That was my cunning plan for this week and it actually kinda worked and then so did I!
This week has been the Cork Lifelong Learning Festival, which meant there has been a bunch of free activities on in town.
Beau was working in Galway and returned Wed afternoon, but luckily hostelgirl was free and also wanting to do free stuff.
Monday: caught bus to pool, totally missed the chance to go swimming as bus took so long, so instead checked out the gym and spent over half an hour going between the steam room (hot wet) and the sauna (hot dry). Had a leisurely walk back into town, visiting mytholder on the way. Had lunch and got changed for an interview with a recruitment company. Went well, but they said they didn't actually get much call for temp work. Will consider me if they do. Pootled around, got eyebrows done, made dinner, drank leftover wine, spent too much time on the internet, slept well.
Tuesday: hostelgirl came over for brunch, caught bus to Fota, got into the wildlife park for free thanks to mytholder's flatmate, Fotalad. Wandered around there taking many photos of animals. Giraffes are funny, esp when they run! Watched some cheetahs chase a rabbit. Was great! Then went and walked in the grounds of Fota house. Took too many photos of magnolias and daffodils. Will have to sort through these soon. *sigh* Walked back to gate to wait for bus. Waited for over 40 min before we decided that it must have switched to trains. Which were at least 1km away and we weren't sure how to get there. Luckily managed to get a ride home after several texts to Neid (Fotalad's other half).
I rushed to make and eat dinner (bacon and vege in white sauce on nice bread) before walking with hostelgirl to a choir practice. Got home about 10.30pm Must have walked a good 9km that day.
Wednesday: Is hostelgirl's birthday. We walked up hill to pool and manage to go swimming. Walked back down again in time to attend a cooking demonstration and convince random guy to come to her house for soup/dinner! On way out of class I find an cellphone on the ground of the carpark. I do my good deed of the... while, and call a number on the phone, tell the person at the other end who has caller ID that I leaving phone at the Garda's and do so. Off for some grocery shopping and then I get back home and manage to awaken Beau, who has returned from earning money in Galway. Then dinner at hostelgirl's and we head off for a free class in Swing and then some salsa at a night club.
I also managed to send my CV off to Fota, only to be told that they had done their seasonal hiring the week before! D'oh! Oh well, they said if anything comes up will keep me in mind.
Thurs: Beau is very tired from working and then activities. Does not want to do *anything*. I did have plans for free salsa, but instead we laze around, talk to Australians on skype for over an hour, do some grocery shopping and have mytholder over for dinner. Was fajitas. Apparently I am fond of people making their own food. I also made strawberries in balsamic vinegar with marscarpone for dessert (had to use up the rest of the marscarpone I'd bought for icing). Cheers to exiledinpn for the recipe!
Fri: Was lazing around planning nothing more exciting than watching Season 2 Bones (I *love* it!) when the phone rings. Recruitment agency has work for me. Can I be there in an hour?
Yes!
It was funny because I ended up hanging out at reception of the children's ward at a local hospital. Beau is currently working in that ward as I type. It was very quiet, and I felt bad for them paying me to mostly just sit there. I wish I could have done more, but I didn't have a log in, or any training. Mostly I just opened and shut the door (it was automatically locked and had to be done from the desk) and gossiped with the nurses (who also didn't have much to do, it was a quiet afternoon). The job will probably be a one off, but we'll see, hopefully now I've successfully completed a temp assignment, they'll put me forward for more.
Beau made dinner, a lovely spag bol (which I shall shortly have for breakfast). Then we rushed off for a free salsa class, which seems to have been incorrectly entered in the programme, cause the venue had a bunch of other wannabe students outside but no teachers arrived. Ah well. We headed home for quiet night in, but were distracted by shopping and managed to buy some clothes for Beau. Yes! Also bought Advocat, lime and lemonade, so that I could have "snowballs". Yummy cocktail and two episodes of bones later and it was bedtime.
So, busy week and got some work too. I've also been working on my fifties housewife club thing. It started as a joke last year, but it keeps resounding with people that I mention it to. It looks like there will definitely be a website. If you are intrigued, comment or email me and I'll tell you about it ;)
Point of fashion: comfort, I need more clothes!
Current Obsession: working