Tuesday, December 23, 2008

christmas

Finish work for the Christmas holidays, delighted. The last two weeks have been very tiring on the body and mind. Christmas is great, i really enjoy it. check out my tree! I can't wait for Christmas this year, although it hasn't felt like Christmas yet, probably will in the morning or something. I still have to get one of my sisters something and get stuff from work then I am done.
I have been invited to go to the Leopardstown Races by a very good friend of mine on St.Stephens day which is going to be a) great, b) messy or c) all of the above. Then some well earned relaxing at home is on the cards.

Roll on the new year. Going to be working New years eve and day, doesn't bother me as i will be able to watch Jools Holland's Hootenanny!
Love it. This has been my tradition for the last five years and every year has been better and better. I really recommend staying in with a few friends and relaxing in front of the tv instead of paying silly amounts of money to get to places, to get into places, to get drinks and to get home.

Last night I was at the Have Heart show last night. Best local show i have ever been to. Best show i have been to in a while. Well done to all the guys that put it on, it was unreal.

On that note i hope everyone has an amazing Christmas and an enjoyable New year.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

looking/lurking

I love just watching stuff. I was just outside having a smoke, usually in my house we smoke outside at the back but sometimes we might go to the front. Lately I have been going to the front. So just there a car drove past, I was watching it cause it was similar to a car i used to drive, it pulled into the drive across the road then reversed and pulled up to the opposite path. The driver gets out and lets this kid out. He was in karate gear and legs it to the house two doors up. rings the bell and waits for the door to open. While he's waiting the driver of said car opens and closes the same door he let the kid out of 3 times, he's just waiting for the kid to get into the house, nice of him. Door opens and the kid goes running in saying "I'm came second!" That's cool. finished my smoke and went in.

I have been going out the front lately for two reasons. The ashtray is full at the back and i have no one to smoke with most of the time. With my girlfriend back in Sweden and our other housemate living with her boyfriend in their new apartment, it's myself and my other other housemate. We both work for the same company but in different stores, which also means different schedules. From when the two other girls moved out it was three days before i saw my current housemate for any longer than 5 minutes. The house is quieter. That said i haven't been home for any real length of time. I wake up and go to work, then come home and go to bed. Late shifts suck but they don't make that much difference to me. I only really don't like it when i am on a late shift and then on an early shift the next day.

I have had the laugh for the last week. Had a solid practice on Saturday followed by Prevomania, (which was the most interested i have ever been in my life in sport!) went to see Ceremony on Sunday night, best gig i have ever seen in Dublin. Had a reasonably amount of fun in work with things like walkie talkies!! and staff appreciation starting. It's good. Have to wait a few days before i can spend my hard earned cash. Play the credit card system!

Google and Apple are making my life easier. Got a new phone, nokia 6300. That's a big pic for a phone. Thanks to my last phone i have most of my contacts saved on my computer and because of iSync the all are on the phone with little hassel. I did have to get some code and paste it into the iSync file because this phone is one of the few that dosen't automatically sync with iSync. Thank you Google for this site. I have been using Google Calender for a while now, nice to have my hours written down somewhere and to sort out practice time between four people and 6 to 8 bands. Then with my phone being synced with Address Book, iCal can be synced as well. So my Google calender is now syncing to my iCal which syncs with my phone. Sorted. I'm a nerd, i know.

Then Google Reader is another Google product i would recommend. It has everything posted by the blogs i follow there for me to read. Which is also the reason I am trying to use capitals where nessessary. It does make it more pleasing on the eyes.