they got to Patrick too?

Motivation:

on the mp3 during today's run:

Something To Lose by Scot Ninnemann

You'd rather hurt right now for certain, Than maybe live in fear of pain

And so you tie yourself to the tracks, Cause you don't think you can dodge the train

How can you keep going, Resigned to cruel fate

Like life was one big trap that's set With happiness as bait?

If you keep seeking nothing - Nothing's just what you'll find

A whole world waits for you to love it, If you decide to change your mind

listen to the entire song here: http://www.scotjohn.com/plans.html

It is one of my more favorite songs. It used to be a melancholy, painful song, but actually is a motivational songs for the "2006 Challenge".

Diary:

D: pepperoni, turky and swiss pita sandwich, ramen soup
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B: eggs and sausage
S: protien bar
L: chicken, peas & tomato - mixed greens - leftover eggs
S: celery & peanut butter, orange, (beer)
G: elliptical 1.91 miles, 377+ calories, walk 1 mile

Notes:

Some 1,500 years ago a teenage boy from what is now Great Britain was kidnapped and enslaved by marauders from Ireland. The teenager they captured eventually escaped, but returned voluntarily some years later. He had become convinced that he was handpicked by God to convert the entire country to Christianity. And neither Ireland nor Christianity was ever quite the same.

However, we don't know much about St. Patrick.

• Who, REALLY, is this man we affectionately call St. Patrick?
• What do we REALLY know about St. Patrick?
• Is Patrick just a jolly, harmless, friendly fellow?

Previously, we established the peculiar fact that today’s "Pat" and Saint Patrick are not the same. They never have been. The moodern day "Pat" cartoon is dressed in a green suit, shamrocks, short, burly and obese. The legends of Saint Patrick portrayed a thin, tall, neatly dressed man in religious apparel. You could not possibly find two different characters. This discrepency is called out in the famous poem that is read in most homes on St. Patrick's Day:

He was dressed all in green, from his head to his toes,

And his clothes bright emerald with shamrock and clover;

A six pack of Guiness he had flung on his back,

And he looked like a leprechaun just opening his pack.

He appears to have thought of something you do not know,

He was chasing a pot-o-gold at the end of the rainbow;
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,

And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;

He had a broad face and a little round belly,

That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf. . . .

Wait, I think the end of that poem is familiar somehow.

I don't think we have a holiday that doesn't involve some sort of food item. Here is my list.

• New Year's Day - drinking
• Valentine's Day - candy and chocolate
• Washington's Birthday - apples
• St. Patrick's Day - beer, cabbage and corned beef (even though I could go on about how Corned Beef was really a Jewish dish, and didn't have anything to do with St. Patrick, was introduced in Boston, and mostly is consumed in the USA)
• Independence Day - beer, grilled meats
• Halloween - candy
• Thanksgiving Day - turkey, stuffing, mashed potato, green beans, you name it
• Christmas Day - ham, cookies

more later..

Chazz