Guess where I'm working now???

You'll all be pleased to know I'm sure, that I'm happy, dancing, singing, and throughly enjoying my life, loves, and liberations (Ok so I've not set anyting free just yet, but who knows what could happen in this job)

Do you know where I am off to tomorrow for a career in? I've just had word, hot off the press that I'll be working in a Psyciatric hospital. Won't that have some interesting stories for a blog........

The ironic thing is that this hospital is also called St Pats. I just left St Pats college, only to be working for St Pats Psych hospital, and right now I am currently residing next to St Pats Cathedral. (Temporary lodgings till I can find a true place to call home) Now all I need to do is find a lovely irish fella named Patrick (or Padraig in irish) and believe him to have Saint standards and I'll be set!! Red hair always a bonus

Galway was loads of fun, and many interesting experiences including a very hospitable irish man named Ciril, who drank almost non stop from Friday night to Tuesday night. Honestly I've not known one to be so hardcore. Many people stop, he only did to sleep, and that was a rareity too!

Having sun deprivation really makes me miss the australian heat at the moment. It's been a very long time since sunlight hit my pins, and they are looking pastier than a maggott on cocaine! I really dislike the look of the orange irishwoman, but it's getting to the stage where I may have to see about this fake tannage thing.

Since comming here I've accumulated 2 more bags full of stuff. You could say I have 3 bags full!! but the master and the dame and that little kid down the lane can back off, I need them all!

(Perhaps the recruitment agency picked up more in the interview then I thought, a psych hospital is kind of sounding required after reading this one back)

Sorry to all who I have been slack to in not writing emails. No excuses, I'm just a lazy arse with three bags full. But whats your excuse??

Love you all
Take care........

To blog or not to blog there are a lot of questions......

There are a lot of questions on my mind at the moment. But when is one not ever having a question to answer? (I've just provided one for your enjoyment...)

The biggest one right now is do I move back to Dublin, or be pennyless, homeless and possibly friendless in Galway?Now Galway is a beautiful town. Where I am staying at the moment is a place called Moycullen. It's a beautiful country town on the bank of a river. Very peaceful quiet and friendly. Buses run very few times a day and if you miss it your looking at a Taxi fare of around €20. The guy Ciril is just lovely. Fe and I have our own bedrooms, free accommodation, and ciril is not one to let a female pay for anything. Friday to Sunday was spent non stop drinking at almost no cost to myself. Needless to say a great way to spend a 40 hour drinking hang over is pay tv on the couch with a dooner, a luxuary I've been missing out on since August.

My point when I get to it is Fe leaves to go home to Australia on Wednesday due to the baby (we've called it jaiger till it's born as we don't know the sex all we know is it did consume a lot of jaiger in it's early stages) being a little bit more prepared then she is. And as of this date I will not only be homeless and jobless but also friendless in this town and the posing question is should I go back to Dubs? Now all you friends from Dublin are screaming NO!!! because you all want to come and visit me, but just because I won't be here is no excuse not to come and see this beautiful town. All you mates back in Aus are saying Carmen your on holidays, do what makes you happy. And what makes me happy right now is Quiz nights, The hairy lemon, The Porterhouse, and the chance of not getting let into a club on a Friday night. And of course the Australian/NZ/Canadian/Irish Dubliners I've come to know and value!!!

Hmmmmm......

Just another couple of questions I'd love answered if anyone can help me out:

• Who is the voice of fozzy bear?? I think they are a legend!
• If Maggie shot Mr Burns with a pistol and Fat Tony's gangsters with a rifle what would the repecussions of a machine gun be?(There is really only one person I'm looking for input from this one for, the same bloke who explained why pip always comes ahead of pop in Bear in the big blue house, nitty clear my puzzling mind)
• If Shrek was human do you think he could take on Sly Stillone??

Sorry this blog is not up to the usual Carmen standards. Since arriving in Galway serious Carmen is out to play and Crazy, Spontaneous Carmen has been packed away with the rest of my shoes....

Westcoast Wonderland

Well I've officially arrived on the Westcoast for a long term stint of 72 days, woah! Today is job/flat hunt day. There is loads of help wanted signs in windows of stores and stuff and I'll pop into a couple of recruitment agencies this arvo to see if they've got much for me. Talking to the locals gives Fe and I a great resource to find out how to find flats, which seem to be out there but we've just got to get on the blower and call them.

My second Belfast experience was so much better. The 5 of us had a great old time in the town. The sun was shining, no rain for the whole weekend, what more could you ask for...... A bunch of excentrics and a private room for laughter thats what. 5 min after arriving in the town we met an old bloke who decided to talk to me about random thoughts. Finding out I was Australain he broke into song about the ANZACS, Waltzing Matilda and more. Fantastic George was a little bizzare as he made pete hold his umbrella and gloves until pete wanted to rest them on the floor. Very bizzare man who traveled every continent accept Aus, but a great bloke none the less. Excentric guy number two was Foo Kin great! Again Pete and I the ones to meet the mad men, Foo Kin guy was the owner of a resturant, who knew nothing of australia, but pretended to just to get customers. Foo Kin guy sold us his resturant by offering free jugs of water (who could refuse) using australian slang 'whats your name sheila, whats your favouraite colour blue' and telling us he gets all sorts from all over in his resurtant ' we get the lot australians, kiwis, new zealanders you name it'

Love Belfast and everything that was on offer. Good times happy days and the new life is about to begin....

wish me luck and All the best for the next few weeks

New site!

Just wanted to let you all know I've started a new site for my pics. I'll keep writing from this one, but to see all my shenanigans at once go to:

http://carmen-tomo.bebo.com

Please note: there is no www. required

hope you can all find it, more pics to come, this is just the beginning

Big post comming up, I'm moving to galway. keep an eye out!