St Patty's Day Party 2007

Wow. Dane and I had a BLAST this weekend but I'm sure we'll be feeling the effects for days. We are getting too old to party like that. But, now we can say that we opened a bar at 6am and stayed for 12 hours! That's right - we got to the bar at the ripe time of 5:45 in the morning and stayed till just before 6 pm. At that point we stumbled to our hotel, adorned in St Patty Day schwag and "meeaahh"ing like HG's cat Oscar. We took a 4 hour nap then got up and headed out to another party that we stayed at till just after 3. Then it was time to cab it back to the hotel and retire for the second time. By the time we got to bed, we had been up for 24 hours (save our 4 hour nap). When we got up this morning it was all we could do to make it home and back to bed. We spent all day today in bed watching movies and recovering from our little stint.

Surgery update: have some issues going on with the surgery. I'm on weekly watch by the doctor to see how stuff goes. My scar is being stubborn to heal and there are some other issues going on. :-( So far nothing to be overly concerned about, but I am worried a little bit. I'm now 5 weeks post op and I was expecting to be free of my garment and able to exercise. I've been put on exercise restriction again so I need to go back to counting calories. ESPECIALLY after this weekend. I don't even want to know how many calories I consumed.

Work is going well. We had a retreat on Friday and I was practically moved to tears with how cohesive and special the TH group of people are. Everyone cares for each other and is extremely supportive. The CEO is great - I love how she approaches running the business and free thought. I was amazed at everything I saw.

School is also going well. I'm going to use this week to catch up on reading since the homework is light. I may also get a jumpstart on my individual homework due. So far I have an A in this class and I got an A in the last class. Go me!

Odds and ends: This weekend I'm going to Portland to train for work and meet with Zac. It will be so much fun to hang out with him and learn about what he's been doing the last 14 years. I have a lot to do around the house though so I'm hoping I can get it all done before the weekend.

To do: size the wedding bands, go to Victoria's Secret, go to Trendy Wendy and The Metro, meet with the team, laundry for days, pick up around the house, grocery shopping, TSA letters, talk to HG about CdA, 3-day post/email, homework and postings.

Patty's Day Pictorial:

First thing in the morning.

After the shots of Jameson, which had safety strings on the shot glasses which made for great cow bells (or ka-honnies) the rest of the afternoon.

This guy was also there since 6am. As you can see I've picked up a hat from the "dirty" Guiness guys. What you don't see is my "I kissed a dirty old Irish man" button, my Guiness tee-shirt, and Guiness butane lighter. I was their little recruiter and got a gift for every gaggle of girls I brought to them. :-)

This was towards the end of our stay at Fado. We were feeling pretty good by this time.