What made you smile/frown/mad/sad/cry today-thread for all your emotional needs! V4

Tigger99

Honey-ec wrote: »

Oh totally. But I would really, really like a snog.

:)

Sephiroth_dude

Honey-ec wrote: »

Oh totally. But I would really, really like a snog.

hmmm......sure wouldn't we all ;-) :-D

Carsinian Thau

Honey-ec wrote: »

Oh totally. But I would really, really like a snog.

krudler wrote: »

me too, as much as I like my own company I wouldnt mind that first kiss butterfly feeling, tis been a while.

Hmmmmmmmm.............

squeakyduck

That new rubberbandits song has taken me over. I sang myself to sleep with it and I'm currently singing it to myself now! :eek:

x Purple Pawprints x

Just found a song that reminds me of the bf.

Off to bed now. Night loungers. xx

Kiera

My niece in Paris obviously doesn't understand what a time difference is and keeps texting me at 6am. Hate putting my phone on silent at night but it's looking like I'm gonna have to as my giving out isn't sinking in to her.

Wibbs

I got cheesed off with similar K, so now I just switch mine off at night. I was surprised how freaked out I was at first. It's amazing how attached to mobies we are(and I didn't have one until quite late in the game). However I was more amazed how bloody liberating switching one off at night is. Of course if you need to be contactable at all times for family emergencies, work etc they're a boon, but they're just as much a millstone around our necks too at times.

Kiera

Wibbs wrote: »

I got cheesed off with similar K, so now I just switch mine off at night. I was surprised how freaked out I was at first. It's amazing how attached to mobies we are(and I didn't have one until quite late in the game). However I was more amazed how bloody liberating switching one off at night is. Of course if you need to be contactable at all times for family emergencies, work etc they're a boon, but they're just as much a millstone around our necks too at times.

Id love to switch it on to silent but you know yourself with my family that it's not really an option. I'm gonna have a word with her dad and let him sort it. I'd love to turn it off for the day and see what it feels like I'd probably get very twitchy and anxious.

almostnever

I'm really worried I'll chicken out of X's birthday party tomorrow night. I'd be very disappointed in myself if I did but I don't think I'll manage to stop myself.

Posy

Wibbs wrote: »

I got cheesed off with similar K, so now I just switch mine off at night. I was surprised how freaked out I was at first.

I always turn my phone off at night.. I remember thinking recently that it's strange so many people don't! I have a house phone though, so maybe it would be different if I didn't have a landline.
Lots of people sleep with their phone under the pillow but I'd be too paranoid that it'd fry your brain!

kate.m

Posy wrote: »

I always turn my phone off at night.. I remember thinking recently that it's strange so many people don't! I have a house phone though, so maybe it would be different if I didn't have a landline.
Lots of people sleep with their phone under the pillow but I'd be too paranoid that it'd fry your brain!

I was told that too! It can also interfere with sleeping patterns and stuff. Now I make myself leave in downstairs.

Kiera

Posy wrote: »

I always turn my phone off at night.. I remember thinking recently that it's strange so many people don't! I have a house phone though, so maybe it would be different if I didn't have a landline.
Lots of people sleep with their phone under the pillow but I'd be too paranoid that it'd fry your brain!

I don’t have a house phone and have an elderly mother so I’d be too worried to turn it off at night. I usually wake up in the middle of the night anyway so might stick it on silent and can check it then I guess.

i leave mine on but people dont tend to call or text late, and if they do i usually sleep through anyway as i usually have it on silent

Scarinae

Acoshla wrote: »

I can only shop for two hours MAX before I'm bored and wanna go home so shopping with people is such a chore when they make me hang around longer.

I also prefer shopping by myself. I usually only shop when I actually need something, and I often scope stuff out online before I go into the actual shop, so I like to just try stuff on, buy it and then leave. I hate being dragged around clothes shops by other people, especially when they aren’t looking for anything in particular.

Acoshla wrote: »

I think I'd die without my passport. I've been out of the country for a least a day (and at the most 15 months) every year since I was 9. It was funny when I went to give blood for the first time last year. The nurse asked "Have you been abroad this year and where, please list", "Amsterdam, Tenerife in April, and again in September, Rome, UK..." I was thinking "please don't let there be somewhere I forgot and have to add" because she was looking at my funny This year I'm going to London & Birmingham but am hoping and praying that I might get to go to Toronto. We're driving across America for our honeymoon, can't wait!

I haven’t been able to give blood for several years because of my habit of visiting malarial areas, you have to wait a year before you’re able to give blood again. I was a bit surprised last time I gave blood, they asked me if I had had any contact with primates (?), I suppose they have to be over cautious though.

My passport is my only form of ID, as I don’t have a driving licence and I don’t think they’d accept the Garda age card over here. It makes it doubly annoying when I’m asked for ID buying alcohol – I’m 25 ffs, and I’m not going to bring my passport to the supermarket.

I always leave my phone on overnight, but on silent. Texts don't wake me, I think I could sleep through an earthquake to be honest.

I don’t want to do any work today

The Lovely Muffin

Don't you just love waking up beside your boyfriend/girlfriend and spending ages just cuddling? I just love it, spent nearly an hour cuddling my man this morning and still had trouble getting up and letting him go to work.

Love waking up beside him

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

jAYSUS that was quick :-O

There was 1/4 of a tub and both myself and my boyfriend were eating it, I'm going to be keeping an eye out for it on special offer now, damn it was delicious.

The chocolate one with Pralines, Caramel and Chocolate was absolutely gorgeous. I had it in my auntie's around Xmas, it was so so good. I haven't seen it in my local Dunnes or Supervalu though

kate.m wrote: »

For future reference, that baileys ice cream is amazing if you mash up raspberries and mix them together

It turns slightly pinkish and is just so nice!

That sounds delicious.

Would you use fresh raspberries or frozen? I'm guessing fresh, as they are far, far nicer than frozen.

Honey-ec

I always leave my phone on overnight too, it would take a hell of a lot more than a text to wake me! The best thing I ever did was stop checking the time whenever I woke up, though. I just trust to the alarm and it improved the quality of my sleep no end. No more "I've to be up in 5 hours." "I've to be up in 3 hours." "I've to be up in an hour :eek:" crap...

Acoshla

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I haven't seen mini tubs on sale in years,only the bigger one that cost nearly 6 euro :-O

Or local Tesco always has them, and our Xtravision does sometimes too, and the mini Ben & Jerry's ones.

Posy wrote: »

Maybe it's just the 'Green Grass' shade though- I've heard of other people saying they got badly stained nails from that one too.
I have the same Rimmel polish in yellow though, and that one did not stain my nails yellow!
Weird.

I find most Rimmel colours give quite good coverage so maybe it's just the green shade. Only pink stains my nails but it happens in most brands.

Honey-ec wrote: »

Oh totally. But I would really, really like a snog.

Yeah that's what I was like after my ex and I split up, just craved a kiss and a cuddle and a flirt with a cute guy. I set out to do that at a wedding 6 weeks after I left my ex, met a cute guy, but got neither a kiss nor a cuddle just a bit of flirting...and now I'm engaged to him, can't see exactly how that "one day" plan went wrong

Posy wrote: »

I always turn my phone off at night.. I remember thinking recently that it's strange so many people don't! I have a house phone though, so maybe it would be different if I didn't have a landline.
Lots of people sleep with their phone under the pillow but I'd be too paranoid that it'd fry your brain!

We don't have a house phone so we leave ours on at night. They're our clocks and alarms too though, would be lost without them!

Acoshla

Fishie wrote: »

I haven’t been able to give blood for several years because of my habit of visiting malarial areas, you have to wait a year before you’re able to give blood again. I was a bit surprised last time I gave blood, they asked me if I had had any contact with primates (?), I suppose they have to be over cautious though.

Yep we were asked the same thing, we said ye we had fed monkeys by hand in Tenerife, she said "Did you hold them or just feed them?", we hadn't held them so there was no problem

IvyTheTerrible

Some of the blood donation rules get on my nerves! I'm allowed to give blood in Ireland. But I wanted to donate the cord blood after the birth (it goes to people with leukemia and other similar diseases) and I couldn't cos in France you can't give blood if you lived in the British Isles in the 90's...I don't see how my blood is more dangerous in France than in ireland!

Maple

Everyone and everything is getting on my wick today.

Acoshla

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Some of the blood donation rules get on my nerves! I'm allowed to give blood in Ireland. But I wanted to donate the cord blood after the birth (it goes to people with leukemia and other similar diseases) and I couldn't cos in France you can't give blood if you lived in the British Isles in the 90's...I don't see how my blood is more dangerous in France than in ireland!

Hmm, it's odd so that you can give blood here, my uncle can't because he lived in the UK in the 90's during the CJD thing.

IvyTheTerrible

Acoshla wrote: »

Hmm, it's odd so that you can give blood here, my uncle can't because he lived in the UK in the 90's during the CJD thing.

No no I never lived in the UK...but in France the question is "Have you ever lived in the british Isles?" (NOT the UK but the entire British Isles, including ireland...very odd)

Acoshla

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

No no I never lived in the UK...but in France the question is "Have you ever lived in the british Isles?" (NOT the UK but the entire British Isles, including ireland...very odd)

Sure aren't we the same as England sure :rolleyes:

x Purple Pawprints x

I was really enjoying cooking things but now my mother has taken all the fun out of it. I was finally not bored during the day but now I don't think I can do it because she's so fussy about when I can and can't cook, how much I cook, what I cook, cleaning up. I'm perfectly capable of washing up and cleaning up after myself. Then half the time I'm in the middle of cooking she's out in the kitchen (and it's bloody tiny, barely room for 2 people) nearly taking over. I was doing pancakes the other night and she came in and decided 12 wasn't enough and that the batter wasn't right so she took over. I'm just fed up.

Posy

I don't get the blood donation rules.. surely they test the blood first?! There must be people who lie on the forms so it's not like they're 100% reliable. :eek:

IvyTheTerrible

Posy wrote: »

I don't get the blood donation rules.. surely they test the blood first?! There must be people who lie on the forms so it's not like they're 100% reliable. :eek:

They do test but there is no test for CJD as far as I know

Scarinae

My parents can’t give blood in Ireland because they lived in the UK until 1981... Even though they were vegetarian at the time, and wouldn’t have been eating beef.

I still get texts from the IBTS, telling me how urgently short of blood they are, and they sometimes send letters to my home in Dublin. I have called them and told them I live in London, and even before I lived in London I would call them up and tell them that I couldn’t give blood due to their rules and could they please put it on my file. The texts and letters didn’t stop though, what a waste of resources!

Jane, I’m sorry that your mother is taking the joy out of cooking for you. It’s a great skill to have though, so persevere! How is your knitting going, are you working on any projects at the moment?

Stench Blossoms

Has anyone used booking.com for hotels? Good/bad experiences?

The Lovely Muffin

Did anyone here update their Blogger.com interface to the new interface? I did and I don't like it at all, I much preferred the old one, maybe it's just me though.

The Lovely Muffin

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

Has anyone used booking.com for hotels? Good/bad experiences?

Never used them, but used www.expedia.ie recently to book a hotel in London and had no problems what so ever.

Remember if you go through www.fatcheese.ie you get cashback. When my boyfriend went through Fatcheese to book our hotel in London on Expedia we got €40 in cash back think. It takes 1-3 months to come through though, so you wouldn't want to be relying on it for anything.

Honey-ec

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

Has anyone used booking.com for hotels? Good/bad experiences?

I've used them, they're grand, no complaints whatsoever. In fact, my sister double-booked a room with them before and she was convinced they'd just go "Pre-pay rate, no cancellations, sorry" but they were perfectly happy to cancel the second booking and refund her the money.

Maple

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

Has anyone used booking.com for hotels? Good/bad experiences?

Yeah they're grand. Just watch the cancellation date policy though. We're heading to the Munster game end of this month and used booking.com. Despite it being three weeks away we would have had to cancel last week to avoid being charged.

kate.m

The Lovely Muffin wrote: »

That sounds delicious.

Would you use fresh raspberries or frozen? I'm guessing fresh, as they are far, far nicer than frozen.

Fresh I've never tried it with frozen, might be a cheaper alternative though!

I only used 6ish raspberries with a big scoop of the ice cream.

Acoshla

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

Has anyone used booking.com for hotels? Good/bad experiences?

Yep I've used it a good few times, no bad issues with it.

SarahBeep!

10 days off chocolate without slipping up. Yeahhhhhhhhhhh!!

x Purple Pawprints x

I'm not that good really Fishie. I was only doing scones and buns and stuff but I was really liking it. I had myself convinced I couldn't cook. I just finished knitting a scarf for my bf's dad. I have a heap of double knit wool to use up so I'm trying to decide what to do with it at the moment. Wanted to do a jumper or something cool I could wear but can't find a pattern for straight needles. Haven't ventured to circular ones yet.

Acoshla

Jane_LS_88 wrote: »

I'm not that good really Fishie. I was only doing scones and buns and stuff but I was really liking it. I had myself convinced I couldn't cook.

Absolutely anybody can bake or cook as long as they follow recipes and learn from mistakes. Many, many people try baking or cooking, but mess with the quantities, change ingredients, use wrong temps or oven settings and then say "Ah it didn't work, I'm sh*te at this", but they fundamentally messed up before they ever gave it a chance! See it on CDWM all the time.

Dolbert

Wibbs wrote: »

I got cheesed off with similar K, so now I just switch mine off at night. I was surprised how freaked out I was at first. It's amazing how attached to mobies we are(and I didn't have one until quite late in the game). However I was more amazed how bloody liberating switching one off at night is. Of course if you need to be contactable at all times for family emergencies, work etc they're a boon, but they're just as much a millstone around our necks too at times.

My phone is always switched off at night, but then we have a house phone so I guess it's different. I really, really hate being woken up...

All this talk of passports reminds me to renew mine. I got it when I was 18 in order to move to Spain for the summer with friends! I'd recommend anyone to do it, moving out combined with experiencing another culture was great for me especially at that age. 10 years on and I feel antsy about not having a valid passport, even though I have no trips planned!

Today didn't get off to a great start, I woke up with such bad hayfever that I was basically incapacitated by sneezing. Anyone who thinks sneezing is fun needs to spend a day with my sinuses :mad: I think I may need to get some sort of prescription antihistamines as this is actually ridiculous.

I'm getting to try on that wedding dress I was looking at tonight so I've got that to look forward to! It may not even be nice but it'll be the first I've tried on

Ilyana

I think all the blood donation rules are actually meant to be informative in a way, even though they're very strict. If you go along to a clinic having gotten a new tattoo two weeks ago (for example), but didn't know you had to wait until 4 months after getting the tattoo to donate, you'll find out when you're doing the questionnaire, and they won't waste a bed and equipment on taking blood that can't be used.

My parent's can't donate as my Mum only moved here in 1990 from England and my Dad worked in the UK until then as well. But they'd be allowed to donate in England no bother. The IBTS is just very strict given the hepatitis scandal back in the 90s (?).

Stench Blossoms

Thanks everyone.

Just booked a hotel there and I would normally just use the hotel's website but it was 1000e cheaper on bookings than it was on the website. A whole grand!!

Acoshla

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

Thanks everyone.

Just booked a hotel there and I would normally just use the hotel's website but it was 1000e cheaper on bookings than it was on the website. A whole grand!!

My God!! Very fancy hotel or very long stay?

Stench Blossoms

Hotel in NYC.

I'm actually gobsmacked at the price difference.

Honey-ec

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

Thanks everyone.

Just booked a hotel there and I would normally just use the hotel's website but it was 1000e cheaper on bookings than it was on the website. A whole grand!!

You can buy us all a drink with the money you saved, so...

Posy

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

it was 1000e cheaper on bookings than it was on the website. A whole grand!!

:eek:

The Lovely Muffin

kate.m wrote: »

Fresh I've never tried it with frozen, might be a cheaper alternative though!

I only used 6ish raspberries with a big scoop of the ice cream.

Cheers, I've used frozen raspberries (well, defrosted raspberries) before for baking and they were rank, fresh all the way. The frozen/defrosted ones were so watery and tasted like those Yop drinks, vile.

Jane_LS_88 wrote: »

I'm not that good really Fishie. I was only doing scones and buns and stuff but I was really liking it. I had myself convinced I couldn't cook.

Acoshla wrote: »

Absolutely anybody can bake or cook as long as they follow recipes and learn from mistakes. Many, many people try baking or cooking, but mess with the quantities, change ingredients, use wrong temps or oven settings and then say "Ah it didn't work, I'm sh*te at this", but they fundamentally messed up before they ever gave it a chance! See it on CDWM all the time.

Persevere Jane.

I too, thought I couldn't cook or bake, was convinced I was utterly useless at it, but I persevered at it and I've improved a lot.

As Acoshla said, don't mess with quantities, ingredients etc, follow the recipe and you should be OK.

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

Thanks everyone.

Just booked a hotel there and I would normally just use the hotel's website but it was 1000e cheaper on bookings than it was on the website. A whole grand!!

Will you use that €1k to bring me with you? Please and thank you.

rebel girl 15

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

Has anyone used booking.com for hotels? Good/bad experiences?

All good experiences - booked a non-refundable room for the wrong date once, rang them and there was no issue in sorting it out! Booked nearly all my hotels through them tbh!

Trying to study for a test - not going well at all! Turns out I've qualified for a competition in Dublin on Wednesday - not sure about going up though, means travel, plus taking the day off work, and missing two matches. Gonna have to think about it!

Stench Blossoms

I would bring everyone with me if I could

Unfortunatly I was booking for someone else though and I expect a big ass present for saving them so much money OR I'll get a 'how come you never tried there before? you've cost me a bomb in the past'

Ilyana

Posy, wanna finish my assignment for me and hand it in to my college in Dublin for me?

kthanxbai

Told you you'd regret it

Acoshla

The Lovely Muffin wrote: »

Cheers, I've used frozen raspberries (well, defrosted raspberries) before for baking and they were rank, fresh all the way. The frozen/defrosted ones were so watery and tasted like those Yop drinks, vile.

If you're using frozen raspberries use them when they're frozen and they're perfect, I use them in cupcakes and summer fruit cakes all the time. If you let them thaw they get destroyed by the thawing process because like strawberries they have a very high water content and the contracting/expanding destroys the cells in them. Just fire the frozen ones (solid or broken up) into mixes just before baking. They're easier to use broken up then cutting fresh ones would ever be.

The Lovely Muffin

Acoshla wrote: »

If you're using frozen raspberries use them when they're frozen and they're perfect, I use them in cupcakes and summer fruit cakes all the time. If you let them thaw they get destroyed by the thawing process because like strawberries they have a very high water content and the contracting/expanding destroys the cells in them. Just fire the frozen ones (solid or broken up) into mixes just before baking. They're easier to use broken up then cutting fresh ones would ever be.

Thanks for this Acoshla, will try it sometime, the recipe I used (can't remember what one it was, it was for buns anyway) said to let the raspberries defrost before putting them through the mixture.