Cayman's Girl

At last an update....

2008-12-30T19:25:00.003Z

Well Iv been in Jamaica just over a 5 weeks now and what can i say its paradise - the sun shines constantly, the beach is like a five minute walk from my parents house and not working while hard to adjust to in the beginning is now so acceptable ha ha!.

When i first arrived i was eaten alive by mosquito's - i despise them - if anyone out there can give me one good reason why these blood sucking parasites exist please come forth with your argument cos as far as i can see they are of no use to nature!! slowly my body is becoming immune to their bites and no longer leaves sore itchy spots on my once pasty legs! What i have not become immune to though is what Jamaican's call the "forty leg" which is a poisonous centipede which had a delightful munch on my ankle and left its poisonous spines imbedded which resulted in first a lump the size of a marble which gradually progressed to a lump the size of a golf ball - sore, red and full of poison i was lucky i had brought a general anti biotic from home and my jamaican adopted brother AKA the bush doctor applied soothing aloe vera plant gew to it every evening until eventually the poison and the spines came to the head and it started getting better - below is a picture of the dreaded insect! god knows where i was when he bit me but he bit me and got away with it!

i have spent most of my days hanging out on the beach, chilling with my friends and spending time getting to know JB - i think the second and third week where the hardest i missed my girlfriends terribly - i personally dont find the women here too friendly to girls (competition i suppose - i have seen it myself in small towns in ireland and there is alot more women to men) so i have gone from having a lot of girlfriends to having just my Mom really and she isnt exactly going to be hopping out to dances every night with me - which meant that i hang out alot with my guy friends or rely on JB - This can sometimes be a bit frustrating as i am so independant when i am at home and never relied on any guy for company or had to have a fella there when i go out anywhere - but seeing as he seems to feel personally responsible for my safety and well being here i sometimes feel a little bit trapped.

The lack of available internet access can be abit of a pain - especially for someone like me who is used to having broadband on tap! I have had to snatch little moments online here and there and while my blog has been neglected i am trying not to neglect my friends sending emails and photo's and updating my facebook page.

I also have missed not reading my fave blogs - so much can happen in a month and i have a full google reader which i just dont have time to read when im online!! My mom has contacted Cable and Wireless the Provider here the week we arrived and we are still waiting for them to come and install the net!

I am now typing this update off line and am going to save it to my thumb drive to load up when i next go online to save precious online time!!

So to update you all - i got my much waited for confirmation email from Cayman last Thursday - Work Permit Visa Approved!!! The sigh of relief i feel is unbelievable! Am so excited now about starting the second leg of this great adventure - and my nerves are starting to kick in again!!!
I got a call from the MD of the company last Tuesday to say that they had the perfect job for me in a bank and i might have to fly over for one day to meet the client and get aquainted prior to my final move!

Ill be sad to leave JB and Jamaica but its literally a stones throw away and me and JB have been getting on fabulously so we are going to see perhaps about him coming over in a few months time after i get settled - until then we will go over and back and see how things go.

Christmas here is so unlike Christmas at home - its not all the commercialism and fuss of an Irish Christmas - its laid back and relaxed - as most people dont have the money to squander on expensive useless presents its more about family and celebrating a holiday atmosphere and i am really loving it - My parents put together a christmas feast and JB's family (our neighbours) came over and we all spent the day together - Christmas night me and JB went to a live concert - over 48 artists played and it went on all night - PARTY!!! Iv been out a few times since i got here but nothing too wild - just local dances and dinners - The area we live in is not really touristy so i end up being the only non jamaican and get stared at quite abit - which JB finds hilarious and loves the attention - me im not so keen and end up feeling quite shy which i am not normally ha ha! (at all) While people from our area know me and my family it is when we venture further from our area that the staring gets abit more intense and i suppose the curiousity of who is the random blonde girl dancing wildly to reggae and dancehall music is to be expected!

I love it here - i truly feel at home - i dont know why when my parents where immigrating 5 years ago i didnt just sell up and go then - regardless im here now and i dont regret any step of this decision!

News from home has been flooding in - Roomie is moving home while her and her Fiance's house is being built so its and end of an era and thong memories! The girl who took over my job - got completely stressed and upped and walked out at 8am one morning leaving the office in dissray and never came back!! My other colleague has been keeping me well informed as to the progress - the office has now downsized, moved to a smaller premises and hired another person to take over my job - my manual has worked out well though and according to emails from my old boss - the new girl is great so im happy for them...

I think while i love it here - the hardest part of all was not being able to see my friends when i want - i miss lazy night on the sofa with Roomie under our blankets just laughing and gossiping - having I heart NY Mondays and thinking up ways to bother the boys next door - daily work emails with MsT and going to Ms Motivators house on a daily basis to let off steam and just chat - getting ready to go out here on my own just isnt the same as champagne cocktails and screaming cyndi lauper from the ipod while getting ready with the girls.... but its all ahead of me and hopefully when i reach Cayman i will have a new group of friends who wont replace the old but at least bridge the gap of being away from home.....

Happy New Year everyone and thanks so much for the lovely comments and for not abandoning me or my blog while i was MIA!!
I look forward to hearing what has been going on in your lives that i have missed and see what kind of antics you all have been up to and trust me once i hit Cayman and get back on line fully i shall be updating this lovely blog daily as before!!

BTW you will never guess who i bumped into over here last night - none other than britain's own Lily Allen - ah its like Celeb spotting here!

APOLOGIES APOLOGIES

2008-12-15T18:23:00.005Z

HEY ALL!!!

Here is a pic of my new home in Jamaica!!

Well im still alive and well its just the net access where i am is fairly limited!!!

i am having the dt's from the net believe me but am filling my time with other such lovely things like doing nothing!!! hanging on the beach, swimming, getting bit by a poisonous centipede and enjoying my now blossoming romance with JB!!

I hope you all are doing great and as soon as the Cable and Wireless people come this week and install my wireless i promise a very long and very detailed update!!!

Tuesday Hottie # 9

2008-11-25T10:11:00.000Z

And in keeping with the Beachy Dude Theme - Tuesday Hottie # 9 is none other than the epitomy of beach hottie:

Kelly Slater who on a Not2Hot Scale gets an 8 from me!!

The Journey

2008-11-21T14:45:00.000Z

The Drama of the last few days could only happen to me! So we board our flight from Dublin to Gatwick with no problems in fact it was all going too easy! The lovely man from Aer Lingus who checked us in even let the fact that we were heavily over the weight restrictions pass! come on!

So the flight takes off and 2 things start it off in a bad way (1) the fact I was in the window seat and im not a particular fan of window I much prefer aisle – (2) I was sitting on the wing ensuring optimum engine noise – now im not a scared flyer I wont say I enjoy it but I don’t hate – I love getting to foreign and exotic locations but don’t love the airports, ques, security, customs and the flight bit…. Being over the engine practically assigns you to be the first person who will hear the engine fail! Ie: if your not a cool, calm and collected individual as in im not – then expect me to scream at the top of my lungs “we are all going to die”

Anyway 20 minutes into the flight I glance out the window and notice that instead of just seeing fluffy clouds over a sea, we are instead flying parallel to a city (the only possible city being Dublin – and weren’t we meant to be flying away from it??) I point this out to my Caymans Mama who points it out to Caymans Papa – who is just about to point out that he didn’t think the plane sounded right since take – off (we are all aeronautical engineers in my family – did I mention that before?) when the captain comes over the tannoy and says that due to a technical fault we are returning to Dublin!

Now it is 7.15am we are scheduled to land in London at 8.15am our connection is taking off at 9.40am! and we are now on the way back to Dublin – at this point I stop a male steward and ask him what will happen with our connection – to which he replies with what can only be described as the look a little rabbit has when he lifts his head and see’s an 18 wheel trucks headlights pummelling down the highway at him “LETS JUST GET BACK TO THE GROUND FIRST” now excuse me for being a fussy customer but I really expect only one thing from these lovely people who serve us at 40,000 feet and that is that no matter if we are all going to die – please do not hint that fact to me! Dying hadn’t at that point crossed my mind- missing my connection had – thanks!

So we land (nose dive) back on the runway in Dublin and taxi to a port where 5-6 technical trucks and cars are waiting – we are all instructed to stay seated which we do – but now that we have landed and nobody was injured – the passengers are getting a wee bit annoyed – we hear others mentioning connecting flight ( the thing one must know about Ireland is that its practically impossible to get from Ireland direct to most places and that London is a common port of call for the traveller wanting to get to anywhere bar Europe or America) the airhostess are extremely unhelpful telling us to contact our connecting flight airlines (eh so not my job!) and that basically anyone who only has carryon baggage can get off and get on the next flight to Heathrow which is leaving in approx 6 minutes – Que Stampede of Suits and laptop bags! (Call me unprofessional but if I was heading to the UK for work and this happened I would have gladly sat on that runway all day!)

Then there was it now known as the Dublin 9! My Parents and me and other couples and 2 solo dudes who all had connecting flights which are now most surely going to be leaving without us! We are assigned an Aer Lingus Rep who brings us to the Aer Lingus ticket desk to reassign us all flights to our final destinations through America – One couple and two solo dudes opted for the Overnight in Orlando to leave the following day for St Lucia and St Maarten – while we opted for the Overnight in NYC to arrive the following day in Montego Bay – My Parents had never been to NY so it was a great opportunity - Baggage is reclaimed and Rechecked and off we head to the Big Apple – Arriving at JFK at 1.30pm New York time and 4 degrees (hadn’t really thought of the fact that none of us had any coats, hats scarfs etc and it was only getting colder throughout the day! Regardless we are put up in the Plaza JFK and have showers a lovely buffet lunch and my dad gets the hotel to organise a 4 hour limo tour of the city (we had no coats I wasn’t kidding about that) So we spend from 3 til 7pm seeing the sights!! Love it!

The next day we are delivered to JFK and put on an American Airline Flight to Montego Bay! So a day late and one more country wiser we are here!

And FYI the weather is fabulous!

LEAVING ON A JET PLANE......

2008-11-18T16:25:00.000Z

I have scheduled this post to publish as im winging my way across the atlantic ocean! As you read this im on a long haul flight from Ireland to Jamaica!! Montego Bay here i come!

After months of planning and saving i'm on my way! Roll on the Red Stripe, Sunshine, Sunsets, Caribbean Sea, JB!! and everything else that comes with 2 glorious months in tropical paradise!

(all in preparation for my new career of course!!) I would like to thank you all for your comments, following my blog this far and all your great words of wisdom, advise and inspiration when it was all becoming too much for me - you guys ROCK!! and i can promise to keep you posted as the adventure has now finally begun!!

I hope to post on Thursday - giving me a day to get over jet lag, unpack and catch up with all my friends!!

Thank you all again

ITS FINALLY HAPPENING AND I CANT CONTAIN THE EXCITEMENT

X x CG!!!!

Tuesday Hottie # 8

2008-11-18T09:41:00.002Z

So i bet you thought that seeing as im currently "soaring, flying" i might have left y'all without a Tuesday Hottie! No way iv scheduled this post for all you girlies!!

So Tuesday Hottie # 8 is....the yummy but oh so evil (that def the attraction i dunno why)

Ed Westwick aka Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl

On a scale of Not2Hot he gets a 7 from me!

A bit of Pampering..

2008-11-15T12:36:00.000Z

This week i have made appointments with my beautician and hair stylist!! My last ever appointment! The beauty treatments i can live without, i am sure waxing is the same anywhere in the world but my Hair Stylist is an Artist!!

Im not just saying this cos i love the way he does my hair - he has 3 month waiting lists! Women adore him (he is a gay man so its not out of infatuation its because of just how good he is at doing hair & such a great listener!) I want him to be my BFF forever - seriously if i was really rich and i mean REALLY rich i would be flying him over each month to do my locks! I am a blonde! What the hell is going to happen when my light brown roots start to show!?? (dont tell anyone - honestly people i went to school with even think im a natural blonde - i was born to be blonde without the cliché stupidity) Trusting someone to do your hair is a big deal! I am the one who has to go around with it on my head and after 6 years of going to the Artist i dont know how i will cope with someone new!! He is now a friend and credit to him he is the one who listened to me moaning about not being happy here and wanting to move and he gave me the pep talk that set the wheels of this big adventure in motion!!!

Before i met the Artist, i had Bleach Blonde hair - not the natural Blonde i have now - he does not use peroxide so i dont get the yellow/green hues of some blonde dyes? The Artist knows how i like my hair! not too much volume, sleek and straight - he knows that only a side fringe suited me, he has been with me through the following hairstyles!

The POB (Posh Spice bob)
The Elf (a la Sienna Miller - Factory girl)
Various upstyles to suit outfits for christmas parties, weddings etc
Since my elf cut and i knew i was going away i have been growing my hair - he is such an Artist that he has been trimming it just so right that it wasnt a nightmare to grow back and my blonde locks now sit just below my shoulders.

He knows me!! He knows what treatments it needs = he knows how dry blonde hair can get and furnishes me with various hair masks and night treatments!!

He is going to give me my colour number to pass on to the next salon i go to! but it wont be the same!! so this post is in dedication to the Artists out there who make a girl feel so great about herself!!

Its Friday I'm in love!

2008-11-14T11:12:00.000Z

I'm in love! I want it! but i dont think i need it! but its still love!

Damsels in Distress - Guest Blog # 3

2008-11-13T11:49:00.000Z

Hopefully i am not too late with this guest post!! My friends have used the term lastminute.com with reference to me on more than one occasion! of course all posts have to be proof read by the powers that be CG first! she's probably scared i will tell you about the time that she slipped and fell in Dunnes Stores Department Store....but never fear my dear friend, your secrets safe with me, i have no intention of discussing such shame on the world wide web, good friend and all that i am......

Anyway back to my post....When i was asked to think of a favourite memory of myself and CG and put it in writing it was hard for me to narrow it down to just one. As you can imagine after spending 5 days a week together for almost 5 years there has been plenty to choose from. But whenever i think of our fun times together a couple of memories are always at the forefront of my mind. The following is one of my favourites:

One rainy miserable wet windy Wednesday lunchtime CG & i were cruising through town in CG's 2x4 car, for the want of a better term "singing" very loudly to the latest hit from the sex god that is Justin Timberlake. (This was a favourite past-time of ours!) Mid chorus we were rudely interrupted by a sudden thump. This called for a brief glance at each other, an eyebrow raise and the next line of the song. When the thumping persisted we knew it was time to drop the hairbrushes and pull over. We proceeded into the nearest housing estate and got out of the car. Our suspicions were confirmed and were were greeted by the FLATTEST tyre that ever was!! We looked at each other, both willing the other to know what to do. "What next?" CG asked and just as i was about to reply "i'm bringing sexy back" a Knight in shining armour rode up in a Nissan Micra.

CG knew him to see from town and he lived in the estate and very kindly took the flatty off and brought it to the garage to be mended (any normal person would be thinking now, why didnt he just put on the spare - well in true CG style - of course the spare was also flat!)

After the ordeal we both agreed that Knight (as he shall now be known) went above and beyond the call of duty to help us...if there was only something we could do to repay him. BING!! Que light bulb over CG's head. Come with me cos i have a plan. Back into the newly pumped 2x4, tunes blaring and off we went. CG filled me in on her master plan on the way and all essentials were picked up.

Before we knew it we were back in Knights estate. We rehearsed for a minute in the car and a few nudges and shoves later, we were ringing the doorbell with a box of Cadbury's Roses in one hand and a Thank you card in the other.

DING DONG!!!!!

Lady of the house: Hello?

CG: Hello is knight in?

LOFTH: Ammmm, he's upstairs

CG: Well could you ask him to come down please?

LOFTH: He's in the bath

CG: Thats ok we'll wait, could you let him know we are here

(Please note - this lady had never seen either of us before in her life so looked a mix between crazy and puzzled at this stage)

LOFTH: Ok well who will i say is calling?

CG: He helped us out earlier

LOFTH then went upstairs and we could over hear the following conversation

LOFTH: There is two girls at the front door and they want to see you

Knight: What??

LOTH: They said you helped them earlier today?

Knight: What!? Tell them im in the bath

LOTH: I did!! (Voice strained)

Knight: Ill be down in a minute

LOTH then came down and told us that he would be down in a minute, closed the door in our faces and went back about her business/

So we waited.................................and waited!

Knight: (With flushed face, wet hair and bare feet) Hello!

Now anyone who has ever been to Ireland in the 1990's will be very familiar with the "Thank you very much" Jingle from the Cadbury's Roses Advertisements anyone who isnt see below:

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....please also remember how loosely i used the term singing earlier. I dont think i need to go into any further detail of what followed.

I also dont think that Knight helped change anymore tyres, infact i think i saw him slashing a few after that....

There is a million more memories id love to tell but there's not enough posts in my day!

So Cayman's Girl although our memories will be fewer and far between they will be as fun and dear to me as any we have shared!

Heres to your GREAT ADVENTURE!!

Love MsT!!!

HILARIOUS!

2008-11-12T13:12:00.000Z

This is an hilarious email i got from a friend!!

Part 1: HOW TO SHOWER LIKE A WOMAN:

Take off clothing and place it in sectioned laundry hamper according to lights and darks.
Walk to bathroom wearing long dressing gown..
If you see husband along the way,cover up any exposed areas.
Look at your womanly physique in the mirror, make mental note to do more sit-ups/leg-lifts, etc.
Get in the shower.
Use face cloth, arm cloth, leg cloth, long loofah, wide loofahand pumice stone.
Wash your hair once with cucumber and sage shampoo with 43added vitamins.
Wash your hair again to make sure it's clean.
Condition your hair with grapefruit mint conditioner.
Wash your face with crushed apricot facial scrub for 10 minutes until red.
Wash entire rest of body with ginger nut and jaffa cake body wash.
Rinse conditioner off hair.
Shave armpits and legs.
Turn off shower.
Squeegee off all wet surfaces in shower.
Spray mold spots with Tilex.
Get out of shower.
Dry with towel the size of a small country.
Wrap hair in super absorbent towel.
Return to bedroom wearing long dressing gown and towel on head.
If you see husband along the way, cover up any exposed areas.

Part 2: HOW TO SHOWER LIKE A MAN:

Take off clothes while sitting on the edge of the bed and leave them in a pile.
Walk naked to the bathroom.
If you see wife along the way, shake willy at her while making the woo-hoo sound.
Look at your manly physique in the mirror.
Admire the size of your willy and scratch your butt.
Get in the shower.
Wash your face.
Wash your armpits.
Blow your nose in your hands and let the water rinse the snot off.
Fart and laugh at how loud it sounds in the shower.
Spend majority of time washing privates and surrounding area.
Wash your butt, leaving those coarse butt hairs stuck on the soap.
Wash your hair.
Make a shampoo Mohawk.
Pee.
Rinse off and get out of shower.
Partially dry off.
Fail to notice water on floor because curtain was hanging out of tub the whole time.
Admire willy size in mirror again.
Leave shower curtain open, wet mat on floor, light and fan on.
Return to bedroom with towel around waist.
If you pass the wife, pull off towel, shake willy at her and make the woo-hoo sound again.
Throw wet towel on her pillow.

HOW TRUE IS THIS!!!

Awards Rock!

2008-11-12T09:05:00.004Z

The fabulous Kendall at Confessions of an Odd Duck has awarded me this little beauty! Now if you havent checked out his page - do so immediately cos he rocks & yay! now im part of his "entourage" !!! So here is CG's Posse!!

This is the Proximidade Award, which celebrates bloggy friendships. It means, "This blog invests and believes in 'proximity' [meaning, that blogging makes us 'close' - being close through proxy]." I now have to pass it on to at least 8 other people so here goes! (i know im doubling up here but thats life!)

Somewhere in between (always gets my vote!!)
Ms Tiff
D*
Paula
Katie Killary
Jack & Jill Online
Tiffany
Jade

I heart all your blogs!!

Tuesday Hottie # 7

2008-11-11T09:33:00.000Z

This weeks Tuesday Hottie is for my friend MsT who said i have to include him:

Wentworth Miller aka Michael Schofield from PrisonBreak

On a scale of Not2Hot he gets a 6 from me

He isnt my fave but id let him buy me a drink....i suppose - i might even make small talk..

Thong Update # 4

2008-11-08T14:57:00.004Z

Its been a while!! Well with the weather so bad i dont think the bra and thong have moved! Last night me & Roomie had our weekly DVD/Dinner night - that was after my fab Roomie helped me to be ruthless with my clothing and helped me to pack!! Roomie you rock!

Anyway after our bottle of Champagne - that Roomie had bought as a little pre-celebration the topic of the Thong came up and how the boys next door were just not succumbing to our little prank (how mature of them blah!!) So as this week is my last week we are declaring war!

Neither me or Roomie have any inclination to go in and buy a blow up doll so we have come up with the following idea (a bottle of champagne really gets the creative juices flowing!)

Next Thursday evening is our very last Dinner and DVD night which also coincides with the boys next door being out football training - How convenient!! we are planning on going into Primark and buying as many cheap thongs as possible - they even have jokey red sequin male ones and we are going to be taping thongs to every window of their house and posting some through the letter box!!! How disturbed of us! I love it! I shall most def take some pics of the "Thonged House" and post them for all to see! The poor boys next door - i dont even know why we annoy them? Boredom can make girls do the wierdest of things......

Its all about me...

2008-11-06T20:48:00.003Z

So i have been tagged for this lovely meme by the fabulous Miss Tiff - this could possibly be information on CG overload but here goes:

1: Where you named after anyone?
Nope - my Mom just liked the name and broke a family tradition on my dad's side as all the females had names that began with D and ended in A! Crazy i know but then my mom came along and shook the place up by naming me something different! My Grandma was none to happy at the time but got over it (I think)

2: Do you still have your tonsils?
Yup

3: Would you bungee jump?
No Sir!! No No No and no other adventure sport where i might possibly lose the use of limbs or possibly die!

4: What is your favourite cereal?
CoCo Pops!! (I am a five year old child when it comes to Cereal - the sweeter the better!)

5: Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
I dont have many shoes with laces? Uggs, Courts, Platforms, Sandals - no laces??

6: What is your favourite ice-cream?
Its gotta be Ben & Jerrys!!

7: What is the first thing you notice about people?
Their clothes and shoes - probably also how they act

8: What is your least favourite thing about yourself?
I am was a serious worrier but im learning to chill out!!!

9: What was the last thing you ate?
Cereal - i like it late at night!

10: What are you listening to right now?
MGMT - Kids - I seriously am addicted their new album!

11: Last movie you watched?
Pathology - DO NOT and i repeat DO NOT rent this - its so not worth it!

12: What did you dream about last night?
I honestly cant remember - i have been sleeping soundly as i am so tired lately!

13: What book are you reading?
At the moment - none but i have bought 2 new chick lit for my flight

14: Summer or Winter?
Most def Summer - but not the Summer in Ireland as that is just like winter!!

15: Do you have any special talents?
I can type 78 words per minute (if that is a talent?)

Ok now who im gonna tag!!!

Katie at "Born with the gift of laughter"
Jade at "Just Darling"
Tiffany at "Confessions of a shop girl"
"Somewhere in between"

Room-mates - Guest Post # 2

2008-11-06T08:50:00.001Z

"Spotted CG & Roomie wrapped in matching blankets on the couch" - I'm CG Room-mate but commonly known on this blog as Roomie....

So his little girl is all grown up and flying the nest (CG you know what this means....but i know that Roomie's boy is truly gonna miss you)

Back to the Job in hand, memories of CG.....Where do i start?

My first memory of CG is of her falling up the stairs, yes falling UP not down....but i better add that she was falling UP the stairs at 7.30am after a night of partying. CG had moved in with my boy and was a legend for partying all night, coming home, changing and going straight to work. You would always know if CG had been out with the appearance of those oversized sunnies the next day even if it was raining outside! PARTY GIRL NO END!!!!

I didnt really get to know her properly until we all moved in together, since then the memories are endless, too many to mention without boring everyone to tears and me crying my eyes out in the middle of an open plan office with the realization that yes the time is getting shorter and in no time CG will be gone and i will be left alone on that couch...

But in a nutshell i will be left with the memories of oversized sunglasses, diet cokes, our weekly DVD and gossip nights, ANTM "Tyra your fierce".....the phrase "its a video..." and endless chats about nothing in particular but still managing to stay up til all hours (Roomie's boy has even mentioned that i met my match in the ability to talk)

Most of all im glad that CG made the decision to move in, not only have i had a room-mate from heaven and believe me there have been HELL one's! but i have also gained a true friend and i dont really want to imagine the place without her.

CG i have started the countdown for June 2010 (You are always a great one for the countdowns!)

XOXO Roomie

Snappy BiteDay - Guest Post # 1

2008-11-05T08:09:00.001Z

I am Cayman's Girls aunt, however she is more like my litle sister as there is only 10 years between us.
Here is my funniest memory...
Since CG was 12 she had decided that i was going to bring her out with me on her 16 birthday and of course since it was 4 years away i agreed thinking by then she would have made other plans. However i was about to learn that once you tell CG something she will never forget it and lord help you if you let her down! So as her birthday approached she reminded me again and again oh and again of the promise i had made to her. Since CG was only 16 i didnt want to risk bringing her to a bar as it may have resulted in us being turned away - so i persuaded her to have a girlie night in with me & Caymans Girl Mom - my sister. I bought in some drinks and rented a DVD - thus we began the sweet 16 girlie sleepover - Everything went well until CG was finishing up her last drink, her words where now abit slurry and she became more rag doll like on the sofa where she was sitting beside me. I moved my foot and she was like a panther grabbing me by the ankle and locked teeth and started laughing hysterically! While i laughed i now stay well away from her when she is drinking! As they say once bitten twice shy!

When CG was old enough to go out - we went to a club in the city, throughout the night as we where trying to get 2 of our friends in to the club we had a heated discussion in the lobby with the bouncers...the next day as we were driving around in my car we were listening to a chat show on the radio - the topic being "the things city bouncers have to put up with" lo and behold echoing from the radio was the whole conversation me & CG had with those poor bouncers - shamed on National Radio!!

"ta ta take or leave us, but just please believe us we are never gonna be respectable"

Today is the tommorow that i worried about yesterday...

2008-11-04T19:27:00.005Z

I am 27, i have never like the age 27, i personally would be quite happy to be 25 for a few more years...25 is a nice age! its a quarter - its a nice sounding number, 27 just doesn't make me feel the same way! 27 makes me feel old!

When my mom was 27 she was married with two children under the age of 7! Me and my little brother - she had a husband, a mortgage and was living in the end of the last recession in Ireland. She most definitely wasn't planning a trip 4500 miles across the world on her own!

It would be another 16 years before my parents made that trip - they moved to Jamaica 5 years ago and have never looked back- My Dad retired and they sold our house here and built our family home in Jamaica...At the time they left, my brother was 18 and he went with them - while i was here with my own home, long term boyfriend and full time career, i stayed behind planning my own life here...If someone had told me then that now 5 years later i would not be married but single, have no children and be on my way that side of the world myself i would have told them they were insane?!

Time goes so fast and can change everything so quickly? I have always said i would like to be married and have a child when i am 30? That seemed so far away when i was 22 but now I'm 27 and it doesn't feel like that far away at all!

I really need to learn to be more flexible with my goals and stop trying to plan my life to the minute detail - because life really doesn't work like that! And when i look back and reminisce with my friends these last few weeks i wondered did i ever stop and enjoy the things i was doing or going through? i have such great memories and yet sometimes it feels like that its so long ago it didn't happen to me? I really have had such good times in my life - that if for like 5 minutes i stopped worrying about everything going wrong and enjoyed the fact that everything was right then it might not have all gone so fast? Don't get me wrong i was never ungrateful just an incessant worrier!

So from this day forth bloggers, i am going to really do my best to stop stressing about the little things and to just stop...full stop...every now and again and breathe it all in and trust that what is mine will come to me and whats not for me will pass! And that its all good......

A little trip down....

2008-11-04T19:05:00.000Z

This day two weeks from now i am going to be winging my way to Jamaica! So in the coming days my girlfriends are going to guest blog their favourite memories!

Starting tommorow with my Aunt and one of my closest confidants MsMotivator!! Followed on a daily basis with Roomie, MsT, Girlie Girl 1&2 & BigSista!

Not only will it be fun to reminisce with them but it also might give my blogging buddies a bit more information bout me from a different perspective!

I hope you enjoy it and welcome them to the blogging world!! Cos there always asking me whats the fuzz about it!!

Tuesday Hottie # 6

2008-11-04T09:36:00.002Z

OH MY GOD!!!! Let me present Tuesday Hottie # 6!!!

Mark Wahlberg AKA HOTTIE McHotness!!

On a scale of Not2Hot he gets an 9.5 from me!

**Update! I am going to dedicate this Tuesday Hottie to Miss Tiff over at A bit of Miss Tiff who went to see him last night in Max Payne!

My life in pictures (sort of - kinda)

2008-11-03T20:38:00.007Z

What an absolutely great post idea courtesy of the lovely lady at Somewhere in between her answers are great so definitely check them out - and here's how to do it!

My Life in Pictures:

Go to http://www.photobucket.com/

Type in your answer to each question in the search box.

Copy the html and paste for the answer.

1. Whats your relationship status?

2. Who is your celebrity crush? ( i think its the evil side of him i find sexy!)

3. Whats' your favourite band? (im very indecisive with music so this is it at the moment)

4. Whats' your favourite movie? (Ultimate girlie night in)

5. What kind of pet do you have? (no pets but my bags are my babies!)

6. Where do you live? (This is where it gets abit complicated - soon to be....)

7. Where do you work?

8. What do you look like? (or so my Daddy tells me but then again he is biased - i wish i did anyway!)

9. What do you drive? (but not for much longer!)

10. Whats' your favourite TV programme? (XO XO)

11. Describe yourself...

12. Whats your name? (sounds like....)

13. Whats your favourite candy? (its the nougety nuggets!! TASTY!)

Do it!!! Its so much fun!!!

A bit o' this....A bit o' that!

2008-11-02T20:56:00.003Z

So as stated in previous post im kinda just waiting around and experiencing my first (and hopefully my last) Blogger Block! So to try and get my creativeness flowing and to keep the blogging going here is abit of this and a bit of that.....

Last night i stayed in BigSista's House for a girlie sleepover which consisted of alot girl talk by a hot fire!! Cos it is officially baltic in Ireland! It was lovely we chilled and chatted & watched TV. Today we went for a nice dinner and then into town to shop...i know im on a spending diet but i succumbed - its not every day a girl gets to head off - so i got a super cute outfit for my last night out! Only 2 weeks and i get to wear it - boy am i ahead of schedule!!

And here it is: Thank you TopShop - PVC Leggings , Black Vest , Star Belt, and i have a star multi chain necklace to go with it (have a thing about stars at the mo - havent u guessed?) and these heels from Office Shoes - what ye think? Edgy!! i love the outfit! and cant wait to wear it!

BLOG BRICK WALL

2008-10-31T21:48:00.004Z

Im sorry blogging buddies! I really thought that once work was over and i was moving on with my great adventure that i would have a load of funny stories and crazy things happening - but im not going to lie - the last week has been the most boring and LONG week ever! Maybe i finished up work too early! i have spent my week sorting out a few things, the never ending packing & banking - catching up with some friends who wont be coming to my last night out and so on....nothing wild, nothing funny....As a newbie enough blogger i got abit freaked? is this blog block normal? There was a time when i had post after post ready to publish - alas not now so im just gonna throw out some random bits and pieces....

I only have 19 more days and im out of here! The great adventure which i have been planning for 4 months is nearly here! I have a girlie sleep over tommorow night at BigSista's house - me and Roomie were meant to hang out but have rescheduled that for during the week.. next weekend i have a family party and iv signed myself up to do a one day photography course on the Saturday...

Im loving this song at the moment - have it blasting in my car!

MGMT: Kids

I have had alot of contact from JB - Remember him? Well click on his name for a reminder! He has booked a restaurant for us the night i arrive back; i always wanted to eat go there - its fab it overlooks the beach and will be just amazing at sunset - I thought it was so cute of him!....the closer it gets the more excited i get about seeing him.

I heart Benefit Cosmetics!! And boy did i feed my product addiction! I got the following: Dr Feelgood, Bad Gal Mascara, Dallas Bronzer, You Rebel Tinted Moisturiser, Some-kinda-gorgeous Foundation, California Kissin' Lip Gloss - I LOVE THEM ALL!

Its freezing here - they say it is the coldest Autumn that Ireland has seen in 70 years! I am going from 4 degrees to +35! its hard to even get in the spirit of the sun when your wearing 4 layers of clothing.

other than that im just waiting.....ill probably be up the walls in my final week but right now im just......well....waiting!

Tuesday Hottie # 5

2008-10-28T09:59:00.000Z

Phew we are at number five already!! How the weeks are flying by...not too long until we have some beachy surfer dudes on our Tuesday Hot Spot!! Well here he is ladies...Hottie No: 5!

Taye "im so freakin hot" Diggs aka Dr Sam Bennett from Private Practice

on a scale of Not2Hot he gets a giant 9 from me!!

lets just say Cayman's Girl has got her groove back!!

I wear my sunglasses at night...

2008-10-26T22:19:00.004Z

"Fashion Fades......only style remains the same" Coco Chanel 1883-1971

I am kinda known for my love of sunglasses! all colours, all styles - aviators, wayfarer's and "jackie o's" being my favourite! I started my collection at 16 when my Dad presented me with my first pair of gunmetal Raybans, it was love at first sight! When i moved to London - i saved 3 weeks wages to go to the Gucci Store in Mayfair to buy my first ever Wayfarers and since then its been my collection! The bigger the better and so far i have 10 pairs; 6 designer (2 Rayban, 2 Gucci, 1 Chanel & 1 Missoni) 2 High Street and 1 Random pair from discount store Penneys cos i liked the look of them! if its bright out and im outside ill be wearing my glasses specifically if i'm driving - that and my love of handbags i suppose is my signature!

Anyway my colleagues at my old job (feels wierd saying "old job") presented me with a €300.00 voucher for the Brown Thomas Department Store (Its the Irish equivelant to Macey's - on a much smaller scale) It has all the designers under one roof!! It is the only store in Ireland with the right to sell Mac Cosmetics...What a rockin' present as a good luck gift!

So i went in there yesterday and i am now the proud owner of the following FABULOUS Sunglasses!!!

I must admit i tried on about 100 pairs...i wanted something classic that wouldnt date - that i would always have as a reminder of my years at my old job! and after alot of maybe's (Louis Vuitton nearly had it) i finally found the definite! Nothing says classic like Chanel!

Shop til u drop....

2008-10-24T22:22:00.001+01:00

As im nearly on my way...iv been on that spending diet BOOOO!! my favourite past-time has been starved lately!

So the two Irish girls who are living in Cayman have told me that yes its fabulous, yes the sun shines constantly and yes its a great life but NO where to shop! so bring as much as i can! As much as i can consists of 2 suitcases not weighing more than 23kg each!! BOOOOO again!

My saving grace im hoping will be the following websites i love! and have "invested" a good portion of my working salary in over the years! if i had spent as much on shares of these sites as i have on clothing i would be a rich girl!!

A.S.O.S. This gem of a site has grown so much since i found it a few years back! Im only giving it a short mention as its name says it all - It as originally "As Seen On Screen" you just spot something on a celeb and typed in their name and they had their cute and alot cheaper equivalent!! now the also do designer clothing & have a mens section - postage is very reasonable! They are fairly famous on this side of the pond so no point in going into too much detail about them - there is so much stock you should check it out!

Pret-a-portabello This is officially my new favourite site EVER!! For those of you bloggers who have never been to London, this is your chance to experience the famous Portobello market online! Now this site i dont mind discussing in detail! Its has online stalls, original pieces and the best part is like a real market you can haggle with the stall owner in the lets trade section of the site! Here are some of my favourite pieces Miss Crofton Reversible Headband How cute is that?? I can just picture it with some white shorts and a vest top! And these Freckle Pinstripe Shorts oh yes very Grand Cayman!! I could go on but i wont spoil it for you guys! Credit Cards at the ready for this site!

So there my favourite sites at the moment - i love Topshop, H&M and Zara too while the Topshop site is great - the other two dont have online shopping so ill have to survive!

Happy shopping! and if you do buy PLEASE let me know what you've bought!!!

Sex & the City & Cocktails & Girl talk!

2008-10-23T19:45:00.003+01:00

Last night my girlfriends Girlie girl 1 & 2 (who hadnt yet seen the Sex & the City Movie) and I (who has seen it twice already - love it!!) had a movie night - nibbles, cocktails, gossip and our 4 best friends: Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte!! Whats not to love??

It was lovely to hang out with the Girlie Girls and catch up i hadnt really seen them in a few weeks - every1 is just so busy...its Girlie Girl 1's birthday the day i fly! So my last weekend is kinda a celebration for the two of us!

Anyways back to the topic! Sex & the City! It never gets old...I could watch it again and again! Bring on the 2nd one!
My fave quotes as follows:
"Charlotte poughkipseed in her pants!"
"My dog ran up on your dick....DECK"
"The Good ones screw you, the bads one screw you and the rest dont know how to screw you"

Personally i think that Samantha was the best character in it - while i love Carrie - i think Sarah Jessica Parker is just too super skinny in it! Someone throw the girl a burger!

"Men on a Mission"

2008-10-22T10:24:00.001+01:00

The other night i was in the hair salon and im reading Cosmopolitan (my fave mag ever!) and in the "whats hot" section - i find this little gem of a web site!!

www.mormonsexposed.com

Basically its 12 mormon dudes, who have been chosen and agreed to pose bare chested for a calendar to raise awareness of the Mormon faith and also raise money for worthy causes.
What a great idea!!! I think its fantastic - a hottie for every month!!

Really cute boys! with catchy labels such as the "devout dozen" What's not to love?

Although i think i would have chosen a better name for the site? "exposed" in the name just brings to mind porn - and i assure you ladies i have logged on and its safe!
Hotties - YES Please; Porn - No thank you!

Tuesday Hottie # 4

2008-10-21T09:44:00.000+01:00

Roll up Roll up ladies cos its that time of week again!! TUESDAY HOTTIE!! WHOOP WHOOP!!

This week we have not just one but two pics of this hottie!!

On a scale of Not2Hot he gets an 8 from me!!

You may know him from The Hills but i am a die hard fan who watched The Princes of Malibu!

Girls just wanna have fun!!

2008-10-20T21:17:00.005+01:00

Saturday night was CYNDI LAUPER NIGHT!! I was feeling fairly sketchy after Friday night (too many cocktails!!) so i was delighted not too be driving - i got collected bout 3pm by MsMotivator and my Mom and the girlie road trip began, we got to the city at about 5 and immediately started to get ready - we all were wearing Cyndi inspired 80's outfits!! My main theme colour was electric blue! I heart dressing up!!

My Dad had arranged for us to go VIP! and so after we had gotten ready to go out we got a cab into the city and got met at the door with our wristbands marched past the really long que and up to our reserved table! We had about a half hour before Cyndi came on so we hit the bar! Complimentary Cocktails rock!

Cyndi came on and honestly the whole place was in complete AWE - she was unbelievable! Seriously it was one of the best live gig's i have ever been to in my life - the sound was just spot on and Cyndi's voice just rocked the place - the classic tunes like Time after Time, Drove all night and of course Girls just wanna have fun! I still cant get over it - for a woman who is like 55! Yes seriously 55!! she brought the house down! I highly reccomend if any of you girlies can get to see her live GO GO GO!!!

The last supper...

2008-10-20T20:46:00.003+01:00

So Friday night was my last work night out and of course it had to involve some drama! I decided to get ready with one of the girls from the office so around 6.30pm i packed up my bags (yes bags even though i wasnt staying there but make up, shoes, my new dress and all the other accessories a girl needs to get ready takes up alot of space! I arrived at her house, parked up my car for the evening and was handed a lovely glass of pink champagne at the door! Music pumping we headed upstairs to get ready - i had got my hair & spray tan done already so really i had only make up to do and get dressed - plenty of time to catch our cab and be at the restaurant for 8pm! i decided to apply the make up before starting on the champagne (ya have to have a clear head when applying eye liner!!) so am all ready - ask my friend to zip up my dress which she does and as i inspect it in the full length mirror - the zip DISINTEGRATES!!!!!!! from the bottom of it to the zipper at the top - it completely BURST!!! now the dress wasnt too small - i am not stupid enough to buy a dress that is too small when i know i am going to be eating a 4 course meal and going dancing! Precision choosing went into this dress!!

THIS WAS A COMPLETE DISASTER!! The zipper wouldnt pull back down!! no matter how much we tugged at it - I had nothing else brought with me to wear!! Every part of the outfit was strategically planned around "the dres" QUE PANIC! and i dont mean "oops my dress is ruined" i mean "running around like complete psycho" panic!! First step call Cayman's Girl Mom who after finally calming me down long enough to hear what had happened stated that realistically there is no saving a dress whose zip has completely opened! So here i stand in my friend's bedroom with a fab dress on that is completely opened at the side from my waist to my bust! cant fix it - cant get out of it!

When suddenly drama queen (me) has a moment of clarity! Friday night is Late night Shopping - the store chain where i purchased it would still be open! So we called and got the number for the store from directories and called the store to explain what had happened and see if they had the dress in that size! Girls from the store was so nice on the phone and told us to come straight in! Thank god i hadnt been drinking! So i throw on my coat and my ugg boots (yes i wore a party dress, uggs, hair up, full make up!) and we sped into town! If anyone seen the two girls running through the Shopping centre at full speed to the store dressed kinda up to the nines but wearing Uggs then it was us!! We finally enter the store and are greeted by some confused looking assistants - i blurt out "have you got the dress" more blank faces greet me?? im like so worked up now - im like "huh! we spoke on the phone" more blank faces - there is two chains of this store in my town - we had rang one and called to another!!! MORE DRAMA! i just opened my coat showed the assistants the dress - where im quickly ushered into the dressing room, cut out of the dress - redressed in another one and basically helped so much that i am after emailing the head office of the store to commend the two assistants who aided me! so im finally dressed with a working zipper and we are speeding back out to my friends house! The minute we arrived back to her house - we just laughed so much and then we drank the champagne! We totally deserved it at that stage!

Drama over! The rest of the night was just fantastic! The food, the company - it was all so great i couldnt have asked for a better send off! In the nightclub later i even met one of the store assistants and bought her a drink! FUN TIMES!!

Where do i start...

2008-10-20T20:42:00.004+01:00

Its been a crazy couple of days since my last post! I was completely insanely busy in work in the lead up to Friday and my last night out! Im so behind in blogging, reading my fave blogs and everything else in my life but at least now i have some time to catch up! I am officially a lady of leisure (kind of) so rather than doing one giant post i have decided to do a few posts to get everyone up to speed! So the posts that follow are my last week in detail!

Tuesday Hottie # 3

2008-10-14T08:38:00.006+01:00

Tuesday Hottie is gaining momentum....each week i have more and more applicants - so many hotties so little Tuesday's!! Ok so while i dont heart Lipstick Jungle i do heart the hot man candy they have in the programme so this week let me introduce (although i doubt he needs it!)......

Robert Buckley AKA Kirby Atwood from Lipstick Jungle

On a scale from Not2Hot he gets a 7.5 from me!!

If the dress fits......wear it!

2008-10-12T14:26:00.000+01:00

Its been a crazy week - between work and the mounting invitations i have for various things before i go - i dont have a free weekend! With the biggest event being my work night out next Friday! So me and Cayman's Momma went dress shopping yesterday! I like going shopping with my Mom, she can be trusted to always be honest (no matter how brutal) and BINGO i got the perfect dress for next Friday - its a black (ya can never go wrong with black) short bubble hem strapless party dress - i love it and it can be revamped with various accessories to wear to any of the events i have between now and leaving (as much as id love a dress for each one - im a girl on a spending diet and luckily each night out is with different people so i can get away with it)

Friday 17th is the work farewell night,
Saturday 18th is Cyndi Lauper live,
Saturday 25th is a holiday weekend so im going to my last concert.
Saturday 01st me & Roomie are going to hang out, (what we plan on doing is for another post!!)
Saturday 08th my family are having a "surpise" party for me (nothing is ever a surprise in my family!)
Saturday 15th is my last weekend! Which is going to be a crazy one! Everyone i know is going to a popular bar in my town for a send off!

Then its Goodbye Ireland and Hello Jamaica (where my kidneys will prob need to be detoxed) - so i think once i get over this week in work, the time will fly!

Lost...

2008-10-08T17:16:00.004+01:00

Today i feel kinda lost - i have been moved from my desk so that the new girl can be trained in. Its hard parting with that office - i am now sitting in a spare office without my personalised computer and little bits and pieces that make the space mine - i know im leaving - but i havent left yet! and i know the bosses have to make sure that the new girl can cope while im still here to answer any questions but i feel really sad about it all....(im begining to sound like a broken record i know - look i promise you blogger's it will get a whole lot more exciting once im finished work and winging my way to Jamaica! - Please dont desert me now)

Who would ever think you could get so attached to your job, your role and your little assigned area?? Who would ever think that you could get so attached to your screen saver? Your pen holder? Even your number directory - nothing is mine anymore! it all belongs to the new girl!
The calls that come in are now being put through to the new girl and any work i would normally do is to be done by her and checked by me....

....So basically i'm floating...(and blogging)

Roll on next Friday cos i dont think i can cope with all this sentimentality for much longer!

Fed Ex or Fed up...

2008-10-07T22:51:00.004+01:00

Last Wednsday i sent off my Visa package to Grand Cayman....I was told it would be delivered on Monday..they gave me a stupidly long number to track it online and so i emailed my new employer's the details and also tracked it myself....the large brown envelope has been in more countries in the last 6 days than i have been all year! See below:

Oct 1: 15.57 Dublin, Rep. of Ireland Shipment Picked up (ok)

Oct 1: 19.47 Dublin, Rep. of Ireland Departing Origin (again ok)

Oct 1: 19.49 Dublin, Rep. of Ireland Arrive at Facility (that was a short trip?)

Oct 3: 07.39 Dublin, Rep. of Ireland Arrive Heathrow (WTF? where did Oct 2nd go?)

Oct 6: 07.19 Depart Heathrow Arrive Miami Fl. (again where is Oct 4 & 5?)

Oct 6: 12.45 Depart Miami Fl. Arrive Grand Cayman (Finally! oh hold on!)

Oct 6: 13.30 Grand Cayman With courier (ok should be delivered soon?)

Oct 6: 17.00 Grand Cayman Scheduled for delivery (YAY!! oh hold on again)

Oct 7: 09.04 Grand Cayman With courier (de ja vú - me thinks?)

Oct 7: 11.27 Grand Cayman Package delivered (HALLELUJAH!)

IT ONLY TOOK THEM 6 DAYS TO DELIVER AN ENVELOPE!

Firstly why is it that once you are courier you are always and its not just now and again but always entitled to be late? Secondly why did they say Monday and then leave the package sitting in Dublin for 2 days?? There is multiple flights on a daily basis to London Heathrow from Dublin and lastly is it just me or this Visa Envelope now have a larger carbon footprint in one week than most adults IN A MONTH? Ok Rant over - it arrived safely and i got an email to confirm that all was in order and they shall be applying to immigration at the end of November in preparation for my arrival in January! Im super excited!!! Not long now til Jamaica!!

Tuesday Hottie No: 2....

2008-10-07T08:10:00.000+01:00

Tuesday Hottie No: 2....Fire Extinguishers at the ready!

Columbus Short
aka DJ from "Stomp the Yard"
Scale of "Not 2 Hot" He gets an 9 from me!

And he also gets a special "ouch thats hot" award as my computer burst into flames when i uploaded the pic!

Thong Update # 3

2008-10-06T21:06:00.002+01:00

Ok so the weather here is really miserable constantly raining and windy - Me & Roomie have concluded that they only seem to go to their back yard to hang out laundry and so they havent been out there all week thus the Thong has not moved....how boring! so i went up and fished out a bra i no longer wear! and found a beauty!!

A white one with little cherries all over it! They WILL not be able to miss this!

so as i type this post my poor little 34c Cherry Brassiere is sitting out in the rain at the back door of the boys next door!

Its been decided that if they dont retaliate to this (what we expect them to do i dunno? but its fun!) we shall hang a blow up doll on their line!

Its just another Manic Monday...or is it?

2008-10-06T08:58:00.003+01:00

Mondays....the worst day of the week for some people....i am in a minority i dont really mind Mondays...i am a Tuesday hater...

Monday is a great day for starting projects, diets etc....Monday to me always signals the start of something new! And it marks the begining of another week closer to my little adventure! So i am blogging on behalf of Monday today! Give it a chance! and join my "boycott Tuesday group" instead!

Today is my second last Monday in my job! Que "aw's" cause that is what i'm feeling! Today i am sending my farewell email to clients and suppliers that i deal with on a regular basis....all 286 on the recipient list is getting a nice email to say thank you, farewell and to introduce them to the new girls who will be taking over my role when im gone!

Anyway i have "New York Monday" to look forward to later - its my turn to cook and Roomie and I have made a joint decision to boycott Lipstick Jungle (is it just us or is it completely slow and over-rated - Its no Sex & the City; i'll leave it at that) so its America's Next Top Model & Gossip Girl Series 1 box set for us tonight! Yay - I heart Gossip Girl...the more i watch it - the more i am strangely attracted to Chuck Bass (even though he has that evil look about him - maybe thats what it is im a sucker for a bad boy!) however Dan will always be our Tuesday Hottie # 1! Speaking of Tuesday Hotties!! i have a serious hottie lined up for you bloggers tommorow....

I've been tagged...

2008-10-05T18:52:00.006+01:00

I'v just got my very first tag from the lovely Marketing Gurl! So here are the rules!

1. Link to the person who tagged you - done, go visit her wonderful blog 2. Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself. 3. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs. 4. Let each person know that they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog. So here i go:

My left foot is slighly bigger than my right foot! now not so much bigger that i have to buy 2 different sizes but it does mean i have to break in the left shoe that little bit longer til it stretches the extra few millimetres!

I despise velvet! The touch..the texture the whole thing grosses me out completely!

Im a complete hypochondriac that insists on looking up my symptoms online and self diagnosing until my mother forces me to go to the doctor (who always tells me im completely healthy) However i have decided since my full medical and 100% all clear that i am putting an end to the self diagnosing and worrying about my health!

When i was 10 i won Madonna's "like a prayer" album on national tv.

I lost my shoe while running to the camera crew to win Madonna's "like a prayer album.They showed me losing my shoe on national tv. I was known as the "girl who lost her shoe on tv" for about 6 months

My mom is my best friend on earth, i tell her everything and she is the first person i turn to for advice.
I like to put clothes pegs of the same colour on laundry i hang out! ie: Green pegs get hung with green pegs etc (kinda OCD i suppose)

So now i have to tag some fellow bloggers....

Somewhere in between

You dont know us but

Born with the gift of laughter

Average 20 something

Im looking forward to reading your wierd and wonderful facts bloggers!!

Dance like nobody is watching....

2008-10-03T16:41:00.003+01:00

One of my favourite things to do is dance! On a night out i can be found on the dance floor or ill dance when I'm annoyed or when I'm drying my hair is another favourite! There is something about being alone in your room with a hairdryer in one hand dancing in front of the mirror that's super comfortable! and it releases my happy hormones BIG TIME! I loved the episode of Greys Anatomy when Meredith encourages Christina to "dance it out" when she breaks up with Burke.

My favourite dancing tunes presently are as follows:

Rhianna - Disturbia
MadCon - Beggin'
Katy Perry - I kissed a girl
Shabba Ranks - Tease Me
50 Cent - She wants it
Tiffany - I think we'r alone now
Snap - Rythm is a dancer
Wiley - Rolex it up
Booty Luv - Boogie Tonight
Low - Flo Rida

My Roomie is probably reading this and has now realised that when she is downstairs and it sounds like a herd of elephants is in my bedroom above it is in fact me randomly dancing for no reason at all! Last week i was blow drying my hair minus the dancing but singing completely out of tune to the ipod at the top of my voice assuming that the hair dryer would drown out my crow like caw'ing but it didn't and she had great pleasure in asking "was that you singing?" when i came downstairs - EMBARRASSMENT!! well not as embarrassing as singing along to a song on the radio, making up your own words when you don't know them and somebody pointing out to you that your completely wrong (yes that has happened to me too)

Anyway have a wonderful weekend Bloggers, and if your feeling down - dance as much as you can - in your socks in front of a mirror - im telling you it works!

Boys Boys Boys...

2008-10-02T22:43:00.001+01:00

I havent really spoke alot about boys in this blog...well firstly as i dont really have a boy and secondly cos i didnt want this blog to be about boys but somehow always in a girls life it becomes about a boy....When i say i dont have a boy i mean that in a "i kinda do have a boy sorta" way....are we confused yet? well ya know how it goes once you mention boys it gets complicated??

I have a boy in Jamaica - Jamaica Boy (J.B.) I should really point out that my parents have a house in Jamaica - he is our neighbour...so when i have spent time there we have hooked up and have kept in touch - We know each other 2 years so i suppose it will be interesting to see how things pan out when i am in Jamaica for longer than a 3 week holiday?

I have already made up my mind that one way or the other i am going to Cayman on my own - yes i was one of those girls who always seemed to live life with some boy in the background - ok im more of a relationship person than a random hook up - but for the last 6 months i have been sincerely single and i have been really comfortable with it! its like i got to know myself and its been this time on my own that basically helped me to come to this decision of emigrating and while i have had my moments of frantic panicking, im truly grateful for the opportunity and am going to savour every minute of it!

Being Single has helped me reconnect with my friends & i'v met so many new people in the last 6 months its been fantastic - because at last im not part of a couple (ya know how suddenly your not Caymans Girl anymore your Caymans Girl & blah blah - you and your boyfriends name suddenly become all one word when people are talking)

So J.B. while he is EXTREMELY HOT and such a nice guy...he will have to let me do this on my own....but he is extremely hot and ill most def keep you all posted once i get there BUT NO he is not being included in Tuesday Hottie....even though he deserves it!

Am i completely insane.....??

2008-10-01T20:27:00.000+01:00

Call me crazy but i have just had a moment of clarity!! i have handed in my notice in my great job that i have been in for the last 7 years, put my car up for sale, told my Room mates im leaving and bought an airline ticket to go 4986 miles away from anyone i know!? AM I INSANE?

Today i had a melt down well more of a freak out - i know its normal to get cold feet but sitting at my desk earlier today after i had come back from Fed Ex. Where all my documents which are now as i type winging there way to Grand Cayman! it all flooded in like a dam that had burst! I have 17 days including weekends left in my job - and my bosses are being so lovely i dont think it actually hit me until today that THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING? Deep breaths, deep breaths into large paper bag!!

I have had various moments of emotional "things ill miss" but none as bad as today! Today i felt scared! anxious and kinda nauseaus too! My mom said its not nausea its butterflies and to stop confusing excitement with worry (she is always so positive and supportive) but i think i am freaking out?! And when i freak out i usually calm myself by playing the "worst case scenario" game, ie: Strange noise coming from my car? Worst case Scenario: i ring AA roadside assistance or I think i left the back door open? Worst Case Scenario: Intruder sets off house alarm, police arrive? Im moving 4986 miles away from a fairly great job and all my friends, family and comfort zone? Worst Case Scenario: I come home if i hate it? I immediately feel better for now.....and thats it in plain english - if i hate it i come home, spend a week or two in a friends spare room, my boss has already said he would always have a job for me and i buy a new car.....end of! ok Panic over......put the paper bag down....sorry about that bloggers!

Clownin' Around....

2008-10-01T14:58:00.003+01:00

MsT has just relayed an unusual story of something that happened to her recently....its so hilarious i have to share it! Things like this must only happen in Ireland....

So here is MsT and MsT's Boyfriend (we might as well call him MrT) driving home on a fairly rural Irish back road....They approach a small vehicle in front of them driving slow. (Normal enough) MrT decides to over take said vehicle, and after checking that its safe starts to overtake. (again normal enough) As they overtake MsT as she is on the passenger side is now parallel to the driver of the other vehicle and glances in to see......A CLOWN (not so normal) and MsT's description of this clown was so accurate, full on Clown Wig, Face painted, Nose and costume with a giant painted smile! LIKE WTF?? As any normal person would do when they spot a REAL LIFE CLOWN driving a little car - MsT laughed uncontrollably detailing what she had just seen encouraging MrT to slow down so that Clown could then over take them!!
Obviously seeing MsT in hysterics and the fact that they had now slowed down to get a better look at him was not very appealing for the Clown who then started to scowl and shake fist at them! So Happy Clown was now Angry Clown....Why the frown sad old Clown? What a cliche Clown... seriously if he was that easily annoyed all he was short was a cigarette and a bottle of Jack Daniels?

While i find this fantastically funny i despise clowns (happy or sad) It all goes back to childhood sleep-over's, when we would watch video's (yes i said video's not dvd's) of Stephen King's "IT" and that freaky clown Pennywise haunted me for nights afterwards!

Fashion Frenzy

2008-10-01T09:00:00.001+01:00

BigSista is comin over tonight to help me be ruthless with my wardrobe - cos there is 3 cases not weighing over 23kg each which have to fit my life into them waiting for me in the spare room!

The email chat between me and MsT today as we discussed general must have items that need to be brought then turned to: Fashion Faux Pas! Having been dedicated follower's of fashion forever (regardless of wether it suited us or not) we giggled today at some of the long lost treasures which may be discovered when one starts digging out your wardrobe!

I have been quite good though, having lost almost 2 stone over the last 2 years (go me!) i have gotten rid of quite a lot of clothing which would make fashionista's quake in their manolo's!
Look we all make mistakes and we were 90's chicks so we've had quite a few!

My Cream cord skirt & Wedge calf boots combo

MsT's Neon Pink 3 monkey tshirt (yes it did say: see no evil/say no evil/hear no evil)

We both had white patent leather stilleto boots

My Orange nu-rave flare's (i was 15 ok!)

Culottes (google it - enough said)

Skorts!

Hair Scrunchies (They were made from velvet - even the touch of them now would make me wanna hurl)

Mini skirt, white tube sock, boots combo (a youth disco favourite)

Clogs (and no part of me is danish?)

White platform runners (screw you spice girls - they made it cool to wear these)

****I had to add this in as MsT pointed out my mistake in forgetting our matching Rainbow coloured poncho's (as hard as it is to believe circa 2004 Poncho's where huge here in Ireland but not the nice chunky knit fashionable ones oh no! these were made from what can only be described as thread)

Luckily i am now so much older, wiser and better fashionably informed, my wardrobe consists of neutrals, alot of black pants, fitted shirts and grey clothing for work (how reserved of me), shift dresses, ballet flats, stacked platforms, leggings, skinny jeans, denim mini's, grandad knit cardi's and vintage rock tee's all fairly socially acceptable clothing! Still though without these faux pas how could one look back and laugh? What would define our era if it were not for quirky fashion?! So yes while ill laugh at it - i certainly wont regret any of it!

Please Please share your worst fashion moment with me!!

Thong update # 2

2008-09-30T23:22:00.002+01:00

Ladies the thong hasnt budged? like WTF? do these boys never go into their back yard? and seriously they cant miss it cos its right outside the door - to get to their washing line they must step over the offending lace!!
I think maybe we should send over some more underwear - they could hardly ignore 3 or 4 more thongs and perhaps a bra or 2?
I am giving the thong until the weekend and if there is no movement then i am initiating further underwear war!

Tuesday Hottie # 1

2008-09-30T15:04:00.004+01:00

Ok as i officially hate Tuesdays! Seriously i LOATE them - i decided to spice up everyone's Tuesday with a new weekly feature! "Tuesday Hottie" so each week i'm going to treat you gal's to a hottie to perk up our boring Tuesday's!
Right for the next 6 weeks or that they will be cute guys from our fave programmes, movies etc - but i am sincerely hoping that once i hit the beach i might be able to convince some uber hot beachy type dudes to not be camera shy and let me include them in my Tuesday hottie feature!!! (finger's crossed) but hey beachy type dudes with hot bodies arent normally shy are they??

Feel free to comment on any random Tuesday hottie...wether u think he is hot or not! and ya never know once i have the hot beachy dudes up here - we might even get a dating service going!!!

Ok DRUM ROLL PLEASE THE FIRST EVER TUESDAY HOTTIE IS..................

Penn Badgley

aka Dan from Gossip Girl

Scale of "Not 2 Hot" He gets an 8 from me!

Brilliant Weblog Winner!!!!

2008-09-29T13:18:00.007+01:00

I logged onto my blog this morning to find out i had received the Brilliant Weblog Award from
Somewhere in between....I heart her blog and follow it every day - her stories are really relatable and really funny! Please check out her blog because its fantastic!! Thank you so much for this award and as a newbie blogger it really has made me feel a whole lot better bout keeping on blogging! You have made my Monday!!

Here is how the Brillante Weblog Award works. The person giving the award chooses blogs that they consider brilliant in their content or design. In return, the recipient is expected to choose a minimum of seven blogs that they like. They leave comments on these blogs to notify the winners. They then post about receiving the award on their blog (like this) and list their choices with links. They also include a mention of whom they received the award and include a link. Pictures are great, but not necessary. Here are my seven:

Somewhere in between: i dont care if its against the rules!! you deserve this Award for the hassle you got this week with your room mate! You rock and i love your blog!
Working Girl: I discovered their blog totally by accident and im addicted! They are the reason i started blogging & their work stories are both funny & relatable. This blog is a must for any girl who works in an office anywhere in the world!
*Insert my blog name here*: This is the funniest blog ever! Daily Rants and hilarious life questions & FYI The author is a guitar hero!!
Born with the gift of laughter: Katies blog is wicked, its a must for anyone who loves New York and is addicted to cookies expecially oreo cakesters!!
Just Darling: I am hooked on the Nebraska story, Jade your blog is honest, funny and so well written!
(Insert Witty Title here): Hilarious Blog - you have to read it!!
The typing makes me sound busy: J-Money you rock - and you really should be in stand up!

Ok so my choices seem to have over lapped with other peoples but it just proves how great some of these blogs are!! Please check them out & leave them lots of delicious comments!!

I heart New York Mondays....

2008-09-29T11:12:00.003+01:00

New York Mondays are digital tv station "livings" answer to me and Roomie's Girlie night in prayers! it starts at 9pm with ANTM continues into Lipstick Jungle and now we have our own addition - last week was Roomie's birthday and i bought her Gossip Girl First Season box set (we havent got it here on tv yet) Its wicked and we love it - completely addicted now and it has now been added to the Girlie night in Hit list....

The original Girlie night in programme is the Hills, however the new series hasnt started here yet so we are until then left with New York Monday's, and random Girlie DVD nights....aw ill miss these nights! I would personally love to introduce Champagne Thursdays to our weekly Girlie nights but the problem is our little working girl budgets just wont stretch to a weekly bottle of Cristal and Cheap Sparkling Wine Thursday just doesnt have the same ring to it does it?

Anyway Roomie really is off to New York the same week i leave for Jamaica so she will have a real New York Monday but without me!! - Its been 6 years since i was in New York and its one of my top 5 favourite places ever! i plan on going back very soon especially now that i am soon going to be based on the same side of the world! Love it!

While the Cats away.....

2008-09-28T21:49:00.001+01:00

As tommorow i am heading into my last two weeks of work, I have been chatting with MsT about our greatest work memories, which i have suddenly discovered have absolutely nothing to do with actual work! they are more like "work place" memories or "while our boss is away and all our work is done" memories....As i said before its my two bosses and 4 of us dutiful employees in the office with approx 40 staff on the road - so as alot of our business is in various parts of the country there was days when the bosses would be away....

Binocular's: We work in a business park and so we get alot of random seller's coming to the office - "book club" is one of them: Book Club drops a box of books and gadgets into the office and leaves them there with an order form for the week and comes back takes the order and the following week you get whatever you ordered: 1 week book club left a pair of long lense binoculars with the various other items..we for some reason felt it would be perfectly ok (and legal which i look back now and highly doubt) to use the binoculars to spy in the office across the road from us?? WTF!! This spying went on for a week! Let's just say that across the road reception girl spent an awful lot of time chatting in the canteen and not alot of time doing any recepting!!

The Key box: In our office there was a very important key box by the door which stored all the various keys needed for various pieces of machinery, company vehicles etc the door to this key box was constantly left open - this door is in front of a glass window which leads to reception - one day while on my way out to "meet and greet" clients who are out in the reception i hammered the side of my face off the open key box door - i shit you not full on smiling and waving at the clients through the window and then BANG face-metal keybox door! Yes they did see it and yes every1 laughed!

Sleep Time:One day after a particularly awful night of her room mates inviting 100 people back to a random party at her house MsT came in to work completely exhausted - our boss was away and thus she felt it ok to just lay her head on the desk for a minute or two and get some shut eye - i worked away on my computer not spotting my "supposed to be away" boss coming in the door - too late to wake her i proceeded to shout "MsT ARE YOU OK??" acting like i hadnt seen my boss who obviously shocked by my shouting was like "Whats wrong with MsT?" MsT then lifted her head spotted the look on my face and did a double take at the look on our bosses face..."MsT has not been well all morning" i told him to which the super nice man replied "well you better bring her home - i hope ur feeling better later MsT" we walked to my car in silence, drove out of our carpark in silence and then once we were out of view of the office laughd until our little lungs gasped for air!!

Fence Brakes: When MsT first started in the office, i was a learner driver - her being a non driver i offered my learning driver services to MsT to get to work and back each morning. Anyone who has once been a learner driver can vouch for the difficulty learner drivers have in judging the size of their car and the distances between various obstacles - we had a large metal fence surrounding our office building which i used every morning as the brakes for my little car....that car hit the fence every morning and the fence still has the dents to prove it.

Ugly naked dude: In the business park where our office is located was another business being renovated - our office is on the ground floor of the building and the builders renovating the other office block used our car park every day (no problem with that) except one Friday a rather over weight hairy builder assumed that he was invisible to the world if he changed clothing behind his rather over weight hairy builder hiace van (problem with that) Yes he was invisible to the road in front but not invisible to our whole office which was situated the other side of this van! He stripped to his black y-fronts! vintage would be a word that could be used to describe these y-fronts because i would say they were bought circa 1981 and the faded cotton could prove this point - now being two working girls who rarely saw any excitement during their working day - this builder's stripping brought out the beasts in us - im talking full on "SWIT Swoo's" and wolf whistles! The over weight hairy builder was not amused and quite offended? Makes a change to be on the recieving end doesnt it builders!!

Office Table Quizzes: On rainy Tuesday afternoon's (God i hate Tuesdays? Who invented them not the begining, middle or end of the working week) we would have an Office Table Quiz Marathon...even with a quick fire round where each of us had to invent our own buzzer sound....

Relay Racing: Our super nice boss bought us all lovely high backed leather chairs, we appreciated these chair so much and to show our appreciation we utilised them to the fullest...relay chair racing on our office's long corridor - once as i was in mid flight the Company accountant walked in to find me - i didnt explain i just walked back to my desk slowly pushing the chair in front of me - needless to say there was no further racing after that and the accountant never mentioned it - he prob didnt believe his eyes!

If you had to would you?: During our many drives to and from work, me and MsT would play the if you had to would you game...like if you had to The boss or the accountant? if you had to would you various rep's name or the postman? etc etc

The Phones:A year before MsT left we got new offices - super duper brand spanking new we all ge our own office offices - custom built in the business park for our company....this obviously reduced the amount of fun times that happened on a daily basis as we were now all segregated into our own offices....but did however start a whole new game - to go with our new offices we got new phone systems....ones where you could even text a colleagues phone and an instant message would appear on their screen - at various intervals messages that you really cant print here in case someone under 18 is reading this would appear on your phone right when you were in the middle of either an important call or just when you were talking to your boss "if you had to would you" would appear! or the famous hang up where one of us would call the other and just say "bye" and hang up?

Regardless of all these funny stories we are actually really good at our jobs, I have worked here for the last 7 years and its a high pressure role - i know its probably really hard to believe if you read the above but seriously we had to inject some fun into our working day and when MsT left last year it was hard to adjust to the drive to work on my own never mind the no banter - she was my side kick! We were young and fun in those first few years....Now though im older and so much more responsible so if any Cayman's employers are reading this i wont race your office chairs, i have my full licence now so no fence brakes and i promise no table quizzes - however i cant promise if a hairy builder undresses in the car park i wont wolf whistle.....

Its time to come clean....literally!

2008-09-27T21:26:00.005+01:00

Hello....my name is Cayman's Girl and i am an addict! A complete product Junkie!! I cant go into a department store, boots store or supermarket without coming out with some kind of product for either my hair, face or body.....i have been stocking up weekly on various "cant live without" items to bring with me and trying to narrow it down to "essentials" (yeah right) to save valuable suitcase space but instead i have in fact seemed to expanded my collection!! Eeek!!! help!

Am i alone in my unashamed addiction to cosmetics, toiletries and hair products? I am a marketing dream - and i studied marketing so i should know better! An "early innovator" as soon as it comes out i have to get it! My favorites brands being as follows:

At No 1: Drum roll please....Soap and Glory - its the packaging that first attracted me to this brand - 50's style glamour pink and so cute! The products themselves are fantastic, with names such as "clean on me" 500ml pump action shower gel! It lasts for like ever! "sugar crush" body scrub, "sexy motherpucker" lip plump and "The righteous butter" 500ml body lotion! I'm officially in love people i cant get enough of it all! I have already bought 2 sets of each to bring with me and i have the travel sizes too!

Johnson & Johnson - classic old school been around forever and you can never go wrong with this brand, their new range of moisturisers is not only ridiculously cheap but fantastic too - not too mention their baby wipes are so handy for keeping in your bag for quick make up removal

Mac - i need not introduce this make up brand - name one girl who does not love Mac??

Clinique - Love their foundations, bronzer and blush & hand cream

Schwarzkopf hair products - my salon uses it so i have too (apparently) but it works!!

Bourjois & Maybelline - ok so their high street but they have really cute products.

Lancome - Juicy Tubes!!!! enough said

YSL - Touch Eclat A girls best concealing friend!!

Dermalogica - Skin Care for emergencies especially the face mask!

Toni & Guy Hair products - Beach surf spray shall be my new beach best friend!

I cant live without them - I'm not joking! any of them they all must be brought! At this rate i shall need a suitcase for toiletries & cosmetics! The company i am going to work for gave me the email addresses for 2 girls from Ireland who are working there - its been great to hear what real life is like in Cayman from people who know what life is like here! They love it however they have pointed out that yes its tropical paradise but there is nothing to buy there! There is no Topshop, no Boots etc and i have been asked to bring Irish Tea Bags (we are SO cliche Irish i know!) and Make up remover wipes! It looks like i shall be going product cold turkey at this rate!!

And just today i stumbled across this fantastic site: http://www.margarita-bloom.com/ how gorgeous are these products!? I want those cupcake soaps!! Anyone know a good Addiction Counsellor??

THONG UPDATE!!

2008-09-26T16:23:00.002+01:00

The thong is still at their back door!

No movement on the underwear and no further information as to who owns the thing either....

i'll keep ye posted!

Done & Dusted....

2008-09-26T12:34:00.004+01:00

Ok peeps! i have scanned and emailed off all my forms to Cayman for the Work VISA!!!
I got back all my medical forms (Yay i have no diseases, im a normal weight and height for my age, no lung defects (even though i smoke!-filthy habit i know please dont comment me bout it im going to give up once i have my new healthy beach lifestyle), i have a normal shaped heart (although if you ask me my heart is huge and filled with love aw!!!) my police vetting forms (FYI: i have never been under surveillance for crimes against fashion) and all the mountains of paperwork about me! and some passport photo's (i paid extra attention to my hair last night for those) so i have just to wait now for the company to give me the ok and then i get to fed'ex the originals across the giant pond to my soon to be new home!!! Its taken so long to get all these forms back that the excitement of it all has nearly passed - This is Ireland where a pizza delivery arrives quicker than an ambulance! so what did i expect but anyway its done now and im going to stop ranting about it!

People i deal with in work regularly, like clients and rep's all know now that im leaving and have been so nice! I even got offered a job should i ever come home - so i'm not feeling so super freaked to be leaving this little comfort zone behind!! The worst case scenario is ill come back and all my friends will still be here and life will go back to normal.....but i really dont wanna come back....i wanna be Cayman's girl FOREVER!!!

Have no plans for this weekend...my mom is coming to visit and help me ruthlessly attack the last of the packing (i just cant bear to throw clothing out) and after last weekends madness i am looking forward to lazy lie-ins, dvd's and maybe just a little bit of shopping!

Have a great weekend....

The Mystery of the Black Thong....

2008-09-24T13:50:00.004+01:00

Ok so its a normal day in our house, i go to the laundry room to get my basket of freshly washed laundry and here sitting neatly on top is a random black lace thong? I knew for sure it wasnt mine so i placed it in Roomie's laundry basket and carried on bout my business.

The following day i go back down to the laundry room to get my towels and here on the top of the towel basket is the thong! At this point i asked Roomie was it her thong, her response being that she thought it was my thong? and its neither of our thongs?.....and so the great thong drama begins...we live next door to 2 boys, so we decided it could be super fun to fling the mystery thong into their back yard! So when it got dark, we carried out our sinister plan. Having never flung a thong before i was suprised at how i performed such a perfect shot, landing the lace right on the patio at their back door!!

Que hysterical laughter and sprinting back inside....the thong for two days was then forgotten about bar the once or twice we were outside and peeked through the fence to see if they had yet spotted it? As of Sunday morning when MsT (we informed her of the event) and i were out the back - the thong was absent from the boys patio! Until yesterday when i got home from work went out back and here the minute thong was what can only be described as "delicately" placed on our washing line! It was hung perfectly like! They had returned it with TLC obviously thinking that one of us had our underwear stolen by a gust of wind and discarded at their back door!

And so the thong was flung for the second time in the dead of night....if it is once again returned i think we will have to post it in their letterbox......

Who owns this mystery thong? Answers on a post card please....

Reunions Rock!

2008-09-22T15:21:00.003+01:00

Ok so last Friday evening we had a kinda work reunion dinner, my BFF MsT came back for it and basically we had a right session! We got super dressed up, and the 8 of us (including my 2 bosses) that are in our office went for dinner and then drinks, and then some more drinks and then probably a few more drinks, then went clubbing, a few drinks, and then to end the night on a high we had a few more drinks (i must at this point state i am not a binge drinker i am in fact irish).......

it was probably one of the best weekends i have had in about a year! I dont think i laughed all summer as much as i laughed this weekend!

I hadnt properly seen MsT since she moved back to her hometown this time last year, we worked together every day for 4 years and became really good friends....so although we email every single day in work we hadnt properly seen each other since she left. So she got off work early on Friday and came to stay with me for the weekend!

On Saturday we went for a late breakfast in our favourite coffee house, the weather was suprisingly fabulous so we sauntered lazily around shopping and then Saturday night we went out again, this time meeting Roomie! We decided to go to a bar we never go to (one where you can buy pitchers of cocktails) we even ended the night in a take-away getting the whole que to sing "wooooah the chipper's on fire" to the tune of Kings of Leon "sex is on fire" it was quite disturbing in a "high school musical this doesnt happen in real life way"?? but it was just great! My face ached from laughin and my feet hurt from wearing shoes that were too high for dancing in but too fabulous not to wear! All in all it was most definitely a great weekend......im goin to miss this all so much!

The best thing was that now that iv handed in my notice, i was able to finally tell people that im going.....and i apparently told EVERY1 I met!!! (cocktail induced haze) so its out now and im going in 57 days to be exact!! i would really love one of those countdown timer things to remind me every morning! After having such a fab weekend i felt kinda down bout leaving it all behind (i seem to be going through this up and down feeling alot in the last two weeks??) so i rang my mom who was like "it was only that great cos you are leaving....if you werent going it would have just been another weekend in town" Which is so true! usually im like it was the same faces, the same boring places instead of being "this is one of the last times i will be out in this town". (Mom's are great arent they?) Anyway must go and detox my kidneys.....

What happens in Vegas....

2008-09-19T12:22:00.004+01:00

Last night, me and Roomie had a girlie night in: this usually involves one of us cooking and vegging in front of the TV with a bottle of wine, however as I am going on a work reunion night out tonight - it also involved Fake Tan, Nails and no wine - to keep a clear head and avoid tango hands!
We rented "What happens in Vegas" and it rocked! I highly reccomend it - the gags were non stop and they were actually hilarious, not cheesy and yes while it is fairly predictable and come on girls lets face it thats what we love about these movies! it was so watchable i would watch it again! Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz had great chemistry together and their side kick friends were great. The one-liners out of this movie will have me laughing for days!
My favourite being "I am the law bitches" ha ha - Watch it seriously its great!
We followed up this movie with a classic blast from every girls past: Dirty Dancing! All in all it was such a great evening and full of giggles and Marks & Spencers Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Ice Cream (Food Porn) I'm going to end this post with my favourite movie quote of the week:

(Baby to Johnny Castle)

"YOUR WILD!!!!"

Its Official.....

2008-09-17T08:55:00.001+01:00

Ok so i couldnt wait the month..today i handed in my notice, it was emotional and scary! It was seriously worse than breaking up with any boyfriend but good news i didnt pee my pants and my bosses were just so lovely, shocked but lovely and super supportive!

My main boss asked me lots of questions about Grand Cayman, my new job and basically the ins/outs of the whole thing and told me how much the company would miss me (once again i had a lil cry!) and that basically there was no point in him offering me anything to stay cos he said if he could go himself he would! I have worked here since i was 20, so in a sense i suppose they have seen me grow up over the last 7 years. I have seen alot of staff come and go over those 7 years & for the last 2 years i have needed a change and thought i would be jumping for joy when it was finally my turn but who knew you could get so attached to your job?

It is really great that they are so happy for me and even said to give them a call if i come back, i shall of course stay in touch through email though. (i wont be able to resist sending pics of sandy beaches and sunshine) And i think the Manual i typed up for whomever is my replacement will really help them to carry out my job so im not feeling so guilty now about the whole thing. I dont know why i was scared to do it - they are so supportive and great.

While i feel sadder than i expected, im also relived that the "secret" is now out & really excited and now abit scared.... (eh how many emotions can one girl have??)
ITS OFFICIAL!!! EEEEEEK! i'm leaving and i have constant butterflies in my tum!!!

Memories!

2008-09-12T21:50:00.003+01:00

Now that my ticket is booked, its time to start packing up, its amazing the amount of stuff a 27 year old girl can fit into one room! My main vice is clothes i suppose, i just love them, and any excuse for a new outfit is welcomed! Until you find that you have 2 suit cases not weighing more than 23kg each to fit your life into? I have decided to reach a compromise and pay for another case its £25.00 sterling so i think that is very reasonable and seeing as i have to bring work clothes with me i am alloting one case for that, one case for shoes and bags and accessories, and one case for every day clothes.
Being an olympic gold medalist shopper i started purchasing new work clothes during the end of season sales here, so i have stocked up on city shorts, cute shirts and sleevless tanks. I plan on bringing most of my cardi's cos apparently every office has air conditioning so it can be quite cool inside. Its unbelievable how much of my clothes i am going to have to pass on to friends and unbelievable how happy i am to part with them - ok i love them but i'm not going to need polo neck jumpers, coats and other such "wintry" items anymore YAY!!!
I have purchased 4 crates from my local home depot store and BigSista has said i can store these in her attic, my nearest and dearest items are going to be packed lovingly into these crates.
I also purchased a scrapbook in habitat (now before you start laughing at that hear me out!) this scrapbook is going to treasure all my little sentimental bits and pieces and the photographs of my friends and family so that in the case that i might be feeling a little homesick when im over there i have something to keep me uplifted!
The hardest bit was my box under my bed. Its been a place where i have stored so many memories over the last few years & it was more emotional than i expected to go through (im abit of a hoarder for the sentimental stuff as you can see). Roomie came in and it was fun to laugh over really old pictures and tell stories about ticket stubs and concert wrist bands but it was also kinda sad! It felt like i was packing a piece of me away as i rooted through them discarding reciepts and other rubbish that had worked its way into my "memory box" - and it was hard to choose what to bring and what to store! What if i get there and remember something that i havent packed?? I suppose Memories should really be in your head but i just love photographs and things that remind you of that night or that place! The Memory box also contains my "life book" (now you will know where i get the sentimentality from) it was a gift from my mom for my 21st birthday and it basically was my life in photograph's from my first photo until my 21st birthday including all the important dates like first day at school, first holiday, first car etc etc - it is the best gift i ever got and it was blank at the back for me to keep adding to.

Anyway with all the excitement of this whole situation its once again the little things that i over looked - i'm not packing to go on holidays, i'm packing for my new life and i'm now starting to feel like it! I cannot wait to start this adventure but its became very apparent the other night when i packed up most of my room and i looked at the bare walls where my photo's were pinned up, the blank notice board that stored all future events i was planning on going to and the empty shelves where my little ornaments and keepsakes had been kept that i'm going to miss alot of things from here that i prob am guilty of taking for granted and being sick of at times!! I even had a lil' cry if i'm perfectly honest....

I have the Golden Ticket!!

2008-09-10T14:16:00.005+01:00

So here it is!! My flight is booked! YAY!!! I am out of here in November! I have decided to take a month and a half off before i start work in the Cayman Islands in January and i'm heading to Jamaica and various other parts of the caribbean! I have ok'd this with my new employers who are fine with it (yay!) they wont be applying for the work visa until December (so wont really know if i have got it until its too late to change my mind) and im kinda glad about that cos i really need some time off!

I deserve a break! I have been in full time employment since 1998 when i completed my final school exams - at 16 i was the youngest in my class and so not completely knowing what i wanted to do in college i worked for 4 years before going back to college at 20 and completing a diploma in Marketing (not that im working in marketing now - i'm a Senior PA to a Managing Director) but its always good to have and i really enjoyed Marketing. So for the last 7 years i have been in the same job and im now ready to fly!

I have been to Jamaica a couple of times before, i have alot of friends there and am so excited to be going back for longer than a typical holiday!! And it gives me lots of exciting things to post about prior to starting work in January!!

So bloggers - its final! one way or another i'm outta here!! Once again having to contain my excitement in work is nearly impossible! Only one more month until i hand in my notice!! Its excitement mixed with a little bit of sadness i suppose! (but lets be honest its mostly excitement!!)

Your Ipod Top Twenty

2008-09-09T09:57:00.002+01:00

I heart my ipod & in celebration of my pick'n'mix music styles, here is my Shuffle Songs Top 20:

Banquet - Bloc Party
Forever - Chris Brown
Viva la Vida - Coldplay
Manic Monday - Cyndi Lauper
SOS - Rhianna
Somewhere only we know - Keane
Drop it like its hot - Snoop Dogg
No Bravery - James Blunt
Zim Zimmer - Beenie Man
My heart - D'aville
Your mangled heart - The Gossip
Look at me now - Akon feat. Obie Trice
I'm real - Jennifer Lopez
Take your mama - Scissor Sisters
Steady as she goes - The Raconteurs
In this world - Moby
Parallel Universe - Red Hot Chilli Pepper's
Wind it up - Gwen Stefani
Harder Better Faster Stronger
Crazy - Gnarlz Barkley

Some people say your music style reflects who you are?? I dont know what the aforementioned is saying about me - but i would love to hear your shuffle top 20. So set your ipod's to shuffle and write down the first 2o songs it plays and let me know!!

Video killed the radio star.....

2008-09-07T17:02:00.004+01:00

I love nothing more than a Sunday in front of garbage TV! i've spent my day today watching re-runs - most Irish Sunday TV revolves around re-runs of soaps (dont watch) Irish Sports (BLAAAAAAUCK Hate it) and re-runs of programmes like X-Factor (british reality TV like American idol - the auditions are just car crash tv) America's Next Top Model (Tyra Your Fierce), Laguna Beach (Back when LC was in the Kirsten/Steven Drama), The Hill's (while we wait unpatiently for the new season to start) Princes's of Malibu (Brody and Spencer pre-Hills Days) Kimora's Life in the Fab Lane (Fabulosity) & Meet the Kardashian's - all watched while in the PJ's and randomly snacking on various unhealthy food groups ie: Cookies, Chocolate, Ice-cream. Diet Cokes.

So the Cayman bikini-fit diet goes out the window on a Sunday but i dont get to watch these cheesy programmes when im working during the week so its my only opportunity and lets face it - i doubt im going to have Sky Plus digital tv in Grand Cayman so i have to stock up while i can!! its comfort TV ya dont have to have the mind on full cylinders to watch it and there is nothing else to do in this country on a Sunday other than Mass or the Pub.....

Go Go GO Shorty its your Birthday.....

2008-09-06T16:30:00.003+01:00

I havent mentioned two majorly important people in this Blog yet - One being my actual Mom, who is also my best friend ever - then there is my mom's youngest sister, my aunt & my second mother now known in this blog as MsMotivator) For as long as i can remember its been us 3! we have the same sense of humour, know each other inside out and have each other's backs. More detailed posts about that at a later date!

Which brings me to the topic of this post - BIRTHDAY's Today is Ms Motivator's birthday (Que 50 cent's go shorty its ur birthday) So tonight we are meeting up in her house for a little soiree! which usually consists of cocktails, cold beers, laughing, human beatboxes (dont ask) a lttle bit more laughter and prob sleeping at some late stage. MsMotivator cares little for birthday's and would be quite happy for it to pass like any other day but seeing as this could be one of the last birthdays i spend with her for a few years im trying to encourage her to "get into the groove" - we had a nice day we went shopping, went for a nice lunch but MsMotivator having recently got into a fantical fitness regime (hence her nickname!) she wouldnt let me buy her a giant slice of cake????? WTF!! Its your birthday! u cant get fat on your birthday no matter what you eat! I love birthdays specifically my own (as any1 who knows me will verify!) - its the only day of the year that it is specifically about you! You can be as selfish as you want as long as you end every sentence with..."but its my birthday" lol
And so i have compiled a list of things that i feel are vital parts of your birthday:

Always get woken up on your birthday by someone calling to sing 50 cents "Go Shorty its your birthday" loudly and out of tune down the phone!
Always and i mean there is no exception to this rule, one must have cake with candles - and a wish must be made on the quenching of these candles!! Even if your not into eating cake - ya have to blow them out and make a wish!
You are the Queen (or King) on your birthday - whatever it is you feel like doing all your friends must do it!! Their birthdays will come around and you can take your turn doing whatever it is they feel like but for that one day of the year its all bout you - celebrate the day you were born!!! The day you became you!!
Wear your favourite outfit - the outfit that makes you feel fantastic no matter if its dressy or not! wear it and be fabulous and celebrate your life.
Listen to your favourite music, sing along and DANCE like nobody is watching!
For that one day of the year dont let any negative vibes overshadow you having a great day - no matter what your worries are release them for that day and love your life!

Ok maybe i take the birthday thing abit OTT - id say your reading this and thanking your lucky stars you dont have to celebrate birthdays with me! ha ha but come one if you cant have one day a year??? My friends are fairly cool with the aforementioned list - so they drew the line at wearing tiaras for the day but we have reached a happy compromise!!

So for anyone reading this whose birthday is today - Go Shorty its your birthday!!!!

80's Diva!!

2008-09-05T12:58:00.003+01:00

Ok so if you like me are a complete 80's music fanatic! and are just loving the fact that 80's fashions are back around then you will love this gem of a post - The great ladies over at the totally girlie blog have this cute quiz "Which Decade Diva are you?" Ok so i was born in the 80's so i didnt get to enjoy them the first time around but im making up for lost time now!!!

Me and my girlfriends are celebrating my send off by going to see......CYNDI LAUPER in concert in Dublin in October! We have all agreed to dress up 80's style so leggings and ra-ra skirts it is then!! Fun times!

And any girl who says she doesnt love cheesy "Girls just wanna have fun" while getting ready for a night out mustn't have got ready at my house!!!!

do the quiz girls and let me know which DECADE DIVA are you!!

http://totallygirlieblog.blogspot.com/

SOS... Please.someone.help.me....

2008-09-05T12:12:00.000+01:00

Sorry for the lack of posts this week but iv been unreal busy in work and i didnt want to be just posting for the sake of having something on the page......a colleague left last week and his work has been split between me and another person - so i am now busy busy busier than ever.
I got the pang of guilt when my boss said he was confident that i would be able to manage this new work load and that he could rely on me???? I am handing in my notice in just over a month!! I have worked there a long time so deep down i know i owe them nothing but the problem with working in a family run business instead of a large company is you begin to feel like a sense of loyalty to these people. I know their familys, they know mine, it feels like i'm doing a major bad one and i have to keep reminding myself that i have to do this for myself - that in the morning if work was to go pear shaped i would be unemployed - would they feel the same loyalty to me? - so the main problem is i am now seriously scared about handing in my notice!!!
Not just like apprehensive but pee my pants scared! While my boss is a nice guy in general, with all this recession business he is under serious pressure and i know me leaving is going to add to the pressure - is that my problem? well i kinda feel like it could be? I am contractually obliged to give them a months notice - i was considering offering more but he could turn and say no your grand and for 3-4 weeks i could be without a job before i go? i cant risk that.....
They are highly likely to throw a strop? and i really dont want to be on the receiving end of it - i have enjoyed working there and i would really hate to be on bad terms with anyone......im too soft!
Am i the only person who feels this way about their job - since when did a job become like a relationship?.....now dont get me wrong i dont for one second feel like i'm breaking my bosses heart ha ha - but i really feel like i am doing something shady because im sitting there everyday doing my job and letting them give me more responsibility knowing that i am leaving???
When i got the job in Cayman i was so elated and excited that i didnt really stop and think of all the red tape i am going to have to go through...its only now that its becoming clearer.....for someone who worries so much about the mundane nitty gritty in life - i never for one second let worrying about moving to the other side of the world on my own stop me??
So I wont be letting my guilt stop me either, ill be handing in my notice next month as planned - i will keep u updated on the pants peeing!!

SHE'S ELECTRIC.....

2008-09-03T22:20:00.008+01:00

Well Bloggers...I'm back...had a fantastic weekend and when i say fantastic i mean unbelievable!! Kinda sad its over cos it really was just brilliant! I wont be here for it next year so i really tried to do as much as i could at it!!
Any1 who gets the opportunity to go should go! Its not just music its a whole lot more - there is a body & soul section which promotes well being good vibes and a great atmosphere! http://www.electricpicnic.ie/ check it out for next year!!
Some funny stories from E.P:

There is always some degree of mad people at festivals wether its hippies or just young people who get so wasted - here is some of the maddies we ran into over the weekend:

Maddie # 1:
Me & my friend are at the gourmet burger stall waiting in line to be served - there was one young guy in front of us who seemed quite normal and not too wasted until it was his turn to be served - conversation goes like this:
Girl on stall: Hello wat can i get u?
Guy: 200....
Girl: ?? Sorry?
Guy: 200....
Girl: Ok 200? 200 what?
Guy: 200
Girl then looks behind guy at us kinda wondering if was with us i assume? We ensure her he's not.
Girl: Yes ok 200- but 200 wat?
Guy: Just 200 (getting abit impatient now)
Girl: I know u said 200 but 200 WHAT?
Guy: 2 f**kin hundred!!
Girl: Yes 200 hundred? 200 hundred burgers??
Guy: 200 (he then proceeds to collapse in a heap and roll down the grass beside the long line that has formed at the stall mumbling 200?

Line continues to be served.....
200!!!

Maddie # 2:
Girl on a mission - we see a girl who is writing on napkins and distributing them throughout the Festival - Here is what she was writing on the napkins:
"Darren, Its Sinead, I like you lets dance Call me (and then her number)"
This was written on approx 20 napkins which were stuck on signs, trees, boards etc
I wonder did Darren and Sinead ever dance??

There is plenty more maddie stories where they came from!
Go to the Picnic and see them for yourself - it ROCKS!!

Medical Drama

2008-08-29T09:00:00.000+01:00

Today is my medical and i'm nervous - being poked and prodded is not my favourite thing to have happen to me by strangers with cold hands!
Regardless it has to be done and hopefully they wont find anything wrong with me (worry leads to hypochondria)
Once its over i'm off to Elec Pic straight away so no posts til next week!

Id say it will be wednsday people - i will need time to recover....

Have a great weekend

Picnic Countdown.....

2008-08-27T11:30:00.003+01:00

Well the head cold is 78.5% better - still have abit of a cough but the sniffles and blocked nose are more or less gone and i owe it all to you Sinutab!! Kisses!!

Soooo back to the important stuff...went over to BigSista's house last night for some Electric Picnic Brainstorming - what we should be bringing etc! Im super excited now that i am feeling a whole lot healthier! Have my Cayman Visa Medical on Friday morning before we set off so at least i will have that out of the way. With the weather as erratic as it is - we have to bring clothes for all weathers - although we arent "tenting" it (we have a very upmarket Camper on the grounds - ah the joys of having contacts on the inside) we still have to bring a hell of a lot of stuff to live comfortably for 3 days and 2 nights - have my outfits already packed and colour co-ordinated sunglasses....Its going to ROCK!!!

Sicky McSickness....

2008-08-25T14:32:00.003+01:00

I have a head cold!! And its horrible.....
It started on Sat morn well hold on i tell a lie - Roomie came in last Thursday and had a head cold which i duly sympathised with - i wake up on Saturday with an aching throat that kind of helium sounding squeaky head cold voice but no snuffles or anything so i head straight to the pharmacy and stock up on cold and flu tablets - which are non-drowsy so you can only take them up until around 5pm or else you are up all night!
By Saturday evening i have ZERO energy and vegetated on the sofa for the evening - wake up Sunday feeling 40% better but still on the cold and flu tablets....
TODAY is the worst day ever - its full on head attack, sniffles, head completely cloudy and abit dizzy....im in work but only because i have the Electric Picnic this weekend and have 2 days off...
Its this damn weather i cant bear it anymore - i have decided that i am actually not going to complain about this cold once more after writing this post as it shall be my last head cold ever,

i can picture it now in the Caymans in years to come chatting to one of my friends
New Cayman Friend: "did you ever hear the urban legend about someone who got a head cold?"
ME: "Thats not an urban legend i once had one of those"
New Cayman Friend: "your the first person i have ever met who had one"
ME: "Its so long ago i can't remember it all that well"
New Cayman Friend: "More suncream"
ME: "I suppose so - it is 50 degrees"
New Cayman Friend: "in the shade"

Did you ever get dejavú??

2008-08-25T14:27:00.003+01:00

I know it once again says today Monday on this - but unless i actually send you the link to met eireann no1 would actually believe that this forecast is a whole week since the last one - WITH NO CHANGE!

It has rained here for approx 45 days in a row! Forget about the recession - if this weather is not enough for any1 to hop on the next plane i dont know what is! Global warming WTF?? Irish raining more like!

The Gospel according to GHD....

2008-08-21T22:52:00.005+01:00

Just a thought.....what did we do before straightening irons!? Like seriously they have only become a big thing here in the last 5/6 years - i know that hairdressers have been privy to them for alot longer than that but before they were available so readily in salons, boots stores, argos and electrical stores - what exactly did a girl do to straighten her hair?? i have heard urban legends of ladies ironing their hair and i mean actually ironing with a clothes IRON! Is this true, please comment me as i am dying to know which setting you used? Cottons/Wools? Steam Yes/No?

Its become such an every day part of life - part of the wash hair/blowdry/straighten routine that its like there never was a time before hair straighteners?

I have flash backs to giant round brushes and the hair dryer on super hot and a bob being perfectly turned under circa 1997 but i dismiss it as a dream -most def not something that a fashionable girl ever did lol!!

Sleek and poker straight hair has become a fashion staple, GHD Curls are a common night out style - the mere thought of a drop of rain landing on the perfected crown makes a girl shudder with frizz fear! but not as fearful as leaving a hair straighteners (which heats up to 200 degrees) on and burning the house down!

This is a common worry of mine - I have often left the house only to drive back and double check the hair straightener - i have been known to text Roomie to ask her to go in and check it hasnt been left on. The worst one is when i went on a date to the movies and had a panic attack mid preview and made my excuses went to the bathroom and rang my mom to get her to check if the straighteners was left on! So to ease this worry a little bit i bought myself a hair straightener holder - which i can leave the hot straighteners in to cool down (i bet you thought i was going to say i stopped straightening....come on! thats never going to happen) so at least now instead of worrying about instant house fire i just worry bout how long it will take for the hair straightener holder to melt and the house to burn down!

Congratulations to GHD who have brought out the styler IV - which has an auto switch off after the straightener has been on for a set period....basically it leads me to believe that if they came up with that then there has most def been cases of hair straighteners burning houses down and convinces me even more to worry bout leaving my one on.....maybe i should just buy the new one...

The Hill's.....

2008-08-20T13:57:00.001+01:00

The new season of the Hill's has not started yet over this side of the pond - me and roomie are avid fans of this show - it is our Sunday night ritual (comforters included) to sit in for it!
We heart the Hill's having followed LC's years in Laguna Beach and now we are all grown up and living in L.A. with more drama! lol!
Regardless of wether it is actual "reality tv" or scripted it definitely has us hooked.

The great girls over at "working-girl" have left us a tasty spoiler to tide us over until it starts again here.

Just click on the link below:

Working Girl: The Hills: Nice is Not Lo's Middle Name

Facebook versus Bebo

2008-08-19T21:21:00.003+01:00

Gone are the days of a handwritten letter - the only people you get letters off these days are banks, financial institutions, government agencies and your grandmothers yearly birthday card!

We now live in the age of the ecard, the cyber wedding invitation and of course Social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo & Myspace to name the most popular! I have Bebo and Facebook and i am making a promise to myself not to join anymore - no matter how many invitations i get in my inbox. Whilst i have had Bebo for over 2 years and 10,000 hits (had to get that in very proud of that!! lol) i am much more of a fan of Facebook.

I dont know why but it just feels more grown up - like im 27 not 50 but there is still something so disturbing about a 14 year old wannabe boyband member leaving me bebo comments like "alri sweet lips any chance of some shnook shnook" so thus begins the great bebo/facebook debate - which one do i choose as my site of choice to stay in touch with all my friends.

This probably seems like a relatively simple decision to most people but not for me - you see i have certain friends on Bebo and other friends on Facebook - ok some of them overlap so they dont count but in Ireland - Bebo is unbelievably popular so alot of people just havent joined Facebook and while im one of those people who at the moment seems to have enough time to update both my profiles and this blog - i am hoping that after i leave and my spending diet is over i am just going to be super busy meeting hundreds of new people, working really hard in my new job and travelling around the caribbean that i wont have enough time to be updating all these pages - and so by the end of this post i am going to have made an executive decision as to which one to keep!

Ah the problems a girl faces in this world...........

ok its bebo - it has to go....................................

but im up to 10,000 hits.........................

no its def bebo......................................

goodbye bebo.....its been fun!

Is there a Doctor in the House???!!

2008-08-19T12:22:00.004+01:00

Grey's Anatomy has got to be one of the best programmes out right now! And strangely enough alot of my guy friends will admit to watching and actually liking this programme and this is where it hits a winning note! As while its got the regulation hot dudes for the women, it also has more than its fair share of beautiful women for the guys!

Its story lines are not so far fetched and dragged out that you get bored watching - in fact they have managed to keep the Meredith/Derek drama going for the last 4 seasons without it becoming "enough already"

So for all you Grey's fans - here is a taster before tonights episode to keep you going!

"McDreamy - we love you"

Another reason....

2008-08-18T16:36:00.000+01:00

For leaving and this picture will tell a thousand words.......

Although it says "today, Monday" on this picture - it is in fact a picture which can describe any day in Ireland in the last 3 months!

It may be sunny, it may have lightening, it may be windy.....but you can be sure it will be raining!

Enough said....

I'm leaving on a jet plane......

2008-08-15T21:27:00.012+01:00

Today i shared my blog with my room-mate, not only is "Roomie" (as she shall now be known in this blog) my room-mate but also one of my closest friends. Which leads me to the main topic in this post...people i'll miss...(obviously all names have been changed for the usual privacy reasons and also because im loving thinking up nicknames for all my friends)

Ok so i'm super excited about going but it is only now that the wheels are in motion ie: immigration and contracts that the reality is setting in: that while im heading off to the great unknown and have so much to look forward to there is also the important things i can't bring with me -my friends!!

Here is a list of just some of the things i'll miss most about them:

Cosy chats with Roomie on wet evenings in our living room (we even have matching comforter blankets!!) no1 would actually believe this unless they seen us cosied up like 2 old grannies on the couch!! lol i know Roomie is even laughing reading this! We usually spend wet evenings watching reality TV or Greys Anatomy re-runs. Roomie is also famous for her dvd collection of the next season (yes im talking about the NEXT season - the one No1 has seen yet!!!)

Gmail Chats with my friend GDgirl - alot of random chat goes on through Gmail on a daily basis usually "what did you have for lunch?" and other such interesting and need to know now urgent information!!

My work friend MsT although she has moved back to her home town - we are still close friends and basically she is the only other member of the "its so funny kick your legs in the air laughing" club we started (dont ask!! - reality is MsT is someone you laugh so much with that your face ends up hurting)

Then there is my life long pal BigSista - cos if i was ever going to have a big Sis - she would be it......BigSista has been there forever, and there is too many things i shall miss about her however i also know BigSista is already saving to come visit me!!

My college buddy Mini - in college we just clicked (that and the fact we both had two asshole boyfy's) we ditched the assholes and have been friends ever since: Mini has just got promoted and bought herself a brand new mini! hence the name and GO HER!!

My Girlie Girls 1 & 2 - 2 Sisters who have adopted me as their little sis - 2 of the greatest women who have my back! seriously ya dont screw with these tough cookies! Girlie Chats, make-up, advice and rose wine all in GG1's house! Champagne Cocktails Girlie Girls - enough said!!

So there you go! 7 of the greatest, funniest, independant friends a girl could ask for! No drama's no tantrums just great girl friends who you can always rely on!

While i know that these 7 ladies will be always a big part of my life no matter where in the world we all are, it still will take time to adjust to the fact i cant just hop in my car and meet up with them when i want!

I'm not even gone and i'm missing you girlies already!!

I'll have your drinks on ice!!

Immigration!!

2008-08-14T09:51:00.001+01:00

Ok so my contract has been sent and i have now received what can only be described as a "immigration novel"!
Its a large attachement that contained my immigration documents, medical reports, police clearance to fill out and basically they want to know everything about me down to what colour underwear i favour! lol ok not that bad but not far off it!
Its starting to dawn on me the exact reality of this move! i'm leaving! I am now going to be an immigrant!
Of course with any official documents etc and me being the world's worst worrier (but that is for a different post entirely) there is always the fear that i might get my application rejected! Well then this blog would have to be renamed "Irish Girl Forever" and would prob be quite boring indeed!

The timescale on getting this paperwork done is approx 3 weeks so i'll keep you posted!

A Girl on a budgets best friend....

2008-08-09T21:00:00.006+01:00

After doing out my moving budget - i am now on a "spending diet" but as the Irish Summer has been so bad - all the stores here are having end of season sales - its torture and i mean like the worst kind of torture - cute bikini's, maxi dresses, shorts, mini's, vest tops, the type of clothing i am going to need for my relocation to the Sun! all at slashed prices! but no matter i am on this diet and determined to stick to it! That is until you enter the world of Penney's - Penney's is a department store here also known as Primark in the UK - today i went in to Penney's and i purchased the following:

2 Pairs of leggings

A pair of gold gladiator sandals

A cute red summer float dress

2 black vests

A check pencil skirt

A fitted white work shirt

Black Capri Pants

Black Loose fitted shirt

All for the grand sum of €21.00! Now come on - no matter what kind of diet your on! €21.00 is just unbelievable for that amount of clothing! And their clothes aren't bad quality. Penney's can definitely keep up with the High Street Styles- the only difference is the price!

So Girlie's get your budget butt's down to Penney's End of Season Sale!

Read between the lines...

2008-08-09T17:48:00.005+01:00

Its final! I have reviewed the contract, asked all my queries and got the answers and finally signed it and emailed it back...its a waiting game now!
I will soon be forwarded all my paperwork for my work visa.....it felt strange, i hovered the pen over the dotted line for about 2 minutes before signing my name...i wasn't apprehensive, I'm ecstatic to be going i don't know exactly what i felt! I suppose its something iv wanted for so long that when your actually getting it - its surreal!
Its also the waiting - iv never been a patient person i just want everything now now now - so as soon as i had it signed i had to stop myself from running around the office and screaming "I'm outta here!" nothing is definite until the work visa is approved so there is no dramatics until then!
The crazy thing is i will actually miss my job here. I really enjoy working there and i get on great with my bosses and my colleagues. Its a great office and there is constant banter so in a sense I'm leaving behind a comfort zone and heading into the unknown...
Bring it on!!

Recession!!

2008-08-08T14:48:00.006+01:00

Ok so here is where it all started!

THE RECESSION...i swear if i hear that word one more time i'll scream! Ya see i was born in the 80's so i missed the last one and have had what our older generation call "a somewhat sheltered" life thus far, to not worry about my job or being able to pay the bills until now.....

Its all everyone talks about now, nobody is safe from the "monster" recession cloud that has swept over our lovely wet country! Nearly every employed person i know has been called in to have the dreaded "we can't guarentee you your job" speech from their boss....
and so seeing as i am one of the lucky ones with no husband/children/mortgage etc - (all the things our great society pressures you into getting!) I get to escape!!

I have applied and successfully obtained a job in the Cayman Islands!
Tax Free Wages, Sun, Sea and Sand!
Grand Cayman here i come!