I just placed my order for my first kilt. Whoopie Me!

Ordered a Barleyjuice patterned Philbeg (what's the phoenetic pronunciation of that anyhow?) from USA Kilts. I'm eccstatic. My in-laws came through with the birthday check for me this week. My father was going to, begrudgingly, buy the kilt. But I told him.

"Roy and Dana took care of buying me the kilt, so you don't have to worry about that. You can buy me a pair of manly Doc Marten's to go along with my skirt."

He got a kick out of that. Wrote on the check "not for skirt-buying." But I think he's amused.

He did give me the Irish surnames on his side of the family that I wasn't aware of. The family was a band of horsethieves, so there's not much information on them as they up and dissappeared in the middle of the night on many an occasion.