Gettin' Older

Happy birthday baby! xxxxxxx

(photo "half-inched" from Shiny)

I Should Be Working But...

...instead I stole this quiz thingy from Shiny Sarah.


The Romantic
Thanks for taking the test !
you chose BY - your Enneagram type is FOUR.

"I am unique"

Romantics have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.

How to Get Along with Me

* Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.
* Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.
* Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.
* Though I don't always want to be cheered up when I'm feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.
* Don't tell me I'm too sensitive or that I'm overreacting!

What I Like About Being a Four

* my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level
* my ability to establish warm connections with people
* admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
* my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
* being unique and being seen as unique by others
* having aesthetic sensibilities
* being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me

What's Hard About Being a Four

* experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
* feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved
* feeling guilty when I disappoint people
* feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
* expecting too much from myself and life
* fearing being abandoned
* obsessing over resentments
* longing for what I don't have

Fours as Children Often

* have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original game s
* are very sensitive
* feel that they don't fit in
* believe they are missing something that other people have
* attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.
* become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood
* feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents' divorce)

Fours as Parents

* help their children become who they really are
* support their children's creativity and originality
* are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings
* are sometimes overly critical or overly protective
* are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed


The Enneagram Made Easy
Discover the 9 Types of People
Harper SanFrancisco, 1994, 161 pages
Link: The Quick & Painless ENNEAGRAM Test


Wow. That's actually pretty dang accurate =/

Halloween "Party"

(Bill perusing the Argos Catalogue back at Raj's)

...well that was a bust.

Yaaaarrr tis a good job I cheered myself up and made the effort, eh.

Bah!


**In other news, after a swift telling off from Raj, I'm now using Firefox. I like it. It's shiny.**

Bah!

So...today I feel like crap. There is a halloween party tonight and no one seems to be going. Now I don't feel like going either. Poo.

Well...no amount of chocolate in the world seems to be able to cheer me up, but just incase there's anyone else out there with the blues, here's a little something to induce a giggle or two.

From the previous "Music Night at the Cardwell's" evening, Matt & Myself (...after a whisky or two I might add...) giggling singing If I Had $1,000,000...the Barenaked Ladies we are not!


(Click here if you can't see the music bar)

Apologies to every Canadian I've ever met or known for the truly questionable accents.

...Quick! Get out the cheese!

**EDIT** My bad...actually chocolate does help a little. Esp when its poured through your front doors letter box when you least expect it! *blushes* Thankies Matty =) xx

Gary & Lyndsey

So, this evening my little cousin Gary tied the knot with his lovely missus Lyndsey.


The happy couple.


Lyndsey looking stunning.


Their tornado of a...mental...mischievous...erm...lovely little daughter Brooke =)


My uncle Joe all proud of his newly wed son Gary

Peter Mulvey

(I meant to post this aaages ago...but then I forgot. Umm, pretend it's the 18th of last month so's I don't have to re-type, k.)



How wonderful is this guy? Ya know, I think if I was bound to only listen to one voice for the rest of eternity, I'd want it to be his...tho only if he could bring his guitar too...

So, yesterday Myself, Matt, Sarah, Raj and Paul took a wee trip down to the fair city of Dublin to see Peter Mulvey at the Temple Bar Music Centre. Now, the last time I saw this guy play I didnt want the gig to end...I had a feeling this time would be much the same.

We were the first there...which was surprising as it took us about two and a half hours just to get through to the town center due to All Ireland Final being played in Croke Park. But still, we made it to the music centre with ten minutes to spare...and even got to move one of the big comfy seats from the back, to the front of the room. Cause we're special.



His support act was a last minute stand in by the name of Peter Doran. The 22 year old Mullingar based musician, did a fantastic job at getting the small, but perfectly formed, crowd in the mood for the great evening to come.

Click on the above links for a sample of his music over on myspace.com, then go buy his album cause he's great =)

Peter himself was fantastic as expected. He sang his way through old favourites, classic covers and a few from his new album 'The Knuckleball Suite'...all whilst mumbling something about Sean Connery's blatant speech impediment, battling with the Star-Wars stylee laser lights, and promising to cut down on making fun of the pope.


(Left vid: Matt's phone vid from gig - "Road to Mallow"
Right vid: "Sad Sad Sad Sad" Live at Folk at One)

After the gig we fangirled for a little (did I mention how luffly he was?) ...then headed for some food before the long journey home.

I must now insist that if you have no idea who this guy is, you should go straight to his myspace and listen to his music, do not pass go, do not collect £200! Also visit his website at petermulvey.com and buy lots and lots of stuff and things. He's a great guy and if he comes to your town...go see him play!



**Incidentally...I was experimenting with some different camera settings for gig photography...lemme know wot yis think!**

I have the cold =( *sniffle*

So...ya know when you're sick, your dreams are always a little bit off the wall...

...last night I drempt I worked for Wolfram & Hart. How bizarre.

Man, their filing system was a mess.

*choo!*

Anyways...

Things That Make Me Smile - Part II

I never felt I had the words to describe the exact process of taking childrens portraits...thankfully, the Mad TV gang did it for me.

This is documentary footage people! This is what it's really like taking photos of kids...