From My Office Window...

Moving from the main reception desk to the back office could quite possibly be the reason I lose my job!! It’s a wonder I get anything done at all seeing as I spend most of my time gazing out the window...but the goings on out there really do keep me entertained for ages!

This week I have watched a domestic between 2 winos with the poor woman listening to her fella’s shite and arguing over the bottle of drink they were clearly meant to be sharing but obviously didn’t want to. Quote of that conversation has to be “You don’t want me when I’m sober”, I find it hard to believe he ever was!!

The house across the road has been providing entertainment for me and my co workers for nearly 3 years now!! It’s definitely some kind of drug house anyway, the comings and goings there are nobody’s business like! They too, are partial to a few domestics, usually the loud woman is screaming at the guy and giving him a few belts here and there. He takes off up the road only to return an hour or 2 later and everything is hunky dory...until she snaps again! We’ve even been witness to several interventions with the guards there and even came close to blowing their cover one time when they were watching the house!

The “Walk of Shame” is also a hilarious sight – this is most Wednesday and Friday mornings after student night when they are all returning home looking like they have the hangovers form hell and in no fit state to be heading to any kind of college, I’m guessing they never have any intentions of doing that anyway!

Road rage, always an issue around her because of the one way system and narrow road, oh god the drivers would going mad at each other...beeping and shouting and then driving off in a huff, oh I’d be cracking up from inside!!

Stay tuned for more...there’s always something going on outside my window!!

PS I've brightened up my blog colours in preparation for Spring! :-)

Somebody That I Used To KNow

Now and then I think of when we were together, Like when you said you felt so happy you could die.
Told myself that you were right for me, but felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and its an ache I still remember.


You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness,
Like resignation to the end, always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense, well you said that we would still be friends
But I'll admit that I was glad that it was over.


But you didn't have to cut me of, make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love, treat me like a stranger it feels so rough.
No you didn't have to stoop so low,
Have your friend collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though,
Now you're just somebody that I used to know.


Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing that it was always something that I'd done
And I don't wanna live that way, reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know.


But you didn't have to cut me of, make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love, treat me like a stranger it feels so rough.
No you didn't have to stoop so low,
Have your friend collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though,
Now you're just somebody that I used to know.


Currently obsessed with this song, the Walk Off The Earth version, partly because of the guitar playing but the lyrics are awesome - everyone should have a listen!
And I promise my next and future posts will be on a more upbeat note :-) XO

Life Is What YOU Make It

I can across this list today by Regina Brett and I think its a great few points to live my life by -

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. (This will be a tough one to enforce right now, but I'm sure I'll manage!)

4. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month. 

6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile. (Not a huge chocolate fan, so no problem there!)

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present. (Currently building that bridge...)

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry. (I'm not sure is it, I'll have to come back to it should I ever have any!)

13. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

16. Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

17. You can get through anything if you stay put in today.

18. A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Overprepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: "In five years, will this matter?"

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone everything. (easier said than done but I'll give it a shot)

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

35. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

36. Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable.

38. Read the Psalms. They cover every human emotion.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

41. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

42. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

43. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

44. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

45. The best is yet to come.

46. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

47. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

48. If you don't ask, you don't get.

49. Yield.

50. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

:-)

Extended Family :-)

I just want show some appreciation for the wonderful friends I am so lucky to have in my life right now - my best friends, new friends, friends I haven't talked to in a while, friends on the other side of the world, family members who are also friends - because no matter what happens in life, they are always there when it does matter and I really couldn't ask for a better bunch and I appreciate everything every one of them has done for me!! :-)

XOXO

Another Year Older

Well I am now officially another year old - the grand old age of 26! I've got mixed feelings about this age - on one side I feel like I should have so much more done by now but on the other hand I'm glad I've still got a few of those things to do yet, because well really, I'm not ready for them right now. Having a birthday so soon after Christmas usually sucks but as I've got older I've grown to love my birth date a bit more. I like that I start a New Year and a new age start within in days of each other, makes the meaning of a "new start" a bit more applicable.
So anyway birthday celebrations were quite tame this year but good all the same! I celebrated with dinner in Leonardos with the girls, a cute little Italian style restaurant in Midleton, their garlic potatoes are to die for!! A drink in the bar up the road afterwards and we were fit for bed. I can never follow a meal with a night of drinking, I'm always far too full. Today I went for dinner with 2 of my CL  girls in Il Padrino in the city, another Italian restaurant and quite possibly the nicest meal out I've had for ages! I got the calzone which was huge and I really didnt think Id finish it but it was so yummy and then chocolate fudge cake for dessert - I barely managed to drive home I was so full!
I got some lovely gifts from friends and family and I also treated myself to a few items including an awesome pair of heels which I'd been looking at a few weeks ago and got them for less than half price the other day, bargain!

Love getting vouchers!

My new fave shoes

Here's to the year of the twenty six year old me!!

An Affair of the Heart...

"If you love something, let it go..." - Never have those words been more truer to me than they are right now.
I'm not sure what's even going on right now but I do know that sometimes you just have to let the one you love...go. But man it hurts, a lot, like heartbreak I havent felt since I was 17 and had my heartbroken for the first time...that  was horrendous! I do hope he finds the answers hes looking for and no matter what I'm always going to be there for him whenever he may need me because you don't just throw away 10 years of friendship, as long as hes happy at  some stage, thats whats important to me. Sometimes you just have to realise though that you can't be the one to make them happy, they have to find it within themselves first. After everything we've been through from teenagers to adulthood and still stuck by each other, I'm seeing this as another one of life's obstacles that we have to get past, I'm just clueless as to the outcome of this one..I guess the unknown is good sometimes. And the last 6 months...I wouldn't change any of it - how could I regret falling in love with my best friend and first love all over again?! x