The Story Goes....

Its late on a thursday night and Im sitting here listening to the rain bash against my bedroom window. I have to admit I do love when it rains and I can stay in bed and just listed to it... Its a different story when I have to go out in the rain. Its getting louder =/ I hope its not going to be a full on storm tonight!

Anyhow...I completely forgot to update this thing, very bad I know. I forgot it existed until I saw a link to it from my twitter page. Thats another thing. Twitter. Why in gods name did I ever make an account? I recently reactivated my account out of boredom while my best friend was away in france for a month ( a month is a very long time without contact I tells ya). I found myself flicking around on the internet and having nothing to look at so I went and had a look at twitter. When I first joined up Stephen Fry was the only "celebrity" that had a twitter account as far as I was aware but upon my return I found that all sorts of random "celebrity type folk" from Miley Cyrus to Barack Obama and Oprah had a freakin account! Now I can see why these people would attract so many followers, I get it, people, not me, but fans and such, will want to see what Katy Perry is having for dinner or who John Mayer is going to insult next, but its people like me, a regular college student that makes me think, why do people follow me? Why do I update it? Good question i think... I'll have to ponder that one.

Ramble over.

So what has been new with me? Well... not a whole lot to be honest. Things have been rather monotonous of late. My days consist of breakfast, library, lectures, dinner, more library and then gym until I literally can't stand any more. The floods have completely messed up my routine because the gym was so badly damaged they had had to close it. I have been hearing all sorts of things regarding its reopening, some people are saying it will be out of action for four months and others are saying six months. Either was I am pretty devastated! I loved going to the gym with Charlotte, it was a brilliant way to get out of our apartments together, it was our time just for us and it was a welcome change from the sometimes tedious routine of lectures and study. I guess we will have to find something else to do to entertain ourselves, maybe I can convince her to join a club or society or something! (I will probably have to convince myself first)

Being at home this week has made me realize how much I miss playing scrabble. I know that sounds rather an old womanish type thing to say but Im serious, scrabble is an awful lot of fun!

Playing with Charly is a completely different experience to playing with my grandmother or even my own mother for that matter because its actually a pretty fair game! Granted I do win nearly all of the time but that is only because of the years of practice I have gained throughout my childhood. I brought up my game of boggle to play but I always forget that its sitting in my wardrobe. Im nervous to play it because I have a feeling I will be god-awful at it, I could never fully understand the rules... rules suck.

X.

More Important Things

I have been using my poor ould macbook too much tonight and its getting rather hot.... I think the charger burnt me too, which is uncool. I should turn it off and put it away but I am having for too much fun figuring out my stupid timetable for my final year in university.

The english department has gone beyond irritating by putting up a dodgy timetable of modules for the year, which is really no help to us if we have to then go back and email them to ask for the real information we need. Oh I can honestly say I do not find it amusing that people will actually do a half arsed job and be done with something..... I could never do that.

People should take pride in their jobs no matter how trivial that job may be.

Who am I to complain really?

Who are any of us to bitch and moan about silly things like a messed up timetable when there are more important things to worry about!?!

Seriously, I was bored the other day while my sister was back and school and my father was working so I decided that to pass the hours I would watch my dads Live Aid dvd and the intro video at the beginning, the news report that sparked the whole live aid campaign, really broke my heart. It was by no means my first time watching the video of the famine and its victims but for some reason this time it really struck a chord and it depressed me beyond belief. Seriously, I was sitting there with two little pizza things in front of me and I was enjoying the comfort of my leather recliners and I felt horribly guilty watching these poor people in the third world suffering and dying. I literally couldn't even stomach my lunch.

Its horrible to think that the dvd I was watching was made over twenty years ago and still.... people are dying needlessly =[

"When you're down and out

There seems no hope at all

But if you just believe

There's no way we can fall

Well, well, well, well, let us realize

That a change will only come

When we stand together as one"

I will never again complain about my situation. I have no right to complain about it, I have a blessed life. A home, a family, an education, clothes on my back and food to eat.

There really are just more important things in life.

Realizations

Whilst sitting in on a stormy tuesday night reading Bridget Jones' Diary I realized something.

I don't have a crush on anyone right now.

Nobody.....

It's odd because I am so used to having one... It's not a bad feeling though. It's just strange, can't wait to tell C, I bet she won't believe me.

Saturday NIght Insomnic

Well here I am on a Saturday night, its now 2:14 in the A.M I am beyond bored, screw insomnia, screw it to hell!!

I know its bad when I have painted my nails and have watched four episodes of Sex and the City. The past few days have been delightful, meh, not really. Thursday I barely got dressed, and friday was no better. I send my dad out for Subway and after a morning of scrubbing toilets and showers I sat down and watched my sisters copy of bridget jones diary and then straight after it had finished watched Bridget Jones the edge of reason. I should really finish that book, maybe reading would make me more sleepy, then again having a normal sleeping routine would be better.

So I have been sitting at home and thinking about how summer is coming to an end and I ended up wracking my brains trying to think of all the "fun things" I want to do with the remaining few weeks of freedom and I have come up with a few... I'm sure there will be more added...

1: Give up something.

So I have tried so many times to give up biting my nails and for a while i totally succeeded! Its been a bit of a struggle but for now at least they are long and I intend on keeping them long.

Also, I am going to give up Fizzy drinks...... if Jonathan can give up Coke then I sure as heck can give up Diet coke!

2: Take up something:

The summer is a long time and I have decided I will take on a new hobby or something to keep me busy... that something will be Knitting. I know that sounds fairly old womanish but I am loving how relaxing it is. Its also ridiculously calming & a great way to forget about whatever I have going on.

[Note] Have since routed out my knitting from under the bed and started again, its really very easy to lose oneself when one is knitting you know!

3: Take in a trip with a friend or two or three:

Now that the summer is almost over and I have wasted heaps of time to be lazy and relaxing, I plan on taking a trip or two. Let the fun begin I tells you!

4: Go to the zoo

Although it is fairly depressing seeing all the animals all caged up and sad looking, my best friend recently mentioned that she had never been to the zoo, frankly I was uber shocked and decided she needs to visit the Zoo at least once before she hits the big 20!

5:Learn to cook something

So what with moving back to the city for my final year of college i think I should probably expand on my already wonderful culinary skills. I don't fancy another nine months of beans on toast or stir-frys very much, this year i'm thinking I will be more adventurous but on a budget.

M.I.A

So I have beem M.I.A for the last few months & that is all because its Summer!

Since I last updated I have been to Paris.

There is only one word I can use to describe that city and that is ..... Amazing! We spent a week in the city staying in a beautiful apartment off the Boulevard Montmartre. The weather was fantastic forthe whole duration of our visit and I although I felt competely exhausted at the end of everyday after hours of walking through vast boulevards and wandering around what felt like miles of art galleries and museums, I adored every second of everyday. The only thing I found fault with in the city of love was the amount of people who wander around the tourist attractions i.e The Eiffel Tower, Sacre coure, Notre Dame... ect. trying to sell manky little souvieers! They were beyond rude and I honestly did not appreciate one of them grabbing at my wrist.... Thank god my fiesty little sister was on hand to yell at them and save me, something which she had to do on numerous occasions seeing as I havent got a word of french. I will most definatley be visiting France again, there is still so much there I want to see!

I took my sister on a shopping trip up to Dublin recently which was interesting to say the least. We endured loud obnoxious people on the train journey up just barely, I was almost sick because of the man in the seat behind mine violently and ridiculously loudly blowing his nose every ten minutes, or the screaming baby whose mother did little to comfort him... We did manage to have a few laughs and got to our destination in one piece. We first ventured to Topshop so C could have a look for something to new wear one one of her many night out and after two hours in the one shop she came away with a fabulous black lace dress and some pretty jewelery. After that our shopping was pretty much done seeing as we had the outfit after the first shop but we ventured in every clothes shop along grafn street before heading home, exhausted! On our return journey however, we decided it was appropriate to use our upgrade travel passes and sit in first class, it was propabhly the best part of the day, reclining seats and silence!

Last week I took a friend to a wildlife park because she had never been to oneor a zoo in her 19 years of life. We saw monkeys, lamas, penguins, cheetas, seals, girraffes, onyx, ostrich and flamincos to name but a few. It was a really warn sunny day which was very much apprecianted because thereis nothing worse that trapsiong around loking at aminals while in rains down on you. Fota is definatley worth the 9 euro enterance fee and iwill be going back for a visit before we start back at college for sure!

To be completed

Right now its Saturday night and I am currently watching Beyonce Live in LA with my little sister and my mum. Watching her live I am only now really starting to realize how unreal a performer she really is! I am so lucky to have been at her concert and so close to the stage, something I was originally quite apprehensive about after being almost crushed at a Chris Brown concert.

Speaking of concerts I was at Lady Gaga Live on Wednesday night with My sister and C, I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised with her performance. She sang live, danced fairly impressive and her costumes were pretty cool. The only thing I have to say I didn't appreciate about her performance was her vulgarity, I mean I wasn't impressed with her talking about orgasms and whatnot.... maybe i'm just an ould prude

There is nothing much else new with me....

C came back from a month is France so I hung out with her last weekend, I am glad she is back,we went from seeing each other every single day for months to not speaking for a month which was pretty strange to be honest. To be honest I took this week fairly easy, got my exam results.... I am now officially in my final year of university which scares me as much as it thrills me. My older sister moved away for work which is pretty damn cool. I am so insanely proud of her, she is probably the person I look up to most and not only because she is taller than me =p Its lame that she is gone from home but now that she is living in a different county I can go visit her and escape my own reality sometimes.

& next on my to do list is Paris....

Song of the week...

When you were here before,
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel,
Your skin makes me cry

You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
I wish I was special
You're so very special

But I'm a creep,
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here

I don't care if it hurts,
I wanna have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul

I want you to notice
when I'm not around
You're so very special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here, ohhhh, ohhhh

She's running out the door
She's running out
She run run run run...
run...

Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so very special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep,
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here

I don't belong here...