Helmets and facial deformities and infant chiropractic adjustments, oh my. I am gripped—GRIPPED I SAY—by a strong desire to change the subject, so . . . hey, do you have plans for Easter, or as my brother-in-law calls it, Jesus Comin’ Out of a Hole Day? JB’s parents are visiting for the weekend and I suddenly realized that JCOOAHD is this Sunday, holy (har!) crap, and I don’t have any bucolic family activities planned. No feasting on spring lamb or traipsing gaily through the (presumably dogshit-free) backyard in search of colorful eggs. We haven’t described the Easter bunny to Riley nor have we put together a basket of goodies for him, which I consider an EPIC FAILURE on my part because I may be a godless heathen but I do believe in a kid’s right to gnaw on chocolate deities a few times a year.

Maybe we’ll just rent Donnie Darko and have him watch it with us. What, it features a rabbit.

Oh, not really. I bet I end up running to the store tomorrow afternoon and buying Riley a basket full of random crap (”Here, have a D-sized battery!”) and some cellophane grass which the cat will probably choke on. And hopefully so, because I have decided that a 4 AM wakeup call from someone other than Dylan is currently punishable by DEATH.

What do your weekend plans include?

Comments

67 Responses to “JCOOAHD”

  1. Swistle on March 21st, 2008 8:58 am

    We didn’t do anything Easterish until our oldest was 3 years old. Well, okay, _I_ ate Easter candy, but we didn’t do anything specifically on Easter.

    But now we have an annual egg hunt, and an annual Easter pie. We hide plastic eggs, we color actual real hardboiled eggs, and we fill a couple of Easter baskets with Good Candy for the adults to eat while we sit around watching the kids hunt and/or fight about who saw the egg first.

  2. warcrygirl on March 21st, 2008 9:01 am

    Jesus didn’t come out of a hole, he came out of a CAVE. Jeez, tell BIL to get it right! We have an egg hunt tomorrow plus the usual church stuff on Sunday complete with a basket of goodies that everyone knows comes outta Mom’s closet. Maybe we can start calling it coming out of mom’s closet day?

    And we won’t even discuss why I suddenly turned bright pink and began itching like crazy at 9 pm last night. At least I’m not allergic to Peeps.

  3. Jill on March 21st, 2008 9:03 am

    I’m meeting a friend for happy hour tonight after first suggesting that we get together for brunch on Sunday. Um, right. Good luck making *those* reservations.
    Other than that plans include forcing myself to go running and eating a shitton of jelly beans. What, just because I forgot about the holiday doesn’t mean I forgot to buy candy.

  4. Jill on March 21st, 2008 9:05 am

    Also, warcrygirl, I’m pretty sure “coming out of mom’s closet day” is a different holiday entirely. One that includes a parade.

  5. Chantal on March 21st, 2008 9:07 am

    hahahahahaha “Jesus coming out of the hole day” is that akin to Christian Groundhog Day? I mean, if Jesus sees his shadow does it mean we have nine more months til Christmas??

  6. Wendryn on March 21st, 2008 9:09 am

    We don’t bother with Easter. There are some benefits to being atheists. :)

    We’re planning to take the dog road tripping this weekend. I can’t wait to see how much fun she’ll have at the beach! Ocean beaches are few and far between in Nevada, for some reason. We don’t know yet if we’re stopping someplace else first or just making a drive straight through, but it isn’t particularly important. It’s a weekend fun trip.

  7. Naomi the Strange on March 21st, 2008 9:24 am

    I’m an Athiest. I don’t do Easter. I was raised in some interesting cultish christian sect, and we didn’t do Easter then either… so I suppose I never had any Easter celebration. Anyway, have a good weekend. Hope you find some fun family stuff to do with the visitors :)

  8. Naomi the Strange on March 21st, 2008 9:25 am

    Um, I’m an atheist who can’t spell the word. CORRECTION: I’m an Atheist.

  9. Melanie on March 21st, 2008 9:34 am

    I like to call it WDJGTWWBLD?D – “Why Does Jesus Get To Wear White Before Labor Day?” Day.

    And Jill, showtunes. DEFINITELY show tunes.

  10. Elizabeth on March 21st, 2008 9:37 am

    I recently found your blog from someone else’s blog (too many blogs lately to remember where!) and you crack me up!

    I have been slowly going through your older posts at time allows. Luckily, I’m on spring break this week and the kids have been fairly good so I’ve had some extra time to read!

    I love your blog and think you are a talented writer. Cute kids too!

    For Easter we will color eggs and have a hunt and the Easter Bunny (a.k.a. mom and dad – hey I hide stuff in my closet too!) will leave goodies for the kids. Not sure if we will hang out with family or what – lots of issues with them lately.

    Have a great weekend!

  11. Shelly on March 21st, 2008 9:43 am

    Not to be a stick in the mud, or a party pooper or a real downer in any way, but I did have a cat choke on easter grass….and he died…..it made for quite the traumatic household scene.

    I’m not a person that thinks all things should be ‘banned’ because of one incident, but I honestly cringe around the cellophane type of easter grass. We stopped buying it totally after that…….

    Now, that doesn’t mean that the world needs to stop with the easter grass, but it was so coincidental that you mentioned your cat and easter grass…that I just had to comment.

    My boys are teens, and they set out their little green baskets every year, waiting for them to be filled. Preferably with ‘green’ as in cash instead of fluffy stuff…….gone are the days when dollar store toys and candy filled their easter baskets……now they want Cadbury, iPods and money (and probably booze and ‘girls gone wild’ stars if I knew the half of it…..cringe)

    So, back to the cat….and easter grass…I’m not looking for “sorry’s” or whatnot….think of my situation as a public service announcement…….just be careful..is all I wanted to say….

  12. Someone Being Me on March 21st, 2008 9:43 am

    I did nothing for my son’s 1st Easter last year (mind you, he was 4 months old) so this year I went two weeks early and loaded up an Easter basket for him with animal crackers, rubber duckies, and stuffed animals. My Mom is hosting a big Easter party at her house so we will do that, after church of course.

  13. Liz on March 21st, 2008 9:44 am

    We’re going to the neighborhood Easter egg hunt and festival. We are also godless heathens, so that will be it.

  14. fairydogmother on March 21st, 2008 9:46 am

    Jill and Melanie are forgetting about some of the most integral parts of “coming out of mom’s closet day” (COOMD): Drag Queens and, of course, Dykes on Bikes!

  15. Nicole on March 21st, 2008 9:47 am

    We are trundling up the Coquihalla to the Shuswap to visit my parents (because I miss my mommy).

    I expect lots of turkey over the weekend. Mmmm. Turkey.

  16. fairydogmother on March 21st, 2008 9:47 am

    Dammit, that should have been COOMCD.

    I can’t believe I left out the closet!

  17. Sadie on March 21st, 2008 9:50 am

    There will be ham, lots of it, and elastic-waisted pants, and classic white-trash broccoli casserole, and probably some chocolate. For me, Easter is not so much a religious holiday as an excuse to eat like a pig. Which is what all holidays are about, if we’re being real here.

  18. Val on March 21st, 2008 9:56 am

    That’s a job for JB. It’s manly work. Disposing of dead animals is one of the only times I invoke the law of Man. That and changing a tire – I’ve yet been able to remove the bolts successfully myself.

  19. victoria on March 21st, 2008 9:57 am

    I know you’re going to have a great weekend and will post lots of beautiful pics about it on Monday for our pleasure. This weekend I’m having a dinner party, and having a Sunday brunch to celebrate my husband’s grandmother’s 88th birthday. :-) Have a good weekend, Linda.

  20. Brooke on March 21st, 2008 10:05 am

    My husband is an atheist. My daughter is going to spend the weekend with her Dad so she can celebrate. Husby doesn’t do Easter. He did come with me to church the first year we were together, and he doesn’t mind, but I don’t bother much with church anymore. My fam is tiny and his is far away, and our kids really don’t need any more stuff or candy, so we kinda blow it off. But I have been secretly enjoying Cadbury’s eggs all week and I may add jelly beans soon. I’m 9 months pregnant…it’s all coming out of the fuckit bucket.

  21. Rayne of Terror on March 21st, 2008 10:08 am

    We are athiests too, but we will be dying eggs tomorrow morning for the first time w/ my three year old. Then Sunday (my birthday) we’ll hunt them in the yard and gorge on the fancy chocolates and popcorn I bought. It will be jesus-free fun.

  22. Emily on March 21st, 2008 10:36 am

    I don’t have to go to work till NOON on Sunday! That is what Jesus gave me for Easter. Also — on Sunday I will have been in Iraq for exactly one year (this time). So, break out the dusty chocolate and celebrate, for I have only nine weeks to go.

  23. Eric's Mommy on March 21st, 2008 10:45 am

    Don’t feel bad, we haven’t gotten Eric anything for JCOOAHD either.

    My in-laws will be in St. Thomas so we will get to have an extended family free Easter! We’ll probably cook something fattening just for us and hang out at home.

  24. Elizabeth on March 21st, 2008 10:48 am

    I was feeling horribly slackeriffic for not doing anything for easter and justifying it by arguing that E is only 13 months old and won’t remember any of it anyway. But now I feel better since you say Riley doesn’t know what the heck Easter is either. So I’ll probably just throw the boy into some vaguely humiliating smocked Easter outfit and take some pictures to show his prom date in 17 years.

  25. Elizabeth on March 21st, 2008 10:49 am

    oh, and I also plan on eating seventy two trillion Reeses’ Eggs.

  26. Leah on March 21st, 2008 11:11 am

    I’m meeting some photographer friends to do a shoot at and around the Golden Gate Bridge, then cleaning the house furiously in anticipation of next week’s bachelor party after-party, and then going to a park to behold the roasting of an ENTIRE PIG with a bunch of fancy chef-type friends.

    Also, I’m assembling Easter baskets for the cats because I have no children *sob*. That should also be punishable by death, no?

  27. Anais on March 21st, 2008 11:16 am

    This weekend will be like a rollercoaster ride for me. My husband and I are celebrating our anniversary tonight by going to IHOP and eating a shitload of pancakes. Tomorrow we are attending my goddaughter’s 1st birthday party and Sunday we are going to paint our bedroom and the spare bedroom (which will become the baby’s room someday). Besides all that, we have to mail out a car insurance payment, go pick up an antique Chinese trunk I bought, put together an expensive carousel rocking horse for my goddaughter before heading to the fiesta and buy the paint for Sunday’s project. Time left to breathe? None at all.

  28. Abby on March 21st, 2008 11:24 am

    We don’t do Easter. I’m agnostic, my daughter athiest, and I don’t even know what my son is. I am picking up the mower on Saturday, though, so I guess that makes me an optimist as well.

  29. confiance on March 21st, 2008 11:32 am

    Weekend? What’s the weekend? A college student who only has class Mon-Wednesday, I’m already feeling like today is Sunday.

    That said, plans include attempting to decide if I wanna go to grad school in Illinois, if I wanna sign a lease by phone/mail on an apartment. Plus a day trip to NYC for chocolate and sushi and write two papers on Sunday because both are due on Monday.

    What holiday?

  30. Elizabeth on March 21st, 2008 11:35 am

    My friend Rachel calls it “Zombie Jesus Day.” Which I thought you might like.

    I’m glad I’m not the only one who isn’t enthusiastic about the Eater Bunny. My in-laws are going to be in town this weekend, so I put together tiny Easter gift bags with some chocolate-peanut butter eggs, chocolate bunnies, and Jelly Bellies. I wish I could have found some chocolate Jesuses, because that would have been hilarious and my in-laws would have been appalled. They celebrate Christmas and Easter, although they are agnostic (which is fine), but they get practically offended if anyone mentions what the holidays are actually about (which I think is ridiculous).

    My mother-in-law wanted to buy a fancy egg dying kit at Williams-Sonoma to use with my 14-month-old, but I think I’ve talked her out of it. My fingers are crossed, as the thought of my little munchkin with dye in our apartment terrifies me. I’d like my deposit back if we ever move out.

    Anyhow, I think we’ll be going for a hike with everyone on Saturday, and then abandoning the child to the care of her grandparents while we go out to dinner at a restaurant with table cloths.

  31. Cobwebs on March 21st, 2008 11:40 am

    I can’t believe all my fellow nonbelievers saying they aren’t going to do anything this weekend. People, you have been handed a socially-acceptable excuse to eat chocolate. What is WRONG with you?

    We’re going to dye a few eggs as a sort of formality, then collapse into a sugar coma.

  32. Lara on March 21st, 2008 11:57 am

    I’m going to spend more time wondering how I managed to make it through my childhood alive with non-droopy parts considering there was no physical therapy and lots of cellophane grass.

    I also may eat lots of chocolate.

  33. cindy on March 21st, 2008 12:01 pm

    We’re coloring Easter eggs this afternoon, going to an egg hunt and lunch with the Easter Bunny tomorrow (if my kids will even get NEAR the Easter Bunny), and I have had stuff for their Easter baskets for a couple of weeks. It’s the first time we’ve Done Easter with them. I have 2.5-year-old twin girls. They are each getting an egg-shaped travel Magnadoodle, a little egg full of M&M’s, a peanut butter egg, and an egg with some Backyardigans-themed toys in it (haven’t opened the egg yet to see what it contains). They have been playing with their little plastic Easter baskets all week, so I think they’ll go nuts with happiness on Sunday morning when they realize there are presents in their baskets.

  34. daranaco on March 21st, 2008 12:04 pm

    Considering that I am 40 weeks pregnant, I really hope that Sunday is “Baby Coming Out Of A Hole Day.” I did not plan a thing for Easter Day. I had fully expected to be reclining gracefully on a hospital bed while all gathered around to admire me in all my maternal glory. Instead it appears the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Woman will be making an appearance at church followed by eating at some mediocre, over-priced buffet.

  35. sundry on March 21st, 2008 12:11 pm

    daranaco: HAAA! I hereby rename the holiday BCOOAHD in your honor.

  36. Valria on March 21st, 2008 12:31 pm

    What did the Easter Egg say to the pot of boiling water?

    Its gonna take me a while to get hard, I got laid last night.

  37. sooboo on March 21st, 2008 12:41 pm

    That’s a pretty funny joke. We are going to my mom’s assisted living home for Easter brunch and then driving two hours to my mother-in-law’s, who is having a dinner party for a bunch of her friends, where I will try to avoid talking about politics. Every holiday it’s a choice of cooking or driving. This time it seemed easier to drive, then to clean the house!

  38. Em on March 21st, 2008 12:57 pm

    Acting as today’s wet blanket, I’ve gotta’ say that cellophane easter grass is actually really dangerous for cats, and not great for dogs either. :( Nice paper-based easter grass looks classier anyway.

  39. sundry on March 21st, 2008 1:02 pm

    Who stole Sundry’s normal readership and replaced it with the Doomsday Patrol for two days running? STOP IT RIGHT NOW YOU GUYS. If my cat dies from choking on fake grass, I’m sorry, but she’s too stupid to live, and if my son’s face ends up on the back of his skull I will feel BAD ENOUGH ON MY OWN.

  40. mixette on March 21st, 2008 1:10 pm

    I just opened the package from my accountant with my tax return in it, so I will probably spend a lot of time this weekend saying ” oh shit, oh shit, oh shit.”

    Maybe I’ll splurge on some of that easter candy when it goes on 1/2 price sale on Monday!

  41. Sunshyn on March 21st, 2008 1:33 pm

    I found some great Easter grass at Dollar Tree last year that sort of clings together and doesn’t make a mess. It looks kinda like cotton candy, without the stickiness. Or maybe clown hair. Only not scary clown hair, so don’t worry!

  42. veralynn on March 21st, 2008 2:04 pm

    The BF and I are driving from PA to MD Sunday for lunch with friends then hanging out and dinner with my extended family, eating lots of horrifically fattening foods. I took the day off Monday so hooray for not racing home and going to work exhausted the next day!

  43. chrissy on March 21st, 2008 2:31 pm

    Church in the morning followed by an Easter lunch at my parents house & an Easter dinner at my husband’s mom’s house. It will be our first Easter with baby (7 months old). I’m really hoping one of the grandmas buys him an Easter basket so I can eat the candy. Preferably Starburst Jellybeans & Cadbury Mini Eggs. :)

  44. rain on March 21st, 2008 2:36 pm

    coming out of lurkdom here to day that perhaps the Doomsday Patrol is out in force because its like a version of PMS. Except instead of Aunt Flo, they get the inlaws. Its the pre-bitchiness of impending inlawdome. I know I have it.

    Im also a heathen, who only celebrates Easter in order to tell my kids a giant stuffed bunny comes to the house and fills them up with crappy toys and candy. And then I eat all the candy. The End. Oh, and my husband bought the Easter grass so I dont know if its the EVILTOXIC bunny grass or the more politically correct version and hell only knows I dont care.

  45. rain on March 21st, 2008 2:37 pm

    To SAY, not to DAY.

    I swear in real life I dont talk like that guy with the hat pulled over his face on Fat Albert.

  46. Lisa S. on March 21st, 2008 2:50 pm

    Emily, be safe in Iraq! I hope the next nine weeks fly by for you.

    I will spend this weekend doing assorted church-y things, working in the yard, and timing our visit to the in-laws riiiiiiiiight after the inevitable egg-hunt-turned-brawl amongst the niece and nephews. If I am lucky, my MIL will have made a delicious, trashy potato-and-cheddar-and-sour-cream-and-corn flakes casserole. If not, I will console myself with many, many Reese’s eggs.

  47. Martha on March 21st, 2008 2:58 pm

    We are having the whole fam-damily over for Easter dinner which means we have to clean the house. And cook. And what the hell were we thinking? I’m 6 months pregnant and have no desire to clean or cook. I just want to eat Cadbury Eggs and the Reeses Eggs. Damn. But we do have a fun tradition which involves smashing each others eggs – the cooked ones of course. The victorious one gets an Easter basket prepared by moi. Shit, another thing to do tomorrow…

  48. Ter on March 21st, 2008 3:08 pm

    Weekend, last one before I have to go back to work. My man has promised me for almost a month now to take me to the state history museum; let’s see if he makes good on that tomorrow! He wants to go visit his mother tomorrow. Since I’m having brunch with her on Sunday, and I already saw her on Wednesday, I think three days (two consecutively) is a bit over-the-top (especially with no committment rock on my hand…). I had to face the fact that I have two dozen or so essays I’ve neglected for almost two weeks, so that’s it. That’s what I’m doing. Grading essays. Don’tcha just envy the heck outta me??

  49. Amy on March 21st, 2008 3:13 pm

    Perhaps the Bunny Bounce at the Woodland Park Zoo tomorrow, and then church and Easter dinner on Sunday (thank heavens a small Easter dinner as most of my friends around here refer to themselves as godless heathens.)

    Oh. And remembering to tell my Southern Baptist minister of a grandfather that I did in fact go to church this week.

  50. Jennifer on March 21st, 2008 3:21 pm

    The only thing I have planned for Easter Sunday is trying like hell to avoid my mother-in-law, who I love (really!) but is almost always accompanied by my sack of shit brother-in-law. Bah. That’s the biggest problem about living in the same city as your in-laws, you feel like you’re obligated to spend holidays with them (ANGRY FACE HERE)

  51. jonniker on March 21st, 2008 3:29 pm

    The doomsday talk is cracking me up perhaps more than it should. I can’t stop laughing at the “ZOMG NO EASTER GRASS” talk. I’m SORRY.

    As for my plans, they involve, yet again, touring Vermont and figuring out where the hell I live. It’s like second verse, same as the first around here.

  52. Lesley on March 21st, 2008 4:00 pm

    If you have a Daniel Le Chocolate Belge store, I recommend the peanut butter stuffed Belgian chocolate rabbits. I’ve eaten several so far. Wha? They’re small!

  53. Lara on March 21st, 2008 4:28 pm

    Oh, oh, I just thought of a fun Easter thing to take your mind off the killer grass!

    I grew up in a very non-religious household. Easter was all about the Easter bunny and chocolate. Still is.

    Anyways, one Easter morning when I was really little my dad woke us up cursing and yelling. We asked “what? what?” and he said “That god damned Easter Bunny! He crapped all over the house! Dammit!!” etc. etc. And he showed us: there was a line of little chocolate turds from my room all the way into the living room, where line ended in great pile of Easter Bunny Turds.

    Still cussing out the dirty rabbit, my dad bent down, grabbed a handful of turds and… ate ‘em.

    My brother and I were struck dumb.

    But it was ok. You see, the Easter Bunny craps Glossette Raisins.

    One of those things I will always remember.

  54. Amy on March 21st, 2008 4:30 pm

    I started yesterday by dressing up as the EB for my son’s preschool…3rd year in a row! And neither of my boys have figured it out yet…it’s just a hood with ears and some face paint. In any case, it was really fun to get dressed at work this year and then hop in the car and drive through downtown on my way to the preschool. I love fuckin’ with peeps. Eggs tomorrow with one grandma and more eggs on sunday with the other one. They should be in a royal sugar coma by sunday afternoon!!!!!

  55. Meagan on March 21st, 2008 4:32 pm

    LOL you rock. If it makes you feel any better, the selection might be crap but there WILL still be candy and cheap ass lead rich toys at any drugstore the day before Easter. I went out and made a basket for my boyfriend last year because I’m a freak, but mostly because I wanted to steal his Cadberry eggs and jelly beans. (the calories don’t count if they belong to someone else. New rule.)

  56. wordygirl on March 21st, 2008 4:44 pm

    We are currently in holiday limbo. We were going to go to the Sunshine Coast to visit my sister and her two adorable boys, but another visitor – Mr. Flu – got there first. And being 34 weeks pregnant, I don’t really want to risk getting my own visit from Mr. Flu. So we might just stay home and binge on our own damn chocolate. Not very festive, but safer, I suppose.

  57. ikate on March 21st, 2008 5:00 pm

    My co-worker and I officially renamed Sunday the “Adults in Bunny Suits Freak My Shit Out Day” earlier this week. I mean, after Donnie Darko, doesn’t everyone get chills when they see the Easter Bunny (kind of like the chills you get when you see a freakin’ clown)?

    We re-named it in honor of a super-fanatic co-worker who worships at the paw of the Easter Bunny. Honestly, her kids are teenagers and she actually makes rabbit paw-prints on the grass outside leading up to the door (I guess when you live where there is still snow on the ground at Easter this works on little kids). She’s also a regular church-goer, so I tried to get her to explain what a scary guy in a rabbit suit has to do with Jesus Comin’ Out of a Hole but she had no answer. Anyway, she plans for this day for months and we spent the week making fun.

    As for us, other than some already purchased Reese’s Eggs and Cadbury Eggs it will be like every other weekend.

  58. Amber on March 21st, 2008 8:38 pm

    *Dying eggs Saturday morning
    *Egg hunt at the school Saturday afternoon
    *Brunch at Salty’s in Portland Sunday at 8:45
    *11:30 Sunday service at church
    *Followed by a 2 hour nap in front of the TV

    My son is nine and I never do the whole jellybeans and grass thing since my parents insist on getting him a basket. I just buy him a couple of small toys, put them in a basket and they usually entertain him throughout brunch. The last thing I need around the house is more candy…hell, we still have Lifesaver storybooks left over from the boy’s Christmas stocking!

  59. danielle on March 21st, 2008 9:39 pm

    Friends coming over tonight, and lots of hunting for stupid plastic eggs filled with crappy candy the rest of the weekend. Sounds like fun huh? I think I’d like to crawl back under the rock I came from. :)

  60. Sara on March 21st, 2008 10:51 pm

    But I was going to tell you about my shaman who can wave his…okay, not really.
    I know what you are saying about Easter. We don’t really celebrate, but I still feel like honoring spring (and chocolate!). Our daughter is allergic to dairy and so she’ll get books and a Pez dispenser (she loves that chalky stuff).
    WTF with the cat? Luckily, our cat wakes up my husband, but she used to “knock” on our daughter’s door to wake her up if he didn’t get up to feed her.

  61. Kim on March 22nd, 2008 7:26 am

    As my husband’s family’s lone Jew, I somehow talked him into going to church with his parents tomorrow. I have no idea why, except maybe I’m an ass-kisser? I then had to stress out over buying a suitable dress (thank God for Target) and now I don’t want to go.
    The food will be good though.

  62. Taryn on March 22nd, 2008 8:48 am

    i know this sounds hokey but you should play charades with your family. i have done it with my family a few times and we always end up laughing hysterically. also, i LOVE the game Scattegories. if you don’t own it you should buy it. makes for lots of laughs too.
    for my own easter sunday, i am thinking about finishing painting my sunroom. i have 3 walls with a wet sand color and the big wall is going to be chocolate. either that or work in the yard.

  63. Lawyerish on March 22nd, 2008 9:03 am

    Well, I *was* going to go to church and then make a lovely Easter dinner for several of my friends, who are all “holiday orphans” like me, in that they don’t have family nearby.

    Unfortunately, my grandmother passed away yesterday, so this afternoon I’m flying out to Iowa to be with my family, who are also coming in from all over the place. We’ll go to church tomorrow and then have some kind of Easter egg hunt for the kiddies (during which time I will try not to be bitter that we don’t have our kiddie yet), and then I imagine we’ll have a large meal and drink a lot of wine and be loud and boisterous as we celebrate my grandmother’s life. The funeral will be on Tuesday.

  64. Sarah in LA on March 22nd, 2008 11:48 am

    I get paid to sing in church. So far this week I’ve been to church three times, with one more service tonight, and THREE tomorrow (Easter).

    God help me.

  65. Heather C on March 22nd, 2008 1:12 pm

    My husband and I moved into our new condo yesterday, so our easter weekend will consist of digging ourselves out from under all these boxes. How did we get so much stuff?

    We joked about hiding Cadbury eggs in the boxes, but we probably won’t be finished unpacking for a while. Other than that, Easter has been so far off my radar this year that I forgot about it.

  66. Josh on March 22nd, 2008 1:47 pm

    Well, I had to work Friday, which seemed pretty evil and soulless of my faceless corporate masters. Even the morning radio guy was like, “Well there’s absolutely nothing to report. All the roads are moving freely and there are no accidents. In fact, almost no traffic at all. I guess everyone is home enjoying their vacations. Teh colliseum might get congested with tailgaters this afternoon, but otherwise everyone have a great holiday.” Fucker.

    So Jesus-got-fucked-over-by-his-dad day was shitty, except I had a nice little e-date with my woman. JCOOAHD is looking a lot like drink-a-shit-ton-of-beer day. I have absolutely no plans whatsoever. I will tell you, on friday they had this thing called the full contact easter egg hunt, which basically meant 105 men and 105 women got thrown in a field and had to duke it our for 105 seconds (guess what frequency the radio station that organized it was on?) and they got a bunch of free beer and spa days and hi definition TV’s. I figure it’s hard to make easter any cooler than a liberal smackdown in the name of greed. I don’t really eat chocolate, but I figure I’ll bust out a Cadbury creme egg or something in celebration of magical bunnies that poop chocolate eggs in celebration of Jesus’ death and rebirth as a holy zombie. (what the fuck were holiday makers in history smoking, for real, cause that’s just a crazy fucking thing to celebrate) I assure you, peeps are out. No more peeps go down my pie hole for EVER! Nasty sons of bitches. They can go hang out with candy corn in the loser section of candy world.

  67. sundry on March 22nd, 2008 1:52 pm

    I have never disagreed with you more, Josh. Candy corn fucking RULES. My god, man, comparing Peeps to candy corn? BLASPHEMY.

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