So I'm here on one of my last days in Ireland, at a hostel right on Eyre Square in Galway. We have been broke since we finished the walk so we haven't been doing much, pretty much just reading and socializing with people in the hostel and going to pubs at night for a drink or two. I have discovered a love for ciders, and will hopefully be drinking a lot of it this summer, assuming I have money. It's THE BEST.
Gonna do a big update when I get home with videos from the hike, although I might want to edit them into one big video file because it's just like 50 30-60 second clips haha, but yeah.
Overall the trip was amazing, and it didn't fail to meet any expectations. Oddly though I am homesick for a lot of things I didn't think I would be... as adventerous as I hope to be, I don't think I'd be able to be in a far away place without the people I love around me, and small little comforts.
On a random note, because I'm just killing time and I'm just gonna write whatever pops into my head, I've stuck to my New Years resolutions almost perfectly (write everyday, eat less fast food, a fruit/veggie a day), and admittedly the fast food one has sort of been forced upon me from being in Ireland haha but I think I can do it when I get home as well. But since I've been doing so well I figure it's time to add more, because it's stupid and arbitrary to do it on the new year anyway. I like drew up a game plan for my free time for this semester/this summer. My most important goal though I think is to not sleep any more than 8 hours a night, goal being 6, barring any intoxication/illness. That gives me so much more free time in the day, and once I start working a lot (which I intend,) gives me ample time for hanging out and sticking to some hobbies. Writing every day is great, and I want to extend that into reading more, around 3 books a month I think should be reasonable, depending on the length... since I've been in Ireland I've read As I Lay Dying (amazing,) and Dracula (also, surprisingly, great.) Those each took me like a few days, but now I'm reading Ulysses, which at any rate may very well take me an entire month because what the fuck is James Joyce ever talking about in that book. So, sleep 6 hours a night, read 3 books a month are my two next goals.
A couple of things that aren't necessarily goals, because they may be hindered by finances and time and whatnot, but I want to be more creative in almost every aspect. I want to learn to cook a lot more things, I think learning a new recipe once a week would be fantastic, it's so fun and it would be great for the house next year if I could cook us all up some fantastic shit. I want to get back into painting, because I've seen so much art around here that's so cool and simple, and it could be fun just to mess around with abstract things and see how it turns out... mostly though I really want to get back on my musical creativity. I have made up my mind that I'm gonna get an electric set up and a delay/loop pedal, and those are gonna be the first things I buy with my job. It's so frustrating every time I listen to music and think about how much I want to be making it, and then realizing that there's no reason why I can't be, so hopefully I can encorporate that a lot more, and besides the other goals, that's priority number one when I get home.
Ummm what else what else. Yeah so all this stuff is fairly time consuming as it is, and with a job it's gonna be rough, I wish there was more time in the day, but the good part about being home is that I don't have to stress about really anything... no school work, just my job and my free time. Koke is gone now so my amount of friends has decreased by like 20% haha. But everyone else has their own thing going on as well so if there was ever a time for me to get into a good, creative self-involved schedule, it would be now.
Alright I'm gonna just go walk around I suppose, the Ireland update will be the next one, I'm very excited to be coming home on Saturday. 2011 has started off incredibly, and there's excitement at almost every point of this year. So ready for it.
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