2005 begins

The year 2005 was a period so crazy, sometimes I cannot believe how I am still around.

The first three months of the year, it was so depressing.

I was working for Boeing and working from home.

During the week-days, my only contact with living beings, was with my 2 cats and with my dog.

I started to have a habit to go to a coffee shop, named hotwire, where I made friends with everybody.

The reality was I was waking up alone, I was working alone, and spending the whole day alone.

Besides the coffee shop, I would dial phone numbers of my Italian friends and the number of my parents.

March 2005 was coming, and a lot of things in my life, were about to change.

The Day Before Christmas

I work as a Web Designer.

I don't think to be that bad, otherwise you woudn't believe that Micosoft, Boeing, Washington Mutual and Cingular would hire me to work for them.

To tell you the truth, my life was exactly the life of my dreams.

But at the end of 2004, Stella told me about her intention to divorce me.

It was a shock for me. Of course we had some problems, like any couple married more than six years,

Another shock was she told me about the divorce on Christmas Eve...

Wedding Day

Some of my friends tell me, my love for the San Juan Islands is so big, I could be an ambassador for them.

We decided to get married on Orcas Island after a couple of hours we were there... and it was the best thing I ever did in my life.

We marry on May 2nd, and even the weather was very nice with us.

At the end of April, it was a thunderstorm that cooled our enthusiasm.

We were in the car, driving to downtown Seattle, and the visibiliy was so poor, for the rain, we both nearly had a nervous breakdown.

In Italy... and maybe even in America, there is this ridicilous sentence, that sound like a bad joke: "Sposa bagnata, sposa fortunata". Wet Spouse is a lucky one...

The person that wrote this phrase, liked to make fun of others.

If it rained on our wedding day, would be a big disaster.

Stella and I, decided, the same, to get married outdoors.

It was a miracle... but it was a very sunny day, and the idea we had, sounded very perfect.

If you go to Orcas, go to visit Rosario Resort.

They have a beautiful setting, where you can have your ceremony on the shore of the sea.

Our ceremony was very sweet, wonderful... and overall, the best a man can get.

We were in 30. My parents, my sister, and two friends, were there with us to share this beautiful moment.