Ugggghhh

So I went out with 3 other flat mates this afternoon. I actually wanted to stay in and finish reading my stuff for school, then go grocery shopping, then go to this seminar. That didnt happen. I woke up late again, maybe a quarter til 11. I'm having trouble falling asleep before 3am (even with the help of sleeping aids...). I got up and read more of IOP (yes, Lisa, I said it!) Got a small bowl of cereal and used the rest of my milk (i dont have much more food now!!). I read one of my plays, the one that I'm going to be handing to another class mate tomorrow, so I needed to get that out of the way. And then my flat mates called me to come along with them to go shopping. They knew the only thing I needed was food, so we were going to work that into the shopping plan.

Well, for some reason (there is a reason, but I was unaware) we headed to the North past the Liffey River. The Liffey splits Dublin into North and South and there is a rivalry between the two. We headed to Dunnes shopping center on their "grafton street" which is much bigger than the one in Rathmines. I had no plans to buy anything but I did buy a winter coat. I brought lots of jackets with me, but I'm thinking most of them will be too thin for when it starts to really get cold. There was a huge sale so the place was slammed. I knew we'd be walking so I wore "walking shoes" - big thick almost boot like shoes. Unfortunately, it was too 'warm' to wear that sort of thing. According to weather.com, its 63 at 5pm, so it was probably about 65, which is pretty warm for this place!! And my condition was acting up!! All I wanted to do was to throw off my shoes and socks and grab my rainbows. But I couldnt do that, as I was on the north side. Also, busses dont really travel across the Liffey. They stay on one side or the other. We took the Luas, but had to walk past my school, then past the Liffey, and to the 'other side of town'. I could feel my heart rate rising and I was getting very warm. I didnt go into any other shops that the girls went into. I wanted to stay outside where it was cool.

Finally, here I am on my bed, my shoes and socks OFF, waiting for my feet to recover. Funny thing is, the other girls were worn out as well. Not like me, but they had aching backs and things like that. I dont think that we're just 'old', but we have been doing a lot of walking around for a while now.

I will not be heading back out to go to the seminar, even tho it's still going on. And I dont think I will walk into Rathmines to go grocery shopping. Tonight may be a cereal night (provided one of the flat mates lets me use their milk!!)

It was a nice day, but I was dressed for a cooler day, and that just didnt work out great for me... So we will rest some more :-)