so, i've been thinking a lot about the year that has gone by, and everything that has happened. and so much has happened!
it's weird, cos i keep remembering things i forgot, the more i think about it all.
2007 has had a lot of ups and downs, and i think i've changed a lot as a person, mostly for the better.
so, my first memory of 2007 is when we all went to patrick's house in caragh lake in kerry. that was definitely a lot of fun - drinking chardonnay 'down by the lake' in the rain. :) then, before i knew it the holidays had ended and school had rolled round again... ugh. though the first saturday of the year, we all gatecrashed the young scientist disco, like the cool kids that we are. that was a funny night, in more ways than one... the next thing i remember is coming down with a yucky chest infection right before the mocks, when i had to take the PSATs exam and do a debating competition... just my luck right? well, i lay in bed for about a week and then went to the nme indie rock gig which was great.. i touched faris rotter's head! it was very hairy...
february came and so did the nme indie rave gig, which i won tickets to :). that was so much fun and all the bands were amaze, it was deffo one of the best gigs of the year. then came the mocks... ugh. they weren't too bad really, i suppose, though spent valentine's day doing my art exam, all single and alone. how depressing. it was in the middle of the mocks that i went to the opera with david smith! then the mocks came to an end and i managed to snag tickets to the sold out bloc party gig at the ambass.... then i had to give them up to do a debate. then me and estelle got knocked out of the league that night, by one point. ONE. FUCKING. POINT. i was well pissed :( i soon cheered up though, cos patrick had a big free gaff when midterm came... that was so much fun... strip poker and a trip to tesco at 4am aye :) february was when i started going out with dave aswell actually... wuite an eventful month really!
march came, and that was a month i really wish i could forget. the mock results came out and i spent the whole month fighting with my parents... everything was just so shit. then i was stuck in kerry for paddy's day and i missed the best free gaff of the year :(
april came, and so did simon's free gaff! :D that was a pretty bizarre night... between puking all over my boyfriend, running out simon's back gate, people stealing pineapples from his fruit bowl.... it was great! i ended up breaking it off with dave two days later, and i was all sad... but then clare came round my house with ice cream and was amazing and cheered me up! the rest of the month came and went insignificantly, and when easter holidays broke we all went to director in the ambass which was cool.
may was another sad month, really. well, it didn't start too bad. i mainly just remember being really broke and everyone's birthday occuring in may! then there was school spirit week, and anna and verity dressing up as the horrors and performing karaoke in front of the whole school, which was pretty ledge. and so was gonzaga sports day and watching the eurovision at cormac's gaff. i remember towards the end all the stress of the junior cert mounting..... and then , a bombshell. the last week of may was so sad and so awful. and harrowing, and is something i'll never forget. i still think about it a lot and it was one of those things where i just realised how cruel and unfair life can be. whenever shit happens i always think, everything happens for a reason, y'know? but for the first time in my life, i couldn't think of any reason as to WHY this would happen, what reason there could possibly be for it happening.
june came and went, and so did the junior cert, which was grand really, except for maths. i remember getting drunk in the middle of it after making brownies with simon and cormac lol, and going to arctic monkeys with anna which was a lot of fun.
july was CTYI, which was one of the most amazing 3 weeks of my life! it was a totally indescribable, unforgettable experience. i remember being way depressed, ill, and stuck in kerry when it was over :(
august brought the gaeltacht, which was ok, but a bit of a disappointment really when CTYI was so amaze in comparison. i didn't really bother that much with it, and i regret that i didn't put more into the course when it ended, y'know? i was back in kerry again when it all ended, and cormac and patrick came down for the annual portmagee summer minibreak! and that was pretty cool... knacker drinking on the gaa pitch, befriending some random polish people in the middle of the night and stealing their bulmers.. fun times. then there was some lovely end of summer reunionising with CTYI peeps when we all went to BudRising. the moshpit during the blizzards was so much fun :). not to mention the last day of the holidays before school started, when we had an amazing end of summer picnic in stephen's green park on a really sunny day.
then came september, and 4th year, which everyone had really high hopes for, and it ended up being a bit shite. the new classes were annoying but i made some new friends with some really awesome people and got to try out surfing when we all went to achill, so it's all good :) then came junior cert results... that morning i was just so nervous, not even about my results, i just remember all the anticipation! i did pretty well in the end, i got 8 A's and then junior night came and we all went out to bective, and it was all a bit over rated really, but still a bit of fun i guess.
i remember october being cold and wet and unlovely. until i found out i got into DYT! and DYT is lovely and so are all the people in it :). the end of october brought the best halloween of my life... meeting up some 'old friends' in town that morning, to one of the most amazing and bizarre nights of my life that evening. this all happened while i was dressed as a 'ghost' in a flowery sheet, as you do.
november was colder and wetter, and it all started off with me fainting outside cafe moda in the middle of rathmines and scaring the shit out of olivia :) but it was all ok and two days later i went to see bloc party at the big top, moshpit barrier and one of the most amazing nights of my whole life! :) the next day i flew to new york completely wrecked and had an amaze time shopping and sightseeing, where i flew home a week later on super sweet 16th birthday. on november 21st we all got into the lovely christmassy spirit by going into grafton street the night they switched the lights on, and humping some festive giant stuffed animals we found in the dunnes stores homeware section. and of course, my real birthday celebrations came the next weekend when we all went knacker drinking in belgrave square with some polish vodka, nearly got arrested, and ended the night in coffee society feeding a KOing anna and emer bread. :)
and finally there's december. this has just been a frantic month of present buying and christmas countdowns and tea serving at the DYT MOAFs, and spending a night out in the bog at lynn's house before we wrapped it all up with a night out at little caesar's in terenure. but christmas has come and gone, it was lovely, i'm in portmagee and it's the last day of 2007, and here i am, thinking back about the amazing year i've had and, as if this blog couldn't get cheesier, hopeing next year will be just as great :D
i congratulate you if you've down this far, because i seem to have gone off on a very long speel. :)