Saturday, October 18, 2008
Strange Anomaly #23
If a pregnant woman needs to use the loo, she can ask a Garda for her hat and can go in it right on the street. Strange old law, but they have to comply. Why Karen knew this, I have no idea......
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Summer Wrapping up
It has been a week of good weather so of course it was bound to be a busy week! I thought after such a busy weekend of the GAA match, it would be a quiet week, boy was I in for a surprise. Monday Bruno came to town just for the day since he had a return ticket from Dublin to Lisbon. We met up for dinner and then headed to the Stags Head for a few scoops with the Portuguese group before heading to bed.On Tuesday I headed to Karen's for a homecooked meal with her flat mates and to tuck in for the night and watch the Rose of Tralee. Since the hot water was still out back at our gaff I was also looking forward to a hot shower! Just as the Rose of Tralee started (think Rose Festival Princess but instead of High Schools, one girl will represent their county in Ireland) I got a phone call from an old collegue from back home. I knew he was going to be in Dublin at some point that weekend and early week. I left Karen's and headed to town to meet up with Erik. It was great catching up with him. Since Tuesday in the office has become the new Friday, a few workmates were also at Whelan's so when I said goodbye to Erik, I headed downstairs to meet up with Tullia, Sean, Colin and Glenn. I headed home relatively early since Frank showed up and shots were being had. I was to have none of it, since it was a school night!
Then Wednesday Joao was having a few people over. When you come back from holiday it is customary to bring back some sweets and share with your co-workers. Instead, he brought back shed loads of wine and had a wine tasting night at his house! Good stuff for sure. I just laugh since we try to branch out to make new friends, but of course at all the parties we go to, they are all full of architects. We have a tendency to stick together since everyone else who is not an architect gets tired of talking about buildings and CAD programs and other fascinating aspects of our jobs.
Thursday was to be our girlie night since A|Wear (a clothes store like Meier and Fra
nk) was putting on a fashion show of their autumn line of clothes. All of the ticket money went to the Cancer Society and you got a goodie bag. Who does not love a goodie bag! Tullia, Karen, Catherine, Claire and myself went to the Mansion House where I had previously done my "African modeling" a year before. Our goodie bags were full of little things, but most importantly a bottle of champagne. There was free champagne after the event and you got to browse the clothes and shop a little. We had all eaten on the way after picking up a burger and chips at the chipper, but Catherine was starving so I took the girls back to our place so Catherine could eat some of Ben's yummy stir fry. We drank all our free champagnes so it ended up being quite a cheap night out.Friday the heads were a little sore, and I should have taken Niall's advice, 'Don't drink anything with pain in the name". And there is pain in champagne. Since the layoffs at work were beginning to be told just who they were, we had to head to the pubs. Electric Picnic is a huge outdoor weekend concert that most of Dublin went out to so most of the pubs were half empty. After some food at Smyth's in the beer garden since the weather was actually quite nice, we went into Whelan's since Karen wanted to dance! Claire and I got on the shots to get our dancing skills up to mental parr to keep up with all the young kids on the dance floor. We danced the night away and at 3 when they kicked us all out we were not ready to call it a night!
Colin
had promises of toast, butter and whiskey at his house,
so Karen, Claire and myself headed to Colin's new apartment. He made us all toast and tea while we perused his extensive book and comic book collection. I tried some of his random whiskeys as I read a 3D Superman comic. He quietly strummed on his guitar as us girls entertained ourselves reading various things. Karen played coo-coo clock with his kitchen doors which sort of looked like a coo-coo clock. As the sun began to break the skyline it was time to head home and call it a night. I would need all the weekend to recover after another full filled week having the craic with our friends!
Final Tag Dinner
To mark the end of the oOMPa loOMPa Tag Rugby se
ason, we had a farewell dinner when we were not all hot and sweaty. Tigers were flowing all night long, so the criac was ninety. I think I scared them with how excited I can really get, especially when I found out Kevin and I are only a day apart. I am excited at the prospect of being 30, while I have a feeling he was not sharing my enthusiasm. We had a great dinner at Yamamori's, put on the red lipstick and headed into town. It had been an early morning so when your man handed me a warm beer, I took one sip of it, turned to Skinny, and said I was heading home. Gotta love living in town, so within 5 minutes I was at home tucking in under my duvet!
ason, we had a farewell dinner when we were not all hot and sweaty. Tigers were flowing all night long, so the criac was ninety. I think I scared them with how excited I can really get, especially when I found out Kevin and I are only a day apart. I am excited at the prospect of being 30, while I have a feeling he was not sharing my enthusiasm. We had a great dinner at Yamamori's, put on the red lipstick and headed into town. It had been an early morning so when your man handed me a warm beer, I took one sip of it, turned to Skinny, and said I was heading home. Gotta love living in town, so within 5 minutes I was at home tucking in under my duvet!
Lenny Kravitz Gig
Tullia and I find Lenny Kravitz absolutley ravishing so when he was co
ming through town for a concert, we could not miss him! Ania, Michelle and Marcella also had tickets so it was to be a girly affair. We headed to Spar to pick up some 7up and some vodka to make a concoction to drink on the bus. We felt like teenagers again, passing around the bottle getting hammered on the way to the gig. We were dressed head to toe in rain gear since it was just lashing rain as we headed out. The walk to Marlay Park we finished off our drink and the rain subsided, for a bit. We arrived just as the opening band, One Republic, were wrapping up, but we caught their best song. We missed the very first band, but none of us had heard of them, so not a biggie. We grabbed our burgers, chips and beer and found our spot for Alanis Morissette. I did not think I would know that much of her stuff, but I did know every song. As the beers flowed, as did our singing and throwing our arms around each other swaying to the music. It was like reliving a part of 
my teenage and early twenties since her hit songs a several years old now. How time flies! As her biggest hit came on, we ran for the loo since we knew everyone and there mom would soon be following us. Sure enough, no queue, but as we got out of the outhouses, there was an enormous queue! Just to be sure we had enough gargle, we got a few more before Lenny came on. It took ages for him to get ready but we were well lubricated by the time the lights started up. And Lenny came on. Hubba hubba. He is a true rockstar, show up late, tight leather pants, big dark sunglasses, high healed boots and a flowing half opened shirt in 
all black. No one else could really pull that off as sexy, but he can! He never did take off his shirt which was a huge let down, but he did take off the shades for a bit. He had long guitar solos and piano solos and even sung a few versus from Pink Floyd and the Beatles. All in all, it was a good show, especially since the rain was just a slow drizzle by the end of the night and we could not have cared less. Anna stayed behind with her mates, and the last of us 4 girls walked and sang hand in hind before hopping into a taxi during his finale, just to get a jump on getting out of there. Great night with the girls and sweet dreams of Lenny!
ming through town for a concert, we could not miss him! Ania, Michelle and Marcella also had tickets so it was to be a girly affair. We headed to Spar to pick up some 7up and some vodka to make a concoction to drink on the bus. We felt like teenagers again, passing around the bottle getting hammered on the way to the gig. We were dressed head to toe in rain gear since it was just lashing rain as we headed out. The walk to Marlay Park we finished off our drink and the rain subsided, for a bit. We arrived just as the opening band, One Republic, were wrapping up, but we caught their best song. We missed the very first band, but none of us had heard of them, so not a biggie. We grabbed our burgers, chips and beer and found our spot for Alanis Morissette. I did not think I would know that much of her stuff, but I did know every song. As the beers flowed, as did our singing and throwing our arms around each other swaying to the music. It was like reliving a part of 
my teenage and early twenties since her hit songs a several years old now. How time flies! As her biggest hit came on, we ran for the loo since we knew everyone and there mom would soon be following us. Sure enough, no queue, but as we got out of the outhouses, there was an enormous queue! Just to be sure we had enough gargle, we got a few more before Lenny came on. It took ages for him to get ready but we were well lubricated by the time the lights started up. And Lenny came on. Hubba hubba. He is a true rockstar, show up late, tight leather pants, big dark sunglasses, high healed boots and a flowing half opened shirt in 
all black. No one else could really pull that off as sexy, but he can! He never did take off his shirt which was a huge let down, but he did take off the shades for a bit. He had long guitar solos and piano solos and even sung a few versus from Pink Floyd and the Beatles. All in all, it was a good show, especially since the rain was just a slow drizzle by the end of the night and we could not have cared less. Anna stayed behind with her mates, and the last of us 4 girls walked and sang hand in hind before hopping into a taxi during his finale, just to get a jump on getting out of there. Great night with the girls and sweet dreams of Lenny!
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