Tired from a very long weekend!

I realise I have been very slack in updating. Remember I said I was mad-busy? That was to get everything ready for this weekend, for my birthday. :) We had people coming from all over to stay for varying lengths of the weekend, so we needed plans for everything. It was stressful planning, but it's been great fun!

We basically ended up drinking in Fred Zeppelins on Saturday night, after dinner at Zanzibar's on the way out. Then Sunday we had a relaxed bbq at home, and thankfully, the Irish weather stayed away and we had some glorious sunshine! A great time was had with good food, plenty of booze, and lots of time on the Wii! All the photos are available at Flickr, and some of the best are below! Normal blogging service shall resume this week!

Mmm. pear cider!


BBQ lunch


Guitar Hero was popular!


Oh dear?

Dinner at Zanzibar's

Dysons are <3

When we first moved into our place in Cork, we had this rug on the floor. However, at that time, we didn't have a hoover, since we had no soft floors (all marble tile and laminate) we figured we could make do with a broom. How wrong we were! The poor rug, seemed to attract all the fluff and dust and hair from all over the house, and ended up being, well, almost black!

So, we took it up off the floor, since we had no way of sweeping it clean for the time being. Now, very recently we purchased a Dyson DC20 Animal. Since we realised that our broom sweeping efforts were just moving the fluff piles around. This weekend I spied the rug, rolled up behind the door, and figured I would do a little experiment. So down it went, and hoover it we did (for about an hour, and we emptied the Dyson bin 3 times I might add! Ewwwww!)

However, it is now beautifully cream and beige once more, and it's sooo nice having it back on the floor. It defines the living room from the kitchen and as you can see, the cats love rolling around on it, and can now often be found sitting at our feet while we watch tv!

Bad Blogger!

I've been terrible at updating this past week, it's been mad busy! Lots of things to catch up on though, so here's a quick round up:

* The labret is healing nicely, got some new jewellery on the way from Stu that should help too (a soft Bioplast labret stud, to reduce teeth banging!)
* My Holga finally arrived, and I found a really lovely shop in town that sells film, and develops it, so we're all set for pretty pictures coming Soon™
* The mini album project kit from Leigh-Ann arrived. It was so cute opening it up, everything was wrapped up so nicely! I was so busy diving in, I didn't take any pictures, bad bad me! Rach and I spent a lovely Sunday afternoon constructing our new album. The basics are all done, now we have the fun journaling additions to make, hopefully this weekend.
* I won a competition! Retro Lush released their second movie, with over 100 current and discontinued product names in. I managed to find the 75 required, and dashed to the shop in Cork to claim my prize. I was the first one there, and won the Retro gift box #2. :D


We're also busy planning for my birthday get-together later this month. We have people flying in from different places, on different days, people staying different lengths of time so I have a major list of chores, who to pick up from where and when, and meal plans so we can feed everyone! Hopefully we have enough camp beds and sofa space for everyone to get some sleep. :) It's going to be a crazy weekend (more of a week actually, I've even booked some holiday!) but so so cool to catch up with people I've not seen (some I've not seen for months, some for over 2 years, and one we've never met face-to-face!). I'm very excited, and in full-on stressed planning mode to make sure it all goes perfectly.

Damp and Damper!

As Rach and I got up this morning, we both heard the very distinctive noise of Cork getting pissed on from above! We looked at each other, we had plans today, to go to the piercer/tattooist before work, and also pick up Rachie's phone from the service centre.

Having got ready to go, it stopped raining, so we made a break for it into the outside world. No more than 10 paces up the road, the heavens opened. Needless to say, after the rest of the 15 minute walk to the service centre, we were damp, to the point of saturation!

It was still a very productive day though, the phone is repaired and working once more. I handed in my example pics and spoke with the tattooist. He understood totally what I was after, and I'm now really excited about finally getting this tattoo done. I've been designing it in my head for about 5 years!

AND....

*drumroll*

I got my labret pierced! For those not in the know, that means I now have a small stud sticking out under my bottom lip. I was calm and collected, and I think the piercer was more scared than I was. I've been wanting to get it done for about 6 years, but have either chickened out, or not had the money, or the time to travel to the piercer. It looks really cool, my lip is crazy swollen (in a bee sting way that some women pay a fortune in cosmetics and surgery to achieve!) and eating and talking are a little odd at the moment.

I shall try and post a decent shot tomorrow, when it's cleaned up and not quite so gakky!

*bounces away*

Seeing Stars

Rachie made me a provisional booking at the tattooist for the 24th! Yay! I'm going to see the guy before work tomorrow, with my examples, and the big huge ramble about what I'm after, and hope that he doesn't laugh me out of the shop ^^ 100 euros per hour for custom work, so hopefully he's good. A friend at work has had about 36 hours with him since we got to Cork, all custom, so that's a good recommendation to me.

This picture I found while browsing Google images also reminded me that my friend Pui at school used to make stars like this for us. I used to have loads of them in my pencil case at all times! Odd how you can suddenly remember things like that.

Hope you're all having a great week. I might have a surprise tomorrow ^^

Ooops

This is actually yesterdays post, and I forgot to publish it. Whoopsie.

Rach got me this cute little set of perfumes from Be Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful at the weekend. It was actually a birthday present (my birthday is next month) but since I knew she was going to visit the shop while she was in England, I had asked for it specifically, and she was too excited and wanted me to have it now! Today I'm wearing Ladyboy, which is a really yummy smell. Unusual, but yummy. I think I'm going to go with Keep it Fluffy as my perfume of choice though. It's sweet in a different way, and very me.

She took a whole bunch of pictures at the shop, since I've never had the opportunity to visit one, and it looks every bit as magical as I expected it to be. They're the sister company of Lush cosmetics, and have the same ethos, natural, handmade, cruelty free (and that means the whole process, raw ingredient to finished product, not like a number of so-called cruelty free products available). You can see all the pics on her Flickr.




Saturday:

Today is going to be crazy-busy at work. I don't usually work Saturdays, but they changed my weekends to cover for the Worldwide Invitational that we're running this weekend. There are new game announcements and all sorts going on and the tickets are going to be insane I'm sure. Long, tiring, stressful day, but then I have 2 days off to kick back with Rach, so I'm really looking forward to that. We're finally going to see Sex and the City as well. Yay!

If you're into gaming and Blizzard games in particular, below are some sites to get info and details on what's going on this weekend. Have a great weekend all, and think of me, hammering away at the keyboard for the next 11 hours!

http://www.blizzard.com
http://www.wow-europe.com
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com
http://www.mmo-champion.com

Speedy Weekend Update

I've been very bad updating this weekend, I've just been in a misog mood, and not wanting to inflict that on the world, I kept to myself! But Rachie is home, I feel better, so on with the post.

The weekend flew by in parts, and dragged in others. I met Rachie on Saturday morning to help her buy clothes for her Grandmas funeral. Clothes shopping is always a trauma, since we're restricted to basically whatever Evans have in stock at the time. But when you have a specific occasion to buy for, that has certain "rules" dictating the type of thing you should wear, it gets even harder. We managed to find some black trousers (in the sale no less!) and a black cardigan, and decided a shirt underneath would look smart enough. Without being too scruffy, or too "not Rachie"!

While we were out I snapped this pic of an advert at the bus stop. Something draws me to the picture, not sure what exactly. I love that she has green nail varnish on, and I've always loved the whole tight-bodice-with-boobs-spilling-over-the-top thing!



The rest of the weekend was fairly miserable, it rained pretty much non-stop, so I stayed in, played some WoW, watched some movies on my solo girlie night in (face masks n'all!) and chatted to people online. A total hermit weekend really!



This picture is one I took just after my hair got massacred (it's really not much longer now!) Kimba was mewling at me to see what I was doing, so I picked her up and snapped us both. Not my greatest ever picture, but I guess it's not hideous either. Maybe.

Work time for me, have a great Thursday!