mindless babble

should i be worried?

2007-05-22T19:41:04Z

<td align="center"> Caitriona de Burca --
[noun]:

A level headed person who always makes the wrong decision

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com</td>

i think this is a very fair assessment of me (especially when i consider any and all mountbatten exploits) ....turns out that what is in a name is quite true.

homecoming!

2007-02-08T21:41:59Z

am home in less than 24hours, cannot wait!!! :D

random fun webpost

2006-12-20T18:48:03Z

http://americatopten.blogspot.com/2006/12/advertisement-war-bmw-started-it-audi.html

NYC photos

2006-10-18T21:14:54Z

first batch of photos uploaded to bebo. have a look if interested.

deburcac5.bebo.com

is a public webpage so no need to be on bebo to have a look. :)

Gutted

2006-09-08T09:58:12Z

the screen on my ibook has given up the ghost...this means that i can no longer access anything on my computer! gutted! especially as aoife had agreed to lend me her ipod while i am away and now i cant upload any songs cos stupid computer screen is blank! then i discovered today that my ibook should have been sent back to the stupid mac people last year but since i had no problems with it until this monrning (24hours ago it worked perfectly!) i never had cause to go to the support pages. vv sad. only good thing is have managed to upload all the photos i had taken in the last weeks to bebo.

in other news, i am in possession of a very shiny visa that lets me fly on sunday, joy! now my mother needs to work her upgrade magic for me and ask our neighbour vv nicely to bump me up!

must go pack...and have little mourning session for my beautiful mac. its revenge cos i decided not to bring it with me and was gonna trade up for a swanky new macbook...

Start spreading the news!

2006-08-31T17:52:01Z

so i finally got a job placement on my internship and ill be working for hte Chartwell Education Group, whose founder is the former Secretary for Education, Rod Paige (black republican - i suppose stranger things have happened). but the best thing about them is that their office is on the 75th floor of the Empire State Building - this is the best work location ever!!!!! happy days for me! :D :D

I am a bold girl

2006-08-21T10:29:52Z

I really shouldnt let myself go to coppers and i really shouldnt go to capitol beforehand where every cocktail on the menu is 5e...it makes me be bold...

have been to coppers twice in the last weekish, last nite and last sunday and have kissed 5boys and given my number to 3 of them! i dont do that, perhaps its the whole im going away so if they do call ill be like oops leaving the country in 3weeks, my bad...

but thanks to my kissing someone michelle knows, i now have to go on a date on tuesday! i dont do dates ever!! and i cant even get away with cinema cos apparently thats cheating. i think im gonna have a relapse tomorrow and say im too sick to meet up with him...its not like i can actually remember what he looks like, u know? stupid catfluff.

having had some time to ponder, im quite happy with my tally as i managed to get 2mayo, 1galway, 1cork, and 1laois...to add to my county collections and the curse of being stuck with kildaremen is lifted.

catfluff @ 2006-08-18T19:09:00

2006-08-18T18:15:44Z

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
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Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
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Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!
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Matt Frewer, as Dr. Mike Stratford in "Doctor, Doctor"

Consequences, shmonsequences! So long as I'm rich!
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Daffy Duck

It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
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Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)

i went more for quotes that appealed to me rather than ones that properly reflected me...but then again most of them are quite appropriate....

mexico

2006-07-17T19:24:35Z

going to mexico tomorrow so heres the site ill be uploading photos and updating my stories...bebo is a wee bit too slow. http://www.getjealous.com/deburcac

gonna miss u all and send me addresses if you want a postcard! :)

Oxegen 06

2006-07-10T11:51:37Z

short post and maybe longer one when go home. am vv knackered after concert but has satisfied my need for good music and sexy musicians.

sat: decent bands, shite weather, shite sound (only on main stage but luckily had a mechanical engineer with me to find the best spot where the sound improved - see geeks are great!)

sun: brilliant bands, good weather (got burnt - not my fault!), good sound, home not too late.

camping: still not my favourite pasttime but not too bad. pity bout rain on sat.

did not kill big sister (was surprsed at that one myself!)

portaloos not completely mank...even on sun nite could find one that had toilet roll, a clean seat and running water...

food was great.

now for lunch and a nap.

catfluff @ 2006-06-26T22:42:00

2006-06-26T21:42:46Z

so going to mexico with trincesstiara but have a wee bit of a problem, need to be contactable at all times in mexico not due to sad need to stay in touch with people, well actually yes but more in the i might not get to go to NYC way if i dont have a phone number. having surfed the plethora of irish mobile providers apart from meteor (my own lovely network that definitely wont work in lovely mexico!) and found that none of them seem to work so well outside of civilised countries which means mexico! so now am kinda wondering about cellhire??? vodafone suggest this option but would it not work as long as i have a triband phone and make sure i use a nice network?? k, am fairly knackered so have no idea if that made sense or not, butt any suggestions would be appreciated...

apart from minor phone panic, life is good. got last minute ticket for oxegen so yay and am in final countdown for finishing work! double yay!

Edinburgh

2006-06-02T12:11:50Z

So, yet again edinburgh was terrific... and on this, my fourth visit, i managed to actually go into the castle and pay...im not cheap but 15e to see a castle is not my idea of a nice thing, plus no student discount! it was quite good though, the views from the castle were nice and the crown jewels were pretty. not wanting to go back there anyways!

apart from the castle, pretty mucht the only other sightseeing i did was go to camera obscura....LOVED IT! would recommend to everyone to go there. soo much fun and it turns out i make a gorgeous manga character...its only a pity u cant print the photos!

interview went well and i got placed on the panel...its not 100% certain am going to nyc but its looking pretty good cos im pretty much better qualified than most of the people applying! go me.

had fun chatting to ppl in pubs as well...fairly hilarious really on wed nite, tink all the freaks were out and gravitated to our table....examples of questions:

Randomer: So how long have you been from Dublin?

Me: All my life.

Hmm, go figure, oh and before I forget, another beauty.

Randomer: Stop speaking in an English accent, you're Scottish.
Me: Im irish actually (only my 20th time telling him).
Randomer: No, youre from somewhere like Dundee/Aberdeen.
Me: Nope, Irish (getting slightly frustrated).
Randomer appeals to trincesstiara and lou...who agree wtih him (cows!)
Me: Nope, Irish and rattle off a very long sentence in Irish....
Randomer: Why are you speaking in a foreign language...youre scottish....

it was fun but in the end, not so much!

am in work at the mo so putting off going to find something to eat cos dont want to sit outside cos feel miserable and fluey so will be wanting to feel depressed all day...not making much sense anymore really.

photos for edinburgh and of randomer will be seen on my bebo page and trincesstiara's also.

Going to america

2006-05-31T13:02:09Z

looks like im heading to nyc on September 10!!!!!!!! happiness is me!

DISASTER!!!!!!!!1

2006-05-10T18:50:52Z

So i'm in the middle of my project proposal to win the tender for the launch of the Ryder Cup and golf exhibition etc. when it struck me that the eurovision was on next week. So I checked and it turns out that my presentation (counts for 20%) of my grade is on the thursday. Not a huge deal, it's only the semifinals but then......i realised that the final is on 20 May. Now this is not any ordinary saturday, oh no, its the date of the bon jovi concert in croke park! its not fair. two of the things that i have looked forward to most in the month of may and theyre on the same day. of course bon jovi will be a great gig but i know that while its going on, my heart will be pining for all the dodgy songs that eurovision always seems to come up with....lets just hope jon bon jovi wears leather trousers again, i know that sure perked me up last time! ;)

right, back to my project. stupid last minute thing where i only bother to start it less than 24 hours before its due. not bad by my college standards but i have work all day tomorrow so theres no way i can do a little bit here, a little bit there, nope its a must not get distracted, focus on the work thing...and to think i chose to put myself through this. yup am definitely crazy!

Questions meme

2006-05-02T16:19:05Z

If you could go back in time and do your college degree over, what would you choose and why?

This is quite a difficult question because I would probably still pick the same course, because if I hadn’t done the same course, I wouldn’t have the friends I have now or the experiences that have helped shape me. I know I continually go on about having done the wrong course and that’s probably true, especially since I’m interested in doing business now, but I don’t really regret my course, only my results! And I did have a few extenuating circumstances, don’t you think?!

Why do you love Halloween so much and when did this obsession start?

I think I love Halloween in Ireland because until I suppose this year really, it wasn’t really commercial and it was a fun holiday. The fact that it’s 3 days before my bday helps a bit too. ;) It’s also a cheap holiday and it lets grownups have a bit of fun too. Of course the fact that it indulges my desire to dress up once in a while never hurts.

I’ve loved Halloween as long as I can remember. It was always a party around my area. Plus from 10-13, I was always sick on Halloween, stupid cubs and their hikes up mountains that my delicate inner ear couldn’t take, so I have to make up for it now that I’m older!

Have you ever done creative writing for your own sake (ie. Not for school etc)?

The short answer to this was no but then I remembered writing a story about myself and Prince William. I was probably about 13/14 and it was quite soppy if I remember correctly. That is the one and only time though. Its never appealed to me as much as reading because I’m well aware of my limitations and I would never force my bad writing on anyone, unlike a certain Taoiseach’s daughter I could mention! Also, I never liked English in school so it never inspired me to put pen to paper. Maybe I was a big nationalist head when I was a kid and objected strongly to the use of English as a language full stop. Well, it’s a theory anyway.

If you had to do a face/off swap of faces with one of your friends, whose face would you choose? (Not necessarily the same as the one you think is most attractive)

This one is a little difficult. I would never really think of swapping a face with anyone. It would have been much easier if you asked me about swapping a body. To be honest, I’m quite happy with my own face and wouldn’t want to swap but if I had to, I’d choose Alex. Hers is a very expressive face and even in repose there’s a bit of a smile. I associate her with fun and laughter and I think that is what I would be giving others with her face…It also helps that she’s a hottie!

What is your favourite piece of art?
You know my opinion by now on art. I’m not a huge fan. Monet is my favourite painter and there are lots of his that I like equally but I suppose the only artist I’ve ever bought (and carried 4,000 miles home) is Shishkin and "A day in the pine forest. I like it because it’s quite true to life and it has really cute bears in it! I suppose as well, it’s one of those paintings where you can keep going back to it and find something new in it every time…

weekender

2006-05-02T11:44:00Z

I am soo tired today. Why is it that even though I had a long weekend, it already feels like I need another break? I suppose it didn’t help that I was working last night until 11pm.

On that note, I do have to say it was kind of worth it. The Kaiser Chiefs were playing Dublin Castle so apart from the fact that it was majorly chilly, there were no real downsides to working. I got to work in the disabled area, which meant a really good view of the stage. KC were brilliant and my advice to everyone is that if you have a chance to go see them, do! Even if you don’t like their stuff, they’re very good live. For those of you who do like their stuff, the new album sounds pretty good.

Apart from working KC, I went to snow patrol on Saturday. It was so much fun. Thye were brilliant and their new album also sounds fab…of course im not actually going to buy it, im going to find someone else who has already bought it and then burn it! I am becoming incredibly cheap but since this is the week I start seriously saving, I kind of have to be!

Meeting up with the ex-boyf tomorrow for lunch. He just started working down the road from me so that means I have to wear make up ALL the time! Soo much effort but at least I have my new pared down palette courtesy of benefit! Am also in a bit of a quandary as to what to wear. I was thinking proper working girl clothes, i.e. pencil skirt, the works but now that the weather is now cooperating anymore, I think I might have to wear trousers, which don’t flatter half as much! Any advice would be much appreciated. We are aiming for, in essence, the pussycat dolls don’t cha or however you spell it, basically, im so hot and you wish we were still together but I don’t want you back. Vv complicated and quite hard to pull off methinks. Stressful, much?! Stupid ex-boyfs, why they don’t just leave the country is beyond me. So much less hassle!

quick update

2006-04-25T16:34:17Z

So I thought I should really update since I haven’t since before I went away. Been too lazy I suppose. Plus the whole typing all day at work means it’s effort at home then.

New york was fabulous. Spent an obscene amount of money and did fit some cultural stuff in. it was mainly about the shopping though. Bought lots of great things, mainly for work but some for play! Managed to meet lux_alexander who took me on an interesting tour to Soho, which was well appreciated by myself and the girls. Best buy has to be my jem and the holograms tshirt and sweatpants (soo in with the lingo!).

Apart from that I got an interview for the internship in New York I applied for so hopefully ill get that. The interview is in Edinburgh so I get to go there for holidays as well. Trincesstiara is going to accompany me along with non-lj ppl, who will no doubt encourage me to do embarrassing things and capture them on camera for bebo.

I am no longer even possibly going to Japan. Got offered an alternate spot but have completely lost the will to go there. Instead, if my NY thing falls through, I will hopefully be doing a masters in international management. It means I will be dividing my time between boston and reutlingen/dcu while getting into major debt due to the cost of the masters and also the cost of living in the US and not technically being able to work there! Btw, lux_Alexander, its northeastern uni in boston…would be great if you knew something about it? I know theyre called the huskies but that’s pretty much it, oh and they have fabulous squash courts. What more could a girl want, right?

Ok, enough waffle. This is what happens when one is at work and wants to avoid doing any. Oh well, now that noone can see my screen, I might just play a bit of minesweeper for a while…

catfluff @ 2006-02-23T17:39:00

2006-02-23T17:37:01Z

somebody wanna cheer me up? feeling distinctly uncheery this afternoon...

Hockey Colours

2006-02-09T13:45:12Z

So i don't know if anyone actually read the little bit in the irish times about how we won colours and more importantly how the ladies fourth team (that would be my team) were the ONLY ladies team to actually win their match against the oiks so if you didnt know already, well there you go! so mesa very very happy!! my last ever colours *rubs a tear from eye* and we won! it was a lot of fun as well. started drinking at 1 (very reserved really, most ppl were drinking since 10) and then went to the ball, where i got quite drunken and ended up flirting lots. no scoring though cos the guys were more drunk than i was plus i really wasnt sure they were strictly "legal" in the whole, i am SO not scoring a fresher sense...ended up in clonshaugh and then got a taxi home costing megabucks...oops but sure im earning and it turns out that i can stay in this job now until pretty much when i leave for wherever so happy days! now must go check flights for st. petersburg...

Japan

2006-02-01T20:53:50Z

so guess what? i have an interview for JET!! pretty cool methinks, although theres probably bout a billion ppls going for it....but at least im one of them! so am a happy bunny. it means i would *crosses fingers* go to nagano...mmm skiing. now to remember what exactly i said on my app form and enrol in a tefl course, am thinking cheapo online one for the mo anyways cos in other news...am officially a student again! well part time and in dbs so i dunno if that counts as a college but still. am doing a diploma in event management and pr, much fun will be had and i might actually learn something useful. no other real news, works going fine, we're still only winning cup matches in hockey and i booked my flights to new york! (almost forgot that one!?!) so yeah lux_alexander had better be in nyc the week after paddys day so that i can get shown around by a real new yorker! okay am vvv tired so going for a snooze. also my hair isnt that blonde yet but its getting there. i get away with so much stupider stuff when im blonde, i totally forgot that, go figure!

i love icons!

2006-01-23T21:41:44Z

weee, i love my new icon, so cute, so nostalgic! life is good at the mo, played in the most fabulous hockey match ever on sat! soo great, 3-3 after full time, then cos it was a cup match we had sudden death...then after 0-0, we went to penalty strokes where moi had a starring role!! :) after 9 penalties we finally won, goo us! now in the semifinals of the cup so yay yay yay!

in other news i had my first driving lesson yday...sooo scary but worth it in the end. am not that bad, just have a slight problem with braking which will be rectified next week. only one almost crash in 2hours, happy days!

although now all the adrenaline spent over the weekend has left me exhausted so work today was a complete mare, everything went a little pie eyed. anyways im gonna stop updating cos i really cannot string a really coherennt sentence together...

Life

2006-01-17T19:21:00Z

so now life has done a uturn on me and i am now busy in the evenings well except for tuesdays but thereagain i need at least one day to chill, yes? so my week goes like this: monday - work, hockey; tuesday - work, chill; wednesday - work, football (GAA fyi); thursday - work, hockey; friday - work, alcohol; saturday - hockey, hockey, hockey; sunday - driving lessons.

tired just looking at it but will be super fit come march, which is all good! am bit nervous about the driving lessons, dont want to make a complete fool of myself and also im getting picked up by them at home so its going to be doubly embarrassing cos everyone is going to know about it.

anyways nothing much interesting going on, works going well, have lots of money saved so happy out. heading to ny (fingers crossed) end of march so will be able to bring gifts over for ppls or bring stuff home. also the plan is to get a lovely new ibook and sell my old one, i do love this one but i want a wireless enabled bigger screened larger memory laptop.

anyways must go now, have new icon that i snaffled. kinda like it, its pretty much me constantly in work whenever the judicature paper is in the printer! it always goes badly and then the trees that ive helped chop down dance across my eyes. not good!

Scary Happenings

2006-01-01T19:04:23Z

New Years was fun. spent it in ucd with trincesstiara and sluzan. much fun was had although i am feeling the aftereffects!

the scary thing that happened tho was a big huge wasp the size of which i have never seen before. SO SCARED!! aoife was there also so i ran while she opened the door to make it go out. i hid in the sitting room and wouldnt let aoife in until she promised that the wasp was gone. i realise the above sounds pretty pathetic but wasps are scary and also bad previous experience, plus it was totally looking to sting cos it was on its last legs. now to curl up on the sofa and tremble from the aftereffects of the very scarring experience!!

friendship

2005-12-22T21:58:50Z

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i like the reading of me, its fairly accurate in the majority of the statements but also a wee bit repetitive after having looked at trincesstiara's one.

so anyway my best friend came home last week and i met up with her today, combination of things clashing u know. it was going fine, but then i asked what plans she had for new years (please bear in mind that we have spent new years tog every year for the last 5years and she made me promise that if i was away id come home for it) so she tells me shes off to enniscrone with a bunch of lads including my ex-boyf! and not a whiff of asking me if i want to go as well. apparently she promised geoff (the ex-boyf's friend) that they would do new years and ex-boyf was going down to sligo so off they trot! i am soo not happy and i dont think she even realises it. i understand that it could be potentially awkward if i went but just to be asked would be nice. oh well, im kind of resigning myself to the fact that im probably not really going to be very good friends with her again, there have been too many troughs rather than peaks in our friendship in the last year.

in other news holidays tomo - yay!

xmas - grr!

2005-12-18T15:17:16Z

i have decided to become a humbug. this is the first year where i am still trying to get xmas presents. i really hate panic buying so i have decided everyone i havent gotten yet is getting an iou in the sales, perfect! otherwise i will follow maeritrae's example although i was thinking of a camel or rabbits. depends whether i feel rich or not in the next few days! altho i should probably be getting my goddaughter something concrete, but shes only 3! i think a charity donation would be so much better (and easier). i did try searching for dora the explorer but so far no joy. oh well, what can you do? also everytime i come home, my mum has put up yet another decoration, i cannot live like this! ok i go overboard with halloween but in fairness at least its not christmas!

in other news, i have joined a gym so in 6 months, if i so choose to, i can run the mini marathon. of course cos its a tupid gym instead of fitness as my main concern, which it actually is, they have weight loss as my motivation. yes im feeling pudgy at the mo but seriously, i can stop eating if i want to lose the weight. and who joins a gym just BEFORE xmas to lose weight? crazy ppl but i cant really complain, i now have 18mins free sunbed sessions, oh wait do i actually want these sessions - no! so if anyone wants them, they're very welcome to them.

thats about it, been abusing my liver all weekend but im happy cos ive only 5 more days to get up before im on hols. and this year my hols might not be that long but since im not in college finishing on fri and not being back til the 2nd is a good deal for me. my dinner is calling so must go.