Sunny Saturday

Today was busy and productive. Up early as usual (body clock set to wake at 6am) so cannot sleep on much these days however the early bird catches the worm apparently.  After an early breakfast and little bit of kitchen tidying, dishwasher emptying etc I settled down to do some college work, prep on my history essay.  Got dressed and made up (I'm a total convert to being in my casual attire aka dressing gown when up early ) and then did some shopping and visited one of my neighbours for a catch up,


Delighted to say that by 9.30 pm tonight its ready for submission.  1944 words for better or for worse they will  be submitted.  Finishing off the evening with a take away and a few vinos, celebrating the essay's completion - I'm such a saddo, and essays completion is a cause for celebration

Clocks go forward one hour tonight so one less hour in bed folks :(

Happy Easter to all

Namaste
Marie

A good Friday

Well Easter is fast approaching and its good friday (and it will be good hopefully)
Despite my planned early start and study session I did the early start part - up at 9am
but I've spent the last few hours on the laptop browsing blogs that I like and checking out MSE
or Moneysaving website that I read every day.  I find minimalism and frugal living very interesting and aspire to have that sort of lifestyle.  Despite being a student I am lucky to have a nice home and no debt to speak off so I am very lucky.  Some people are living frugal lives purely by choice so I dont want to sound flippant about being interested in living such a life.  However I am conscious of my spending and try to limit the amount of clothes and accessories that I buy (not difficult when living on a student BTE grant).

Splashed out last night and bought 2 easter eggs for the OH and DS2 and a little bottle for moi :)

Going to finish  up now and get cracking on some essay prep.  Then I'm going to bring the dog out for a long over due walk as its a nice sunny day at the moment.

Happy Easter
Namaste
Marie

Holy Thursday 28th March

Just a quick update tonight.  Taking it easy and going to have a couple of vinos tonight :)
Thankfully the snow seems to have left us and today was a bright and sunny day although there is more cold weather forecast for the weekend.

Tomorrow will be an at home day catching up with all my chores and household stuff.

Namaste
Marie

Wednesday 27th March.......oops

Just realised I didnt post anything yesterday and am now going to catch up.
Yesterday was my busiest day of the week in college as I have back to back lectures from 9am to 2pm Happily one of the lectures was cancelled as the lecturer was ill (not too happy for the lecturer)
Was especially happy yesterday as I got one of my assignments back and I was really happy with my grade. Its given me extra impetus to get cracking for the next few weeks until end of term.

We have had the dreaded snow today and yesterday although it hasnt caused too much disruption in my area but other areas have had lots of snow such as Northern Ireland.  Hope in the morning I dont wake up to lots of snow as I have an early start and lots to do.

Anyway I'll finish up
Namaste
Marie

Monday, Monday,

Well what do you know its Monday again. Where do the weekend's go?  Back to UCD term time now 2 weeks reading weeks are over. Ahem ! Didnt do a lot of reading but got a lot of other stuff with my assignments done so not a complete waste of time.  Had an early start again today, up at 7.30 and in UCD at 8.30 with packed lunch, flask so NSD for me today as well (no spend day).  Hopefully anyway.

Had a get together with a group from Archaeology as we are doing a presentation on Marxist archaeology and its not a percentage type assignment, there will be prizes though for the best ones.  An extra 10 or 15% onto our marks would be preferable. Anyhoo.  Very productive and interesting get together.  Then did some perusing the web for some information on another project for Experimental Archaeology.  Lecture on the Vikings at 11 then coffee with the girls and home.  Did some assignment work at home so all in all  happy with my progress.

Have a meeting with my brother and sister regarding our elderly mum tonight, then home to do some reading for tomorrows history seminar.  Busy Busy :)

Namaste
Marie

Saturday night

Nearly forgot to blog today and its somewhat late on a Saturday so I'll keep it short,

Quite a busy day with the majority of the morning and into the afternoon spent researching my project work for one of my archaeology modules.  Tomorrow morning will be spent in the library looking through some books that I've ear marked which could be useful - thats if they are actually in the library, as so many times the system says they are on the shelves but when I check the shelves they aren't and that can be quite annoying.  Fingers crossed.

Had a nice pampering wash and blow dry later this afternoon and then home to prepare dinner, fish, corn and  potatoes sliced with curry powder and oil done in the oven - delish.

Had a lovely text from DD2 and she is  having a great time in Berlin but is also missing home and us which is nice to hear.  The main thing is she is enjoying herself, she's almost 18 but she is still my baby :)

I said I would keep this short so goodnight all

Namaste
Marie

Another early...ish start

What a wet and windy night and again this morning.  Where has all this wetness come from ?  I know its better than snow and ice but I see from the Journal.ie that already flooding is a problem in parts of the country and in areas that have already been flooded out so my heart goes out to those who have been affected.  We are lucky here in D6 that we dont suffer from flooding tg.

DD2 arrived safely in Berlin and seems to be having a good time......... how do I know ? No news except to say they landed safely.  No news = good news.  Met with a lovely ex colleage yesterday for coffee and long overdue chat.  Really enjoyed her company and time flew by.  It was lovely not to have to rush home to get DD2's dinner etc.  I am an empty nester at the moment, one in Berlin, one in Oz and one in France..........but the liebling in Berlin will be home on Tuesday next pg.

Today will be spend at home doing some office work for Dh and catching up on my assignments for Uni.
Glad of an excuse not to have to leave the house too early.  Will have to be Dh to Dr apt in Blackrock at 1.15 but other than that nothing especially has to be done today.  Looking forward to this evening when I will have the house and TV remote to mysel.  I predict a bottle of SB and a blanket over my feet on the couch, BLISS :)

Stay safe out there

Namaste
Marie

An early start today ....

Well this is an early entry today :)  I was up at 5am this morning as DD2 was  heading to Berlin for 5 days on a school history trip.  When I was in school my trip was in 6th class to Drogheda to see the head of Blessed Oliver Plunkett !! How times have changed.  Now its skiing trips, trips to the sun for LC year, history trips to Berlin etc.  I wish I was growing up now.... for more reasons than one (which I wont go into here :) )
So already I've been to the airport and back home now.

I've had my porridge and now I am heading up to UCD to meet a friend for an early 8.15 coffee then I need to do a serious 2-3 hour session in the library getting my Medieval Castles project to some sort of good stage. Find I'm procrastinating a lot lately finding other things to do rather than college work. Hmm not good.
I find i'd rather spend time on MSE or blogs or some such tasks which are more enjoyable.  This is worrying me tho as I need to put serious work into my assignments and get revising as well.  Usually I am not a procrastinator so I need to get back into the ZONE.

So its baby steps Marie to get to where you want to go...................

Namaste
Marie.

How time flies.....

My goodness cannot believe it was the 4th Jan since I last posted ? Time goes so fast.  I spend far too much time reading other peoples blogs and forget to update my own, must  be because they have more interesting lives than I do :) anyhoo I am back and my resolution is to add an entry every day or at least every other day to keep on track.  Knocked back a bit recently when I fell and broke my wrist, right wrist of course, so I am tapping this slowly with individual fingers rather than touch typing which is my normal way of typing.

Happened 21st Feb so have been one handed since then.  Gosh how we take our gifts for granted.  Having a cast on is terribly annoying and invasive, it prevents you doing all sorts of things.  However I know it is only a temporary blip in my otherwise smooth enough lifestyle so onwards and upwards Marie.  Two more weeks and the cast will be off :)

I am still in college and semester 2 of Year 2 is coming to a close, in about 4-5 weeks, then its exams and then finished for the summer.  Cannot believe that I am 2/3 way through a degree.  Its flying by.
Hoping to continue studying after I get my degree and do a Masters/Post Graduate study so the studying isnt ending if I have anything to do with it.  Funds permitting of course.  I will have to try to get some sort of a part time job or a couple of students to keep my studies on track.

Workin away on a couple of archaeology projects at the moment, which thankfully I have got extensions for, so pressure is somewhat eased from that point of view.  Also have 2 history essays to complete and submit by 30th April.  Then its revision and exams.

My DD1 phoned me from Oz today and she has bought herself a car, which she needed as they are travelling around fruit picking and need to get inland more to get more work.  She has 2 more months of fruit picking to do before the 2nd year visa can be applied for but she is coming home in August as she is going to be a godmother :)

Thats all catching up for now
Namaste
Marie