Archive for January, 2008

Sorry For Not Updating For A Couple of Days

This week, the last week of the month, is pure hell at work. You see our Board of Directors meets the first Thursday of the month.  So our papers for the meeting go out the Friday before.  That’s this Friday. And these days, I write them.  I proof them.  I bind them.  I post them.  [...]

January 31, 2008   Posted in: daily, me  No Comments

Changes

So I’ve been in Belfast just over 4 years. And boy, has the city changed. In some bad ways, i.e. traffic has gotten worse, but mostly in good ways.  There are more stores opening all the time.  The huge Victoria Square Shopping Centre, a real live actual mall (we have a mall, but it is [...]

January 29, 2008   Posted in: Belfast, daily  2 Comments

Moving is Interesting

We’ve spent all day today packing. We move in 6 days. The strangest thing is the refrigerator. We use it as a Rogues Gallery of pictures, mostly of our nieces and nephews, of which we have 12, in an ever changing display. I packed all of those pictures today. Now there is just a blank [...]

January 27, 2008   Posted in: New Flat, daily  One Comment

Why I Love Living in Belfast

This is a re-post from my now pretty much defunct LJ (not the one under my maiden name, the *other* one under my maiden name that hasn’t been updated since…October 2005!). With some changes. The 5p is smaller than the 10p. People say to me “What’s the craic?” My boss laughs when I use the [...]

January 26, 2008   Posted in: Belfast, daily  3 Comments

My Accent

Its really very strange. I will go months and months without a single person asking me where I am from. And then 10 people will ask me in two days. I don’t really have an answer to that question. I mean, obviously, I am from the United States. But then people ask me what part. [...]

January 25, 2008   Posted in: Belfast, Ex-Pat, daily, me  2 Comments

More About Me

So, as I am pushing this thing all over the internet, I thought I’d tell y’all a little bit more about me. I was born in Massachusetts, grew up in Connecticut and have lived pretty much all over the US, with the exception of the deep south. I visit the deep south on occasion as [...]

January 24, 2008   Posted in: Mental Illness, me  2 Comments

Things you probably didn’t know about Belfast, Part 1.

Did you know that the HMS Titanic was built here? Yup, she sure was, at the Harland and Wolff Shipyards, which still exist today. The Titanic’s final work was done at the Thompson Dock and Pump-House, which also still exist today, although not in great shape. The Thompson Dock and Pump-House are now ‘owned’ by [...]

January 22, 2008   Posted in: Belfast, daily  2 Comments

Moving Sucks

So Simon and I spent the day packing.  Its maybe 60% done at this point.  Most of the books are in boxes, with the rest scheduled for tomorrow.  Then I want to pack up the kitchen and use the stuff that came with our (furnished) flat so it will be done and dusted. I predict [...]

January 20, 2008   Posted in: New Flat, daily  No Comments

Living at Belfast City Centre

Simon and I have a flat in City Centre of Belfast. Our new flat is only one street away from our current flat, so we will still be living in City Centre. We don’t have a car, so living near the shops is very handy. It takes about a 5 minute walk to get to [...]

January 17, 2008   Posted in: Belfast, daily  One Comment

A Study in Contrasts

That’s what Belfast is.  Now, this may be true of all modern European and British cities, but Belfast is the one I know well, having walked her streets (we don’t have a car) for the past 4 years.  (Actually, Belfast is the really the only one I know at all. Well, I’ve been to London [...]

January 17, 2008   Posted in: Belfast, daily  One Comment