guess who has more stuff?

today gerry and i are leaving to go back to ireland. i wouldn't say i'm exactly happy about it. here's the thing, i'm not ready to move back here, but the two weeks that we've spent here haven't been enough either. well, my ass says it's enough... i gained a million pounds with all of the eating out we've done...but that's another story. we spent too much time in hope. despite the dump being a really romantic place, and my love of gerry needing to spit after giving me a kiss when cleaning out the basement and shed, i'd say hope was one of the less fun places this trip. games at the hotel were fun, and of course, getting everything done was a complete relief, but generally, not the greatest part of the trip.

things that were fun? seeing friends, eating out, sleeping in my lovely lovely bed, shopping and then doing it all again. showing gerry around and having everyone tell him that i do in fact have a sense of humour and that i'm really quite funny and that he should totally move to vancouver? all very fun.

i already miss you guys.

boo urns.

not again!

i got waxed again today. the lady gets carried away. i got a lot of what i didn't want.

tomorrow gerry and i go back to hope to finish the house cleaning by getting the shed done.

it's going to be another long day. but i've learned a few things... i am 100% not going back to her for any bikini area waxing, and when you are planning to empty out a house, don't think that your family will help... think that you have a great guy, and that there's always a shed.

ouch.

happy birthday danielle

so far

we've spent two nights in my gorgeous gorgeous made-with-love bed (this means it's comfy) i've had a massage from becca, thai food, cheesey sticks, starbucks, moderne burger veggie burger, orange julius and gone shopping. not bad for only being here two nights!

today we're going to head to hope. while gerry's sleeping i might pop up to save-on to get frozen strawberries for smoothies. yum. in hope we're going to do the much talked about house cleaning and then hopefully play games and have a few beers on saturday. we're deciding if we're staying in a hotel or at my sister's when we get there. eek.

hopefully the estate stuff will be sorted after these few days in hope. wish us luck.

uh oh, i'm in trouble

i just got in trouble for blogging instead of resting. i am feeling better though... so now it's okay. :o)

i thought it'd be a good time to list things i want to do in the couv, and if you're interested in participating, or have a day in mind you can let me know.

sophie's for breakkie (pancakes)
sophie's for palm reading (veggie burger)
olive garden (which is on the evening of the 4th)
seattle
diane's for bras
shop for fun clothes
shop for office wear
get another 'international driving permit' so it will last longer
clean out my mom's house for selling
do taxes for my mom, dad, and me.
and possibly find that cute miu miu bag in a diffferent colour that i've been checking out since brown thomas re-did their window display
foundation
indian
mexican
ihop (i really want pancakes)

things i want to bring back:
tim horton's vanilla cap. mix for naomi
duncan heinz brownie mix for duane
peanut butter cups
honeynut cheerios
marshmallows
oreos
purdy's
those o'henry chocolate/peanut butter eggs that are only around at easter

one more sleep!

oh god. i've been in bed all day. gerry's left to pick up some lemsip (neo citron-ish product) and so i've snuck online, despite strict orders to do nothing. i feel gerry's pain... tomorrow i'm going to be a wreck. i'm going to be stressed because of flying, but on top of it, i'm going to be sick.

plan for today? wash a bit of clothes, have a shower (this will cure me, i'm sure), shop for a few gifts in town. oh, and get better. who cares about having a cold if i can be in bed and moan about it in comfort. there is no way i want to fly and visit my friends while sick... i have a feeling that will be less fun for me and them. boo urns.

oh, and...

i'm sick. i have a cold, and don't want to have one when i get home (whoot!). in fact, i'm not interested in stress headaches combined with cold headaches at all. how do you like that?

maybe i'll just take some drugs.

oh, and i will be home tuesday evening, and ready to hang out on wednesday. by hang out, i mean shop.

two sleeps

as long as there's no napping, it will be two sleeps 'til i'm back in the couv! whoot!

last night we hosted a surprise party for jim and ann-marie (two of gerry's friends). good times were had, and gerry and i collected heaps more booze for our house. this means that if anyone comes to visit us within the next say 6 months, you probably won't have to bring alcohol. unless we have another party before that.

conor went all out and brought as much booze as baby stuff. in fact, i guess he could have replaced some of the booze with baby stuff, cause he had to go shopping for more diapers (their three-day supply ended after one night, due to a wee bit of pain) and another change of clothes for david patrick.

it was fun to see suz, the first of gerry's friends to meet me, who i hadn't seen since niagara. and of course to see sinead who happened to bring her lovely furla with her, yay! furlas=fun, whatever the circumstance.

i'd say things went off well, and probably people had fun. afterall, once connect 4 comes out, everyone's having a party! whoot!

From Gerry

hahaha. she left her computer logged on. see this is the problem with apples, they remember your passwords and leave you logged on becuase apple basically believes that we are all good people. yeah right. just cause i haven't bothered writing a virus for mac os x doesn't mean i'm a good person. just that i'm lazy.
shouldn't i say more here, since i have this opportunity to blog as ursula. mighti say how great and well, HUGE gerry is? Well, yeah. he is. heeheheee

change causes chaos

today, my second last day at work was AWESOME!

i had my exit interview with the head team leader and then she asked me if i wanted to do something else today. did i ever! so i got to open envelopes and enter data into the computer. it was so mindless but i totally got to gossip and get the dirt on my horrible team leader that it was the BEST!

tomorrow i get to do it all again! whoot! and to top it off, i'm get to do a mid-shift, instead of the late one and then i can come home earlier! yahoo!

oh, the title? all of the mail comes from the UK cause we're in the UK Department. OH MY GOD! they put the funniest things on their postal stamps. not the stamps you lick, but the ones that in canada at christmas would say HO HO HO, or something. in england, they let people know how they feel about coins. post no coins was on one side, change causes chaos on the other. you know, to make sure the message gets across. i almost pissed my pants! even funnier is how stupid the members are. it's like if you're british, you've got some money and you've got timeshare it means you're an idiot. in order to bank your weeks, which makes them eligible for trading, you can call us, or you can fill out a form, sign it, and return it. sometimes people sign it and don't check the boxes. sometimes they check the boxes but don't sign it. sometimes they sneakily enclose a letter and use the thing(not a real envelope, but one of those 'lick three corners and it's a self-contained envelope-ish thing') to post the letter. anyway, what a great day.

light it up

today (while gerry was recovering from a hangover) i went into town with isabelle and had breakkie. then we went shopping... the search continues for a lace tablecloth for d's mom, but is now over for a coal bucket, a poker, a shovel, those metal grate things that stop the coal from falling down, and some fire logs. good times, really. and we also found a nice simple table cloth for at my house. yay.

yesterday gerry and i went to blarney in the morning and then came home to meet up with jim. we all went into town to watch the rugby game and have a few drinks. it was a really good game. i quite like rugby. it will replace hockey while i'm in ireland. once i'm back in canada, it will be all hockey all the time. anyway, ireland won, which was very exciting. after the game, i met up with some of the girls and had drinks and dinner.

i love that i only have four days of work left. i really need to find an easy 9-5 job that doen't make me work weekends... or lates, cause working 'til 8.30 this week is gonna suck.

time to light a fire. it was sunny here today, but it's cold in the house.

paddy's day

today was my first st. patrick's day in ireland.

here they call it paddy's day. also, there is no if you don't wear green you get pinched rule here. we went to the parade in cork, which was short but nice. then we went for drinks (and by we, i mean gerry). gerry bought me a beer, it's still gross. and so he had to drink it, the one he bought, and then the one that rose's husband bought him. i had a few sips.

then we went for a coffee and headed home. i went to bed and then when i woke up danielle was online! did i mention i love dsl? so we played some crib: good times. and tried to convince gerry to move to canada. i am not 100% sure it worked, but we'll see. i'm going to try really hard to make him fall in love with canada while we're there. ideas for this include not having anymore sex until we get to canada (this will make him associate the place with having sex... hmmm maybe i should take experimental psych afterall) they also include, good cheap food, lots of games, and fun times with all my lovely lovely friends.

we may also have to stop for icecream in chilliwack at the milk maid farm. i mean c'mon that's reason enough to move.

i am so excited about canada i can't believe it. YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!

gettin' some in ireland

guess what?! gerry is amazing. we have the internet now! yay!

a mysterious package arrived today and i didn't know it was the modem. clearly, had i known, i would have ripped open the box and had internet all day. instead i dismissed it as some hard drive or stash of porn that gerry had ordered online. nope. as soon as gerry got home (despite me being away procuring food stuffs for our dinner) he set up the internet and now i'll be surfing like there's no tomorrow. whoot!

carca date on sunday?

oh! and i'll be online for msning tomorrow as soon as i get home... so at like 6.00-6.15 ish. this means 10ish b.c. time and 1ish ontario time.

see you soon! and welcome back to me. yay!

(oh and "you can set up your webcam" suggests gerry. and how!)

baby got back

on top of quitting my job, i am going back to canada (when i said soon, i didn't realise it would have to be this soon). gerry and i planning to go back on the 28th of march.

yay. well, sort of. it will be awesome to see everyone, but less awesome circumstances. hopefully once this is over my stress levels will go down, and i won't have to wake up and take drugs. yay.

on a good note, gerry and i are settling in quite well to our house. it's in the country, as mentioned previously but is cute, and cleans up well. my first party was on friday, and it went well. girls came over and we drank, did masks, and gossiped in our jammers. good times all around.

now that we have bedding for all of the beds, everyone's invited to ireland.

coming soon (i hope) dsl. please pray for it.

notice

i gave my notice yesterday. i gave the required one month's notice. i don't know that i can hang on that long. that being said: at least danielle didn't make me wear white shoes at her wedding. things could be worse... there would probably be pictures of that.

plan of action job wise? recruitment agencies are big here. i will give my qualifications to one this week and find a job. also, gerry and i planning to go to b.c. soonish. i'm going to look up flights today... you know cause i'm going that anyway.

a hockey tragedy

no, i'm not being too dramatic. it's really quite tragic.

olympic hockey is on... and no, i'm not watching it.

obviously there are loads of reasons, because if it was just one, that would be pathetic.

1. the irish barely know what ice hockey is
2. it's not enough of an interest that the free channels here will show it
3. even if the free channels were showing it, coronation street's on at gerry's
4. the nature programme's on at my house
5. i'm working while canada plays
6. we're in the middle of moving

i'm going to try to watch the game tomorrow... but as i said we are in the midst of moving, so hopefully some miracle will occur today that involves gerry getting completely moved today and me getting to sit on my ass watching/listening to hockey all day tomorrow. day-amn that would be sweet.

in other news, i'm still having headaches and plan to finish the rest of my day stoned on over the counters and am thinking about taking out stock in headache pills... so that it would be like getting an eventual discount on my purchases.

to stress the matter

ummm... looks like i'm as crazy as the rest of my family.

i was totally sick, starting last thursday. severe severe headaches. these crazy weird hot flashes where i would suddenly start sweating like crazy. and then nausea.

so i went to see the doctor. yeah. i paid 50 euro to have some lady tell me it's probably stress. wait. there's more. i got to the office, didn't think i'd need cash on me ONLY or that at least there would be a bank machine nearby. so i ask the receptionist if i need cash. yes. okay, ummm... is there a bank machine downstairs at the phamacy? no. got it. how about nearby? no. ummm. okay. thanks. i leave the office and ask someone else. i walk the 20 mins (boiling hot, fuming mad, and working my way through the obstacle course of dog shit that litters the sidewalks of ireland). get some money, head back, and decide that i hate ireland.

i then see the doctor who asks if i might be pregnant (insert more fear and, imagine... stress). to which i work out logically as a no, cause i've had a few cramps, and i know i'm getting my period this weekend.

anyway... she decides it's stress. thanks. gerry suggested that for free the night before. she prescribes the irish version of advil so i can stop taking the T3s that were making me fully stoned and barely able to move.

at least i got to take a couple more days off. and i came up with a plan, which will hopefully alleviate some of my stress.

the plan includes:

working less (yay!) or finding a new job

not pressuring myself to apply to a full-time course for this fall. if i am still good with things here next fall, i'll take a photography course, and then apply fulltime for 2007 fall.

working really hard to sort out things with my brother and sisters. so that they can take care of themselves.

L is for learning

now that i've got my L and we're moving out to the country, i really have to find a car. i'll find out today if my sister was able to fix the elevator where the car is stored (it's a two level elevator, popular in germany because of limited space). then gerry and i will plan a trip to germany to pick up the car (and hopefully convince my sister's boyfriend to take us shopping in the american PX so i can get some american food, like marshmallows, kraft peanut butter light, honey nut cheerios, etc.) and we're planning to stock up on some cheap french wines... oh! and i guess we'll be going through duty free from france to england, so we can get some stuff there too! whoot! if we can't get the car out, then i'm going to buy a cheap car here. seriously cheap. what do i want to get? a golf. obviously. or a polo. maybe even a nissan micra. what will i get? maybe a fiesta. in fact, whatever. as long as it's cheap and runs.

i'm excited about getting a car. i think gerry is too.

gettin keys

tomorrow we get the keys to the new place. i only know what it looks like from what gerry has said. it's probably a bit lame to admit, but i'm really excited about having internet at home. i could have got it set up at my house, but in the end, i'm glad i didn't because i only stayed there three months.

breaking up with my landlord was really hard. but i tried to be firm. and i had to exaggerate a little bit. :o) he was pretty upset about me moving out, his accent got stronger and i couldn't tell what he saying about getting my deposit back.

i will be happy to not have to stay at gerry's current place on weekends. last night, at 4.30 claire came home shit faced. doors slamming, stuff dropping, she broke a table, at some point dropped the last roll of toilet paper into the toilet and was falling up and down the stairs. the house echoes, so it's all very loud.

and the cleaning roster has completely fallen apart, except that i cleaned the bathroom for hung over gerry last weekend, and he tidied up the living room a bit yesterday.

we're already planning fun parties... well, depending on my crazy work schedule.

but it's great because gerry's said that it's a great layout. and we have a washer and dryer and a fridge and separate freezer. the fridge is european size, but at least only two people have to share it, not four. and he'll be able to set up his work out equipment and we'll have an office area. yay! no more living in his bedroom or mine!

it will take me a couple hours to pack all my stuff and move in. but gerry's project will be a lot bigger. luckily he has kind friends. hopefully, there won't be any injuries 'moving' this time. you know who you are. and by moving i mean, breaking your toe falling back into bed because you were so shit faced after going out for 'a pint' after moving.

got to keep on movin'

good news.

gerry and i have found (well, gerry found it) a place together. this means we will have the hinternet at home! YAY!

oh, and apparently i don't need need, but it's recommended that i think about getting glasses for driving at night. i think i will... since i have mentioned in the past having some trouble seeing at night.

suck it up princess

so this morning i decided a few things.

one of which is that since i adore gerry and would rather be with him here, than without him in canada, i really need to get with it and learn to like things about ireland. what won't help is comparing everything to canada, and treating my time here as not permanent. i mean shouldn't i be enjoying the differences, and i moved here, i didn't visit here.

i more than realise i have certain responsibilities... or things that i view as responsibilities in canada, that i have no control over... so i'm going to try to deal with those things. and i think i'm going to make more of an effort to see more of ireland. it's the only way i'll see if i really like it.

things that will make my time here more permanent that i *do* have some control over and just need to get on my list:

finding a place with gerry
getting my learner permit so i can drive
negotiating what i want out of my job
getting into a programme at UCC

other decisions can come later.