Another baby dream

This time it was an actual baby I had, but she was really young and I didn't know how to look after her and I was out with her on my own. I think she was only a few weeks old. And I was in some building and I realised I had forgotten to bring any formula to feed her and there were other mothers feeding babies but they wouldn't lend me any formula and I was getting really upset because my little girl was so small and hungry and no-one would help me.

It's even upsetting thinking about it. Dreams are so strange. Wonder what this one means. I seem to have babies on the brain lately.

I really ought to update but as I've nothing particular to say, here's a picture of my nephew

23rd post Meme

Biscuits kindly tagged me for this thingy. She found out about it from Factobrunt

Here are the rules:

1. Delve into your blog archive.
2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
5. Tag five people to do the same.

Well, this is the fifth sentence from my 23rd post. It basically describes my life:


B) I don't have a boyfriend


I now tag DeskMonkey to provide the entertainment.

Are Irish people stupid???

"Zehntausende sind über die Autobahnen aus der texanischen Stadt Houston vor dem Hurrikan «Rita» geflohen, doch in «Kilkeanny's Irish Bar» in der Innenstadt ging die Party weiter."

*taken from www.N24.de

Another Dream

Right, this time I was looking at a row of potted plants and I felt all calm and lovely. They were really nice plants, although I don't know exactly what they were. I was watching them being watered and tended to and I felt really happy.

I think at one point flowers came into the dream as well.

Anyone have any ideas, can't find anything about dreaming about potted plants!!! But it reminds me of that dream thingy had in the bible about the fertile crops or something.

Oh I've just thought, perhaps my dream meant that, like a well looked after plant, I too will be cared for and tended to and will feel happy and content.

Wahl 2005

I seem to be watching this on ZDF. I don't know why. I don't understand what they are going on about and that's not because they are speaking German. I should really understand it because I did 'A' Level politics. Well, I thought I ought to put on something requiring brainpower because I haven't really done anything today. I became distracted though and started practising on my keyboard. I'm very pleased because I can now play a tune in a new hand position with both hands and I was only supposed to be practising with the hands separately.

They are having a discussion on ZDF now on sofas and there is a fake fire. I don't really see the point of that. It isn't going to convince anyone that they are sat in someone's living room having an after dinner intellectual discussion. They are clearly in a rather large studio. I don't even know who these people are, I'm not really interested. I should be interested, I'm sure it's quite important for Weltpolitik in general. Apparently having a coalition will make Germany weak.

Hmmm.....I think I'll go to bed now.

Karmic Moment

"The karmic moment has passed and moved onto a higher plane, leaving us dazzled by the light of its' passing."

Home Early

My college course was supposed to be from 5-9, but it finished just before 7. This wasn't because of any specific trouble, just as a safety precaution really. I was glad, I didn't really want to sit there for four hours!!! It's been about two years since I've been to any sort of lesson, I was getting fed up after an hour! I'm sure it will be four hours next week, so I better brace myself. I have a two hour class tomorrow night which I think I will like better because it's audio typing and I like typing.

When I came out of college, I couldn't get hold of my parents to come and get me grrr!!!! I tried the house phone and both their mobiles, no answer!! Parents are useless. I couldn't get a bus home because the buses at been taken off at 6.30 as a precaution. Luckily my cousin who lives nearby was home so I went round to hers.

I did emergency stops today in my driving lesson. I loved them!! They are so fun!! My instructor said I did them really well too. I suppose they are quite important. I think they are exciting like being on a fairground ride haha.

I also reversed into a parking space again, although I had forgotten how to do it since last week so I didn't quite get in the lines the first time. I have another driving lesson tomorrow, hopefully I'll be a bit better having had two close together.

Just relaxing with a nice Chianti now. Think I'll do some practise on my keyboard. I'm in quite a good mood.

More Madness Tonight!

It started this afternoon again, we didn't really know what was going on at work cause we didn't hear the news or anything. Someone phoned and told us that shops and stuff were shutting at 4 and the trouble had started up again and the train station was closed because of a bombscare. Quite a few staff left work early, me included.

Turned out the buses were still running, but the trains weren't. My dad was coming to pick me up which usually takes ten minutes, but because of road blocks and diversions, the city centre was full of traffic and I had to wait over an hour for him. All the mobile networks were jammed and people were wandering about glaring at their mobiles cause no-one could contact anyone or receive calls. I phoned my house from a payphone but there was no answer. Mum had been trying to phone me but she kept getting a message saying there was a fault. I met a friend of my mum's who was going to have to walk home about three miles. There were buses in town but stuck in all the traffic, everything was barely moving. It took my dad an hour to get a quarter of a mile.

Up round our way is really quiet. As dad pointed it out, it's all organised violence so they are all elsewhere causing trouble. I hope they don't bother coming back here.

It wasn't frightening, just bloody damn annoying.

I will be very very pissed off if there is shit tomorrow. I am supposed to be having a driving lesson in the afternoon and a college course in town from 5-9 in the evening. If these people are unhappy, I wish they'd bloody hang themselves instead of disrupting other people's lives and causing violence.

On a lighter note......

Here are some pictures from last night

Proms in the Park and making it home alive

Brilliant night at Proms in the Park, unfortunately overshadowed by the pointless rioting that is happening in Belfast tonight.

We were told during the concert that city bus services had been taken off the roads as a precaution. A helicopter was overhead throughout and we heard sirens and saw police landrovers going past. No-one let it spoil the evening though which was amazing, there was a fly past by the Red Arrows while the Ulster Orchestra played the Star Wars theme.

Afterwards, I didn't realise things were so bad until Poppy texted me and asked if I was ok cause she'd heard about trouble on the news. On the way to the car, we encountered a very drunk bloke who called us "orange bastards". He clearly had some magicial ability to tell people's religion simply by looking at their faces through a drunken haze.....was tempted to give him a torrent of abuse in German, but that would only have exacerbated things. We walked on and ignored him.

At the other side of the road was a group of "masked youths armed with baseball bats" as they would say on the news. Well, we just walked past them, they didn't say anything to us, but dad said they had been looking round, so when we got round the corner, we legged it to the car. They hadn't followed us thank goodness!! We tried to take a safe route home but found roads sealed off and police stopping people. The policeman told us a different route to go and he said that there was widespread rioting, shots were being fired, he thought a few people had been killed and that people were being pulled out of their cars.

Well I was pretty bloody scared by then. I had visions of me and dad being shot and and dragged out of the car and beaten and stuff. The route the policeman told us was safe and quiet so we got home okay. A few police landrovers went past my street but they were heading further up the road.

In all the time I've lived in Belfast (which is all my life, apart from when I was at uni), I've never seen trouble like tonight. It has to be said I've never seen trouble in fact, apart from on the news. It was very very scary!!! There were loads of police landrovers and huge watercanon trucks which I'd never seen before!!

I'm just very glad to be home and safe and more determined to leave this country!!! Am a bit worried about the couple of thousand people who were at Proms in the Park in Belfast tonight. How will they get home with no buses running, roads closed off and taxis getting hijacked and burned!!?? Dad and I were really lucky but I have a terrible feeling that other people won't be. On the news just now, it said the trouble is getting worse.

I'm drinking cider to calm myself down.

I'm ashamed of this country.

Pregnant

Does anyone know what it means if you dream that you are pregnant?

And does anyone know what it means if you dream you are pregnant without having slept with anyone?

Does anyone know why I have odd dreams?

I'm sure Freud would have something to say about this.

Northern Ireland 1 England 0

HURRAH!!!

25 Today

Oh, bugger.

Deforestation in my own back garden!!!

Eeek!!! Dad chopped some poor trees to bits today and we spent all day clearing it up. I was most annoyed. I protested that these were birds' homes and there is enough deforestation going on in the world without it happening in my own back garden, but alas, they weren't interested.

At least I managed to find myself some nice antlers.

Ein Doppelzimmer bitte

Well, what a tiring day. As I was the only person who can speak German in work today, I got to spend all day trying to find accommodation for Dr Koch (a name which caused much sniggering amongst my colleagues) who is flying in from Berlin tonight. I won't go into all the dull details, but it involved lots of phonecalls and emailing. I finally got him booked in somewhere at a quarter past five. He had first phoned at 10.10!! I just hope it's all in ordnung and I don't go into work tomorrow to find something has gone wrong with the booking.

It was good to get to use my German, well, what little of it I have retained. I think that was the first time I had spoken to a proper German person on the phone. It was certainly the first time I'd emailed a proper German person. I didn't really know what way to write the email, whether I should use a format like in a letter and write Lieber or Sehr Geehrter or something. I've even forgotten how to set out a letter in German. Hard to believe I once did Stage 2 German Word Processing!!

Interestingly and annoyingly I discovered today that there is no phrase in German for "expiry date" as in the expiry date on a credit card. My colleague told me that she had asked one of our staff who is a native German one day and she said they just use the english for it. I find it very odd that there isn't a word or words in German for it. I thought that "Endes datum" or something would be used.

Hmmm......it's funny that there aren't words in German for things in English and vice versa. I mean there is no English word for "schadenfreude" and I can't think of any other examples right now, but there are lots of German words that don't translate into English and have to be explained by a phrase.

Ah, languages are so strange and interesting.