Old Friends & Irritation

Does anyone have those friends or family members who irritate the heck out of them?

I don't know whether it's me but I have some people that literally even the first sound of their voice irritates me. For example I have a friend from uni (and I call him a friend because he really should be, we have never had an argument or anything like that), we have known each other for years now and I can't think how we have kept in touch so long.

I met Alex in my second year of uni through a mutual friend. We wern't in the same year or on the same course and as it was a drunken night out I didn't think much about him and went on my merry way but somehow, through this mutual friend we kept cropping up in the same places, as you do. Now I forget how he got my mobile number, but as I say there were alot of drunken nights at uni so this doesn't surprise me and technology being what it is now he also got on my msn and facebook and so everafter we have been in some sort of contact.

I can't bring myself to block him on msn or delete him from facebook etc because technically he has done nothing wrong but the fact remains that I can't remember the last time someone has irritated me so much. Without fail he will talk to me as soon as he logs onto msn and texts me randomly as well. For my part I try to keep contact to a minimum, for his sake as much as mine, I really don't want to be unkind to him but I just can't help being snappy or short. It's like something takes over and he rubs me up the wrong way completely!

Plenty Of Fish

Over the past month or so I have been a member of the plenty of fish website, this basically is a dating website but unlike most of the other's it's completely free.

I got into this via a friend who last year split up with her husband and joined so that she could meet new guys. I have been undecided about it for a long time, even though so many people meet over the net these days I just can't help but feel slightly seedy about it.

Anyway despite my reservations I gave it a whirl, but here we are a month on and I'm still feeling seedy about it. Today I have 'hidden my profile' for now at least. There do seem to be some nice guys on there but I just don't think it's the way for me to meet people, each to their own and all that.

Part of the problem might be that I couldn't help but put nice pic's of me up. Now I wasn't trying to gip anyone and all the pics were recent and really were me but I just couldn't help thinking what if I didn't really look like that in everyday life, lol I might sound nuts but I'm sure I look very different from one pic to the next.

Anyway unless I have a change of heart I'm staying off there. One good thing about it though is that it has shown me the sheer amount of guys out there looking for dates! Not ugly, desperate guys either, good looking, nice, normal people by the looks of things.

So onwards and upwards and lets see if we can find these guys in real life!

Marian Keyes - The Brightest Star In The Sky

This year my Dad decided to buy us presents for Christmas. Now the way I have wrote that makes it seem like he never get's us anything but actually we have alot from our parents, it's just that Mum does all the choosing and I'm not sure that Dad knows what he has for us until he sees us open things on Christmas Day. But this year he went out and bought a book each for me, my bro and my sis. Mine was Marian Keyes - The Brightest Star In The Sky.

What a book! I'm not usually a fan of people choosing books for me unless I give them a specific author but I have to say Dad came up trumps with this one. Bear in mind I'm only half way through but what I do know is that it's written from the perspective of an outside being, not human, more like celestial (exact nature hasn't been revealed to us yet). This being floats around 66 Star Street, an old house that has been converted into flats and observes the residents that now live there.

Each seperate story is gripping, there are 4 stories and each night I can't wait to read a little more about each person. The book is obviously counting down to something as well, each chapter is called Day 56, then Day 55 etc so I await with interest whatever it's counting down too!