sloop or sailboat? not a Paul.

Hello all my blog readers, it's been some time since i have last written, busy week and not much energy left for the old blogger.

Tuesday: i don't remember. there was lots of post this day, a packing peanut fight, free food from work and some exhaustion. i got a tube mailer from derrick, i love the i have no eyeballs button or as the irish call it a badge. and the charms are on the bracelet. i also got a letter from my claire bear. oh claire i love the drawing of the big fork on my letter!

Wed: fran came and picked me up from work and we went to a french film at the IFI called "cockles and muscles". absolutely fabulous. i highly recommend you pick it up from your local video store. we laughed the whole time and the song and dance number at the end is great. then after that we went to as fran said, the best pizza place in dublin for real italian pizza, i had a wonderful vegetable pizza with peppers, mushrooms and corgettes as well as an in date Tiger beer! we both had our own pizzas and beers and then walked home. where i made a vegan chocolate for our dinner party thursday at Fran's friend Erik's house.

Thursday: the dinner party, while after not knowing which bus to take we finally caught the LUAS out to Rathmines, a suburb of Dublin. Erik is one of the cofounders of Cultivate, the sustainable living program/building that Fran used to work at. he has a great garden with all sorts of orchids and lillies, gladiolas, air plants, lettuce, basil, etc etc etc. gorgeous and ruralesque right in the city. we had a delicious vegetable stir fry and the vegan chocolate cake (which after i made it i found out that Erik is diabetic!) so oops on the cake. so he could only have a small piece and we left the rest for his roommates and hopefully i will get together with him later on in the coming months to volunteer for the conference of sustainable industrial design, and could lead to a job in the UK woo hoo! then we walked home from Rathmines, an hour long trek through the southern part of the city. and we had another house guest(P2 has come and gone from the living room) another one of Paul's friends from Cork, but not a Paul, an Allen.

Friday: worked...and no Ruth or Eileen just my 2 bosses and me (sadface) but i made it through with lots of phone messages for the ladies. made some pasta, am getting psyched for the hour long bus ride to Glandoulough on Sunday. this sunday and monday is bank holiday weekend so everyone has the days off and i was bummed because man i don't get bank holiday weekend because i already have those days off! then i found out oh but i do have tuesday off as well, so 3 day weekend woo! and there's a new exhibit at the photography institute, so more art for me and i also saw there was an exhibit of African art at a hotel on my block so i will stop by after work tomorrow yipee!

so that's all i have to report to you for the week i was invited to a party tonight but i just can't do it, too tired. tonight we have another new house guest, matt from cork, and possibly a P2. so that's the word on the street here in Dublin. I am making scones to take with on our trek to Glandalough so hopefully new good news from that adventure.

xoxo,
christie

sorry i have sucked at the email, i have been so lazy this week. hopefully i will get to bed early tonight.