Well I got some of it done...ramblings of a sleepy mom

[puppetmaker]

Manged to get the first past on the dining room and clean up a bit of the cat hair in there. We store 3 of our 4 cats in the dining room when Caroline ia being free range baby. They seem to like this situation since when I put her out side her playpen, the cats runs for the dining room. The living room gained a chair after I removed all the stuff that had collected there since the Schleper the Leper costume. The puppets are still in pieces but that can be worked on today.

I have some pictures up on my website under 'Convention Goings' from PhilCon and FarPoint. Then there are new pics of Caroline under 'Jan and Feb 2004. She has learned to climb couches. Her next goal is the coffee table.

As we head to St. Patricks day, I am seeing more and more advertisement from the beer companies for the holiday. I am of Irish heritage 24/7. I still have 2nd cousins in Ireland. I HATE St. Patrick's day with the fiery passion of a 1000 suns. A long time ago (OK beginning of the century) St. Patrick's day was the Irish equivalent of Gay Pride Day now. It was started at a time where boarding houses had signed that said no dogs or Irish. Now it seems to me to be an excuse for people to get drunk and not feel bad about it. It has become a manufacturer's holiday rather than a celebration of Irish pride. Also if I hear one more of those rafferty tafferty accents of someone pretending to be irish, I may do some harm to them.

Comments

[wide_worlds_joy]

Personal irritation here, St. Patrick (as he's known now) was responsible for driving the Druids out of Ireland, by betraying their trust. That's the true meaning of him "driving the snakes out" of Ireland. I won't celebrate March 17 as anything other than my Sister's birthday, because that would be like Americans celebrating September 11 as "Martyr's Day" and honoring the Al Queda members who died in the plane crashes. I find it an insult and degrading as well as a slap in the face of all Irish, as you say. Good post BTW.