More Thoughts on Moving

Well, I can’t stop thinking about this whole moving thing. Alas, just like when you’re thinking about breaking up a relationship, here’s a little pro-con moving list.

PRO
– No more electricity card shortage (though it’s been quite alright this week with both of my roommates buying 20Euro cards)
– No more waking up at 5am because someone turns the lights on in the hallway (though I’m sure I could put some carton over the window and eliminate the light)
– No more waking up at 5am because of the doors (they always slam close – not much you can do about it)
– No more cigarette bugs (Though Toni’ll be gone soon so that problem won’t exist anymore and the kitchen will be cleaner)
– My visitors could share my bed with me (but otherwise they could sleep on an airmattress, which wouldn’t be bad either plus they’d have a real blanket and pillows in any case)
– I’d meet new people
– More sort of living together with people and not living along side of each other

CON
– Sharing a bathroom (think dirtier, potential problems with timing)
– Less proper and orderly place
– Less convenient internet access at the new place
– Less space
– No desk (I still have to finish writing my thesis remember…)
– I’d have to move (moving is always a hassle though I don’t have that many things)
– I already do feel kind of at home in my place because it doesn’t feel like someone has lived there before)
– There’s a hot guy in the office that sells those electricity cards
– I get visitors almost every weekend so do I really need to rely on roommates for company plus we’d have more space at my current place than in a new one
– No security guard on the property like in my current place (though I’m not too worried about that but then Ballymum (=bad area) is right down the road (in both current and potential new apartments)
– Less privacy at new place

Can you believe it?! Here I was all whining about my place and now I’m actually considering staying in there because I’ve gotten used to it and let’s face it – I’m not the youngest anymore *cough* and I like having a bit of privacy, too. Ahh! Someone set my head straight, please!

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Apartment Viewings

Hallihallo!

I looked at two apartments last night. Nice Valentine’s Activity, huh? 😉 The first one was ok but kind of run down with cracks in the cealing and a vandalized lift door in the house. The girl living there seemed rather quiet and my gut feeling says no so I won’t take that one. The second apartment was nice. Not super clean but managable. I’d share the bathroom with a 21 year old girl who is a – take a guess – flight attendant! Haha! The couple that lives there seemed really nice and there’s a double bed and broadband so I’d take it if they want me.

Now, having seen these two places I’m really appreciating my en-suite bathroom and my desk and the internet connection in my room and the well-taken-care-of-ness of my aparment complex. But for meeting people and having fun I’m sure another apartment would be much better. So we shall see.

In other news, I feel kind of ill. My throat hurts and I just feel kind of under the weather with hot flashes and fun things like that. Got some lozenges from the pharmacy and guess what! No Dayquil here. Ahhh!

Alright, hope you all have a nice Thursday!

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Moving!

Well, the decision has been made, I’m moving! Not sure when and where but as fast as I can get out of that rental contract. It’s just too annoying to put up with when there are rooms out there that don’t have anything stupid like a pre-paid electricity meter. So now I’m waiting for the landlady to get back to us and tell us when I can move out and then I’m gonna look at other places. Hopefully finding something nice and only for 3 months will be easy. *worries*
But yeah, no more waking up at 5 because my flight attendants have to get to work and are noisy and turn the lights on (if there is power that is ;-)) and no more worrying abuot the electricity. Hopefully there’s gonna be a bigger bed at the new place as well. Cross your fingers!

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Weekend Recap

Well, the weekend started with the same issue as these past few days: electricity! There was none (of course) and my room was pretty darn cold and I wanted to get going. So I knocked on Toni’s door and asked if he had any more cards and that it was either his or Elena’s turn to buy one. He’s like “I’m too tired right now. I can give you some money and you can buy some.” Not really what I like doing first thing in the morning (go outside and buy power cards) but I said whatever and went outside. Well, there was no one there to buy a card from! Suckers! I waited in the cold in my PJ and coat for 10 minutes but then went back to bed (felt warm now that I’d been outside of course) and tried again an hour later. Luckilu the security guard was there then and tada, there was light!
So after that I got ready and took the bus to the city centre. I started exloring town north of the river and honestly wasn’t too impressed. Kind of shabby looking. Found an Asian store (actually two, this is the second one) and I finally found sushi rice and nori. Sushi doesn’t seem to have had its break-through here yet :(. So now I can make some myself. Yay! I also found a Polish store and they had a good deal of German products like Roibush tea so I was happy, too. Still puzzles me why there aren’t that many tea flavors here.
At the check-out of that store, my Mom called and as I was walking down the streets she actually traced me in her guide book and read historical facts to me. That’s what I call a tour guide! They’re visiting me in March so she’s looking at tour guides now. 🙂
Anyways, I continued walking around Dublin, passing Christ Church Cathedral, St. Patrick’s Church, Dublin Castle, City Hall and then got to St. Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre where I browsed the stores and then had a tiny Quiznos sub (think 5cm for 4,50euro…) and a yummy juice. From there I walked back to the North via Grafton street and then took my bus back home. Nice day!
Sunday I woke up pretty early again because the EEM (Evil-Electricity-Meter) beeped again around 8am. After turning over once more I got up and head breakfast. Sunday started out owing up to its name – it was nice and sunny outside. So I decided to enjoy the sun and get out of the no-power-place and I took the DART (like an S Bahn/ metro train) to Howth. It’s a small peninsula at the north of Dublin Bay and it had looked really pretty when I flew over it a week ago. About 15 minutes after I got there, it started raining (as they say here: If you can see the mountains it’s gonna rain. If you can’t see the mountains it’s raining.) and I didn’t bring my umbrella seeing that I didn’t know about that saying yet. Oh well. It wasn’t too bad and I had a hat so that was good. Howth was beautiful and more like how I had Ireland imagined to be like. I walked once around the peninsula, which took me 4.5 hours and were roughly 10km. Yikes! Well worth the pain in my legs though with beautiful cliffs and pretty views. Thankfully it didn’t rain the entire time I was there!! 😉 By the time I was back at the station the sun was actually back out but I was so exhausted that I took the train back to town. Good thing I did because once there I still had to take the bus to my suburb and that took 2 hours(!!!) (normall 15-30 minutes) because some rugby game had been going on downtown and traffic was horrendous.
Back at my place I just cooked a quick green thai curry and then went to bed oh and talked to Michaellyn who called before I was sleeping.
As for the living situation, I looked at some online adds for rooms and I might actually move. It’s just so stupid with the electriciy and other places don’t have that but everything else I need. Plus it’s not like my roommates and I are best friends and will do much stuff together so hopefully I’ll be able to find something nicer with cool people. We’ll see. Need to talk to my colleague if it’s possible.
Flickr is still not working properly from here but hopefully I’ll have access tonight from my place. Going to try and at least upload the EEM for your viewing pleasure though. 😉 This is it:
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