nausicaa83 | "On me dit que nos vies ne valent pas grand chose elles passent en un instant."

To anyone who celebrates it, Happy Holiday Of Your Choice! To the new priest now living at the church just around the block, who's been playing those bells every half an hour since 6 am, I GET IT.

On Facebook I got a few Happy Easters, one Happy Spring (although with the clouds and the rain and it being April, I don't really get it), and one Happy Zombie Day, which took me fifteen seconds to understand, and made me laugh so much I'm going to re-watch the first episode of the Walking Dead to celebrate. XD

I'm in a very good mood, because this is the first time my aunt completely accepted my atheism. It was absolutely unexpected, since she previously just chose to ignore it, and I was used to my mom actually crying about it and starting fights and so on, and it happened over the phone of all places, but it was such a wonderful feeling.

I'm in a very good mood also because I stayed up late yesterday to read A Study In Winning on my Kindle, under the covers, while listening to Carla Bruni's Quelqu'un m'a dit album on my iPod (helloooo guilty pleasure) and then this morning too over English Breakfast Tea and French Bread. Talk about continental breakfast. :D I'm glad I remember more about tennis than I thought I did, and there's a sequel too! Sherlock Fanfic Writers, I love you all. ♥

On mostly-but-not-really-related news, I'm working on a Sherlock fanmix. It would be my very first fanmix, and probably only for my f-list, but I'm working hard on it. *_____*

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Off-topic, but the song lyrics made me do homework. ON A SUNDAY. LOL I write and read French well, but I couldn't remember which verb "valent" was. My daughter pointed out that it wasn't "aller". so I had to look up the conjugations.

but... awesome song! I want her album now. LOL

Anyway, Happy Zombie Day. What is your facebook username? Mine is BrendaLee Ellis.

I really, really love French, even if I have a very limited knowledge of it. And I've listened to that album a lot, it's fresh and relaxing. Just listen to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zThpF8WrieQ

It's a cover of what is my favourite Italian song ever, and she does a wonderful job at it. ♥

I'll send you a friend request on Facebook! *________*

Looking forward to the fanmix!

Mi sto rendendo conto che ci sono fin troppe canzoni che associo a questo show, aiuto. :D

più sono meglio è! XD

*e aggiunse l'intera produzione degli Smiths alla cartella*

Ottima scelta! XD

E' online (http://nausicaa83.livejournal.com/527953.html)! Alla fine degli Smiths ne ho messa una (è stato arduo scegliere quale...), dimmi che te ne pare. ^^

There are fewer things that feel better than an important person in your life accepting something about you.:)

My mom was very religious, although she never agreed with the Pope (which I found hilarious), my dad was agnostic, and my sis was a believer too. My sis was absolutely fine with me being an atheist, but my mom acted like it was some failure on her part. We had all kinds of fights about it that felt a lot like I was coming out of the closet.

Thinking about it, if I had been about coming out of the closet, she would have been completely supportive of me. It's the Atheism that drove her up the walls.

My aunt just chose to ignore it, and change the subject abruptly, although she never asked me to go to church with her or anything. Then the other day on the phone she told me she got in a huge fight with a relative of ours, defending me as "atheists are perfectly good persons" and "you don't have to believe in god to have morals" and "don't bother calling her on easter, to her it's just another day of the week and that's perfectly fine". I must say it took me a while to register it all, I was... flabbergasted, and then jubilant. :D

That's so great, especially considering your background—I know religion is a BIG thing in Italy! It's so good that people can and do change.:) And maybe sometimes it's the attack over a loved one that drives it home!

After a year and a half I told my mother the other day that I was writing Sherlock and John as a couple. (She adores them both.) Her initial reaction wasn't what I would have hoped for...but she took it in her stride. At least she appears to have done so! So I understand the feeling of admitting something that for you is just fine, but you have fears it wouldn't necessarily be so for the other person.

Oh well. I've been on a big quest to challenge my mother's stereotypes, especially about gay people, and so far she's done me proud.:)

Luckly my parents were always very supportive of gay rights. When I was little, they convinced me the polecat in Bambi was a girl, and that she fell in love with another girl polecat. There were hundreds of tiny things like that, like how they shipped Kirk and Spock when watching Star Trek with me, and only now I understand they wanted me to grow up thinking it was absolutely normal. I still remember when they had to explain homophobia to me, I was 11 or 12, and it was the weirdest thing ever. The best thing about childhood is living in this happy bubble where nothing bad ever exists in the world.

God help me, religion is such a big deal here. There's a interview with the Pope in virtually every news edition ever, and it's considered sort of normal routine for everyone to go to church every sunday. It's less about faith, and more about culture. I wish we could just lent the Vatican to other catholic countries, you know. That would be great. :D

My aunt teaches bible class at her local church school too, and yet she makes angry and loud remarks about pedophile priests everytime the Pope or some bishops say something against gays. She's really cool. *_____*

I ♥ your family.:)

It was a pretty awesome family indeed.

Oooohhh non mi avevi detto del fanmix!!!

Sto ancora ragionando sulla playlist, è molto agli albori. ;)

"On me dit que nos vies ne valent pas grand chose elles passent en un instant."

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