If today keeps going as it has been, I may pull all of my hair out by the time I leave work today. There's nothing quite like the last day of work before you're heading off on vacation to do your head in. It seems that no matter how hard you plan and how organized you are, something always goes amiss at the last minute and I'm working hard to avoid that today! Then why am I blogging instead of hard at work? Because if I plan on saving any of my sanity for my week of vacation I needed to break for 15 minutes, enjoy something to eat for lunch, and take my mind off work for a bit.
It is POURING out here. It's going to make me feel a bit better about missing soccer training tonight. It's not so tough to miss it when you know you'd be soaked and freezing if you were there. I've got to finish packing for my flight tomorrow morning, so I've got a good excuse. It's been a busy week and I made it to Gaelic training last night (which is why I'm not packed yet) so I don't feel so bad. It's looking like some Chinese takeout and suitcases are in my future. Maybe my fortune cookie will read well tonight. :-)
I occasionally jot little things that occur to me as being different from home down on a sticky note to write about. They don't really make up their own blog but they're handy little things to know:
Mobile Phones: They aren't called 'cell phones' over here and you can easily distinguish a mobile number because ALL mobile numbers begin with either 085, 086, or 087. It's a handy little thing they've organized over here.
License Plates: They're registration plates over here and they belong to the car as opposed to the person who owns the car. In other words, if you sell your car the plates go with it. Since they use this system with the plates, they're able to list some info about the car within the digits. A license plate in Ireland has the general formatting of NN-LL-NNNN. N's are numbers and L's are letters. The first 2 numbers denote the year of the car, the letters denote the county the car was first registered in (usually the first and last letters of the county name - but not always), and the last 4 numbers are seemingly random. So a 2006 Honda Civic bought new in County Wicklow might have the plates '06-WW-8375'. If it were registered in Dublin: '06-D-8375' and so on...
Computer keyboards: I have my laptop from the States over here at home and I use a native keyboard for work so I'm constantly having to look and see where certain punctuation keys are. I don't even have a '€' symbol on my U.S. board and the '@' and quotation symbols are in funny places over here.
Those are a few odd bits about all things Irish. I'm going to try to make an entry or two while I'm home, but if not I'll see you in a week or so. Don't forget I'm here in the meantime!!! ;-)
It is POURING out here. It's going to make me feel a bit better about missing soccer training tonight. It's not so tough to miss it when you know you'd be soaked and freezing if you were there. I've got to finish packing for my flight tomorrow morning, so I've got a good excuse. It's been a busy week and I made it to Gaelic training last night (which is why I'm not packed yet) so I don't feel so bad. It's looking like some Chinese takeout and suitcases are in my future. Maybe my fortune cookie will read well tonight. :-)
I occasionally jot little things that occur to me as being different from home down on a sticky note to write about. They don't really make up their own blog but they're handy little things to know:
Mobile Phones: They aren't called 'cell phones' over here and you can easily distinguish a mobile number because ALL mobile numbers begin with either 085, 086, or 087. It's a handy little thing they've organized over here.
License Plates: They're registration plates over here and they belong to the car as opposed to the person who owns the car. In other words, if you sell your car the plates go with it. Since they use this system with the plates, they're able to list some info about the car within the digits. A license plate in Ireland has the general formatting of NN-LL-NNNN. N's are numbers and L's are letters. The first 2 numbers denote the year of the car, the letters denote the county the car was first registered in (usually the first and last letters of the county name - but not always), and the last 4 numbers are seemingly random. So a 2006 Honda Civic bought new in County Wicklow might have the plates '06-WW-8375'. If it were registered in Dublin: '06-D-8375' and so on...
Computer keyboards: I have my laptop from the States over here at home and I use a native keyboard for work so I'm constantly having to look and see where certain punctuation keys are. I don't even have a '€' symbol on my U.S. board and the '@' and quotation symbols are in funny places over here.
Those are a few odd bits about all things Irish. I'm going to try to make an entry or two while I'm home, but if not I'll see you in a week or so. Don't forget I'm here in the meantime!!! ;-)
1 comment:
Not to worry, Rach. We all know I have a bald fetish so I'll still try to be your friend, bad hair and all. Enjoy the trip and hopefully we can sneak in a dinner and a few drinks or something! Safe flight!
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