Why aren't they letting me buy this? :(

My mind is transformed!

Again I found myself up - and the whole house asleep :) My internal alarm clock rang at 7am this morning... I rolled around in bed for a while, then got up to shower at half 7... So from 8am, I tried to get online. I restarted the router twice, reset the modem twice, and sat there patiently for an HOUR. Until I wanted to cry. Hahaha, I think I cry pretty easily - when I'm frustrated. Anywho, I decide to pack my lunch for our little after church picnic - and my rolls have gone rock hard :( Wasn't my day this morning - but after that it was all great again :)

Our picnic got shifted indoors to Cathie's house :) The weather didn't like us today :( But it was still loads of fun! I only just got home bout half an hour ago? And yeah, I figure if we were actually outside at a picnic - we'd be back home wayyy earlier than that :) It was really nice, everyone inside having food together, chatting and laughing and just hanging out :)

Spoke to my parents last night, and I think the whole family's coming over for when my brother, Yong starts university :) I can't wait! But it also means I'm not going to be going home for the summer... I'm missing out on catching up with friends and also the lovely food and sun and camp5 and DRIVING, but sure I can do that in December (if I go home then!)... I'm so excited for them to come over! Just can't contain myself! Told Angela and Sumi earlier and I couldn't stop jumping around ;) Yayyyyyyyy!!! Its like I live my life here separate from my family, and its just great knowing that I'd get to share that with them when they come over :) And its the perfect timing too - cos now I'm well settled in, and its not too close to them having to come over again for my graduation so... Just PERFECT!

I still can't get Mr. Shy Smile out of my head... Its not like I've been obsessing, but just... His smile... What is wrong with me! By the way, I didn't make it to the gym yesterday :P Met Phillip for coffee (well, he had coffee, I had apple juice) and after that met up with Cathie for tea in town :) We walked through the market and smelled some yummy food, some fishy fish and bumped shoulders with people :) Then I went shopping...

I got me a new pickup for my guitar :) Now all I need is an amp to try it out on! And also a guitar strap so I can start playing my own guitar in church :)
I also got me some new running shoes for the mini-marathon :) Adidas a3 Vortec!
I also bought some new duvet covers and sheets - they were on sale at Harry Corry :)

Walking home from town yesterday was nice - I got to stop at an open area and lie down by the river and enjoy the sun before heading back :) Lovely... And I think I'm tanner! Just a little bit :)

I also spent yesterday emptying 60% of my wardrobe into a luggage bag and a duffel bag... So now my room is really looking empty - when I open up my wardrobe its almost all gone! Ah well, good to get that sorted now while we're not haunted by exams :)

That's all for now - I wonder have people copped on to the fact that I'm blogging again? B'feider!

Photos!

I have a new photoblog!

Only pictures from the Easter Treasure Hunt are up, but I'll put up pictures from France and Krakow soon :) Also, ones from my 21st birthday party :)

Looks like...

I'm back into the posting groove - don't know if that's a good thing or not...

I may be the only person out of 7 in this house that has an internal clock. Its a Saturday, and I woke up at 8, to an extremely quiet house... Its not fair how they can sleep in til "late" - later than me anyway...

I got two emails today from the consultant I'm doing research with over this summer, its so cute, she thinks I spell my name "stezsie" instead of "Stacey" because that's what I use in my email address... Maybe I should get me a proper email address :P

Last day of attachments..

What a miserable day. And what a miserable way, to end our 4th med attachments... Got kicked out of the ward round to take histories - we were supposed to present them when they got to our patient in the round... So we go down at about 20 past 9, and the history and exam is done by 10, and so the waiting begins... Half 10 rolls around, and we're still waiting... I text Ailbhe to see if the team is with them yet - they're not. So we wait some more, and 11 o'clock arrives "I'm leaving if they don't get here in 5 minutes", Daniel goes and bleeps the SHO, "We're in Mary's, we're going to Anthony's next"... So we're like, OK, might as well wait for them at Anthony's... So we wait... And wait some more... And continue waiting... At this point, its close to 12pm... And everyone's getting agitated and irritated... Aimi's voice starts getting all high pitched, I start stamping my feet on the ground - throwing a little hissy fit... And Ailbhe, cool, calm and collected says "Sure, its our last day, let's not make a big thing out of this..." We finally catch sight of the team, and guess what? The consultant is gone... And its just the team then... And there's still too many people to be on a ward round, and we wait outside while they talk to patients... Hanging around only long enough to arrange for a tutorial... One is arranged for 3pm. I couldn't make it for the tutorial, but guess what, our group got stood up again - and the tutorial never materialised. Oh well, we're done. What a way to end it. Ah well... That's that.

I'm still here thinking of Mr. Man's shy smile :) I think the thing I liked about him, was that he's good looking, but wasn't full of himself? You can tell that about guys... Guys who act like they know they're good looking aren't as attractive as they would be if they didn't.

Anywho, enough about guys and their smiles :P

I'm pretty proud of myself, did I mention a couple of us from church are doing the Women's Mini Marathon? So I started training last week... Anyway, why am I proud of myself? Well yeah, I've been going to the gym for over a year now, and I hardly ever do work on the treadmill... Probably when I just started, but never really... So... This is what I've accomplished in a week:

Tuesday last week, I ran 2 km in 16 minutes (7.5 km/h) at 0 incline :)

Tuesday this week, I ran 3 km in 22 minutes (8.18 km/h) at an incline of 4 :)

And yesterday, I ran 4 km in 35 minutes (6.86 km/h) at an incline of 5 :)

Well not actually that proud bout my latest "result", got kinda lazy - and I don't think it was such a great idea to do all them weights before running, so new strategy for tomorrow... Start with stretches then go for the running :)

I have to say that I have ZERO stamina! I can run short distances and do them in bursts, but I find it hard to maintain things at a constant pace... So yeah, I'm proud of myself... Tomorrow, my goal is to get 5 km done in 35 minutes :) while keeping the incline steady at 5 :) Will be reporting back again tomorrow :)

Brown sugar in the hole!

Guess what I did? Today I was making tea in the cafe, and.. Instead of pouring sugar into my cup of tea, I tore open the sugar packet over my cup, and poured it into the bin hole :P It wasn't like I was half asleep or super tired, just did that unconsciously - and had a little laugh to myself :) Good thing there wasn't anyone around when I did that :) Tee hee hee...

My eventful day full of tutorials, free journal club keychains, and heart sounds, ends with a lovely session at the gym :) Cute European guy and myself kept exchanging glances and smiles :) I was on the lower abs stand thing, and he was on one of the trapezius machines, and he starts saying something to me, I don't know what he said, so I get off the thing I'm on and go over to him, and he asks if he can have a go on my machine thing :) And so I said ok - I think he was trying to show off, cos he attached like a 25kg weight to his belt and did like 10 of those things guys do - I don't know what they're called, where you have like parallel bars and you lift yourself up and lower yourself down with feet off the ground ;) Anyway, it was nice to have some attention... And he had such a great smile :D I love smiles :D Haha, and I can't believe I pulled a "damsel-in-distress" on him :P I was on a hamstring machine, and I had to adjust the bit that you hook your foot onto? Yeah, and I tried to adjust it, I only tried for a second to unscrew the thing, in my heart hoping he'd come to my rescue, and he did!

Aah, my lovely, smiley gym man, when will I see you again? Can't believe you were there for so long! I was there for two hours, and you were there before me, and when I left you were still there... No wonder you're so fit :)

Another new layout

Yeah, I've been itchy with html lately. Just can't leave it alone! I dunno, maybe because I have nothing much to write about, I go and play with my template? B'feider...

I liked the template before this - those of you who got to see it saw it, its gone now - but, it wasn't really what I wanted? But yeah, I love this template!

Anywho, enough of this template talk :)

How is anyone who is reading this? How's your week gone? How's the first quarter of your year gone for you?

I can't believe its already April! And the end of it!

I will be back after lectures to post another post - internet at home's gone funky monkey..

How do you like my new layout?

I like it! Still have to edit and add links, but that's about all I think? Oh, and my tagboard too..

Loads have happened since I last posted a post :P As loads usually do.. In a nutshell, here goes!

We went snowboarding! So much fun! Can't wait to go again! Will post some pictures soon enough :) Flights back to Galway got delayed and missed - leaving us with only 2 hours in Galway before having to leave for Krakow on our class trip!

Krakow was really good fun, just so nice to do things together as a class :) Dinners, drinking, and a trip to Auschwitz...

Had a birthday party to celebrate my 21st :) Another great night out, with the class and people I love :) Only wish that my family and Angela could have been there...