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[Jul. 9th, 2009|09:54 am] |
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I just recieved an order of stuff from online. The stuff was worth a little over 140 euro. It came with a tax bill of 80 euro. There is absolutely no way the government can justify charging me over 57% tax. I'm flabbergasted. If this is 'legit' and I can't avoid paying that or claim some of it back I think I might personally lead the revolution... |
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| Simon can walk! |
[Jul. 7th, 2009|09:16 am] |
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Simon's been looking like he would walk 'any day now' for months. We've been not encouraging him (obviously not discouraging either), sure that he'd walk in his own good time. At the weekend John's parents were encouraging him and he took two or three steps a few times. Yesterday we did the same and he took five or six. Obviously he's not an expert just yet, but I think we can definitely say he can walk. Woot. Go Simon. |
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| Zombie burgers! |
[Jul. 3rd, 2009|09:59 am] |
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Irish people to recession: "You can take our jobs, you can take our luxuries, but you'll never take our Spice Burgers!". |
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| Simon's first stiches |
[Jul. 2nd, 2009|01:30 pm] |
Simon crawled into a buggy yesterday and underestimated the distance to the ground when climbing back out. He's fine, but he has acquired (paper) stitches before being able to walk.
( Big photo behind cut ) |
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| QCon and Belfast |
[Jun. 30th, 2009|10:29 pm] |
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When I was at QCon three years ago there was a room someplace with Anime in it (as far as I remember). When I was there two years ago there were a noticeable number of people in costumes and a competition. I wasn't there last year in case Simon was born (as it turned out he wasn't born for over a month). This year's QCon was, as John put it, not so much a games convention as an Anime convention with some games events at it. If you weren't into the RPGs that were on, or some sort of competitive play (in fairness to them, they had a lot of competitions), there really wasn't much there for you. There seemed to be a great atmosphere, for Anime people. The only people there to hang around and maybe play some games that I came across were from the Republic, mostly from Dublin, and there weren't even that many of us. On Saturday I ended up going for a long walk after spending at least a half an hour asking passers by to join me in a game and having them all say no. John had a somewhat similar experience and ended up watching some Anime. On Sunday we wandered around Belfast instead of going to the con. We had a great day. It's a great city, everything is very reasonably priced and the people are lovely and all seem to really want you to have a good impression of the city. We'll be going back to Belfast. We may not go back to QCon. |
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| Tired |
[Jun. 25th, 2009|03:10 pm] |
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I slept for ten and half hours last night (well, I was in bed for that long, I really never know how much time I spend half awake feeding Simon). I'm still tired. This is unreasonable. My iron levels were a bit low (not anemic low, but low enough that the doctor told me to take iron) last time I got tested, but I'm more than two weeks into the tablets, surely that should be better by now? *sigh* |
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| Parenthood is deadly |
[Jun. 8th, 2009|09:14 am] |
We stayed in John's parents' house last night. So this morning, when I was leaving, I had to close a stair gate behind me, because John's room there is a converted attic. I kissed Simon goodbye and told him to have a good day, kissed John goodbye and started leaving. While I was fastening the stair gate Simon, without any prompting or encouragement, gave a perfect wave and said 'bye bye'. We were both surprised and delighted. I practically bounced all the way to work. |
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| I feel old |
[Jun. 6th, 2009|04:15 pm] |
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Apparently I'm older than tetris. |
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| European elections - Leinster |
[Jun. 5th, 2009|02:10 pm] |
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I know it's a bit late, but anyone have any suggestions? A quick bit of research makes me not want to vote for any of them. I'm considering Mairead McGuinness because at least two of the other candidates have been picking on her... |
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| Where does the money go? |
[Jun. 3rd, 2009|12:46 pm] |
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This is a rather more specific question than the title probably makes out. When I transfer money from my account with one bank into John's account with another bank, it disappears from my bank immediately, but takes several days to show up in his. Where does it go in the meantime? Is it sitting in an account somewhere with a bunch of other, similar money, making someone rich? |
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| Simon took a step! |
[Jun. 1st, 2009|09:52 pm] |
Earlier on tonight, just as we were putting him to bed, Simon made another attempt at walking. He fell onto his bum on his second step, rather than his first. He took a whole step all by himself!
I is a proud mammy. |
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| Route 66 has moved |
[May. 30th, 2009|01:14 pm] |
Route 66, the regular Wednesday swing night, has moved. It's now on downstairs in QBar (on the quays just by the O'Connell Street bridge on the south side of the Liffey). Same price, time, etc. as before. Water may not be free. |
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| Simon, appointments and the bloody health service |
[May. 26th, 2009|01:53 pm] |
As you may remember from this entry, Simon had an allergic reaction to eggs a few months ago. Having gotten sick of waiting for the theoretical appointment with the specialist in Cork I looked into setting up an appointment with a specialist someone had mentioned in Dublin. A while later I had an appointment, in Dublin, two weeks later, that would cost €170. A day or two later (baring in mind that it's been about two months since that happened), we got a letter in the post telling us that we have an appointment with the guy in Cork. That's going to cost €200. In August. August.
So the response of the health service to a seven month old having an life-threatening allergic reaction is to give that child an appointment with a specialist (claiming, I might add, that they're the only person capable of treating said child, which is simply not true), on the other side of the country, after the child turns one. And it isn't even free! So we're going to go to the guy that's nearer, cheaper and able to see us far, far sooner. We're going to hold off on canceling the other appointment until after we've seen him, in case we want to see the other guy as well. But seriously, five months? Two hundred euro? Cork? |
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| Want |
[May. 14th, 2009|01:44 pm] |
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If anyone wins the lotto and feels like spending a grand or two on me, please buy me this. I'm not greedy, I don't need this one. |
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| Proud mammy |
[May. 7th, 2009|11:51 am] |
Yesterday or the day before, Simon was sitting on my lap as I ate dinner. I had put a piece of meat on my fork, bitten off a bit and put the fork back on my plate with the meat still on it. Simon picked up the fork and put the meat in his mouth! I was very impressed. My son rocks :). |
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Anyone wanna live with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) r4phael? |
[Apr. 28th, 2009|12:34 pm] |
Anyone looking for somewhere to live this summer, and beyond?
Or, alternatively, anyone looking for someone to fill a room for this summer and beyond?
http://r4phael.livejournal.com/45543.html |
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| Games day in aid of YTC this Saturday |
[Apr. 21st, 2009|10:27 pm] |
This Saturday (April 25th) there's a games day in the Blue Room in the student's centre in UCD from 2pm to 6pm. It's three euro in, in aid of YTC, a self funded youth theatre company based in temple bar. Your three quid gets you four hours of gaming and the piece of mind that you're helping a good cause! There's also a raffle on the day with some cool prizes.
For those of you that have met her, John's sister Laura (the girl that smacked Colm at his last Gaelcon charity auction) is a member of YTC and is organising this games day.
You don't even have to be a gamer to come along and enjoy yourself. They'll be Rock Band, among other non-gamer friendly games :) |
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