Éire go Brách

Happy St. Patrick's Day y'all!



I love a lot of things about Ireland - especially after spending a little over a week there several years ago.


I love how all of Dublin smells like Guinness.

I love U2.

I love the Book of Kells.

I love that, when I was there, the government celebrated the grand opening of a new freeway with a round of free drinks for everyone.

I love that the sheep are sassy and think they can just go wherever they please, including the lobby of my hotel.

I love how all the signs are in both English and Irish.

I love that you can buy codeine over the counter at any pharmacy.

I also love that after a year or so of mourning, I recently found my missing Guinness sock that I brought all the way from Ireland and that I need to wear when I see U2 in concert in June.

I also have a confession to make about St. Patrick's Day.


I obsessively watch QVC all day on St. Patrick's Day. And I may or may not have been known to actually buy something.


It is the strangest thing, since I refuse to watch QVC any other day.

On a side note, I saw Alice in Wonderland last weekend. I thought it was very good. It was visually very pretty, and the storyline is well thought out and interesting. Having said that though… I didn't love it. I just really liked it. Part of that could be that I have never really enjoyed the Alice story; in fact it is one of my least favorite Disney movies. So perhaps I was biased going in. The movie IS very well done though, and not as scary as I thought. Although I am not sure my Niece would like it. Contrary to popular thought, I do NOT think like a 4 year old, so who knows. (More like a 14 year old)


Hands down the best part of the movie is Helena Bonham Carter. She was hilarious.

Oh and one more thing, as a post edit to my last posting. I finished my first crossword puzzle book last night. When I bought it I thought 5 dollars was not bad. But unless I pace myself this could become an expensive habit. I think I will search for some free ones on the internet perhaps.



And with that, I leave you with this...



May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.
~Irish Blessing

P.S. Whenever they decide to have a day just devoted to Scotland, I will drop St. Patrick's Day like a dirty napkin. Just you wait and see.

"Freedom!"

Tagged

There are many things that the word tag can bring to mind. Tree Tags? Deer Tags? Christmas Tags? This my friends is known as the 'Blog' tag, and I have to admit that I have been anticipating the day of my first Blog Tag with tingles of excitement and bated breath. I am totally serious.

A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

Five Things I was doing 10 years ago:

1. Living in crazy Nannette's Tree Street house in Provo.
2. Avoiding the boys in the silly singles ward.
3. Anticipating the next years Sundance Film Festival.
4. Working at the Modus Media.
5. Driving around in my new Teal colored Ford Escort Wagon.

Five Things on my to-do list today/tomorrow:

1. Help Kate move
2. Play in snow
3. Get massage
4. Fret about Primary
5. Clean something

Five Snacks I enjoy:

1. Diet Coke
2. Red Vines - I like the ropes the best, but they are hard to find. Please no Twizzlers.
3. String Cheese
4. Any kind of cheese
5. Metro Mint Water

Five Things I would do if I were a billionaire:

1. Travel, Travel, Travel
2. Get out of debt
3. Buy a hybrid
4. Buy a house
5. Pay for my family to do fun things

Three of my bad habits:

1. Bossing people around
2. Cleaning obsessively
3. Spending money rather than saving money

Five places I have lived:

1. California (many different cities)
2. Provo, Utah
3. Holden, Utah
4. Switzerland
5. Draper, Utah

Five Jobs I’ve had:

1. Startup's Candy Factory
2. Millard County Courthouse
3. Sears
4. M.T.C.
5. Stream/Modus Media/Modus/ModusLink

Five Things people probably don’t know about me:

1. I have a tattoo and I want another one.
2. I am allergic to everything (slight exaggeration, but not by much).
3. I can dream what I want to dream, and I often cast, scout for locations, and edit as though my dream was a film.
4. Sometimes when I am sad and I need a good cry, I deliberately look at Humane Society Web pages.
5. I brush my teeth 3 times every morning (can we all say obsessive compulsive together?). Dr. Arthur always praises me on my good dental hygiene.

I am going to tag Dianna and nobody else, because I don't know anybody else with Blogs, except for JoDee and she was already tagged. Oh and Jenny from the Block, but she's the one that tagged me.

What?

This is probably the first in what I assume will be a long list of confessions spanning over many blog entries. It is always cathartic to get your little secrets out in the open. So here goes...

* I smell glasses before I drink out of them.

* I swear like a sailor in my car on the way to work. But then I immediately feel guilty and sing a show tune.

* I don’t look in mirrors at night time and try to avoid looking out windows as well. (Damn ‘Watcher in the Woods’).

* I am crazy about maps and globes.

* I like to watch dog shows.

* I know many of the names of the dogs in my apartment complex but not their owner’s names.

* I don’t like scary movies, unless they have Zombies in them, and then they are just amusing.

* I read the last page of a book before I read the rest of it. Yes I know this is probably the most controversial of all my confessions, but all y’all judgers need to just get over it. And yes, this includes the last page of this one –

And (gasp) this one too.