St. Patty's Day...a Two Week Adventure

It has been a busy month, y'all!  I have sat down and tried to write this post for over two weeks and have kept getting interrupted.  But it's all good, I love being busy!  I started decorating my house for St. Patrick's this year an entire month ago, pretty much right after Valentine's decorations came down.  Here's what it looks like!

Shamrock lights from Target, over sized green tea lights from Ikea, and my monogrammed Julep cups filled with (fake, don't judge) green and white hydrangeas.   

Banner that I found via Pinterest from TomKat Studios.  Check out her website for tons of cute party supplies, ideas, and printables.  These were free!  Yay!

More fun framed printables from TomKat!  I thought these turned out especially cute!

Table top display with matching Irish place mats and napkins (Homegoods, y'all, I heart that place!).  The delightfully tacky milk glass candle holders I found at a Peddler's Mall in Louisville.  I bought them for the Mad Men party I'm throwing in April, but they seemed to work well with this decor.  Plus, I have no idea where my crystal candle holders are.  Oops.  I'm guessing the garage, but we'll never really know until I tackle that project this spring when I hold a yard sale.  Something's gotta give with that damn garage, I can't even get my car in there right not. I don't even wanna talk about it...

See, delightfully tacky, right?!?  No, just plain tacky?  Whatevs, I kinda love them.  There are green tea lights in those glass vases, but you can't really see them.  I wasn't especially thrilled with how that turned out.

Also from the Peddler's Mall, vintage (and by vintage, I mean gar-bage) green dessert glasses.  These are also for the Mad Men party, but fit in with the green theme.

And now let's get to the fun part!  The drinking!  I met my roommates from college in Louisville for the St. Patrick's Day parade the weekend before St. Patty's.  This first pic is the three of us at Alison's parent's place where we watched UK beat Florida!  Yay!  A whole lot of good that did us, but I digress.

BW3's for some quick food after the parade.

O'Shea's?  Flanagan's? Molly Malone's?  Who knows, at this point?

They don't know either.

I know this was taken at Molly Malone's.  Looks like we're having a good time.  Either that or I'm doing my best at a Gene Simmons impression...

Parade floats, err, trucks.

And no parade is complete without the Ghost Busters.  Wait, what?  Yeah, I'm just gonna go ahead and let that one slide...  Who ya' gonna call???

The following weekend, the actual St. Patty's weekend, I went up to Indy for a wedding and to visit with some of my favorite Hoosier fans.  Let me just tell you that being in Indy on the weekend of the SEC and Big Ten conference tourneys was a bit difficult.  But let's not discuss our embarrassingly bad loss to Vandy, or the fact that we didn't even make the NCAA tournament at all.  I can't, I just can't.   Let's recap some of the shenanigans that went down in Indy.

Some bar.  Yeah, I don't know the names of half the places we went to.  It smelled bad, had cheap drinks, and was overall awesome.  There's nothing better than a stinky, wooden walled bar, in my opinion.

Please note the look of discontent with "Gabe Carlson's" endearing embrace.  Also please note that I'm wearing blue in addition to my green.  You can take the girl out of Kentucky, but you can't take the Kentucky out of the girl.  I had an ex use that as one of his reasons for dumping me.  Swear to God.  He wasn't wrong, though.

I'm not even going to try to explain this.  All I know is that I had a great time.  I think everyone else did, too.

Finally back home in Lex Vegas, I enjoyed a green beer at my favorite bar, that just happens to be an Irish one.  I literally had one beer and went home and parked my ass on the couch for the rest of the evening.  I love a good weekend of celebrating, but I was worn out.  I just don't have the energy I did when I was in my twenties.  C'est la vie!

For now, I don't have a thing to do until Thursday and I can't wait to be lazy and catch up on some of my favorite TV shows.  DANGER ZONE!  Ok, I'm out.  Until next time, homies.