Tuesday, January 2, 2007

   Hopes fears and a happy new years
Hope you all had a happy new year and had fun

On Friday the 29th everyone on my floor at work was holding their breath as all the names of all of us where written on pieces of paper and put in a cup to see who would work on new years eve and day. 3 names where drawn luckily none where me I was free for new year whoohoo, poor Natasha wasn’t as lucky it was kinda funny thou her name was pulled and she let out a long and loud “Nnnnnnnnaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww” (“naw” pronuced as spelt, irish slang for no).

Now at some stage over Christmas one of our group decided it was a bright idea to go to tullah bay for the new years party. We can’t mind who came up with it but no one wants to take credit for it anyway. Tullah bay you may remember is a small carvan park on the north east coast of ireland and is more or less in the middle of nowhere so the logic was there was no neighbours to complain about loud music or a crowd of drunken people, however its winter in ireland so its F***ing freezing. I can remember thinking it was a bad idea. So on Sunday the 31st me, pual, tina (both my cuzins) and neil got lifts from my dad and aunt collette and land down at tullah at roughly half 2 in the afternoon armed with electric heaters, multiple gallon barrels of water, (cuz the site is only is use during the summer the water is turned off to prevent damage to pipes, and there is no stock in the shop) and food and drink for the party. Our lifts leave so its just the four of us now ready to party we where there for the night. The weather made us glad of the shop, the winds where gale force (my glasses where blown off my face, that’s strong wind) and the rain was falling hard enough to sting any exposed flesh, the point was made that we where going to stay in the shop all night so there we didn’t worry about it.
Because my mother is the manager of the site I have access to the house building with serves as shop, reception, and laundy house, it also has a kitchen, a living room (where we were going to party) and two bathrooms. So heaters were plugged in to heat the living room we sorted the drink into the fridge, got ice ready, and debated where we would sleep. Once this was done we decided it was time for dinner so where gathered our food and headed for pauls caravan (closest to shop and had a workin microwave) I had a pot noodle, the other 3 used the microwave to nuke their frozen pizza’s and weight watchers meals. Heres where it got fun:
Pual was the last to nuke his food and half way through, the power cuts out. As it is now nearly 6 o clock it is dark outside and the alarm system on the shop is tripped, (its tied into the electric supply for some reason so every time the power cuts out the alarm rings for half an hour) I at first thought it was a problem at the house so I run over to the house in the pissing rain and gale force winds to check the curcit broad, but I have no torch and the house is in darkness, so going back to puals caravan I grab my cuzin tina and we go back to the house and by the light of her mobile phone we check the circuit broad which is out of reach so was poked with a snooker cue. The circuit broad was fine so I go to the window and look out over the valley, the lights from the town a few miles away are gone and a quick look around proves that the electric was out around the whole area. We go back in to the kitchen and I lift the phone, its dead, so I slowly replace the hand set turn to tina and say
“this is like the beginning of every horror film I’ve ever seen”
after I say this it really spooks the two of us out so we run back to paul and niel, I repeat my statement to them two and we are all pretty freaked out. We try to reach my mum on mobile to ask what we do when we do she tells us to stay in the shop light a few candles and if the powers still out by 9 shes coming to get us.
After the phone call we have this conversation.
Me: right, theres candles in the house but we can’t see much with tina’s phone light
Tina: is there not a torch in the shop?
Me: the batteries are dead
Pual: that’s smart
Me: theres one in my caravan (LMD’s caravan is at the other end of the caravan site near the dunes and is in complete darkness), I’ll go get it and we’ll go to the shop
Tina and pual: ok
(LMD heads for door of caravan)
Neil: Wait, don’t go, its always the smart one on their own to get killed first
Tina: what?
Neil: Horror movie rules never split up!
Me: Neil be serious its only a power cut
Pual: he has a point, we are in the middle of nowhere, theres the boy, the gay, the smart one and the bimbo (tina in background: hey!)
Neil: think about it, the only thing missing now is a monster of psycho killer
Me: ah come off it what could happen
(at that moment a large gust of wind rocks the caravan we look at each other in the quiet darkness)

Me: well that was onimious, right forget the torch, lets just get to the house.
(others quickly agree and we stick together to run to the house and door is locked)

we find candles and light up the back room with a pile of them and we wait for while, we joined by Micky and Jason two brothers who live up the road from the site and they confirm that the power is out all over the valley. The power flickers back on a few times but doesn’t last long but round half 8 when we are about to phone mum to pick us up they come back on we cheer loudly and we continue to set up for the party, the others show up (finally) at about 9ish and the party begins.

At around 2 in the morning, LMD is walking alone down the site with a empty gallon water barrel, used to flush the tolet, behind my caravan are a number of water barrels filled by rain water, ok to flush loo with but not to drink we brought drinking water with us thou. Anyway as I was walking down the site I could see just over the dunes lighting strikes over the sea although it was very cool looking LMD began to doubt the logic behind going out in the dark alone the site is very very creepy at night even with the few street lamps. I got the water and ran back up the site in case the storm hit, it didn’t but I could still hear the thunder. It was cool, creepy but cool.

The party went on, we drank we sang, we played games, we cleaned up the knocked over chocolate fountain, the power flickered but stayed on for us and we had great fun. We stayed the night, LMD on a small sofa ending up with very sore shoulders and a stiff neck, which still lingers on today.
And now im back at work and Im slightly depressed. Ah well theres always the weekend

Happy New Year

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