I would like to welcome Lilibop to the world of blogging.
Soon I will give her a perma-link on the left. Busy now, Later.
But ya'll be good to her now, ya hear.

Please also note...
...the Word of the Week (WOTW) section to the right. Suggestions for this will happily be taken.

Tonsils
I have a date for the tonsillectomy - 17th July.
Having never been in hospital before (and therefore never having had an operation) I am getttingmore nervous by the day. I know its straight forward and everything and the surgeon could probably do it blondfolded (Oh God I hope he doesn't) but still one has a right to be nervousfor ones first operation.

I'm trying to avoid looking up the internet for a detailed description of the operation - or a video of one being done. I'm sure it wouldn't help.

No other tonsil activity to report.

Welcome...
...to the new look site. It took me a while to produce this (I've never been very good at coding anything). Now that I see it up here I'm not sure I'm that impressed with it. Specifically when pink links appear in the body here - like this one a link.
One good thing is that there is space for a permanent Colin shrine - perma-Colin as he is now affectionately known :-)

If any one has any strong feeling please feel free to share them with me. Thanks.

Update
HowStuffWorks.com has a nice little article on Friday 13th, provides slightly more information than the earlier one - just in case you care.
Also I have discovered that the word for fear of the number 13 is triskaidekaphobia.

Back to...
...funny words, I was thinking of starting a word-of-the-day section on the site. Not just for funny words but also as a way of helping us all to improve our vocabulary.
Then I thought that would just be too ambitious - I'm never going to find a new word everyday. So I think when it gets here it'll be a word-of-the-week (WOTW) section, I'll even accept suggestions from others. This will require a lot of work on my part so I hope people appreciate that.

Anyway, when I first thought of this it occured to me that I could just use someones else's WOTD section but I couldn't find a suitable one. I did come across word-of-the-day.com and I thought this was great. Except this is use for a product offering call Executive-Vocabulary. For executives who wish to improve their vocabulary in order to sound better at presentations, command respect, etc. They can even have a 30 day trial. I ask you....

Friday 13th
I was wondering why Friday 13th is supposed to be so unlucky. Nobody could tell me, so I asked the Internet - cos it knows!!!

I found this link which has a not so nice story by way of explanation - a lot of anti-French feeling, which I'm not happy with. They do after all provide the world with some great wines, funny accents...

Friday 13th is all a load of superstition anyway. But apparently this has led to a fear of Friday 13th, so bad that some people won't drive or do normal activities because they're afraid something will go wrong that could end in maming or death. This fear is commonly known as Paraskevidekatriaphobia and I found this interesting because it could be considered a funny word. It's more funny looking than funny sounding - given that I don't even know how to begin pronouncing it.

Shrine
After seeing that interview with Colin Farrell last week I have developed a small obsession. He is after all a very sexy piece of hot hollywood totty... and so as part of my obsession this page will represent a little shrine to Colin (see photo below).

For those of you who are disturbed by this, fear not, I go through little obsessions like Justin Timberlake goes through underpants. Normal service will resume shortly.

Funny Words
I was reading through a few documents and I know this is childish but I saw a word and had to laugh. Oligopoly, which I looked up on dictionary.com (the best friend of the vocabularily challenged - yes I made it up! :-) and it means:
A market condition in which sellers are so few that the actions of any one of them will materially affect price and have a measurable impact on competitors.
You see not a very intersting word, unless you say it out loud - I laughed.... uncontrollably. OK, I giggled like a little girl.

It reminded me of an episode of the Simpsons when Krusty was talking about dirty words that sound funny...
Krusty: The young people today, they think comedy is dirty words...it's not, it's words that sound dirty like Mucklock

Ah, the Simpsons, eases the pain

Le Weekend
It was quite a good one actually. Saturday was essentially wasted. I woke up at around 3 in the afternoon having been out late on Friday - when I won a prize for headbanging - it's best not to ask. It seems that in waking late I got the best of the day, so no rain - lovely
On Sunday myself and Jamie joined Lil and Bendy for a picnic. We went to Killiney Beach. It threatened to rain for most of it but held off until we were finished. Later in the day we went for a walk around Sandycove. A lovely, lazy Sunday afternoon - photos here.

One man and a baby book
It's scary. At first I thought it was a joke and I laughed. But he went ahead an dbought abook about babies and I don't htink I can cope. Men aren't supposed to be broody. They are supposed to be scared of babies and parenthood....


And Jamie was, until a few weeks ago when New Scientist ran a series of articles about human behaviours, written by a woman who had studied baby behaviour. He found it so interesting he bought the book. A book about How Babies Think. I suppose its nice, but I'm afraid he's gonna go around a scaring mothers by trying out things he reads in the book. He's already started with his cousin Kate.
It's a phase he's going through, but I swear I'm not saying abything about babies for a couple of years.

More Tonsil Stones
I hate to write about something so disgusting, immediately after something so beautiful but I did promise to keep my fellow sickos up-to-date on the status of my tonsils. If I was thinking clearly I would have written about this first.... it's the end of a short week....
Anyway this subject is important to me as I won't have my tonsils for long more....
Had another tonsil stone yesterday, on the right tonsil. It was extremely irritating but its gone now :-)

Tonsils out in July - wahoo!!

Colin Farrell

Colin Farrell was interviewed on Ryan Confidential last night. I have to say I was more than super-impressed and I am quite sure I am developing a thing for young Mr. Farrell. Of course, I wouldn't be alone with those feelings. He strikes me, though, as the a-typical Irish man; drinks loads, sleeps around and curses a continuous blue streak.

Many Irish men act like this and it draws complaints from Irish women that there are no good men left in the country.... but slap on the good looks and the cheeky grin of Colin Farrell and its enough to keep every red-blooded woman in the country happy. [There's a thing now... the phrase is usually red-blooded male, does that mean women aren't considered red-blooded; if not, why not and what colour is our blood? Answers on a postcard, please...]
Anyway, all I have left to say re: Colin Farrell is - Go on ya good thing! :-)

Irish Bloggers Unite!
...and we did! Last night in the Library bar, in the Central Hotel.
There was a good turn out and it was interesting to put faces to names, as well as getting names I've never heard before.

It was so good, everyone wants to do it again!
Nice to meet you all. Thanks to Karlin, and hope to see you all again soon.

Sorry... yeah right!
Am I supposed to apologise to all mankind for the Glitter Bath last friday night?
Frankly, I don't feel like it. I spent the whole weekend finding glitter in everything - I'm sure my family are wondering where it all came from. But that didn't take from the bath experience at all.

The good people at Lush have made some delightful products, they smell lovely and I believe they do help a girl relax - and trust me, a girl NEEDS to relax.
Bath bombs (or bath ballistic as the product is called) are my favourite. I only ever bought the Rose Petal variety (with real rose petals - damn difficult to clean the bath afterwards, but again not detracting from the wonderfully scented experience of bathing with rose petals), and decided I should try some of the other varieties. I thought the glitter one would be interesting - I wasn't wrong. I have to admit though the scent wasn't as good as with teh Rose Petal one.

To be honest I enjoyed my Glitter Bath so much, I'm gonna treat myself to another this weekend. Ha!

Photos
I was at home in Clare for the June Bank Holiday Weekend, so there is a new set of photos availalbe in the photos section.