When Irish Eyes are Smiling...

My social life has always been decent, and I have made sure to maintain friendship and keep in touch with people even though I was in a relationship. Some people don't though, it seems. Some of the friendships that were formed during that time were with other couples, and it's a different story today. Today I find it freeing to avoid being the third wheel.

A month or two ago, I found myself still doing things the way I was used to. And my friends acted no different than when I was in the relationship. But now the rope has loosened a great deal, and I find myself meeting alot of different people in places I wouldn't have met anyone before. Friends of friends. Someone I met online. Old friends that I haven't talked to for 5 years. It's very rewarding and also, I must say, very refreshing. It's as if things are happening on their own almost.

Yesterday someone wrote to me. A girl I met in Dublin, over a weekend, 10 years (or more?) ago. We share the same taste in music and we met through talking online about a band that we both like. We met, only once, but had one hell of a good time, along with another new person from Australia. We lost touch after that, but as she wrote yesterday the thought of popping over to Dublin for some Guiness and fun occurred to me.

Glory glory hallelujah for Ryan. (and Guiness, needless to say)

I'm spinning Around

Yesterday saw the light of another spinning season for me. I used to go spinning on a regular basis and it's a good way of staying fit. It also serves as a good means of distraction. I admit I really love heavy techno with spinning. It's quite cool to just have a pumping beat and a voice telling you: "keep steppin at your own pace!" You find yourself in a trance-like situation and it's fabulous, you can do your thing and free your mind from all distracting things around you in your everyday life.

Thoroughly recommend it!

I'm on top of the world

Quick note to myself:

I will never, ever, allow anyone to tell me how to do things, how to say things, and how to live my life.

My life is MINE and MINE alone. I decide what I do, say, wear and feel. Nobody else but me has any say in the matter. Slightly self-centered, yes, but everyone should consider caring about themselves a bit more, rather than spending time and energy trying to live their lives aiming so hard to please others.

Over and out.

Me, Sara & Carrie - together at last.

I have changed alot of things in my life during the past 5 months. I've gotten to know alot of new fun people and I've started doing things I hadn't even dreamt of trying before. Like dancing, like loving music to the fullest again. Like going on a wild shopping spree (like a girly girl, when most of my life, I've been a bit of a tomboy.) Talking to different men in differerent places, I find it to be a bit of a Carrie-situation actually. Quite enjoying it!

Sara and I went shopping in true Carrie-fashion today. Recently, I bought a few pairs of shoes and boots, a nice jacket and some dresses. And boy does that make me feel like the hot mama I deserve to be! :)

Enough said. Sunday bloody Sunday - work tomorrow. I may go to bed with my new shoes on, they are just so gorgeous!

Back to basics and complete efficiency

This weekend I've pulled myself together and dealt with loads of stuff that needed doing. Took the banjo in for service, did the dishes, took the ipod speakers to ONOFF so I can now listen to Elvis, full blast again! Yay! Friday, I went to BAKFICKAN, a pub nearby - very very nice place indeed! I really liked it! I picked up my new Stig Lindberg fabric for the wall on Friday. Gorgeous and so cool - it totally makes me feel like Im in the right era. :) Managed to fix the vinylplayer I think, but not the hum in the speaker system. Someone claimed you need a small transformer box attatched with rca slots on both ends when you play music from the computer into your hifi system. Well, I don't stream from the computer, but from my mixer. So, I don't know, basically, whether or not I need to buy one. Hmmm. Tricky.
This weekend saw the light of a couple of new things in my life: watching TV, going to the movies (first time since May) and cooking a fab dinner for a friend, complete with candles and wine. Lovely!

And once again...

Once again, I have come to the conclusion that I am not ready for any type of relationship. Why don't I learn? I had to tell the two guys that are chasing me on Match to stay away, this morning. Can't deal with it, it makes me feel like I can't breathe. A shame really, but I hope it has to do with what I went through 5 months ago.

So, free like a bird. Again.

Technical failure

Murphy's Law struck, once again, this week.

In preparing for the party, my graphics card went bezerk, and Hugo who was then in the kitchen, at that same moment happened to crash my ipod speakers. (They are now stuck on max level and you can't turn it on or off.) As if this weren't enough, my vinyl player (new) isn't running, and the massive hum in the speaker system has returned, despite the fact that I bought a new, fancy audio cable for it. Mhmmm. Gets quite frustrating. Patience, my friends, patience is key. I changed my tyres this week, finally, and one of them was a spare. Turns out that winter tyres are fucked, so I need to buy 2 new ones.

Where should I begin? :)

*presses "IGNORE" and continues playing the banjo as if nothing happened" Oh, I'll be damned if the strap hasn't come undone because of a lose screw which is now caught inside. Music shop, next! *sigh* :)