rules
of someone else's game
Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes and leap

It's time to try
Defying gravity
I think I'll try
Defying gravity
And you can't pull me down...

Five more nights and my Giuliano will be here. I am sitting tight on this Friday night thinking about how he will be here with me at this time next week. I certainly feel something deep in me is changing. His words are so sweet and heartfelt, and I just know it is all going to come together. I feel it in my heart. Happy and scared, but more happy than anything else ever ever ever.

San Francisco is Where My Heart Is

Ahhh, San Francisco, where I can get away with wearing a zippered hooded sweatshirt, jeans and slightly open-toed shoes as opposed to being covered from head to toe last week in New York trying not to expose any skin against that east coast windchill factor. Union Square was booming this morning, Christmas tree still aglow, San Franciscans and tourists alike hustling and bustling about buying gifts and setting about the day. I am so glad I live here.

Te Quiero, I Love You

Completely excited and out of my mind about GG coming next week, and a little nervous. He's so sweet and so cute, his words disarm me always, love, love, love - he's so openly expressive, and I know that is him, who he is, his culture as he is Italian, romantic, affectionate, loves with everything in him, everything that I was not taught. He is my teacher in being this open as I want to be, have always wanted to be, been waiting for the right person to feel that kind of comfort with to let it all go.

He tells me how he feels and what he wants never having to guess what is going on in his heart and soul as it is right there for me to see clear as day, it is easy to see how pure at heart he is and that all of his intentions are good, there is no doubt. He sees something in me, I believe him, and he makes me believe in myself more and more with each day that we move forward together in our own timeframe apart from everyone and everything else, it all falls away and it is just him and me.

Giuliano and Maile. :)

See "Memoirs of a Geisha"

I saw it while in New York City, and I highly recommend it! Wonderfully portrayed - and plus, my childhood friend Minae Noji appears in it - ever so briefly - but still!

You're Still the One - by Shania Twain

(When I first saw you, I saw love.
And the first time you touched me, I felt love.
And after all this time, you're still the one I love.)

Looks like we made it
Look how far we've come my baby
We mighta took the long way
We knew we'd get there someday

Bridge:
They said, "I bet they'll never make it"
But just look at us holding on
We're still together still going strong

Chorus:
(You're still the one)
You're still the one I run to
The one that I belong to
You're still the one I want for life
(You're still the one)
You're still the one that I love
The only one I dream of
You're still the one I kiss good night

Ain't nothin' better
We beat the odds together
I'm glad we didn't listen
Look at what we would be missin'

I'm so glad we made it
Look how far we've come my baby

~ My baby will be here next week on the 21st! I will be at the airport to pick him up. How romantico, as he says! :)

Something about a Train

Written on Thursday, 12/8/05 9:30 PM EST on Amtrak from Philadelphia to New York City Penn Station; picture above is on the New York City subway C train from NYC to Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bridge in the background

There's somethng about being on a train that is comforting. As life whizzes by, I see Christmas decorated houses, electric plants, streetlights, it rumbles, vibrates, slightly sways, rumbles and bumbles about. Maybe it's because I used to readily fall asleep in cars when I was little...I still do (when I'm not driving of course!), business buildings, parking garages, snow snow snow, lone cars braving the cold, police throwing on their flashers on an unsuspecting driver, Metropark NJ stop. It is the constant movement and knowing that I am going somewhere - New York City!

Theatre & Temescal Actress Neighbor Friend

Flight Patterns - Philadelphia and New York

12/5 United Flight # 88 leaves SFO 8:55 AM arrives PHL 5:20 PM
12/12 United Flight # 9 leaves NY JFK 2:15 PM arrives SFO 5:32 PM

NYC, here I come! :)

Push Through and Forward

I am flying to Philadelphia and New York next week in the land of unyielding temptation, but I am going with an open heart, an open mind without any preconceived notions or expections as planned agendas don't always turn out as originally pictured or thought. Just going to do my thing, whatever happens, happens, whatever comes, comes as it all has a way of working itself out as I have seen over and over again. I am letting go of all control, going forward without fear of hurt as that is how I live. If I am to be wounded for putting it out there, then I will take the shot, but in the end, I feel it is better to have answers and some sense of resolution, no hanging thoughts or ideals as my imagination can run wild reins detested and tossed aside. Fly like a bird.

The Glide Gospel Choir

It had been since I left for Brazil in late September when I went to my last Glide Gospel Choir practice. I don't know what happened between work, life, love, everything, I never made it back until last night. And it felt so good to be back with the group singing, belting it out with the sopranos, altos, tenors and basses, crooning with the gospelites to new holiday music and some familiars. They welcomed me back with open arms, so good to see familiar faces, swinging and swaying with the people of the choir. Thank goodness for Glide.