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.