Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh! (Happy St. Patrick's Day!)

I love the Irish. One of my major dreams is that somehow I become an old Irish sheep Herder who's goes around in wellies saying "Och, lassie, that wilna do!" or something like that. Hey, a girl can dream! Now, that I've revealed a strange, but true, fantasy I think I'll just pretend I never it said it and I'll just move on...

Yay! It's here! It's St. Patty's day! And before we begin the festivities I have to make you sure you are wearing something green or something related to Ireland. We had this discussion on Valentines day, please respect the holiday and wear appropriate attire. It's really shouldn't be that hard, socks and underwear to count. Okay, so now that you've all returned your closets and put on something green I think we can continue.

I started the day with a St. Patty's day breakfast, pancakes, sausage, and a 'pot of gold'. Heck, I'd take a bowl of perfectly ripe mango over a pot of gold any day! I enjoyed my brekkie while watching the St. Patrick's Day Ellen DeGeneres show. I love that girl, she makes me laugh...especially when she attempts Irish dancing with a fake blond curly wig. Heeheehahahoho!

On to the sweet stuff! I made two treats this St. Patty's day, one was cake balls:

Are those not the cutest things! This was my second attempt at cake balls, my first was at Christmas when I made ones shaped like Santa hats, for some strange reason I didn't take a picture of them! Oops! Well, you'll have to wait till next year.

I also made some Shamrock cookies:

And yes, those are green hearts. What do hearts have to do with St. Patty's day, you ask? Well, I love St. Patty's day and I LOVE heart shaped things. Enough said.

I sent some cake balls with Tracy when she went home this week and I dropped the remaining off at the school for my favorite (and only) librarians.

I ended the day with Potato and Leek soup and Italian Potato bread that I pretended was Irish Potato bread!

I hope all you lads and lassies enjoyed your St. Patty's day! Hopefully I'll be back in a few years for St. Patty's day so I can whip you all into shape!

Éire go Brách! (Ireland Forever!)

P.S. I would just like to note that I spoke to Annie Rose and Kirsten today and they were both in proper St. Patty's day attire. Way to go girls!

Happy Sunday!

Wow, it's Sunday again. Did you know that I have had 27 Sundays since moving here? When I say it like that it doesn't seem like that long of a time! I'm writing to say that I have unofficially finished my 1st year of school! I do still have do a course this summer to make up for what I'm missing when I go to Italy. But that's not the point, I finished my first year of college! Yipee! I now have 2 weeks off before jumping on a plane and heading to Italy! Yipee! Ah, Sundays are good, the potatoes I have roasting in the oven are going to be good, and life is good!
I'll be back with some more posts this week, and hey, it's St. Patty's day on Tuesday, you know there will be something about that posted!

Yoga with Rodney Yee (and Tracy)

Tonight I tried out one of Tracy's yoga videos. I have been doing some different videos and decided to shake things up tonight and try out Rodney Yee's yoga video. Because Tracy is sick she just sat on the couch doing homework while I did yoga. It works out pretty well having her sitting there because points out things I miss, like "oh, flex your foot, that's what Rodney's doing". She's a handy yoga coach. Except when she is reduced to giggles at the sight of Rodney Yee's, ah, well, thingy. Rodney doesn't wear much in his videos. Let me illustrate:Yup, that's it. So there I am trying to be relaxed and peaceful but keep getting interrupted by Tracy giggling and then saying something like "on the balls of your feet, hahaha, balls!" or making comments like "he should really invest in a codpiece". Oh, it was relaxing! Just thought I'd let you know what kind of whack job I'm living with. Ha!
She's still giggling...maybe it wasn't really Rodney Yee..maybe it was the Buckely's she's been chugging back. No. No, it can't be the Buckley's, I think it's just her.

Corndogs.

My mom has NEVER bought corn dogs for me or my brothers. I had never eaten one until I was about 15 or 16. I didn't like them and I don't like them. Tracy and I made 36 corn dogs last night. They were mini, but there was still 36 of them. It all happened because I was doing my daily blog watch when I happened upon someone who had made homemade corn dogs. I mentioned it casually to Tracy's sons who were in the living room with me, they immediately asked to have them for supper. Now, it may seem to some people that making 36 corn dogs is kinda like slave labour...especially for two ungrateful whelps...but I have to say I quite enjoyed it. I miss cooking for more than two people...I miss cooking for my family. Okay, back to corn dogs. They turned out great, well, as great a hot dog dipped in cornbread batter and fried tastes. I thought they were really cute....especially with a squiggle of heart shaped ketchup:

And of course I had to try one....

..and now that I've done it I won't ever have to eat one again!

It's spring, gosh darn it!

So why is there ice on the trees!?!?!?
I find these first few weeks of March to be some of the toughest in the year. Even though spring doesn't technically start till March 21st as soon as March 1st hits winter is over for me...even if there is a -18 windchill!

It's is kinda gorgeous though, isn't it?

Cupcakes are SO fun...and purty!

Tracy's sons are over for the week while on spring break and we have been enjoying having the testosterone....for the most part! We decided we'd make cupcakes at some point during the week because, while we probably could eat 16 cupcakes between the two of us we thought it safer to make them with two boys around to eat them up. So, tonight we tackled the cupcakes and wow are they ever gorgeous.

Here's what we started with:

And look what we created:

I love it! And while there was so moaning and groaning from the guys about decorating cupcakes I'm pretty sure they had a good time, I mean really, who doesn't like decorating cupcakes!

I can't wait for the St. Patty's Day Shamrock cookies!

How you know you have the best roommate ever:

She puts a Tinkerbell sticker on your bedroom door when you aren't looking.