February 8, 2010 at 6:53 pm (Family)
Tags: blogging, home life
They did it, don’t ask me how but the ‘rents have managed to reach their 40th wedding anniversary. And didn’t they look the picture of happiness – well perhaps that’s pushing it; the way their faces fall would make a person think they were the two crankiest feckers in the world.
They were happy though. Even when my dad surprised my mam with a ruby ring and her reply was ‘ooo, that’s nice’, he instantly knew that she hated it. It went like water off a ducks back, he knows her by this stage, (I should hope) so he flashed her the receipt so she can change it for one she likes.
Sometimes you wonder how they got this far but then most other times you see them together and realise they are the perfect match. (That and the fact that nobody else would put up with them j/k)
The party went well. I think the sisters and myself went a little overboard with regards the food because it was most definitely a sin the amount of stuff we had to throw out the next day. And to think, we were worried we wouldn’t have enough. Ah well, the birds sure had their stomachs full these last two days.
I don’t think the house was cleaned as thoroughly as that at Christmas just gone. Patrice went to town (and IKEA for some vases) with the elbow grease. And of course she got yours truly scrubbing like a Cinderella too. I had thought I’d come to blows with CeeCee again over the course of the party (that girl’s not one to get her finger out, especially not when there is drink to be drunk) but I’m pleased to announce we weren’t an embarrassment to ourselves or to Patrice. Yay for us!
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January 29, 2010 at 8:49 pm (Life)
Tags: blogging, Literature, Random
I should perhaps show a bit more savvy, money wise, lately as I’ve neither two pennies (or should that be cents since the Euro has been introduced) to rub together, nor have I the proverbial pot to piddle in.
For shame then that I spent the 50 note my mam gave me yesterday all in one short trip to town (I had only gone in to check for a particular DVD) Thanks to my dear mammy for the extra cash! She’s as strapped for cash as the rest of us are, but she got a few quid she wasn’t expecting and it burned a hole in her pocket – this must be where I get it from.
I had the intention to only spend a bit, save the rest, that is why I put back two of the three CDs and one of the three DVDs I held in my hand as I roamed HMV.
I was quite surprised as I generally don’t have much restraint in that shop. But I had ideas of purchasing something random and old fashioned in TK Maxx today, so ‘don’t spend it all in the one shop’ is what I’m trying to say my head was screaming at me. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 29, 2010 at 8:28 pm (LOL while ROFL, while I LMAO (Comedy, to normal people))
Tags: Friends, Random, Silliness
A conversation between my friend and I done through the new medium of text messages:
Christina: STAND are playing Whelans the 30th of this month
Me: I know 
Christina: I’m asking if you wanted to go?
Me: Yeah. Didn’t put you down as much of a Stand fan though
Christina: I’m not, I just thought you’d want to go so I’m volunteering myself
Me: We’ll have fun. Yayyy!!!
*Christina sitting at home looking confused*
Christina: I’m asking if you want to go with me
* Me at home looking confused. Thinking to myself ‘I know that. What an odd thing to reply with after I already agreed’*
Me: Oh, when I last text I cut the apostrophe out. I mean “We’ll have fun”, not “Well have fun”
Christina: Oh for fuck sake
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January 27, 2010 at 10:47 pm (My Environment)
Tags: blogging, hometown, J'adore!, nature, Seasons
I’ve finally got off my ass and stated walking again. Today for the first time in years I went with my eldest sister to Malahide Park. I do believe I am in love!
I forgot how gorgeous that place is. To be honest, the way we went today I don’t remember seeing. I think before we just stuck to the grass part and didn’t going walking around the pathways through the trees. For shame!
I knew about the castle, the coffee shop (especially the coffee shop 
) but the old ruins of the church took me by surprise and my sister, god love her, just couldn’t understand why I got so excited.
Even the coffee shop was exciting because I kept getting this feeling of things being familiar. I love that feeling. It’s happening a lot to me lately. Like I’m remembering dreams from childhood or something. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 23, 2010 at 1:41 pm (Family)
Tags: Family, humour, movies
I really need to spend time away from my sister. I’m becoming more and more like her so much that we are finishing each others sentences. “Awww, thats sweet” you may say, you don’t know my sister!
She sees a tone and feels the overwhelming need to lower it. It’s very funny, if not very lady like at times
We went to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie the other night – It was so good. Finally a Jude Law film that’s worth watching, he’s not been in many of those of late. The chemistry between him and Downey Jr is what made that film funny and worth watching. Of course, the Victorian setting appealed to me, it looked scrumptious, and the occult theme was fun. (Lord Blackwood, what an ace name! Gives off the impression of pure evil mwahahaha). Ace movie. Sad Chrissie couldn’t come with, she would have loved it for the same reasons as myself.
What I didn’t like was Irene. I normally like Rachel McAdams but her Irene just seemed an odd addition, not doing much for the plot. It was only on the way out to the car that I realise why they needed her. My sister now believes Sherlock was in love with Watson. The chemistry between Holmes and Watson was bordered slightly on homoerotic, so much so sister-dearest exclaimed to be ‘a waste of a cock. Two cocks and one pair of hands’
I do believe I pissed myself – the one pair of hands refers to our mutual agreement that Law, for a man, has smallish hands. (We have fondly called him Jude ‘fanny hands’ Law for a while now.) It added to the laughter that just as she said it she pulled up to the ticket machine and she didn’t realise her window was down. Morto! Luckily I don’t think anyone heard.
I’m glad I didn’t finish that sentence, I’m glad I didn’t even think it. That’s when I know I better give her a wide breadth 
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January 19, 2010 at 8:53 pm (Life)
Tags: Family, home life
I don’t know what to say. I’m heart broken.
I complained about the big mass of hairiness as much as my siblings did but…our poor dog. What a horrible, horrible death.
My sister and I were crying in the car coming home when we heard. He died outside our gate in a pool of blood. Lay there for God knows how long in a pool of his own blood.
I can’t even think about it, I feel like I want to cry.
Each time I picture it I have to hold my head in my hands and push the imagine away.
He was old. And so unwell. His vet appointment was actually today. My mam was worried about bringing him because she had the feeling they’d tell us to put him down and she didn’t want to lose him. But he was in pain and had to go, even if it meant to be put down. It was the humane thing to do.
But no, too late. He died alone, out in the cold street. I’m heart broken.
My dad buried him out the back beside my brothers rose bush. When I think of the poor fecker out there under the dirt, dried blood knotting his fur…
…I can’t even speak…
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January 18, 2010 at 9:32 pm (Random)
Tags: blogging, dreams, J'adore!, Random
I love journals. (Afraid of ruining them by writing in them, but how and ever.) I love pens. My latest obsession is to be the owner of a fancy smancy fountain pen – black ink. It’s hard to get black inked fountain pens unless you have 60 -110 quid to spend or a credit card to buy online.
Another of my latest obsessions is a Polaroid camera. I’ve wanted one for ages now. One of the old ones. I was thinking of getting one online for Christmas present but by the time I could get my hands on someones credit card it would have been too late to get it for Christmas morning, and I really wanted it for Christmas morning rather than a week later. It’s just not the same when your not unwrapping it from under the tree.
Well, now I think I need two new obsessions. Last week I got my fountain pen, woo! Clever me, I bought the pen and just bought black refills for it instead of the blue that comes with it. (I am so wasted being unemployed )
And today, well I didn’t exactly get my Polaroid, what I did get was a Fuji film instant mini camera, double woo!!
It’s so cool! Well actually it’s mental looking. The kind of mental we’re you’d be embarrassed to take it out in public – well I’d be embarrassed to take it out in public as I’m just constantly embarrassed when in public – but its so uncool its actually cool and it’s going to come everywhere with me.
I’ve named him Edgar. It’s a fitting name as its also so uncool its cool.
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January 12, 2010 at 11:22 pm (Life, Ramblings)
Tags: dreams, Friends, J'adore!, Memory Lane, nature, vampire
OK it’s list time.
I like lists. They are so…whats the word?…organised. Yes, thats the word, organised. I never stick to them but that’s beside the point.
A list for the on coming year:
Places I want to visit:
Edinburgh – This is a must! I’m determined to go and visit at least one place outside of Ireland each year, Edinburgh is a top my long list of places I most want to go.
Hellfire Club – From my earliest memories of childhood there was always ghost stories. Sean and myself basked in tales of the supernatural. From my aunts story of when she saw the Banshee, to my dad’s stories of visits to the Hellfire club I have loved each and every word. I had always pictured it a ramshackle old ruin with a single room. Seeing it for the first time the other night on The Worlds Scariest Places I realised it was hell of a lot bigger than I thought. This only makes me more eager to see the place for myself.
The Bram Stoker Museum – Again my fascination with the supernatural comes into play. More so my vampire infatuation. Transylvania (a dream holiday for me) is a little out of my price range this year so I will make do with a trip to the Stoker museum. It has been somewhere a friend and I had planned to go for years now but we never got around to it, sadly. You’d swear we were in demand or something.
The Giants Causeway – An absolute disgrace that I’ve not already seen this. I was such a geek for Irish mythology as a child. The stories behind the Causeways creation was always a fun tale to listen too.
Films I must see:
Sherlock Holmes – I love the works of Sir Conan Doyle and I can’t wait to see the new interpretation of his most famous creation. Always interesting to see Jude Law in a good film. It hasn’t happened in a long time.
The Lovely Bones – My sister is point blank refusing to see this with me. I think she will be persuaded though, wave popcorn under her nose, she can’t resist. But I really, really want to see this. Not just because of Peter Jackson but Saoirse Ronan is quickly becoming a favourite actress of mine. I find that odd since she is so young but she completely blew me away in the films I’ve seen her in.
Wolfman – Oh, oh, oh how I’m excited for this movie. I love the original and can’t wait to see what they’ll do for the revamp.
Biggest want for 2010
To write my novel
To sit on some old ruins, surrounded by green trees and fields drinking from a bottle. But most importantly, doing so in period clothing! I am deadly serious. That is my biggest ambition right now.
Me and Chrisso in our dresses and bonnets (bonnet wont stay on long though, what hussies we are :O), her with her silver hip flask, me with my green bottle of Carlsberg, watching nature and trying to speak like we’re in an Austen novel. I will fail miserable but she’ll know doubt manage the whole first proposal from Mr. D’Arcy.
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January 11, 2010 at 9:11 pm (Music)
Tags: Family, home life, J'adore!, Memory Lane, radio, Television
Why yes, yes I am! Those were the days, eh?
I’m also old enough to remember their fucked up animated adverts. They freaked me out no end!
It was worth it though, to actually see the music. The radios in my house were relegated to the kitchen; which played my parents music, the boys room where Madness and Gun N Roses blared and from my own room which was awash with the shittiest popbands that my sisters happened to be into that year.
The TV was my sanctuary, so much so I was the first in the family to get a smaller one for the room. Cee thinks it was me being spoiled again, what she doesn’t comprehend was I asked Santy for it, duh! Dumbass! It wasn’t mammy and daddy buying it, it was the fat man coming down the chimney and leaving it for me.
I got a TV for music. How odd is that? Even to this day it’s stayed with me – I spend most of my TV time on the music channels.
Some of my friends may doubt that, the amount of useless knowledge I have due to watching mediocre crap TV shows, but it’s the truth, even to the extent that I officially the worst person in my family to watch TV with as I constantly flick. “Ad break? Great, lets see if I can get a song in for those two minutes!”
I’ve also had countless arguments with my eldest sister because I do the same in her home. Her kids don’t be impressed! Oopies! She even got them locked and refuses to tell me the code. Double oopies!!
What can I say? I may still be in a musical drought stage when it comes to buying CD’s and listening to my radio, (I’m also amiss the good channels like Q and MTV2) but you still can’t beat a good song during the ad break or the surprise you get when they play an old skool song that really reminds you of your young days watching MTV.
Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode is probably my most old skool reminder. Oh how I adored that video so!!! I can’t even explain why. He’s walking. Just walking. But it was mesmerizing. No big fancy budget, no big fancy effects but it’s probably the one video that evokes the most amount for memories for me. Even more than The Cure’s Lullaby. But that stays with you for very different reasons. It’s a giant fucking spider eating Robert Smith alive. Can you say “nightmares for weeks”?
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January 10, 2010 at 4:10 pm (Life)
Tags: busted, Family, hometown, Meh!, movies, Seasons
Snnnnoooooooowwwwwwwww go away. I’m so sick and tired of being stuck in. There is at least five films I’m eager to see but there isn’t a hope in hell of getting into town soon.
This evening I was supposed to be moseying my arse along to Cineworld to indulge in some movie, popcorn and coke fun but, nope, nah, not gonna happen.
My estate is like glass so not only am I seriously risking breaking another bone, what with my retarded sense of balance, by going out in it but I risk getting belted out of it by snowballs. Damn you meddlesome kids *shakes fist*
But even that is non-deterrent. The fact that the buses have stopped coming up my way is the biggest put off. GRRRRRR!!!! No way out now unless I want to walk the mile to a working bus stop.
It’s not even just me, we’re all so sick of being stuck in, it’s beginning to show. We’re beginning to go for the throat now. This is not healthy!
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