More about me... A-Z version..

A - Available/Single or Taken?...
.... taken
B - Best Friend?...
.... my cousin Rosinda.
C - Cake or pie?...
......cake, anyday..
D - Drink Of Choice?...
.....def coffee, get so grumpy when I dont have my coffee in the morning!!!
E – Essential Item You Use Everyday?...
....toothpaste...
F - Favourite Color?...
... Blue
G - Gummy Bears or Worms?...
....well........given the choice I'll have to say gummy bears.
H - Hometown?...
... My childhood was pretty much divided between Lisbon and a small village in the portuguese region of Alentejo, although I always feel a real sense of coming home when going to Alentejo.
I - Indulgence?...
.... Books, spend way too much money on books.
J - January or February?...
.......February - this is a short month,when I get over the long month of January and six weeks without pay and I really start looking forward to Spring and warmer weather.
K - Kids & Their Names?...
..... Don't have kids, don't foresee having kids in the near future. And in all honesty I havent really stopped to think of names.
L - Life is Incomplete Without?...
...Books, and of course B...
M - Marriage date?...
... not married
N - Number of Siblings?...
......1 younger brother.
O - Oranges or Apples?...
.... Oranges
P - Phobias/Fears?...
.... This one is hardly original, but I'm scared shitless of snakes, something about snakes just creeps me out. I can't even stand to watch them on TV.
Q - Favourite (movie) Quote?...
...... no one puts baby in the corner... HAHAHAHA... how cheesy...
R - Reason to Smile?...
....its friday!!!!
S - Season? Spring or Fall?...
...... Spring, I love spring.The expectation of warmer weather. The birds singing... I just love Spring.
T - Tag 3 people?...
... Del, Deb - will tag only these two for the time being.
U - Unknown Fact About Me?...
....I cant really think of anything...
V - Vegetable you don’t like?...
.... I seriously don't like carrots, well..boiled carrots especially, its a childhood thing, never ever liked boiled carrots.
W - Worst Habit?...
....reading whilst B is trying to sleep, it really annoys him... And of course, smoking which also really annoys B.
.... Along with the above comes the fact that I'm really stubborn and will not stop regardless how much it annoys B. And yes, he has the patiente of an angel.
X - X-rays You’ve Had?...
... Teeth.
Y - Your Favorite Food?...
... Well, I loved seafood I won't even go into specifics, just seafood in general - give it to me and I'll have a smile plastered all over my face. : )
Z – Zodiac sign?
.... Aries

How I feel right this minute.......

Bored

Babel

When to watch "Babel" on sunday, has to be said that this was actually a second option, we actually wanted to go and see "Blood Diamonds", so we didn't really know anything about Babel besides the fact that it got really good reviews and that Brad Pitt was on it.

Anyway, on our way out - my first reaction was a bit :" wot a pile of sh8t", then we started discussing it and slowly I actually started being more and more positive about this movie.

And now I'd actually love to go watch it again, there's with a few little things left unexplained, but nothing extreme that will actually ruin the movie for you.

I guess I was a bit close minded for this movie as I was set on watching Blood Diamonds.

I definitely reccomend it, and will watch it again at some point.

Hope you enjoy it!!!

Bye for now,

Isabel

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Money,money....

Another week closer to pay day, it does feel like pay day wont arrive until I've spent all my overdraft money...
Funny thing is I got a call from my bank whilst I was on holiday in December - and had not checked my bank account in a little while and was a bit worried about it as well -and all they had to tell me was how great it was that I hadn't used my o/d in about 7 months and that I seemed to be managing my money quite well- the whole time I'm thinking:"are u sure u are looking at MY bank account?" and " Wot the fuck????" And then January came and the whole being good with money went truly and seriously down the drain.. Damn... guess I wont have any annoying bank people calling me anytime time soon...

Time to go back to my boring job now...

Bye for now,
Isabel
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Travelling...

Reading other blogs and websites of people that have made a life choice to spend years travelling around the world, just makes me really jealous..

Since I can remember I have always had the desire to travel, to meet new places, different people and used to struggle quite a lot with people that didn't share this passion with me, to the point that I had arguments with people that use to tell me that they have not the slightest wish to see the world. - The idea of this really confused me - how can one NOT want to see the world.
I still struggle to understand these people but at the same time I have come to realise that some people are like me and some people will quite happily live in one place all their lives and will never feel like they have missed out on anything.

Since those days, I have moved to London and have managed to see a little bit of the world but only for short periods of time, not for a six months or a year, and this is what I would really LOVE to do. This idea is in my mind all the time, but it never seems to be the right time to take so much time off work or things happen that pretty much make it impossible to hand in resignation. Maybe one day I'll just stop caring whether its the right time or not and just do it, for now, I'll just keep waking up in the morning coming to work and plan my next holiday.

Well done to all the people that found their right time or just stopped caring.

Bye for now,

Isabel

xxx

New Years Eve - Pics

Hi,

Was sent these photos this morning from New Years Eve.
Really good night, shots of sambucca def. helped.

All for now...
Speak soon,
Isabel

Another day

Jan 3rd 2007 - And could i be anymore bored???? Noooooooooooo...... of course I'm working. well, I'm here, obviously not working very hard!!!!

Feeling a bit shit this morning - my whole body is sore, the 30 minutes on the bus and train were just horrible, I obviously had a few paracetamol, so feeling marginally better right now.Its just plain boredom.

And right now, cant think of anything to say.. BRILLIANT...

It's one of those days, I just wanna go home curl up in bed and sleep..

Bye for now

Iz

Hello there...

After a few months with no news.. ( wots new!!!!).. Just thought I'd let you know, wot I've been up to.

December was a busy month for me, went to Portugal for 10 days, spent the first 4 with family and then headed to Lisbon to stay with friends. Always a pleasure to go home, despite all the issues and the fact that I always spend way too much money (my credit card balance is quite scary at the moment).
Came back from Portugal for 4 days then headed to Ireland for Xmas, spent time in Laytown and Bettystown- nothing much happens around there, so besides spending time in the Pub, and go for a walk on the beach on Xmas day ( after all the turkey and ham, really needed a walk), we pretty much just chilled out.. Also went for a drive to Kells, which is were is B's family comes from, again very charming town.. with not much happening.. :p

Came back to London on the 27th, back to work for 28th and 29th ( the joy, the joy!!)

New years celebration was spent with friends at the Elgin, turned out to be a really good night,sambuca did probably have a bit to do with it.. And obviously D. singing 500 miles on Karaoke -- Great stuff...

And its now all over, back to work today.. for a change nothing is working properly, luckily lots of people still on holiday, so up to now no idiots on the phone with a completely stupid complaint.. ( I love my job, REALLY!!).

Havent made a new years resolution yet - still thinking about it--... but for all of you that did - HOPE YOU MANAGE TO GET THRU THE NEXT WEEK, WITHOUT FALLING INTO TEMPTATION.. :p -- If you do, oh well, U've got another 12 months to try... ;-)

Now time to pretend I'm doing some work!!!

Isabel
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With New year resolutions or not... Hope everyone has had a BRILLIANT New Year's Eve..