Blasted Volcano

So, here's the thing...there's this volcano, named Eyjafjallajokull (Do not ask me how to pronounce it, it's insanity) CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO but it has errupted, twice, and that has caused a ton of volcanic ash to fill the air and float all over the place, screwing up all the airspace, keeping all the airports in Europe closed... we are stuck here, in Ireland, on an island! It's like LOST! lol Yeah, so my aunt was supposed to get here Wednesday afternoon and then we were eventually going to travel to France and have fun traveling together, buuuuuut we don't know how to predict when this ash problem will go away...so I might be here for a while in tiny little Ballyvaughan, which has it's pros and cons. We will be taken care of just fine, from what we've been told, if we're stranded-we can stay in one of the student houses (in which I would rather not stay because it's the crazy party house) but otherwise, Megan might let me stay in a thatched cottage in Ballyvaughan that her family had rented-they probably won't get here, so we could take advantage of that instead! Otherwise...I think the idea of building a primitive hut on the side of the mountain would be a lovely way to live here on the countryside for a while, might as well try better connecting with nature while I'm stranded here for possibly forever. :) And there's always the Newtown Castle...could be a bit cold and hard on the back, but it's there and always open! Some people are really freakin out because of plans not working out the way they were planning, but for me, other than worrying I'll miss seeing my sister's baby belly grow, I figure I might as well just try and chill out (like the volcano should do) and enjoy being here a bit longer :) Yesterday, I finished up my Irish Studies paper, which was the last thing I had to accomplish here, workwise! After that, I went and laid on the grass and just soaked up the outdoors, it was lovely to just smell the grass and be bundled up like a white burrito in a blanket and wait for Janine and Ryan to finish cooking a delicious chicken/sausage curry dinner! After that, I just hung out at their house while the others worked on their papers, then Seth and I decided to write a collaborative poem over facebook chat, which resulted in this lovely 2 page poem/story that will probably make no sense unless you there to laugh hysterically about the plotline...but it was really really fun, we couldn't ever read it straight through without having a laugh attack cuz it was so ridiculous! We had started a group on facebook called "Poetry Fridays" or something like that and we only did that once and it was so much fun! Seth and I decided to be the super arrogant team, so we've been doing our best to live that up and add more arrogant team appraising things to the group information and have been telling everyone how amazing our poetry talents are as a team, so here it is, sorry if you find it offensive, we kinda got on this crazy plot thing that led to necessary controversial events:

Brilliance with a side of steak...and maybe some jam.

There once was a steak named Josh

This steak thought it was very posh

His mother was proud, and she lived on a cloud

One day, her pride at a loss, she showered him with steak sauce

He danced and he flipped, his mom was the boss

Needing some seasoning, he grabbed some moss, named it Ross, and gave it a toss

Even though they were pals, he needed some gals, so seasoning was needed indeed

So he moseyed over to a flower, tall as a tower, and rather than cower he showered her with the rare words, medium glances, and well done dances

The flower was impressed, she even needed a rest, his charm was too much, it was best

But the mother would have nothing of it and told her to shove it, no flower would have the power no matter how he loved it

The flower was offended and her heart went unmended, so she wilted away and the love finally ended

In sorrow Josh moaned, and he wept and then slept until he was phoned

It was his mother to say she was sorry, but he hung up and called the show Maury, for he was sad and enraged, and was sick of being caged, his friends had really started to worry

So they invited them in, telling her she had won a prize of substantial size, the greatest bin that ever was made - lies!!

Her face showed up on the screen and the scene was obscene, Josh yelled and his mother just cried, the flower appeared and Josh grew a beard, his manliness finally revealed


In his moment of triumph he was in for a surprise, when Maury revealed his father, a man of great honor, who liked to wear three ties

Josh's bearded jaw dropped, and his meaty heart stopped, his father looked just like Kurt Russell, not knowing how to react to the outrageous fact, he got outta there in a hustle

Steak sauce flew and his temper blew as his space was incredibly violated, the flower showed up said "Yo. Sup?", then said she and Kurt were related

Josh was sedated, his mother elated, his father ingratiated with the woman he had dated and the son he had never hated

Steak boss blushed, as her greasy hair she brushed, for she wanted her best to impress...the man she had lost that returned at a cost, but she cleaned up real nice in a dress

As they planned their big night, Josh fumed with great spite. rather than live with an attraction so strange, he began to exclaim "I want a sex change in order to make things right"

The Sexy Boss expired and Papa Kurt tired, "no more of this troubled son business!" He stormed off backstage and the flower engaged in a rather uncomfortable convo…

"Uncle Russell, I'm gay, or a lesbian, sorry... I wish I could be not so strange." But her uncle embraced her and said he didn't judge her, then his tummy really started to growl...

He stood closer to the steaks, gazing with a twinkle in his eye, his mind was on meat pie covered in sauce the size of the Great Lakes

So he looked to the heavens and apologized for his wrongs before he scooped up his son, using some tongs. Josh looked at Kurt Russell, afraid for his fate, they had just reunited, just a little too late

Feeling their relationship was tainted, the mother had fainted and was awoken by the host. Not realizing he foresaw a great roast with a side of toast and maybe some jam, she fell in love with the man and off the stage they ran

The lovelife had ended for the lesbian flower as she slumped into the sunset, in the midst of spring showers, depressing songs of loneliness played in her head as she began to think she’d be better off dead



I know, very "unique" poem with a depressing end, but it was really hilarious to write and for us to laugh about now :)

Anyways, I'm over at Marie's house, casually hanging out with Megan and Jess-we're going to head over to Logue's and Megan and I are going to eat dinner while Jess and Kaitlyn just enjoy the pub I guess

Gindi is growlingggggggg!!!!!!!!!! Fooooooooooood!

Love you guys, hopefully, I can get home to you sometime!

...so I wiped out climbing over an electric fence wire today...I was holding a pb&j sandwich and my laptop, and I was concerned randomly that the wire that had never shocked us before would be on, so I hoisted my leg over it and decided to kinda do this nice graceful leap maneuver aaaaand next thing I knew, I was flying and then landing embarrassingly on the ground and was finding globs of peanut butter and jelly in random places, I just sat there and laughed at myself and then popped my head up over the stone wall to see if Max could possibly have witnessed the amazing event from the sunroom, but I don't think there was a way he would have seen...it was a good wipe out and now a great memory-took long enough for my clumsiness to come out!