Leap Day

So I've been doing a little bit of research about customs for today, and I searched deeper into that aspect of women proposing to their men.

According to an old Irish legend, or possibly history, St Bridget struck a deal with St Patrick to allow women to propose to men – and not just the other way around – every 4 years. This is believed to have been introduced to balance the traditional roles of men and women in a similar way to how Leap Day balances the calendar.

In some places, Leap Day has been known as “Bachelors’ Day” for the same reason. A man was expected to pay a penalty, such as a gown or money, if he refused a marriage proposal from a woman on Leap Day. In many European countries, especially in the upper classes of society, tradition dictates that any man who refuses a woman's proposal on February 29 has to buy her 12 pairs of gloves. The intention is that the woman can wear the gloves to hide the embarrassment of not having an engagement ring. During the middle ages there were laws governing this tradition.

SO. Who will be the lucky guy Hannah gets to propose to? After all... I've been running low on gloves.(; Actually, by the time the next leap year rolls around, I would be a legal age to get married so... I could do it!

I decided, today is not like Day Light Savings, where, at the end of the year when you get an additional hour, you always, always, ALWAYS have to give it back in the Spring time when we fall back an hour... So really that's only a borrowed hour. But today... WE DON'T HAVE TO GIVE IT BACK EVER! So what equally special/fun thing could I do today that could be memorable!? Well. I'm not sure. But I think I'll save the marriage thing for later.

One thing that bugs me about today, is that Punxsutawney Phil (THE groundhog) RIPPED US OFF this year by saying we have "6 more weeks of Winter" when REALLY... we have 6 weeks + 1 leap day more of Winter. I think he could work on his honesty a bit and have REMINDED us that "Oh hey guys, it's a leap year this year so you'll get AN EXTRA DAY of winter" ...the thing about groundhogs is that they're smart but mean.

Happy Leap Day!

Shlaire and Me

This post is about some of Shlaire's (Claire) and my adventures.

It started out when she moved in. Our first sleepover was at another friends house, and we got SO tired that we all just crashed on said friend's bed. We woke up early in the morning, and I noted that this stranger (Claire) whom I had just met ...well, we had been cuddling like crazy people. Our legs were intertwined, and i'm pretty sure I was hugging her stomach like a teddybear while her arm was around my head. That, was the start of our beautiful never-gets-boring friendship.


We signed up for EFY together... Which meant we dormed together for 1 week. During that week we spied on boys, drank chocolate milk with EVERY meal, had the counselors next door tell us to be quiet EVERY night, I even woke up one morning and we both gave panicked looks as we realized we had no idea where we were and HOW Claire got in my bed.

Oh, awkward, did I just crop out the dude standing in between us?! Yes. Yes I did.

Now, we spend lonely weekends together looking at pictures of cats and we DIE laughing. Honestly, I would have never found humor in those stupid cats photos or youtube videos unless Shlaire was there. We drink multiple root beer floats without her moms permission... We attempt to be crafty from DIY projects on Pinterest... But those failed attempts always end with us in our man pants sitting on the floor trying to ponder the meaning of life.

Now that we know a little bit more about her and I.... Let's review this last week. No really, we will have spent 6 out of 7 days together this last week (by tomorrow).

this was my story corner/if someone tried to come through the window, my easton bat would protect me.

 

don't be fooled, I actually am wearing pants...

Awkward Photos:

So, this one was SUPPOSED to be good.... But I sneezed right as it took. ...I don't know what Claire's excuse was though

To wrap this up, this picture shows that NO MATTER HOW HARD WE TRY to look good when we first see each other...byt the time we say goodbye, this is about how we look.

So we finally got tuckered out and fell asleep in our 5th fort we made... 2 hours later we woke up to other fire alarm beeping once every minute indicating that the battery was low, and it was so shrill and so loud and ear piercing that we ran inside and fell asleep on my bed.

FOOD:

For breaky I made pancakes with bananas in the middle with chocolate chips on the perimeter with chocolate syrup drizzled on top. Also throughout the week, I've made and eaten yummy little things like German pancakes, caprese salad, chocolate pudding,  and a normal salad that had lots of little bugs in the lettuce that I had to wash for half an hour (yay organic produce bugs...) so that they'd all be gone. As nast as that sounds, it was a pretty fantastic salad.

THE END.