Lana's Birthday

These are some of the photos of Lana's birthday!

She must have had a lotta fun!

I wish I could be there too to hug my little monster haha!

Pizza

I love pizza!

Well, I guess everybody loves pizza but I really enjoy a pie made with care and love. I like making it also what makes the experience really fun.

I prepare the dough in the mixer with secret ingredients ;) then I roll the dough, let it raise. In the meantime I prepare my sauce which goes just peeled tomatoes and oregano. I open the dough , put the cheese on it, and spread out my sauce carefully on the cheese. I like to have a light brown color, not perfect, and I finish it with fresh basil. That's my favorite one, a margherita!

I used to work making pizzas, that's where my passion came from. Now I'm one of the managers of Wilton Pizza and Pasta in Wilton and whenever a get time, I make a nice margherita for me, like the one in the picture.

And the pie below is my heart-shaped cheese pizza.

Victory

Every time I see this commercial it reminds me my childhood. Soccer was a really important thing in school, it was the difference between the popular boys and the Nerds. And for me it was even more important than school. Never missed a game on tv with my dad and I read the sport's section of the newspaper every day. And yet used to play soccer in video games and computer. Although I was not really good playing I was always in the grade's team. Maybe because of my sense of leadership or my physical bearing. Whatever the reazon was, I loved to be in the team and all my biggest victories and my defeats are on the bottom of my memories, like the time when I scored in the semi-finals of a championship and the coach said to my father that we could win if the team had five other guys like me. It was great to see the satisfaction on my daddy's face. I love soccer!

Lana

This is Lana, one of my loves. I just thought it would be interesting to talk about Lana because she is not like any other dog. She is more like a daughter for me. And she turned three last wednesday so this is like a gift to my little meatball since I can't be there to hug her. I bought her to my ex-girlfriend, Mah, as a lovely present for valentine's day and this beautiful dog changed my life since then. We raized her together, walking her every week early in the morning on sundays. Lana sometimes is the only thing that makes me smile because anytime I pick her up to a ride, she runs and barks so happily (most of times she also pees), that any problem I had vanishes away instantaneously. She also put me and my ex-girlfriend back together after fights many times just staring at us and pretending to be mad. I remember one time when I took her to my house and there was my other dog, a big and dangerous akita. So when I went to play with the akita for a while, I left Lana on the second floor of my house. When Lana saw me playing on the ground, she jumped. I got scared but somehow nothing happened to her.

It's been 18 months since we broke up but every time I'm home I have to see my puppy and play with her. She sometimes cries before I leave, I guess she misses me a lot but she is in very good hands, Mah is an excelent mommy and does everything Lana wants.

Places I Call Home

One place I certainly call home would be Pizza Post. It was one of the first things I saw in America. A small and tiny pizza place in the middle of a plaza situated in Greenwich, Connecticut. Lovely place, I could see people coming in and out all the time when I was brought there by a friend that told me they could have a job for me. There I met all the greatest guys and girls from all over the world. Three from Italy, four from Usa, two from Brazil, one from Uruguay, one from Equador, one from South Africa, one from Lithuania, one from Mexico and one from Guatemala. That was my first real job and looked much more like a fun house. Jokes have to be part of a resume, I thought. These people were different ages but they all looked kids for me. They worked with an enthusiasm renewed every day. I participated of their lives too, sharing problems, fighting, giving each other christmas presents, like a big family. Even now that I don't work there anymore, I still have the key and go there often to see my great friends. And it's exactly like when I worked there because I know their moves, when they will play a trick, when I can't say a word and so on. They've made my great experience in America even greater with their smiles and gestures because it's just this simple to make life better.