Job Offer! :D

FINALLY, after searching for a job since February, I've gotten a job offer for part-time in a local cafe.
I'm so freakin' happy! I had originally hoped for a summer job & had given up once school had started. However, I swear someone is looking out for me up there. The popular cafe in town had notices put up around the school for a "weekend job, suitable for students 16 & over". My friends & I ripped down all the notices, so no one else would even dare to ask for the job, if others already had. We weren't exactly playing fair, but it's too late now! Haha! XD
I had gone in last Wednesday, before rugby training, & handed in my CV, trying to not act all weird - sort of hard since "weird" comes au natural to me! I must have succeeded though as I just received an email from one of the owners. She wants to know would I be interested in working, starting around the mid-term break in October... WOO!!!!
The only problem I have now is whether I'll be here at home or not, then. My parents plan to go up to see my extended family, up where they're from. I sort of want to go too...
Scrap all that! Dad just came into my room. He said we won't be going up if I want to work... I feel sort of guilty that they're going to change the family plans just for me. We haven't seen any of my nannies, aunties, uncles or cousins in months! I'm happy at the same time too, though. Hopefully I won't work the bank holiday weekend & we can still visit my family.
We'll see how things work out, but, firstly, I'll have email the cafe to say I'd feckin' love to work for them!!!
Well, in a more mannerly way, of course! :P haha!
I just hope now that I can keep up with the pressure of school on top of the job... I'll find out, I guess!

Anyway, goodnight! <3

Phew...!

Everything is just go, go, go lately, hasn't it?

Between school, homework & trying to help Mam, things are jut so hectic. It's hard to find a minutes peace within the short, jammed-busy days. But that's what the weekend is for, right? Though, I swear my teachers are aiming to fill my only free time with homework too. They shall not succeed!

   Next Friday evening I'm going to be babysitting my neighbours kids. He's, I'd say, seven now & she's two. Two of the most adorable children ever! They are seriously smart kids too. I love them! The seven year old & I always end up talking about superheroes for ages. I'm thinking of downloading some cartoon film of superman or something & bring my laptop over & we can watch it together or something. I think she, the two year old, would be put in bed before their parents leave.

   Anyway, I'm pretty happy my neighbour texted looking for me to babysit. Other than the fact that I actually like playing with her kids & minding them, it also means a bit of cash. I'm estimating €30 - €50. It'll be  going mainly towards our holiday to Colorado this Christmas, as I've gotten enough for my camera already. I'm waiting for the Black Friday sales first, though, before I purchase my Nikon baby!

   So, I've been busy, busy; working & saving money. Now, it's time to relax & just to do what Shauna wants for a few hours during the weekend. :) It'll prepare me for the coming week; help reduce any unneeded stress.

It'll be some downtime - exactly what I need!

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... :)

I Need a Job

I really need a summer job. However, no matter how hard I look, I can't find one.
Mam gives me €50 a week as pocket money for working in the B&B, but, if I did the exact same work for the same number of hours, outside my home, I'd easily make four times that!

I'm saving up for a Nikon D3100. It's a DSLR camera! I really like photography &, instead of using my iPod all the time, I'd love to have a proper camera. I plan to get lessons for join the local photography group once I can get my hands on the D3100. However, I need roughly €400 for a secondhand one off ebay. Considering I'm saving up to buy stuff on my yearly holiday on top of that, things aren't going so well... Plus, I've to pay for stuff like phone credit, necessities and things while I'm at the Gaeltacht (Irish camp).

So, maybe, I'll put up a poster for babysitting...? At night though, I'm not great with babies and young kids... God! >.< I hate, at these times, living in a rural area! Stuff is so limited! Got to keep trying though...

Wish me luck! <3

Hum Diddley Dum!

I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW!!!

I'm going to see Snow White and the Huntsman with a close friend and her sister and her two friends!

CHRIS HEMSWORTH!!!

We'll be heading into the city on the bus! T'will be good craic!

Plus I might buy a new pair of converse!

I always like buy slightly unusual converse!

I hate getting the plain ones everyone has. I want to stand out a bit.

I want a bit of unique style to them & I know the perfect shop to go to!

I  just hope I can afford the pair I end up liking now!