New Year Y'all!!

It been a interesting few days, here's whats happened!

My cousin, Rachel (one of my favs) has been sick since St. Stephen's Day and on Wednesday night, here mother rang us because she was in the hospital on critical condition! A phone call i wasn't expecting...

The doctor on call was worried about her breathing and wanted her in hospital asap. They took her blood sugar levels and they were 40.1, the norm in between 5-7...panic stations!! The put her in Intensive Care in isolation because they hadn't ruled out swine flu at that point. 

They were certain she had diabetes but they don't know which type, she has pneumonia though. The doctors said that if she wasn't brought out when she was, Rachel wouldn't be here today! That's a really  scary thought and something that i don't wasn't to think about!!

Today when i got home, she tested positive for swine flu and her sugar levels are at 6 so that's a good thing! 

She has a really long road ahead of her and will be in hospital for a few more weeks, but all signs are looking good :D

Great end to a fantastic year(!) Roll on 2011...cant be any worse! 

Hope everyone has a good time tonight, and wishing light and love in the new year!

~danis 

Portrait of a Dreamer

Should i change my pic to this?!? Would love to be some sort of photographer...but i don't think I'm that good! :/

Major developments since yesterday...will let you know later tonight

~danis

Songs

It is currently 3:48 and here is the playlist, blasting this at the moment!! :D

1. Chris Salvatore-Dirty Love
2. Natalie Imbruglia-Torn
3. Diana Vickers-Notice (Live)
4. Lady Gaga-Dance In The Dark
5. Britney Spears-If You Seek Amy (Great song for filthy minded peeps! haha)
6. Selena Gomez-Year Without Rain (Really obsessed with this song, think its because i spend too much time looking at her ¬_¬)
7. Katherine Jenkins-Bring Me To Life
8. Glee-Teenage Dream (Up there with the original!!_
9. Steps-The Way You Make Me Feel (90s kid so i dont feel guilty about this!! Fav Steps song)
10. Lady Gaga-Telephone
11. Westlife-Written In The Stars (Reminds me of people i miss in my life and of course Two Pints!)

Well guys and dolls thats it for the mo! 

~danis

Water, Water Everywhere

If you saw my last post, you can see all the snow we had! Well the thaw has (finally) arrived and in its wake has brought flooding, burst pipes and clogs!!!
Anyway, i have water but its on short supply..haven't washed my hair in nearly a week! :(

I know with Christmas everyone gets lazy and everything but this week is going so slow and the days are just blurring together. Also I'm a little depressed with my life at the moment!

See i was in college in Dublin, course wasn't what i hoped for but i still gave it a go. Near Easter i really didn't like it and the jobs that i could get out of it, were not appealing at all. So i dropped out. In college at home now and its only a further education college (so not really proper). There is this amazing course i want to do in Dublin, but i don't have the points for it so i have to wait til i can apply as a mature student-23 in Ireland! So I'm really just killing time for the next 3 years..

The course here is Forensic Science. I enjoy it, the little details that you need to get into, the monotonous jobs are really interesting to me. But I'm not looking for a career out of it. The course in Dublin is Ancient History & Archeology with either History or Greek (not sure which one though). I love love love history and especially ancient Greece and the whole mythology behind it. I even bought the Percy Jackson saga because its based on the gods and goddesses of Olympus :D.
Don't get me started on archeology...i would give my first born (if i had one) to go on a dig of any sort!! I was on a site that shows the expeditions that want volunteers, you pay a minimum contribution and that covers your accommodation and anything you need over there....you pay for your flight. Its such a cool site, anyone interested should check it out http://www.earthwatch.org/default.aspx?splash=1
As you can see i like that more than my current course!

Back to my main point, i just miss the freedom i had in Dublin and the anonymity of the city. Here nearly every second person knows me or knows who i am!! For example...yesterday i went to get some shopping for granny, i had a bottle of Gordon's gin (only one she will drink) and had to get cigarettes, This is how the conversation went:

Lady: You're over 18 aren't you??

Me: Yea, I'll just get my ID

Lady: No it's OK, i think i know you...you're Karen's son?

Me: Yea that's me  *Rolls eyes and thinks I have a name yano!!*

That's why i want to go back to Dublin!!
Story of my life in a small town like this, I'm either my mother's son, or my grandfather's grandson (Mam and Granda are kinda well known and respected in the town) Its just like i don't have my own identity!!

Ah that's all my ranting for now folks...there's A LOT more to come but that's for another day, another post!

Live Long and Prosper :)
~Danis

AdSense...

Any one using it?! Is it for real, i dont really mind if i get like drips and drabs of money...any amount of money will help me! :D

~Danis

Chrisstmas! ^_^

That man in red made an appearance last night! Class act that fella :)

Got all the DVDs i asked for, collectors edition of Avatar, Toy Story 1-3(purely for nostalgic reasons of course!) Big Bang Theory and many more!! Also got tickets for Glee in July, 2 tickets so i will be very popular in these next months..haha Cannot wait for it!! :D

That's all really peeps, have some Christmas pix for you to enjoy:

Heres some pix...try not to laugh at the attempt of  my photographic skills

The park beside me, snow been there for the past 3 weeks!!

And again

Random dog!

Gate to a (frozen)lake behind my house

View from my front door

Robin for good measure!

Eve

It is Christmas Eve Eve....its a real day, ok! :P
Ah, its all systems go at home, granny always has most of the Christmas dinner done before the actual day, so as i speak the ham is cooking-let me tell you It. Is. Gorgeous. (yes i described the ham as gorgeous..i have a problem, i know!)

But a tradition of ours is that my mam, and her two sisters that eat here for Christmas always come up on Christmas Eve and prepare the veg...this year my granny wants to do it all herself! I know it's her house and all but its something we do every year and this year is going to be particularly difficult so why add to the mess?? Anyway i told one of my aunts on the DL and she tell granny not to do it herself as her 11-year old grandson wants to help (a bit of emotional blackmail never hurt anyone, right?!)

I'll let you in on one of my secrets (one of many!) if you promise not to laugh. I have a great interest in photography, but i dont think im that good at it!! I like to photograph landscapes, and at the moment here it is a winter wonderland...brilliant for my photos. Pity my batteries are dead!! Anyway last night i submitted some pictures to a stock site, the pictures are of a nature reserve we have in the county. If you wondering what a stock site is, it is a site that you upload your pictures and if the meet the right standards they will accept it in the site Then anyone looking for certain pictures will buy them for use for their own site or what ever. Ill show you what i mean, i took this picture  of my dog in the lake, if someone wants a picture of a dog, or a dog swimming or anything else thats in the picture, they can buy a copy from me, to put in a magazine about dogs or whatever. You get the picture (no pun intended)

So i think thats all in my head at the moment, im enjoying a granny-free time now do i think i'll hold on to it while it lasts! :D

Best of wishes to all at this festive time
~Danis

P.S. Why is the times wrong on my post?? Its 12:56pm here..

Do you have a list done?

Mass, Granny, shopping, snow...

Today is my Granda's anniversary mass, he died 24 years on the 9th but this was the closest date granny could get. The weather here is a joke, especially for this time of the year. This is the town the other day:

So to make the day more interesting, our lift couldnt get us because the car wouldnt start!! Had to taxi it, got there in the end.

Now, just so you know im 20 and like i said above, hes dead 24 years so i am only going for my gran and mams sake..its scary to think she was my age when he died (he was very young, 47!)

So we are back home (eventually, my uncle is the slowest driver snow or not)  and mam had walked home with my aunt...ill explain my family tree later in the post. Granny was going on about how mam will walk home and go to the pub, leaving her to do the dinner!! The dinner she was bitching about was a steak dinner so it doesnt take THAT much effort to do them. Anyway mam arrived home 5 mins after us and granny had to eat her words...Delighted :D

The usual sunday dinner, ate and washed up....we had the cake i made for desert-fecking brilliant if i do say so myself :P Dinner was me, mam, granny and deb (always had deb and paul but other post explains the latter's absence)

Me and deb had done the usual sunday shopping, but because the snow was so bad she got paul to bring us home...was so weird cos i hadnt seen them together since that thursday!! She later tells me he is going to his sister in london for Christmas dinner, which im kinda sad about because it'll be difficult not seeing him at the table. But at the same time its better that he gets a break from the town and i'll be happy that he's not on his own too...best of a bad situation

Oh and its 3:45am here, dont ask me why its so late and im blogging...if i had followers, i'd say it was for them but i dont haha. In time i will, hopefully, have a few followers. Would love some one to say there's light at the end, for me. For Deb. For all...

Peace, light & love
~Danis

Oh btw heres a rough family tree
Granny and Granda
Maria, Julie, Deb, Ruth, Karen
Me and my eight cousins...names later :)

I give up, 2010. Fuck Off

California King Bed seems to be a good place to start. Name is Dan, no variation on it..call me Danny and prepare to feel the consequences!! This year has been THE worst years of my 20 years on this planet, failing college, separations, new people in my life and being back home again is beginning to take its toll. This is the beginning of one very long blog!

To say my life was like everyone elses would be a dream, born of a doomed relationship and maybe I'm a constant reminder of a mistake, but they never show it and that much i know how much my parents love me and even though they never really get on, its the best of a bad situation. I am blessed in other ways though, i may not have parents that are married to each other, but i do have a great network of family with the furthest aunt living 800 metres away! :) I have (or had for the moment) an aunt and uncle who live 12 houses from me and have no kids and they are my other parents...

Deb and Paul have recently split up, and the phrase knocked me for six couldn't be more true! Picture this: I'm in their house, like i am every day, watching CSI and Deb comes in and says that Paul is moving out because he isn't happy. After that is still a blur to be honest, i remember thinking this HAS to be some kind of joke and was waiting for the punch line...all i got was a punch in the gut!!

See my parents aren't married and never were, as hard as that was to cope with growing up-kids telling me i don't have a dad because he doesn't live with me and telling me what a bastard was! But all that time i  had my other "parents" and they were the coolest aunt and uncle, all my cousins loved Deb and Paul. Deb was up every day and so the might as well be my surrogate mam and Paul was the only constant male figure in  my life so i adored them so much. Now i feel like everything has been cruelly ripped from me.

Its been nearly 8 weeks since they separated and its getting worse with Christmas coming up, every year me my mam, granny, Deb, Paul, my other aunt and uncle and my three cousins have dinner in my house and its so much fun...this year will suck BIG time and i just want to stay in bed all day, i feel my life is just be pre-destined to fuck up!! 

Roll on 2011, you cant do any worse....