where am i? what am i doing? what have i done?

so.

I was in Sweden 2 weeks ago. Main reason for the visit was to see my girlfriend. She had moved back home at the end of November, which sucked, so in mid December I got flights. The flights were a bit annoying. As she is now living in the south of Sweden in Malmö it turns out it is a little difficult to get flights to and from there during the winter months from Dublin. The same also applies to Copenhagen which is right beside Malmö. But i was able to find flights from Stanstead, ryanair flights ensue followed by easyjet to bring me to Copenhagen and then a train to Sweden. not a bad amount of travel just timing of it all was a bit crap. the ryanair flight out of Dublin was at 7 in the morning and i was in Stanstead by half 8 or something to that effect. My easyjet flight wasn't for another 6 hours! the train i was lucky, I got off the plane, through passport control and got a train ticket and the train arrived. Love good public transport.

So Sweden is awesome, I have been there a good six times by now. The food is tasty, the people are really nice, there is always a house party before you go out! Copenhagen is pretty also. I was there last year when i was at Roskilde, we headed into Copenhagen the day before the festival started. Danish is a strange language but everyone speaks English which is handy but I would feel better if I actually knew some Danish, like enough to show them that I'm trying! all i know is "farvell" which Calrsberg thought me.

When I got back, I flew into Dublin at 7.30am and then was in work for 1pm till 10pm. that was fun! pretty much had to work for six or seven days in a row as we were preparing for Inventory (stock take), a lot of people hate inventory because it is tedious. Personally I don't hate it, I don't love it but it does keep my mind occupied on the fact that i haven't been paid since before Christmas! I get paid Wednesday, January is officially the longest month EVER!!!

In other news, I'm moving out of my house in Dundrum. This makes me sad. I really really love living here. It is a class house and my landlord is amazing! I would love if someone i knew would take the lease over cause i don't want my landlord not have a tenant. At the moment it is just me in the house. since the end of December it was myself and one of the girls I was living with. My girlfriend moved back to Sweden and the girl she moved over here with 4 years ago moved in with her boyfriend in town. Myself and my housemate decided that we should move out since we had one couple interested in the spare room in two months. So I'm moving back home. I haven't lived at home for the last three years, i will also be driving my sorry ass to and from Dundrum for work which is going to suck. I reckon that I'll save some money in regards rent and bills versus petrol and parking. I'll probably move back out when the rents drop with this recession we're having!!

Also I am going to DisneyWorld and Miami next month. It should be awesome as my girlfriend is coming over here for a few days and then we all(my family) are going to Florida. I love traveling but I am slowly developing a hatred for airports.

Today I have some fluy cold thing that one of th lads in work had two days ago. not fun. I hate being/feeling sick! For a good part of today, around lunch time, all i could smell was wet dog. Not good when you are trying to enjoy a cajun chicken panini.

AND... the Prestige is going well, we have a third guitarist and he is awesome! We should play a show. Soon. I hope. Maybe. Record something. Possible. I hope. Maybe.

Later Mang!!

making use of time

I have about 5 mins before I have to go to the bank before going to work. So happy new year and I hope everyones Christmas was amazing. 2008 was really good, 2009 should be better!! My blog is a year old, go me! I'm going to Sweden for the weekend which is going to be class except for the 6 hour stay in Stanstead airport on the way over and back.

Awesome!

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.

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.

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today is not a good day.

it's too early

Santa was at Dundrum town centre this evening and now the Christmas lights are on! the guys in the coffee shop i go to had to make at least 1000 hot chocolates to give out to the crowd. as did TGI Fridays (got me some chicken salad and a pizza) 6 days after halloween is a bit early.
definitly was a good 1000/1500 people there. bit strange.
i was at work only for a bit, head honchos were over to discuss the christmas prototype and stuff. was a hard to hear what they were saying with the arrival of Santa at the same time!

i think ages ago i was talking about guitar hero, i'm shit but i finally finished it, on easy! i wanted to work my way through the game as training for myself since i have very little control over my little finger. it's on the Wii which has been push to the wayside because of the Xbox. haven't had a computer game week this week, been working late shifts or practicing after early shifts. the prestige is coming on well. third song done. has taking much shorter time than the previous songs which is good. i think its a sign of us understanding what we are trying to say quicker. now to write a bit more and do some shows!

my girlfriend is gone to sweden for the weekend to go job hunting. she's going to move back there which is really shit. so anyone looking to rent a double room in dundrum, hit me up!? it's an awesome house with a great garden for summertime and it'd be me and my housemate from scotland who runs the other Urban Outfitters in temple bar.

with all the lads talking about this game, really makes me want to get it. i have Gears 1 which i have only played for a bit but it's really good. GTA took over from everything. was very tempted to get a pre order today. going to have see if i actually have any money before i do though.

was in ikea in belfast yesterday and the wouldn't take my laser card because i don't have the back signed. i had to sign for my stuff because they don't take pin codes for laser cards there for some reason. so went to take out cash and the atm said "you have no funds" so i don't know if i have money because none of the transaction i made yesterday have gone through online yet. i'm in money limbo!!! back to ikea, it's class!!! i want to get so much stuff there, before furniture would not have interested me in the slightist but ikea has made me want lots of stuff!

i'm pretty easily influence by the sound of the post! i want a new external hard drive as my 500gb is full. hook me up!


go to this: (i am going)

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.