The Guardian Tag

found this funny Q/A with Jared Leto on the Guardian and I've tried to give my own answers..do it it's funny!

What is your earliest memory?
my first day at elementary school very funny but weird. The first thing I asked to my mom was “ can I go back to primary school with barbie, lego and crayons?”

When were you happiest?
I don’t know, because I can be happy now and be happier than yestersday ..so I don’y know ,I can’t answer, maybe something that involve sun & sea.

Which living person do you most admire, and why?
hard one, I’ve no idea, I’m not the kind of person that admire others and btw they are all dead.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
lazyness

What is the trait you most deplore in others?
envy

What was your most embarrassing moment?
only one?? at movies when my friend couldn't stop chatting (hate it!) and somebody screamed at us.

Property aside, what's the most expensive thing you've bought?
my car and it’s almost time for a new one :(

What would your super power be?
I always wanted to be invisible, flying could be amazing but invisibility it’s priceless!

What makes you unhappy?
cruelty on animals

What do you most dislike about your appearance?
legs, butt, nose..it’s a long list.

If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would you choose?
some clubs in London

Who would play you in the film of your life?
Kate Winslet

What is your most unappealing habit?
procrastinating

What is your favourite smell?
lavender

What is your favourite book?
Parfume

What would be your fancy dress costume of choice?
a vampire masquerade ,the old style vampires.

What is the worst thing anyone's said to you?
the all “I love you” that were lies

Cat or dog?
cat

What is your guiltiest pleasure?
shoes & glitters

What do you owe your parents?
all and nothing

To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why?
to all those abused animals , it’s not fair .

Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?
all the dead rock stars, marylin monroe, marlon brando, marie entoniette, tim burton..

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
…the fç°k italian version!

What is the worst job you've done?
mine now (boooo!)

When did you last cry, and why?
can’t remember I don’y cry very much

What is the closest you've come to death?
after a night in a club.

What song would you like played at your funeral?
jeff buckley hallelujah and T-Rex 20th century boy

How would you like to be remembered?
I don’t want to.

What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
tomorrow is another day

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It’s finally friday, the first "back to work" week is almost gone (yeah!!), I really hope that this weekend the weather will be nice, I need to relax poolside and get some tan. I’m missing lots of posts from my favourite blogs because I can’t read them from here, that’s another “to do” this weekend, check and enjoy all of your blogs.

I’m happy to announce that my readers can have $30 discount at www.whoogaboots.co.uk/ , just enter CARLOTTAMY into the box in the cart, they ship worldwide , so happy shopping!!

The morning is gone quite quickly as I was chatting with 2 of my colleagues about , summer, wishes, plans , and fashion!! We took the Elle test that Iole post here last week, it’s a q/a test about your style and it’s very funny and interestng to do with my collegues since we’re very very different, with different styles and ideas about fashion shopping and life. R. loves to wear natural warm palette, ethnic jewelery , silk and cotton tops or dresses, ballerina flats and totes. C. is a classic girl who loves navy and blue or cold tones, designer bags , jeans and pants with designer shoes, silver Tiffany jewels & pearls. Both girls are perfect in their styles and daily wears , never too much and never with a wrong look!! I’ve added 2-3 more questions than Iole post..enjoy !!

My fashion icon I don’t have one, I like to mix different icons styles, like Erin Wasson, Brigitte Bardot, hippies and 70’s rock stars, Jane Birkin, Sienna Miller, Nicole Richie , so probably the perfect muse would be Elle McPherson.

My palette in winter is almost totally black with some touch of grey, silver or browns; in summer I wear lots of white, gold, bronze, greens, florals and prints. I almost never wear blue, red or orange.

I start dressing from mood and how do I feel, I usualy start from accessories and shoes, but when I’m in hurry I opt for a simply white top to pair with easy pieces and statement accessories.

My day outfit flowing dresses with flats sandals, belt, a mix of jewelery (moslty gold), my signature scent and natural make up, sunglasses and one of my fav bags , lately I wear a lot the Vert d’eau Balenciaga and a tan Gucci New Jackie.

My evening outfit heels or wedges, embellished kaftan tunics or tops, some sparkles, metallic make up, lots of black & gold, simple tops with vintage waistcoat, statement jewelery and small bags as a vintage mini Chanel or black first Balenciaga.

My latest purchase white and black basic loose fit tees, a black swimsuit and a new pair of Havaianas in sand & gold.

Never without a smile, sunglasses ,sunscreen, lipbalm or lipgloss ,a bag, mascara, blackberry & credit cards.

What to avoid Fur, “it trends” , wear something like a shop window mannequin, head to toe designer, tailleurs or suits, chipped nail polish, be boring, copycat.

Always be feminine , wear my fav scent, wear great underwear, feel free and unique and wear natural fibres.

Jewelery a mix of ethnic gypsy semi precious stones,natural materials, long layered necklaces , turquiose and coral earrings.

Accessories bags, I can’t go out without carrying a bag, sunglasses I wear 90% af the times Ray-Ban aviators , belts, scarves.

My dream live on the beach in a small white cottage, have a small boat and work from home making something creative and helpful, wearing silk kaftans and flipflops, drinking iced tea and enjoy sun sea & music.

I save from my closet everything!!!

Fashion is a dream a way to express my self and to express my mood and my emotions.

Beauty all the make up and beauty products that I use must be cruelty free and natural , I use Lush or Body Shop products for my body & hair, Benefit & Cargo for makeup , Narciso Rodriguez eau de parfum and now I’m using Dior Escale à Portofino that smells so good and fresh. I always wear natural polishes and natural lip colors hate dark shades on me.

Summer suitcase bikinis that I never wear paired, Havaians, cotton or linen dresses, embellished sandals for night, straw fedora , tons of sunscreen, ipod , vintage jeans jacket, clutch and a Kerouac book.

See you on your blogs, don’t forget to check the winner of the Chickdowntown giveaway (you’ve time till tomorrow to enter) on sunday. Have a great funny relaxed sexy happy weekend!! Peace

Dreaming is not a crime

Yesterday night a new tv series was on air Eli Stone , during summer lots of new tv series starts over here, the best are during the afternoon while I’m here in office…of course!! I’m not an huge tv fan but I like to watch tv series sometimes , the ones that makes me lough and relax, then I’ve my “cult” series as Sex & the City Friends or Will&Grace that I can watch over and over. Btw after another pointless day at work I was exausted, it’s better to be very busy than have just nothing than nothing to do; I went home and after my “take that damn day off” shower I’ve started watching the first episode of Eli Stone and you know what? I loved it!! I’ve been laughing all the time when he starts seeing George Michaels signing Faith or the children singing Freedom..brilliant!!Finally a new tv series that it’s fun, I like the “medical division” the police crime etc, but a good lough it’s always the best to relax. I can totally relate and see my self in Eli, ok I don’t see George Michael singing, (thanx God!) but sometimes I’m so involved in my day dreaming that I start to ear music, voices..no no no don’t think I’m totally crazy (just a little bit!) but don’t say that sometimes you don’t find yourself day dreaming or as I say “day tripping” and you totally go in another dimension..well I do! When I get bored I start to think and dream about everything, from daily things to do, wishes or to very impossible toughts like my academy award acceptance speech to surfing in the Fiji sea..stuff like that. That was an huge problem for me at school, it was so hard to focus because if somebody didn’t get my total attention I just got lost and start my dreams.I guess that it’s something that I’ve always done because my mum told me that when I was 2-3 I had few imaginary friends and imaginary worlds and that more that once she found me practing my “accentance speaches” in front of the mirror with a Barbie doll in one hand (preteding it was my oscar!) and her make up on. I still remember from early years at school that if one lesson was too boring I used to hide my self behind books and go in my worlds..totally crazy I know!! Well I love to escape sometimes from this world in my mind, otherwise how I’d survive to all of this s#@t??!!

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Today I’ve got this in my mail from a friend, I’ll tag all of you:

If you were a season : Summer
If you were a month: June
If you were a day of the week: Saturday
If you were a sport: Surf
If you were a school subject: Art
If you were a job: Lighthouse keeper
If you were an historical period: Ancient Greece
If you were a music genre: 70’s rock
If you were a piece of clothing: Cotton white dress
If you were a precious stone: Aquamarine
If you were a fruit: Melon
If you were an ice-cream: Coconut
If you were an holiday: Ferragosto (an holiday on the 15th of august)
If you were a country: Hawaii
If you were a planet: Moon
If you were a capital vice: Gluttony
If you were a feeling: Freedom
If you were an element: water
If you were a word: lullaby (it’s a word that a like both in english and italian lullaby=libellula)
If you were a cartoon character: Penelope Pitstop
If you were an animal: Sea creature
If you were a song: Free falling – Tom Petty
If you were a place: Beach
If you were an instrument: Triangle
If you were a band: Rolling Stones
If you were an object: Mirror
If you were a flower: Daisy
If you were a tree: Oak
If you were a book: TheNeverending Story
If you were a day time: Sunset
If you were a direction: Up
If you were a furniture: Hammock
If you were an historical figure: Homer
If you were a color: Seafoam
If you were an emotion: Daze
If you were a car: Convertible
If you were a movie: The lords of dogtown
If you were a tv series: Friends
If you were a famous man: Jim Carrey
If you were a damous woman: Brigitte Bardot
If you were a food: Fruit salad
If you were a city: San Francisco
If you were a number: 4

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5 Questions

Today I’m back in office after 3 months, it’s such a hard day and I rather prefer to stay at home than be here but I have to, so I’ll try to use this time to blog , since is one of the things that makes me happy!! I’ve found this 5 questions post on a very interesting and pretty blog Under The Sheets-shhh so I’ve decited that was the right post for today. The rule is easy, post the questions on your blog then comment back to me so I can read and link you.

The 5 questions are:

1) What topic would you write your book about?
2) What is one of your guilty pleasures?
3) What are some of the things you do to get yourself out of a bad mood?
4) How long do you think it will take to get the U.S. economy back on track?
5) Do you think there is a fine line between creepy and romantic?

And my 5 answers are:

1) I’ve always wanted to write a book about my life, not just an autobiography but a novel about my “non common” life. If I was a famous person probably I’d have paparazzi & journalists around all the time but not for me but for my weird and full of drama family!! I’m not a special person I’ve always tried to live in the most normal way possible, but my “life” happened to be full of surprises and I’m not afraid to say not good surprises. I’m not going to write here the book, but just to give you a sneak preview of my life I can reassume everything in few lines..I was born on the 29 of april 1976 and the same moment I was coming to this world a total eclipse of the sun were happening in the sky!! My dad always say that the sun wanted to hide himself because a new star was coming….I don’t really belive in “paranormal” or esoteric things, horoscopes spells and other stuff like that but I’m 100% sure that the eclipse has changed and influenced my life in some ways. From that day so many things have happened to my life weird funny bad good tragic..like most of us of course but I can absolutely say that there is always a kind of mistery or “magic” in all of those things. Now after 33 years, things are going very bad I’ve always had those periods, very unbeliveable amazing great periods or awful ones never had a “balance” between nice or good..who knows why?! So I’d love to write a book about those facts and maybe one day I will..to support my “theory” I have to admit even if I really don’t really belive it, one day ,not a particular one, while I was living in London I was just walking around in Covent Garden and I found my self walking into a “magic” shop, it was a very little shop that sells spells, horoscopes magic & wiccan things , and the lady who worked there told me that I had a very strong “light” around me that I was born to make great things but that my life was going to be short and hard…ouch tnx!! Just to be even more weird I ‘ll write in my book that always in England after a rave (yes a rave with prodigy & co!) me and my best friend were walking in the woods and we saw fairies … ok we’re drunken and stoned but I still remember those fairies!!!

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2) mmhhh that’s an hard one, I’ve many and they changes so quickly. Well apart from gossip sites like perez that I check daily but I forget after a minute what I’ve read , (that is one of the reason why my friends love to tell me their gossips or secrets I forget them after 2 minutes or I remember the story but I forget the person involved!!) probably my really guilty pleasure are afternoon naps!!!! I’d kill for a nap after lunch time , I’m a very lazy person but I don’t sleep very much but I adore sleeping between 3 and 5 pm isn’t that the best time to relax??

(Brilli my lovely cat!)

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3) Stay alone. I need to stay by my self when I’m down or in a bad mood and I usually watch my favourite movies or listen to my favourite songs. One of the things I love to do, to try to open and clean my mind, it is grocery shopping in a new store. I prefer a new or a megastore because they’re so big and so cold that you can stay there without thinking and do your shopping in total relax and without checking your watch. I love to check every department to read labels to find new products..for some person it’s a nightmare (for example my mum she hates going grocery shopping so she “send” my dad or the maid..yes she’s has a maid even if she’s always at home…) and it’s a nightmare for me when I’m in rush there’s a long row at the checkout and it’s raining!!

4) I have no idea but it must be soon, US economy influence global economy and of course italian too. Due to this damn crisis I’m one of those person that are going through hell, I still have my job but since march I was out of office (ironically today I’m back to work after 3 months..) , me and other 150 colleagues were forced to stay at home and to use our vacation days ; so we’re “lucky” because we still have our pay, but no warraties about our job. Now I’m back, I’m sitting here in my empty office because most of my colleagues have reached a solution with our company and they left. We’re here in 5 without nothing to do, we’ve our pc, phone, and no work at all..but yes I’m lucky because I can still pay my bills. I’m very stressed and sad because my target was to have those money to leave and change finally my life; leave Milan and move to south of Italy and trying to have a more normal life without so much stress , find a job that leaves me more time for living my life. Now I’m stucked here without any clues about tomorrow. This financial crisis has to stop and the world needs to find new ways to brings our jobs back, a way that helps us, the enviroment a sustainable economy for all the countries and our lifes to be less strssed and more “liveable”. I don’t care about money ,I don’t need to be millionaire or to have great cars jewels & co I just want to be free and to pay my bills and live in a simple and honest way, that’s probably the secret that we all need to find..who cares about money anymore?? If you can chose between money and happiness what would you choose?? I’m not stopid or blind I know that money are an easy way to happiness but are not the answer.

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5) yes and no. sometimes it does ; I ve dated “creepy” guys and they were the most romantic ones, and I’ve dated “normal” ones that were absolutely creepy!! I think it depends about us and our meaning of romanticism. I find too romantic person very very creepy , I love to watch romantic and sweet movies but I know that it’s a fiction, I don’t want a man that acts like Romeo.. no tnx!! Too much sweet and romantic scares me because I don’t know what to expect more, it is better to be less “sweet cuddles kisses & hugs” and to live a relationship without all those “accessories” all the time, that’s dosen’t mean that I don’t love a nice surprise or a little bit of a romantic touch sometimes but not everyay and not an overdose!! I think you can be sweet and romantic without beeing cheesy and you can be real honest funny without being creepy , just balance. Btw if I have to choose I prefer a crepy story like Dracula or a dark hero that for me are always very decadent and romantic..I’m more Tim Burton movie than Pretty woman !!

I’m very curios now to read your answers, so post them and come back!! Don’t forget the Giveaway Good Luck!!