12/1/06
Hey There Dudes and Dudettes…
MERRY BELATED CHRISTMAS AND A SNAPPY NEW EAR FROM IRELAND!!!
Well, we are currently in a town called Trim just north of Dublin and all we can say is… Thank GOD Christmas is over….!!!!
Now don’t get me wrong… this was our first northern hemisphere COLD Christmas and the Christmas spirit and atmosphere here in Ireland was definitely way better than sweltering in a 40 degree Australian Christmas…
However, we reckon that the only reason that the Christmas cheer is so good over here is because they really need all the bright lights and shopping to cheer them up since the weather is so BLEAK and crap…
Not to mention, that after hearing Bob Geldof telling us that “…there won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas time…” fifty times a day on the radio and in shopping centres… we now totally want to shove his Band Aid right up his Boomtown Crack…
…And also after hearing “Last Christmas” by Wham twenty times an hour… not even replacing the word “Heart” with “Fart” is able to bring a smile to our faces anymore…
…No… OK, I lied about that one… “Last Christmas I gave you my fart” ALWAYS cracks us up!!!
(interlude for me showing Avril what I just typed, followed by some giggling and a couple of snorts…)
Anyhows, I don’t think we got a really good feel for Christmas in Ireland, since I worked my arse off the whole 2 weeks around Christmas and New Years doing nightshifts which was a change from the usual GP jobs I had been doing.
Basically, we based ourselves in Dundalk, which is an industrial city between Belfast and Dublin and I did the overnight doctor job in Navan and Drogheda, which are a couple of towns north of Dublin.
The overnight doctor job pretty much had me working from 10pm to 8am and there were 4 days when I actually worked all the preceding days as well, so I was totally knackered doing 24 hour shifts with very little sleep…
However, I had a driver driving me around to do all the house calls, which was pretty cool, but there were quite a few nights that being on the road was downright scary due to pea soup fog and icy roads…
It was actually busier than I had expected since Christmas in Australia is so hot that everyone is healthy… but in Ireland since it is so cold, everyone is down with asthma, and chest infections and lots of snot…
However, despite all the snott and drunken lacerations at New Years, I actually loved doing the on call work and despite working my tits off and not enjoying the Christmas season… but man… at €70/hour, we made a heap of money which was great since it’s not cheap supporting our cartoon superhero adventures…
So after working so hard, we were really looking forward to heading off to India this weekend… But we’ve now had to cancel since AVRIL LOST HER BLOODY PASSPORT!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!
We had just gone to a huge effort and spent €126 at the very unhelpful Indian embassy to get our Indian visa and then we had to race to another county at night to get our Irish Visa extended when Avril dropped her passport out of her pocket, but thankfully we found it again…
…BUT THEN only 30 minutes later, she left it on her lap in the car and it tumbled onto the road when she got out to go to a shop, so she lost it AGAIN for good!!!!
We were absolutely spewing since we didn’t actually realise it was gone for a few days and the Australian embassy in Dublin were such lamearses that they said it would take 10 working days for a new one, which was stoopid since the same embassy in London can do one in 2 days…
So anyway, since it would have been another 7 working days for a new India visa, we had to cancel our India trip, which was heartbreaking, and as you can imagine Avril’s been feeling really bad and is absolutely devastated…
Now, I could have been a right prick and bollocked her for being so careless…
But as I was washing the dishes this morning and looking out the kitchen window at the sun rising over Trim Castle that was used in the movie “Braveheart”, the spirit of Mel Gibson must have entered me and it suddenly dawned on me that this is actually a good thing!!!
With Avril feeling this bad, the BALANCE OF POWER in our relationship has now shifted to ME!!!!!!
My evil genius brain had realised that I had just discovered relationship KRYPTONITE!!!
From now on, I can now commit many heinous criminal acts of stupidity and when Avril starts to nag me, I can now turn around and say…
“…Yeah well, at least I didn’t LOSE MY PASSPORT…!!!”
Man… it feels so good to be this powerful… it’s almost like finding an alien green lantern power ring, or like on Pacman when you eat the power dot and the inky ghosts go all googly eyed and run away from you…
I just can’t wait to fuck up again, so I can pull that out of my arse and have Avril turn googly eyed and run away from my super Pacman gobble powers…
Anyways, got to go but we hope you all have had a wonderful Christmas and hope that 2006 brings you lots of warm fuzziness and power dots…
There’s some Northern Ireland pics here at this link and Ireland pics at this link
Lotsa Love
Evil Pacman Ced
Avril the Loser
PS. Yay!!! WOOOHOOO… just this morning Avril got her new passport from the Australian embassy so we’ve now decided to visit our friends Frank and Corrine in Switzerland, followed by visiting Avril’s cousin Felicity in London and then we’re off to Tunisia in Northern Africa to check out the Sahara and where they filmed Star Wars and then off to snowboard with our friend Sophie in Quebec!!!! CEDAVRIL IS ON THE ROAD AGAIN!!! WE ROCK!!!!!! …and it beats stoopid India…
PPS. Thanks to Big Bad Brad Jones for filling in our passport application… The dumbarse Aussie embassy wanted a professional with an Aussie passport who had known Avril for 2 years to witness her application… Man… I’d shudder to think how you’d get a new passport in the middle of China or Africa if you didn’t have a professional Aussie with you… Thanks Brad! And thanks for dinner too!
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