Another busy day! I don’t seem to be in any particular hurry to get up these days, so I got up around 8:20, but we weren’t in any hurry to get out of Dublin, either, so it was all okay. We toddled off to Newbridge in the early afternoon, and I liked it a lot. The commute’s not at all bad, 20 minutes on the quickest train and 35 on the slowest, with the light rail bringing you from Heuston station to Connelly, which is downtown, in another 15 or 20 minutes. Since it seems likely (though not inevitable) that Ted’s job would be downtown, that doesn’t seem too onerous, and I’ve been looking at subdivisions, which they call housing estates, that are just a few minutes’ walk from the Newbridge train station. Plus Newbridge appears to have a gym, and does have an (outdoor; buh) swimming pool, and plenty of shops and some restaurants and a generally nice main street area, and a new shopping mall is opening next year sometime in case a person needed somewhere else to spend money. And the town is on “the Wiver Wiffey,” as Breic importantly calls it, and it’s a very, *very* pretty area. So I’m thinkin’ Newbridge. I’m much more taken with it than Bray.
That’s about the sum total of the excitement I have to share, really. I need to pick up a mobile (see! see! I can speak unamerican English!) and, uh. Write. :) I may have to get up earlier tomorrow so I can trundle off to the coffee shop earlier and get my writing done (I only have a 3 hour battery on my computer, so that pretty much limits my writing window right now) and then still have plenty of day left to do things. Some of those “things”, mind you, may be “go to a movie”, as I haven’t been to a movie in weeks and would like to go see something.
Of course, that means I have to find my way to the theatre. Oddly enough, I know where it is; what I don’t know is how to get there from here. Or back again. Dublin is *not* an easy city to navigate!
(It would also depend on there being anything playing that I want to see, and there isn’t, exactly. I’d see “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang” and “The Constant Gardener”, but I’m not sure they’re worth finding the movie theatre for.)
Hee hee. Ted emailed yesterday with a story about Chantico. There were search lights going around in the sky and she thought they were very very cool and was waaaatching and waaaatching and would leap up trying to get them! Leap! Leap! And then when she’s had enough of that she lies down in the snow and waaaatches some more. So Ted hung around outside with her for a while so she could watch. I have the very best husband. *goopy look*
He says she also likes watching the numbers in the elevator. :) Silly puppy. Nice husband, to indulge her. :)
Ok, must go read COYOTE DREAMS now, so I can figure out what I’m doing on it tomorrow. Yay writing!
miles to Mount Doom: 218
Not sure about Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang, but the Constant Gardener was a pretty good film. It is not very uplifting but has a good plot…Ok. I have written much more but deleted it in an effort to not give away the plot in case you decide to go see it.