my clock's got wings

as of last saturday, it's been a year since i left home. a whole year. one whole one. yup.

i'd say i've learned a lot in this year, especially about ireland. knowing a place is like knowing a person, you've got to live with them to really get it.

typing this now, i'm recalling my most recent learning event here: really really really don't get door handles with knobbley bits. they equal danger.

having been away a year means a few things too, for example, despite celebrating our 'one year' anniversary in april, coming up in less than a week, will be a year after meeting gerry in person. crazy to think that a year ago i was freaking out about meeting him... and look where i am now... okay, well, i'm alone in bed, and gerry's in boston, but i'm alone in *our* bed, at *our* house.

it also means that in less than two months (it was exactly 2 months last saturday) i will be turning thirty. so far i feel like i've been embracing this event. thirty is meant to be the new twenty, you know. :o) i do have a bit of a 'i want to have experienced that, i don't want to be experiencing it now' attitude, and i don't want to think that i'm wishing my life away. but i really do expect 30 to hold a few surprises and some really cool adventures. i'm looking forward to the adventures, and can only hope that the surprises are good ones.

it's hard to imagine where i'll be a year from now. i expect i'd either be working on my masters or at job here, if i can somehow psych myself up for another year and a half here, or we'll be on the road somewhere.

maybe i'll set myself some short-term goals here in the meantime. i'm working on friends at work... went for dinner with a girl today, unfortunately she's leaving at the end of the week. also, i want to do more organising around the house, i made a start on sunday. when we first moved into the house we bought this suction cup thingy for the shower. the directions do say to clean and put it back up once a month. it was so hard to put up in the first place, we never deliberately took it down. but it would fall on occasion.i tried putting it back up last week, but no luck. finally, on sunday, while thinking i was buying fax paper, but really was buying the wrong fax paper, i also picked up a spring loaded, pole with little triangle shaped shelves on it, so it will fit in the corner. i've fixed it into the shower, and so far so good. the top shelf is ridiculously high and i would never use/reach it, but there's still heaps of storage space, so it's great.

anyway, i've got a couple of other projects that i want to take care of this coming month. gerry's working all the weekends in october, except for this one, so i'll have lots of time. then again, time has been flying.