First time trying a viral recipe, Chicken AuPoivre so made a steak and guinness pie as a backup! Along with all the essential sides, colcannon, roasties, roast veg, fried brussel sprouts, cauliflower cheese and stuffing with the choice of banoffee trifle or carrot cheesecake swirl bundt for dessert!
What's your recipe?
It might look like a pot o dicks but it was damn tasty.
Just bought it for €8.99 for life which is actually amazing value. I’m excited to see how it holds up in the coming months considering the benefits that come with it.
I was previously paying €20 to Three for shite benefits that only last 28 days, so it’s definitely worth having a look at especially if you’re paying a lot of money each month.
Will definitely be holding onto both of my eSims since there’s no contract with this new plan in case it doesn’t meet expectations.
I wanted to make this post to get some perspective and to see if other single people felt the same.
As the title suggests, I've been single my entire life. I'm in my early 30s and I've never had a relationship last longer than a few months. I'm social and have lots of friends but over the past year to 18 months no matter how many friends I have the partner shaped hole cannot be filled.
As you get into adulthood and more and more people couple up, friends become less of a priority. I'm not saying that people are bad friends but no matter how good of a friend you might be, you'll always be second fiddle to someone's partner. If you've been single forever and you're one of the only single people you know, this becomes extremely isolating.
Anytime you go to make plans you need to make the plans weeks/months in advance, the days of casual meetups are pretty much gone because that time is allocated to partners. This means you spend a huge amount of time alone. You travel alone, you grocery shop alone, you go to the cinema alone, you cook alone, you DIY alone etc etc.
This post is not meant to sound like I'm having a go at couples, because I'm not at all. I've just begun to realise recently how much my life could completely improve if I got a partner, in fact it's become the singular goal for me for the next year, as sad as that might sound to some people.
Other single people of Ireland, how do you feel about this?
Wife spotted these on our 5 minute walk to Maynooth Train Station.
I feel like I’m losing my mind lately, I’m single 35f living alone, I have a good job so it’s golden handcuffs to an extent because the pay and compensation package is very good but I’m absolutely miserable. People always tell me it’s not worth being miserable, but I have left my career before to go into a lesser paid position with more flexibility, and have been more miserable trying to support myself on less money. I’m not on amazing money but it is good and comfortable. My friends are all having babies and getting married and building houses, and I’m just about getting by with the bills and my fitness. It’s so hard to meet somebody and find a partner, especially with my work. I don’t know what to do because on one hand I should feel so grateful for the good paid job I have, but my life is so vacuous and empty. I come home every evening ready for bed and TV and dinner just to repeat it all again…. I have such a strong urge to destroy my life. Can I live an alternative life? Where can I meet people, even friendships in mid 30s? What can I do? I want to start all over again. I wish I did something I loved. I wish I had people I loved - like a good partner or a family of my own. Anyone else feel like this?! I feel like we’re becoming so disconnected and busy all the time.
Edit: I need to add this to say that I do have hobbies and i do things in the evening, I love to paint which is already a very isolated hobby but I do it for myself. After that, I tried to remain fit so some evenings a week are either running or some kind of gym class. I also go to the cinema quite a lot by myself. I enjoy all these things, but I guess what I’m trying to say is the loneliness and lack of certainty over my future is caving in on me. My work is meaningless and every day is Groundhog Day. And honestly recently, maybe it’s the change of season but I haven’t got the energy or motivation to leave the house in the evenings. The dates I go on amount of nothing but wasted time and money.
I searched and apparently this is normal enough with the weather conditions? I've never seen this before. This is either:
- the sign of a spider apocalypse overpowering Ireland
- completely normal
I am very much aware that I am a bit of a chatter box myself but Christ the days I’m in the office at work it makes me feel like a total introvert in comparison to my colleagues. Totally get it’s the social side of work and it’s not just about being glued to the laptop, but I feel like a lot of people can’t read the room when someone is trying to end the conversation to get back to what they were working on.
Genuinely feel worn out at times, the social battery does be dead by 5pm
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