First of all thanks to my little onionring for his comment which had me rolling in the aisles. lol

Secondly, I dunno if it's good news but FG (opposition) got more seats than everybody expected. Well, we'll c if things r goin to change and if in which direction, cos the folks here were less then thrilled bout how the country was ruled over the last five.

Anyway, I just cooked a pasta casserole, there are still bout nine hamburgers with bacon and side rice in the fridge and now I'll start some beef goulash cos I realised I still had some meat in the fridge. So far I didn't set the kitchen on fire, ergo cooking works out well for me.

While the goulash is on the cooker I should start cleaning the windows which I wanted to do since two weeks which means this is all news ur gettin today. smile

Have a good one, urs
Joanne.

I can't fuckin believe it. Not only did the Taoiseach set the date for the 30th Dáil on a fuckin Thursday, starting as late as nine or so when everybody is already at work, and additionally having to set polling stations in schools so the pupils can vote as well, BUT setting the date during the week is completely normal here.
The only question was: "Will we make it a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or maybe a Friday this year??" Hmm .... how difficult ....

On top of that we won't have the fuckin results till fuckin Sunday!! I mean, what the fuck?? How's that so?? How the fuck's that workin boy????
Employ more people and we'll c how long it takes then. Bloody lazy fuckers those Irish folks ....

Whatever. Work's still grand and good craic anytime but how r u keepin back at home?? Send me some news pls.

I'll c ya, have a good one!
Yours,
Joanne.

I'm ABSOLUTELY knackored today. Yesterday was the final of the championsleague and as my pub is known to broadcast sports all day, the whole Douglas Village came in and it was so Fuckin busy u can't imagine.
We were five people behind the bar, then one waitress started helping us, then the two mnagers that were on and then a second waitress AND we were still struggling!!
Nobody had his brake and we worked from fuckin six in the afternoon till three in the morning (cleaning two hours and a half cos the people made such a mess ....), me only having had one loo break for two. Forget it. At one point at ten or so I was really struggling cos I already had bout seven orders in my head, each bout five different drinks, and the people still kept on shouting their orders to me. For fucks sake, that was hard and even more cos one guy has 2 Heineken n 1 Bud, the other 1 Heineken n 2 Bud, one 2 Heineken n 1 Carlsberg bla bla bla, So who ordered what and how many of each?? Got it?? T'is just hard to keep tack there guys believe me. lol

Then after workwe were al so wrecked that we sat there and had our pint after work till half four in the mornin (and we got a pizza fro the managers, hooray. T'was nice but I would have prefered my half hour brake). So in the end I came home at five am and slept till one in the afternoon today.
I didn't do a flying fuck today .... I just baked another cake, did some quick cooking and changed my bed sheets.

But I'm very excited bout today, cos there are elections for the 30th Dáil (yep, on a fuckin Thursday!!), tmw hopefully the first expansions and in three weeks we'll know more bout the new Taoiseach and so on and so forth ....

Well, my time is up, I just wanted to give u a quick update: I'm fine, work's fine, two of my friends here (Enrico and Lionel) both found jobs!! and well, I started fuckin cookin! lol

Have to go to work .... again ....
So c ya lads (n ladies), urs
Joanne.

I'm not to bad and urselves?
But today is a really strange day. It has been raining for the last few days and that of course normally brings a depressing mood with it. Well, there I am now, sitting in Piotrs room and writing a blog entry.
The main reason I sat down was that I wanted to tell u that I got horribly homesick today. That sounds stupid now, but I spent some time watching videos on utube n came across some video with a guy playing the accordion.
It was a clearly Austrian tune and reminded me strongly of home, u all n of how far I am away .... I even wasted some tears ....

Anyway, I'm in a strange mood today and I really haven't been as restless as today in a long time. I would like to do sth, go outside or simply DO sth, ANYTHING but I can't pull myself together.
I just CAN'T!!

C ya, urs
Joanne.

I feckin passed my feckin Cambridge Exam with a feckin A!!
What do u say now?? How good am I? I'm the feckin best!!
--> Ev'ryone not bein prouda me can go fuck themselves!!

!! A A A A A A A A !!

I almost forgot the most important incident thata had happened that particular Easter week-end:
On Sunday, when Joanne n I were aready on the bus to Waterford, shortly after passing Midleton, the East Village (where I had those two interviews remember?!) called me and offered me a job!! They asked me if I could start that coming Wednesday and as it was planned to come back from Screen on Tuesday, that was fine, so that Wednesday I started work at three in the afternoon and got kind of introduced to this and that by a co-worker calles Shane.
Whatever, there's a Blues Band playin in the South County now (Rob Strog and Band) and I have to leave.

Cu so, urs
Joanne.

So when they picked us up again .... we drove back home and spent the evening sitting in front of the fire, drinking some vine and chattin away.
The next day Joanne and her parents had their flight back home but were so nice to give me a lift to Wexford where I took the bus back home as well. In Wexford was a huge traffic jam and the bus didn't come for over an hour so I looked a bit around and came across a flee market where I bought about five really old books, so I was happy. lol
Then eventually the bus did come and I even managed to get the follow-up bus from Waterford to Cork.
Back in Cork I immediately went back home so nuttin exciting to tell but the next days will be a bit more interesting. ....

As I already recounted the first interview at the East Village went quite well and already two days later they phoned me and asked if I would like to come in for a second interview whih I answered with a definate 'Yes'. That second interview was on Thursday and I didn't get the impression of it going as well as the first cos I was really nervous but my mood lightened up immediately afterwards when I went into the city centre to fetch Joanne who had just arrived to visit me for close one week.

That evening we went with Markus to the South County, my favourite pub in Douglas village, where Marc joined us afterwards as well. We stayed till curfew and had quite a nice time.

On Friday we slept in and in the afternoon Marc took us to the beach near Kinsale where we had a good day strolling in the already very warm sun, collecting shells and similar.
We didn't do anything in the evening, just watching the telly with Rory (Marc's cousin), and I had a few drinks as well. lol

The next day shopping in Penny's was on the agenda. I was exhausted when we finally got home but we did find some fantastic things so it definately was worth me getting over my shopping phobia. rolf
Back at home we relaxed a bit and then got ready to go out into the city centre. As Rory was goin out as well we took the taxi together and agreed to phone eachother afterwards again to take the same taxi back home. Joanne and I then tried to enter a rock/ metal pub but she couldn't get in, so we did some pub crawling and met Enrico and Lionel (and Fabio) with whom we really had some good craic.

When the pubs closed (which is here for every pub at 2am) we met Rory again and with him and a mate of his called Bill we started our journey back home. It was quite difficult to get a taxi though cos u can imagine that when all pubs close at the same time everyone rushes to get a taxi at the same time as well.
AND we would have been on time before the rush but no, Rory had to go to MacDonalds to eat sth and so it took us nearly an hour to get a cab but in the end we managed so that was fine.

On Sunday, Joanne and I had decided on visitig and staying with her parents in Screen, which is located in the north of Wexford (which is on the east coast). So we left Cork at midday to take the (expensive!) bus to Waterford where her parents were going to pick us up. There we ate sth and then walked though the city which was lifeless cos of Easter Sunday. We didn't stay long therefore and drove to Screen where we were staying in an old, run-down, typically Irish farmhouse which alone by its atmosphere and panache gave me a feeling of being 'home'.
Sounds strange and is as well. lol

So we didn't do a lot that eve (as so often lol) but the next day her parents took us to a wonderful beach called Curracloe Beach (if I remember it correctly) where I had fun running around barefoot and wetting my pants (jep, that's ambiguous indeed! laugh). We went for a walk on said beach for some time doing the usual like collecting shells, splashing salty sea water around, behaving like children seeing the sea for the first time in their life and blah blah blah
Best of all was when we took a different way back wanting to arrive at the car before her parents, taking a 'shortcut' so to say, and u can guess what happened. Yeah, we got eaten by a wolf. lol No, but completely lost. smile

Afterwards her parents gave us a lift to Wexford which I had longed to visit since I'm here and the reason why is:

Since Hias has been there in late September last year and couldn't stop rhapsodising about how beautiful it was I couldn't help but at least once c if it's really so brilliant or if he was blinded by love and looking through rose-coloured spectacles. lol
I guess we'll never know if his fancy for this one particular girl had an influence on his view of the area but personally I believe it's really pretty. So at this point: Thank u Hias!

Well, Joanne's parents were in a wild reserve nearby while she and I had two hours to look around Wexford a bit. Loads of churches I can tell ya. For the size of that little town (not even 9.000 inhabitants) definately worse that Salzburg and that is saying sth!! rolf
So when they picked us up again ....
Not in the mood of writing anymore.
In a few days more .... smile

Kisses, urs
Joanne.

So, I haven't been writing for such a long time that I dunno where to begin summarizing what has happened in the last few weeks. ....

The most important part that I kept secret because I didn't want to trouble you was that after I lost my job on March 23rd was that Pat kicked me out three days later, on March 26th.
On Friday and Saturday evening we were still laughting and having a drink together and on Sunday I spend the night somewhere else and when I got back home on Monday afternoon she was in bed, ill, and I opened the door, asked her if she was feeling better and she just said: "I've had enough. I want you to pack your bags and go." Nice one I thought but could I change it?

Marc had warned me before that something was wrong and I thought I was prepared but not prepared for that!! So I phoned Mickael who had moved out earlier that week and he said it was no prob that I stayed with him for the time being.

Well, after two days I couldn't stand it anymore cos as you may know I have never lived together with a man (Keppi isn't counting!) so not having my own room was quite intimidating. So after two days I said good-bye to Mickael and moved to Marc in the hope that he would let me stay on the couch in the living room.

Well, that didn't work out either and he insisted on me sharing the room with him. After some time I agreed, longing for a nice soft bed, but again a very very bad descision and the probs started for earnest! ....

I need my freedom, my privat sphere and some time alone so hanging out with the same person all the tim is quite intimidating for me. No way!! Yuk!!! But Marc did, so that's where it started.
The first week was quite ok, some getting used to the situation but it was ok and on March 31st I had my first interview at the 'East Village' (where I had dropped in my CV already the weekend before) which went quite well.
But 'at home' things weren't going so well. ....

But I have to go to work now. lol. I will tell u the rest soon, k?!
Cu then n have a nice eve.

Yours,
Joanne.