Introducing Great-Grandmother Maria Giuseppa Marciano, born April 17, 1889 Carini, Provincia di Palermo, Sicily daughter of Antonino & Francesca Angela (Marciano) Marciano. Yup, both her parents were Marciano's, 2nd cousins in fact, and to make it worse, Giuseppa married her OWN first cousin (her father & his mother were full siblings), my Great-Grandfather Antonino. It's no wonder their children were born without deformities!
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It is the 1651 Church marriage record for Carlo Marciano to a Greek bride named Mattea Norcia "from Plane Grecorum or The Plane of the Greeks". I used this document to study further into this woman and discovered her parents arrived from Albania approximately 30 years earlier where they belonged to a large Greek Colony. Fascinating stuff when you see it all right before you. As another interesting point, and because of the intermarriages within my family, I descend from Mattea Norcia a total of 9 times in 4<> different lines.
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(Christian Bale, The Machinist, he just couldn't sleep)
The effects of no sleep & multiple meals
Ok so I discovered something this week. If you get little sleep, and eat every couple hours, your body/metabolism kicks into overdrive and you lose weight. The thing is I don't need to lose weight, but it still happened. I mean I was chowing all day and night long, an insatiable hunger came over me for some reason. I even had like 2 candy bars! Yet when I woke up this morning I felt emaciated and starving, and when I stepped on the scale I realized I am down to 147 at 6', thats like 5 pounds in the last 3 days. Yikes...! I guess they weren't kidding when they said keeping the metabolism active with small meals throughout the day works, should you desire to lose. I mean I haven't Walked or crunched now since Saturday (not feeling motivated with these weird hours) so my physical activity has been very much reduced. Baffling..
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Thanks everyone for their suggestions on where to get an in-house Washer/Dryer, I will have one soon no matter what the cost. That Laundromat shit is a nightmare, I don't know how people deal with it on a regular basis (can you tell it's the first time ever I have had too?) Think about that before you move into a condo or apartment which requires you to wash your clothes in such a place. Yea I mean taking things to family/friends sounds easy enough, but in the end it's a royal pain in the ass, try it and you will see what I mean.
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So anyway two more days of this shift. Then its a 4 day weekend... :)
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So you're losing weight and don't even want to, and aren't trying.
you are SUCH a bitch.
HUGS
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rest up, and have fun this weekend, ok?
there are still pockets of greek speakers in southern italy (puglia, calabria) and on sicily. their dialect is bizarre. it's kind of a mixture of greek and italian, and some claim it has its roots in the doric dialect of magna grecia (ie. 6th century bce). others think they're the descendants of the byzantines. myself i think their dialect sounds more medieval than ancient, but who knows. whatever its origins, it's fascinating, and clearly those communities have been there a very, very long time.
they've dwindled in numbers recently. during the fascist period, ethnic and linguistic minorities in italy suffered severe repression. they hung on, though. i've got some cds with their music. it's beautiful. very different than the music of greece and the islands.
you know, jim, greeks get naked at the beach :)
My uncle on my dad's side married his first cousin and their kid is a total sweet braniac...
Anyway, off I go to bed. It is late here so forgive my incoherent mumblings! Much love to you!!!
Still...I think you look great reguardless so...:) But that's just me.
Talk to you this weekend definately. Let's hear it for a 3 day weekend (for me at least)!
HUGS!
kb