Flowers in Bloom

Not everything was good in Ireland while I was away in China, My Granddad passed away and then two weeks later I got another phone call to say my Grandma had passed away,  My Granddad was 95, and it was not really unexpected, but my Grandma was only 83 and nobody saw that coming, She was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, and we knew there was no cure for that, she got phenomena in the last week of her life and sadly passed away. 

A meal with my Grandma in Shelby's

Before we went to China, We packed all our belongings and moved out of our apartment, we didn't want to pay rent for 3 months, and put everything up in my parents attic, with the intention that we would find a new place when we came back, then when my Grandma passed away, my Mom had the idea that we should move into her apartment and since we were strapped for cash we gladly accepted rightly or wrongly. Heres a few pics from around the apartment 

Michael Cooking

 My first bubble bath in years (my old apartment only had a shower)

 Our Bedroom

Our Big Ass TV

Me eating in the dinning room 

Anyway my Grandma was always a very keen Garden, She used to have a huge garden in her old house and when she moved into her apartment she still kept up the Gardening to a lesser extent on her balcony, But when she passed away all her balcony plants were sadly neglected, and when we moved in to her apartment we vowed to resurrect the garden and we started yesterday, Check out the fruits of our work, we still have a long way to go though.

This wasn't our first gardening bonding experience, When we were in China we helped Michael's Mom out with her Garden, it did attract quite a few stares, at one point and old man who seemed to be a bin man stoped his little truck beside the house and stared for a good 10 minutes, This is what its like in rural China, You just get used to it. We all look so glamourous haha!

rudeness insights anger

God, I can't stand our appartment at the moment, On monday we woke up to hear drilling, sawing and all sorts of construction work, My head was spinning. 

Then on Tuesday it continued again, and this time I went out and asked the man are you going to be doing that for long? Yes the rest of the week, He is chopping wood out there, There is a mountain of wood out there I don't think he will ever be finished.

I bought earplugs and surprise surprise they didn't work ugh, Then this morning I woke up more sawing, and a phone call from my land lady asking why haven't we paid the rent? What? I paid on Monday, Then she checked her computer yes we did, sorry, Then I told her that our oven is still broken.

A few weeks ago, we told the office our oven is not working, and they said they would get a maintenance man, Then a few days later a maintenance man called and said he would be here in 10 minutes, This was at 8am, my boyfriend was working a nightshift and said to tell him to come back later, So I did, then after that the maintenance man never called me again and our oven is still not working. 

Then today when i reminded her, she said "yeah, the maintenance man came and you wouldn't let him in" Then I said "he gave me 10 minutes notice," I really think thats unreasonable, he should tell us a day in advance when he is coming, Then she told me its my own fault, The maintenance man only comes on one day, you can't tell him what time to come. 

I was so angry. We are paying the rent here, why can't we tell him what time to come? I can't stand this rude woman, 

I can't sleeo

This is the story of my life these days, me and my boyfriend have been driven demented this week. Every night my boyfriend has a new excuse about why he can't go to sleep at a reasonable time like a normal person.

I just finished work, I need some time to relax before I go to bed.

I just ate a snack, I can't possibly go to sleep on an full stomach.

I am not tired yet

The trains are too noisy

Our neighbors are too noisy.

I have heard these excuses a dozen times and most of the time I just ignore them or accept them and go to sleep before him. I am quite a light sleeper, I like the room to be totally silent before I can go to sleep, I can't stand

Taps dripping

Radiators dripping

music

tv shining on me,

someone typing

rustling papers

shining lights.

Considering we live in a studio apartment there's not much places for my boyfriend to go. So usually if he can't sleep my boyfriend watches a movie with his earphones in and doesn't bother me at all.

However since Wednesday our internet has been cut off. so no movies so the only alternative he has is to play games on his computer which requires a lot of clicking and banging on the keyboard. Which
completely stops me from sleeping and drives me mad.

So since Wednesday my boyfriend has had no alternative but to move into the bathroom to play his video games. Its a very funny sight indeed.

My boyfriend would love this bathroom lol

But yesterday, I had fallen asleap and he was still up and felt hungry and didn't want to start making loads a noise so he went out to try and buy some this was at 2am and surprise surprise everywhere was closed so he headed to his friends house and ate noodles there and drank some beer.

Then he came back to our appartment at god knows what time. It looked bright outside and gave the door a huge bang and woke me up. Then after awhile he got into bed and started trying to go to sleep.

We turned this direction tossed that direction and my god looked at the clock 6.30 we couldn't fall asleap. he got up and started to play his game again while I decided to change my sleeping direction and moved my pillow to the top of the bed and tried one more time to fall asleap and thank god I did

I woke up at 10.30 with a gigantic headache and decided to head back to my house. Then my dad dropped me to my uncles house to mind students. so although I really want to take a nap right now I can't I am waiting for them to come home at 11 and then im going to go to bed and fingers crossed have a peaceful night sleep lol  

Neighbourhood watch

Everyone who reads this by now knows that I have a huge fondness for cats, Definitely a crazy cat lady in the making. LOL but really I do love cats, When I came back from holiday in Italy alone, the first person to greet me was not my boyfriend, my friends, my grandparents, relatives, but my darling cat Angel~~

Unfortunately she has never been able to take a holiday, apart from her first stint in a cattery when she was a kitten. When we go on holidays, it means she has to move out and live out in the real world and more or less fend for herself. Well shes not totally alone my neighbour comes to feed her at least once a day. but she doesn't get much attention.

So I guess it must be quite lonely :( but anyway when i came home i was greeted by meow, meow, meow, meow, thrust me the meowing lasted for a couple of hours and She followed me from room to room, I went upstairs, she went upstairs, I went to the kitchen, she went to the kitchen you get the kitchen.

So people say dogs are the most loyal animals I beg to differ. A dog may be a mans best friend. But cats are most definitely a womans best friend. Anyone who wants to dispute this can bite me! RAWR!

Anyway today here i was in the appartment minding my own business, it was a pretty boring day frankly, I just did the shopping bought Chinese leaf hahah! and milk.

Then went to the library and borrowed another Haruki Murakami book. Seriously love this author at the moment. I even watched Norwegan wood today, which is based on one of his books. Although I have to say the book was much better.

Then I got hungry and got a KFC take away, would you believe KFC ran out of chicken I had to wait 20 minutes for my order !!! crazy. Then i went back to listening to music and relaxing...

Then suddenly a head literally popped through our front window! (We live on the ground floor) "Hello, Hello, is anyone in there???" I was thinking Who the hell is this???? then he explained frantically that his cat is stuck behind the appartment building. I have never actually been to the back of our building... why would i ever need to. we live right beside the main door.

Apparently there is a narrow gap between the building and a wall. and the guy lives on the top floor and he had gone out and left the window open and his cat thought it would be a good idea to jump down there and explore..  and couldn't get back up and was now meowing her head off.

so I let him in and he banged on our nearest nieghbours door who lives near the back of the apartment building. they weren't home... then he came into our apartment and asked did we have anything long to pull the cat up, because she has a collar. The only thing we had was an umbrella, which is too short.

Then I said I would go up to his apartment and see so we went up tried using other long pointy things that were all too short... then he said, I will have to call the fire brigade. But he didn't have credit... so I had to bring him back down to our apartment to get my phone.

The embarrassment our apartment was quite messy. but i had no choice. so we rang and they put us in touch with the ISPCA, and they didn't pick up so we left my number and i said i would go up to him if they called back... so then I went back to playing with my laptop...

Then half an hour later, knock knock on the window... i went out and saw he had the cat! apparently he found a door to get into the back of the apartment building and saved the cat!

So I'm glad to report the cat is alive and well!!