Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Dr. Seuss Birthday Rhyme

did not have to go to lunch?

Grace calls me in the office, at 11. "I'm at the bar of the gym. I just finished Pilates, madonna like I'm tired! And what are you doing?" "I'm working, really." "Ah, look, if you like the macrobiotic lunch together?" "Of course, love." "Ok, pero 'arrival at noon and a half to go now that I have already' hunger." '.... ".... Should be ok, I'll wait. "

at the scheduled calls me and tells me to go below the office. But instead of finding the door I see in the distance that beckons me to go to her. E 'in front of the window of a furniture shop in luxury. I pass by every morning for years but not I never thought to go in 'cause it looks like a place too expensive.

"Look at this beautiful sofa! We go in?" "How would we go in, what do you care, come on, did not have to go to lunch?" "Where do you enter?" "... And I know ..." Din Don! the relentless sound of the door bell hi tech. "I help you?". The diligent and committed bespectacled 'already' there ', and within minutes the entire show at Grace calatogo sofas and the entire sample of tissue. Meanwhile, Grace asks questions I absolutely do not idle waiting for either of them the answer, rather, encompasses the answer to the question itself, but the whole procedure is for the illusion of having me involved in the purchasing decision. "Sit down, try it, comfortable, no? And this fabric? Best this or that? This, no? And the length? We need more 'or longer' short for you? More 'long, is better. You say, we put it under the picture in the house? Yes, under the picture is good. "

I stay 'daze without understanding what's going on up to three sentences for solutions, given in rapid succession:

1)" It' s just like you wanted "
2) (pronounced low voice) "Look at that price and 'good!"
3) "We made a deal!"

advance from my credit card and home delivery in 3 days. Done. I went from' office thinking about going to lunch and I bought a new sofa.
And all and 'success in fifteen minutes flat.

the macrobiotic restaurant, after showing me the jacket that she had bought just before our meeting, Grace, Strong learned of the cooking course macrobiotoca who are following every Wednesday 'evening, complaining of disequilibrium protein menu'. "Now's where I'm going to ask, me, here, the protein?" "Please, can you tell it to him one day when there are? I'll come here often .....".

exit, while we're about to say goodbye, I say "Oh, I have no more 'tickets' s bus. You have one for me?" ".... Not really ... I've finished this morning, but we can buy the newspaper ... " "No, it's well, 'patience, I a taxi, hello ".

Tuesday, January 3, 2006

Pokemon How To Do Dawn's Hair

Grace Snow

Christmas Holidays in Courmayeur.
" Curma ", as they say in Milan.
Accommodation in residence Pre 'St. Didier, where usually down when the House of Savoy reigned supreme.

morning departure of December 25. Grace and 'care to order by phone at the most' expensive food in the area west of Milan, a sumptuous "Christmas dinner" for the whole family. A huge box which alone fills three quarters of the boot, with all the dishes carefully packed, I'm going to collect and pay before departure, "'cause you would not want to put me to cook when we get in the mountains, and the Christmas lunch at the restaurant is sad." As blame her.

the menu: scallops with champagne and prawns
real baked with herbs.
the three organic cereals soup with saffron, leeks and shellfish soup
capon with braised cappelletti Mantuan
fillets of sea bream
the Ligurian Sea bass fillets in a sauce of porcini mushrooms sautéed Mandarin

mashed potatoes and asparagus.

In the days before I booked and already 'paid online with a week of ski school for both children.
Grace decides not to be denied the opportunity 'to ski, but on alternate days, of course with master suite. This diabolical solution allows you to show off her put on the ski slopes, without denying the whole day of shopping while I and the children swarm. In

wicked lottery ski instructors, the children and not 'touched, unfortunately, the same delightful instructor Victoria "Posh" Beckham I've seen darting about Pra' Neyron, it 'that sort of Elisabetta Canalis met in the Alps to the ski lift, but "The Iris", which with all due respect, I remember my Aunt Lella.
On the other hand, Grace is not 'same as happened to the young master William England' s already 'spotted last year, but Piero, sixty-year veteran of the instructors, roly-poly, paternal and a tooth for decades that their usual Gauloises without filter.

Days Grace have resort as "fil rouge" the perennial questioning of the foundations of every single practice connected with sport in question.
The cable car: "They should not let in people. It is too tight."
boots: "Why 'make them so' hard? Hurt!"
The tracks: "A Sauze D'Oulx tracks are more 'beautiful."
The chair: "You see that old!"
Clothing: "Should I buy the shirt for me too" technical "as the ones I bought for the children."
The artificial snow, "Why 'do not shoot better, and here' s all frozen." About

snow in a snowstorm, watching the flakes came down against the light on 'orange teaches a bar, Alexander said, "Look Daddy, the artificial snow."
"No, love, and this 'natural snow
...". "So, why' and 'orange?".

When Grace is not with us on the slopes, his days are permeated by a constant' of reservations and cancellations related to the "beauty" personal. Book baths, move the massage, sauna and remove the wax rebook canceled previously.
Other than personal trainer, for her it would take the "Personal booker and eraser.

Within days, Grace becomes the queen Via Roma, the "progress" most of the boutiques 'exclusive Curma, and the best score of those grills that flaunting names like "Les Gourmandises", or "The old pasta factory of Gabriella" already declared' departure in exorbitant prices.

One day, returning from shopping, she says, "Look, your credit card does not work. I could not pay. Do you think that the kind Gabriella, told me that you can go when you want." Of course, the card has reached the monthly spending limit, so I'm going to pay the cash account by gentle Gabriella ("Ah, she 's husband of Mrs Grace ...").

In New Year, while all the "sciuri" crowd the gastronomy of the course in view of the dinners at Grace can be a double true professional: Gabriella comes from, take the number 38 while they are serving the '84, which calculates the approximate time We want to serve 54 customers can go to the hairdresser and back in an hour deli and a half later, exactly as they are calling the number before it. Chapeau.

Activities 'shopping mainly concerned with micro-targeted purchases: cups homemade, hand-embroidered oven mitts, socks for children in the more' exclusive store of socks for children, when a day comes the announcement:

"I saw a bag ...."
"Well, love, I promised a gift for our anniversary
..."," ... it 's really beautiful.
....", I let it get to see' OK, let's go. Where did you see ?
"Da Shop ....( more 'expensive of all the Val D' Aosta, ed) ... just that I thought would cost (......) but costs much more. 'But' and 'beautiful. Think, and 'limited edition'
"Limited?!? I mean '? "
" All right,' Come on, come on, I let it get to see, "
" Well, if it 's so nice and small, we hope that there is still ....",
"I made it set aside ...". If you encounter

Grace, know that her bag and 'the number 54 of a limited signature series, which each model and' custom and different, for sale only in carefully selected shops Milan, New York, Cortina, Gstaad, Paris, Aspen .... and Courmayeur.