They're Coming To Take Me Away

This journal has no material today in protest of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act), the bills which will allow the government censor the intenet. I am sure everyone knows that Wikipedia, Mozilla, Wordpress, and hundreds of other sites are going dark today in protest of the bills, which could be used to shut down all material on the web not generated by corporations with big money lawyers -- affecting everything from whether we can get unbiased news reports to how we share our own news and photos with friends. Though the House bill, SOPA, is closer to being stymied, the Senate bill, PIPA, has several dozen co-sponsors. Find out more at http://americancensorship.org and http://www.fightforthefuture.org.

is apparently available in Ireland. Is it worth opening an account?

I hope you have a fantastic day and a great year!

Happy New Year. May 2012 be a fantastic year.

was the team lunch and exchange of secret santa gifs. After stressing about what to get mine, he wasn't there. Work gave me a box of chocolate and my secret santa gave me a chinese writing set, very cool.

A little annoyed that I wasn't more productive on my days off. Will not be getting 27th off boo. Can't complain too much, really do have quite a few days off over Christmas.

cruisedirector I hope you have a fantastic day!

smirnoffmule. I hope you had a brilliant day

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Happy Birthday sheryden Hope you have a lovely day, filled with things to make you happy.

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or it will be in about 2 months so if anyone wants any cards, (it doesn't matter what part of the world you live, I'll send a card), please comment here with name and address plus any requests. All comments screened!

( What character from Merlin are you? ) and the result is unexpected..

( Who is your Harry Potter Mate? )

While sick, finally watched all the Hawii five 0 on dvr so recs happily accepted.

A most wonderful and Merry Christmas to everyone on my flist who celebrates it. To everyone else, I hope you had a fantastic Saturday!

Thank you for the positive vibes and kind words. Overall, the news from the hospital. There is some paralysis in one arm and leg but the face is not too bad and his speech is okay. Still tests to be done and he'll be in hospital for a few weeks.

There's currently an email response to an application I made. I can't face opening it. I already know what it's going to say since the only response I get is no. Have heard nothing back from the retail places I've applied to. Completely stressed about meeting bills this month, have absolutely no idea how I'll do it.

The latest news on the dog is that we're waiting for the grass to grow in the garden...

Happy Birthday to a wonderful person who deserves every happiness in the world. ellid. I hope you have an absolutely fantastic day.


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Secondly, would appreciate positive vibes sent my uncles way. He's currently in hospital after suffering a stroke at some stage yesterday. He's stable but we don't know how severe the damage is yet.

Since my dad lost his job, the house has been undergoing major renovations and at some point during this, my walking shoes were tossed out. This in itself would not be a huge deal since they were reaching the faling apart stage. However, inside the shoes were my specially made orthotics, the ones that cost several hundred euro. Yeah colour me extremely annoyed. I need these orthotics because I have extremely high arches which have led to some of the problems with my knees. Without the support, my feet kinds fall in and this has caused my knees to have worn down unevenly. there is currently not a chance in hell I can replace them and my knees are getting progressively more painful. It also means that I'm probably increasing the damage to them.

I only discovered all this last year when I went hoping to be taken seriously and get some pain meds and it was noted that I stood funny. I've been complaining about knee pain since about the age of nine, eventually I was just too embarrassed to complain when they couldn't find anything wrong. Having read up, I'm lucky my back is okay especially since I'm very well emdowed in the chest region. I have exercises to retrain my knees and when I have money I so want to get a tens machine. They used that and an ultrasound device to reduce swelling and pain in my knees and it was so good.

I have dropped in my cv to several places this week, fingers crossed something comes through.

Currently only responsible adult at home. Am I the only person here worried? Dad is collecting some furniture in Britain for a friend and mum decided to go with him for company. House party time, I think :)

I heard back from one of the Scottish places I applied to. Didn't even get to the interview stage. While I didn't expect anything different, part of me was really hoping I'd be successful especially considering how ready made the position was for me.

I could do with cheering up

still alive, still writing up and still job hunting.

Dad has become obsessed with garden, it helps him escape reality so most of the time we leave him to it although his back is starting to suffer. I'm sure I've mentioned it before but just before I was born my father was in a car accident. They actually thought he was dead, he looked so bad but fortunately wasn't. However, several of the vertebrae in his back were broken, I'm not sure how it was that the spinal chord wasn't severed but there you have it. I was born a few months later and the story goes that my dad and I learnt to walk together. All this means is that at times his back acts up, when he has a few days off from work, when he's tense or when he over does like now.

Dad has actually said yes to us having a dog provided we ar approved by the rescue centers if we end up getting a rescue. Mum os now digging her heels in saying she wasn't approached at all about it. Only E is actually allowed to know this so shh!

Today is my brother's birthday. If he were alive, I'm not sure what we would be doing for it or even what he would be doing with his. Given he was doing an apprenticeship in the building when he died, it's most likely he'd be out of work or have emigrated. maybe he'd be settled down with kids by now. Who knows? Most of the times, it's better and then I'm suddenly overwhelmed with wishing he were still alive. I won't pretend that he was perfect, that we didn't fight or that there wasn't times I hated him because he could be the most irritating person and he knew exactly what to say to hurt me but at the end of the day he was my brother who would have done anything to make sure I was happy and safe and I loved him.

Thursdays is my dads birthday so the siblings and I have to go shopping tomorrow to get gift and ingredients for dinner. Wish us luck with the cooking.

Next month, I'm taking my driving test, already getting quite sick feeling in stomach.

Think I startled my mum with some stuff I said about cousin. I hadn't even thought of some of the crap she had pulled and put me through til this conversation. It's kinda of hard to put into words some of the things she said and did but I find the best thing is to keep my distance which is why I go out of my way not to see her when she comes home and when I do only in the company of other people or just before another appointment. Though that second option is often not needed since she'll ring and ring til you agree to meet and then discard you at a moments notice if she sees some one else she knows. She also only contacts me when she's coming to Ireland, I'll hear nothing all year and then a couple of weeks before she's due, I'll be bombarded.

Okay maybe I had a bit than I thought to write about. I hope everyone is okay and I want you to know that although I don't write or comment much I am thinking about you all and wishing you all the best. *hugs and chocolate to everyone getting this far*