happy birthday to me :)

Hello, Livejournal.
Just had a great meal (in donatellos - a bit shabby looking, but the food is amazing). then drinks in mantra. it was 70s, 80s, 90s night tonight, and we had so much fun bopping out to queen, primitives, cure, mc hammer and loads more while drinking cocktails and having a brilliant time. it was just me and lordkilljoy but it was really, really good.
i got a new shirt - kind of blue check and i wore the shirt-vesty thing i got in singapore. i think i looked cute. lordkilljoy thinks i did too. i should post up pics - maybe tomorrow. it's a bit late right now and i'm way too tired for taking pics and resizing them for the web and posting them here.

i have other news all marked down on a post-it, but i'm writing by the light of the hallway right now and it's too dark for reading. so maybe tomorrow or the next day i'll get around to that.

until then, fare well and good night.

ohh, p.s. - they played the neverending story song - it was brilliant.

passport

so, despite my eruption on twitter the other day (wwaaaaaaa..... the price of getting a new passport went up since last month. i'm just not in the mood for this right now. it's so expensive.) i sent off for my new passport today. it took 2 hours of cycling from one end of the village to the other and waiting around for the garda station to open. but in that time i got to go in around the castle (i'd only ever walked around the grounds before). it's kinda cool inside - they have an informative exhibition; i never guessed how many battles this place was involved in, or how much power it held between 1200 and 1500.
so my new passport should be here the second week of september. and then me and lordkilljoy can go on a last minute holiday to the sun and hopefully the temperature will have dropped a little.

mmm, muesli bar and yoghurt with honey for lunch. yummy. i don't really have any other news.

i moved my keyboard receiver around a few weeks ago, but now if i have it on my lap i have to go far away from my desk or i start loosing letters. it's a little annoying.

A declaration of season

I declare it officially autumn.
I went out for my cycle today and it was cold, the kind of cold that gets into my lungs and stays there for a few hours. i had to cut my cycle short because of it. even after a nice warm shower my lungs are still hurting from the cold.
my shower was lovely, though. i got a butter cream from lush (lemslip) and it's beautiful. it smells yummy and my skin is so soft now.
well, except that when i rub my skin there's bits of cuts scraping along it. yoshi-sandwich scraped up my hands yesterday - i was going to post up a pic, but i couldn't make it look impressive enough in photoshop. ah well.
i think that's all my news. i've had this silly quote from robin hood men in tights going through my head this morning: "no noose is good noose," said by the executioner. (you may have to say it out loud to get it).

right - bye.

edit - i got the picture looking moderately painful :)

i forgot a title

Lj tells me it's one week since i updated. it feels like way more. it feels like i havn't update in months. (i checked - it has actually been 2 weeks. that's appaling, really. what ever happened to the days when i updated every day? i guess i actually had stuff happening back then. not that nothing happens these days, but life seems to be taking place more in my imagination these days in a city called drieh.) i don't really have any interesting news.

i was in cork last weekend. bought a dress for niamh and gordon's wedding - it's blue and i like it.
barry's game was on. it was the "neutral" party - who are bumbling around causing more evil than the evil party. these guys just don't have a clue - they are like drunk people wandering around in the dark and knocking everything over. i will not be surprised if these guys are standing at the point where the world starts to rip itself apart, saying "maybe we shouldn't have pushed that big red switch." but they are a fun group. zan got to 17th level :)

i really don't have much news - i'm writing mainly, and taking care of yoshi and nymph. and cycling in the mornings - dropped down to every other day, because my legs were tired all the time.

i'm playing beyond good and evil at the moment. it's so good. i can't believe i didn't play this when it came out. i finished daggerfall ages ago, played morrowind for a bit, but it kept crashing. then played oblivion for a bit, but got distracted by beyond good and evil. was looking up bgae2 today - it looks totally like assassin's creed. all free running stuff. i wonder did ubisoft just go free running crazy after that game? but it is fun.

right, i'll go now.

welcome back to the internet

ah golly - i hadn't checked my friends page in so long that i can't go back far enough to read them all. our new router arrived (wired only) yesterday, i got it all set up with our new wireless n router today (too 3 hours - why are these things so complicated?). but it's great - we have internet again and can watch diggnation and totally rad show. wooo.

i spent the last few days in kerry with penelope_stone. i am offically fit. i made it up the worst part of the hydro road (~300m 45degree slope) without stopping. i was kinda happy with that. we wandered around the 2 lakes, had fun bog jumping and getting blown over by the wind.

so i'm a bit distracted, i'll update later.