…please don’t take a picture now, it’s been a bad day….
I took a picture anyways – actually two but the other one is almost disturbing. Trying to keep up with this 365 days project. The shit started yesterday as our electricity card ran out around 5:30pm and we didn’t have a new card. No prob, we turned on the emergency credit of 2€ and then my flatmate Tony wanted to buy a new one once the security guard’s shift started. Well, when he went there at 7pm, the guard had no cards left to sell. WTF!? We had power until I fell asleep but it went out pretty soon and this morning my milk in the fridge was luke warm. The office doesn’t open until 9am – the time that I have to be at work by. Well, most of the stuff in the fridge and freezer will be spoiled and needless to say that’s totally fucked up. We had a system going, it worked fine, but the management company’s system obviously is failing to work properly and I have to suffer damage from that. I don’t mind taking my shower in the dark and not being able to boil water in the morning that much but I do mind losing my groceries of about 50€ value, which I had to haul back from the supermarket getting all sweaty and losing precious time.
So I called the management company today and this biatch was totally rude. No apology no nothing. She was like “well, you should have had a system in place”. Äh yes, we have one in place and it worked. Their system didn’t as we couldn’t buy a new card. “Yeah well you should have had a spare card.” That was the one that we had used the night before so we wanted to get a new one but since the office closes at 5 and the guard didn’t have any more cards and we couldn’t activate the emergency credit a second time. We did everything correctly, they screwed up. “Well, I can only talk to my boss again but she’ll just say that you should have a system in place and keep spare cards” Are you fucking kidding me?!
And so much to the predjudice “The Irish are really really friendly and ready to help”. Uhu yeah – NOT.
Cat Got My Tongue :P
As I wrote earlier, my accent is suffering big time. When I came here my English was perfect and everybody thought I was American and it sounded natural and I was able to talk perfectly fine without thinking and without accent!
Well, having been here for 24 days now, my English has started to suck! My tongue isn’t lose, it’s tensed up and I can here and feel my accent coming through. Wahhhh! I guess hearing everyone speak Irish English here messed up my American English big time but I can’t get my tongue wrapped around Irish English just yet either so it’s gone back to German English, which I haven’t had for more than 2 years now. Shite!
Good thing Richard is coming over next week so I can practise speaking proper English. Feel like I need to see a speech therapist or get a tongue massage lol. Prolly wouldn’t bother me that much if I couldn’t hear the accent myself and feel how my tongue is all twisted when I talk. Weird feeling! I need help.
Another Weekend Gone By
Cheers my lovely readers (includes also those of you who don’t comment)!
I can’t believe it’s Sunday night again and I have to get up and go to work again in 9 hours (well getting up that is). Uahhh! Hate Mondays!
After being almost the last one in the office on Friday – I was also the first one to come in after our general manager because everybody was hung-over from some good-bye dinner that I hadn’t been invited to – I went home and then out again to buy some plants. Geez, you wouldn’t believe how complicated buying plants it! No direct sunlight, cold temperature, warm temperature, natural light, sunny places – ah these plants are needy! I finally bought one that was on sale for 3€ including a pot that doesn’t like direct sun and then one that is ok with direct sun but cost me a whooping 5€ plus a pot. My room is much nicer though now that the plants keep me company. 🙂
Saturday I went to the city centre to get some errands done before my friends invade the coutnry starting next weekend. I got the keys cut, bought an air mattress and a SIM card and some other things that I needed. Got a cute new umbrella! 🙂 Red with little white dots. I think I’d collect umbreallas like purses if I lived here permanently…
Back home I did laundry and it’s still drying on my “laundry horse”. My room was super humid this morning – nasty! Now I have to do a white load in a few days or maybe it can wait until after next weekend, when Juliane has used the sheets anyways. Hmmm.
At night my pilot neighbors came over and Elena, Francesca and I hung out with them for a while, sipping pink wine and chatting away.
Today I was wide awake again (Saturday too) way too early because there is street construction going on in front of my window. After a little lounding around the apartment, I took my camera and walked the 3.5 km to the National Botanic Garden. Walking around the area was nice as I got to see other residential areas of Dublin, which were a tad bit nicer than the areas around mine up here. Though I did walk through the ghetto “Ballymun” which was a bit scary in parts with broken windows etc. but they are redoing the whole area – I guess juppifying it a bit. Looks nice now.
The Botanic Garden was lovely, with an amazing palm house and cute squirrels. So yeah, took lots of pictures at the garden and then walked back north. Grabbed a coffee on my way but it was super nasty. I had figured I’d order an Americano to avoid crappy “normal” coffee but it was really rather gross.
Back home I tried making HDR photos out of my pictures and then the pilots invited me over for dinner and it was oh so delicous!! Also very nice not having to cook. 😉
Well, I’m uploading my pictures to flickr so check them out! 🙂
I hope your week is gonna be great!
PS: Yeah, it rained every day this week but I guess it’s so normal here that it’s almost not worth mentioning. 😉
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You Are Strawberry Pocky |
 Your attitude: fresh and sweet Comforting, yet quirky … quietly hyper You always see both sides to everything |
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Your Irish Name Is… |
 Clara Nolan |
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You’re 15% Irish |
 You’re not Irish. Not even a wee bit. Not even on St. Patrick’s Day! |
And I checked the box that said “You start preparing for St. Patrick’s DAy in February! Hmpf 😉
Sushi Makes The Heart Grow Fond
I spent about 2.5 hours in Tesco yesterday spending 76Euro on groceries and toilettries. Long live thee credit card! But you know how it is, you need to have a base stock of food at home and then things here are really expensive so it does make sense. I also bought a cork screw but I think I left it in the shopping cart, as I couldn’t find it anywhere at home in my bags. *sniff* Good thing that was only 2.99 but still – another night without good wine (as in without the cork in the bottle).
But yeah, I also got some surimi (those fake crab sticks) so I made sushi this morning for my lunch box. Its cuteness never fails to brighten my day at lunch time. Will upload the picture later. Can’t wait to eat it! Yum! Still haven’t found ranch dressing but I did find garlic and herb dressing which looked a bit like it so I’m trying that with celery today. Sorry for boring you but I love food! 😀
Anyways, after hauling all that home last night – my shoulders are still hurting – I just had some toast and tea and then watched 5 episodes of Sex and the City and briefly talked to my Mom but their phone line was kind of broken and cut us off. Oh I also chatted with an old roommate from Charlotte times. We used to always fight because he never cleaned but our chat last night was quite nice. Always good to catch up with old acquaintances.
This morning I am wearing one pair of my new shoes (black ballerinas) and I love them but unfortunately when I got to the office my one foot was bleeding pretty badly. Outsh! Good thing my company makes band-aids.
Oh and also on my way to work today, guess what I saw! A car with Hanover license plates! Home sweet home! Was pretty surprised to see one here.
By the way, the phots on flickr are from my walk to work yesterday just to show you the horrible sidewalk and all the trash that’s everywhere. Surprisingly, one corner looked much better this morning with only about 5 pieces of trash (we’re not just talking chewing gum but bigger stuff like cups, newspaper…) laying around. 🙂
Today’s agenda has a trip to Lidl on it because they have clothes airers (laundry racks) on sale and I need one. Used my last pair of black socks this morning and well, now one of them is bloody. Ewww! 😉
Alrighty, have a fabulous day and enjoy your lunches!