my mom is well known for both statements of the obvious and verbal bloopers . for example she would tell me to take a scarf and put it round my neck or put some shoes on my feet , that kind of thing . the last statement of the bleeding obvious i recently got was to lick a stamp and stick it to the envelope !
the other thing you need to know to make the joke i am about to tell you funny is mom has very bad sight without her glasses.
anyway on Tuesday night she did an injury to her rib by stubbing her foot in the stairs and jerking her side . she went to Dr Mc Shane the next morning who told her he suspected a fractured rib . mom mentioned it to the doctor at her chemo session and got taken for an x ray . she was sitting waiting for her turn when an elderly man joined her . she saw him go off through a door that mom thought was the x ray area . she then noticed he finished after about 3 minutes or so and came back through the same door . mom remarked to the man you were very quick . it was only after mom was taken for her own x ray that she realized the door she saw the man go through was actually the toilet ! that why he was gone for so short a time .
rather then make a second blog post i thought i would take this chance to wish you a happy St Patrick's day or la fheile padraig shona dhaoibh. if you prefare it in Irish . my family don't really celebrate it all that much .in my opinion this day is more for tourists then for locals . i am not patriotic although i do like my county , even though there are a lot of things wrong with it too . another reason for my lack of patriotism is both my dad and boyfriend are form the UK therefore i would never make a republican ! ( american people please note in Ireland republicans are Irish nationalists who wish the 6 counties that currently make up northern Ireland to be governed by Ireland not the UK as i is at the moment , it is not a conservative political party )
today , saturday , is the day itself but we have been granted next Monday as a public holiday . so i am sure you will find a lot of the population of Dublin in the pub yesterday today and tomorrow ! the weather is nice too so i hope the St Patrick's weekend festival will have a good attendance .
i will leave you with a toast to St Patrick:
St Patrick was a scholar who through strategy and stealth
drove all the snakes for ireland
have a toasting to his health .
but not to many toastings least we loose ourselves and then
forget the good St Patrick and see the snakes again !
enjoy the weekend !
Saturday, 17 March 2012
Thursday, 15 March 2012
congrats to my uncle kevin and todd .
we had some good news from my uncle and his partner Todd in new york a couple of days after my birthday. on the day i turned 37 Kevin , my moms brother , and his partner Todd under took a civil union . they have been together since the 80's and mom dad and i wish them nothing but the best . at least one member of our family was there . my cousin Ann was a witness . Kevin had planned it for that date as she was spending a long weekend in new york .
this nearly caused a bit of a brouhaha between Kevin and my Mom but not for the reason you might think . Kevin is 81 and is a great letter writer . he has never used a computer or for that matter a mobile phone (Todd has both though ) he and Todd sent a letter of explanation concerning the civil union to both my mom and my cousin . we never got the letter , my cousin did but never mentioned it .( i can only imagine Kevin asked her not to plus my mom has been up to high heaven in chemo and other cancer treatments ) it was sent a day before i was sent a birthday card from them which i got on 8th march . when mom never mentioned the ceremony to Kevin he thought she dissaprooved . Kevin rings mom without fail on a Sunday evening and apparently the call last weekend was made with trepidation . at least Kevin called , told us , and found out everything was fine , if he hadn't it could have caused problems . an post (the Irish state post provider) nearly caused a fuck up in my family relations ! by the way we never did get the letter . i think it is lost in the post !
this nearly caused a bit of a brouhaha between Kevin and my Mom but not for the reason you might think . Kevin is 81 and is a great letter writer . he has never used a computer or for that matter a mobile phone (Todd has both though ) he and Todd sent a letter of explanation concerning the civil union to both my mom and my cousin . we never got the letter , my cousin did but never mentioned it .( i can only imagine Kevin asked her not to plus my mom has been up to high heaven in chemo and other cancer treatments ) it was sent a day before i was sent a birthday card from them which i got on 8th march . when mom never mentioned the ceremony to Kevin he thought she dissaprooved . Kevin rings mom without fail on a Sunday evening and apparently the call last weekend was made with trepidation . at least Kevin called , told us , and found out everything was fine , if he hadn't it could have caused problems . an post (the Irish state post provider) nearly caused a fuck up in my family relations ! by the way we never did get the letter . i think it is lost in the post !
Saturday, 10 March 2012
reflection on 37 years of living
well last Friday was my 37th birthday . what was going through my head for a lot of the day was what have i learnt in 37 years of being here . well i am not sure my life lessons are very deep but for whats it;s worth here are 10 of them . :
1: be yourself . some people will hate you some people will like you but you are valuable as you are . .
2: try not to let the opinion of those that hate you become your opinion of yourself . even nice people can have an off day and be snappy !
3: grow older but don;'t grow up !
4: the best way to get revenge is to move on and show the person that you can live without them .
5: you get more good things by being polite then by being rude .
6: watch something that makes you laugh every day . with the world in recession laughing is vital . try not to take life to seriously . i know parts of life are serious but do not take all of it that way
7: read a book . it doesn't have to be anything of educational value . reading is cool . you might find out a few things you never knew before
8: tell the people you love you love them . comes a time they might not be round to hear it .
9: even if you don;t agree with it try and see a bit of the other persons point of view .
10: learn from your mistakes .then hopefully you won;t repeat them .
1: be yourself . some people will hate you some people will like you but you are valuable as you are . .
2: try not to let the opinion of those that hate you become your opinion of yourself . even nice people can have an off day and be snappy !
3: grow older but don;'t grow up !
4: the best way to get revenge is to move on and show the person that you can live without them .
5: you get more good things by being polite then by being rude .
6: watch something that makes you laugh every day . with the world in recession laughing is vital . try not to take life to seriously . i know parts of life are serious but do not take all of it that way
7: read a book . it doesn't have to be anything of educational value . reading is cool . you might find out a few things you never knew before
8: tell the people you love you love them . comes a time they might not be round to hear it .
9: even if you don;t agree with it try and see a bit of the other persons point of view .
10: learn from your mistakes .then hopefully you won;t repeat them .
Friday, 2 March 2012
what a day ! ( or it;s my blog and i'll vent if i want to !)
i hope this doesn't come across as a post that is full of complaints but as i said in the title this is my blog and I'll vent if i want to ! 1st march 2012 what a bloody day !
got mom off to the hospital for her chemo therapy no problem . mom even went in a little earlier then last Monday . as she was getting ready to go out mom heard on the radio an add for Tesco that stated 3 bottles of quite posh wine for 15 euro . she asked me to go to to get them . i went to one that was a bit closer to the hospital . yes my mom is allowed a little wine though she is having chemo therapy . her oncologist said it is fine in moderation .
when i got to Tesco merrion centre first thing happened was both of my trolley tokens that i have on my key ring wouldn't go in the aperture on small shopping trolley . it was too big . ai had to use a euro coin instead . this meant i had not got the money to buy dad the newspaper .i forgot to get some more cash . as i had the family credit card to pay for the shopping . all i had was 2 euro coins and a bit of small change .
just before i went to the cash desk to pay i remembered i had a load of extra Tesco point vouchers in my cash bag . i went to get them out and found out my cash bag was not in my pocket . remembering the last place i had my cash bag was at the shopping trolley area by the main entrance at the car park i left my shopping at the customer service desk and ran back there . no cash bag . just as i went back to the customer services . just as i was asking about my missing cash bag a man came up with it in his hand to hand it in . nice to see there are still some honest people left , although there was nothing of value in the bag ! .
when i went to pay for my shopping the credit card i use was refused . i had to ask the guy behind the cash desk to cancel the sale and leave without my shopping . that had me really pissed off as i had no idea what happened to the card as i had used it in tescos the day before and it was fine .
sitting in my car just before leaving the shopping centre i tried to call the bank form my mobile phone . they couldn't deal with the visa card problem . i had to ring our banks visa centre . i did'nt have the number to hand . mom has it at home on the visa statement . on the way home i remembered i was given a receipt for the cancelled sale in Tesco . which made me wonder had the same gone through and was it an error on the Tesco computer system . i pulled in and rang Tescos . no clear answer was given to me. i was shitting kittens as mom has a credit card on the same account as my one also . if i had to cancel the card it would mean moms would die as well . the last thing i wanted to do was give mom more stress on her chemo day .
i drove home and decided to try another branch of tescos for the same shopping to test if the card was the problem or if it was a fault elsewhere . same result card refused . i went home again without the shopping . i rang mom and told her what had been going on , she told me where i could find the visa centre number and then my mobile phone ran out of credit . i had to top up online as i had neither credit card or money ! that meant i had to get the credit card sorted out first .
when i got home i rang the visa centre . dad had to speak to the person on the phone as the visa account is in his name to answer a couple of security questions . my dad is very hard of hearing . i had to talk to the lady and ask her to tell me what she wanted dad to tell her , pass the phone to dad tell him the question and let him answer it . once she got the security information she them spoke to me . i told her the story of the credit card being refused at 2 different branches of tescos . turns out there yahoo were to blame . the day before i had sent 44 dollars to yahoo to pay for keeping my Flickr account a pro one . to test out whether the credit card was real yahoo made a charge of 1 Euro on it . apparently internet fraudsters do the same . a security alert was put on the credit card either on the morning of the first of march or the evening of the 29th february . that meant the card couldn't be used . the lady on the phone admitted they should have phoned my house the second the security alert was put on to check if the one euro charge was correctly made . they did'nt get round to it . the lady i was speaking to on the phone was really nice and patient but i could have killed her . the stress i had gone through was unreal . she was able to confirm that the 2 refused transactions in tescos had not gone through , she told me about the last few transactions on the card to see if they were OK and she asked me if i would accept the 1 euro charge form yahoo . when i said i would the security alert was taken off the card and my stress level got back to normal . i shouldn't have been so uptight as this happened before . i bought as song off i tunes for 99 cent and that caused the same thing to happen .
i took a little rest topped up my and my moms mobile phone form my online account then we went into tescos in Bloomfield shopping centre . the wine my mom wanted was gone . just 2 gaps on the shelf . i had to wait the best art of 20 minutes to find someone to ask . then i had to check if the wine he bought out to me was the wine on the offer . by running to customer services . i had no time to eat anything at all during the day and i was like a bear with a sore arse . ( i am always totally grumpy when really hungry) although i couldn't get the wine mom wanted me to get i got her and Dad some wine i know they normally like . the thing that might make you laugh is i hate wine ! Jack Daniels or lager is my alcoholic beverage of choice .got mom from chemo . came home ate a double portion of sushi and that was it for the rest of the day i parked myself in front of this computer , helped mom with the dinner and took it easy.
thankfully one thing went right . moms chemo therapy . moms porto cath which had been causing her pain when the phlebotomists were trying to take blood from it ( and failing ) worked today . hopefully no more struggling to find veins in her hands for a cannula .
got mom off to the hospital for her chemo therapy no problem . mom even went in a little earlier then last Monday . as she was getting ready to go out mom heard on the radio an add for Tesco that stated 3 bottles of quite posh wine for 15 euro . she asked me to go to to get them . i went to one that was a bit closer to the hospital . yes my mom is allowed a little wine though she is having chemo therapy . her oncologist said it is fine in moderation .
when i got to Tesco merrion centre first thing happened was both of my trolley tokens that i have on my key ring wouldn't go in the aperture on small shopping trolley . it was too big . ai had to use a euro coin instead . this meant i had not got the money to buy dad the newspaper .i forgot to get some more cash . as i had the family credit card to pay for the shopping . all i had was 2 euro coins and a bit of small change .
just before i went to the cash desk to pay i remembered i had a load of extra Tesco point vouchers in my cash bag . i went to get them out and found out my cash bag was not in my pocket . remembering the last place i had my cash bag was at the shopping trolley area by the main entrance at the car park i left my shopping at the customer service desk and ran back there . no cash bag . just as i went back to the customer services . just as i was asking about my missing cash bag a man came up with it in his hand to hand it in . nice to see there are still some honest people left , although there was nothing of value in the bag ! .
when i went to pay for my shopping the credit card i use was refused . i had to ask the guy behind the cash desk to cancel the sale and leave without my shopping . that had me really pissed off as i had no idea what happened to the card as i had used it in tescos the day before and it was fine .
sitting in my car just before leaving the shopping centre i tried to call the bank form my mobile phone . they couldn't deal with the visa card problem . i had to ring our banks visa centre . i did'nt have the number to hand . mom has it at home on the visa statement . on the way home i remembered i was given a receipt for the cancelled sale in Tesco . which made me wonder had the same gone through and was it an error on the Tesco computer system . i pulled in and rang Tescos . no clear answer was given to me. i was shitting kittens as mom has a credit card on the same account as my one also . if i had to cancel the card it would mean moms would die as well . the last thing i wanted to do was give mom more stress on her chemo day .
i drove home and decided to try another branch of tescos for the same shopping to test if the card was the problem or if it was a fault elsewhere . same result card refused . i went home again without the shopping . i rang mom and told her what had been going on , she told me where i could find the visa centre number and then my mobile phone ran out of credit . i had to top up online as i had neither credit card or money ! that meant i had to get the credit card sorted out first .
when i got home i rang the visa centre . dad had to speak to the person on the phone as the visa account is in his name to answer a couple of security questions . my dad is very hard of hearing . i had to talk to the lady and ask her to tell me what she wanted dad to tell her , pass the phone to dad tell him the question and let him answer it . once she got the security information she them spoke to me . i told her the story of the credit card being refused at 2 different branches of tescos . turns out there yahoo were to blame . the day before i had sent 44 dollars to yahoo to pay for keeping my Flickr account a pro one . to test out whether the credit card was real yahoo made a charge of 1 Euro on it . apparently internet fraudsters do the same . a security alert was put on the credit card either on the morning of the first of march or the evening of the 29th february . that meant the card couldn't be used . the lady on the phone admitted they should have phoned my house the second the security alert was put on to check if the one euro charge was correctly made . they did'nt get round to it . the lady i was speaking to on the phone was really nice and patient but i could have killed her . the stress i had gone through was unreal . she was able to confirm that the 2 refused transactions in tescos had not gone through , she told me about the last few transactions on the card to see if they were OK and she asked me if i would accept the 1 euro charge form yahoo . when i said i would the security alert was taken off the card and my stress level got back to normal . i shouldn't have been so uptight as this happened before . i bought as song off i tunes for 99 cent and that caused the same thing to happen .
i took a little rest topped up my and my moms mobile phone form my online account then we went into tescos in Bloomfield shopping centre . the wine my mom wanted was gone . just 2 gaps on the shelf . i had to wait the best art of 20 minutes to find someone to ask . then i had to check if the wine he bought out to me was the wine on the offer . by running to customer services . i had no time to eat anything at all during the day and i was like a bear with a sore arse . ( i am always totally grumpy when really hungry) although i couldn't get the wine mom wanted me to get i got her and Dad some wine i know they normally like . the thing that might make you laugh is i hate wine ! Jack Daniels or lager is my alcoholic beverage of choice .got mom from chemo . came home ate a double portion of sushi and that was it for the rest of the day i parked myself in front of this computer , helped mom with the dinner and took it easy.
thankfully one thing went right . moms chemo therapy . moms porto cath which had been causing her pain when the phlebotomists were trying to take blood from it ( and failing ) worked today . hopefully no more struggling to find veins in her hands for a cannula .
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