A St. Patrick's Day to remember!!!

When you hear the words "St Patrick's Day" what is the first thing that comes to mind? 

As the girl beside me in my Marine Biology class says, "NATIONAL GET HAMMERED DAY" is what most people associate with this green holiday. People get all decked out in their green EVERYTHING and party as hard and as long as they can until the wee hours of the morning and pass out from it all.

As many of you may or may  not know...I'm not a drinker. I'm a non working college student who would rather spend my hard earned money on something else, which is exactly what i do..and i dont care what people think of it. Anyway, Ive never been one to do...anything, on St Patrick's Day; but this year was much different. My friends made their plans to go out with others and do their thing, I saw a poster for a movie that was playying in the Rec Center here at school. The movie was Tron, I saw it a few months ago with my older sister and loved it. My friends and I were talking early in the morning the other day about classes, I told them my plans and actually convinced my friends Justina & Cameron to come see it with me. It sounds lame but, I got really excited to have someone to hang out with! 

So as the day went on, and I went from class to class, I decided a movie wasnt going to be complete without snacks :) I went to Target and picked up some Sour Patch Watermelons, Skittles & some Vitamin Water. It was going to be a good night!!  Justina and I made plans to meet at Red Sauce for dinner and head over to the movie after. We got to the rec center and found comfy seats in the front row, it was awesome! The show started and everyone was enjoying it...plus the main character isnt bad to look at ;) As I looked around the room at first I was actually pretty shocked that this was really the way this many people were spending their St Patrick's Day...just like me. The second thing I thought about was how truly lucky I am to have the friends that I do, and I'm proud of the person I have become. The stereotypical college student is seen as a party animal (or social butterfly), outgoing, smoker or drinker...whatever you can think of....but I'm proud to say Im not like that. I dont want to sound all high and mighty because I am the last person to do that; but the truth is, my parents work their butts off to pay for me to come to SCHOOL not a everlasting party. If my mom knew I was using the money that she pays for me to come to school, to spend every night getting drunk and going to class hungover, not only would she be PISSED but all of the work I've done over the years to gain her respect and trust would be gone faster than it came and I respect her WAYYY MORE THAN THAT!! 

Anyway, after the movie ended everyone said they had a great time and I was happy too. We waited for the bus to come for what felt like hours and when it did we were all relieved. We got back to the dorms and immediately went back to our rooms to sleep. 

I've never been one to celebrate St Patrick's Day like I stated before; but this year I put myself out there to do something fun and my friends wanted to come along. Must mean I'm doing something right, right? I had a lot of fun with some amazing friends who definitely made it A ST PATRICK'S DAY TO REMEMBER!!! <3 <3