Dublin - Aileen and Momo

At the end of the Easter holidays I went to Dublin again this time to see Ailo!! I got to eat loads of yummy Japanese food and see two of my bestest Japan friends! We did lots of other lovely things, wandering around Dublin, shopping, meeting up with Aileen's lovely friends etc. The only bad thing being that it was a very short trip :(

See I do ...

The Easter holidays have been and gone, infact I've already been back at work for two weeks. Spent a lot of time meeting up with friends, my friend Joseph was back so we had lots of fun nights out. Here are some pics of our recent ventures into town ...

Laura and Joseph
Sue and me posing
and again
Joseph and me pulling the most ridiculous faces

Proactivity

I'm trying to be proactive.

If I get another interview and if it goes terribly I'll only have myself to blame.

Therefore any available time at school (which is few and far between) is spent practicing interview questions. Then I've been taking myself off to the town library to revise lots of Business Studies modules after school and then once I'm at home I'm reading all the latest articles on Educational issues.

So I'm busy. I was busy before but just with work really so I guess now I'm busier and it's nice to be motivated about something else other that my day job. Anyway I feel better for actively trying to improve my prospects.

In the mean time I've had no time to properly update my blog so that will have to wait for another time ... hey if you're on facebook you can check out my pics there ;)

The Lake District

Hungover, we eventually headed out of the house to the Lake District. Mostly we spent the day pottering about, eating (pub lunches, ice cream, Indian), attempting to form coherent sentences - the kind of things you'd do anywhere when there is too much gin still swilling about your system!

Fortunately it was a lovely day, so we took an exhaustive amount of photos of us generally stupidly posing about the place.

In the evening we went to the theatre to see Of Mice and Men at the 'Theatre by the Lake'. So all in all despite the hangovers we had a really nice day.

Today, it's the continental market, yes - again. The same as in August, the same as Christmas and now the same for Easter! And because nothing very eventful really happens in Carlisle we're all very excited about this! I've spent all day eating.

Pictures from the Lakes ...

The Spring Collection

Karen in Carlisle

Karen (ex-Shizuoka JET) has been visiting this week. We had some lovely things planned for Wednesday but despite that we decided to go out for some drinks on Tuesday night and you know just take it easy ... hm ...

Living for the weekend...

I've actually been considering whether or not I should really keep up my little blog. It doesn't seem like I have much to write about and I guess that's because well I don't! I can't write about work on my blog which cuts down what I can write about considerably, especially seen as though I spend all my time at work or talking about what happened at work. But I do know that there are about four people who do read my blog and because of them I'll continue! ;)

Every week I spend getting excited for our now ritual Friday night, this week was no exception even though my partner in crime, Sue, is away in Germany. It's the end of term so I went with my friend from work into town for a coffee to celebrate the fact it's the start of our well deserved holidays. I was excitedly twittering on about what the night might have in store. I'm sad I know.

At about 9pm there I was all ready to head out when my friend had to cancel. I won't lie I was more than a little gutted. In fact I was quite concerned about how upset I was! I felt like I'd reverted to being 17 years old again when occasionally my Mum would put her foot down and stop me from venturing out to 'the Page' on a Thursday night. I was concerned about how gutted I was because I realised I spend all week, getting through it just to reach Friday and when that was taken away I really felt, well I don't know, but it was depressing to realise this!!

I'm twittering. Anyway I was reminded that I was working at the restaurant on Saturday night and I always enjoy that so all was not lost. When I arrived at work I was informed that we were having a Greek party after work for someone's birthday (luckily I'd decided not to take my car to work). So there was lots of food and lots of drink and then I decided I'd go and meet a couple of friends at our usual haunt. There were some famous DJs playing. I couldn't tell you who but I can tell you in cost me an extortionate £10 to get in. I hate dance music except from perhaps very mainstream stuff they might play in some bars so I wasn't paying to see these supposed top DJs. I just went to meet some friends. Weirdly enough; I was still in my clothes from the restaurant, I didn't really know many people there, I hated the music and nothing exciting really happened (well compared to the dramas Sue and me usually get ourselves into) but I had a really good time. It was just nice to be out.

I'm now on holiday for two weeks so hopefully should have some more interesting things to write about ;)