they think its all over........

Third Year semester one..I can tell ya it did not feel like one semester to me at all.  There was so much work in involved this year.  When the projects and continous assessments were over it was straight into study for our final exams.  we have four this year over a week.

At this stage there are 2 exams finished,  Management Information systems and Public Relations.  I think they went Ok but it is hard to tell.  I found it quite hard to organise the time needed to study for each.  Usually by the end of the semester i have something prepared for the final exams but with all the projects this year, there just wasnt the time.

There is 2 more exams to go now.  I cant wait until it is over and i can just enjoy the lead up to christmas i still have to get a load of shopping done..!!

Pressure week..!!

So the pressure is building and building...week 12 has always been stressful but this year is definitely in a league of its own...i suppose in reality third year was always going to be harder!!  At least this years work will pay off with a degree and a graduation...yippee...

Our PR is almost done but there is still a bit to do and i think it is always easy to underestimate just how long some of the finishing touches can take....the same applies to the web site we are creating.  We have put a load of work into it and it looks really well, all thats left now is the finishing touches but it is taking a fair bit longer for those than i expected!!!!  Finally we have a database due in for Friday, i hope it will go well but it is the type of thing that could very easily go wrong.

So finally enough about college.  I went to Limerick for a night out with my friends this weekend, it was a great laugh. It was great craic for a night out and when we went to the shops the next day i saw a load of stuff i wanted to buy for myself but no amount of reasoning in the world could make me believe i can go on a shopping spree just before christmas...:(

Also the cold is really freakin me out lately i can just see it becoming the same or worse than last year...black ice all over the roads and crashes nearly every day..!!!  I dont mind the cold weather as long as its dry but  when it is so cold that it is actually dangerous to drive, i get nervous about being on the roads.

Sigh...!!!

I just have a very uneasy feeling that this is going to be a long drawn-out bad Bad week..!!  I am really tired at the moment and cant seen to shake it.  It doesnt matter what i actually do or how much effort i make there always seems to be another problem popping up to bug me!!!

On a more positive note....well lets face it after that moan anything at all would be a more positive note!!!  Myself and Amanda are working really well together on all of our projects.  Its just easy to get stuck in, no BS involved and things get done!! We are very nearly finished the PR and have made some progress on our database project.  I really cant wait to have them done.  The only thing is when they are out of the way there is only another set of things to do to take their place.

And on an even more positive note, i have half of my christmas presents sorted out....YAY..

Living the quiet life!!

I had a very quiet weekend again this weekend.  This is becoming a pattern these days now.  It is largely down to the fact that there is just not enough money to cover my socialising habits at all.  It is the lead up to christmas so as usual i have to carefully pick the nights that will hopefully be the best.!!

I have booked a class party for tomorrow night which i hope will be great craic for everyone that turns up!!  There were a few reasons why; one being that it is a couple of the girls birthdays and another that we have wednesday off college....WOOHOO...party on!!!!  I have to behave myself a bit tho as i have a parent teacher meeting in lee's school the following day...

I am going to get up from this laptop soon and start making the gingerbread cookies to bring to siobhans apartment tomor night (lets just call them her birthday present  ;)  I think it will be a great night altogether..there has been some talk of jello shots too...!!

I am feeling better this week about all of the work we need done for college.  Myself and Amanda worked very very hard on each of our projects last week and got a bit done on each.  It was a big load off our minds when we realised that we had covered a number of things on our to-do list.

So i think it is my last weekend for a while of doing absolutely nothing all weekend...i am kind of getting used to it tho..me and lee went to xtra vision and picked out a load of movies and microwaved some popcorn...oh and dont forget the hot chocolate...!!

Also there is always xfactor every weekend to keep us entertained.  I happen to completely agree this week with who went...Something about Jamie just didnt sit right with me.. i of course think that the twins cant sing but the fact that i sit watching this with a 7 year old JEDWARD fan, i can totally see why they are still in and in fairness everyone has their target audience.  Jedwrd just happened to tap into the audience that can skillfully pester their poor parents into picking up the phone to vote..!! ANYTHING for a peaceful life..

Time is Flying..!!

Its week 9 in college.  We have a massive workload which includes developing Web Sites, Database Systems and a Pr Project.  Along with these we are coming closer and closer to the computer lab exams and the final exams.  At this stage it is hard to find the time to meet for the group projects, let alone sitting down and developing a study plan for the  final exams!!  We have Friday off college thgis week which i think is coming at a perfect time as stress levels are high at the moment.  If i can sum up the motivation i am going to try and set up a study plan for some of my theory subjects.  It would be great if i could get some of the "TO DO's" ticked off my list.!

On another stressful note it is 6 weeks til christmas..! Dont get me wrong i love christmas and the festive spirit, the turkey dinner and lounging around with my family.  The part i dont like is the lead up to christmas, all of the rushing around the overcrowded shops hoping that what you finally pick up, just to escape the extrremely claustraphopic environment, will be the perfect present for someone.  Lee has asked for a "really cool bike" so it is great that he will get something this year that he will definately get a lot of use out of.!

Work Work Work...!!!

Week 8 in college and it seems like there is no time whatsoever to get the mountain of work done.  Seriously there is a lot of programs building up on my Sky plus without the time to watch it!!!  That is a problem!!!  I am a bit relieved that i submitted my 3 million word project, sorry 3 thousand but at one stage it felt like 3 million!!!  But in reality when i stopped concentrating so hard on that i realised just how much other things i have to do in a short period of time.

Myself and amanda had a meeting with our company for PR this morning.  I love the project and the tasks involved i just wish that there was more time to concentrate on the project because i think it is great experience working with Rubicon staff.  There is a huge amount involved in it and as soon as we look into one thing and discuss it 3 more things to do seem to pop up out of nowhere!!

At this stage in the week i am so stressed about various things that i just want the week to be over.  I hope next week will feel a little bit easier..:(

I love Halloween....

I went out with a group from college last thursday night.  Myself and Siobhan(the most innocent devil Ever!!) went to the Cats house.  We did a wee bit of drinking there and all put the finishing touches on our costumes for the night.  Cat wrynn, the ultimate queen of backcombing, went at my hair for almost half an hour until i had more volume than Tina Turner herself.  It ended up looking fantastic and i hav to say i definately looked like Beetlejuice...well the drag queen version..!!

We went into the city on the bus and a load of people were randomly breaking into Spongebob Squarepants song as our friend trish wasa cute spongebob for the night.  It was a great night altogether and virtually everybody that was out made an effort to dress up and get into the spirit of Halloween.  The only downside was the awful rain and the fact that Siobhan lost her phone...!!! The Poor little devil Siobhan..!!!!

On the day of Halloween which was on the Saturday I spent the day buying more white hair spray.  When i got home myself and lee started to carve the pumpkin.  At the starting point of this task lee was extremely excited and insisted that it was totally his job and he would have a great chance to use the special pumpkin carving kit i had bought him especially for it.  So i cut the top off the pumpkin and told lee to get started.  He looked into the pumpkin, made a face like he was going to vomit and stepped back about five paces horrified that he was expected to scoop out such a mess!!!  Needless to say the pumpkin job was left to me.!!  That evening it was time for lee to get ready as a zombie pirate to go to his friends bonfire party.  I painted his face and off we went. Cool pirate sword and all.!!

when i got back from the party with lee my friend from limerick and wexford were after arriving to stay with me for the night.  Lee went trick or treating and i once again transformed myself into drag Beetlejuice for a night out in the city.  It was a great night and we got to see a fantastic band in the Crane Lane.

Jazz Weekend

So it is Saturday night.. There are a few of us heading out to the beer festival in the Franciscan well.  It has been great craic in previous years, but always better when it's not rainin and so far tonite the rain has stayed away...so fingers crossed...I am wearing my new purple dress and new shoes tonite..

Speakin of shoes i think i should join a help group soon i have a serious addiction i cant leave them there in the shop all unloved and unappreciated..!! Hello i'm Isabel and i have a problem...!!

So hopefully tonite will go well and the plan for tomor is to meet up with the girls.. if i can go to the band i want to see in the Old Oak for a while all the better..!!!

I may head off now to doll myself up...i cant sit here blogging too long..IT IS A SATURDAY NIGHT....!!

nights out in cork....!!!

So what a great week, this is purely from the perspective of nights out..!!! Thursday night we started in rachels, headed to the loft for a short visit, and then on to the Bailey in town..there was a not too big not too small group of us out...we had our own little space to boogy away and i think everyone will agree it was a great nite...i was a bit worse for wear the next day and all of the motivation to start my web report went out the window..it turns out that it was a blessing as i have since changed my title and didnt waste too much time on the last one..

The idea was to stay in all over the weekend and study for the exams we have coming up this week...and while i did dedicate a bit of time for this..i found myself dressed up and on my way to collect the girls at 10.00 saturday night(after xfactor..of course)...i had a fantastic night only fuelled by red bull and completely alcohol free...!!!

Halloween in Cork...

So halloween, some people say its a kids holiday..now im not taking away from the kids at all i totally agree they should all do their thing and i always have a decent supply of sweets to send them into a sugar buzz for days...BUT there is 100% a definite opportunity for ALOT of craic to be had if people get into the spirit, dress up and hit the fancy dress paries..!!!

I have done this for the past few years in cork and find that each year it becomes more and more fun which in turn urges people to participate more the following year after realising just how much of a laugh can be had!!!! Iv ventured to freakscene in Gorbys a couple of years ago and although it was packed i had the best laugh ever...last year i went to a few different places in town and thought i was going to stand out more in my costume but soon realised that people who don't dress up on halloween night seem to stand out more than the people who do...!!!

A Busy Week....

The focus in college this week was on applying finishing touches to our CVs..There are a huge number of different ways to lay out the Cv, i think it is simply a matter of finding the best fit for our own...The career fair was in college, which involves a number of various business's setting up stands in the college..I found them very useful and informative and all of the people i spoke to were extremely positive and friendly...unfortunately there just didn't seem to be many opportunities there for our course for work placement this year...

We sat a Human Resource Management exam on Thursday ...I think it went well enough....although...i had no sleep going in that morning as my throbbing tooth kept me awake all night...the dentist informs me its my dodgy wisdom tooth so this could be the start of a number of crappy experiences with it unless i get em all whipped out....!!!

Its going to be a quiet weekend this weekend now...and i am really looking forward to some needed relaxation...!!!

Engagement Party...

It was a busy weekend....which started off with me trying to build up the motivation to bake a batch of my famous gingerbread cookies for my sisters engagement party...finally as the hangover from thursday night faded, at 11.30 friday night, the baking began.....well it worked out that it was worth it in the end as all the ginger fellas went down very well...!!!

The party was fantastic altogether, a marquee in my sisters garden up in wexford with a stage and live rock band set up for our entertainment....and it was definately entertaining....the music was great, the food was gorgeous and ther was and endless supply of DRINK...!!! It came to an end at 5 sunday morn...and i think we were all a bit worse for wear the next day...but isnt all the sufferin the next day the sign of a sussessful night out...???

indian Summer...:)

So the summer was shocking...it was like monsoon season for a while there!!! But in the past month things have been looking up...little late but..better late than never..?

The beach got a couple of visits from myself and my son, who was starting to doubt if had the seasons right at all..as i hadn't been to the beach for the entire summer i said we would build a really cool sand-castle...the fact that i am a ridiculous perfectionist only sprung to mind half way through the project..needless to say after 35 mins my very patient 7 year old said 'um mammy can i go and play anythin else'... an hour of my life later i was very proud of my creation...and my gorgeous son came back to take all the praise from passers by..

The fabulous weather of late has also gave way to a large number of visits to the coastline of west cork...kinsale, the old head and little bays like rocky bay and roberts cove. I still havn't converted from my love of the beaches and coves in wexford but while in this end of the country the stretch of coastline down there is a great day out...!!!

Third Year in College

So we are in week three of our third year...The routine is starting to kick in and the realisation that we are back from holidays and the lazy days are over...!!! Most of the subjects are starting to become more clear of exactly what is going to be expected from us and it doesnt look like any of it will be easy..!!!

Womens Marathon 09..

Muscles are still aching from my first attempt at a marathon yesterday...it all started well with water in hand and prepared myself for a fast walk to the finish line...but for some strange reason about a mile in i got a adrenalin surge and the need to jog....this did only last for a while but i was still content with my mile and a half of jogging and the rest fast paced walk...it paid off in the end as i reached the finish line in under the hour which i initially did not expect...All of this has resulted in a new motivation to jog the entire race next year..!!!