Depression sucks! January 15, 2009

So I haven’t put a post up lately as I’ve basically been feeling really down the last 2 days. Woke up after having a bad night terror and ever since then I haven’t been able to shake off the feeling of sadness and loneliness. So basically spent the last 2 days feeling sorry for myself. But I am feeling better today and so back to the old grind stone. Saw the doctor and everything is going well.Got the 4D scan tomorrow and looking forward to it. Also getting my wedding dress so very excited Picking the final design of the cake on Saturday and turning the office into a nursery so I am very busy.

Now from what my lovely man has been telling me there is a lot of people looking for an early election. The next election is not due till 2012 but a lot of the ministers looking to get Brian Cowans lot out and try something new. In a way I do agree with them. Brian Cowan made a big mistake especially with the budget. But I don’t know if a complete overhaul of the government at this fragile time is a good idea. But who knows if it will even happen.

Anyway I’m a busy lady so that’s all for today.

Thanks for listening to my ramblings.

Calling all fish experts! January 11, 2009

SOS!! If there are any fish experts out there I would really appriciate some help here. I had a fish for 2 years in my parents in house. Brought to my new apartment in a different county. He was grand for 3 months. Then when I went to change his water he died. I put it down to old age/cold since it can get quite cold at night. So went to pet store got 2 very pretty goldfish. Cleaned out the tank, did the adjustment thing and put them in their new home. By that night they were dead. So was quite annoyed. Went back to pet store explained the situation and they commented on the fact that we are in a high lime and nitrate area. Which actually poisons the fish. So we were advised to buy some stuff that would neutralise the water. So brought and on the guarentee that this would make the water safe we got 7 more fish. Went home cleaned the tank again. Treated the water with the conditioner and then let fish adjust etc. By that night all the fish were lying on their sides not oving but still breathing. So rushed out to get some still water. Got home emptyed tank cleaned tank filled it with the still water and treatment. Placed fish back in tank after adjustment. No improvement. 2 baby gold fish died and the rest weren’t doing great. Took the rest out the tank put in an old round sweets container with still water and treatment. Did some rresearch and discovered that by adding a tiny tiny amount of salt I mean a punch to the water it could help with nitrate poisoning. So added it and prayed. Unfortunatly a beautiful white spotted gold fish and a tiny white shimmery one died. But another tiny white shimmery survived along with those tiny tiny ones that have that streak through them. So decided the tank we had was to big for such tiny fish and cleaned a vase and put the one that survived the night in there. At this point the tiny ones had to be put in our health tank since they had been doing the same as the other fish. After an hour or two Lazerus(the sick but recovered one) started swimiming on his side and then lying on the bottom again. All the fish are now in the health bowl and all are swimming upright and have eaten. I really want to put them in their new tank but I am afraid in case they get sick.I also noticed that the decorations now have got this white encrusted stuff on them and then a wooden decoration has some green on that that wasn’t on it before.

Anyone have any tips? I know some people collet rain water and use still water but we have a 12ltr tank so we would need to collect a lot of water. I would really appriciate any tips cause I hate seeing them suffer and die.

Thanks guys xxx

Rant and Rave January 8, 2009

To be honest I don’t know what to rant about today there’s just so much, the weather, our politicians, the Gaza violence, the looming risk of unemployment in the country, doesn’t it just sound depressing. 9 out of 10 people fear for their jobs. I feel lucky cause I know Nigel is the 1 in 10 who’s job is secure. But our Government is really pissing me off. When I heard they were moving the budget up I thought great, they are going to nip this in the bud and get the country on track. Ha was I wrong. They are attacking children and the elderly and raising taxes. Now England had the right idea. They reduced their taxes, made it easier for the people. Why the hell didn’t the Irish government take a leaf out of their book? Now all the Irish are going over the border cause goods are cheaper but in turn we are pumping money into their economy while ours is dwindling. I’m not saying don’t go up over the border, I’m saying tell the idiots in charge that we need some relief.

Another thing that is bugging me lately is thee fact that we are still supporting anyone who decides to come here. Now before anyone jumps to conclusions I am not one of those people who think foreigners shouldn’t be allowed into the country. I welcome them but it’s the ones who come here, start claiming dole and suck the money out of our economy I hate. I’m all for people coming here and starting a new life and contributing to our economy and all that, that’s great let them earn the social benefits like I had to. Also Irish people out there who are on the dole and never worked a day in your life, shame on you. I’m one of those people who like you know you have worked, you have paid taxes, now you are having a hard time, ok here’s a hand to help you get back on your feet.but why should the rest of us pay other peoples way. There is a group of people who live underneath us. Gettting all the benefits they can off the government and they have the biggest tv I have ever seen. It’s scandalous! Now for you people who think I’m a hypocrite as I’m on job seekers. I was working from 16 and earned the credits. So you can’t say I’m a hypocrite.

Well I’m fed up of giving out now and I’m going to eat now. So if you feel the same about this let me know and I shall post the best arguments. Or if you feel I am wrong tell me and I’ll start a debate going.

Thanks for listening to my ramblings.

Damn Electronics January 6, 2009

It’s offical my appliances like Nigel better then me. Today as I was watching Deadliest Catch on Discovery “bang” Chorus broke down. So to save myself an hour of listening to bad music on their crap customer service line I did what I knew they would tell me to do. I plugged out the power wire, turned it upside down, took out the card, put the card back in and connected it back to the power. At this point the lovely Chorus blue page came up and then “bang” another page about network configuration and network numbers and I had absolutly  no idea what to do. So I rang Nigel and he turned me to turn it off again. Took the little wire out and then tryed to connect it again. It was around about now that sparks began to emerge from the Chorus box and I was told not to touch it ever again and wait till he got home. He got home turned it on and off and hey presto it worked. GRRRR!!

Then my Internet has been funny lately so I deleted some program files and did a disk clean up and some defragmentation to help it along. Spent about 2 hours doing all that and went to speedtest.net <—– brilliant sight btw, and discovered that my ping was 957kb/s  and my download speed was about 20kb/s higher then that.AHHH!! we are paying for 7000kb/s and we are getting under a 1000kb/s. So I asked Nigel to restart the router and give it some tlc. And still it torments me!!

THEN, my brawn new blender seems to have trouble blending. I was making fruit smoothies and it took me about 10 minutes to blend some fruit.GRRR!

On the plus side Xmas in finally over. All the decorations are done and put away. Although I still have cards and a present that some lazy people have yet to pick up, but yup it’s over for another year WOOHOO!

Now I am a bit ignorant when it comes to politics and what not so can someone explain what the hell happened in Gaza? What are they fighting about? I think it does have something to do with religion but tbh I’m not sure. But it is very sad. Just as troops in Iraq are told they can go home a whole new war starts. It’s time like this you reconsider dictatorship. Look at China….they are doing great, set to become the next super power and here we all are fighting.

Anyway that’s enough from me now I have cleansed my soul on the Internet(is it just me or does that sound kinda dirty?)

Thanks for listening to my ramblings.

What were they thinking? January 4, 2009

I am not amused!!! First of all what were the casting team of Dr Who thinking when they cast the new Dr. Who?? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7808697.stm <— check out the BBC site who got an interview with 26 year old Matt Smith. He is the youngest actor to play Dr Who which I have no problem with but OMG you have to check out the interview you will see what I mean. He looks like a guy out of rehab. He just creeps me out. I can see there being an uproar about it. Although I have got a theorey. Maybe this is all a clever plan. Make us all angry and get lots of publicity and notice. Then “fire him” due to fan unhappiness and then unveil a much more suitable candiate. Please god let me right. I am normally right so please don’t make this the exception. I was talking to a very dear friend of mine who happens to be a massive Dr Who fan. While discussing our hatrid for the man suggested an unlikely yet suitable candiate. Richard E Grant.

Now I would have never thought of him myself but now I think about it I think he would make a fabulous doctor. He has years of experience and I think he would really make a good edition. So if anyone happens to know Russel Davies or can at least get within slapping distance. Give him one from me and yell Richard E Grant rocks.

Now to another screen related annoyance only it’s the big one I am talking about. Twilight! The most hyped up movie I think since Harry Potter. Now I have never read that particular collection of books but another friend of mine has the entire collection and can practically recite it at this point. So you can imagine her   the movie was announced. I went to see it last night for the first time last night (it was her third). Quite excited to see it to be honest after all the hype. Unfortunately I left thinking what was all the fuss about. Yes it had it’s moments but it didn’t leave a huge effect on me. It had some really good effects at one point. For example when they were ascending up a very large tree with great speed. It was incredible done. But then they had some really sloppy moments too. They had some really bad CGI rain, I mean really bad. Then to add insult to injury the truck driving in the really bad CGI rain “forgot” it’s windscreen wipers. So not overly impress with the editing. As for the actors eh they were ok. Won’t win an oscar. Robert Pattinson was very good in Harry Potter so I was looking forward to seeing him play as a main character. But I wasn’t overly impressed and the make up artists made him look terrible. I have seen bloopers were he looks quite handsome and not half bad looking. But after all the effects they do on him after he looks horrible. He literally looks like skin and bone, on the face anyway. I understand they were going for the whole death look but he does him no favours. I wasn’t particularly keen on Kristan Stewart who plays Bella. She was a bit I don’t know…bland. The whole movie as bland really. In fact there is a quote from the movie I think would work here “it’s like a human eating tofu all their life, sure it keeps you strong. But you are never satisfied.”

Thanks for listening to my ramblings.