I'm Seeing Green

With each passing day my excitement level increases about going to Ireland. It took me several hours to settle down this morning and get some actual work done. I can say that the medium iced latte lite from Dunkin Donuts didn’t help with the focus; I was definitely zipping from the caffeine (note: I very rarely drink coffee).

I need to give credit to a great podcast that I have been listening to for the trip to Ireland. The podcasts can be found at http://www.irishfireside.com/, the two guys that produce the podcast along with a companion website do a great job providing fun and valuable information for their listener base. The podcast is usually broken down into three sections; informational discussion about a few Ireland destinations, a description of a traditional Irish recipe (full recipe can be found on the website), and a traditional Irish song is sung to close out the podcast. I have communicated with the two authors of this podcast and they are very passionate about creating good content and sharing their love for Ireland with their audience. I have collected a lot of great tips for the Ireland trip from listening to the podcast. I definitely recommend this podcast even if you are not going to Ireland, the content is worth a listen.

In some of the previous posts from my dear cousin she has painted me as some micro-managing, overtly oppressive, narrow minded, tyrant of a person. I would like to say that this character attack is quite aggressive and missing my best quality: control freak.

So, just to go on record about the directions and my cousin’s humorous conversational banter in her post. There is no doubt in my mind that I will be getting directions but it is not to undermine her responsibility, it’s to be informed. I have traveled enough to know that the more information you have the better. The last thing that I want to happen is for us to be miserably lost in Ireland and me not having any clue where to go. That is not a good travel companion and quite frankly if I were responsible for directions I would ask my cousin to familiarize herself with the area and destinations. This delegating is working out great – I’m turning over a new leaf!

Well… I haven’t see the directions yet, maybe I should retract that last statement for now.