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Hello readers so not too much going on this side of the Atlantic. wed. was old lady day, Fra-Fra and myself made soup ate some apple crisp with apples from Alex's shop that we saved from impending dumpster doom. Alex owns an italian grocery store and he sells fruit from italy, the fruit that has bruises he gives to fran or myself, who ever stops by first, so we are assured free apples every friday for scones, cakes, crisps, salads, etc. we read our books and went to bed at about 11:30pm, which is early for us. Today was a full moon so i we tried to stay away from the crazies and not be one of the crazies, unfortunately we couldn't even see the moon it was cloudy (sADFACE)

thursday was slightly more eventful i went to an asian resturant with Ruth and Eileen and had some great tofu and had some great homemade black sesame seed ice cream and the first great dessert i have had yet in ireland, turtle cheesecake, it was delicious and little did i know neither Eileen or Ruth knew why it was called turtle cheesecake, they had never seen or heard of a turtle in the chocolate deliciousness. the irish don't eat sweets over here they use butter as a flavorant in everything. i was disappointed to find out that the cream that came with the cheesecake was not sweetened, typical american nothing is sweet or sugary enough! afterwards i went with Eileen to the pub she was going to, to hear her friend Mark play in a band. She said it was at the VooDoo lounge which i was sure was east of my house, but we started walking west of my house and Eileen got to the pub she thought the gig was at but alas that pub was called the Viper Room. so she called her brother and sure enough the VooDoo lounge was in the direction i thought it was. traveling travel 1: life long resident of dublin 0! so once we found the place and found out that the band was supposed to play at 9pm and still hadn't i abondoned Eileen with some of the groupies that she knew and headed to call my mom. everyone will be happy to know my mom is fine!:) I ALMOST FORGOT TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT CRAZY SOCK LADY: so there was this woman on thursday that came in looking for a pair of white socks in a size 6. She had a Boots Pharmacy bag full of folded up paper towels and emerged moments later after digging through the bag with one of her socks. she held it up to the size 7 and asked "is this a size 6?" and i said "no it's a size 7, we don't have a size 6 in this color".
"so you'll be getting it in a size 6 shortly?"
"no we don't carry that size in that color."
"don't you have a chair or something for me to sit down in?"
christie proceeds to go and get the woman a chair. woman places bag on chair and then proceeds to try and sit down so christie attempts to move the bag so the woman can sit down in the chair. woman proceeds to get really angry and snatch the bag back from christie. at this point christie just wants to walk away and the woman continues holding the size 7 sock up to her sock "so when will this color be in stock again?" christie expains one more time we will put it on the next order, Eileen concurs the old woman starts asking me what the colored corn pasta is colored with, christie slowly wanders to the other side of the store.
cuck-coo...i found out at thursday evening dinner that this woman comes in about once or twice a month asking for the socks which we have ordered for her and she never comes and picks them up so we just tell her whatever she wants to hear and then don't order them or hold them for here. absolutely mad.

the other funny thing that i tried to get francesca to say was for her to ask Paul if he had been "rollin' with his hommies". i had mistakenly also said to her in the same conversation that we never see paul anymore because he is out joy riding in his new(temporary) car. so instead she asked him while i was out if he was "joy ridin' with his hommies" does this remind you of a certain line from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation "Let's burn my shorts and eat Rubber". oh clark grizzwald.

friday: well today i moved some shelves around put up some new flax seed, washed some dishes, swept the floor, brought out some garbage and cardboard. some things i have noticed about my coworkers, and flatmate paul: for one at work when the garbage is full rather then ask me to empty it, empty it themselves or throw garbage in a different wastebasket they continue to throw garbage in the general vacinity of the garbage can, hello someone has to pick that up...the other thing i have noticed is the not caring about piling dishes or crumbs all over the table or counter, how can you make yourself food, or have the desire to eat, it's like eating on a piece of toast! One thing i have learned about myself is that i am not very good at tiding up, or keeping the shop clean, i constantly get told to clean this or dust that because frankly i just overlook the gunk on the floor or the flour dust over here or whatever so i guess that is an important thing to know about myself if i ever sign up for a dating service "well i like to have things clean but i would get an F+ in cleaning if i was getting graded." i also got a card from Leta, thank you so much Leta, i love the greetings from MN on the front, i am going to hang it up in my room:) well folks that's what is exciting here i am going to check the cultural paper tonight and see what is on tap for the weekend, and look in my guide book for somewhere to go one weekend. i started the "confederacy of dunces" so far pretty satirical.

xoxo,
christie