It occurred to me why would anyone want to blog...who reads a blog and who writes them? Obviously I now write one but I haven't a clue if anyone is reading it. The only time I read blogs is if I think they are saying something about me! On a few occasions I discovered things about me that I didn't even know from someone else's point of view! It wasn't necessarily bad but it was from a totally different perspective from how I saw things. Today we picked someone up from the airport; when you bring someone into Dublin for the first time, you start to see all the ordinary things that you take for granted daily, form a different perspective. A bit like blogging! I found myself apologizing for the wind and rain, as if I could have done better, and feeling ashamed at graffiti on the walls as if i should have cleaned up before they arrived! I guess a blog is like that too, I have read blogs that tell the persons inner most secrets, maybe here I am just trying to show the sunny un-graffitied part of my life...maybe that's what a blog is like? Similarly with facebook showing happy smiling faces and a perfect little world we can all live in for a while. I like facebook, it keeps me in touch with people without having to say too much, I know more snippets of peoples lives than I have ever known. I know their favorite colour, when they go out to dinner, if their relationship has ended begun or they got married. On facebook you become friends with people you were already friends with, marry the person you were married to for 22 years, condense what is going on in your life into one small profile status and invite people to see how alike they are to you. I get a buzz if I am 90 % peas in a pod and depressed when I am poles apart from someone I thought I was really good friends with! Such is the unreal world of facebook!
In reality, we change the clocks tonight and get that wonderful extra hour, it will start to get dark by 5 o'clock and the Christmas lights, though not on are up in O'Connell street. It has rained all day and its just ordinary life that makes blogging so ordinary...
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
orange pumkins
well it worked, I finally tidied the kitchen, threw loads out and now I have proper clear work tops like a real house with a real housewife with a real kitchen, the fact that the whole kitchen should be ripped out doesn't really matter to me tonight. I guess the kitchen itself is over 20 years old and I know that I should keep up and get nice new shiny presses and work tops, in fact that is the churches job and they even said we could...but sometimes I think about all the people in the world who don't even have a kitchen and I feel kind of like why do I need to 'keep up' just because everyone else's kitchen is so nice and new. The other problem is the dreaded CRAFTS! My kitchen doubles up as an art studio, mainly for my adorable minded children..and me...we paint, we stick, we cut out we have glue, glitter and clay..and my kitchen is perfect to make a mess in..even more so now because we have clear work tops to put things on.We even have a press to put the toaster in...but I am sure my family will not be able to work out where to put it and so tomorrow it will be back out on top until I put it back. Funny how old habits die hard. For instance about three years ago we didn't have a dish washer and so naturally we stacked dishes next to the sink and washed up from there. Now we have a dish washer the natural progression would be to put the dirty dishes in the machine..but somehow they still get stacked by the drainer..why? because the dish washer is full..clean ..yes..but some people here can't, won't or don't empty it! Every time I 'gently' mention this fact it is returned with' but I did' or ' I always do the dish washer' translation ' I did it 5 days ago' so basically that's my job..mostly..Alan is pretty OK at it because I sort of moaned and nagged for so long ( well he would say that, I say I just commented)
back to the subject of crafts, I went tonight to a children's craft session ( well not for children but for adults to learn how to do crafts!) It was a bit bizarre really because I can do crafts, I never say I can do anything, so this time I am.Crafts is what I do! Anyway I went! It was weird, it reminded me how kids feel when you stick a paint brush in their hand and tell them to do something. All we had to do at first was paint, ''paint an orange pumpkin''..paintbrush in hand I found myself looking to see what the others were doing..yes at my age too self conscious to just paint an orange pumpkin!Well that wasn't the end..what we didn't make!Instead of my kitchen the place was covered in glitter, paper and glue. Coming back home everyone was out and no one here to admire my handiwork!! The plan is you can make these wonderful things with your kiddies! I know I've already gone off orange pumpkins, maybe we'll stick to black cats to attach on the window with shiny bits to let the light through, what a life I lead..I forgot, the teacher passing behind where I was sitting said 'well done Ruth that's very good' wow, my head was as big as a pumpkin..I actually felt so proud of myself.. good learning experience to go back to your childhood, I go there often!!
Right now I have a splitting headache and a good cup of tea is called for, cleaning the kitchen and forced crafts are certainly too much for anyone!
back to the subject of crafts, I went tonight to a children's craft session ( well not for children but for adults to learn how to do crafts!) It was a bit bizarre really because I can do crafts, I never say I can do anything, so this time I am.Crafts is what I do! Anyway I went! It was weird, it reminded me how kids feel when you stick a paint brush in their hand and tell them to do something. All we had to do at first was paint, ''paint an orange pumpkin''..paintbrush in hand I found myself looking to see what the others were doing..yes at my age too self conscious to just paint an orange pumpkin!Well that wasn't the end..what we didn't make!Instead of my kitchen the place was covered in glitter, paper and glue. Coming back home everyone was out and no one here to admire my handiwork!! The plan is you can make these wonderful things with your kiddies! I know I've already gone off orange pumpkins, maybe we'll stick to black cats to attach on the window with shiny bits to let the light through, what a life I lead..I forgot, the teacher passing behind where I was sitting said 'well done Ruth that's very good' wow, my head was as big as a pumpkin..I actually felt so proud of myself.. good learning experience to go back to your childhood, I go there often!!
Right now I have a splitting headache and a good cup of tea is called for, cleaning the kitchen and forced crafts are certainly too much for anyone!
to WORK or not to WORK
Well I have finally joined the world of blogging. At the moment it also feels like 'time wasting'. I am 'off 'work today, when I say work I mean my income work because today is supposed to be work as in housework work...we'll see.
Coming to check the e-mail has to be my worst bad habit at the moment, granted there are lots of important e-mails to answer but then I think of other things to 'just check' and before I know it I have wasted an hour looking at this screen and achieving very little.
Now if looking at the screen, answering e-mails was my job then I would feel very justified in doing all this...alas..it is not! ( I don't think it is anyway!?)
I have walked the dog, that is virtuous, now I want to clear the kitchen of clutter! This is a near impossibility as although it may seem like a good idea it is virtually impossible as the kitchen in our house doubles up as my work space, the family dining area, childminding area..for cookery arts and crafts, we have no utility room and so the laundry has to be done in here too. However the radio in the kitchen picks up all the stations and so while I 'work' I can pick up classic FM,RTE and BBC the only problem I have is choosing which one. If anyone in my family was astute they might catch on that you can pretty well know my mood from what I am listening to. Classic FM=content and pottering around getting things done! BBC= needs to get away from the daily routine and Dublin. RTE= probably busy and involved in Irish life! if I am listening to a CD=don't talk to me! They havn't worked it out and for the most part let mum listen away...when i am listening I am quiet! When I am listening I get the work done!
So its now to the kitchen to WORK in two hours time I could have a clutter free kitchen!
Coming to check the e-mail has to be my worst bad habit at the moment, granted there are lots of important e-mails to answer but then I think of other things to 'just check' and before I know it I have wasted an hour looking at this screen and achieving very little.
Now if looking at the screen, answering e-mails was my job then I would feel very justified in doing all this...alas..it is not! ( I don't think it is anyway!?)
I have walked the dog, that is virtuous, now I want to clear the kitchen of clutter! This is a near impossibility as although it may seem like a good idea it is virtually impossible as the kitchen in our house doubles up as my work space, the family dining area, childminding area..for cookery arts and crafts, we have no utility room and so the laundry has to be done in here too. However the radio in the kitchen picks up all the stations and so while I 'work' I can pick up classic FM,RTE and BBC the only problem I have is choosing which one. If anyone in my family was astute they might catch on that you can pretty well know my mood from what I am listening to. Classic FM=content and pottering around getting things done! BBC= needs to get away from the daily routine and Dublin. RTE= probably busy and involved in Irish life! if I am listening to a CD=don't talk to me! They havn't worked it out and for the most part let mum listen away...when i am listening I am quiet! When I am listening I get the work done!
So its now to the kitchen to WORK in two hours time I could have a clutter free kitchen!
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