Fat Tuesday

I'm continuing a Tuesday theme here, trying to catch up from my recent posts-missed. As you're probably aware, yesterday was also Mardi Gras, although this fact went completely unknown by me until it was almost Wednesday. Although I don't have much to say about Mardi Gras itself, I can't help but point out the fact that I would actually be celebrating this holiday were I to still be living in The Netherlands. All of the exchange students there (which were from all over the globe, not just the States) get together every year to celebrate in the form of some sort of masquerade. Last year, I didn't really know what this was all about and decided to forego the mask itself, donning a more Halloween-ish costume as a young boy scout. Granted, my beard at the time kinda made me look more like a gay boy scout, but whatever... No one really dug my costume, but I'm still wearing the boy scout shirt on occasion here in the States. As a slight point of irony that I just realized, I somehow happened to be wearing my boy scout shirt yesterday despite not knowing that I bought it for Mardi Gras exactly one year before!