Yay. Horray. Yippee. Yahoo. Booya. Giggidy Giggidy...etc etc....

I just booked a holiday. Horay holiday.

Me and Jen are going to Vienna in Feb next year for Jen's bday. Staying for 5 nights in a cute art hotel right in the city centre....it's practically on top of all the sooper museums and arty farty stuff...I'm soo excited. Plus I realised afterwards that it's on the same street as my polaroid museum. Well, it's not mine, but I really wanna visit it. So excited, you've no idea.

And look how cute the hotel is...

...the best part is it's only costing me €62.45! Thanks to mummy and daddy dearest and their very generous gift of holiday vouchers for my 21st bday that's all I have to add to the cost of flights and hotel. Score. I haven't been outta Ireland in so long it's bording on wrong. And I've wanted to visit Vienna for so long I'm really glad I'm finally getting the chance to see it....

So to summarise...HORRAY. I'm giddy. Can you tell I'm giddy.....

Well,

I must say, despite the smearage generally associated with Oxegen these days due to it's vastness....I had a fuckin' superb weekend!

Our tent stayed standing, the weather was pretty ok and the music was top class. I mean just experiencing Rage Against the Machine in such an awesome manner was beyond any hype-age I could apply to the encounter.

Out of this world I say...out of this world....

I spray painted my new Holga today.

I miss Jennie and I'm bored. What d'ya expect!?

I still have red spray paint all over my hands and nails...I look diseased and/or rashified...

Ah well. One more sleep to Kate and Jen coming back down to Cork to me. Yay.

Oxegen is next week. Woah. It came quick. I'm excited buy really only cause the main reason I'm going is cause my friend who's never been is going. I might give it a miss next year. Too big, and smeary....

But I'll def make the most of the mush this year...

I now know that I like chicken mixed with peas and sweetcorn mushed into the shapes of space things such as a rocket, moon and star all wrapped in a rather hideous looking orange breadcrumb. Yumm.

....and on another note - ISH.

That's how I feel. Scared-ish, excited-ish, lonely-ish, I'm decidedely undefinative. Pooh.

But it's all good. There's just so much happening and needing to happen right now. Ahh. Head 'splody now.

K kisses

Well, it's been a wee while now hasn't it?

I don't really know what to say about what's been goin' on 'cept I've had a crazy couple of weeks (and not the good crazy).

Emotionally, it's probably been the toughest month of my life so far. Everything is changing. And I've no way of knowing if it's all for the better until I do it.

The main thing is that shit is gettin' sorted out. There's no point pretending that some ways of living are not healthy and can lead to your downfall, or the downfall of those you love.

Now, I'd like to say that I'm just dandy but not everyone around me has been having a great time recently. And that affects me directly...emotionally, physically, financially etc.

Me and Jen been thinking of packin' it in with Cork and moving home for a year. I hate my hometown but maybe it is the best thing to do seems it's hella cheaper there, and we'll have all our really close friends and family around us. Which I think is important cause we're probably gonna have a really tough year. Well Jen more than me but it's gonna be hard for me too on a less major level.

She's always been my priority and now more than ever. I'm not afraid to say I love her more than I thought I was capable of loving anyone. I love her more than my brand new Holga that finally arrived after getting sent to me and back and to me again!! And that says alot...no really. It's much bigger than I could ever dream of describing.

But yeah - I've been off work for 3 weeks. I'm back tonight and I'm shitting it. And I'm by myself. We came back to Cork last Friday and Jen's sis came Sunday night but Jen went home again 'til Friday cause I'm on nights and she'd be by herself if she stayed so I have to be my myself instead. Which is ok cause I'll probably sleep most of the time. Plus I have the Holga to play with now...and the internet's back up and running.

Later lovelys xo

Visuals ->

Ok and there goes that...

I decided to come off that diet. It's just way too tough, I was all weak and fainty last week and stuff so I'm gonna just loose weight the old fashioned way. Eat less, move more. And now that my cravings for fatty shitty foods have been blunted it'll be that much easier. If I can eat no food then I can surely manage eating just good food. It gave me a good start, over a stone lost, and my mind is on the right wavelength now too so I'm looking forward to being more healthy.

Plus the summer is such a hard time to do it with all the get togethers and BBQ's and whatnot. I just can't take it. But I don't feel defeated or weak. I'm glad I stuck the 3 weeks out just to prove I could and now my bodys been rightly detoxed and I'm craving healthy foods and millions of water. So a result nonetheless. Horray.

In other news I'm now offically a First Aider. Did a First Aid course at work this week so now I know CPR and how to use an AED and the Heimlich Manoever and all sorts of other useful stuff for when bad shit happens...

And that's it really, not much goin' on I suppose....

xo

Eeep!

I lost 11 lbs in my first week! Wahey!

I'm so delighted with the result. It's extreme yes, and hard, definately but when you see results like that it makes it worth the effort. I'm sure this weeks loss won't be quite as dramatic but the way I see it, if I lose 3 lbs then I've a stone lost in 2 weeks...not bad going at all at all...

Nothing else that exciting going on, trying to stay away from temptations so no boozin' or BBQ's for me...

Hey there...

I'm currently in hell. I started this new liquid diet that is trés difficile. Basically I can't eat ANY food WHATSOEVER...just the stupid shake thingys....I'm on day 4 at the mo' so I should be over the worst of it. Day 3 is allegedly the worst day, and considering my day yesterday I believe it. My whole body was sore. Especially my face for some reason...

But it's all good, once I get through week 1 it'll get easier and the weight will fall off so the results I see should keep me motivated. I've never ever stuck to a diet in my life but I can feel it in my gut that I'm gonna do it this time. I've left my weight get WAY outta hand and I'm putting my foot down now.

Actually I'm feeling pretty good today. I've been up since 6am even though I didn't go to sleep 'til around 2am and I'm fulla beanz! Mind you the shakes are spose to be sooper nutritious so I spose once your body adjusts you should start feelin' the buzz...yay.

I have this notion about takin' a pic of myself everyday and then when I have all the weight lost I can animate it and make a speedy shrinky eefy....

So to start off...here's the only full length photo I have of myself before I started. Yes I'm that massive...but not for long....horray.

Also I'm bummed that I can't make the meet tomorra, working nights kinda kills any hopes of a social life, unless I get a weekend off - which aint very likely. But it's probably just as well seems I can't drink and I'd be so jealous...Anywho, hope yez have millions of fun.


Buh bye xo

Hey...

I finally got my site up and running....it's been a fairly long time coming but these things are bloody time consuming. ..and the sucky part is I don't even like the stuff in my gallery thingy anymore. But I'm gonna just focus on getting everything up and running and then I can start refining the portfolio....

Here's a wee preview -

I still have a lot to add and fix but at least I feel like I'm getting somewhere now...

Also, I've been looking through my computer and I have such a load of photos on here, it was kinda fun remembering loadsa stuff I'd forgotten, I love photos so much for that nostalgia...

Aoife xo

I've been shopping again...

...just look though. So cute.



It's a cutie lil lomo keyring 110 camera. I can't get over how friggin' cute it is. I want 'em all!

And my Holga should be arriving in the next week or two at the most (hopefully) I can't wait to get my hands on it!

In other news - I've moved. Again. But just across the road/river. I'm now maybe 3-5mins closer to town depending on how the traffic lights go. Sooper. And the flat is soo sexy I can't believe we found it. Some pics....this really is the life...

Also I'm taking a break from college! I'm gonna be starting the nightshift on directory enquirys next week and I'm gonna work my ass off for a few years and then go travelling with my lady. We plan on starting in America maybe...work our way around for a few years and then see where else tickles our fancy...

So that's my new plan I suppose. Work. Take photos. Travel....perfect.

I bought me a Holga! Yay...



...isn't she purdy? I'll prob pimp her out a bit when I get my hands on her!

Also. I got rather drunk last night. And this is news because I haven't consumed enough booze to induce drunkenness in some time. It was great. Had such a laugh. And it was so outta the blue too. Aimee (flat mate) went for a few drinks with a couple of my former collegues and then landed back home with 'em...and some drinks....

Some pics to follow...

I think that's all really...

xo

EDIT: 22.58pm

Oh look what I made tonight....





Plushies are now my new crush! Along with the polaroids, holga and typewriter....

So much love.

They're my first ever so they're still a bit crude but I'm gonna make more....millions more...