Two years ago (give or take) I wrote a post a month into my move to Ireland, here. I always do the thought exercise of “Where will I be…” “What will be happening…” to keep me entertained during those moments I can day dream.
Two years after that post it’s no surprise I was driven to distraction with the job that moved me here. It is a surprise that I got the job with my current employer though. Other surprises include living, once again, in a house with more people than just me, and one of those being a significant other.
A year into the future I really can’t start to imagine with any seriousness. I don’t think I’ll be settled down still, but I will still be in Ireland. If I’m in Cork I’ll still be working here, and hopefully if I am not in Cork I’ll still be working for my current employer. There are a few things that will be certain – I will have pets and I will NOT be in my current role answering calls.
I’ve certainly not been busy by any stretch of the imagination. However any spare time I have here I seem to do anything other than think about work. That can involve going out for a drive, eating out, walking around town, or like today – baking. Now I am back at the computer doing stuff on it other than watching clips of Q.I on YouTube or trying to work out what in the hell Google + is for…
So to talk about interesting things. These past few weeks have seen me complete a few craft projects and start a few more and just today get back into some simple enough baking. I have the theory behind it I just need some technique. Ha.
The cookies exploded in size so they turned out more like a tray bake. Tasty all the same. What we will do next time is make the dough, roll it and pop it into the fridge for a day or so. Then cut it up and pop the slices onto the trays and bake from that.
Make some cup cakes on a bit of a spur of the moment. Decided I had the ingredients but still popped out to Dunnes to get some food colouring. So we now have pink and blue cupcakes as well! Very tasty and full, full of E numbers. Even that famous one in the blue colouring – these cakes aren’t safe for your kids!
Next to be cooked will be a nice, savoury omelette with peppers, tomatoes, spring onions and blue cheese. It’s all well and good cooking all these lovely treats but they really are quite rich and settle quite heavily.
In other news I have a weeks holiday in August around my birthday where I am planning to do bugger all, and I am really looking forward to it. There was talk to go back to the UK but Jacko has landed a new job and we decided to wait on going over so we could save a bit more. So the UK trip is scheduled tentatively for the back end of September through to the start of October. Just in time for my Dad’s 60th birthday.
Other news in brief: Updated the computers to Mac OSX Lion and I am loving it. Works like a dream on the MacBook. Have another book to read. It’s set out much like a University course so this should add some structure to my writing and give me some useful exercises to try out. I am also back in WoW again after a few weeks of forgetting about it. If you’re on Eonar-EU-Horde come say hello!
That’s all for the time being as I have some more writing that I need to finish off. As always I will keep you posted on new happenings here!
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