We are registered for GWW and have renewed our subscription.  Some of us had to wait for payday.  Sucks!!  Someday hopefully, we won't live payday to payday.  I guess that's everyone's dream.  Anyway, we are looking forward to a relaxing time at Highland.  We love that place.

 I'm afraid that I'm not going to be very good at this journaling.  I simply don't have the time to invest.  However, I love to journal so we'll see.

I don't even know where to start about the trip to Ireland.  I feel like I've come home when I arrive there.  I just am so comfortable.  I'm afraid the rain everyday would get to me 'cause it did when I lived in PA.  That's why I moved to AZ.  Anyway, the unique ways they use color is probably because it rains so much and is grey alot.  They have color everywhere....flowers inside and out and the color of their homes, especially the doors.  I bought a poster the last time I was there of "The doors of Ireland" and they are beautiful.  I hate to sound so corny about Ireland but....

We arrived in England on Friday around 4ish and I think we went straight to a pub?????  And that, my friends, is really all I care to discuss on this page.  Hopefully, our stories about that night will entertain us all around our fires for months, maybe years, to come.

I am trying to upload pics onto snapfish so maybe ya'll can see Mary, Alfie and Charlie.  They are our Irish family.  They have children that live in the US so they have been here.  Alfie has even been to California.  Of course they have a standing invitation to visit us.

Well, I am job hunting again!!  I really like the job I have but the prima dona OR nurses suck.  I have discovered that OR nurses become OR nurses because they have no people skills and they love sucking up to doctors.  I'm not good at that.  I tell it like it is.  Unfortunately, I am trying to learn how to play the game but HOW I HATE IT!!!  Anyway, the perfect job for me would be two jobs.  One with dogs....anything with dogs and the second one nursing one day a week.  If I could figure out the insurance, I'd do this.  In AR, I had five jobs but the best one was managing the dog pound.  It was also the one that hurt the most.

Enough bellyaching.  I'll be in a better mood the next time.

Well we had to say goodbye to the Cliar as they went onto their interests.  I was really hoping to share my love of animals with them by all of us going to the James Herriot museum but it was not to be.  IT WAS WONDERFUL!!  I shed some tears.  Not because he is dead but because this man was and is an inspiration to me and to be actually touching where he touched and seeing what I envisoned while reading his books just moved me so.  Then we went back to Ceara's and picked up our safely stored in the gnome house luggage, caught the bus to Harrogate, the train to Manchester and the plane back to Ireland!!  What a day.  Back in Ireland now and seeing the things we didn't see last time.  Oh a funny thing!  There was a farmer's market in Thirsk and I was walking by the dog stuff and hoping to pick up a pig's ear for Charlie, Mary's dog here, and the stupid stupid man took a broom and pushed the awning up so the water would come off it.  Unfortunately, I was walking by as he did it!!!  Filled my boots and jeans.  I was pissed!!  Just said, Oh great! and kept walking.  I'm proud of my restraint!!#

Well, off to Waterford to spend more money!!  Morgan LOVES crystal!!