It's Been a While...

It has, hasn't it?
So much has happened since September... Good & bad.

For instance, that job offer I mentioned in my last post? Well, I had the job in the cafe for all of roughly 3 weeks. The owner decided since I was going on holidays to America over Christmas, she didn't have much use for me, so told me I could go back in February... Fair to say I did not return.
However... I went to America! Woo! Colorado :D I love that place so much! I highly recommended the state as a holiday destination... It's lovely at Christmas.

In October, I finally broke up with K, my boyfriend. He didn't take it that well, which is understandable, but we still don't talk anymore. I found that he can be a bit of an asshole. He put me on the guilt trip for a good while which was a horrid experience...
But, during mid-Janurary, a close friend of mine, DA, told me he liked me! I mean, really liked me. It just so happened I quite happened to really like him too & we've been going out ever since. :) he's such a cute little sweetheart ^_^

I've lost two friends, J & R, over a stupid fight. However, from the way things look & have gone, I really doubt they were my friends in the first place. It'll take too long to explain, but it's honestly a whole load of immaturity on their behalf & stupidity. So much so, it makes me so angry just thinking about it. I want to smash their heads together. This happened over a month ago, I'd say, but, because D, another close friend of mine, played neutral in the whole thing, she's still caught between the two groups, (A & myself vs J & R), so we tend to be around each other, especially because our school is so small. I can't go a day of school without being reminded of it & I can't even tell D how I feel most of the time because she, understandably, doesn't want to hear about the fight. This is difficult for myself, though. There's a lot of mind games & it gets to me at times... So it angers me a little that she won't just let me talk it out to her. If it was me, I'd put aside my feelings & what my thoughts were, just to let her vent...
I might explain the whole thing another day. It's just a long story.

I do know who my real friends are now though; A, IM (Swedish friend), D & my boyfriend DA. EMA is another person I would consider a very good friend. :)
As mam said, life has it's way of filtering people out. Those that stick around are the people worth keeping.

Other things have happened but nothing overly important. I shall be blogging once again every so often so watch this spot :P

Shauna <3

USA! USA! USA!

OH MY GOD!!!

I'm going to Colorado!

I can't wait!!!

Mam & Dad have been looking for good ticket prices fot the last week. Today, they got freakin' lucky and found tickets for five adults (over 12 yrs) €1400 cheaper than yesterdays best offer! Woohoo!!!

I'm so damn happy! This'll be my fourth time ever going to the USA - my aunt lives in Colorado with her husband. I freakin' love it there! When I'm finished my education and I've the money, I really want to move there. It's actually one of my aspirations in life - no doubt about it!

Oh, I can't feckin' wait! We'll be leaving  Dublin December 19th, stopping of in Chicago for 3 hours, & then continuing onto Denver, where we'll then have to drive to my aunts, but she recently moved closer to the city - my uncles a pilot. We'll then be doing the reverse on Janruary 6th, just stopping off for 5 hours in Chicago instead of 3.

I'm all giggly thinking about it all!

Yayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayay!!! 

The Guests of the B&B

As you know by now I live in a Bed and Breakfast. A B&B. So it's not unusual to have random strangers coming in and out of our house everyday.
Some people are a bit iffy, expecting that we're a hotel or something. We're not. We're a family welcoming strangers into our home. They don't see that and expect everything a four star hotel has for a fraction of the price! We've four stars - heck, the inspector said we deserve five, but our rooms needed to be larger - but we do not work the same way as a hotel. Similar, but not the same.
However, that's only a small number of the people that stay here. Majority of the people that stay in our home seem to feel that they can't say thank you enough. They chat to us. They joke with us. They are welcomed home! Sometimes people even return years later. It's lovely! It puts a smile on my face to think we make people feel welcome enough that they want to tell their friends. They want to come back.
I love talking to these guests. You can meet some interesting and lovely souls. Today, for example, I was serving breakfast to a trio (a man with his wife and brother - in - law) from South Africa. The fact that they were from South Africa alone was spactacular to me - it's rare that we get anyone from there or many of the countries in the Southern Hemisphere. Then, I had mentioned I was saving up for a Nikon D3100 (I'm taking donations readers! :P), when taking a photo of the three of them with a professional camera belonging to the husband. We ended up chatting for a good while. Turned out he was a photographer. So, when leaving, they handed me €15 towards my camera savings andthe husband will be sending my parents emails with info and links to the best photography shops that he knows of in Ireland! Like, wow!!!!
They didn't need to do that at all and this is why I love the B&B -though I may often may say I don't like it at all. You meet some amazingly cool people. It's crap when they leave. Seriously! But the connection has been made and, maybe, we'll meet again some day if they return.

I really hope the South Africans return some time in the years to come... :)