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Favourite character of this episode - Jim - not sure why, maybe it's his various facial expressions. Of course Michael is hilarious in every episode.
What was your favourite scene, line or character?
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OK so I don't have the version of Site Meter that you pay for but Fab taught me how interpret how and when my site is found via a search term on Google, Yahoo, whatever.
So I've been saving them up for a few weeks to get some real doozies. Actually they're mostly pretty lame but still some surprises. So in the order of popularity, the most popular being first, here are the common search terms linking to Irish Church Lady's site ~ Slainte ~ It's only me ICL
~One~
how to say slainte, slainte pronunciation etc. LOTs of those! understandable, it doesn't look like it sounds. Slawn-cha
~Two~
Terri Irwin church, what church were steve and terri irwin married in, church terri irwin married, " Queensland’s Great Barrier"steve"irwin"foto", http://crocodilehunter.com/ boy, and just a few short weeks ago this wouldn't have even been on the list - RIP
~Three~
video code for vicar of dibley- johnny depp, dibley depp - oh ya!, gimme some pirate!
~Four~
words of wisdom for little kids two wrongs dont make a right, words of wisdom raising kids - ok so here's my brief rant. How come they never had shows like SuperNanny and Nanny911 when I was raising my brood? I must say I really enjoyed the Teenage BootCamp show. Why can't that come on again? Rant over.
~Five~
movies blogspot - boring, there must have been a googleplex of pages with this as a search term!
~Six~
"How the car changed the world" - ya I said that. Good search phrase. Alotta students will be reading my blog when they do their project assignments on the automobile or combustible engine I'm sure. Is this a good thing or a bad thing to be readin' Irish Church Lady's site on a school night?
~Seven~
"war time house" - ya I said that too. Used to have me one of those. Cute little bugger. My first home I bought. It was built in the 1940's.
~Eight~
"irish booty" - want some? - it's on my blog somewhere
~Nine~
gyn exam foto - oh dear, now kiddies move along.
~Ten~
hump a lady - oh my word. I don't remember saying that! OK so now we're starting to join individual words into phrases. I'm starting to understand.
~Eleven~
September 2006 and heidi bressler - ya I talked about her from THE APPRENTICE
~Twelve~
irish poems about dead father - I did not have a poem about my dead father! No I did not! First of all he's not dead. Second of all, ..... I may have referenced a poem in a blog about me dead mother though. :-)
~Thirteen~
HUMOUR - I saved the best for last. So that's my all time favourite. And it's with a 'U' people. My site came up on Page 2 of this search. Page 2 dammit! Don't believe me? ... Well I knew you wouldn't so I saved a screen shot of it. Take a look.
I rest my case.
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***Updated at the bottom*** Just came home from church and I'm excited to share something with you.If you don't already see your favourites nominated, then submit your nomination vote. Each nomination = 1 vote or you can vote for a previous nomination, of course.
I have nominated Fleur de Lisa for MAGICKAL WEBSITE
(A blog that strikes you as truly magical Does not have to have fantasy involved)
OK so obviously I'm a big fan and I may have gone a little overboard, but I love her photos and you will too so check them out will ya?
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Our SPF assignment this week is to "reach in and dig around." That won't be too hard given the crappy mood I've been in lately but be warned about what might come out!
I haven't taken any pictures this week and my camera batteries are now charging so here goes from my photo collection. Kristine told us to dig deep! SHEEEEESHHH!
Something I have outgrown...
The good news is that I don't have any digital pictures with me in clothes that don't fit me any more.
Well I must confess that I did find a pic of me in shorts which are a little on the tight side but I do still wear them.
So that means that my size hasn't changed drastically (meaning increased) in the last 3 years.
This is a good thing.
So in the spirit of digging deep, I realized that one thing I have outgrown is my desire to have more children. I know I'm getting too old now for that anyways, but around the year 2000 I knew some 'older' women who were about my age and having kids and I was a tad bit jealous.
How did I get over it you ask?
I got a baby. A new furry baby. He was 12 weeks old when we got him and he cured me of my baby mothering instinct need. It's great having a furry baby.
He doesn't talk back, doesn't ask to borrow the car (but loves to go on car rides), goes to bed when I tell him to and he's mentally got the intelligence and vocabulary of a two year old....
....But not the negative terrible two's syndrome associated with that age! (Well okay he has been doing a bit of digging in the back yard this week but we won't go there, now.)
Fergus is a brown STANDARD poodle (the big ones). He was milk chocolate brown as a puppy but now he is kinda mocha coloured with the grey mixed in with his brown.
Standard Poodles are not yappy and are very smart but can be quite dominant in personality if they are male. In this regard, they require assertive handling.
Now, I want to share a funny pic with you. This is a picture of 'his' miniature twin brother that I met over in Ireland.
Cute ay? He was the spitting image of Fergus except smaller so I had to take his picture. He had the same haircut too.
I can't remember his name now but here he is with his Mom. BTW you don't see too many Standard Poodles in Ireland, at least I didn't.
Something I have overcome...
I have overcome the loss of my aunt whom I was very close too.
She died in 1999 and was a great influence in my life.
She arrived in Canada as an immigrant, sponsored by my parents, when I was only 2 days old. My Dad picked her up at the airport in Montreal and they went straight to the hospital to see me and my Mum.
It was her that I traveled to Ireland with first when I was 5, and again when I was 19. She never married or had children but was a second Mom to me and my sisters.
She made my wedding dress and bridesmaid dresses. She was a police officer and retired as a Sergeant about 5 years before she died at the age of 64. Here I am about 3 years old with her.
I have so many wonderful memories.
Something I need help with ...
My Mum
March 18, 1932 - June 26, 2005
Laid to rest with Auntie Kay.
I'm not over her yet.
Mum missed her sister so much.
I miss them both.
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5 beers for the correct answer. Where has ICL been the last few days?
Ya I've been AWOL on a self imposed blogging break. (AKA EXHAUSTION).
Yesterday I told my boss that today I was either working from home or calling in sick. She said fine. Just take the day.
Nice boss. I needed it. I slept in until 9:30 a.m. I think I'm going back to sleep again soon.
Thanks for checkin' in on me. I'll be by soon.
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OK so I've had a rough week. Haven't got to blog, hardly. Feelin' burned-out, tired, frustrated, overwhelmed. I need to learn to take baby steps at home, and not be so committed at work.
I need to realize I'm not the only person responsible for the successful delivery of our project. Everyone has a responsibility for their own tasks. If they don't get them done, despite my follow-up, then so be it.
If it affects the schedule or causes risk to the project, I just need to call it out to those that care or can try to influence and not stress out over things I cannot directly control. I do feel the need to do some CYA'ing though, because I don't want it to come back to me later and be told, well you didn't tell us that so-and-so did / did not do this.
I just can't believe the lack of being able to see the big picture by some senior in the project team and some above the project team who just want everyone to play nice in the sandbox and don't want to hear about problems because they themselves are already overwhelmed and therefore are no support to me.
Had a good long talk with an associate yesterday though that has the same principles and work ethic as me and it was really good to get her perspective. We had a few good laughs about things which really helped and said, we need to talk together more often. She is a great ali. (Meaning supporter - I can't seem to spell that word - is that right?)
OK so I don't like to go into details about work, so I've blabbed enough. Just wanted to give my readers some perspective on my recent moods that I have added to my page from www2.imood.com and to explain why I haven't been blogging or visiting. I miss it but you can't do everything! Right?
Didn't get to play SPF Friday which looked like it was going to be a really fun one this week, but one that you'd have to put a lot of thought into. Ya okay neither did Kristine but we'll blame Shawn for that! LOL
Have a great weekend everyone!
It's been a busy week. Glad I had this pre-written. Hey's it's week 58 but my #13 of Thursday Thirteen!!! Can I get a woot!??!! This weeks TT is especially thrilling, dear readers. 6. Weed the garden before winter!
I'm not too good at doing this. I usually just let everything die and get covered up with snow and in the spring I have a big mess to clean up before I can plant anything. What will make this year any different. I don't know except that I've been wanting to do this every year for years but never get around to it. Any bets?
7. Sort through paperwork
Ugh! I hate this job. I hate paperwork with a passion. When you're in a job where you're dealing with paperwork all day, this is a real turn off and consequently I hate doing this in the evenings or on weekends.
8. Clean my clothes closet.
Actually, it's not too bad but I do need to put the summer clothes away. Purge some stuff (I still have some of my Mum's stuff that I probably won't wear so I should just get rid of now). This will probably be the least difficult of all the jobs.
9. Clean my bathroom drawers and cupboards.
It's been quite awhile and there's a lot of old makeup and toiletries that need to be dealt with. I'm getting better at parting with junk and stuff so this should actually be good therapy for me once I'm started.
10. Organize photos and put them in albums
OK I did this once many years ago and made individual photo albums for the kids. This was before scrapbooking was in vogue, I believe. I need to do it again. I probably would really like this once I got into it. I've never done scrapbooking but see that alot of bloggers are into it. Do you think scrapbooking would help me get motivated to do this job?
11. Scan old photos.
My Dad's been giving us all envelopes with old pictures in them that he has sorted through. He's been clearing out his house since my Mum died and I really appreciate getting the stuff and the pictures which I adore. What I would like to do is scan all of them and have them ready for Way Back Wednesday or other blogging funsies. This would probably be also kinda pleasurable if I can get the other tasks on my list out of the way first.
12. Purge some boxes of crap
So I have some boxes of stuff that has accumulated that I need to go through and throw most of the stuff out. My hubby says he just wants to throw the boxes out and not even bother looking inside but I know for a fact that their might be some important papers or valuables in there because some of the contents came from my bedroom drawers, when I was just trying to make some room one day and put a bunch of stuff in a box, intending to get back to it but never did. Things kept getting added to the boxes and now I'm not sure what all is in there.
13. Admire my accomplishments when done!
This will be a good day for me. I will feel more inclined to entertain more than just family members which is where I'm at right now, and even then I don't feel like doing that with my dining room table all covered. I'm trying to figure out why I am procrastinating so much. It could be that I'm just burnt out from work, and having only two days each weekend, does not seem like enough time to really get into it.
Also, I'm terribly afraid of hurting my back and my arm. I am already nursing tendonitis in my right arm, so pull weeds and lifting things is not going to help that at all. My back is okay and I would like to keep it that way. Whenever I start to do something out of my routine, is when I injure the disc and when I do that I'm in bad shape. Alot of pain, alot of drugs, miss work, can't exercise it's all not good. Just before Christmas I put it out Christmas shopping of all things and I was in such pain that I fainted and hit my head on the bathtub. I'm such a weenie. It's a terribly sharp excruciating pain that takes your breath away. I don't like it and consequently I am afraid of it.
So thank you for enduring, dear readers, if you are still here, my boring list of TT. I hope you feel honoured that you have played a role in my therapy and recovery, and for that I am extremely grateful.
Please come back next week...pleeeeeaaaaasssssse! I'm begging you!
Oh and BTW, did I ever tell you I kissed the Blarney stone? ha ha ha Click on Blarney for proof
I will get caught up on your blogs this weekend...ok? Miss everyone! xoxo
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Not too wordy today. Pool Boy's gone to a KoC meeting. I'm really tired. Have a good night.
ICL
and his sons
What a handsome man and his family. This picture is of Stephen and his family pre 9/11 and almost looks too perfect to be real. Like an advertisement for a cruise holiday, Stephen is full of life, the boys proud and happy to be with their Dad. 
OK so I tried to join up for the 2996 too late. All of the victims were assigned. (TG)
source Michael Lynch Memorial FoundationI have chosen Michael, not because he deserves to be remembered more than anyone else. I have chosen him only because he is related to a close family member. Even though I didn't know him, my mother knew his brother, another Fred Lynch, and family and his parents. We waited prayed and anxiously awaited for news of him those days and weeks, and prayed even when hope was gone, for his family and all the victims of 9/11.
source Michael Lynch Memorial Foundation Michael Lynch, died along with 342 other firefighters at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He loved his work and was permanently assigned to Ladder 32, Engine 62, also known as the "Gun Hill Gang" in The Bronx, New York, however for a few months before 9/11 he was temporarily assigned to Engine 40, Ladder 35 on the Upper Westside of Manhattan.
Michael was last seen entering WTC Building 4 at the corner of Church and Liberty Streets with other firefighters from Engine 40. This event was captured by a news cameraman which helped in identifying where and what happened to the twelve out of thirteen firefighters from E40/L35 that perished. They were headed to the lobby of Tower 2 and were in the South Tower when it fell.
When Michael's body was finally recovered on March 21, 2002, the Medical Examiner determined he was either carrying a woman or shielding her with his coat. Their remains were mingled. The family hopes that someday they will learn her identity.
The family has set up The Michael Lynch Memorial Foundation - a scholarship program which provides grants to enable children of firefighters and other victims of the September 11 attacks and other fires and disasters to afford higher education.
Further information, pictures and a Guestbook can be found at the link above.
Contained herein is a quote from Jack Lynch, Michael's father about the Ground Zero memorial
Take Back the Memorial - First Responders say no to Underground Memorial
Firefighter, Fisherman and Family Peachmaker - no wonder his middle initial was "F"
from FallenBrothers.com
Before I go close this tribute, I would like to share with you a poem and some pictures.
This wonderful poem was written by Michael's nephew, son of sister Maureen Lynch Baker.
And a great picture of Michael as a boy which I find so cute and cool.
at Wine Strand, Co. Kerry, July 2004
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OK I cheated.
I've shown this picture before but it was for SPF and quite a while ago.
(OK May 5, I had to check, I'm anal like that)
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