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In 4 days for 4 days

It's going to be a busy couple of weeks (months).

Whaoo I'm heading to France in four days to go snowboarding in the Alps. I can barely contain my excitement. I'm a bit nervous as it's been over 4 years since I've been, and as I left it last time I was just learning how to turn. eek. I'm going to take a quick half day training course to see if I can pick it back up again. I'll be there for four days and should be able to get in at least 2 solid days on the mountain. Then back to work on next Wednesday.

The following Saturday I head up to Scotland for the weekend, to Gleneagles for the McNaughton Awards. Where I'll spend Saturday clay pigeon shooting and scurry driving, whatever that is.

March, we might be planning a trip to Prague or back to Croatia, April I'm heading home, and in May I've got a week solid of great gigs! June, going to radiohead and Mick's birthday. It's great to be so busy with such fun things on the horizon.

the last few days

It seems like right when I get over a cold I catch another one. I felt entirely healthy for about one week and then the sniffles and aches came again. boo! I've managed to suffer through. Actually, the last week has been really great. The Smashing Pumpkins concert was a total success. The day started off with meeting up Jess for a cup of coffee then heading up to St. Stephen's Green to see Frank Black play. As we neared the top of Grafton Street we got word that the park was being closed and the cops were kicking everyone out. We got to the front gate just in time for them to close it on us, but shortly after Frank Black emerged. Apparently they didn't like the idea of his impromptu gig and decided to put an end to it. So instead, he played there on Grafton street. It was really incredible to see 300 or so people on the street singing along to Monkey gone to heaven.

After the crowd died down we went and joined a few friends for a pint before the SP gig. Before we caught a taxi to the RDS Liam asked if I knew anyone else interested in going, as he had two spare tickets, so Jess decided to join us and I gave Gudrun a ring too and she came and met us at the RDS. Once inside, I was worried I wouldn't be able to find Mick in the crowd of 10,000 people. But miraculously, he found me within 5 minutes! The gang was all there and the pumpkins started things off with Tonight, Tonight. It was mad seeing the pumpkins again, last time I saw them was over 10 years ago! As expected they played a lot of music from their recent albums much to our disappointment as we were all hoping for older songs. After the gig we caught the DART back into town and joined up with some friends for a few drinks. A great day!

Over the last three weeks I've also managed to get back to my roots a bit. A few of the girls at work and I have been going to weekly courses at Trinity College. We attended a Life Drawing class and I've gone twice to the Pottery Workshop. I am so incredibly happy I've started doing this again, it's made me realise exactly what a release of stress pottery can be. The best part is it's located directly across from my work and starts at 6pm, leaving just enough time to grab a quick bite to eat after work. So I plan to continue to do this for a while and am very excited about it!

So last Thursday was v-day, I was still pretty stuffy from my cold so we decided to lay low. I made the most delicious pizza ever and then we went and saw Juno which we both really enjoyed. Friday I stayed home from work, but still managed to work. That night I made pizza again with the left overs and we just stayed in and watched episodes of Family Guy. On to Saturday I got a bit of running around town done, met up with Jess for coffee/wine. Then off to Yamamori for Aishling's birthday dinner. It almost turned disastrous because we went to the wrong location at first and I had forgotten my phone so calling was out of the question. We quickly legged it across the river to the other location and made it just in time (actually before Aishling even showed up). After dinner the five of us headed over to the Globe for a few drinks. Mick and I ended the night a little early as I still have a bit of the sniffles. But overall, a very good nite, which was followed by today! We were extremely naughty and went to the Queen of Tarts and ate cheesecake for breakfast! oops. The weather was sooo nice we got it for take-away and ate in the Dublin Castle Garden. Then we went on a little bike ride up to St. Anne's park and walked around for a bit. I seem to view Dublin in a whole new way when riding around on a motorbike, when the sun is out and we're cruising around the streets, it's possibly the most perfect thing I could ever think of. Romantic huh? Now that the sun is coming out and weather is getting better my excitement for this city is returning.

In other news, my best friend in the entire world is now engaged! That's right Ms. Sarah Stanford is gonna get married! And well I approve. I couldn't be more happy for her (and morgan!).

These days are crazy and I love them.

January/February shenanigans

Why am I excited?

I'll tell you why. Because tomorrow I'm going to see the smashing pumpkings, who happen to be playing the same night as Black Francis (aka Frank Black, aka the Pixies!!!). However the pumpkins won out, as anyone who know's me know's my love of SP. Not to mention the ticket was a christmas pressent. HOWEVER, Frank black will be playing a FREE pre-show show tomorrow at Stephen's Green! How awesome is that?!?

I am also excited because one of the designs i've done is up for a McNaughton's Award, and I'm being flown to Edinburgh for the awards ceremony in March! And will be staying in some fancy 5-star hotel (the same one that the G8 was held at a few years ago), with a fancy black-tie dinner. Yeah!

It's that time of year again

It's Pancake Day! And I didn't eat a single pancake, boo!

But it's also time for a visit back to the ol' You Ess of Ay. Got my ticket today with a 3 day lay over in New York so I can do a bit of sight seeing with Aaron, I hope no giant monsters attack while I'm there!

See you in April:
Fri, Apr 11, 2008
Depart DUB: 09:30 AM
Arrive JFK: 11:45 AM

Mon, Apr 14, 2008
Depart JFK: 06:55 PM
Arrive PDX: 10:26 PM

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Fri, Apr 25, 2008
Depart PDX: 07:10 AM
Arrive JFK: 03:35 PM

Fri, Apr 25, 2008
Depart JFK: 07:45 PM
Arrive DUB: 07:45 AM

Good times

Rain rain and more rain, however I had an excellent weekend. Friday nite, went out for drinks with a few friends, had a great time. Didn't do to much saturday, went for a walk, a little shopping and started watching Dexter. Then went and saw Cloverfield, which was excellent! It has jumped to the top of my list of excellent monster movies, replacing the Decent. Next on the list, Juno and I'm looking forward to I'm a Cyborg at the Dublin Film Festival.

Today was spent doing laundry, watching the new series of lost and kicking mick's ass at tetris.

Still loving this poster: