When I was 14, I battled the elements walking with the rest of my grammar school cheerleading squad in the rainy San Francisco St. Patrick’s Day parade in a hooded green garbage bag-esque “raincoat.” Not cute. From that experience, I learned that rain and Aqua Net hairspray do not mix.

I’ve since made up for the lack of merriment I had that St. Paddy’s Day by dressing in green, applying temporary “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” tattoos, and hanging out with friends in the annual celebration of all things Irish. (Last year, we scored our temp tattoos from a trio of green-bearded “little people” walking down the streets of San Francisco’s Little Italy. Talk about gold!) In my Kiss Me, I’m Irish! Green Things for Girls and St. Patrick’s Day Stuff for Guys shopper’s guides, I’ve found lots of cute/funny green shirts, leprechaun costumes, and glittery shamrocky stuff for you to sport on March 17^th. Get pumped, it’s coming up!

Does this sound like you?: You wake up and jump out of your blah wood bed in your boring plaid pj’s and eat boring, circular sunnyside up eggs every morning, carefully dabbing at egg on your chin with a white cloth napkin. You run out the door, but not before grabbing your practical black umbrella from your 40-year old wood coatrack.

Um… HELLO, can your life get any more boring and blah?? I want to help you fight those blahsy boring everydaynesses with some shots of Quirky and Fun and Humorous! Eat your gun-shaped fried eggs and wash it down with your mustache-y pint of OJ! Get a view of a relatively clear blue sky under your umbrella while singing in the rain! Water your favorite orchid with a water IV pot! I know, I know… -and you know it, too!- that it would be Awesome!

Not only would your life improve*, but your friends would also come by a lot more often! Just to be amused and awed by your necktie napkins or your conversation starter, elegant popmat placemats.

I have some more quirkified everyday objects on my guide to all things fun and humorous at Quirky Versions of Everyday Things for your contined amusement. The moose butt trophy hanger makes me laugh EVERY TIME. Enjoy!

* Life improving is not actually guaranteed, but, really, how could it not?
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