JUST ONE YEAR SHORT OF '30 YEARS AGO'

 

I sure did host a ton of holidays when I was younger..."Little Man" (sitting on my lap) was just 28 months old back then...It was Easter of 1996...

After hosting 68+ holiday events, I am soooo ready to pass the torch for good!!

CAN'T LET THIS MARCH DAY GO BY WITHOUT SAYING...

                                                   

                                                   

Have fun in Savannah, as well !!! 

CHANNELING MR. McCOURT TODAY !!

                           

"The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith, and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland, and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.”    ― Frank McCourt

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”   ― Frank McCourt

“After a full belly all is poetry.”

― Frank McCourt

“Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.”
― Frank McCourt

“People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years ...  Above all, we were wet.”

― Frank McCourt

When I first went up to see my editor, I was with my agent, and my editor said, 'Well, what have you been doing all these years?' And my agent said, 'He's been in recovery... From his childhood.'

- Frank McCourt

Oh, the travails of being Irish !!!

NOT ALL THAT LONG AGO...

                                      You looked forward to celebrating your birthday at an Escape Room !!

   But, as they say in the 'Gamer's World', you've levelled up

    

XOXOX for NOW and forever !!

[ YES, I'LL SECOND THAT! ]

            Ruled by the number 6, with a combined influence of Venus and Uranus

                                                     

Those born on this mid-winter day of 2-15 share their 'birth anniversary' with renowned notables such as Cyrus McCormick, Jane Seymour, Galileo Galilei, Matt Groening, and Susan B. Anthony. What's more, did you know that February 15th individuals find it perfectly natural and commonplace to regularly think "creatively"? In addition, they are usually less threatened [i.e., than most other people are] when faced with complex challenges, intricate problems, and/or thorny predicaments.

                             

Furthermore, it's a long and well-recognized fact: February 15^th folks are very intellectually curious and repetitively whet their innate analytical talents. Yes, I'll second that!! They are 'high empaths', as well, and thus feel another's pain more intensely than [does] the average person. These individuals also adore the unfettered delight of roaming free, thinking as they wish, investigating natural history, and allowing their fertile minds to explore ALL of the assorted wonders of the world in which they find themselves...[AMEN TO THAT, too] !

And, yes, I know the above details are 'spot on' because I'm blessed to be a member of the 2-15 tribe...