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may this New Year bring you
many good and happy moments ^__^ !

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またね！

Christmas town

I'm relieved ^^

This time Christmas atmosphere has been quite warm.. so even if it has not a real sense for me to celebrate this event, I'm glad to have an opportunity to show affection and create an illusional or even real harmony.
Yesterday evening and also today I celebrated and felt at ease.
Last year I was so angry at this kind of nostalgic event that I couldn't bear it at all. So I hope these good sensations mean something positive. I'm so sorry though that not all my friends were able to spend Christmas in a good way (Sephi-chan recover soon!! >.<).

Being less serious, I also received many wonderful presents!! :D Minna, hontouni arigatou :D ! When I opened them I really felt like a little child (like most of my time I guess ._.). I had also beautiful surprises XD !

So, after this quite-useless-post good night ^__-

Early Merry Christmas..

Hi!

Tomorrow I won't be at home, so I want to wish everyone Merry Christmas.
I hope you can spend a nice and happy Christmas day :)

Last year this celebrations wasn't so merry for me, so I hope that this year
it will be better ^^
We're celebrating today and also tomorrow and we already have many
presents ^__^ (and many things to prepare!)!
またね！

Lucca comics and games 2007 ^__^

Yai! :D

This year I managed to go to Lucca Comics and Games 2007 and it was great, really!!!
I got so excited that it was difficult to go back to University lessons and all the normal stuff after that.
We went there by car and stayed only for one day but it was really worth the effort ^^
Leaving early in the morning we got there at 11 am and we walked around all the stands until 7 pm.

I love the way they organized it this year.. all the stands were disposed around the city and some of them were so big and full of many things!! ^__^
There were manga of course, anime and so many gadgets.. I also found a stand selling idols’ and dramas’ stuff (like magazines, posters) and other with Gothic Lolita clothing and accessories.

In the RPG section there was also a part of the stand where they sold gothic and medieval dresses, weapons and others accessories. Unfortunately when I found out this place I had no money left ^^;; !
Walking around we saw many cosplayers.. there were also Death Note’s ones *__* and a very well-made L !! ** It really seemed to wander in a sort of wonderland ^^ I couldn’t help but running all around in excitement!! :D
At lunch time I ate my bento and we sat near the cosplayers’ stage, where people dressed like Saint Seiya were performing anime’s song ^__^ it was so funny!!

I took some pictures.. even of the cosplayers, but I don’t know if it would be all right to post them here... if I’ll do it I hope anyone will complain ^^;;
I bought some nice items: L’s plush doll, 2 posters (Death Note and Cloud in Advent Children **), a magazine about idols with Yamapi and Kamenashi Kazuya on the cover (the girl who was selling at the stand was tired of me I think, because I made
her opening all the magazines looking for something about Toma!), a pen case and a notebook of Tarepanda (かわいいー！), an art book by Victoria Frances: Favole 1 (I love her drawing!), Ouran Koukou Gakkou Calendar (ahaha, I have big pictures of Tamaki now ^__^) and.. that’s all I think. If only I had more money I would have bought many things more!!! ^__^

When we came back home I was so tired I almost fell asleep the moment I sat in the car =__= !! (thanks to the driver... he is a hero!!)
I hope I’ll be able to go there next year as well ^^

.. and that’s all XD ! じゃね！

Trick or treat?

Yesterday me and my boyfriend made a cute Halloween pumpkin ^^ and I called it Ragamuffin like Roman Dirge’s character, because it’s a vampire-pumpkin.

I know maybe it’s a bit early to prepare for Halloween but I will be alone on that night and I really wanted to enjoy my home-made pumpkin also on this Hallowe'en.

Last week I found in a book-shop in Venice an interesting book called “Halloween tales” and it’s a collection of horror-gothic tales both of XIX and XX centuries.
In the book I found an interesting introduction to Halloween tradition that fascinated me, of course. I knew Hallowe'en, (All-Hallow-even, the eve of All-Hallow-Day) better knew as Samhain in ancient times, was a Celts tradition that has been carried in North America by Irish immigrants and then has spread recently in all other countries.
I knew also that following the tradition, on that night the dead people walk on earth searching for everything they desired in life, that is represented by candies and that children use to wear Halloween costumes in order to disguise themselves and seem dead. But that’s not all.

There’s also something that I can feel very close to my perception of things and that everybody may feel, I guess.
Halloween is the end of the Summer season, when light and food let the populations live better than in Winter. After Halloween, November brings darkness, cold and hard work for everyone to survive and in that past time when electric light and comforts didn’t exist, ghosts seem to be everywhere and it was easier to be tricked by fears and terror of our minds.

Well, it’s not something I can really feel directly of course. I have electric light and a house where I can live. I don’t have even a field to work on. But somewhat, this seems familiar.
November for me is the darkest and the longest of all months in the year. October seems to be somewhat connected to summer’s light and atmosphere, but November cut it all away and replace everything with a heavy atmosphere where days seem always night.
It’s not that I don’t like that kind of romantic atmosphere, but getting used to it is different. Somewhat my feelings turn more complicated and everything seems harder to face. Darkness conquers my mind and I can do nothing but surrender to it and become weaker.

That’s all I wanted to say about it, but if you want to know more about Halloween celebration, on wikipedia there’s a very interesting article about it.

For Italian readers I advice the book “Racconti di Halloween – per non dormire questa notte” (edito da Einaudi, a cura di Fabiano Massimi) and for everyone all the tales written by Edgar Allan Poe, in particular my favourite ones (I already wrote them on a precedent article so I won't repeat them), by Lovecraft, Maupassant, Montague Rhodes James, Arthur Conan Doyle, William F. Benson, A. Bierce and all the most famous horror-gothic writers.

A scary Hallowe’en to everyone.