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So I’m sitting here on New Years Eve 2010 thinking back on the year that was. It’s been a pretty good one as things go. I started off with the ringing in the year at Christ Church in the snow and the excitment of finding a home to share with himself. The big move happened in February, and a few tears were shed as one phase of life closed and a new one began. It was pretty scary in the begining, but as we learned to live together and got settled I think we blossomed to fill our small Capel Street apatment and the convenience of living in town.
I wrote this post earlier this week but didn’t publish it; I think I was afraid of telling the world until things got in motion. Read on.
I got a call this morning that I’ve been waiting months for. I was sure that it was going to be more bad news but thankfully it wasn’t. I’ve had my offer on a house accepted. (more…)
I was driving home from Cork to Dublin in the dark tonight and realised I had no one to come home to. Its the first time in a long time that I’ve felt lonely. Jason is off working in the sun somewhere, and the darkness has overtaken my days and nights…
Well, the dreaded question has been asked – ‘What are ye doing for Christmas?’ And, even worse, its been asked by his mother. So where are we going for Christmas, his or mine? Or neither?
There is a Neil Young/Crazy House song called Wonderin’ and it has a great line in it – “I’ve been working all day to keep my heart from sadness”. I have it written on a post-it over my desk in work. I keep it there to remind me every so often, in those moments when I’m looking around and pondering, that I should keep my nose to the grindstone to keep my head from getting flooded with other thoughts.
Today was one of those days. My brother Liam would have been 42 today… (more…)
I’m feeling stressed by proxy.
Himself has been a bit stressed of late. Well, maybe a bit more than stressed. And maybe a bit longer than just ‘of late’. His patience has been about as short as that of a wasp for about a month now… (more…)
Did you ever hear a song and you were instantly transported to a different time and place, where emotions you thought were in the past come flooding back and a smile breaks out on you face or tears roll down you cheeks?
I was sitting at my desk yesterday when shuffle on the iPod gave me an old Eagles song I hadn’t heard in years. Take It To The Limit. Flashback to singing along to that song in my sisters old Starlet as we drove from Fishguard to Oxford when I was about 11. And then another flash to my first real concert, seeing the Eagles play the RDS on the Hell Freezes Over tour, and getting back to my uncle’s house to sleep on his floor and not being able to figure what that ringing noise in my ears was. The memories made me smile at first, but then a teary moment, missing simplier times I suppose….
I bought a raffle ticket from my sister a while back. It’s for a local event that’s held every June bank holiday at home, the Innishannon Steam and Vintage Rally. Usually when you buy a ticket for a raffle or something, it’s not really about the winning or the prizes, it’s more about the proceeds going to a deserving charity (the Irish Cancer Society in this case). It wasn’t until after I had bought the ticket that I noticed what the prises were.
2nd Prize 2 Alpacas or €1000
You know the way you are supposed to be able to read the future from tea leaves? Well, I’m a bit of the other way round, I can see tea in my future.
I’m having a slow week in work. Actually, it’s turning into a slow couple of weeks. My project is on hiatus, but I have work to keep me ticking along, 9 to 5, or 8.30 to 4.45 as it is in my world, but nothing really meaty to do. Nothing to get my teeth stuck into. Nothing to get passionate about… (more…)
Did you know that so far this year (up to today, Monday April 19th), thirteen people have been fatally injured at work. It’s not something that people generally like to think about, but the statistics are there for all to see on the Health & Safety Authority website. Of those 13 people who died, 6 were in the agriculture/hunting/forestry sector.
I was born into a farming family. Farming goes all the way back for generations on both sides. It’s been bred into us. My eldest brother Liam took over the family farm from my parents in 1990. In 2006 he died in an accident on the farm. He was 37. And we were devastated… (more…)
