r.a.n.d.o.m.

wow. im terrible at this whole blogging thing. ya know, since i never remember to actually write anything!

well the second week of school is coming to an end
one class left in my insanely easy schedule...tomorrow at 2 i have hispanic studies 2
quite possibly my favourite class.
which strikes me as interesting and very odd since its counterpart, hispanic studies 1, was the reason i didn't get out of bed in the morning to go to class last semester. that class was awful.
but hispanic studies TWO is fabulous. looking at drama, poetry, short stories and novels of hispanic authors. which is really my thing :)
LOVE IT.

so today i had my earliest class of the week, at 11am.
okay so here's the really frustrating part. i set my alarm for 8.30 so i could get up and have a leisurely morning and get some things done around the apartment.
well i woke up in a panic at 10.48 (yes, i remember the exact time because i was just THAT panicked.) since class started in two minutes, there was absolutely no way i was going to make that. so i went back to sleep, frustrated, but very warm in my nice cozy bed.

well, this is a random blog of sorts (i love that word), since my next topic is....
hair.
of course.
anyone who knows me even a little bit knows i have a ridiculous habit of changing my hair.
its gotten better since moving to ireland
but obviously not completely cured
last night i was VERY bored. and instead of starting my play for contemporary spanish theatre (cuz who wants to do that at 1am?) i decided to cuuuut my hair :)
it was exciting. lol.
not much shorter b/c i think i would cry if it got any shorter. (short hair is NOT my thing) but there are many layers in it. cut a bit more this afternoon.
its a bad habit. an addiction really. ive really had to reign it in since being over here, mostly because dye is so much more expensive.
but ya know.

just had a bit of an intermission in the blogging there.
talked to the madre at work
showed her my haircut via skype. haha.

id say the most exciting thing thats happened since my last blog is that ive joined up the UCD choral scholars.
its pretty intense. we're given new music each rehearsal and expected to know it after maybe two run throughs with just sight reading. its crazy. but i LOVE it!!! :)
ive missed being part of a choir so so SO much.
choral scholars has 23 people in it as of now
we're singing a big Handel piece with a buncha solos in it as well as a big Bach number. AND zadok the priest, also by Handel.
we're doing a concert in late march with the RTE concert orchestra, so thats pretty exciting... and terrifying.
but i love performing, so thats that.
except not in front of people i know, in close proximities. AKA im not so into singing at the next lacrosse party coughAMYANDPADDYcough. lol
but nice try ;)
oh and apparently we're singing at st. patricks cathedral...so thats pretty sweet.



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other than that, things have been going well, with nothing much too exciting.
which is good
lacrosse is good
even if im not good at lacrosse
but hey, its a hobby :)

well that about sums up life as of now.
more later
LOVE AND HUGS!!! :)

back to where it all began

well im back in ireland
its just after two am and i should probably be sleeping, but as fate would have it i never can sleep when i ought to
and i did end up taking a four hour nap today which probably didnt help things!

so the flight from seattle to chicago was grand
slept most the way through and had the window seat which is always a good pillow.
chicago to dublin, however, was not so good. well, the flight was fine all in all, it was the two and a half hour delay which was really annoying. to make matters worse, it wasnt a delay in the airport, but rather in the plane itself. no fun.
buuut i sat next to a cute guy so it was okay. he was kind of awkward but it was somehow endearing. lol

i finally got to dublin and kate called. the girls had been at the airport for AGES! i felt so bad
but it was fine and i got through customs w/o too much of a wait.
we came back to my apartment and hung out for a while,
then i unpacked and slept before the girls came back over to hang out after dinner
ummm...i have a lot of clothes. and shoes. my bag was 3 pounds overweight. go figure. haha.
did some decorating so that was good
heading into the city with kate and rach tomorrow to do a bit of shopping before going to kates for a movie.
im preeetty excited.

its so good to be back. but, as caroline put it, its hard living in two separate places, because youre always going to miss someone. bummer deal there. but i guess in life you cant have everything.
silverdale, bellingham, dublin...they all feel like home. well, i guess i'll just have to travel constantly to visit them all! sounds good to me :)

well i booked my ticket for amsterdam the other day. so thats exciting.
i want to go to greece
and spain
maybe portugal this semester

oh and i have the easiest schedule ever. seven hours of class a week. what a joke. makes me feel bad for rachel who has 25 hours. maybe i'll have a look for a job. i have to stay busy or i'll go crazy! haha.

its so weird this semester without all the americans from last semester. i cant just walk next door to say hi to leslie. or go see mallori two houses down. that sucks. a lot. lets just hope these new americans are fun. they have a lot to live up to! :)

well, now im just rambling so id better end this.
im sure i'll have more interesting things to write about once school begins. or maybe not. its a toss up.
but ive got to do a pic update sometime here soon. im terrible at that. obviously.

missing you all back home!!!
:)

back in los estados unidos

well, its been ages since my last post
much has happened
today, for example, has been a comedy of errors.
but lets start at the beginning.
well, the beginning of my trip back to the U.S. of A.

landing in new york was such a joke. it was hands down the worst landing ive ever experienced. i literally thought we were going to crash. first we dropped about 30 or 50 feet or so, then coming onto the landing strip, we came in on our right wheel. ONLY our right wheel. so that was terrifying. then we sorta bouned over to the left one and balanced out. the girl next to me screamed and grabbed my arm. it was kinda funny, amidst all the scared-ness going on. yes, scared-ness.
so it was snowing in new york. that was pretty cool. cept we thought we might be delayed or cancelled. but we werent so it was alright.
okay the plane ride from new york to seattle was absolutely hellish. as my mom put it; it was the birth control flight. screaming children all up and down that plane. gag. the family behind me was completely annoying. the parents were just about as bad as the kids, who, by the way, were repeatedly pulling my hair and bouncing the back of my seat. yes, the mother was doing it too. some people should not reproduce.
well, we finally got off that terrible plane ride and were safely in seatac airport! it was so exciting. well, i was pretty much walking death since we'd been traveling for nearly 24 hours, but i was as excited as i could be. lol
after seeing new years for both dublin and new york time zones, my tired family and i made our way across puget sound to silverdale. home sweet home. i got to meet the new dog, cal, and see penney girl again. my cat finally came out of hiding and after about 30 seconds of her acting like i was the devil for leaving for four months, she decided she loved me again. lol
all was great
i was asleep by 11.30 and missed silverdale's new years.
WHICH WAS A BUMMER BECAUSE....JASON FINALLY ASKED OLY TO MARRY HIM!!! i had about a million and a half missed calls and text messages and voice mails when i woke up in the morning, all from oly telling me that i needed to call her NOW because she had to tell me before spreading the news around.
her ring is absolutely gorgeous. i couldnt be happier for those two. theyre so good for each other :)
so skip ahead. that was...wednesday night? so oly and jason and valerie (her madre) came over on...what was it; friday i think. and i was all excited to give oly her ireland present thingy. so then she said she had a gift for me. surprised enough, i read the card she gave me after saying that i could have the present if i say yes to the card. so confused. but staaarting to put the pieces together as i opened the envelope. (all who know me know im terrible, absolutely TERRIBLE at opening envelopes. i kind of just destroy them. lol) inside it said 'will you be my maid of honor?' i screamed and hugged oly. the waterworks were going and of course i said yes! she handed me a bag and inside were a beautiful necklace from oly and her mom had got me the maid of honor guidebook. looks very helpful.
im absolutely over the top excited. the wedding is in 2010, so theres a bit of planning time.
on saturday we're going to barnes and noble for starbucks and wedding mags. then at 1.30 we have an appointment in poulsbo to look at a wedding location. (ah!) then we're headed back to the dale for wedding gown shopping at benitas. YAY. then picking up sam for BRIDE WARS that night. (that movie looks amazing) im so so SO excited.
right now it all kind of feels surreal. we've been friends since preschool. we ate playdough together. (yes, i'll admit it. haha) we've been in plays together, we've grown up together. she's my second sister. its crazy to believe that she's getting married! its crazy to think that we're actually old enough to get married!!! lol. i cant wait for saturday because it will start feeling real and the planning will begin! :) :) :)

okay.
rewind.
well, its been nice to be home. havent done a whole lot and at the same time ive been crazy busy. well, ive done a lot of cooking and cleaning and errands running but thats okay. its nice to be home and everyone who knows me knows i love to cook and all that jazz. so making dinner and picking my sister up from school; thats good stuff. :)

last sunday we had thanksgiving re-dos. i was in charge of pies. they were good :)
the kunishes came over around two or so. becky stopped by early on her lunch break from the gap and visited a little. we had so much food and we STILL have leftovers!
it was so good to see annabel. i love being an auntie :) i cant believe how big she's getting.
around four or so, maybe a bit later, it started snowing. we took annabel out to catch snowflakes on her tongue and slide around on the back deck. then it REALLY started coming down so the kunishes decided to get going since their house is at the top of a hill, and they kiiinda wanted to make it up the hill! we had a pretty chill evening and watched the snow fall. all in all we had about two inches. not a whole bunch, but enough to make it pretty outside :)

well, i was supposed to go up to bellingham today. i should be on the ferry right now headed to edmonds, or on the highway heading north. BUT bellingham, well all of whatcom county really, is under flood watch. theyve closed down the exit to bellis fair mall because its under water and not safe for driving. its pretty crazy. so the parents said i shouldnt go up there. of course i was super bummed and feel bad for not being there to see my friends, but its for the best. im heading up there sunday instead. as long as i get to see wwu im good!!! :)

thats pretty much it as far as life right now.
ive done some piano playing
just finished playing violin for a while
i forgot how annoying it is to re-string a violin
and my bridge was so tilted it almost broke off
so that was a little unexpected twist to my practice time today!

mmkay bye
more soon
:)