Archive for May 2010
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…)
