Oh bloody hell. My wisdom teeth are growing again and my gums are pretty sore and the bloody pain of the teeth cutting through the gums is pretty bad. It actually goes up and down my head and reallllly bugs me. Ahhh! Might pop in an advil seeing that they’re so pretty anyways (the liquigels anyways). I’m of course scared that it might be that black thing that I suspect is caries but shouldn’t that constantly hurt? It also feels more like the pain is in my gums than in my tooth. Owww!
The stomach is also kind of upset, rumbles a bit too much for my taste. Hopefully that’s better soon, too though. My dinner was a choice of either pasta with tomato and bellpepper sauce or some curry like tikka masala, bhalti curry etc. I figured pasta would be less spicey but wow, that sauce was hot!
Stressful day at work but I still got out at 5:30pm so that was alright. Can’t wait for the long weekend ahead though as I’ll be in London! Yay! My first time ever there! Well, I have been to Heathrow and Gatwick and on the road between the two airports but never to the city. I’m really excited! 🙂
Monday Again…
Had a really nice weekend with my friend Jens here. We went out for pizza on Friday, then walked around Temple Bar with a not sooo yummy ice cream from Burger King and then had a cocktail at Cafe en Sienne. Saturday we wanted to have rolls for breakfast but they were super moldy (and I had just bought them the day before at ALDI and they said best before june07!!) but luckily I had bread, too. Anyways, ALDI gave me my money back without fussing about it and then we headed to town to do the Guinness Storehouse tour. It was nice and we got a pint of Guinness (and the glasses ;-)) plus the great view from the top of the building. Interestingly enough, they use German hops for their brewing!
More sightseeing and shopping downtown after that and then we had Indian for dinner. Yum! After a gazillion night photos from Jens we took the bus back home.
Sunday we took the train to Dalkey where all the rich and famous live. We couldn’t find a fish & chips place and so had to eat normal food at a normal place but then afterwards we walked along the coast and Jens got really frustrated by seeing all these rich people’s houses and cars. ;-). Ice-cream cheered him up a bit though I hope. Took the train and the bus and a taxi back home and then sent Jens off to the airport with that same taxi. Nothing else really happened. I went to bed at 9pm because I was so tired from the week and the weekend. This air mattress that my visitors sleep on is so annoying when they turn around and Jens turned a lot during the night so I kept waking up. I feel pretty awake today though. 🙂
My sister decided to go to a family from Connecticut in Glastonbury and not to the one in Texas. How far from you is that Uti? I’d have gone to TX but that’s just me and it’s obviously her year and if she’s so confident that this family is loads better than the other then I wish her all the best for it! But hey, no pool in the backyard! 😉
Other shocking news are that I might have caries! I found this black, tiny strip in my wisdom tooth! Ahhhh! I’ve never had caries before so I am really shocked! It’s no wonder really because the gums were covering it half way but not completely for a long time so obviously food came to the tooth but I couldn’t reach it with my toothbrush to get it out from under the gum pieces. Arg! It doesn’t hurt or anything but I can’t get the black off by brushing or poking it with a toothpick. Hmpf! Will buy some fluorine stuff later today to try and keep it small until I’m back home and can go to the dentist. I’m just so dissappointed! 🙁
It Reigns My Life
Where as it= the evil diploma thesis. I spent most of Saturday and Sunday reminiscing over it and writing and editing it. I finished two sub-chapters of the last chapter – three more subchapters to go. *sighs* I can’t wait to be done with it. I doubt that the thesis’s great – it actually sucks but I hope my professors aren’t paying too much attention to that small aspect. 😉
Friday was really nice though. My co-worker A and I went to the city centre after work and then took the Luas (Dublin’s tram) to Heuston Station. That Billion Dollar Babes event was near there in the Museum of Modern Art. Great location!! The sale was so/so. I think I prefer TJ Maxx (or TK Maxx as they call it here). I did find a cute cardigan with silk though and the free cocktails beat TJMaxx any day. 😉 Also got some free candy and a pink ribbon pin after donating some to the breast cancer society.
Afterwards A suggested to go for some Chinese in Parnell Street. She was all worried that I wouldn’t like it or that I’d be scared by the area as it’s the ethnic neighbourhood. I loved it though and also got some shopping done at one of the local Korean stores. Got me some wasabi nuts for my lunch box and then we had a greaaaat meal. Super cheap, too! We had prawn dumplings and some Asian pickles and then beef with black bean sauce and more shrimps and fried noodles. Of course we didn’t finish that all!! A group of big Korean girls (always weird to see obese Asians for some reason) was doing karaoke next door. Boy oh boy… 😉 Good entertainment!
No mail from the KCC but my sister did get a call from a potential host family for her au-pair year. She was super excited but I had to talk her into liking the idea of staying with them. Come on, Austin, TX with only one 4th grader and a pool in the back yard and a family that likes healthy eating. Doesn’t sound bad to me at all!! I think she’s just waiting for something like New England, 1 child, an extra maid and chef, a great car for herself, tropical vacations with the family, etc. ;-). We’ll see. Sounds like one of her friends actually has a family like that but you all know that that’s not a guarantee for happiness. But anyways, I’m all excited for my sister and she’s cute being all scared of calling them. Hehe! 🙂
Friday!
Oy it’s been a long week – the first 5 day week I’ve had in a while… You get so used to these 4 days or less weeks. Felt kind of light headed yesterday during the day so I contemplated staying at home today, would have been another 4 day week then ;-), but I felt a bit better this morning and since I’m a good girl I went to work (on time, too!).
After lunch we might go to this Billion Dollar Babes sample sale. Depends if my co-worker put me on her invite list on time as she was out yesterday. Not big into designer clothes (because I can’t afford them obviously and I’d rather have 5 nice, cheap tops than 1 nice designer top. But I fear they might have purses there, too. Well, we’ll see if I can go there at all anyways.
Thanks for all your sweet comments on my last post. 🙂 I couldn’t do another internship there, already had that visa. The H1B work visas are all gone for this year (there were about 120.000 applications filed for 60.000 available visas in just the first two days!!) The category for people with higher degrees has filled its cap, too. Sounds like it’s time for the politicians to get their act together and agree on a higher cap – I mean come on, less than 2 days!! So yeah the only way I could go back really would be the frickin green card lottery. *sighs* Oh or I could chat up some desperate, ugly, mean, disgusting American guy and marry him. But uhm no thanks. Not that desperate! 😉
Anyways, one of the days this weekend is going to be just for the diploma thesis (and laundry). Neeeeed to get that done!! The other day I’ll do something touristy. Still so many things to see and so little time left.
Ohhh, just got the confirmation that I got on the guest list so we’ll be heading to that crazy sample sale later on. Oh yeah, my life’s so posh ROFL 😉
Have a good weekend peeps!