Happy Birthday to me!

I am 31. Wow! 31. It actually is a scary number. It feels old. My friends mocked me on my birthday this year and gave me an anti-aging effect make up! Of course it was a joke and we had a good laugh on it!

This year I am giving myself a new blog on my 31st birthday! And I am celebrating with my first real post on it! Welcome to my new blog, dear readers!

Since I am a curious person and like to find out who's the writer behind the tens of blogs I regularly follow, I think it'd be just nice of me to start off with a proper introduction of who's the writer behind "A scrapbook of life".

A bookworm. Books, how can anyone go one single day without a book?! Now this is something I can't really understand. I am book-aholic. I've always been, I knew my alphabet with four and read children books back then. I think I have never stopped ever since. A summer, I was 14 and had just finished secondary school, before taking the big jump to High School, I read some 15 books in little more than 15 days! And it wasn't short books I read, but had some good titles such as Little Women and its sequels among those books! I can read both in Italian (my mother tongue) and in English (that I particularly appreciate and like to do). I am especially reading in the latter language lately, I need to brush up my own English, now that I am off school and off snail mail, reading is my only tool to refresh my own English skills.

 A Londoner at heart. Now, this is a long long story. But I won't go long here. I will sum the story up with a few words: London is where my heart belongs! I was at the primary school and already dreaming of attendind a college in London. The Big Ben has always fashinated me and the life they lead up there in merry old England is a life I would gladly stick to. I had my dream satisfied when I was allowed on a summer school in Colchester back at the end of the 90's. I've been to England several times since then and to London a good few times. I can remember each street I walked through when there, I can clearly remember the smells and sounds and I have a favourite second hand bookshop in London. I would gladly go back again and again, London would never have me tired of it! And I am happy I infected my boyfriend on this love for England. Ok, I must be sincere, he likes London allright. I am insanely in love with it! But still.

A girlfriend. I am truly madly deeply in love with my one and only. We' ve been together 12 years next May. We were high school sweethearts, grown up together through ups and downs and learnt that love needs respect, understanding, patience and perseverance. I consider myself lucky to have such a special person by my side. My boyfriend's name is Ricky and he's a lawyer. We're an odd couple, him being a lawyer and me being a social worker. Thankfully we've lots other interests we share and are not always talking of our jobs! Actually we very rarely talk about jobs, we are conscientious workers by day but busy bees when off work. We've got several interests and we are rarely bored when off duty.

I think I will let it as it is for the moment. More about me facts in the next post.

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