This is the live

I just had to have this in my journal because this is my favorite song from Take That's new Album "Progress". I don't really know why I love it so much but it helped me establish a good rhythm when I walked from the bus to work in Dublin. This song will always be connected to memories of Ireland and Dublin.

( Take That performing KIDZ at the Brit Awards 2011 )

I'm home!!! After a three hour trip through the city of Dublin, through the snow and in the cold. I left work almost 45 minutes early. Why? Because there are no buses going out to where I live. Only some in the city and none at all to Lucan. So met up with my roommate and a friend in the city, walked to the train station, managed to get on the train to the station closest to Lucan and got there. The we walked 1 1/2 hours through the cold and the snow, and it was (still is) coming down hard.
I don't see myself going to work tomorrow.
No buses!!!
How can you operate buses on summer tires when it is winter? How?

God, I'm so cold. I need a shower or a hot bath and tea, lots of tea.
*shivers*

Pictorial Proof...
( Dublin this morning )

( Dublin mid-day )

( Lucan (Co. Dublin) tonight, 30 minutes ago )

♥ This is for akintay! Birthday present is here (sorry that you have to share it with the comms... :) )*hugs*. Hope you like it.

Fic: "Just one of those stories...“ Part 5 of 5, It's just the way I am, J2, R.

♥ This also means I have a BINGO on my schmoop_bingo card! YAY. And I got a prompt done for the notjustroomates November prompt.

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♥ I think I might be slightly tipsy because of the whiskey but then I think I'm just really tired.

♥ Can't believe how happy I am over a stupid Panda hat. My fashions sense these days either sucks or is adapting to the local customs. I don't know which is worse. But the hat is totally cute.

♥ I feel really random right now. I probably should go to bed and stop drinking tea at 11pm. *headdesk* I don't want to go to work tomorrow. I'd rather hang out with slippery_fish and discover as of yet unknown to me parts of the city. Meh...

♥ Lot's of things to tell. Took a sick day Wednesday and it helped. I still have a cough but it's getting better. I needed a day to sleep it all off. Thank God it was okay with my boss. The day after was kind of chaotic. Mostly thanks to "Arthur's Day", which was only celebrated for the second time now. They are trying to build a tradition because it was so successful last year. This is the day they celebrate Arthur Guinness, which means a lot of free Guinness, VIP parties all over the Temple Bar District and live concerts. The thing about the live concerts though was that they were secret. You either had to have connections or luck (Snow Patrol, Manic Street Preachers, Kelis etc). There was a huge part at the Guinness Brewery as well, which meant that I had to take a detour to get into work because the streets were close for preparations.

♥ I've never seen a city this crowded, drunk and loud. Really. We were right in the middle of it because we had to get some grocery shopping done and then the buses were stuck in traffic and in the crowds and it took us way too long to get home. Took the right bus which was going into the wrong direction, which meant walking home in the rain and being told the wrong way by an old lady (Thank God I knew the right direction). Also, I'll never complain about the prices for cosmetics in Germany ever again. Holy hell is this expensive here.

♥ Yesterday then it was "Culture Night", which meant a lot of sights, churches and museums were for free and offered special shows and exhibitions. We went after work and took a look at St. Patrick's Cathedral and it's choir. Very interesting. ( Pictures... some blury though because I only had my cell phone with me )

♥ Today is an off day. Which I really need. Catch up on sleep, on e-mails, watch the F1 qualifying on BBC and then finally get the next part of my Camp!verse done. Anybody willing to beta for me? It's a J2 story, not long and should be done by tomorrow. Please???

♥ Tomorrow's plans look good. The weather is nice and is supposed to stay this way, so we decided to take the Dart train along the coast and take a look at the beaches, mountains and habors. There will so be pictures taken and postcard send.

♥ Also, won't read anymore reviews than I've already done. Don't wanna spoil my own view and I think I'm quite content with it right now. Sorry that I'm not commenting on any more. Have to rewatch 6.01 anyway again, I have the feeling that I might have missed some things.

♥ I'm slowly but surely settling in and things seem to be working out okay. My work is interesting and my boss is pretty cool. I can ask him anything and the other three girls in the office as well. I think it won't be too hard or too long. Right now I'm doing translations and man, it's sucks to do that when half your letters are missing. Try to translate into German with a QWERTY keyboard.. argh.

♥ I'm also close to figuring out the Dublin Bus system, which helps a lot in the morning when you want to avoid all the school kids. The bus is still crowded though. But I learned (through minor panic attacks this morning when I thought I was in the wrong bus) that I actually can take the Xpress Bus as well, which saves about 15 to 20 minutes in the morning traffic.. yay. I'm also in an office building right next to the Guinness Brewery. LOL

♥ The one thing I still have to figure out is where I can find the cheapest supermarkets around here, since we are in the suburbs there are quite some distances to walk and I really can't afford to eat out every day. I did today though, awesome burgers. :) Also found an HVM (SPN Season 5 is so mine in a few weeks, saw the adds for it already) and an American Apparel (I need to get some warm sweaters I think and a new umbrella, mine broke this morning, damn wind).

♥ Took some pics today and will upload them soon.

♥ I haven't read a single story in days, my schedule is all scrambled and I just don't have the time to read anymore... I don't like it. But wow, I have a social life.. go figure.

♥ I miss my cat and everyone else... and it's just been a few days.

♥ Off, to watch Gossip Girl

I'll be off in a few hours. Dublin here I come. Still not sure if I have everything, but then I guess I can always go and buy stuff. Anyway, I have no idea how things will look like concerning internet but I'll find a way. Hopefully before SPN starts back up again. So if not, a little bit of hiatus here I guess.

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♥ For now at least. Got the new modem installed and it's working now. But it took me about two hours and there is still something wonky. We'll see how long it will hold. Had a good weekend despite not achieving the things I wanted to. Was at a party with slippery_fish and stayed way longer than I had planned to but it was fun and I actually woke up again while dancing. Was at home around 4am Sunday morning and did not get nearly enough sleep to be awake for the course today. I still feel like I could just drop and sleep on. (Also, LJ refused to show this entry anywhere but my page, at least to me... so very strange. It's the second time that this has happened now.)

♥ Got my internet back just in time for some J2 love and goodness. It's strange but every time a con is about to take place I don't want to know about things when they happen. During the few years I started looking at con stuff when things are already over and I can get around embarrassing stuff or ignore wank if there should be one. I'm much happier this way. Much more ignorant as well but I honestly don't care.

( J2 goodies... love the boys. )

♥ Speaking of the boys... I'm not sure if I want to go to the AE2 con or not. On the one hand I would love to meet a lot of people there and so on.. on the other hand I don't know. I met the boys, I had a good time and I have good memories. Do I want to have more? *shrugs* But then, it's Jensen.. ;)

♥ Finished another schmoop_bingoprompt today. Now I just have to find the time to type it up. I have four prompts filled and none of them on my computer yet. Urgh.... I just can't bring myself to actually sit down open the notebook and start typing. Something holds me back. Also, my BB fic got recced and the reason made me smile. :D

♥ Also, new Irish lecturer is sort of funny but when he said his son has scarlet fever I wondered what the hell he was doing there teaching. I mean, it's just highly contagious. Bah, just thinking about out makes me feel sick. Not that I'm okay again. Still migraine attacks and a sore throat. *sighs*

♥ My way to and from the course is plastered with very stupid billboards for a mobile phone company. It took me two days to realize why they bothered me. They have the German version of brilliant written on them and it's brillant. Every time I see it I think there is something missing, even if there isn't. Languages are strange.

♥ 2 weeks until Dublin. Meeeep.

♥ Meme, stolen from around my flist
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