Next week - Milestones
Next week is going to be one of those weeks, you know the sort, nothing happens in your life for the best part of a year and them wham, not the band, but more like someone hitting Batman type Wham and its a case of how many more things can we squeeze in there. Next Monday the FETAC offers go out. For those of you not in the know, its when, hopefully, the kid gets an offer. She’s nearly settled in with us now. The one problem being she’s missing the boyf a lot. We’ve come to a compromise whereby he stays over from Wed to Sat. In his defence, he’s so quiet and hangs in the room so much you’d hardly know he was there. That said I couldn’t live with them both. I value my space too much and while its a 2 bedroomed apartment, I think 4 people in it is a push. She’s starting looking around at bedsits and studios. The only problem being anyone who rents are notoriously anti social welfare. Because we all know they are a bunch of lazy mo-fos who couldn’t be arsed finding a job . Believe it or not, some people think that. I agree that there are people out there who take advantage of the system in this country, but they are not all like that. I’ll climb off my soap box now. I’ve advised her to wait until she sees what the story is with college as then she’d qualify for student accomodation. With the help of the college fund obviously. The rent in Dublin can be very high. Milestone 1: We hope a college offer 
Milestone 2: 10 years married on Wed. We had hoped to mark this by availing of the Civil Partnership act that was passed a month ago. Alas, with more paper work and red tape, its looking more like next year before it comes into affect. In the meantime, there’s a ceremony to be planned and a celebration of the last 10 years of happyily married life. We’ve had our ups and downs but we’re still here and she still seems to think I am the woman for her. And she knows all about my obession with meerkats, tractors, big shouldered men and potatoes. What can I say? I’m a lucky woman 
Not such a milestone but because its all I’ve been thinking about and working towards for the last few months, my hopefully orange belt. I don’t think I’ve trained this hard since I’ve taken up martial arts. Here’s hoping its worthwhile. My knee has started to act up now as well, I am such a crock. I think I hyper extended it a week or more ago and its still being a bit of an EMO knee. Lots of wrapping on it when I train seems to keep it happy, if it lasts until Sat week, it can do whatever it wants then as I’ll be resting it a good bit. In the meantime, I need it to act like a knee and support me.
On Friday for the weekend we head here :
Killary Harbour. One cannot overstate the natural beauty of this place. Its absolutely breath-taking. Our mate S’s parents own a cottage on the harbour, its an old famine style cottage, just about has electricity. No telly, no radio and on interweb :O I can’t wait! Its myself, Mammy2 , S and our other mate A. Cooking dinner, hanging out and relaxing. I love Killary! It will be Juno’s first trip down the west, I hope to share a few pics next week.
