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Happy birthday to my sweet husband, who turns 28 today :) I usually don't give a whole lot of thought to St. Patrick's day because I celebrate my hubby's birthday instead of the holiday. But I am making him a traditional Irish dinner tonight, so I thought I'd look up what St. Patrick's day actually is. This is from Wikipedia:

Saint Patrick's Day (Irish: Lá ’le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially St. Paddy's Day or Paddy's Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa AD 385–461), one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17.

The day is the national holiday of Ireland. In Canada, Great Britain, Australia, the United States, and New Zealand, it is widely celebrated but is not an official holiday.

St. Patrick's feast day was placed on the universal liturgical calendar in the Catholic Church due to the influence of the Waterford-born Franciscan scholar Luke Wadding in the early part of the 17th century, although the feast day was celebrated in the local Irish church from a much earlier date. St. Patrick's Day is a holy day of obligation for Roman Catholics in Ireland. The feast day usually falls during Lent; if it falls on a Friday of Lent (unless it is Good Friday), the obligation to abstain from eating meat can be lifted by the local bishop. The church calendar avoids the observance of saints' feasts during certain solemnities, moving the saint's day to a time outside those periods. St. Patricks Day is very occasionally affected by this requirement. Thus when March 17 falls during Holy Week, as in 1940 when St. Patrick's Day was observed on April 3 in order to avoid it coinciding with Palm Sunday, and again in 2008, having been observed on 15 March.

More than you ever thought you wanted to know about St. Paddy's day!!!

Craziness!

Why doesn't our administration learn from history?

The Worst Best Man Ever

3 Things

This post is thanks to Melissa :)

Three Names I go by
1. J
2. Hymes
3. Jaymalew

Three Jobs I have had in my life
1. Flower cleaner
2. Barista
3. Marketing/Customer Service/Web Maintenance/anything that comes up Coordinator

Three Places I have lived
1. Jamul, CA
2. Carlsbad, CA
3. Pt. Loma, CA

Three TV Shows that I watch
1. Lipstick Jungle
2. Man vs. Wild
3. Entourage

Three places I have been
1. Madrid, Spain
2. Colorado, US
3. Caribbean, USVI

Three People who email me regularly
1. Mandy
2. Erika
3. Meli

Three favorite foods
1. asparagus, mashed potatoes & filet minon (from Whiskey Creek in Mammoth)
2. French fries
3. Nut thins with cream cheese

Things I am looking forward to
1. East Coast with my hubby in July
2. My hubby being done w/ school and working full time at a div. 1 university!
3. Finishing the Twilight saga

I bet she'll never miss another flight...

Love Quotes

I'm not one of those sappy romantics; I don't like cheesy lovey dovey quotes. But in honor of Valentine's Day, here is a compilation of some of my favorite (non-cheesy) love quotes...

"Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away." -Tom Wilson

"People need loving the most when they deserve it the least." -John Harrigan

"The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves." -Unknown

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." -Anonymous

"Love doesn't give a person what they deserve, but what they need." -Unknown

"We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us." -Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Boba is the BEST!

I was introduced to Boba a couple years ago by my lovely friend Melissa. We went to an asian tea bar in Clairemont and I got a bobalicious tea drink. It was love at first sip. What's there not to love? Tea....Any flavor addition you want....Chewy things in your drink...milk to make a latte if that's your forte....Mmmm. And you drink it all through a big fat straw so you can suck up the tapioca pearls.

Well, lattes and teas are just as expensive at a boba bar as they are at Starbucks, so I started making them myself! I get tapioca pearls at Ranch 99...a whole bag for $1.29! Then I just add them to my hot tea for a nice chewy morning and afternoon snack. I even got fat straws...I think it was like 99 cents for a whole bag of them. I don't add the flavoring, just honey and some almond milk. I'm really just in it for the chewy treats at the bottom. For those of you who have not experienced the world of boba, you may be wondering what the heck I'm talking about! Let me enlighten you...

Bubble tea (or boba tea) is a special tea beverage that originated in Asia in the 1980s. It is a mixture of of iced or hot sweetened tea, milk, and a flavoring - often fruits such as mango, traditional flavors like red bean and taro, or others.

The bubbles in the tea are chewy tapioca pearls that sit at the bottom of the cup. You drink the tea through a super fat straw which allows you to suck up the tapioca balls and chew on them as a treat.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say...

Bubble tea, also called "Boba" tea, is a tea beverage containing gelatinous tapioca pearls. It originated in Taiwan in the 1980s, spread to nearby East Asian countries, and migrated to Canada before spreading to Chinatown in New York, then to various spots throughout the West Coast of the United States. The literal translation from Chinese is pearl milk tea (traditional Chinese: 珍珠奶茶; Tongyong Pinyin: jhenjhu nǎichá; Hanyu Pinyin: zhēnzhū nǎichá). The word "bubble" refers to "bubbling", the process by which certain types of bubble tea are made, and not the actual tapioca balls. The balls are often called "pearls." Drinks with large pearls are consumed along with the beverage through wide straws; while drinks with small pearls are consumed through normal straws. Bubble tea is especially popular in many East Asian and Southeast Asian regions, and more recently popularized in the United States.

Happy boba drinking!

The Dog Park

Chris takes Oslo to the dog park every morning. He's such a great daddy! But this weekend Chris was sick, so I took him. I do enjoy going to the dog park every now and then. I enjoy it more on the weekend than during the week...if I go during the week I have to go right when I get home from work because it gets dark so darn early now. I like to enjoy being home for a bit before running off again...so I usually just walk him around our condo complex instead of going to the park.

I digress. Yesterday I stepped in dog poo at the park. I'm usually good at watching out for it, but wouldn't you know, I had it on BOTH of my shoes. I didn't realize it until I got in the car...the small space concentrated the smell. At first I thought it was Oslo, but then realized it was my shoes. WHY is it so hard for people to pick up after their dogs?! Why can't you watch them to see when they DO poo and go pick it up?! I see people's dogs pooping all the time, and their owner is no where to be found...they have no idea their dog is doing its duty. Maybe it's just me (and Chris), but we know when to expect Oslo to do his duty and watch for it. Sometimes he does it 2-3 times (and now I carry three bags with me!) I just don't understand why it's so hard to watch your dog and pick up after it.

/end rant.

That was kinda fun talking about poo for two paragraphs :) Well, I guess the poo talk was really just one paragraph. It was fun nonetheless.