I am getting REALLY OLD

AAH, St. Patrick's Day is here! I have so many fond, yet blurry, memories of the day. I remember a few years ago faking a stomach illness and telling my boss I had to leave work. I then promptly went home, showered, changed, and met my friends at the bar we hung out at right behind our work. I had a total blast! We sang karoake, drank, had chicken fights on the "dance floor"(seriously, we were out of control), drank, ate green food-ewww, and drank some more! It was a lot of fun until this lady we worked with came in to the bar and "caught me" then told my boss the next day-oops.
Another time I remember going to a bar and dressing completely in green, even adding green glitter shamrocks on my cheeks. I had a big green hat that someone gave me at the bar. I was in some sort of contest where the girls had to get green bead necklaces, and the girl with the most would win a trip to Cozumel. You had to do WHATEVER to get the beads. I didn't stoop that way, I resorted to begging and wound up get 15 necklaces. The competition looked pretty good. I thought for sure I did not have it. Most of the girls were "gathered" on the dance floor to get their beads counted. I thought there was no way I won, so I didn't even go up there. Plus at that point I was pretty over it. Some girl came up to me and asked for my beads. She won the contest with 23 beads-so she only had 8 to begin with. The 2nd place girl had 12- so basically that trip was mine. I was SOOOO pissed!
I remember another time going to the Irish-American festival in Berea. It was so much fun!! They had Irish dancers, bagpipers, beer tents galore, we drank and ate some Irish food (what it was I have no clue). We looked at the arts and crafts areas, and drank some more.
I always had so much fun on St. Patty's day! It had always been a day to celebrate and have fun and enjoy myself. Am I Irish? NO. I think the last St. Patty's day I celebrated was about 4 years ago. Now-a-days I spend my St. Patty's day watching "Luck of the Irish" on Disney channel with my daughters. I don't KNOW if I could pull off all the partying I used to or all the wild things I did if I tried now, but sometimes I REALLY miss it. Sometimes I REALLY miss those days period. I like to spend time with my kids, but now my oldest will be going to bowling with her friend tonight and my youngest will go to bed at 8:00. SO-I will be watching "Luck of the Irish" solo tonight! Or since I have been so tired at night lately with my daily changes and then working out at night, I might just go to bed early!
Have a great St. Patty's Day-live it up for me.....