One Last Rainy Day

I might be able to blog tomorrow night for the final entry, but if not, at least I have today to wrap it up.

I made this blog to act as a journal for when I was in Ireland and as a way to show my family everything I was seeing. Once I get back home, it'll be superfluous, so this is it. That's why I've been so fanatic about doing an entry for each day--it's a way of keeping track of how long I've been here. Today is the 134th day. Kind of crazy.

Everything is packed except for the clothes on my back, my boarding pass is printed, the bus ticket and schedule are already in my coat pocket, and I've started giving away my extra food. There's not much left for me here now.

I meant to go for one last walk to the bay today, but it's rainy and supposed to just keep on drizzling the whole day. I'll just have to remember what it looks like from the pictures I took a couple of months ago. So much looks different now, though--the country is finally turning green from all this rain and temperate weather. I kind of wish I could stay and see the summer. Since we're higher up in latitude, the sunlight hours just go on and on. The sun woke me up at 5 a.m. this morning, and when I went to bed right before 11 last night, it still wasn't completely set. It sure is different from when I got here and had very few hours of light every day.

I guess I should get going. This is bittersweet: I'm so, so excited to finally go home, but I have loved living here this spring. Someday I'll come back.

Good night.

Smells Like Bleach

And...I'm doing my post for today early, since this is the one time I'll be on the computer today.

So far today I've re-mopped the floors, aired out the whole house, washed my bathroom, and vacuumed my bedroom. Aine and her boyfriend just got back and commented on how nice the place smells...I guess it's good if you like bleach...

Other than that, I'm just doing random errands today and giving away stuff that I don't need to keep. I'll be back briefly tomorrow when I come to print off my plane ticket. It looks like the ash is gone over Ireland for a bit, so I should be good to go. Cheers!

So bye.

What Timing

So this is my post from last night...

Yesterday was productive: I cleaned the fridge, washed the kitchen, organized all the random food that people left behind, bought some groceries, organized a potluck Sunday dinner at my house (and made an amazing casserole, if I can say so myself), and then crashed my computer.

Yup. It's out of commission.

We were sitting around watching stuff on YouTube, and it contracted a virus and froze. I spent 6 hours trying to fix it, but to no avail. Good thing this random computer lab in the business building is still open.

And that was basically it.

Smells Like Bleach

Oh my goodness--the cutest commercial is on again! It's this little baby counting to ten in Irish. He's adorable!

Cough...sorry. I was supposed to be writing about real stuff.

I'm so frustrated! Today I got up early to meet Alice and Courtney so we could walk Jackie to the bus station and say goodbye. If I only I went on that flight with her--I'd be in Danvers already and wouldn't have to worry about the ash cloud anymore! It's started to blow back down here, so I don't know if my flight will be delayed on Wednesday. Ugh.

The other American who lived in my apartment also went on that flight, so now I'm the only one left here. Well, besides my Irish roommate, but she's not coming back until Tuesday because of her final Wednesday. It's a bit lonely, but yet has some boons...such as:

• I can leave my stuff wherever and not have to worry about it or care that someone else might take it.
• I can eat all of their leftover food, which means I might not starve before Wednesday (a good thing, I think).
• I have a chance to clean the house without it getting messed up immediately. For instance, I bleached and mopped the floor downstairs and cleaned the counters. Tomorrow I'm vacuuming upstairs and cleaning the fridge. I might leave the stove for my roommate, though...
• I can go to bed early and sleep--no drunk people to wake me up!

So yeah, this is kind of nice.

Assuming my flight can take off Wednesday, it's four days and counting!

Night y'all.

Chinese Goodbye Party

Today was enjoyable a bit. I did the usual TV, reading, packing, and going crazy. However, I did get everyone to come over for supper. We ordered Chinese and watched horrible shows. Jackie is leaving tomorrow, but wants to stay longer--and I want to leave now, but have to stay until next week. We had a brainstorm and rushed up here to see if we could swap tickets, but it's another 100 euros on top of what I already paid to switch the date. Needless to say, I'm waking up early to help Alice and Courtney walk her in to town to say goodbye. I was quite excited for a few minutes though!

After everyone left, I watched Tarzan (yay!!) and then headed over to Jackie's place for the latest episode of Glee (isn't it sad how much TV I'm ingesting? blech). We helped her take out the garbage and sort through some hand-me-downs, then it was time for sleep. As in, now. So bye!

Oh, and can I say congrats self for finally getting caught up? Heh!

Night...