Luck 'o the Irish to you...

Happy St. Patrick's Day folks. this holiday has never meant anything to me. sometimes i wear green, sometimes i don't. one time i went to chicago to drink green beer and watch the ducks swim in the green river, that was fun. see below (with college friends bethany and mike):














but most of the time its just another day. today for instance i'm not wearing green, unless you count my columbia fleece. i'm wearing a long sleeve badger shirt because its flippin cold in pittsburgh (take note that i'm wearing capris in above picture) and my boys are struggling to beat AZ in the first round of the tourney right now. the luck of the irish clearly is not with wisconsin today. perhaps i should have attended notre dame as my sophomore in high school self had wanted. wait, they aren't even in the tourney. they're just irish.

so how will mandakay spend her st patty's day you ask? probably with a good book, some knitting and a cup of starbucks joe. me and the gregster must hit the open road early tomorrow to make it to baltimore at a decent hour to commence drinking with his buddies, an annual tradition. i don't quite get it as i feel that most places the festivities were last weekend (i don't get that either, but i guess its like that year that halloween fell on a friday and everyone was confused as to when wisconsin was going to celebrate the damn holiday. for the record we celebrated both weekends, would you expect anything less?). so tomorrow i'll don my green attire and drink some green alcohol and pretend like tomorrow is the real deal. and maybe somewhere in there i'll remember that this is actually a Christian holiday that is actually quite meaningful (history). but right now, at this moment on this st patty's day, i'm going to choose to be mad at ohio state and wisconsin for not SUCKING IT UP and destroying their opponents.