1. Dress head-to-toe in green
2. Watch Darby O'Gill & the Little People
3. Say the Irish blessing
4. Listen to Flogging Molly
5. Speak with an Irish accent
6. Drink Guinness and/or green beer
7. Party it up all night long in Argentina
8. Give someone you love a Claddagh ring
9. Go to Birmingham to see the longest St. Patrick's Day parade in Britain
10. Wear a "Kiss me, I'm Irish" pin
11. Learn to play the fiddle
12. Kiss the Blarney stone
13. Go to Manchester for the two-day St. Patrick's Day festival
14. Make some Celtic knot jewelry
15. Go to an Irish pub with a band
16. Plant peas
17. Wear the Celtic cross
18. Learn how to jig
20. Set a leprechaun trap (I suggest using Werther's candy or fool's gold as bait)
21. Check out the parade in New York City
22. Go to Dublin!
23. Watch America play rugby against Ireland for the St. Patrick's Day Test
24. Drink some high quality Irish whiskey
25. Watch a documentary on banshees
26. Wear a kilt
27. Learn a few key Gaeilge phrases
28. Find a four-leaf clover
29. Run as fast as you can towards the end of a rainbow
30. Have "Top o' the mornin' to ya!" be the first thing you say that day
31. Pinch someone not wearing green
32. Check out the Chicago river dyed green just for the occasion
33. Be extraordinarily superstitious
34. Eat Lucky Charms
35. Learn something new about the man that started it all, St. Patrick!
I've done 13. (14 if you count the plaid skirts we wore in high school as "kilts" lol)
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