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Donna

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. -Euripides

About Me

Just Brilliant

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My Interests

Victoriana, Victorian Gothic, Rococo, Baroque, Shabby-Chic and cottage styles, crafting and decorating-especially for holidays, Christmas, Halloween, fairies, roses, pretty pink and sparkly girlie things, fall, winter, history, Italian and Italian-American culture and history, languages and linguistics.

Music:


Movies:

Gladiator, The Passion of the Christ, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Amistad, The Color Purple, Terms of Endearment, Steel Magnolias, Marie Antoinette, The Dark Crystal,Moonstruck, The Family Stone, Brokeback Mountain, Good Morning, Babylon, Mediterraneo, The Notebook, Life is Beautiful, The Silence of the Lambs,Red Dragon, Copycat, the Saw series, Dawn of the Dead (remake), The Strangers, Halloween and a bunch of other horror movies, Shaun of the Dead, Beetlejuice, The Village, Signs, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Silkwood, Chinatown, A Beautiful Mind, The Darjeeling Limited, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Bottlerocket, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, As Good as it Gets, Something's Gotta Give, Little Miss Sunshine, Zoolander, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Lethal Weapon 4, Terminator 2, Apocalypto, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight

Television:

Dexter, Project Runway, reruns of Sex and the City, Frasier, Will & Grace, Mash, All in the Family, MSNBC documentaries, tru TV, Animal Planet, HGTV

Books:

The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King, The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Beloved by Toni Morrison, crafting and decorating magazines like Romantic Country, Country Victorian, Victoria, Home Companion, Romantic Homes, and Somerset Life

Heroes:

God, my mother, my sister, Brian and countless others.

My Blog

Ultimate Peep Show

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Posted by Donna on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:27:00 PST

Excuse Me, Rudeness!

Last night when I went to vote, the gentleman who was looking through the book for my name asked me when the baby was due. I think I gave him the look of death and he said I was wearing what looked li...
Posted by Donna on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:07:00 PST

Vacation

Vacations are great. I'm still on mine. Not really. I actually got back a week ago but I still have not gone back to work. Only physically. Mentally, I'm in Disneyland, Santa Barbara, Monterey, eating...
Posted by Donna on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:31:00 PST

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday dear Arlene, happy birthday to you. I had Entenmen's cake to celebrate. I had to have it. It's your birthday. ...
Posted by Donna on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:10:00 PST

"You Know Any of Them Mafia Fellers?"

This was a question someone asked my father while he was in Texas visiting a friend. Once he heard pop's last name and where he was from, he automatically thought it was possible my father associated ...
Posted by Donna on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:17:00 PST

June 22, 2007

That's the 1-year anniversary of my mom's passing. That was a long week last year. Here's a letter I wrote to my friends on Monday, June 19, 2006 giving them the news that she did not have much time ...
Posted by Donna on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:35:00 PST

It's Only A Movie

    What's happening? I used to love horror movies and now I don't know if I can take them. I definetly can't take The Exorcist. Well, at least not without preparing myself. It can't ju...
Posted by Donna on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:31:00 PST

Oh, Fiat Where Art Thou?

 I don't know. Last night I dreamt that it was my ride. The last I saw it, it was up at my cousin's house after me and a couple of friends hauled it up there. Then I heard it was sold shortly the...
Posted by Donna on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:08:00 PST

Cycling

Tonight I took my sister's bike out for the second time this past week. My love for "riding bikes" has resurfaced after about 17 years (thank you, Brian). Not that I was a hardcore cyclist or anything...
Posted by Donna on Wed, 30 May 2007 07:36:00 PST

Old

Tricia called me the other day and said she was taking the kids in her youth group to Great Adventure. She asked me if I wanted to be a chaperone. How did I get old enough to be a chaperone? On the wa...
Posted by Donna on Tue, 22 May 2007 05:07:00 PST