Dec 30 2004
By the way, I’ve recently started using Flickr for my photos & images. Hopefully I’ll add more when I have time, but for now what you’ve seen is pretty much all that are up there, apart from one of my back garden on Christmas day, when we actually had snow. Yup, a white Christmas, the first one in a decade I think. Was all gone the enxt day as well.
Current track: In My Secret Life - Leonard Cohen (The Essential Leonard Cohen)
Tags: flickrDec 30 2004
My one eyed-cat before? I don’t think so (and I even went to the bother of doing a little browse and didn’t find any reference to her.) I may be wrong of course, but don’t tell anyone.
Okay, so a while back we got a kitten, she was very purty, and very playful. My lil sis named her Missy.
I think she thinks of herself as more of a dog than a cat. She hates being left in a room by herself, and sprawls on the floor just like a big hound. I think she got this from our Shady. Despite all their fights they are great company for each other.
Shady is a fairly big dog, a cross between a lab and a dalmation. So you’d think that little cat might be scared of him. Not at all. At this moment she she play-fighting with him. This often ends up with her head entirely inside her mouth. He however is gentle with her, she isn’t. Often she bites his lip, hanging on until he knocks her off with his head.
Anways, Missy usually spends all her time indoors. She pops outside for a run and to chase birds and mice, but rarely for more than an hour or so. Couple of weeks back she disappeared for the day. We all got a little worried, and we should have been. She finally turned up, blood all over her face, and obviously not a happy cat. It was night-time at this stage, so when she curled up on a seat we left her alone, with some water and food.
Next day, after the dog had cleaned her up she looked like this:
Plus she was very clearly not happy.
But after her trip to the vet, and getting pumped full of painkillers and anitbiotics she perked right up, apart from her eye. Which eventually turned red, then blue. 
By this stage, I had started my new job in Dublin. But I got a phonecall telling me that de mudder had had to being her back in, and the vet had taken the eye out. (She also got done ie no kittens, at the same time). So we now have a one-eyed cat, who should now be called Missing according to one of the brothers:
Yes that last one is a crappy photo, that didn’t upload properly for some reason. But despite the fact that she loves computers (and is sitting on the monitor watching me type at the mo’) she never sits still long enough to get a nice photo. Or maybe I just haven’t tried recently.
Anyways, now you know the story of Missy, the one-eyed cat.
Current track: Anthem Leonard Cohen (from The Essential Leonard Cohen album
Tags: cats, flickr, one-eyed cat, petsDec 30 2004
But hasn’t 2004 ended horribly. I am, of course, talking about the tidal wave disaster in the Indian ocean. Over 120,000 people at last count, but that is expected to rise. If you can, please do donate some money, there are a multitude of sites out there, so find one and give what you can spare.
Current track: Vicar Street Reels (2004) Planxty (Live 2004 album)
Tags: tsunamiDec 23 2004
This is prolly my last post before Xmas, not back at work till Jan 4th so might not see you all till then, although I’ll try to pop in when at home. Just wanted to alert you to this story on Racism and Road Rage. V Funny, and found through BE
Tags: links
Dec 22 2004
dir. Joel Schumacher
Writ: Andrew Lloyd Webber & Joel Schumacher, based on book by Gaston Leroux
Starring:
* Gerard Butler - The Phantom
* Emmy Rossum - Christine
* Patrick Wilson - Raoul
I had expected to enjoy this. But no, it was over long, over crap, and just plain boring.
There isn’t really a lot more to say, but I suppose you bothered to click on a link to take you here so I’d better type something for you to read.
There are two main flaws with this film.
First off it should have chopped some songs out. Seems as thought there was no editing at all, and everything is faithful to the stage show. (Maybe fans of that will enjoy this)
Second of all, the characters. Christine has none. She does nothing but react, and not even a lot of that.
So, all in all, give it a miss. It does pick up the pace a little towards the end, but by that stage no one really cares. Thank god for popcorn to keep you entertained is all I can say.
Total and utter BLEUCH!
Tags: 3 Stars, Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on book, Emmy Rossum, Gaston Leroux, Gerard Butler, Joel Schumacher, musical, overblown, overlong, Patrick Wilson, romance, The Phantom of the OperaDec 22 2004
Totally forgotten my blogpatrol log in details, so have gone and re-registered. V anoying as way-back when I always used it to surf to referrer sites.
But, talking of referrers I’ve recently signed up to Blog Explosion which, so far, seems a dangerously addicitve way to both increase your blog’s traffic and to find new reads.
(Have seen Blog explosion mentioned on a few sites, but I gotta give credit to Sally for alerting me to its presence.>
EDIT: have actually remembered my username, so have succesfully gotten password YIPEE! When I signed up with BlogPatrol I had a typo in my username, only just remembered that now
Tags: links, statsDec 22 2004
either leave your answers or a link to your webpage with your responses.
Well if it was a Sunday I could easily to the second option to the first. I mean it is positvely easy to spend an entire day in nothing but a bath robe, while walking over glass requires effort.
Hmm, either way I’d be reporting my neighbour, but I have all that confidential info in the bins, so I guess I’ll take my neighbour digging in the garden (that way I could blame the bodies on them too).
Chocolate
Now neither of those opptions is a good one… guess I’ll go with throw up thought. No, I mean constipated. I mean. I don’t know… Constipated. My final answer so Chris you can go orange on that now.
