Yes, two words; give me a minute to get there…
My friend posted a pic yesterday of the sun just starting to peek up. I know she likes to get up early & run before irk, but on Sunday??? I prefer to sleep in just a wee bit & wait for Mr. Sun to come up so I don’t need to run with things like a headlamp or long sleeves.
Tonight starts Passover & ends with Easter, which encompasses a religious observance for most of our Mumpers.
I’m up early today, not to run but to do something almost religious, we getting the balloon out & going to pass over houses, schools, farms, parks, businesses, etc. (It is so peaceful up there, & you get a Godlike view of the world)
You’re prehijack question(s) of the week: What gets you up early? &/or What do you do for the holiday, tradition or something new [del]every[/del] this year? Looks askance at the travelin’ BooFae
My internal clock gets me up early - such is life.
As for Easter, we’ll be going to my mom’s for a mid-day eat-a-thon. I’ll be taking deviled eggs, dyed in festive pastel colors, just because. Once upon a time, many, *many *years ago, Easter meant a new dress, new hat, new purse, shoes, and gloves (yep, little white gloves!) Then pictures in front of Mom’s gardens in our finery before heading to church, then the grandparents’ respective houses. We’d usually swing by the cemetery enroute, to leave flowers on the graves of people who died before we kids were born. Later in the day, there was mass ingestion of chocolate bunnies. Ah, tradition!!
And here we are - Moanday. rah. Remind me why I came out of retirement for this???
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 50 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 82 and N.O.S. for the day. This will be a week of lows in the 50s and highs in the 80s. Nice!
As for religious traditions, well, this week is Holy Week, the week that leads up to Easter. Wednesday there will be an Agape supper hosted at St John’s and St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (two churches that combined together back in the mid 90s), which is a big ol’ meal (no red meat!) followed by the Eucharist. Thursday is Maundy Thursday so there will be a service for that over to the church house that evenin’. Firday is Good Friday, so there will be Good Friday services at noon and six thirty with Stations of The Cross at three p.m., Sattidy at sundown we will have the Vigil of Easter and Sunday, of course, is Easter. This is a big week!
Happy Passover to all who observe and a Blessed Holy Week to all that observe.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then I shall purtify. Bug guy I comin’ at eight-thirty this mornin’. I need to make a grocery run and da cave is in need of a clean up as well. We shall see how much gets done.
It’s supposed to be N.O.S. and warm (82) today. It’s still a big too dark to tell.
What gets me up early? My bladder or the dog’s bladder. Or being too hot, or too cold, or the trash trucks rolling by outside, the pain in my toe, or my knee, or my hand, or having to make a trip to the armpit…
I took a nap yesterday, and went to bed early, and I still managed to sleep until 5:30. I stayed in bed to watch the last half of *Hap and Leonard[/I. Now I’m up, the dog has been let out and watered. I tried to feed him but he wasn’t interested. I’ve had breakfast, gonna surf a bit, and then get to irk.
Like FCM, I’ve been getting up for school/work before 5:30am nearly 45 years so the habit of waking is there (did sleep in to 7:30 this morning).
As for Passover/Easter, I wish those who practice various organized religions the most blessed and holy time, but I’ll not be joining the festivities; I find the thought of God palatable but I find religion (all of them, past, present and presumably future) much less so.
Shaping up to be a warm week without much if any rain in the forecast, so looks like today’s job is the first lawn-mowing of the season. Gets a lot of dead grass/dust out of the ground and lets the new grass grow, but bagging it with a still touchy bad is going to be…not fun.
What I do for Easter is eat lots of chocolate. Occasionally I also go to an orchestra festival, though that’s only every two years (and I missed last year because I was sick, boo.)
I remember orchestra festivals of yore. Always good times.
Well, I EFed up this morning. My intention was to do a bunch of paperwork yesterday, but I watched the Masters instead. I told myself I’d getup at 4AM to make up for it, but I slept in till about 5:30, and I’m still diddling around and NOT doing the paperwork. At this point, it’s too late, as regular workday duties are kicking in. Oh well, I’ll just stay up late tonight and take care of that paperwork.
Getting the kids up for school gets me up early. Holiday traditions vary, especially since we just moved. This year I think we’ll go spend Easter with my aunt and uncle, who live on the other side of the Cascades from here. It should be a few hour drive, if the pass is open. If it’s not, then we aren’t going.
On the list of things I wish I didn’t know dogs ate, we can now add: goose poop! We apparently had some number of geese shelter on our patio the night of the wind storm, which resulted in a patio covered in goose poop. My dogs have been “cleaning” it for me. :rolleyes:
Hello! I got to sleep in a bit this morning, I’m only working a half day this afternoon and the teenager is technically off all week. She does cyber school, so since they are off this week she doesn’t need to be logged in at a certain time. I told her she could sleep in, but she had better plan on getting some work done a few afternoons .
As for Easter, we are going to my MIL’s house. I’m not even sure who will be there. It could be a small crowd or just us.
Feels odd to not be headed to irk today. At least I’m still getting paid. Today’s agenda includes prep for a job fair tomorrow and dealing with maintenance (kitchen sink woes yet again).
I’m finally doing my taxes, after spending part of the weekend gathering everything together, and now the dog wants out and in and out and in and out and in, or he just stands there staring at me and I have no idea what he wants because he has been outside 4 times in 4 hours and he has been fed and watered and treated.
Now I have to go search for more info about Sah-son’s grant money. I thought I had all the info I needed but nope, missing a small piece.
I want them done by tonight, double check them tomorrow, and get this over with.
I have to call the cable company because the bank issued me a new credit card and the automatic payment didn’t go through, partly because the cable website was down and I couldn’t get in to change the CC number, and partly because I should have done it sooner. I paid the bill manually when the site came back up but now I have a letter saying I need to pay the bill. It probably is okay, but I am anal and will call to make sure.
Then I have to call the state of MD about the phishing attempt.
We have to see if the mower will start after we find the push the reset button. If not, then I have to research that, and/or find a repair person, and/or buy a new mower.
Also find out where we can take all the branches in the yard because it might be easier to load them in the truck and take them to the dump than to cut them up and put them into multiple yard waste bags. In the armpit there was a one stop recycle center that took everything, up here you there are multiple centers that only take specific things. PITA.
I would also like to get some mulch down but that can wait a few days I guess.
Also, have to find out where the Baha’i temple is, and he needs to call to see if he has to make an appointment of if he can just stroll on in. He has a C in the class right now because that professor uses a point system. He could actually skip this assignment and still get a B in the class. However, that is not an option because he isn’t wired that way, but he needs to go this week and get it over with.
No plans for Easter even though my mother wants us to come.
Too much to do this week for him, it’s the countdown to the end of the semester and all the finals/final papers are coming up.
Sometime he has to go in and talk with a counselor and figure out what classes to take. He could have his AA degree in December, I think he needs only 3 more classes. However his grant is for a full year and I don’t know how that works if he graduates mid-year and then transfers to a different school.
Also, his degree will be in General Studies and now might be a good time to change to something else. I hope he is going to transfer to U of MD, so it won’t be a long commute. He can almost walk there from here, I think it’s 12 blocks or so.
Or he can go to Shepherdstown. But if he wants to take forensics he has to go to U of Baltimore or Towson State and for that he would have to move in with my mother.
Anyway, he needs to go talk to somebody and figure all this stuff out because even if I could talk to them I won’t. He needs to do it himself and get over his damn shyness.
All this stuff needs to get done because it stresses me out thinking about it.
Since I’m well down the page lets start with one from last week:
Well, heathenization could maybe still involve a congregation of sorts and maybe even a church ------ but it would also have goats, headless chickens, and a necronomicron of something like that.
Early? Hunting, fishing and Knoebels. Two of the three involve something maybe getting dead (heck – the third could as well depending on who is on the bumper cars with me) so as a rule most people don’t want me getting up too early.
Second half – lack of surviving parents have simplified our holidays. Used to be Dawn Service, breakfast with one set and lunch with another, some churchy stuff, and more. Now we play it more by ear and different every year. Easter is my biggie more than Christmas; to me the happier day. Humanity is so screwed up that God has to be born a man and suffer like we do to give us some hope — so smile and give presents. Yeah; sure. But He did so love us and find us worthy that He suffered untold pain because of His love for us. Now that’s a reason to party!
I took a pre-lunch walk, and it was loverly out there!!! Sunny, slight breeze, no need for a sweater - perfect!
As I passed the playground in the apartment complex where I walk, I saw the coolest thing for the kids (only because there were kids playing on it.) There is a large square platform with 2 ramps, a slide, and I didn’t see the 4th side. Overhead, there’s a track that goes from one ramp, around in a loop, and back to the other ramp, and on the track, there’s a car with a swing. You pull the swing to the platform, get on, and ride down the slope, around the loop, and most of the way up the other slope! It looks like a blast!! I’m sure the kids were wondering why I was staring, but I thought it was really cool!
Lunch was soup, and I’ve got an orange for a little later. Meanwhile, I’m working on modifying some parts for a new installation. None of it’s hard, but there are lots of little details that I keep missing. I hope I’ve caught them all.
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