to a good home

i was dog walking yesterday. it was so much fun. my girlfriend found out about this pound that need volunteers so we went to find it and to see if she could volunteer. its in Ashtown, in between Cabra and Finglas. it is a dog pound but the guy said that they keep the dogs longer than the five that other pounds keep dogs. i thought that was really bad about the other pounds.

i haven't had a dog in years, we used to have one at my house at home until he started biting people. it really good to take a dog out and run/walk around this field but it was really sad having to bring the dogs back into the kennels.

i want a dog but it would just be cruel to have him at this house even with our big lawn, nobody is here during the day.

productive

i hate being non productive. i like to make use of my time. today was not one of those days. slept in till 1, watch tv till 6, played guitar hero till half 7 and have been reading blogs for the last hour and a half.
I'm going to have a cigarette after typing this. it's playing on my mind that they are now €8 (John Player Blue) i bought a pack the other day and a coffee and that was €10. now i buy about 6 to 7 packs a week and at least 8 to 10 coffees a week. along with my daily panini, that's roughly €140 a week on consumables (necessities), that's more than my monthly rent!!!

It's going to be a long week.

good reading

so the last two days in work i had to help sort out the network as it wasn't connecting properly. this was sweet as i was able to go and mess around on the internet in work. that was great. on the other hand i feel like i haven't really done anything this week in work to do with work. but it has been quite so nothing major.
playing loads of GTA this week, which has probably taking me away from other things, like fucking up my sleeping pattern (again) playing drums, using reason and ableton and playing my Wii.
oh well.

i hope my girlfriend finds a new job soon. i think she's going stir crazy in the house or walking around town to interviews and talking to recruiters.

currently watching: season 4 entourage.
get into that show, it is amazing.

remember to write this down

so as always i haven't wrote in this in ages! so what's going on?
recently my girlfriend quit her job. has been searching for a new one for a good month now. not good. the prestige is going well, new guitarist, some recorded material and a new practice space. (prestige debut in it tomorrow!) work is ... work. basically could be better but christmas is on its way and should improve and if not it'll get worse!!!

i got a XBOX (cheers GOC). i have a Wii which is great but i really wanted GTA IV. here's the set up! my gamertag is : dumbsticks
i haven't really mentioned gaming here before so here's the run down. first console Atari 2600, bring on centipede, what a game!! myself and my dad just played it all the time. next SEGA Master System II with Alex the kidd built in!! that with most Sonic games, Tecmo World cup soccer 93 (didn't make any sence) indiana jones and a few other games. this was followed with the SEGA Mega Drive II, again with most Sonic Games, Sensible Soccer, Mortal Kombat I, II, 3 and and a few others. also at this time we had an Atari 1040 st, an excuse of a PC. i made the mistake of selling the Mega Drive. i really shouldn't have as it was a class console, but i was fortunate one day while working with my dad. we were at this guys house and he was throwing out loads of stuff including his son's Mega Drive with a Mega CD AND a 32X cartrigde plus a whole heap of games!!! best find and got it for nothing!!! at that stage i did have a PlayStation but i wanted to go back to my roots! had Virtual Fighter on Mega CD and on the PlayStation i had virtual fighter 4 and they were the same speed, ridculous. the addition of the Mega drive was kind of like i step forward, 2 steps back. i had (in order of purchase) a PlayStation, a N64, a PlayStation 2 and then a Mega Drive with Mega CD and 32x. N64 was amazing for MarioKart and Golden Eye. Pretty much the last three years of school were those games. i have left all these consoles bar the Ps2 and the N64 at my home. the Ps2 at the moment is working as a better dvd player than my girlfriends dvd player in the other room and the N64 is gathering dust but is still connected up behind the Wii and Xbox! last Christmas i got the Wii. hardest year ever to get a Wii and ends up having three of them in my house! i got one for my dad, my dad got one for me and my mom got one for my little sister. fun times!! and now added to the collection is the XBOX 360. (it may be a while before i write anything here!)

so back to whats new, we were selling this giant bean bag in work. really expensive like €200 for it. we had four in stock. didn't sell one. sale price, €119.99 sold none. €99.99 sold one. €49.99 sold one. €24.99 sold two! we got one. it's ridiculously big!!!! we have two couches in the living room and we had some space between them and the tv. now we don't. it's class tho. it's my housemates, she bought it because she wants to be able to have stuff to bring with her when we leave this house.

so far she has this bean bag, a barbeque and a set of three plates (i broke one the other day). we just renewed our lease for the house last month, can't believe it has been a year since we moved into here. and it's now over a year since i moved to the dundrum store.

shortest year ever.