A Christmas Story

Here's Cpt. Moroni guarding the water supply

Our pal Pingu!!


The Christmas tree; decorated with stringed popcorn and dots candy! I couldn't find a cookie star! Maybe next year.

Mr. Nut Cracker & his homie, Pingu

The 3 Amigos!

Christmas Eve breakfast: French Toast with fruit, powdered sugar and Santa Claus Candy

War & Peace

So, I got Elke a copy of War & Peace for Christmas. Now we each have a copy; so we have decided to start reading it at the same time; so in a way we have started our very own book club. I'll be updating the progress we make and our thoughts from time to time...so here's to you nerds out there who have formed book clubs...just know...that it is now official...Book Clubs Are Now considered cool...because Elke and I have stated it so...booyah!

2 more and a wake up!

So I have just a few more days in Texas and it's back home to good old Utah, where the snow awaits me...*shiver* Anyways, I had a good time here, but I think I had enough of Texas for a while...haha...anyways, hope you enjoy the oldie but goodie pic...*Snapie*

Next Floor Please

Life is like an elevator with its ups and downs. Along the way you meet wonderful people who in one way or another have a deep and lasting influence on you. The time spent together in the elevator is pleasant and soon you have made a great friend. And never once does it dawn on you that soon your friend will eventually come to the floor they've been waiting for and will step off the elevator. And you're left inside the box with a piece of you that has gone, but through having known that person, you have changed. Not drastically, but subtlely. You have given a part of yourself to that person and vice versa. Yet you are left wondering if you will ever see your friend again. Then some time may pass by and the elevator makes another stop and a new person steps on board. Again you bond with this new person and develope a new and magnificent friendship. But alas, the time soon comes when that person steps off the elevator as well. And a pattern is formed, and as you meet all sorts of great people you learn from them and you grow. It's a bittersweet ride...

So I guess what I'm trying to say is...Thank you to all the people that I have met thus far...knowing you has had a profound effect on me...although it is sad when we've had to say good bye, but just know that a part of you will always be with me...and who knows, someday soon you will be waiting for an elevator and the doors will slide open and there we'll see each other and pick up where we had left off...

...So my dear friend...what floor?

Little Lilly

LILLIAN ‘WOKE ONE MORNING
FEELING ODD AND SUCH
FOR LILLY
NOW HAD THE ABILITY
TO SPEAK DUTCH
SHE GOT DRESSED AND MADE HER BED
ASKED HER MOM FOR EGGS
BUT GOT A STRANGE LOOK INSTEAD
SO SHE GRABBED A SNACK
THEN WAITED FOR THE BUS
DOWN IT CAME THE ROAD
DRIVEN BY GUS
SHE GREETED GUS
THEN STEPPED ON BOARD
GUS JUST SHRUGGED
AND DROVE ON FORWARD
AT SCHOOL LILLY SAW MRS. ROW
LILLY SAID HI, BUT WHAT SHE’D SAID
MRS. ROW DIDN’T KNOW
AT RECESS LILLY PLAYED WITH KRISTIN
KRISTIN WOULD LISTEN, BUT HADN’T A CLUE
WHAT LILLY WAS SAYING, NEITHER DID SUE
NEITHER DID ANY OF HER FRIENDS
BUT HAVE NO FRET
THEY ALL PRETENDED TO UNDERSTAND
HER NEW DIALECT
THE DAY PRESSED ON AND ALL WENT WELL
THEN THE KIDS WERE DISMISSED
AT THE SOUND OF THE BELL
THEY ALL DASHED FOR THE DOOR
EAGER TO PLAY
OFF LITTLE LILLY WENT
ON HER MERILY WAY
SHE HOPPED AND SKIPPED
HER WAY TO MIKES PETSTORE
FOR SHE HAD TWO FISH AT HOME
AND WANTED ONE MORE
LILLY WALKED ON INSIDE
SAW MIKE AT THE COUNTER
ASKED HIM FOR A FISH;
HOWEVER MIKE DIDN’T ANSWER
SO SHE POINTED AT THE BIGGEST FISH
AND MIKE NODDED
AS IF TO IMPLY
HE KNEW WHAT SHE WANTED
BUT BEFORE RINGING HER UP
MIKE KINDLY REPLIED:
OH, DEAR LITTLE LILLY
TO YOU I DO CONFIDE
NO WHERE ELSE IN TOWN
CAN ONE FIND A BIGGER FISH
BUT THE LANUAGE YOU SPEAK ISNT’ DUTCH…
IT’S GIBBERISH!

©2006-2008 ~Matteo-Luca

MEET MEDUSA ANISTOPOLIS OF THE FOURTH GRADE
THE YOUNG GIRL WHOM SOME CLASSMATES ARE AFRAID
SHE IS CUTE AS A BUTTON WITH NO HORRID FEATURES
'CEPT FOR A HEAD FULL OF SERPENTINE CREATURES
YES INDEED SHE HAS A HEAD FULL OF YOUNG SNAKES
SHE OFTEN GETS SOME, "E-GADS," AND "GOODNESS SAKES!"
BUT IT'S NOTHING SHE ISN'T USED TO BY NOW
ATLEAST SHE HAS DEXTER, HER TOY STUFFED COW
TOGETHER THEY FROLICK AND PLAY
AND AT LUNCHTIME THEY BOTH SHARE A TRAY
YOUNG MEDUSA ENJOYS HER CLASSES VERY MUCH
SHE SITS NEXT TO LILLY (LILLY SPEAKS DUTCH)
TODAY IS PICTURE DAY AND MRS. ROW IS IN A FRET
BECAUSE MEDUSA'S HAIR REFUSES TO SET
IT HISSES AT HAIRSPRAY AND BITES AT BRUSHES
FINALLY MRS. ROW GIVES UP, SHRUGS AND BLUSHES
IT'S NOW MEDUSA'S TURN TO GET HER PICTURE TAKEN
"SAY CHEESE!" SAID THE PHOTOGHRAPHER, A BIT SHAKEN
AND WITH A CLICK AND A FLASH, IT WAS ALL DONE
AND OFF SKIPPED MEDUSA, TO PLAY AND TO HAVE FUN!

-THE END-

©2006 ~Matteo-Luca

The Undecided Mind

I lie on my living room floor
Staring up at the ceiling
It's quiet
Although
The low humand the whistling blades
From my ceiling fan
Carry me away into a dull trance
I now see a collage
Of curious figures
Strewn across the ceiling
Each one fighting for my attention
Yet my focus is veiled
For there is no ceiling fan
Just four walls
And Silence...
My disillusion has bested me
And the curious figures
All revel in my insanity
I close my eyes
And audibly whisper
Her beautiful name...
Collette-

The End

©2007 ~Matteo-Luca