Weak

That’s how i’ve been feeling the last couple of days. I think i have some kind of fluey kinda thing, Dermot was suffering from it himself and he shook it off but i seem to be getting worse. I had a dry throat thing going on, on Tuesday that was followed by a temperature thing and the throat thing is gone. Today i actually sat in the car before coming in here thinking that i might just drive home. I’m aching all over so i am and i don’t really wanna ring in sick because it would leave the guys in here up to their neck in it. Even though there would be three left, one of those three is mé féiner in other words not a team player.

I completely regret drinking at the weekend, it’s after setting me back a week with the oul weight loss. I put on two pounds and i dunno if the drink was worth it at all. I’m not drinking now til the end of the month. I can’t wait actually, i’m after organising a night out for work and i’ve invited a load of people that i worked with in the past here. I got loads of responses which i was surprised about and it looks like it’s gonna be a cracker of a night.

Bad news on the car front, i noticed a dent in the back door on the driver side of my car. I definitely didn’t do that myself so i’m thinking someone reversed into it and drove off. Not a shocker in Dublin and i’m not gonna bother getting it fixed either. I have more important things to be spending my money on. Speaking of money, my little side job is doing well. I’m coming out with 60 to 80 quid a week so it looks like i’ll be able to save more money for the house.

Wish me luck getting through this day, cold and flu tabs all the way.

My fix…

Some people would probably read this and think i’m an eejit but whatever. I’ve been effing and blinding lately about the lack of artists that i like releasing new music lately back and it’s something that’s been a topic of conversation within the hip hop community that hip hip was dead. Well i can well and truly say that it is not. Nelly, one of my favourite artists since i was a teenager released a song this week whichis really good in my opinion with Fergie. Now Fergie brings the song down for me because i cannot stand to even look at her but the beat is unbelievable and it made me all happy, giving me a lovely little feeling down inside me belly. AND i haven’t bopped to a good tune now in a good while i can tell ya. It’s made my day because music is really important for me for loadsa different reasons.

The weekends been good, with progress on the house, a mini shindig in my mates house in Kilcock and some lovely relaxing today all packed into what was a well earned bank holiday weekend. The weather has been really good too which is just an added bonus. We have two new doors on the bedrooms which makes a big difference, i’ve seen new door frames in other peoples houses that makes more of a difference but we just can’t stretch to that right now. My friends house was cool, we started early and i haven’t had a drink in six weeks so i didn’t last long. 1am and i was out for a count!

An update on the weight loss is that i lost 5 pounds on Wednesday, i know now why i stayed the same last week and that loss was for two weeks. It’s nearly a stone now and i’m on top of the world about it. I’m gonna start back swimming soon too.

Right Lost is on, Laters!

Twas a good day…

I took today off and i’m so glad i did. I got so much done!

I needed to get my logbook replaced for my car and i couldn’t get my car taxed. The landlord has given up on forwarding the post and i couldn’t change my address because i had no logbook. Anyway, i paid a visit to the tax office and while i was there i sent off my full licence application. I had to get a form stamped in the garda station across the road from the tax office and i have to say it was really rough looking. The rest of the town is being done up and it was in a shocking state of affairs. I was delighted to get what i had to get done, done because it’s all sorted now and no more hassle with addresses. Also I’ll have a pink licence!!

The housework was building up because of the amount of things i did over the weekend on the house. So seven washes later, a load of cleaning around the place, a film watched and i just finished my dinner which was amazing. I made a stew without potatoes because i had mash left from yesterday. It came out just right with the meat nice and tender, i was so happy because anytime i make stew i just balls it up. And poured over mash was just the icing on the cake. I’m getting better at the oul cooking slowly but surely considering when i moved out five years ago, all i could cook was a frozen pizza LOL!

Over the weekend, i was a busy bumblebee. I painted the bathroom which came out amazing except for a tiny couple of touch ups i have to do. I set up a washing line which was so badly needed and i built two bedside lockers from flatpacks which i’ve never done before. It felt really good to get so much done.

So I’m off to watch desperate housewives after my busy day and hopefully tomorrow won’t be too bad after my day off. Laters…

Richness of Redness…

Loads of progress on the oul house has been made, i have to say. Dermot finally got back in the zone with the kitchen and finished with the last few details. He couldn’t face it for a while but that’s understandable with the amount he put into it. The last little bit is the painting of the radiator and the skirting boards, I know it seems like something that you would do when painting the walls but i had very little time to get that painting done before the tiling was done on the floor. Nearly one room completed. I hate that the way that has gone with the unfinished bits and we tried to avoid it but we just couldn’t. Ah well…

Today i have the first coat of Rich Red paint in the bathroom done. Now i know ya can’t always judge it after one coat but i can see my little vision coming together for sure. The black, red and white combination just works. The paint i got was for creating space which we need in our little bathroom and it dries within two hours so I’m gonna go at it again later and get it all done today. A mirrored cabinet over the sink, the shower screen and a few little bits here and there and that will be finished soon too. I’m covered from head to toe in speckles and the painting is a workout in itself if i keep the pace LOL!

AND we got the wardrobes fitted in our bedroom this morning too. They’re oak, lighter than the floor now but still an awful lot better than the so called things we had before that would droop when anything was in the top part. The guy was recommended to me and he really did his job well and in good time. He was in and out in two and half hours. We have a bigger double wardrobe and a shelf built into the bottom for shoes that wasn’t there before.

Happy is I in my nappy…

Ooh it might be a long one…

I haven’t really had a minute to get this done the last few days and for some reason i kinda didn’t wanna… No reason really, just didn’t anyway might aswell catch up!

Last weekend went ok, i figured out on Friday that my playstation eyetoy can be used as a webcam. I have no use for it really but it’s always handy to know. A few friends were away recently with work and it probably would’ve been handy then but ah well. I used it once and i found it a bit strange to be honest. I went to Laois on Saturday evening with my Dad, for Ann’s months mine mass. Now the whole months mine thing bothers me because i’ve heard people call the a months mind and a months mine. I dunno, if anyone wants to correct me fire away :). The mass was ok, i hate masses generally but the visit was to see her grave and visit the family mainly for me. The grave looked lovely, i bought a small bunch of yellow roses which i eventually loved after searching three florists not being able to find what i wanted. The cutest thing ever happened in the church, after me reminiscing with my mam and dad about a thing that used to happen on country drives, my mam handed me fifty cent to put in the collection basket. She used to do that when i was a kid and it cracked me up something fierce. The thing that used to happen in the car was me saying “mammy look at the cows” and she’d say “Nicola, it’s not a ceeeow it’s a coooow”. She wasn’t a fan of the dublin accent i was developing at that age LOL!

Sunday was spent all on our own in the house, doing a spot of food shopping and watching a few films on TV. It was lovely, no interruptions and just relaxation. I sorted my Avon orders and delivered them to a couple of my customers from my estate. It’s going really well actually, i have three customers on my little cul de sac, three on the next one and i just got two from the one after that. I have two people to call back to next week and i haven’t even finished one half of the estate.

Work has been ok, i’m just on auto pilot really trying get through each day in itself. I’ve no motivation but hopefully a team meeting soon to discuss changing around who’s responsible for what might help with the situation. The people from India (saying Indians didn’t feel right) are coming next month to learn how to do our jobs, so we all have to be trained up on everything for when that happens. They called us in one by one the other day to tell us that we might have to all go on the 9-5.30 shift, i’m already on that shift but i was asking could i go on an earlier one to help with the not being able to get through a day thing. I’m not too optimistic about my chances because they seem to be cracking the whip on things.

Dermot’s going on holiday with the lads in July to Greece. This year is the first year in seven years that we’re going on separate holidays and it is going to be so strange. I suppose it’s fair enough that he goes away with his mates seeing as i’m going to NYC in November but it still doesn’t feel that way. One of the lads is his bessie mate but the rest are a bit mad when it comes to sessions and i fear for his safety, hehe! Not really but i’ll worry still. It’s just strange, so feckin strange thinking about.

On the final matter, my weight loss is going really well. I’ve lost seven and a half pounds in four weeks, this week just gone i stayed the same which i wasn’t happy about but that’s just me being impatient. Ok that’s it i think and I’ll update in the morning if i think of anything else. That’s the bitch about not writing for days, you forget some things that might have been worth writing.

Funny mood…

Now when i say i’m in a funny mood, it’s not in the ha ha way. I got up outta the wrong side of the bed this morning and i didn’t get enough sleep so Nicola Crankypants will be writing this morning.

I had to get away from my desk for a minute so i thought i’d come out here and write this. My weekend was as uneventful as i said it was gonna be, the most i did was getting my digibox sorted, get DVD’s out and went to the cinema.

The digibox is sorted as long as the codes keep getting updated. If they don’t i have an alternative that i had emailed to me on Friday, it’s a program i have set up on the laptop so that i can update the codes but i just have to get the right cable which i thought i had but i didn’t. May i just say that calling techy shops pisses me the feck off because they don’t listen to what you’re actually saying and assume they know what you’re talking about. Ninkampoops, haha or however ya spell that.

I went to see Funny Games i think it was called, last night in the cinema and it was absolute poppycock. I am making myself laugh here with the words i’m choosing. I don’t really mind though because i love going to the cinema anyway and Dermot never wants to go so… Also, my friend took it upon himself to get Jalapeno peppers on his popcorn when we were there! What’s the story with that? I dunno…

So back to the grind i go, well maybe i might go for a sneakee smokee first

Head-melt

I don’t know if i mentioned in my last post that i’ve had to update my bogey digibox three times since Saturday, well i have anyway and last night was the icing on the cake. The email address that i’ve been getting the codes automatically sent back from isn’t sending anything back. I have the normal 16 or whatever stations on the TV so i shouldn’t complain but it is a smidge irritating. It seems that they are changing the codes once a day now and i hope they don’t keep it up or else i’m gonna have to say bye bye to digital TV.

I had a guy out last night to price new fitted wardrobes and i’ll be finding out how much that’s gonna be today, he was recommended to me by a friend of the family and he’s supposed to be reasonable with his prices. He showed me samples of wood and the oak he showed me matches the floor, so that’ll be the one we’re going with. He’s shortening the width of the press that has shelves to give us more hanging space.

This weekend is gonna be a quiet one so i wouldn’t say i’ll be posting about much but that’s not a bad thing, i’m just gonna relax and get a little few things done. Have a nice weekend :).

Doing OK

Yeah i am doing alright as long as i can keep this up, i lost a pound and a half this week. I have been eating healthy, the only thing i didn’t do was count my points and that Friday night was way over the top. Less of them me thinks! If i count my points, drink loadsa water and try to get out walking this weight will fly off me. I keep looking at the family photo in my mam’s sitting room and that’s my target, obviously i won’t look sixteen again but the size i was then. The gas thing about it is that when i was that age, i was convinced that i was fat EH NO!

Right so i have gotten a good bit done this week otherwise, my little job on the side is coming along as i have five customers in my estate so far and that’s only on two little cul de sac’s. If i had more time in the evenings, i would get more of the estate done and also there’s the fact that not a lot of people wanna answer the door to me. I’m happy with the progress i’ve made and i have loadsa lovely customers in work too.

My mam gave me a lovely present the other day, it was a pic of my Aunty Ann. It was from about three years ago, before she was sick and she looks lovely in it. It’s the first framed picture of anyone that i’ve brought into my house and i sat it on the windowsill in the spare room. Now every time i go in there to dry clothes on the clothes horse, there she is smiling at me.

Work is getting harder, it’s hard to get through a day and i think something needs to be changed so that i don’t feel that way. Like maybe changing responsibilities. 6 months and counting, watching a few of the lads the other day being made redundant on Tuesday didn’t help either. My team leader is going on maternity leave in May also and her replacement is supposed to be strict, i’ve heard a few horror stories.

Crap post, bleh! Laters!

Can’t believe i forgot this…

I lost five pounds! I nearly fell off the scales when she told me, i was really being good except for a packet of crisps or two which is totally allowed in moderation. I was making an effort to just get a cup of water with my lunch instead of the normal diet coke or whatever and it made me then fill up my water bottle when i got back from lunch. Anyway, lets hope it stays like that but i did go out last night so I will have to make up for that.

So last night was a bit mad. After i posted on here yesterday, literally before i left for Glasnevin Ess called me because we had been hmming and hawing about whether we were going out or not. I haven’t really been to a night out with the team i’m on now so i was a bit undecided on it. Then i was informed  that there was a couple of people from the old department that would be in town so we had a backup heh! There was free drink at the work do, we had a couple before getting there and the drinks vouchers just kept coming. Needless to say i was a smidgen intoxicated leaving the establishment and the end of the night is a bit of a blur. I can remember walking to the taxi but i can’t remember actually leaving the place. I really don’t like when that happens, it freaks me out something fierce.

I am severely hungover, i mean severeley. I am at the point where i tried to have a conversation with my sister when she called up for a minute and i literally could not string words together. Many pints along with two or maybe three shots does not do ya much good, hehe! This new layout on the dashboard does not help things, i’ve spent a good bit of time just staring at the screen not knowing what to do. Like my brain can’t tell me to browse the different options they’ve put in there. Lou came to my rescue on a blogroll issue i was having ha!

So i also have shitloads of housework to do because after the fireplace was fitted, i didn’t really have time to clean up what with errands and getting ready to go out. I have a huuuge mound of washing too so i have get up off the oul bum botty.

All done…

Yep yep, the fireplace is in within two hours and it looks amazing! It really sets the room off, i couldn’t be happier with it. The old fireplace was the second last thing dragging this house down, the last is the gardens which we will be sorting fairly shortly.

Anyway, the owner and his daughter fitted it which i thought ruled because she was getting in there getting her hands dirty. Fair play to her wanting to keep the business in the family probably. I’m a little bit disappointed with the fact that they couldn’t plaster either side of the new one, the old one was much wider so there’s that bit that needs doing. I was sure that the sales person that i spoke to months ago said that it would be done but he was having none of it today. Not a big issue really though, Dermot already plastered the bathroom himself so I’m sure he can do this.

Right I’m off now to Glasnevin to get the knob replaced from my hob, they sent out the wrong one and now i have to go show them a pic of the right one. They actually argued with me about the fact that it was wrong, em hello mister man it doesn’t fit! Heh!