I´m blogging from work - once again. I opened today so my workday ends at 5pm when Agnes takes over. Then I will rush home after the battery for my D-SLR (didn´t bother to look in the camera before I went out to the Summer house *sigh*) and then rush out to the Summer house again, as Tara and Luna are out there at the moment.
Yes, I brought them with me last night. Uff the car ride was no fun at all but as soon as we got out to the Summer house and they got out of that horrible cat carrier, it immediatly got much better :) Of course it helped that I´ve brought lots of delicacies *hihi*
You might´ve noticed my recent, hmm, obsession with The Wanted? ;-) I can´t help it, they´re so kickass awesome! They had a song featured on the soundtrack for Ice Age 4 and the music video is so ... awesome! *hihi* Check it out below!
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Also, you might´ve heard about the latest Rob & Kristen-news? Appearently Kristen has had a fling on the side with her co-star from the Snow white & the huntsman-movie, Rupert what´s-his-name. Well, some of the fans has some pretty strong reactions to it. This girl, peeps... She´s pretty... Well, take a look at the clip >> here <<
She´s a hard core (and then I mean hard core) Twilight fan and it´s more than obvious in her videos. Check them out, if only just for fun! You´ll have a laugh, promise.
I´m at work at the moment - where else would I be, ey?
Last night I stayed at the Summer house and since we got a huge thunder-storm here in Finland, I came to be right in the middle of it! It was absolutly amazing and I´m regretting not having my camera with me! I tried to take photos with my mobile phone but they turned out all black *dammit*
Here´s a song that I can play non-stop at the moment: The Wanted´s Lightning❤ Also, check out the music video, it´s insanely gorgeous!❤
I´m at work at the moment, in the ice cream stand. It´s so effing hot, hot like a sauna! No, not really, but it´s effin close!
Guess what I found out literally a second ago! My/our fave author Ms Ahern will soon have a brand new book out! Awesome! Check out the cover, looks gorgeous!
More news about the best author in the world ;-) She and hubby Dave have recently become parents to a baby boy, called Sonny so now Robin has a baby bro. I had no idea what-so-ever that they were expecting, found out from brother-in-law Byrne´s twitter. *hihi*
As you might´ve noticed, I´ve changed the URL for this blog. It´s not that I didn´t like the previous name, listenandstandtall.blogspot.com, but I changed the URL for my other blog as well so... I simply thought it was time for a change.
However, for those of you who are really observant, you might notice that the change isn´t that large, as I took inspiration for both the old and new URL from the same song. Which one? You figure it out!
I also removed the header here, have to come up with a new one.
I realized today (or really, yesterday, since it´s now past midnight) that it´s a year since I went to Stockholm for 4 kickass awesome days with Angie. I´ll add a few photos at the end of this entry. Here are the links to the entries I posted when I´d got back home again. Stockholm, day 1 Stockholm, day 2 Stockholm, day 3 Stockholm, day 4
Look at this amazing performance with Danny from last Saturday´s show of Sommarkrysset! It´s a totally & completly unique version of Amazing! I immediatly starts thinking about Ratpack, it has that sound... *LOL*
Oh, by the way, do you see how Danny has his tie loose? Who does that remind me of, you think? ;-)
Ooh and look who also turned up! H.E.A.T.! With their fabolous singer Erik! But OMG does he look.. all grown up! Completly different from the last time I saw him live, which is... close to 2 years ago.
I love that song, though, and especially the way Erik does it! And as he says in the clip, it´s thanks to that song that the lads are in H.E.A.T. together.
Yesterday was my second free-of-work day in July and I had decided to go to Vaasa. I got on my way rather late, but I still had time to do what I wanted to do in town.
I bought ink for my printer, much needed! I also bought the two last books in the Fifty Shades-triology. I tell you peeps, if you haven´t read it - do so!
Also, if they make a movie of it, I seriously hope that Ian (Smoulderholder) gets the role of Christian Grey, as he would be... so awesome, beyond awesome! There are already rumours circling around about the possibility of him getting the role and I keep my fingers crossed!
I also went to the cinema last night, to watch The Amazing Spiderman(in 3D). From the beginning, I had made plans with Ammi to watch Snow White & The Huntsman, but something came in between for Ammi, so I went to see Spiderman instead. And it was KICKASS AWESOME!
I tell you, Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man is so so much better than Tobey Maguire was. And Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, so awesome!
And *wink wink* Andrew´s gorgeous, like, drop dead gorgeous! No wonder he and Emma´s a couple in real life =)
So, if you haven´t seen it, go see it!
Today it´s one month ago since Westlife´s Farewell Concert and it´s also a month + 1 day since myCroke Park concert. I miss that night so much, it was the best night of my life! I also miss the rest of the days we spent in Dublin and the rest of Ireland.
I´m not at all close to coming to terms with the fact that Westlife is indeed over, an ended chapter... There will be no more albums coming out in late december/early december, no more tours, no more amazing songs that give you shivers by the first tune, no more breath-takingly music videos, no more wacky videos on YouTube, no more legendary quotes...
Nothing.
Thankfully there will be a tour dvd released in November, but I cannot start to describe how it will feel to watch that final dvd. I have a few months to prepare so...
I´ll leave you with one of the very highlights of 22 June.
I also apologize for the lack of blog entries being posted, guess I´m having writer´s cramp of some sort at the moment *_*
Anyways, this entry has a point. Remember that entrance examination I attended in June, for the Tourism Study programma? Well, in the very beginning of July I got a sms telling me: Congratulations! You´ve been accepted as a student at Vaasa University of Applied Sciences!
Like, WOHOOOO! You cannot understand the relief I felt when reading it. Finally I have the right motivation, since I´m 100% interested in the subject.
In this post, there's not much text, most pictures :) Enjoy!
♣ Sunday ♣ We woke up early on Sunday morning. This day we decided to go to the west coast of Ireland, something we looked forward to tremendously. The highlight was of course to visit the Cliffs of Moher.
We went by taxi to the city to Discover Ireland Tourist Centre. This time we got a super nice driver, he was really great! He would also be our driver on Tuesday morning when we would * sob sob * go to the airport to go home.
When we arrived at the tourism center, we had to wait a while before the guide Caroline from MacCoole Tours came. In between, we also got to hear when a half-full Frenchwoman chatted with a very hoarse voice in terribly bad English and explained that she had got her phone stolen and that she would go on a trip to the Cliffs of MoTher, but she had no papers with her and she did not remember what the company was called that she´d travel with.
Besides us, there were mostly Americans on the tour + a few Japanese, Germans and Spaniards. Caroline was very nice. She asked what we had done in Dublin so far, we replied, Westlife and then she asked the Americans if they knew the band, but they looked most uncomfortable out, haha. So probably they did not know who they were.
When the group was assembled, we walked a bit down the Liffey, where our bus was coming. Caroline told beforehand about what we had to wait for the tour, talked about the company and a little bit about the history of Ireland. She also spoke Irish Gaelic :) Of course, we had no idea what she was saying what so ever, but it sounded fine anyway!
When the bus arrived and we had sat us right, began the 2 ½ hour journey to Galway, where we would change buses and continue the journey to the village Oughtmama, located in the heart of the Burren, where we would visit a family farm, where Caroline inter alia grown up, as well as her cousin John would be our guide. We walked the way up to the top of the mountain and the view was phenomenal!
In addition John was followed by two others. I remember the course does not name them now, one of them hetter Darren or something such, a typical Irish guy's name anyway! Our trio was given a nickname of one of these two, Team Viking * lol * He was otherwise hysterically funny!
As we walked down the mountain, we visited the lamb Spota (Irish word for spot), who has been rebuffed by his mother and who now had to be fed by bottle. Angie tried to feed him. Also, we enjoy a heavenly good apple pie with cream and delicious coffee. All ingredients are grown on the farm.
We were also charm of a puppy named Coco. She was so cute, and she knew it too, she was a little diva!
I have to also mention that we were incredibly lucky with the weather this Sunday! There was brilliant sunshine and warm! It was fun and it was said that this sunny day was the only one that Ireland would get this summer * hihi *
When we were finished at the farm, we continued our journey. The last few kilometers to the Cliffs of Moher was very twisty and curvy, like a winding road and there were some times that you have to gasp! But the view was better the higher up we got!
Because it was such nice weather, the bus driver gave us extra time at the cliffs, which was appreciated tremendously, of course!
The rocks then ... Wow, it can not describe how beautiful it was! We had been looking forward to it immensely, and once we were there was so amazingly taken to ... Yeah, it was moved!
It is one of the most beautiful places on earth and not even the most beautiful pictures can do them justice! I definitely want to return to the rocks!
When we were almost to the edge and stared down at 214 meters ... It was quite definitely kickass awesome feeling!
When we had finished enjoying the rocks, the weather and the fantastic view, continued our bus trip. We would stay in the cozy village of Doolin for lunch in an equally cozy pub. All three took part * & * amazed lamb! I was skeptical because I heard from home that lamb class is often expensive and taste like cardigan ... But not in Ireland! =) It was great tender and tasty!
After lunch stop in Doolin, we continued back to Galway, where we aim to have jumped off the bus had an hour to spend before our bus was leaving home to Dublin again. Although we did not see as much of Galway, fell on me really in the taste.
On the way back to Dublin, I got to sleep in proper, which was nice.
♣Monday ♣ Monday Our last day in Dublin was spent to wander up and down Grafton Street shopping district extraordinere in Dublin. We tasted the Italian ice cream, gelato, which was heavenly good, and we also went to Starbucks.
We also went to the hilarious Viking Splash Tour, a guided tour around Dublin that follows in the Vikings' trail. To make it extra fun, we would now and then scream at tourists and tourist buses, hehe. The guide we had was also hilarious! We also had to go out on an artificial lake and we were asked to see U2's studio and a chess-checkered deluxe hotel that did not have time to open before it went bankrupt.
After the Viking Splash Tour, followed by another highlight of the trip: a visit to the beautiful and luxurious seaside town of Malahide. It was so nice and cozy that it is not wise, definitely worth a visit!
The main purpose of the visit was so ready to go for star spotting but we weren´t that lucky of course! We also went down to Malahide beach and we walked around and looked at all the nice houses. That said, celebrity spotting!
When we got back to Dublin, shopping was on the agenda. It burned to a rather large hole in your wallet *moahaha*
♣ Tuesday ♣ It was very early wake-up for us on Sunday morning. We wrote a greeting to Mary in the guestbook and waited for our taxi.
When we had just started in the taxi, I thought that I would look up my passport and information to the check-in. But I found no passport *panic* and pulse raced probably up to 300 ... Fortunately, I found it, it was just hiding in my "big" bag. It ended the well but still ...!
When we arrived at the airport, we went directly and checked into themselves via those "computers" that are piled up everywhere. But then came the next problem ... Ammi noticed she had the key to the room she lived in, in her pocket. This meant that we were forced to go back to the B & B to return the key. This was not painless because we got the world's worst driver, who barely spoke English as well as he drove the wrong way, before we told him. "Oh you´re going there, then this isn´t the right way" It was an expensive trip. It annoyed the hell out of me.
When we checked in, caught the mood for me to fall in the bottom for a while, guess it was my non-morning person-personality who played tricks on me + the whole choir, I "almost" botched away my passport and the room-key. .. But it came back fairly quickly.
When we passed through security, we looked up a coffee shop where we bought breakfast. We sat a long while before we did the toilet and then we'd take us to our gate. Although we had relatively little time, could stress curl up and it would go quickly and suddenly. Moreover, it was far to the gate so I was quite sick lot of lactic acid in the legs before we arrived. Ouch ouch ...!
Eventually we start to board the plane and we had to say Slán grá na hÉireann! to our beloved Ireland.
