I’m wearing green today, although I don’t know why. I remember as a kid that if you weren’t wearing green you got pinched. Seems so stupid, so why did I choose to wear green on St. Patrick’s Day? Got me.

New York has a big parade, the Chicago River is turned green … why? Why do American’s celebrate the national holiday of Ireland? And just who is Saint Patrick?

According to St-Patricks-Day.com:

Saint Patrick was the patron saint and national apostle of Ireland who is credited with bringing christianity to Ireland.

I put some related links here in case you want more information about this holiday where we wear green (or orange in some places), eat Irish food and drink beer (preferably green beer).

Related:

• Wikipedia’s explaination of St. Patrick’s Day.
• St.-Patricks-Day.com
• stpatricksday.com

Here’s some stuff I’ve been collecting around the Internet that you might find interesting:

• Woot.com — this site is pretty cool although I forget to go there every day. Each day the site offers one product for sale at a reduced price. The item is only offered for that one day, while supplies last.
• Working moms need a wife — found a post on my friend Manny’s blog (AskManny) linking to www.mommytrackd.com where they explain the need for moms to have a wife. (I’d argue that SAHM’s need a wife too!) In Germany, there is a scholarship of sorts for working moms to apply for so they can hire someone to cook and clean their house while they work. Read the “New York Times” article about this here.
• I love Guy Kawasaki and his new site AllTop.com. He loves Moms. I’ve been added to the already awesome list of Mom blogs. Check it out here.
• Yahoo is building a women’s content site that will incorporate blogs and personal home pages. They’ve got a steep road ahead of them, since there are sites like iVillage.com that offer these things to us already. But, more power to Yahoo. I’m excited to see what they come up with.
• Here’s a site to help keep you organized: Take a look at Rememberthemilk.com. It’s a site that helps you manage your tasks and has multiple applications to try.

I’m looking at the household mail after being away for two days:

I open our most recent movie from Blockbuster Online, it’s “Lucky You.”

“Our Blockbuster account is all screwed up,” my husband tells me.

“What do you mean?” I reply.

“Because we’re supposed to get ‘Michael Clayton.’ The other day we got some stupid movie called, ‘Once’ so I sent it back.”

“You did what?”

“I sent it back.”

“Well, I reordered the list the other day. Blockbuster isn’t broken. ”

“Oh.”

“Obviously, you don’t read my blog.”

“Why do you say that?”

“Because, if you read my blog, you’d know that that ’stupid’ movie ‘Once’ contains a song that won best song at the academy Awards. I bloggged about the awesome and inspiring acceptance speeches the singers gave and how they made this ’stupid movie’ for $100,000, three weeks and two video cameras. That’s why.”

“Oh. Sorry.”

Today is an extra day, one we won’t get next year. It’s very strange to me why this occurs so I did a quick search to teach you, my Internet mama’s, why we don’t have a February 29 every year. Here’s what I found:

From Wikipedia:

A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing one or more extra days (or, in case of lunisolar calendars, an extra month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical or seasonal year. For example, February would have 29 days in a leap year instead of the usual 28. Seasons and astronomical events do not repeat at an exact number of full days, so a calendar which had the same number of days in each year would over time drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track. By occasionally inserting (or intercalating) an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year which is not a leap year is called a common

Voted best answer on Yahoo Answers from “Some Guy”

The rotation of the earth around the sun isn’t exactly 365 days. It’s more like 365.25 days therefore our days start to get out of whack if we don’t reset every so often. That’s why every 4 four years we add a day to the year…to make up for that extra 1/4 of day each year. February was just picked because it’s the shortest month.

From Time andDate.com

Leap years are needed to keep our calendar in alignment with the earth’s revolutions around the sun.

Can’t imagine this: “Bride dies during marriage’s first dance.” This is a terribly sad story about a bride who had heart failure during her first dance with her husband. You have to read it … then go hug your spouse.