Today, 09:15 am

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• A teenage girl has told how she bashed an attacking shark over the head with her body board until it let her go.

I want to break free…

I am in a joyful mood just ate some sugar - high cookies with my friends, for today is Cristina’s b-day! HAPPY BIRTHDAY CRISTINA!!! :*

I am also happy for 2 days ago I got a ticket to Rome … Iam going to have in wonderful time! I am sure and I will enjoy it a lot!

I will fly to Rome and I shall stay 4 whole days in that lovely town, wondering in the streets and having a slice of pizza - with 4 tipes of cheese and a glass of wine ;))

I shall go to Vatican and sit in the great square…and take it all into my heart

mmm…love it!

p.s. Happy birthday also to “Pride and Prejudice” It was first published today, a “few years” back

Trupa germana de rock industrial Rammstein a ales sa filmeze clipul “Rosenrot” in Romania, undeva in vecinatatea Brasovului. Piesa face parte din albumul cu acelasi nume, lansat in 2005, iar versurile sale combina parti din povestea “Alba ca Zapada” – a Fratilor Grimm – si fragmente dintr-un poem al lui Goethe.

I do like “Sonne”/”Du riechst so gut” and “Mein herz brennt”

I wish they could come to Romania, for a concert

New Year’s Twins ‘Born In Different Decades’

A set of identical twins will celebrate their birthdays on different days after being born either side of midnight on New Year’s Eve.

 

Margarita Velasco went into labour on December 31st in Tampa, Florida.

Baby Marcello was delivered by caesarian minutes before midnight.

His brother, Stephano, was born moments after 2010 began.

Juan, the twins’ father, said it would be fun for the boys to enjoy birthday parties on different days when they were older.

He added he was relieved both babies were delivered safely after a “high risk” pregnancy.

Born ten weeks premature, the twins are expected to remain in hospital for two months.

Another year has passed by. Do you fell any wiser?

Today is - again - a “funny” date: 01/01/10 ;))

Here is  my dedication to everyone:

Last year WAS a beautiful year, so try not to be grim, and thank God for everything good that  you have in your life - family, friends, a roof over your head, food enough for every member and money…yes! money to hang out with your friends, or just money to pay your bills… so…

Happy New Year everyone!

…Bountiful Basket

You are very loved. Everyone finds you a welcoming, warm person. They look to you for advice and comfort, and someone to just have a good time with. Your personality is seen as cliche and average, but in truth, you have talents and skills and ideas that no one has thought of before. You are someone with style. You are good with colors, and you know how to color people’s worlds and minds to your way. You think new relationships are a coloring book, to fill them in with fulfilling conversations and meetings. You may seem nice and perfect and beautiful, you have a policy of “forgive but never forget”. You always remember your enemies if you have any, and you know where to steer. Sometimes, when you’re completely lost, you are dependent on friends for help. You hope they’ll be there for you, but sometimes you fear that they won’t be. That is something you are afraid of. You are ready to give, but you are also ready to accept. To many, it seems like you change your personality just for different people, but in fact, you are the one thing that’s not changing. Other people grow on you, and grow fond of you, not the other way around. You are always yourself, and you are definite.

Night Before Christmas
by Major Henry Livingston Jr. (1748-1828)

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled down for a long winter’s nap,

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;

‘Now, DASHER! now, DANCER! now, PRANCER and VIXEN!
On, COMET! on CUPID! on, DONDER and BLITZEN!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!’

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my hand, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.

His eyes — how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
“HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD-NIGHT!”

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?  It came without ribbons.  It came without tags.  It came without packages, boxes or bags.  And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore.  Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before.  What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store.  What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.  ~Dr. Seuss

vs.

Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live.  ~Dennis Miller

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.  ~Charles Dickens

Well…the other day I went to the beautiful movie  “A Christmas Carol” - animation with Jim Carrey - 3D  from Disney.

It was lovely and Gary Oldman was brilliant as Bob Cratchit

It is a must see for children over 12 and for people who are children still in their heart!

P.S. Charles Dickens really knew how to write - this is more of a story for grown ups