Someone found my blog and put a link to it and my photos up on : http://www.ub40.co.uk/forum/ub40-discussion/594843-found-little-blog.html
I just had this weird thought, Em is doing an auditon tomorrow at her Drama school for the play that is being held in May next year, but what if 10 or 11 years from now she is auditioning for the X Factor .... Anyway she has chosen to sing her song that the I taught her when she was little and used to sing in the bath when she was 2 and she has loved it ever since, here is a video of her singing it when she was 2:
and here is how she will sing it tomorrow ... hopefully
They are just so young and so cool and having so much fun ... I would vote for them if I could!
Yes I have been quiet for a while, you know Life just seems to take over and then we don't get time to blog anymore. Well Friday night my friend Carla's mom came to visit and D and I went off to the O2 in Dublin to see Eddie Grant and UB40, we ended up stopping at Brambles in Terenure for Dinner so we missed most of Eddie Grant but got to see UB40 which was awesome as usual. I will do a seperate post on the dinner which was really good! Here are some pictures from UB40, Labour of Love tour.
If you want the rainbow,
you must too put up with the rain.
D. Parton
This is another one of my favourite photographs taken in Venice in November 2004:
We were in Venice at the end of October when they have their lunar tides which are associated round the time of the Full moon. They warn the residents by means of an air raid siren a couple of hours before it is due to flood. It is really an experience being there when this happens, I quite randomly took this photo of people going about their normal day as if nothing was wrong and afterwards realised how stunning it was (well at least I think so anyway). I just came across this photo taken in November 2004, 5 years ago and just can't believe where the time has gone!
I took this photo in Croatia last year, this was the beach across from where we were staying:
"As I drove to work, the sun was rising in the distance, above the clouds that were so low they covered the sea like a white fluffy duvet" ...
Then Saturday night is the official ‘do’. We have a private dining room all to ourselves. Once dinner is over, our croupier awaits us in our private bar for our Casino Royale experience. Sounds like fun, although I hope they are giving us money to gamble with! It's also a team building week-end so therefore no partners, but sounds like a fun, so I really am looking forward to it. Oh and we are staying in the Rose Garden Lodge, quite aptly named don't you think? 
I don't know how to blog this without sounding like well a snob I suppose in one way, my project takes me to my client who is on the "North Side", now in Dublin the north side is anything North of the Liffey. Although I have been working on the North side since last September, this is the first time I have actually come face to face with real northsiders. Luckily I don't see too many in the morning when I am rushing in to the client, but happen to bump into them on my way back at 2:00 PM in the afternoon.
I am gob smacked regularly, where are where are the fashion police, yesterday while walking down to my car which I park at the Parnell street Car park, there was a woman who must have been close to 60, twiggy build, dark hair, weathered face from cigarettes and drink wearing Silver high heeled mini boots, black tights with a mini skirt and a Silver and black sergeant pepper style jacket.
It gets quite scary because I often think I must stand out because I am dressed like a normal person, do I look like a “South sider”? Then today walking past the new Tesco in Parnell street, a rather largish lady was walking in front of me, again she must have been in her 50’s or 60’s and she was wearing glittery, lycra tights, with a short jumper, which just met the tights and runners, of course the tights left nothing to the imagination.
Do these people not own a mirror? I practically run to my car each afternoon, and when my boss tells me I don’t have to go to the client, it is like heaven to my ears! Then I wonder how D has managed to work round there for the last 8 years, leave me on the South side please.
D asked me if I had seen the ladies walking around in their night gowns yet, now I must say I actually saw that on the southside once ... I have never proffesed to be the best dressed woman in the world, but I could probably quite easily make a living teaching northsiders how to dress, help Trinny and Suzanne we need a "What NOT to wear" event staged around Parnell street.
After much surfing I eventually found a site that gives me information on what is on in Dublin over Christmas for kids, I need to get out and take Emily to do fun things, so this post links to the site and here is the list if you are interested:
I should blog, yes I know I should blog, yes I know I should really write something constructive, but well all I can do is tell you about my life. So where did I get to "Halloween", it was hubby's birthday the day before and I really should have organised something nice, what a bad wife I am but I will make up for it sometime. Oh yes I made pumpkin soup with the insides of the jack o lantern, which reminds me is not vrotting in the lounge, better go and get rid of it, it already has about 10 species of fungi on it.
So Sunday I invited a few friends round for Birthday tea & cake it was all very civilized as most of my friends now have babies, Carla & Joe were there with Xavier and Kelly & Charl with baby Pierre who is like a junior version of Charl. Granny Yvonne & Grandpa Bob and Malcolm. The boys are all going to the rugby on the 15th and 28th of November, so it was good for them to see each other before then. 
Then the week started, I spent Mon - Wed at Temple street doing UAT and ended up being there till after 5 on Wednesday, luckily I arranged to put Emily into after school care, then yesterday and today back in Bray, next week Em will be at the after care on Monday again as I have meetings all afternoon in Bray, and then we will see how the rest of the week goes. I was rather exhausted after the last 2 weeks as I am not used to working a full day and it feels like I am back in the rat race, by yesterday I already thought it was Friday but no such luck ... and to top it all they showed me how I can sign on to the system from home and do some work from home ... "If I want", but necessary to check my work email as the develepors send out emails on Saturday and Sunday night and expect me to know what they sent on Monday morning when I am at a client and not in the office ... okay so I am having a good old moan here, but what the hell.
A once beautiful piece of architecture the Rissik Street Post Office in Downtown Johannesburg, has gone up in flames. The old Johannesburg that I remember is no more!
Emily went to a party tonight so I was quite dissapointed that we never got to go "Trick or Treating", but at least we still had the kids come round to our house. I had to go and pick her up at 8:00 PM from the party and of course they were all hyped up on sugar! But it was so weired driving along the road and seeing people everywhere dressed up, I guess this is the first time I have ever been out driving on Halloween. Going up Milltown road there was a guy dressed as a Gladiator walking down the road, with not a care in the world as if it was his normal form of dress. Lots of girls dressed as witches and cats, and I saw some hippies too - then on the way home from Sonny's house we stopped at the spar in Milltown to get a bottle of water and there were 4 guys going in to buy booze, they were all dressed up but for the life of me I can only remember the one dressed as a banana as Em made such a fuss over him, laughing and pointing ha! ha! a banana ;) it was fun, I think next year we will have to go to town and see all the party goers! 
Oh yes I was going to tell you about the party Emily went to, well Sonny and her were both at the creche in Milltown from the time they were a few months old, then when they left in July last year to start school, Sonny went to a school in Ranalegh and Em of course went to JS, so they have not seen each other for about a year, his mom invited Em over and they went to a party at Sam's house who is another kid that was at Creche with them from a baby and ended up with a few kids Connor and Shay who were all at creche with her, so she had an absolute ball. I think she has just had the best week ever.At least I know you might look at my blog, just wishing you a wonderful birthday and a super day today - we will celebrate over the week-end.
La breithe sona duit!
Gelukkig Verjaarsdag!
Lots of Love
Rosie & Em
If you haven't heard her she is fabulous, Amy Winehouses's Goddaughter who is going to be a BIG star one day, listen to this song on youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb0c7frwlKo unfortunately the embedding has been disabled, it is called "Foolish little girl", here is another one she sings "Mamma Said", I am off to get her album now.l
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Yes, go on laugh! This week was just so hectic that I really felt that I had not had a break. By the way the weather has been absolutely fantastic since we got back at the end of August, we have had 2 months with very little wet weather, but let me not jinx it now.
Monday my good friend M came over from London and spent the night, she had a meeting at her head office in Tallaght on Tuesday so we had the pleasure of her company on Monday and went through all our holiday photos on the Big screen TV. Then Tuesday D's friends folks were here from SA, so they kindly offered to take a parcel back for us and they popped in. Wednesday I had a hair appointment in the evening, Thursday D now does Ballroom dancing, and today Friday, they had an art exhibition at Em's school, and then what they did was they took a painting from each kid and had it framed, they exhibited them all for everyone to see and then you could buy the painting and the money goes to help towards the upkeep of the school, very good idea I thought.
I then had to go to the Garda Station because I lost my GNIB card and am now having hassles again, would you believe it - long story, then D had a hair appointment tonight so only got home late and then I got a message from a friend of mine tonight to say that she is arriving in Dublin tomorrow from London and I haven't seen her since Emily was about 10 months old and to top it all it is her birthday, so I guess if I am going to see her I have to get a present. I also have an appointment at the spa and
if that is not enough, I need to find shoes and a jacket to go with my dress for the wedding on Thursday, talking of which Damo and the boys decided at 2 PM that there were drinks at Smyths, which I am obviously not at because I am sitting here blogging away on a Friday evening, but I am exhausted and there is still the washing that needs to be done.
So ... that has been my week, my boss was in all week except today and he promised to sit down with me on Thursday and go through the project plan as I am only in 3 days next week, but there was some crisis and I did not even get to speak to him, so have been battling my way through SQL statements and think I have done pretty well, but nothing is working at the moment. (If that makes any sense). I sent him 2 emails and he did not reply to either, oh well.
Oh yes one more crisis, we arranged for Em to go and stay with her adopted Grandparents on Thursday night as we have booked into a hotel close to the wedding venue, so I she is fetching Em from School on Thursday, but now they sent home a pamphlet to say that they are going to a church service and they must all be picked up from the church, so need to arrange that still, better put it on my list of things to do!
Best thing about next week though is that I am off work Thursday and Friday and the Monday is a Bank Holiday so nice looooooooooong week-end, the following week I am working full day doing testing at the project site, so I have booked Em into a new holiday care centre in Donnybrook and she is so looking forward to it because they really have some great activities, I got an email from them today and the list is as follows:
o Tuesday: Cinema.
o Wednesday: Book of Kells.
o Thursday: Natural History Museum.
o Friday: Soft Play/Herbert Park.
The afternoon is filled with age appropriate arts and crafts (pumpkin craving) and baking etc.
I really want to be a kid again, on the Friday they will more than likely have a dress up Halloween party as well as Saturday is Halloween, talking of witch, I mean which I had better decorate the house and go and buy sweets, actually that will just have to wait for next week-end! Too much to do and so little time and next week is just as crazy as this week!
Will update you with photos form the wedding next week, have a fab week-end everyone and I will tell you all about the week-end on Sunday Night.
Patrick walks into a bar in Dublin, orders three pints of Guinness and
sits in the corner of the room, drinking a sip out of each pint in turn.
When he had finished all three, he went back to the bar and ordered three more.
The barman says, "You know a pint goes flat soon after I pull it .... your
pint would taste better if you bought one at a time."
Patrick replies, "Well now, I have two brodders, one is in America and de
odder in Australia and here I am in Dublin. When we all left home, we
promised dat we'd drink dis way to remember de days we all drank togedder."
The barman admits that this is a nice custom and says no more.
Patrick becomes a regular customer and always drinks the same way ...
ordering three pints and drinking a sip out of each in turn, until they
are finished. One day, he comes in and orders just two pints. All the
other regulars in the bar notice and fall silent.
When he goes back to the bar for the second round, the barman says, "I
don't want to intrude on your grief but I wanted to offer my condolences on your great loss."
Patrick looks confused for a moment, then the penny drops and he starts to laugh, "Oh no," he says, "Bejesus, everyone is fine! Tis me ... I've quit drinking!"
