Lazy

Ok so I'm not the best person for keeping a blog. Established. The past month or so has been a bit of an experience. Getting back on the road with the whole dating thing.....there was a few nights out, a few incidents, a few happenings which results in one complicated mess. Mental note to self never get involved with work people or karate people! Baaaaaaad idea. Still there was some lessons learned. Dont judge by appearances alone, you'll be severely disappointed and there is such a thing as too big ( Dear God Ciaran ) !!! On the bright side training is going great. Back training 5 or 6 times a week now, doing what I love. I have a few important competitions coming up and I have to re establish the fear I strike in those bitches hearts! Lol....

No real news as such. Going to a gig with with all my peeps this Saturday which should be fun. The fabulous Kid Koala. Its a night out with work people mostly so that should result in general debauchery and an " oh god what have I done" the next morning by all involved. Why do we subject ourselves to such embarrassment? Still, I get to spend the night with all the beautiful fab IBM people that I love so much lol.....

Oh I do have some news! I lie. I drive now......its em....funny to watch and scary to participate in but there you go. If you see a black Punto roaring down the M50 get out of the way! Seriously......I can't brake that fast.

It was Daddys birthday yesterday. 53. It's tough watching him get old, remembering how he used to lift all three of us up together. On the other hand though, it's hard to imagine my Dad ever giving up on life. I woke up yesterday morning and looked out the window to see him racing up the street on the kid next doors go kart.....This the guy who comes home from work and draws on fruit, writes song lyrics on my foot when I'm asleep or wakes me up because the sky looks "really cool" and the rain is "refreshing". He loves my film and music and we get on so well.....I just can't imagine him ever not being there and I don't want to either. It's upsetting to think of.

I'm making a promise to myself now to update my blog weekly.....I probably wont so don't hold your breath....but I feel good about the promise i made :-)

Monday : Montonuous and Mundane

This is my first attempt at keeping a blog so I guess I should tell you a bit about me. I live in Dublin, Ireland and have done for most of my life though I travel quite a bit. I 've seen most of Europe, some of Asia and little of North or South America. The reason for most of my travels is because I am an international karate competitor, something I take very seriously. I love music, Jazz, drum n bass, ninjatune, old rock, classical, gypsy folk, you name it. I love to read and if I was to list all my favourite authors and films I might just get RSI lol.

I've recently gone through a tough time, I've just come out of a long relationship and its taken a lot out of me. I'm a little jaded, a little cynical but I still have a passion for life....just a little more subdued now. Friends would describe me as......well actually I'm not quite sure how they would describe me....I guess I am a little strange in that I generally take a different perspective on things than most other people. I can see the good in bad and the bad in good if that makes sense. I'm prone to little outbursts of excitement ( sometimes I am such a girl lol ) and periods of complete quietness.

I try my best to make people happy. Friends and family are important to me. They see you through difficult times and if they are true friends will never judge you, or reprimand you for bad decisions. I believe everyone should make mistakes, life is about learning from them but from mistakes sometimes we discover new opportunities, new ideas and new directions.

I work for IBM, a job I fell into entirely by accident after deciding 4 years of student life was not the path I wanted to go down. Life is short enough and life experience means more to me than what I can learn from some guy preaching at the top of a classroom. Incidently I'm now earning more than most of those who taught me back in secondary and who said I was making a mistake not going to college....then again from that mistake I might realise a few years futher down the line that I should have listened but you live and learn or so they say...

Anyway on a particularly slow Monday, I decided to start a blog, to document a few happenings , a glimpse of my life for those who are interested and to share ideas with other minds. My introduction is complete :-)