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My brother woke me with a phone call this morning.

him: Happy St Patricks Day
me: MMmmm, yeah, you too.
~silence~

"Happy St Patricks Day" is something of a loaded phrase for we two new orphans. If everything had run according to plan, this St Patricks' evening we would have been enjoying a whopper of a party with a bunch of family and old friends at the Buderim Heads Golf Club, in Australia. Now, we may have some Irish blood, but we're not so Irish as to fly people in from all over for a party.... so, no. It wasn't to be a St Patricks celebration.

The special occasion?

Our fathers 70th birthday. Yes, the Hugh-man would have been 70 today. Happy birthday Dad, wherever you may be floating around in the ether. I miss you.

And Happy St Patricks Day to the rest of you, from an exceptionally windy Tokyo.

frangipani wrote this on March 17, 2006 10:12 AM

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MissSin said:

i always think it's weird how one day for one person means something completely different to another.
St Patricks Day always means Guinness and chasing Irishmen.

I guess it's not really odd.
It's just that there are some days that are pretty universal - like New Year's Day or Valentine's Day - but then there's all those other days.

and then we get new days to add to our collection of days - some good, some bad.
and then some days change.

and i think i am beginning to ramble.

*enough*

On March 22, 2006 7:34 PM,

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