Today is the non-religious celebration of St. Patrick’s day, although technically the holiday started as a holy day by the Catholic church and for those celebrating it for religious reasons, it already happened on March 15. More details here.
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Sadly it’s also the non-religious kick-off on another birthday for me. Number 67 ugh!
No green beer, but my neighbor stopped over early this morning after her work (she gets off at 6AM) and insisted that we have a couple of birthday drinks. As usual I was up all night working on a blog skin, so it didn’t seem too early to drink a couple of margarita toasts to myself.
Slept from 10 until 4 and feel pretty good considering I rarely drink anymore.
Happy St Patties Day.
So I turns on the frackin’ cable TV and up pops, the ever cynical Hillary wearing feckin’ green shamrocks on black.
That woman needs to be roundly defeated in the coming weeks and keep her fat behind out of all future St. Patricks Day parades forever.
And I was going to write a nice comment on how mi irish cousins in Dublin celebrate St. Paddy’s as a religious holiday only. The lot of them are tee-totalers and not at all into alcohol or drink-driving, a very serious offense in Eire.
Of course, the drunks in Dublin don’t really need a special day to vomit the streets in disorderly fashion.
Wait.
St. Paddy’s can yet be redeemed with some authentic irish music.
Fiddler’s Green
But you’ll have to excuse the crusty oldtimer’s around.
Bah, St. Pat’s day. Just another excuse for the Irish to get drunk.
Like they need one.
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