It’s gonna be a …

Friday, you sexy beast, we meet again. This particular Friday we will be celebrating with a bit of bubbly – yesterday husband was offered an amazing IT job and we are over the moon, to say the least. 
We both graduated from college in the last two years {as mature students … we’re not that young}, and there was a lot more hope for husband to get a job in his field as he is an all round IT genius / graduated with top of the top marks. I won’t bore you with Ireland’s continued recession details, but we’ve been waiting for this to happen for a long time, and we were close to giving up = depression central. That is, until yesterday. Hubby immediately handed in his notice at his current job {which is completely unrelated to IT} and has been on a cloud ever since. I was a mess of proud / bubbling wife business yesterday. I’m sure it was very embarrassing. 

And way more importantly, husband can finally make use of the IT Crowd inspired cross stitch I made him and has been waiting for such a time to proudly display it on a desk. The old brain wheels are crafting up another QR code cross stitch as an alternative / back up desk accompaniment just in case. Hells yes.

To conclude today’s post, I will quote what was read out at my graduation from the CEO of Microsoft Ireland, “always be nice to nerds because chances are, one day you’ll work for one“. And in some cases – marry one. 

So proud of you, hubster 🙂
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Hydrangea Girl – elsewhere

As you may know by now, Google reader is going extinct as and from tomorrow. I have no doubt those of you who use it have made the necessary precautions, but just in case, below are a couple of alternative sites you can use to keep up to date with my posts …

Bloglovin’
Subscribe by e-mail

I’m sure there’s more, but those are the only two alternatives I can think of. And while I’m at it, here’s some blatant social media plugging you can find me here too …

Facebook
Twitter
Pinterest

For all of about 4 minutes I signed up for Google+ and Instagram, but I quickly deleted my accounts. To me they’re just two more social media sites I have to chase, and I’m quite content with the ones I have to date. No offence to those of you who have those accounts; I feel I’d be spreading myself too thin. It seems less is more is happening a lot around here lately.

That’s all peeps. Stop on by tomorrow for some tasty temptations you will adore / immediately regret consuming. Hell, you only live once. xx A

Blog Awards Ireland 2013

It’s getting real all up in here ladies and gentlemen. This years’ Blog Awards Ireland has been launched, and my little blog has been nominated in not one, but three categories. I am totes excited / nervous / a whole range of emotions / scrambling / et cetera. I took a couple of hours over the weekend to sit down and make little changes to my website that I’ve wanted to do for way too long. It’s been my perfect excuse. Also, please excuse the mess if you happen upon my site mid-fiddle. Lord knows it was a hot mess this time yesterday. 

Hydrangea Girl has been nominated for …

BEST DESIGNED BLOG
BEST LIFESTYLE BLOG
BEST CRAFT BLOG

All of which makes me feel like this. Incredibly excited, plus a mixed bowl of nerves as well. I’m not a competitive person, so my confidence goes down the pooper the moment the word ‘competition’ is mentioned. But luckily, the Blog Awards Ireland isn’t a popularity contest so once you’re nominated, that’s it. I was dreading the idea of having to ask people to vote for me, and luckily for you guys, you don’t have to!
If you’re a blogger here in Ireland, have you been nominated yet? If not, check out the nominations list here, and get in there like swimwear. The closing date for nominations is the 31st of July. Exciting stuff, and I hope to see you there on the night! xx A