I’m Back and I’m Not Happy!!! March 9, 2009

So I must apologize for being away for so long. I have been distracted by my wedding and baby plans and what not.  My wedding is this Thursday and no that’s not why I am annoyed in fact I am quite relaxed about it, it’s the Hen Party that has me annoyed. I had been planning this Hen Party for the better part of a month. Got a load of food and drink, organised an Anne Summers Party, organised a karaoke machine, dvd’s, the works. Now I have to mention my mum who was amazing and did a great job in helping with everything in fact I should give her all the credit.

But as for my friends well I have two simple words ” you suck “. My college friends were invited about a month ago. On Friday I of course did the double checking. 2 had forgotten and had made arrangements to go home that they couldn’t get out of. The other 2 did have a better excuse. They are in the drama society and have a play on Tuesday. They said that they had set building to do this weekend. So I pointed out the fact that they could set build all day get the 19:35 train and be here for 20:20. Then get  an early train home and then set build all day Sunday. They agreed that this was a good idea. So come 20:30 I’m wondering where they are and give them a text. They were still at college and had forgotten to get the last train. One of my best friends, I knew was unsure whether she could come due to college work. But she has deferred the year so that was no longer a problem. So me like a fool thought she would be attending. But she had a date so silly me. As for my lovely family members who didn’t turn up well I expected as much.

So you are probably thinking well it’s not that bad, some people turned up. Yes they did but a lot left too. 2 girls who were supposed to sleep over called their parents, who live over a half hour away, at midnight to come pick them up. So that definitely dampened my spirits. Another friend drank herself silly in 2hrs and then left. Another 3 had to leave early too because another girl got very very drunk and they had to get her home. So I am not mad at them all in fact I told those other two to get her home, didn’t want to be cleaning up puck. But this is going to sound quite greedy I guess but there was a surprising lack of presents.

My mum was amazing I’d say there was about €200 worth of presents for me and the baby as I decided to combine my baby shower and hen night. My mother-in-law who never came might I add never sent any presents for me or her grandson. Can’t say I was surprised though, they not the generous type. One of my best friends from childhood came bearing……nothing. Then later on in the night told me she didn’t really approve of me having the baby so that was an awkward moment. Another good friend brought drink for herself and that was all. Now she works in a store which sells some lovely baby things and she would have got a discount and still she only brings drink. The two girls who left early didn’t bring anything either. Now I don’t think I am a materialistic person but I was expecting a little something especially considering all of these friends are calling themselves auntie this and auntie that. One woman who I use to babysit for and is very good friends with my mum came and said ” look I don’t like giving presents before the baby is born” which is fine by me because some people think it’s bad luck. But she still brought a little pressie for me and wine. So she made a real show of my friends.

So although I did have a good time and stuff  I can’t help but feel mad and disappointed. So I ask you this ” what would you do if you were me?” At the minute I have not said anything to my friends and don’t really intend to before the wedding.

Thanks for listening to my ramblings.

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.

Attack of the family!!! December 31, 2008

OMG this is wrecking my head. According to my mother and grandmother I am suppose to put up my grandad and his wife as well as my mum-in-law, dad-in-law and my 2 new sisters the week of my wedding. WTF!! My apartment is not big in the first place and I will be damned if I am entertaining that many people days before my wedding and when I’m 7 months pregnant. Been talking to my man and he agrees with me thank god cause I was starting to think that I was the unreasonable one. But I have out my foot down and that’s that!

Anyway finally booted out the brother and have an hour or two of some peace and watching Sister Act 2. Love that movie!! Thankfully I have no news……I am firm believer in no news is good news. Well the mother in law is coming home today from the funeral in England. A return trip we paid for I may add. Then my oldest sister in law is coming on Saturday and we are paying for her hair to be done as well. I’m not a scrooge with money but we have a lot to be paying for what with the wedding and a baby on the way and what not. Not to mention getting one huge bill 4 month electricity bill. After all who isn’t skint after xmas so no that ticket is not a present and I am definitely expecting it back. After all they haven’t given anything to us, nothing.Which is fine we don’t need anything but my parents have been so generous. They are paying for the reception, my dress and a surprise honeymoon. Yes I’ll admit my family are better off then his so I don’t expect the same things but god….lets just say I’m not impressed at all and neither is my family.

But onto world news anyway. I mentioned yesterday about the Kilkenny fire that killed a mother and her 2 daughters. Although an investigation is still underway into the circumstances surrounding the fire, a private prayer service is taking place in honour of the family. The family will be buried together tomorrow. This is one of those stories that you can’t help but feel for the family when you read. A family member was describing how she was wrapping presents on Xmas Eve and how it’s difficult to think that the children never lived to open them. My condolences are with the Whelan family and friends of the family at this time.

I also mentioned a woman being held in custody over the stabbing of a man in Kilkenny yesterday. Well the only update on that story is that the 18 year old has been taken to court.

Anyway that’s all for me. Happy New Year!!

Thanks for listening to my ramblings.

Time Out!! December 30, 2008

Finally I’m alone. Don’t get me wrong I love my  man and I love my bro but after a week of being out numbered it’s nice to finally be alone. Nigel went back to work yesterday. Richard was still here though and then I got a call from a friend who asked if I was about. Now this particular friend works in a shop locally but she lives in the middle of nowhere and depends on a bus. Because she lives in the middle of nowhere therearen’t many buses and she often has hours to kill.So she tends to go to a friends and stay there. Now this doesn’t sound so bad but the fact is she gets her hours a week in advance so she has a week to plan who she will visit and give them notice, you know courtesy. But no 5 mins before she got here she was ringing me from the taxi she was in saying she was heading in my direction. I hate that. She did it over xmas was looking to stay overnight after a late shift and I felt bad because I wasn’t there to put her up as I was at my parents. Although she had a week to ask me I was the one feeling bad. So no more of that crap for me.

Apart from that I had a goo xmas. Got a George Foreman, a blender, some nice perfume, a nail set, a voucher and a few little things. Best day was St Stevens Day. My Gran throws a party every year and everybody comes and it’s just a lot of fun and no matter how big everyone gets it’s something that I hope will never change.

So in Ireland Kilkenny is all over the news today. An 18 year old woman is being held in relation to the stabbing of a 22 year old man who’s body was found at 4 am this morning.Forensic teams and the state patholgist Marie Cassidy has been called.

Another story that broke my heart on Stevens Day was about Kilkenny fire. A mother and her 2 daughters perished in the fire Xmas eve. Although they have yet to determine the cause of the fire Forensic teams are telling the police to keep an open mind as to the cause. My heart goes out to the family and friends who are suffering.

Thats all for now have to go visit my gran.

Thanks for listening to my ramblings.

oh and did anyone get anything weird and wacky for xmas??

Twas Christmas Eve December 24, 2008

So I’ve visited all the family, handed out all the gifts, stuffed the chicken (hate Turkey) and my ham is soaking. We have watched a marathon of scary movies and now my bro who is staying with us is playing Deep Space. Apparently it’s one of the scariest games out there at the mo and from watching him I believe him. I’ll be going to bed soon hoping that Santa will break into my apartment especially if he looks like my pic But am I really feeling all that merry? I’m not sick anymore and I got everything I wanted ie a George Foreman and a blender. Plus some really nice gifts from my friends but all in all I’m not all that bothered. What I am looking forward to is St Stevens Day or Boxing Day to some people. All my family go to my grans house and just be merry. There’s poker and drink and food and just a lot of family fun stuff.

So I wish all my readers a very merry xmas and I hope everyone has remembered the most important thing about tomorrow……..The Dr.Who xmas special at 6pm on BBC1.

Thanks for listening to my ramblings and I hope you keep enjoying them into the new year.

Another damn day. December 21, 2008

So guess who was in a&e last night? Yup you are all psychic it was me. Evening was better then the day started feeling little better well not as bad as the day anyway. Was going to bed at 1 ish in the morning, went to the bathroom which is covered in mirrors and noticed a large odd rash on my arm. At first I thought it was just a pressure mark from where I was lying but it wasn’t fading and it was really odd. It was streaky and blotchey never saw anything like it.  So rang MIDOC talked to a very nice nurse who informed that it was probably a good idea to visit a doctor as soon as possible. Called a taxi went and saw the doctor who said and I quote “I don’t know what that is” so I was of course sent to A&E. Had bp,temp and bloods done (shudder) I hate needles but it wasn’ to bad the nurse was very good. Hung around on a bed for a bit. Talked to a very nice surprisingly perky doctor for 4 in the morning. Said he was doing some spot test thingy but won’t get the results of that till Monday. So basically I have paracetamol to fight a virus so that kinda sucks but oh while I’m a woman I’ll survive.

So Internet still sucks so not going to say much more as this will never get posted otherwise.

Thanks for listening to my ramblings.