Hello Earthlings! Yes, you are all from Earth so you are Earthlings. Well, except you Deidre. We still don’t know what you are. Anywho, Welcome to my blog.
I hope you enjoyed Leo’s rendition of blog time. If not, fear not! He expressed that he would not like to have the responsibility ever again to write a whole blog himself. So that means you are stuck with me for the rest of eternity!!! Or at least until you close this page and never open it up again. Whichever comes first. From now on he will only be co-writing blogs with me. I hope you enjoyed both the videos we had on the last plog bost :)
I would like to warn all you who do not know about European cars. If you ever become tempted to buy a Renault, be warned!! They are famous for their electrical problems. Leo’s car is a Renault and it is probably the quirkiest car I’ve ever been in. Randomly the lights in the dashboard stop working, including the lights that give the milage and open door signal. The other day it was so lovely outside I rolled the window down only to have it not go back up. So as the sun was going down we drove on the motorway with one window down for most of the trip. Luckily I had my coat so it wasn’t too bad, plus we got the window up after Leo’s pee break (I’m telling ya, small bladder!!). Now you have been warned!!!!
Very few interesting things happen these days. Something interesting that happened back home was fake Easter. I hope all of you had a good fake Easter. When Leo heard about how a certain someone was canceling Easter(you can’t cancel Easter!!! I don’t care how many times you fell in the sewer, you’re still not entitled to “cancel Easter”!!!) he got the idea for this video. I hope that you all enjoy it. Click here for the video.
I hope everyone had a good real Easter as well. Here in Ireland, we didn’t do much to celebrate Easter. We also had a mix of fake easter and real easter. Leo found his basket on Friday. I went to church on Sunday and when Leo got home we had our egg war and Leo have me a chocolate egg. It was good but nothing like home. Oh, and I won our egg roll :D
Last week was good. It’s been slowly getting warmer and a little bit more sun these days. One day last week it was sunny all day!!! I couldn’t believe it either! The days it’s been nice and Leo’s been off work, we’ve gone hiking in different places. Ravensdale, Rostrevor, and Dùn an Rí is where we’ve been to recently. At Rostrevor he showed me the bike trail he rode in his race last year for the World Fire and Police Games. It’s a pretty gnarly track but I think my mom could handle it. With her nerves of steel there’s not much she can’t do. I mean, not everyone makes it to the top of Angels Landing.
Dùn an Rí was a nice forest. Leo said it was the first time in his life he’s paid to get into a forest but I think it was well worth the five euro. Pictures are here. The cool ones at the end were taken by Leo.
Dùn an Rí was a nice forest. Leo said it was the first time in his life he’s paid to get into a forest but I think it was well worth the five euro. Pictures are here. The cool ones at the end were taken by Leo.
As I was writing this, I got my documents I mailed off to immigrations earlier this month. That’s the good news, that they were so quick this time around. The bad news is that they want more documents. Previously they wanted documents listing his benefit claims but since he doesn’t work down here in the south he doesn’t have any. Now they want documentation from down here saying that he doesn’t have any benefit claims. They also want a letter proving he has private medical insurance down here. Maybe it's just be but that’s really redundant because he works for the north where, being apart of the UK, they provide you with medical insurance. They know he already has insurance that would cover him but they want him to get insurance down here as well. A super pain in the butt :( Not much we can do though.
Yippie skippy!! 9 days until my parents come for a visit!!! :D I can hardly wait!!! :D :D :D
Leo has recently become a Grimm-aholic. I’m being as supportive as I can because let’s face it there are worse things to be addicted to than awesome butt-kicking adventures and creatures. I know it’s no Pushing Daisies, Hannibal, or Sherlock but it is still a good 40 mins.
The other day Leo and I went for a walk to the gas station down the road to top up on this internet dongle we bought. It’s a little device that give us internet where ever we are as long as it has cell service. Anyway, on the way there I noticed people looking at us and leo had called some people dicks because he said they were looking at us funny. He didn’t say it to their faces though I’m sure he would have said it to their face if they weren’t on the other side of the street. I told him that it was probably because they thought we were guy. He said probably but he didn’t care. (you can thank me for cleaning up the language later ) About halfway back to our place some little boy steps out of his house just as we walk by and asks (keep in mind I have my sweatshirt off and am wearing one of my Perry the platypus shirts which, I personally don't think are baggy or super boyish but maybe that's just me) and asks, “Are you a boy?” I turned around and asked, “Am I a boy?” “Yes.” “That would be a negative,” I replied and continued walking away. Leo busted up laughing and exclaimed, “The cheek of some people!!” The whole way home I noticed people looking at us funny. I guess I should give this sports bra a 5 star rating for keeping me tucked in so well I look flat chested.
I have recently been looking into the process we will have to go through to get Leo a green card which led me to a phone call with a paralegal in California. Not surprisingly it seems like it is going to be a much longer and more expensive process than what I am doing right now to become an EU citizen, so I guess I should really moan to loudly. In any case it does sound do-able :)
I found this picture of me with long hair the other day and thought I'd poise a question for you all to vote on at the poll just to the left of this post(it's near the top, for those of you who cannot locate the poll).
I have been volunteering once a week at Ravensdale Equestrian Lodge which has been a good way for me to keep occupied and entertained. The owner has been super awesome about getting me on horses and having lessons for my time down there, which he doesn’t have to do but does anyway. It’s really nice to be around horses and occasionally hop up on one :) I’ll have to take pictures at some point.
Not much but so is life :) I miss you all and hope well you all are!!!
Not much but so is life :) I miss you all and hope well you all are!!!