I now have two skype screen names: ness1113 (home pc) and missness1113 (work pc).
My LA # is the same but it doesn't work from here. I can check my messages on it though.
It's been two weeks and it's been very busy...so I'm sorry for not posting sooner and thanks for the reminder Caroline and Sandra. Let's see... work has been good but very busy...I'm finishing a project to launch our new recruiting site and database which is keeping me very busy. We've hired a ton of people which is also keeping me busy...but to the fun and unusual stuff...
Laundry machines in Ireland do not work. They have a washer/dryer combo in my new room, which I moved into the day after I last wrote, and the dryer simply doesn't work. It spins clothes for over 3 hours and they are just as wet when you pull them out as if you never dried them at all...so I'm not sure why they're called dryers...they should be called spinners or time wasters, haha but if the whole purpose of a dryer is to dry clothes, this contraption certainly doesn't qualify.
I spent most of the week before last sick with the flu...caught my first Irish bug and it knocked me out for a solid few days. Nothing to make you homesick like getting the flu when your 8,000 miles away and are too tired to even walk to the pharmacy (2 blocks away) to get medicine because the walking makes you break out in a cold sweat and get dizzy from your fever.
Once recovered, I've been to a few more restaurants and outings...last Friday night, I went out with Aaron and his wife Christine (from Canada) who just moved here as well. We walked around Merrion Square and had dinner and a drink at a really great restaurant. Christine is great. She was a dance major in college, so we have the love for dancing in common...they are both very fun.
We decided to take the Dart (which lines the beach side of the city) down the coast. We ran into Kevin as we were coming out of the apt. building and tricked him into coming with us by basically walking so far out of the way, that he got stuck on our little adventure..which then turned into a pub crawl.
Her drink is bigger than her:)
We went to Dun Laoghaire and Christine and I signed up for a modern/hip hop class (I later decided not to do it because I don't want to spend every Saturday stuck in dance class when I could be travelling around Europe). Then we went for an early dinner at another pub, watched a little bit of the Ryder's Cup (golf is huge in Ireland), met a Dun Laoghiare native who took us to another place near the docks of Dun Laoghaire (pronounced Dun Leary) where we had another round and then hopped on the Dart back to Grafton Street to meet Bill at a club called Dakota.
Me & Christine:)
Kevin, Aaron & our DunLaoghiare Native, Garrett!
Christine, while we were lost near Grafton St., had heard me saying to Bill on the phone that we were going to meet him in South Dakota (a joke/trick to remember the name of the club) and proceeded to walk up to a very drunk Irishman and asked him with big brown eyes, "Excuse me sir, can you please tell me where South Dakota is?" to which he replied, "No I'm sorry, I'm not from here." So funny I almost fell over and my stomache actually hurt from laughing.
It turned out that Dakota was literally right across the street from where we were, but unfortunately we had to walk a few blocks out of the way since we were technically asking for directions back to the United States.
We did meet up with Bill and a few other co-workers and went to a few more places that night and of course ended the evening in American fashion...at MacDonalds.
Thursday, Christine and I had our first "girls only" evening and went to the National Gallery Art Museum, to dinner, and then watched last week's Grey's Anatomy at my apt. It was very girlie and very neeeded as I've only been surrounded by men since I got here and I have been going a little stir crazy...I think Christine has been too so it was very good.
Last night we had an un-official work birthday party for Joe O'Reilly at Cafe En Seine...or as I like to call it Cafe Insane. About 30 of the FTP crew passed through at some point in the night so it was good, very bonding. Jennifer, our HR Generalist, came over before hand for a quick bite and then we went over there together. Unfortunately, I think I gave her my flu so she retired a little bit earlier than the rest of us. The music was good and the place is huge. It's a 3 story club packed from every direction.
I got to see our new office for the first time yesterday, we have the top floor and 1/2 of the floor below that with one of the most amazing views of the ocean I have ever seen. It is gorgeous. I couldn't take pictures because they are still in construction..we even had to wear helmets to do the walk through, but it looks like it will be amazing.
This is the first rainbow I've seen which happens to be right over our new office space:)
I am still trying to get home for Christmas so I'll let everyone know if I can get it approved this week...I need to book tickets before they become astronomically expensive, but I'm hoping to come to LA on December 23rd - January 2nd...so cross all your fingers that it works out. I am very homesick today. As much fun as it can be here on this crazy adventure, I miss my friends and family alot. The people in Dublin have been very nice, but I'm also realizing that I am definitely a California girl and my lifelong relationships with friends and family cannot be replaced so I can't wait to get home and see everyone.
Love to you all!
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