Really a Facebook page?

YES YES YES

You have seen that correctly!! I have now made a Facebook page where I post all the blogs but also interesting facts and funny memes.

I must admit its hard to post full time seeing as I am also working full time and enjoy not being behind the computer....

BUT if you enjoy reading my blogs you might enjoy the Facebook page too.

https://www.facebook.com/emmasmadness?ref=hl

SOO

All by myself, Definitely not my cuppa

So yesterday was Arthurs day. On Arthurs day you go drinking. Seeing as yesterday was a Thursday and I work on Fridays…. I still went drinking…. Alone… which I can now say, is the worst thing you can possibly do.

My cousin had soccer and my friend group where I live is…. Tiny… So I though why the hell not! I can do that. Ill just sit at the bar and talk to bar staff or random people. I figured it couldn’t be that bad.

I figured since I “know” a few of them conversations should happen. Well they didn’t, except the: “Hi how are you” when I walked in nothing else was said. Other than what I said to myself… I should watch that.

Now there might be people out there somewhere who are perfectly fine with just sitting by themselves and enjoying a beer or two. But that is definitely not me. I probably make things a lot more awkward than that they have to be. And the moment where the glass hits your teeth you have no one to laugh with except yourself, which looks a little sad.

When I couldn’t handle feeling awkward and self-conscious I walked outside to the front of the pub and skyped my friend.  Which I think is still a little weird because every time people walk into the pub they would look at me and think: “what language is she speaking in?”. But the man who waved at my friend was very funny.

I considered having a third beer and then go home butttt I couldn’t do it.

Note to self: please, pleaseee bring someone when you go drinking because, Emma you don’t do to well on your own!

I bet ya

Betting in the Netherlands isn’t really a big thing except for in Casinos.
Betting in Ireland on the other hand is huge. Every small town will still have several betting offices, as does my little town.

I had always just walked passed them as I didn’t know how it worked or didn’t think anyone in my family knew how it worked.

Well that all changed when my cousin arrived from the States. He knows how this world works. He also told me that it’s illegal to bet in the states. Obviously I was a little confused… thinking to myself: but.. Las Vegas is in the States right? Now if I remember correctly he told me that, Yes indeed it is in the states but it’s also on Indian (native American) land and they have different rules. I was mind blown, didn’t know that.

The things you learn!

Now one drunken Friday we had the brilliant idea to bet on a soccer game the next day. I think Manchester city and Stoke? were playing. And we would put 20 euro each on Stoke to win. The next day however we weren’t so brave (we are broke) and decided that 10 each would be good enough.

The game wouldn’t be on TV and that was alright because you wouldn’t be able to watch a game peacefully anyways. BUT then he decided to look at it online. So as I am in my room still unpacking suitcases (just moved into a new apartment hence the broke-ness) I hear my cousin yelling and cursing at the laptop (my laptop). I must admit I was a little frightened I would have to buy a new one. Anyways there was no need for me to watch the game because I knew exactly what was going on… we were losing…

Fine lost the game, lost 10 euro, that doesn’t keep me awake at night. Fun experience. EHH NOO
obviously you don’t just bet once… because you have to do it again until you win…

Last night Liverpool and Swansea were playing… “Swansea at home are hard to beat” “Let’s go for them”. My cousin is the soccer genius, just for the reference.
Fine, were in the pub and yes they do score within 3 minutes, but then Liverpool scores after 10 minutes… Let’s just say we didn’t even finish the second half because we knew we lost the money anyways.

Still not sure if I have learned my lesson but I will say that I will leave the betting till I can afford to lose money.

Boys in green? Boys in orange?

Ah, I know I have been absent on my blog. So I apologize to the 4 full time readers that I know I have ;)

It has been a busy time and I had little inspiration to be honest. I think I wrote out most of my frustrations before.

But I found a new one. Since my cousin arrived from the states and were now sharing a house, I have been dragged into soccer…

Now soccer isn’t that bad except it is. Irish soccer is that bad. I have seen two games in the last 2 weeks? And yeh… both were a little sad. I am not giving out about the players but they are so predictable.

Goalie always kicks out the ball faaaaaaaaarrr away, which means the other team also has a shot of getting the ball (seems to me, that is not what you want) and this happens often. You’d say that people learn from these things. When the Irish are stuck and can’t go forward they always play the ball back and the ball goes all the way back to the goalie, which to me seems like a waste of time.

One thing that is great about Ireland playing any games, are the supporters. They just keep singing “Field of Athenry” which I think is great! Because at the end of the day , it is just a game.

Now I am not a soccer genius, far from it BUT like many people out there I do enjoy some games of the euro and world cup. I think it’s safe to say that we won’t be in this cup, world cup right?

Holland seems to do fine on the other hand so I suppose ill take out my orange shirts!

Come on you boys in orange!

Brace yourself! Wasp season is here!!

Wasp season has started here in Ireland a few weeks ago. Yes after the warm weather is gone the wasps come out… Do you get it? I don’t anyways.

I got stung by a wasp about 2 years ago and that is still so fresh in my memory that now whenever there is a wasp around, I’m either gone or start moving around like a crazy ninja.

So I don’t think its much of a surprise that when I saw a wasp in the bus yesterday, I panicked and pointed and probably yelled “WASP” to my two bus buddies.  Now they were behind me and they wasp was closed to them than to me. Now as my friend (half in a panic) climbs over her boyfriend to stand in the aisle. I just screamed “ KILL IT, KILL IT”. You can imagine that at this point people start looking…

No one moved so I decided that I would kill it. I had no energy for spending 15 minutes on a bus being paranoid whether it would land on me or whatever. So I took of my shoe, stood up and waited for the wasp to land on the glass. Now the two bus buddies are saying “Emma don’t, don’t do it”. I am thinking they were afraid that I would miss and piss it off. They don’t know I could be a professional wasp killer though. Shhh

I am that good though!!

The wasp landed and didn’t move as if it was waiting for me to land my shoe on its body! And I did, wacked the shoe into the window and killed the wasp. So my friend could get back into her seat and I could put my shoe back on.

After receiving a “Good job” from another passenger I sat down and I could relax for the remaining journey.

Now seeing as my story’s are always not so informative, I thought why not look up wasp facts. So here they are:

* The term wasp is typically defined as any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is    neither a bee nor an ant. (yes I did copy and paste this line)

* There are two different types of wasps, the social wasp (maybe stinging is like hugging in they’re culture) and the solitary wasp.

* Only female wasps have a stinger because  it derives from the ovipositor, a female sex organ. (Whenever you are stung and say: “aahh you BITCH”, you aren’t so wrong so…)

* Female wasps mainly lay eggs inside the body of a host…

* Male wasps (drones) die after mating with the queen wasp. (one less to worry about or is it?)

* Most wasps die during the winter except the queen and her horde of new wasps…

* People can die from a wasp sting (now my paranoia doesn’t seem to weird eh?) even though they were stung before and were fine. The body can respond to it differently. So if you experience any tingling, feeling faint or even collapsing and vomiting you should call the emergency services.

Anyways Ill leave you all with that happy thought! Let’s hope wasp season ends soon!