Christmas

It's 9:17am on Christmas morning. I woke up about an hour ago to the sound of my gran crashing to the floor. I tried to help her up as my brother got my mam out of bed. She came rushing down the stairs and we just about had her up when the following happened.

Granddad: I'm just going to go to the toilet.
Mam: Be careful. We don't want you falling as well.
Granddasd: I won't.

He literally walked two steps further and crashed down in the doorway, much to the dislike of my Mam. My Dad showed up a few seconds later and was all like

Dad: What's going on?
Adam: I dunno. People just keep fucking falling over.

I don't think I've ever come across a more helpful or accurate description of what was going on at a particular time.

I notced two presents in my pile and only expected one. The extra one was clearly a game or a dvd. I opened it to find High School Musical Singstar. You know me well, Santa. You know me too well. :)

Happy Christmas!

Two Thousand And Nine

A year in review in the form of bullet points. I'm pretty bored.

- Dave's apartment and Time in Naas.
- Africa and Camping and realising how much better Irish society is.
- Killester House and the many parties and trios and general good times.
- Friday the 13th. Drunken idiots breaking my glasses. Becca stealing his shoe.
- Seizures. 3 fucking seizures!!!!
- Midnight cycles
- Paddys Day. The kid on the train. The scummers also on the train. Funderland in Bray.
- My Gran's fading health
- Bailey. <3
- Natalie Tran
- The Clarence. What a ridiculous experience.
- Brand New and Kevin Devine
- Birmingham and that asian girl that stared at me when I was getting dressed. Freak.
- Summer Barbeque which was weird yet pleasent.
- ATC for the second year.
- Rounders and Tennis
- Sweden. Fucking Sweden.
- Dempsey's song
- Tilly and the Wall
- That significant night
- College again
- Walking through Darndale for the first time in years. *Shudders*
- Walking through town all night long. Fuck!
- Hallowe'en with Pokémon
- Sundays with Rebecca
- Skins, The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother.
- That blog I wrote for Amy
- Amy coming home
- Music with Amy
- Amy
- Laser fucking eye surgery
- Meeting up with my Italian Leader again. :)
- Dempsey's super awesome present. Seriously the best ever!

And let's not forget...

- Rose. By far the greatest person in the world! You pale in comparison, whoever you are. :)

All in all, it's been a good year. And if we take a look at where I was and where I am now, I'm doing so much better in every which way. Despite the vast periods of nothingness, I'm glad everything happened. Well for the most part anyway. I'm so much more content in being me and not trying to be what someone else wants or expects me to be. Bring on the new decade. Can't wait to destroy whatever life throws at me. WE'RE HERE TO PILLAGE! WE'RE HERE TO BURN!

Progress

I love progress. It's slow progress but it is definately progress. I'm looking forward to creating something that I'm not going to hate or let slip to apathy or forget about in a few months time. Pen and Paper though. It's for the best. You dope, you.

I read most of a book that Amy gave lent me today (It's not long and it is in no way impressive that I've almost finished it). It's absolute gold though.

'He said to me
that trying to reach heaven without
god is like trying to
jump across the grand canyon,
and it just couldn't be done.

I told him that
Robby Knievel jumped across the grand canyon

He said to me
that he would pray for my soul
The poor man.'

Amazing! In my experience with pointing out the flaws in the Jehova Witness's logic and arguing with them for hours, I have found that this is exactly how they react. they're such spazzers.
I remember talking to priests and teachers about why we go to church and why repeat prayers over and over instead of actually talking to this God character.

Priest shows up to class to give out about kids not going to mass every week...

Priest: Hands up who doesn't go to church every week.
Richie: *Shoots hand up*
Priest: Why don't you?
Richie: I don't want to.
Priest: You should make time to go to church.
Richie: Why?
Priest: So you can pray to God.
Richie: I do that at home.
Priest: You should still make time for church. *Leaves classroom*

If he'd even made any attempt to answer me properly I probably wouldn't hate any organised religion the way I do now. It's just a 'You're only in 2nd class and don't know anything' mentality which is completely stupid. I'm glad I had the cop on to reject their idiocy so young. :)

I got the most amazing present ever today. It's a photo collage of the past several years. And it's absolutely massive. I'm taking down a painting I've no attachment to and replacing it. I miss having photos on my wall.

I'm getting my eyes retested tomorrow. It's best of I sleep now. Good night, the internet.

Idiots

If you can't handle your drink, don't drink! When your friends want nothing to do with you anymore you're doing something wrong. It's not the first, or the second, or the third, it's not even the fourth time you've done this. Fuck off!

I spent half of last night with a bunch of lads trying to get one of our 'friends' into a taxi. He wouldn't get in one. He couldn't construct a word, nvermind a sentence. He couldn't walk. He swung for one of us and then tried to chase us and careered into a fence and bounced his head off it. And after helping him up, he started swinging for me. I'm through with it. I don't care anymore.

No More College

I finished college today. I was the last in the class to show that my program worked and apparently I did it better than anyone. Hyuss! I'm doing pretty well in all my subjects. Im only worried about one and there was nothing I could do about it so I'll just have to work a bit harder in that exam.

My friends are the nicest people ever. Like seriously. I saved several messages into my phone today so I can look back over them in a few weeks and smile away to myself.

I really wish I could do more for you. :(

The Little Things...

It's weird how much the little things annoy me. What gives you the right to say 'It's hard to be around Gran and Granddad'? You literally see them about three times a year. You can't claim an attachment like that when you don't care enough to even visit.
I went to work last night. I hate Christmas parties. It's just so hectic, always. Any time there's a free bar, people become obnoxious in their goals of drinking as much as physically possible and trying to get served. What a stupid society we live in.

The two assignments that were due on Friday are now due on Monday and Tuesday. Which is awesome because I don't even nearly have them done. I really don't understand how we're supposed to adequetly learn enough to go to work after college. Instead of using the lab facilities there, we have lectures on 'methods to program' and they don't actually teach you how to do anything. I literally have to go online and look up tutorials for how to do the simplest things. If they'd give us a stable amount of work as we go along and not just a massive assignment at the end, we'd actually know what we're doing.

My rose is back. Man that was a rough couple of days...

Time Management

I feel terrible. On the bus home I got headache which gradually got worse and I really just wanted to get off. Now I feel like I might vom before the night is over. Oh well.

I had an awesome day today. I love meeting up with old friends. And it's weird that I have friends that are so old. Old enough to be my mother. Madness. I regret nothing though. She's one of the nicest people ever.

It's so strange that I was working in ATC only 4 months ago. And another few months before that, Killester was the place to be. And now it's two weeks till Christmas? What the hell? It feels like only a few months ago I was listening to Xmas FM. My perception of time is all over the place. Since leaving school, time has somewhat melted into a goop. Ha. Goop.

I have to come up with a project plan for my 3rd year project now. It involves alot of time management which, as you can see from the above paragraph, baffles me. It's almost impossible to do it all now considering the project won't be started for ages. I can't wait to edit the schedule to fit our shortcomings before we even start. It's basically estimating things you haven't accounted for. It really is an ongoing process rather than something to before you start. Oh the joys and logic of college.

My presentation went surprisingly well. Whoopa!!! Who'd have thought such a serious lecturer would be up for some light comedic relief.