Hilary’s Blog

5 weeks from tomorrow Jamie and I will be getting married. I’m very excited. Jamie, apparently, hasn’t thought about it so doesn’t know if he’s excited or not.

I have my first Major stress attack last Friday evening. According to other women I’ve spoken to I’ve held up pretty well not have had one sooner. I was collecting my wedding dress from the alterers, and due to the Jordanesque style of dress I have chosen, trying to get that into the car on a sunny day, on my own when the car was parked on a hill resulted in me getting extremely upset. I threw shoes at the back of the bedroom door when Jamie tried to talk to me from the other side – something I have never done before.

I’m glad we’re having a small wedding. I couldn’t imagine doing this organising for a larger number. Not the way I get worked up, anyway.
Quite frankly I’m amazed Jamie’s still willing to go ahead with the whole thing.

I have had comments on my site for a while now (thanks, I have to admit, to Jamie). I never really had a problem with them, mainly cos I don’t have what you could call a readership. I don’t take it personally and I’m not here to mull over whether anyone loves me or not.

Recently, I found it necessary to moderate the comments that were being left on my site. In the main the comments now fall into two categories; people offering me free access to their porn/pharmacy site or (silly) Italian and American kids who think I’m Hilary Duff. I kid you not!!

Strangely, it’s the second class of comment that worries me more. I mean the people offering the free porn, or the low cost Viagra are really in business they’re just trying to make money. The people who think I’m Hilary Duff have not bothered to engage their brains in the recent past. And as the song says the children are our future, so this is a cause for some worry.

So, ok, if you are reading this site because you searched Google and in your infinite wisdom decided that I was a blonde, 19 year-old American, singer/actress, on the one hand thanks, I’m flattered. On the other hand I have to say Pause! Look at my site, why would Hilary Duff own a 6 year old Renault Clio, buy cheap MP3 players, travel around Eastern Europe drinking cabbage soup, and tell the world about the minutae of her life that never once involves recording a song, or making a movie or setting foot in the US where she apparently lives? You can’t answer can you? Because it is now blatantly obvious to your microwave, MTV generation pea-brain that I am NOT in fact Hilary Duff. Thank you!

As you have made it this far and patiently read my rant I’ll help you out: your next stop should be here. For all other readers, normal service will resume shortly; I’m cranky now, I need a nap!

Jamie and I went to see Superman Returns last night. Personally, I liked it but I think it was mainly cos we’ve finally gotten a vaguely attractive super hero. I never did find anything nice about Christopher Reeve (sorry!).

Anyway, that’s not the point of the blog. I don’t want to ruin the story for anyone but I think this bit was fairly predictable, Lois Lane’s kid is Superman’s son. As we were leaving the cinema I said:
“Ah! Superman had a baby!”
Jamie responded with:
“Hey! Superman had sex!”

I think this small snippet goes to show the fundamental differences between the females and males of our species.

I got one of these, it really is tiny. Dixons were doing a fantastic deal – I got the 1GB, silver Q-Be for less than half price, £40!! It would be a sin to leave it there at that price. It’s fantastic company when in the airport and on the plane and the neck lanyard/necklace thing is a really handy way to carry it.

I’ve seen reviews that say it’s TOO small but really it’s just too cute. I can’t believe something that small currently has over 180 of my songs and plays them for up to 17 hours before running out of battery. This is one happy customer!

I’d rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine.

Jim Weatherly

It’s strange… all the countries I’ve been to seem to have the same national dish, usually involving cabbage. All these countries also seem to like cabbage soup. I’m sure you’re thinking ‘how gross!’, but hey, it’s actually really good. And besides that it’s got medicinal qualities which I require at a time of immune defficiency.

So I’ve decided to provide you with a culinary guide to Eastern Europe. Yes, I’m doing the cabbage soup tour of the East

So far I’ve had cabbage soup in two places: Vilnius, Lithuania and Prague, Czech Republic. Right now Prague is in the lead!
The soup in Vilnius was very tasty although a bit over salted. It was essentailly a thin broth with floating bits of cabbage. I thought the blob of cream was a nice touch. (7/10)
The soup in Prague was a tomato based soup, much thicker with chunky cabbage and also chunky bits of sausage. It was tasty and quite filling. It too had the blob of cream on top. (9/10)

Next stop Poland!!!

Several things occured to me on the drive in from the airport last night. In the interested of consistency I am going to make a list!

Bad things about this trip:

• My head cold – travelling when you feel poorly is terrible. But I wasn’t sick enough to take a day of work therefore I had to travel. And here I am in a hotel room swallowing headache tablets and sucking on strepsils. I’m pathetic!
• Knowledge – I have arrived in this country not only with no local currency in my pocket but realised that I don’t even know what the local currency is [I have since rectified at least one of these points - currency = Czech Krone]
• Sudden death – the hotel sent a car to pick me up. They really oughtn’t send psychopaths to pick up guests. He drove like a maniac, taking corners at over 90 mph, which then meant he had to brake like his life depended on it. And it did but so did mine. Very bumpy journey in the snow, I was rather scared.

Good things about this trip:

• I’ve always wanted to visit Prague. Although I’m syure I’d prefer to be hear with Jamie and not have to do all the work stuff
• The AC/DC being played by the driver on the way in (although this may account for the bad driving)

All in all, it seems the bad things win. I want to go home to my bed and be pathetic

I’m away this week, so I’m testing out the whole blogging while you travel business. Flying to the Czech Republic and then on to Poland. Hope it’s not too cold – I never checked the weather.

Well this works….

I was intrigued by this tagging thing, and I like making lists so here I go. (Does it make me really sad that I’m doing this and I haven’t been tagged by anyone and I’m doing this anyway?)

Four jobs I’ve had:
1. Shop assistant
2. Researcher
3. Temp receptionist
4. Regional Sales Manager

Four Movies I can watch over and over:
1. Grease
2. Shrek
3. Steel Magnolias (God forgive me for admitting to this stuff)
4. LOTR (any and all of the 3 movies)

Four places I’ve lived:
1. Clarecastle, Co. clare Ireland
2. Limerick, Ireland
3. Dublin, Ireland
4. Southampton, UK (and also 2 months in Australia while travelling around)

Four TV shows I love:
(This will be hard as we haven’t had a TV in 2 years)
1. Desperate Housewives (thanks Lil and Brendan
2. Scrubs
3. I used to love StarGate SG-1, is that still on?
4. um…..

Four places I’ve vacationed:
1. New York
2. Australia
3. New Zealand
4. I currently spend holidays at home in Ireland

Four of my favourite dishes:
(I can only have four?)
1. Spicy prawn and rice (an adapatation of a recipe I found, it’s like paella)
2. Lasagne
3. Pizza
4. Coconut based curries

Four sites I visit daily:
1. Mike
2. Jamie
3. BBC News
4. google

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. At home with Jamie
2. In Dublin having a girlie lunch with Lil
3. In a swimming pool
4. Ireland – anywhere

Four bloggers I am tagging:
1. Jamie
2. Mike
3. Simon
4. any volunteers?

Company Xmas do tonight (yeah – party dress and dancing , travelling to Ireland for 2 weeks Xmas hols tomorrow – I feel Christmassy.

Merry Christmas one and all!! I hope it’s a happy one