(left to right: Jacki, Kristi, Me, Steph)Right before your eyes are my three best friends.
And I am lucky enough to call them that.
This st. patricks day I got to spend the night with the three of them and enjoy the company of some other friends from Jacki and I's soccer team.
I think St.Patrick's Day is a funny, and strange holiday once I sit back and look at what actually happens on this day:
1. Almost everyone you know becomes "irish."
2. Drinks are green.
3. Everyone wears green, and if you don't- you are subject to pinches. And not everyone is gentle!
4. People dress as "leprechauns," and some claim to actually see these creatures.
(which was a disney creation in all actuality)
exhibit A: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nda_OSWeyn8
5. Getting lucky has a whole new meaning.
6. Glasses, hats and shirts have a sudden botanical theme: the four leaf clover,
a.k.a. shamrock.
7. Many of the "traditions" of this holiday weren't even made up by the Irish; the corned beef meal was tip from the Jews in the neighborhood when the Catholics needed something cheap to eat for the holiday.
8. Green was actually considered unlucky in Ireland, so why are we wearing it again?
Kids wearing too much of the color feared being captured by faeries.
But Happy St.Patty's none-the-less!
Check this out for more:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/03/0315_050315_stpatricksday.html
I think St.Patrick's Day is a funny, and strange holiday once I sit back and look at what actually happens on this day:
1. Almost everyone you know becomes "irish."
2. Drinks are green.
3. Everyone wears green, and if you don't- you are subject to pinches. And not everyone is gentle!
4. People dress as "leprechauns," and some claim to actually see these creatures.
(which was a disney creation in all actuality)
exhibit A: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nda_OSWeyn8
5. Getting lucky has a whole new meaning.
6. Glasses, hats and shirts have a sudden botanical theme: the four leaf clover,
a.k.a. shamrock.
7. Many of the "traditions" of this holiday weren't even made up by the Irish; the corned beef meal was tip from the Jews in the neighborhood when the Catholics needed something cheap to eat for the holiday.
8. Green was actually considered unlucky in Ireland, so why are we wearing it again?
Kids wearing too much of the color feared being captured by faeries.
But Happy St.Patty's none-the-less!
Check this out for more:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/03/0315_050315_stpatricksday.html
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