My views on Men

Men can be categorized into the following headings: The Good, The Bad, The OhSoHot and in keeping with little miss bopeep... The Sheep!

The Good are the reliable type that like you, they have a nice reliable job and want what most women of certain age want: to settle down with the 2.4 kids, white picket fence and the big family car in the driveway. Ever so sweet and kind, and above all faithful! Well that's what were led to believe anyway. But Mr Nice can only be nice for so long and then inevitably that all falls by the way side when they get attention from the opposite sex and in keeping with their animal pride instincts fall for it....

The Bad, are those guys that are completely commitment phobic, I mean why would they commit to one girl when they have about 5 on the go?? I'm being generous with the 5! But every girl wants to go for the bit of bad, the thrill of it, secret rendezvous and no matter who they are, they want to think they were responsible for taming Mr Bad!! I'd call those girls idealists, but lets face it if you were the one in a zillion that actually managed to tame Mr Bad you'd probably get bored cos what attracted you in the first place has kind of gone and hence the vicious circle begins. The Bad by nature only keep your attention for a short period of time, then its time to move on... But they're not all bad, sometimes if you look around hard enough (not that I'm advocating looking for Mr Bad), Mr Bad can actually surprise you while Mr Nice turns out not to be so good!

The OhSoHot, now these are my favourite kind for the moment anyway. Thrilling, sexy, gorgeous and down right nice... they're just so yummy! Kinda guys that you want more off and more or less consume your every fantasy. Hmmm nice...

Now for the ever faithful: The Sheep, like dogs they are loyal, hang on your every word and get all excited when they see you: big eyes, tongue sticking out and the tail wagging happily. Ah bless.. But they are a nice breed, just the problem with The Sheep is they take it all to heart and when you smile at them and talk to them for about 5 minutes they automatically think that your in to them and they lap it up!!

Now this is my problem, why can't a girl be friendly without it being misconstrued? Cos that's what it is: being friendly, now if she wanted you she'd FLIRT - amazing differences ya know.
Are all sheep that vain? that when a girl chats to them, like maybe they need to as your doing them a service: like fitting blinds, servicing your car or maybe fitting your carpet, the sheep's pride take over. More often or not, it looks like your doing them a service by flattering their male ego rather than them doing you one!

Ah but there is another type of guy that is guaranteed to set your heart a racing:) That is the man in uniform. I blame Richard Gere for that in "An Officer and a gentleman" - well I think 99% of the female population just melted with that movie and want their own hero to come and carry them off into the sunset.. My heart is just a fluttering even writing this!

I spent my day surrounded by firemen - no don't worry there was no fire. From the moment I pulled into the Dublin Fire Training Center, my smile was a mile wide - 8 guys (sorry Fire Men) jogged past me.. now it could've been the canteen's porridge beckoning them, but either way it just started my day off with a high.
Although in fairness how is a girl meant to concentrate on her Advanced driving course when she is surrounded by men in uniform with the big red fire engines putting out fires with their hoses? Exactly! Didn't manage to dampen my fire. Have to be honest though, with all those men in uniform it didn't matter who they were, but all that macho testosterone, it was enough! So yea I narrowed my husband down to about 2or so dozen...

But the training was really good the parts I was able to focus on. But on a serious note, it certainly woke me up with a jolt! Some startling statistics: It only takes a moment's distraction like checking a text message to take some one's life. Around 99% or our driving time is on Auto pilot. We really don't take in the information were surrounded with. Big thank you to all the guys and gals at Dublin Fire Training center for all their hard work. Especially to Dave for passing me :)

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Welcome to my first ever blog !!! A few people have told me to start a blog cos they seem to find my stories interesting, although you probably won't. Well here it goes.....
About me.... Born and breed in Dublin's fair city where the girls are so pretty - well that's how the song goes anyway! I'm a rock chick meaning I like rock music; U2 just rock along with Snow Patrol.
Possibly a bit of a geek chick too though, setting up logical drives for asm in a data guard environment gives me the work thrill, ya I know a bit sad but still.

Love movies although I can't watch horrors or chillers - waste of money really as I spend all the time hiding behind pillows, I may aswel bring a nail file with me and dust of those nails and its always a good time to catch up on all those texts:) Fav movie ever has to be Shawshank Redemption - "Fear can hold you prisoner, hope will set you free"! I mean that quote just says it all really.

I think every one has to have a hero don't they? Well I my hero just has to be DeValera, the best politician to walk this earth, completely misunderstood. The man was a sheer genius really, he was a mathematician which explains his logical mind. Ireland wouldnt be where we are today without that man. So that goes to show I'm a bit of a history buff too. Quite frankly the way I see it, you cannot understand your present or future without understanding your past.
If I'm allowed have a fictional character as a hero: that would have to be Quincy - best TV show ever, he was a medical examiner that went above and beyond the call of duty for what was right. I like people that fight for what they believe in, too many of us are arm chair pundits... I'm a bit guilty of that too but recently I did get up of my ass to fight against the Lisbon Treaty. Biggest mistake Ireland did was letting it in, whats the point of Robert Emmet, Wolftone, DeValera and Collins and the rest of our ancestors all fighting for Irish independence if were gonna give it away. As George V once said, Englands biggest mistake was not giving Gladstone his Home Rule bill. Well looks like old George may finally get his wish... Essentially democracy as we know it will be gone.... A bit like Romantic Ireland!