Saturday, 6 June 2015

Trip to Estonia, moving, Weekend in Cork and work - window to my life - long story :)

Time goes by fast and there has been quite a lot happening within last 2-3 weeks.
I moved, i now live with Annika and her boyfriend.
I suppose i should start with my trip to Estonia. I was there for just couple of days and after not seeing any of my family or friends like 14 months from back home.... i would say it was about time.
It never felt THAT long for me yet knowing that it has been i was kind of nervous.
Who is nervous about seeing their friends and family? Who feels awkward??
Apparently i do.
I was freaking out about having such a little time and as my family lives now all over Estonia i had a feeling that sleep is not gonna be something i am going to have much..
Looking back now and even while i was there - everything went way smoother than i expected and i had thousand times more fun and better time than i thought i might.
I was worried that i am going to be cranky and  bitchy..
Even better i actually had time to have a conversation with all my family members one to one and that gave me strength and boost i needed after mad time i had.
As insane and massive family i have - i am part of them and they are part of me. Love them dearly.
I even managed to see couple of my friends and popped in to my last work place in Estonia.
Well that was the place i saw changes... So much has changed and people have moved on yet same time it was awesome to see them. I gotta say we had an amazing team and if it wasn´t for that group of people, i probably would not have stayed there as long as i did. It doesn't happen often that you become friends with so many people from work.
Oh and i enjoyed driving again.
So there you go... 23-26th of May Estonia had warm and nice weather and i met more people than i thought i will and i had better time than i could have expected. Plus i also got more sleep i prepared myself for.

After i got back i got bit more information about work too.
I have 3 month contract what is up 24th of June.. last week i was offered after that all weekends an 1 extra day during the week.
Then came the weekend in Cork.

The plan was to take easy on Friday evening and get up like 7am Saturday morning, do a hike and the out in the evening.. Sunday we come back, on Monday i move and on Tuesday back to work.
Well most of it went as it was planned.... i went to bed first and i shared bed with Karin. Well what happened that we started talking and laughing and Annika couldn't stay away so we all were insane bed until Annika smoothly pushed Karin away so she at some point had to leave her own bed and went to another room. So i would say that at 1 am we were still awake.
I woke up around 5.30 and no longer could fall asleep. Then A was also up and about 6 we got up and went to make breakfast... as we walked by the room where K was sleeping we put our heads in and she was like.. What time it is? We said its 6 ... she told us to go back to bed but we said no.. So she had no choice really than to follow us downstairs. A made for all of us french toast and at 8.20 we already started our hike.
I gotta say that i was pretty steep and without any track... pretty much just crawling up the mountain ... bloody idiots we are i am telling you.
Well from the experience i have gained now i would say that it was very steep and at least 500-600m high. It may not sound very high but if you are going up at least 45 degree angle or even more... and we are all still beginners and specially on that kind of hike.. We rock.
The funny thing is that at some point you no longer feel like your heart will jump out from your chest... but what i found out that my new issue was that my calf muscles were getting really bad cramps and it was really annoying me. I also now know that i will need new hiking boots..
I think that the length may have been around 10km in total so not that long but it was challenging and that what we like.
After we had plenty of time to get ready and i did make up for the girls and myself. For A i only need to do eyes but K only wears very little and i think she was bit afraid that i will do too strong but i gotta say she looked amazing. We even had time to take some photos... the girls were laughing at me when i was talking and giving orders while doing make up and taking photos.
I am so much better at taking photos of others than posing myself... specially alone...
Once we went out we had delicious dinner at really authentic Mexican place.. I mean the food was so good..
After food we got some drinks, met Gillian and danced. As it was last weekend for K to be in Cork as she also moved to Dublin, it was like farewell party for her.
I love Cork as a city.
Oh and the full Irish breakfast the next morning... mmm
Once we got back to Dublin i had to finish packing and cleaning and then had dinner with Simona and Andris i lived with.
On Monday we went to Ikea with A and had Swedish meatballs for lunch and bought some stuff for home.

Now on going back to work... it was a short week because of the Bank Holiday on Monday but it sure was eventful and busy. Training new guys and very very busy.. then i was also offered that i would have full time until the end of July  not part time, as we are busy. I offered to do couple extra hours this week as it was busy and then met up with Simona for couple of hours.
Today has been my lazy day i haven't had in a while and thanks to great and proper internet connection i can catch up with TV shows.
Tomorrow i am going to see the football match. Ireland vs England. Last match was about 20 years ago and had to be stopped withing 20 minutes because of fans. Apparently Ireland scored and British  started to throw chairs etc..
So now after 20 years there is a match here in Dublin and thanks to my job i have a ticket... i am very very excited. And yes i will support the Irish. :)

Its almost midnight - writing this has taken hours because i get distracted all the time... i promise you will not have to wait for the next one that long...

So this is what i have been up to... i need to get some silly funny jokes going soon...

Oh and there could be a chance that i will be back in Estonia this summer for few days... if i can get flights with reasonable cost...



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