We picked up our race packets tonight.  Kaiden runs in her race (Operation Smile Final Mile) tomorrow morning at 10:30 and I run in mine (Shamrock Half Marathon) Sunday morning at 7:00am.  Shamrock Sportsfest has officially begun!

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Today is one of my best friend’s in this world’s birthday and she is now the same age as me.  I have known Nadine since 7th grade and we have been good friends ever since we met.  She is one of the funniest, nicest, most caring people I know.  I cannot tell you how many times her shoulder has carried me through rough spots in my life.  I also cannot tell you how much this person can make me laugh.  I mean really laugh.  I am so proud to be able to call her my friend and am just so happy to be a part of her life.  And what a life it is.  She has an amazing marriage, great kids and and an awesome extended family, a family that I am a part of.  Plus, she lets me take photos with her after nights of drinking like this:

Now that is a true friend.  Some people go their whole lives, never finding good, quality friends - friends that are like family.  I have a couple, Nadine being one of them.  I am lucky.  Happy Birthday Nadine - I love you long time!!!

Now that the kids and I are all settled into the new Condo, this is our view driving home. I love when I round the corner towards home and get to drive through these beautiful trees on both sides of the road. Since today was the first sunny day in a week, it was especially inviting when I drove home for lunch, so I decided to take a photo on my phone. Not to mention I am a HUGE fan of trees in general.

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So I went online to see how much Irish runs in my family in the spirit of St. Patrick’s day and was surprised to see we have more than I thought we did.  Here is the breakdown up through my grandparents and including Todd’s Mother and Grandmother as info for my kids in the future when they want to know what kind of mutts they are:

Scanlon
(My Married Name/Todd’s Last Name)
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Scannláin, ‘descendant of Scannlán’, a personal name formed from a diminutive of Scannal

Sisley
(My Maiden Name/My Dad’s Last Name/My Paternal Grandfather’s Last Name)
English: from the medieval female personal name Sisley, Cecilie (Latin Caecilia, feminine form of the Roman family name Caecilius, originally a derivative of caecus ‘blind’). This was the name of a Roman virgin martyr of the 2nd or 3rd century, who came to be regarded as the patron saint of music.

McVoy
(My Paternal Grandmother’s Maiden Name)
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Bhuidhe ‘son of the yellow-haired man’ (from buidhe ‘yellow’), or Mac Fhíodhbhuidhe ‘son of the woodcutter’ (see McEvoy).

Wallace
(My Mother’s Maiden Name/My Maternal Grandfather’s Last Name)
Northern Irish and Scottish: from Anglo-Norman French waleis ‘Welsh’ (from a Germanic cognate of Old English wealth ‘foreign’), hence an ethnic name for a Welsh speaker. In some cases this clearly denoted an incomer to Scotland from Wales or the Welsh Marches, but it may also have denoted a Welsh-speaking Scot: in western Scotland around Glasgow, the Welsh-speaking Strathclyde Britons survived well into the Middle Ages.

Snyder
(My Maternal Grandmother’s Maiden Name)
Dutch: occupational name for a tailor, from an agent derivative of Middle Dutch sniden ‘to cut’.

Dean
(Todd’s Mother’s Maiden Name)
Irish: Occupational name for the servant of a dean or nickname for someone thought to resemble a dean, variant of Deane.

Teabeau
(Todd’s Maternal Grandmother’s Maiden Name)
French: variant of Thibault, from the Old French personal name Teobaud, Tibaut.

If you had to pay for each thing you have done - how much would you owe?

1. Smoked pot — $10
2. Did acid — $5
3. Ever had sex at church — $25
4. Woke up in the morning and didn’t know who was next to you —$40
5. Had sex with someone you met on Internet — $25
6. Had sex for money — $100
7. Ever had sex with a lover of different ethnic background — $20
8. Vandalized something — $20
9. Had sex on your parents’ bed — $10
10. Beat up someone —$20
11. Been jumped — $10
12. Crossed dressed — $10
13. Given money to stripper — $25
14. Been in love with a stripper — $20
15. Kissed someone who’s name you didn’t know — $10
16. Hit on someone of the same sex while at work — $15
17. Ever drive drunk — $20
18. Ever got drunk at work, or went to work while still drunk —$50
19. Used toys while having sex — $30
20. Got drunk, passed out and don’t remember the night before — $20
21. Went skinny dipping — $5
22. Had sex in a pool — $20
23. Kissed someone of the same sex — $10
24. Had sex with someone of the same sex — $20
25. Cheated on your significant other — $25
26. Masturbated — $5
27. Cheated on your significant other with their relative or close friend -$35
28. Done oral — $15
29. Got oral — $5
30. Done / got oral in a car while it was moving —$25
31. Stole something — $10
32. Had sex with someone in jail — $25
33. Made a naughty home video — $15
34. Had a threesome — $50
35. Had sex in the wild — $20
36. Been in the same room while someone was having sex — $25
37. Stole something worth over more than a hundred dollars — $20
38. Had sex with someone 10 years older — $20
39. Had sex with someone under 21 and you are over 27 — $25
40. Been in love with two people or more at the same time — $50
41. Said you love someone but didn’t mean it — $25
42. Went streaking — $5
43. Went streaking in broad daylight — $15
44. Been arrested — $5
45. Spent time in jail — $15
46. Peed in the pool — $50
47. Played spin the bottle — $5
48. Done something you regret — $20
49. Had sex with your best friend — $20
50. Had sex with someone you work with at work —$25
51. Had anal sex — $80
52. Lied to your mate — $5
53. Lied to your mate about the sex being good — $25