5 St Patrick's Day Facts

Ginger at Ginger's Journey issued a challenge to post 5 things about St. Patricks Day, St. Patrick or Ireland.

My 5 facts about this fun Irish celebration are from:

http://holidays.kaboose.com/saint-patricks-day/quick_facts.html

Facts about St. Patrick's Day Holiday

St. Patrick’s Day is observed on March 17 because that is the feast day of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. It is believed that he died on March 17 in the year 461 AD. It is also a worldwide celebration of Irish culture and history. St. Patrick’s Day is a national holiday in Ireland, and a provincial holiday in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

In Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day, people traditionally wear a small bunch of shamrocks on their jackets or caps. Children wear orange, white and green badges, and women and girls wear green ribbons in their hair.

St. Patrick was born in 385 AD somewhere along the west coast of Britain, possibly in the Welsh town of Banwen. At age 16, he was captured and sold into slavery to a sheep farmer. He escaped when he was 22 and spent the next 12 years in a monastery. In his 30s he returned to Ireland as a Christian missionary. He died at Saul in 461 AD and is buried at Downpatrick.

34 million Americans have Irish ancestry, according to the 2003 US Census. That’s almost nine times the population of Ireland, which has 4.1 million people.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the highest number of leaves found on a clover is 14!

Check out the site for more St Patrick's Day facts and fun.

Interesting Reading

I've been reading Steve Pavlina blog at:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog

The following is a quote from his A Better Life entry:

if you want to become a more positive thinker, then imagine yourself as thinking more and more positively – right now in this very moment. Don’t worry about tomorrow or next week. Stay centered in the moment.

This makes sense to me I'm making the intention to follow it.

You Find What You Look For

I have been doing better the last couple of days on my water goal but only because I haven't been feeling good, so drinking more water to help wash my system out.

The thought "You Find What You Look For" popped into my mind today. I've been turning it over and over. I know it's true. But sometimes it's hard to know which way to look.

I actually think it means if you're looking for negative that's what you'll find. If you're looking for postive then that's what you'll find.

Hope to be able to increase my positive finds.

Yucky

The weather has ben pretty the past couple of days. But we haven't been able to enjoy it cause we feel yucky. That's just messed up.

Oh well one day at a time

Croheting

Looking into learning to crochet. Lana shared the below site with me:

http://www.learntocrochet.com/instructions_cr.php3

The ladies at:

http://magicalholidayhome.com/forum/index.php

are very creative and helpful. These 2 sites are full of tips and ideas.

Happiness

A quote to ponder:

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.”

Malcolm S. Forbes

A poem

I want to share a little poem with you.

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't!
If you like to win, but think you can't,
it's almost a cinch that you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you're lost;
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will;
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you're outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself before you can win the prize.
Life's battles don't always goTo the strongest or fastest man,
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can!

by Walter D. Wintle

Rethinking weather goal

Not doing too good on my weather goal to post a weather term each day. Think I might have to rethink that goal.

To be honest, to me, unless there's some kind of weather we need to keep a eye on, just plain old weather is boring lol. No offense to weathermen meant.

So will be posting weather sporadically I guess.

Word for the day

I have a toss up for my word of the day. Not sure if it should be EXHAUSTED or DRAINED.

I'm just so tired today and have so many things on my mind.

Trying to grasp a concept I just read in a email : It's a feel GOOD concept.
It basically says NOT to try to switch your feelings. But to switch your ATTENTION. To something that feels GOOD.

That's all for now.

Change challenge update

As some of you may know I started a change challenge for myself on February 12th.

I have 3 tins. One tin for quarters which are for Christmas. One tin for dimes which are for a upcoming holiday or event. In this case they're for Easter at the moment . One tin for nickels which are for Halloween.

I put the change in the respective tin each day as well as add bills as I have them.

As of today there is:
$5.70 - in the Halloween tin
$20.26 - in the Easter tin
$13.50 - in the Christmas tin

Patting myself on the back because I'm am slowly but surely saving. YAY ME!