Friday, March 17, 2006

I'm almost Irish. An ode to my Mister

Happy St. Patrick's Day!
My mister and I are driving six hours to visit my ma and pop today. This is how Irish my guy is...First he all out rejected the idea of leaving on such a holiday, "how can we be driving out of town on St. Patrick's Day?" he said. Well, that wasn't the end of it. He continued, "There are a lot of parties I need to go to." Right. "Working Parties" no doubt. Here's how that conversation ended with the lady, i made a suggestion and we made a compromise. He gets to hit up a few battle cruisers (boozer otherwise known as pub), knock back some Guinness, enjoy some soul music irish style; Then, at last, he'll come home to the missus having folded and packed clean underwear for the trip. i'll drive (and drive and drive)...all the meanwhile rocking out to something wonderfully nostalgic like Tommy P, Willie or Frog Holler. Those songs make you just want to get on a horse and ride in a prairie. really. Then once the mister is fast asleep - i make a mad dash to the lame girl music that i secretly love, you know what i'm talkin about ladies. i'm talkin some serious Alison Krause or Tori Amos (gasp!). I might even cap it off with some 80’s power ballads. I don’t know if I’ll have time. As a rule of thumb, he starts getting fitful during the third repeat of steve nicks “rooms on fire”.

Hope everyone has a great day. Drink a green beer, or some green water at very least. Get in the Irish spirit and don’t forget to pinch your neighbor if they’re wearing red (I always hated that stupid rule. There was always the one boy who pretended he thought the rule was to kiss your neighbor and I fell victim to him a few times).

Spoken like the almost Irish woman that I am (almost)…
Imeacht gan teacht ort.
No no! Oops, wrong one. That means: May you leave without returning.

Is fear rith maith ná drochsheasamh.
A good run is better than a bad stand.

Missus O

5 Comments:

Blogger liz said...

You'll have to have a green one for me at Smitty's Barrel!

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Blogger Missus O said...

ha! went to hogans and it was great. smoke free now finally. lovin it.

1:47 PM  
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