I found this pin at Party City on my day off this week, and will wear it on my apron at work on St. Pat's Day, along with my new green beads w/shamrock, AND...my lovely new tiara, lol!!!! The tiara is silver diamondcut plastic, with a big green heart and the Irish claddagh on it. For only 99¢, I couldn't refuse, lol. I am also drinking my coffee out of a cup with a little red-headed leprechaun on it. So, I'm getting a head start on celebrating being Irish, you see. We talked about going to the parade in downtown Atlanta, on the 18th, but, it's a work day, plus there are over 125,000 other people expected down there, soooooooooo, I don't think we'll go, lol. Since I'm fasting from beef, I won't do the corned beef and cabbage, but the day before St. Pat's Day, my day off, I think I'll make an Irish soda bread, and still have cabbage, potatoes, and carrots. And if I can find some, I'd like to have lamb chops...or maybe salmon...both of those are Irish, and the veggies are, too. Anyone else going to do anything exciting for St. Pat's Day? Anyone going to any of the parades around? Drink some green beer?!?!?!?
Today is ten days into my Lenten fast from sweets, chocolate, beef, and pork, and I'm doing well with it. So far, lol! Only once have I come close to saying the heck with it...pretty good for me, I think. My regular co-worker and her cousin are also fasting, from red meat and pork, so she and I encourage each other at work. The hardest part for her, I think, is not being able to eat bacon...she loves it, almost as much as I love chocolate, lol.
Had two nice days off this week, weather held up pretty good until yesterday evening, by which time it didn't matter to me, lol. Wednesday my IRL friend and I walked some on the Silver Comet Trail, I made it a whole 3/10 of a mile...with a break, lol. Then we went to Party City, and then to the Sports Bar for lunch...veggie wrap and onion sticks, excellent!!! Yesterday, E. and I just hung out here, walked around the yard some...actually think I did another 3/10 of a mile, and so does he. E. found our first 4-leaf clovers for 2006, too.
And back to work today...it's another gorgous day, too. Hope y'all have a great weekend. God bless.