IrishGal77

@IrishGal77 (260)

Ireland • Age 47

Joined myLot 12 years ago

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Darned Shop. My Cheese!

TheIrishClog @TheIrishClog (985) • Ireland 15 Apr 12

I'm a fussy git. I am. I'm Dutch, I was raised on Dutch cheese. When I was younger here in Ireland it was a nightmare trying to get proper Dutch cheese. You'd find lots of Edam and Gouda everywhere, but in the little black rimmed...

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IrishGal77 Hi TheIrishClog, Nope can't say that I have had one of those BUT, you have got me tongue tied and twisted just there for I can't for the life of me say that last sentence without stuttering and stumbling. Alliteration, anyone?!! IrishGal77 :)

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Proud Woman - Girl Power!

TheIrishClog @TheIrishClog (985) • Ireland 15 Apr 12

I sure am. Guess what? I used a drill to screw a shelf on to some brackets yesterday. I'm a girl, not a girly girl, but a weakling all the same. Yet I can mark out wood, use a saw, use a drill to screw stuff in, rewire a...

diy

feminism

girl power

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IrishGal77 Hi TheIrishClog, Wow, good for you! I have never used a drill in my life, don't have one so have had to be very resourceful since....well I've pretty much always done most of the DIY things round the home but do more of them now I'm on my own. I don't mind...

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A Whole New Meaning To The Word "Pigsty!"

Janey1966 @Janey1966 (24170) • Carlisle, England 26 Mar 12

Oh my! Click on the link below and prepare to be amazed at the hoarding that has gone on in a Council house in Derby. Officials arrived to evict the tenant and he turned up in his car with a PIG called Babe in the back....

babe the sow

pig rescue

pigsty

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IrishGal77 Hi Janey, Oh dear that house is a right mess, I pity who has to clean it and those who have to foot the bill of all those repairs. Needless to say yer man must have never had a bath and I thought it quite ironic that among all the clutter was a hoover piled...

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Has prayer EVER worked for you?

Vvance @Vvance (280) • United States 25 Mar 12

Don't get me wrong because of the title. I'm not an atheist trying to go about proving anything against any religion. I just am a little curious about this particular subject. I see various people of ENTIRELY different...

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IrishGal77 Hi Vvance, I am Catholic and while I believe in God I am no 'Holy Joe'. I say my prayers at night, talk to God a good bit and am generally a good person. My prayers are not always answered but that's okay. I remember two very clear occasions, whether I...

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Normal or abnormal winter

speakeasy @speakeasy (4171) • United States 25 Mar 12

Is it just me, or did other people have an abnormal winter this year too? I am not talking about an extra large storm (20 year storm or century storm). I am talking about the way the winter season normally works. Normally,...

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IrishGal77 Hi speakeasy, The Winter just gone was the mildest I can ever remember so I'd be talking about a good few years here. Temperatures around Christmas were in the low to mid teens which is a stark comparison to the year before where temps reached minus 16...

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Putting my 8-month-old baby to sleep

joannamarie089 @joannamarie089 (76) • United States 25 Mar 12

My daughter will not go to sleep unless I'm holding her, laying next to her, or she's in her baby swing. She won't go to sleep on her own. And once I do get her to sleep and try putting her down, she wakes up right away. The only...

baby

naps

sleep

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IrishGal77 Hi joannamarie089, I really sympathise with you, having had two boys whom I unintentionally encouraged the 'not-learning-to-fall-asleep-by-themselves' by rocking them to sleep either in my arms or in the rocker. Trying to get your baby as tired as...

25 Mar 12

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What do you do to rekindle hope?

gfeef01 @gfeef01 (537) 24 Mar 12

I was wondering if the wonderful mylot community would give me their best tips on how to put on a brave face and a smile. I've been dwelling in a deep well of hopeless of late, and some days just want to curl into a ball and cry....

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IrishGal77 Hi gfeef01, I know exactly what you mean, unfortunately. My only advice to you is to allow yourself down time; I'm not even going to pry into your life and ask you what has you feeling this way when you do; that's none of my business but as for me, when I...

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Which would flatter you more....

maezee @maezee (41988) • United States 24 Mar 12

By the way, mature content (sort of) warning. I didn't know which interest group to put this in, so I decided that this was going to be the right one - for now. I hung out with a group of my sister's boyfriends friends at the bar...

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IrishGal77 Hi maezee, As you've perceived it, either/or is a compliment but both meant in different ways. If it were me, I'd far rather a guy had a crush on me rather than him wanting a quick fumble. After all, I'm not a piece of meat or something to be used and...

24 Mar 12

How to handle difficulties in life

speedytypist @speedytypist (571) • United States 24 Mar 12

Hi mylotters, I just want to you if how you handle difficulties in life. We can read some articles online but it is more interesting to read some view from real people in this community. In life we all have difficulties in life...

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IrishGal77 Hi speedytypist, I think this is a really difficult question to answer. We each find different ways of coping with the problems that life throws at us, we each have different pain/tolerance thresholds, different personalities, different views...there are...

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Stop The Clock ... I Want To Post Back In myLot

KrauseHome @KrauseHome (36448) • United States 23 Mar 12

How many times have you found yourself thinking, or saying this? You find your life so busy that you end up being gone from like 9 in the morning until late at night, or having so much going on you are falling asleep trying to get...

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IrishGal77 Hi KrauseHome, This is my second account in that I started afresh from the 'old' account that I had, and started about 3 years ago. I was fairly active (or as active as I could be at the time) but always put pressure on myself to log in and post, create...

24 Mar 12

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Whats your opinion on this?

Seppy1984 @Seppy1984 (2145) • United States 24 Mar 12

I just recently learned that there are some schools that had teachers sign a fire-able contract that they must delete their Facebook if they want to keep their jobs. Well from the town I'm from they too are trying to push this...

self rights

social

teachers

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IrishGal77 Hi Seppy1984, I also happen to think that teachers should be able to have a Facebook account, so what? Teachers are, in my opinion, as entitled to hold a social networking account as much as the rest of us. Many of us use Facebook to keep in touch with...

24 Mar 12

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What's your first job story?

cleverland @cleverland (150) • Philippines 24 Mar 12

One of the most challenging thing in taking the first few steps of your career is to how to adapt in your working environment. Easy to say but very hard to do. We can't avoid things like feeling insecure or being scared by our...

career

job

life

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IrishGal77 Hi cleverland, Welcome to myLot! I remember my first job like it was yesterday; it wasn't a very pleasant experience and it knocked whatever little confidence I did have at the time, big time. It was in the second last year of school, for work experience...

24 Mar 12

Why On Earth Can't One Form Of ID Do?

Janey1966 @Janey1966 (24170) • Carlisle, England 24 Mar 12

I lost my rag today..in the Opticians. I went to pick my new glasses up and John had already transferred the £66 deposit required, so I gave the young sales assistant my debit card, in order for her to do the transaction. The...

fuming at the opticians

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IrishGal77 Hi Janey, Ah dear (((((HUGS))))) I have no idea either why it has to be two forms of ID, why can't the one be enough? I don't know is it something to do with fraud? Either way it's a pain....I only have one photo ID which is passport and I'm not in the...

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Which is the best for your hips / abdomen?

maezee @maezee (41988) • United States 22 Mar 12

My problem areas are clearly my hips & abdomen area. Lately, after just recently starting a somewhat consistent work-out regimen, I have been going to the fitness center & doing 20 minutes on the elliptical machine, 20 minutes on...

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IrishGal77 Hi maezee, Honestly, I'm of the belief that when losing weight/toning up through working out that no-one part of the body gets all the attention so that fat is burned from that area only. I'd say that all three of the machines you are using are just as...

24 Mar 12

Being directed by the blind in a lost world .....

sunnycool @sunnycool (12714) • India 24 Mar 12

I've been to this amazing place where we can dine in an unique way and i'm sure you'll have an unforgettable experience too ... that's how one of my senior managers highly spoke about "Dialogue in the Dark"! At the most,we...

unique dining experience

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IrishGal77 Hi sunnycool, Wow, I've never heard of such a place but yeah, I think I'd give it a shot, at least the once anyway. I think I'd be most scared about not being able to see the food on the plate in front of me so I'd have to ask for something that I know is...

24 Mar 12

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Do you do spring house cleaning

2004cqui @2004cqui (2812) • United States 24 Mar 12

Let me make it perfectly clear: I am no domestic goddess! I let my house get dusty for sometimes two weeks. (I love hepa filters) I hate vacuuming and scrubbing. So my kitchen is black, white and yellow so I don't have to go...

house work

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IrishGal77 Hi 2004cqui, It's called a Spring clean for a reason! Only takes place once a year! LOL! I do like to keep a clean house, I dust and hoover downstairs practically every day or every other day at least. Upstairs gets a hoover once a week and a dust maybe...

24 Mar 12

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What do if your boyfriend/husband said this to you?

C @ShyBear88 (59347) • Sterling, Virginia 23 Mar 12

What would you do or feel if your boyfriend/husband told you after you told him that you where pregnant, that you had to get an abortion? Now I have never had to deal with this situation, my husband and I know when ever I get...

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IrishGal77 Hi ShyBear88, I've always said that there would only be two 'exceptions' that I would personally make for me to justify having an abortion - ever. It's in the case of r@pe (God forbid)or if it was medically advised because the baby wasn't properly formed. I...

24 Mar 12

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What is the best conditioner u ever used?

thelmadacullo112659 @thelmadacullo112659 (642) • Philippines 21 Mar 12

For myself i have that habit of not using conditioner when i shower.Its in my mind that it added to my daily expenses.That by the time i took a bath,only shampoo i used daily..Comes the time that i go for my hair to be rebonde and...

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IrishGal77 Hi thelmadacullo112659, I usually use a 2-in-1 as it's just a quick shower I usually take but when I have used conditioner in the past I swear by Tresemme, it's a moisturizing one that leaves the hair silky smooth and shiny. I'd definitely use it again. In...

22 Mar 12

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How much do you allow per meal?

writersedge @writersedge (22563) • United States 22 Mar 12

I like to keep the cost per meal down to $3 for supper, $2 for lunch and $1 for breakfast. That way it's $6 a day per person. Some times I go under that or over that, but it averages that in the end. I bought a pasta bag dinner...

cost allowance per meal

figuring your meals

how do you

not much work now

nutrition versus cost

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IrishGal77 Hi writersedge, To be honest I don't actually work out a cost per meal or have a set budget but I usually am quite strict on making up a shopping list and sticking to it. Like you, breakfast for us would probably be the cheapest meal as it's usually toast,...

22 Mar 12

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