UPDATE: Parade Day

Parade Day was so  much fun!!  Unfortunately I didn't take a single picture (gasp!).  But here's a quick run down of the day:

Went to my friends' apartment and ate and started drinking.  We got there at 11:00am.  From there we walked down to where the parade was.  We wanted to use the bathroom  before we went so my friend  (whose apartment it was) and a group of her friends went before us so we were going to meet them.  It was so crowded by the parade that we gave up trying to meet them so we popped into a bar for some drink and to use the bathroom (again! it's going to be a theme).  At this point of the day it's all blending together.  At one point me and Partner and Suska went to a bar to dance.  This was the point Suska stayed with her friends and me and Partner went to meet some of my friends.  Eventually - after much distraction -  we made it the bar where my friends were suppose to be.  I say suppose to be because they were not there.  So Partner and I had some drinks and ate some food and decided to call it a day.   It was like 6:30-ish.  Yay me! I made it all day!!  This was exciting because there was one year when I had to be taken home by 3:00.  It was not my proudest moment.  But oh no, this year I made it. All. Day. Long.  

But we still had to walk to my place.  We stopped for a Shamrock Shake and wandered on home.  Then we "watched" the first episode of Walking Dead.  I say "watched" because Partner may have, perhaps, snoozed through it.  She woke up and then we watched a movie.  She went home and I was in bed by 11pm.  

Needless to say I woke up on Sunday feeling so good. Yay for Parade Day!!

UPDATE:  I did take a picture!  I was uploading some other pictures to my computer and I saw one from Parade Day.  I honestly don't remember taking it, so you know it was a good day.

I didn't ask her if I could post her pic

It's almost here!!

Parade Day is tomorrow!!!  The predicted weather couldn't be better.  It's suppose to be upper 60s and sunny. That's perfect outside, day drinking weather.  Because I live in Upstate New York the weather is always a concern.  One year is was snowing so bad the parade was postponed for an hour-ish.  Another year was 60s and sunny.  Other years it has rained.  So planning my Parade Day Outfit is tricky.  It's kinda like Halloween; you want to be weather appropriate/practical, but you want to people to see your green.   It's always tough, but luckily I'm a fan of vests (which AI just doesn't get).  

Last year I got crafty and made a can coolie.  The picture is a little dark but I think you can see it well enough.  I made it through all of Parade Day and all of actually St. Patrick's Day.  But I set it down when I paid my tab and left it.  My friend was still there but he didn't get our texts 'til he left.

This year I decided to go big or go home.   That's right.  That's a travel mug!  It only cost $1, so when (not if) I lose it, it'll be ok.  This girl doesn't mess around.  

There was so much more I wanted to write about today but BabyGirl has been BabyDemon this week and I started this post this morning but couldn't actually finish it 'til like 7:30pm.  Darn babies always being so needy!!

The face smashing incident of 2005

A little back story for you:

My first job out of college was in a residential treatment facility.  Basically it was a home for teenage girls.  They had been removed from their homes for whatever reason (parental neglect, their own behavior etc) and they lived where I worked; it was a "therapeutic environment."

As part of our job, we were trained to therapeutically restrain them.  So let me ask you a question:  If you and all your friends knew how to wrestle each other to the ground in a way that would not hurt, what would you do when you all were drinking? If you answered "take each other down" then you and I would be great friends. So we often tried to take someone down who was least expecting it.  And I am the smallest and weakest of my friends so it usually was me.  And I should probably let you know that we often  in public places when this happened.

So, here we are, St Patrick's Day 2005-ish.  My friend and I, for some reason, decided to show a guy (a stranger) how we would/could "take him down."

 Bless my friends who are always camera ready.

If you look closely at the first picture you can clearly see my face hitting the wall behind us (it was my chin and I was actually fine-thanks for asking).  I still maintain that I didn't we were actually going to take him down, I thought we were just showing him how we "would do it."  And my friend always likes to point out that she has perfect form.   

I mean look how close we were to the wall and the dart board, what on Earth were we thinking?  Which is why I will defend myself until the day I die. 

 We weren't really going to take him down, do you hear me!?

St. Patty's Post #1

I tend to get a little rambunctious when I've been day drinking and especially on Parade Day.

This is from last year.  This is the kind of crap I do.  I don't know him but I did stop to hand him an extra St. Patrick's Day button that I had.   I asked for a picture and he's the one that put his hat on me.  I would like you to remember that I'm probably pretty drunk in this picture.  

This is why I love Parade Day.

Sometimes the star align

St Patrick's Day is on Saturday this year!  St. Patrick's is by far my favorite holiday.  I love that it can be an adult holiday while equally being a child's holiday.  Leprechauns?  Totally for kids.  Drinking all day?  Totally for adults. Every year I taught preschool, Lucky the Leprechaun came and played shenanigans on us and left us little treats.  Last year he left the boys' tattoos and pins and gold coins.  He even turned the potty water green!!!  (helpful hint: put it in the back tank so it's clear until it gets flushed...super magic!).

 I'm  not sure about the cities y'all live in, but Rochester has a St. Patrick's Day Parade.  It's usually the Saturday before St. Patty's day, but this year, oh boy, it's **on**  St. Patty's Day!!

I have been doing Parade Day (as me and my friends call it) for several years.  We usually start drinking at roughly 11ish and sometime stumble wander down to the parade route and "watch" the parade.  Then we sometimes go to the bars, which I have been slowly losing interest in.  We have to wait in line to get in and then we have to wait in line a ridiculously long time to wait for the bathroom.  We usually end up spending most of the time in some sort of line.  I would rather just hang out at someone's house longer and play games and drink and eat then fight a crowd at the bar.  I guess it's a sign I'm getting old maturing.

This year because it's on a Saturday there has been serious change in strategy.  I want to actually make it out at night and not be home by 6.  So I think this year we are hanging out a bit, watching the parade and then going back to my friends' place to drink and eat more then walking to some bars later in the day.

I'm really excited about it!!  And in honor of St. Patty's Day, starting March 1st, I'm going to post a pic/story everyday days I actually post.  You may not care at all, but I get really excited about Parade Day and this only fuels my fire.  So buckle up.