I awakened this morning at 6:30 and thought it was Monday. I called to Sean and he didn’t answer so I called him on the phone. When he picked up, I told him that it was 630 so he should get ready for school. He told me it was Sunday. Oops! Since I was already awake, I checked my alerts on Facebook. There was a post that cited the 17 songs you have to hear on St. Patrick’s Day.
What?! There was no U2! That is preposterous! I have always had a strange relationship with Ireland/ being Irish. I want to be though! I am not Irish! I am Mexican! However, my son’s name is Sean. He is half Polish but when his dad told me that he thought Sean would be a good name, I told them that it had to be spelled the way it is spelled now.
As my Mom and I finally got our routine going for the day, I asked her what we should listen to. She told me that I could choos. Because it is St. Patrick’s Day, I chose the two U2 songs that she can tolerate:
When we got sick of listening to this song over and over again, I chose another one:
I kept telling her, “Well, it IS St. Patrick’s Day!“ Ever since I was young, I wanted red hair. My Mom’s friend’s daughter had red hair and I thought that was really cool! My Mom‘s friend told me if I ate a lot of tomatoes that I would get red hair. Well, I ate tons and wouldn’t you know, I still do NOT have red hair! I can’t stand tomatoes now!
Sean’s friends will ask him if he is Irish and he just says, “No, my mom is just weird!“ He spells his name in the proper Gaelic spelling and I remember that being hard for him to understand when he was learning his letter sounds and couldn’t understand why his name was spelled with an S and an E instead of SH. I told him that it was a different language but I started telling my colleagues that I must’ve been Irish in my past life.
I am Catholic and do not believe in past lives but I’ve decided that I was Irish, had long red hair, and was a dancer. Sean was young when The Disney movie, Bravecame out and we went to see it in the movies mostly because I wanted to see it. I liked seeing the character of Merida but was unsure of her hair.
I always pictured my hair like the woman from Riverfance that I saw on TV so many years ago.
I have since come up with an elaborate story of my Irish past life and my name was Bridget. But I always thought it was spelled like, Bridgette. I have already watched Laws of Attraction , the movie with Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore (a redhead) which is set in part in Ireland.
And probably will watch Leap Year with Amy Adams (also a redhead) n a little while. Because it IS St. Patrick’s day! Even though I am not going out drinking today, I am wearing green in my old Eagles Super Bowl Champion shirt. (I don’t have much green to choose from).
I thought for sure I U2 song would be on the list of songs you have to listen to on St. Patrick’s Day! Any of the songs would be OK! I think I just love the Irish accents and red headed people! I’ve thought about that and my elaborate Irish past life a lot today, because it IS St. Patrick’s Day!