My mother was relentlessly adamant that one say "polishing" one's nails rather than "painting" them. You could almost hear her teeth clamp together if someone said the latter.
Yesterday, I polished my nails in recognition of today:
This is the only way anyone will know I am sporting green today, as it is a cold, windy, rainy, stay-inside-and-knit-and-read St. Patrick's Day in Northeast Georgia.
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