Whatcha doing for Easter?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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To comply with my Y2K resolution of : Entertain More. I am hosting a combination of Easter Dinner and two - two- two birthday parties into one Wham Bam What’s Shirley’ Burning Ca-lam-ity.

I’m pretty sure it was an out of body experience when I actually asked some family members if they wanted to come over for Easter. You’d think that two weeks away from Rabbit Day and they’d have made plans. Crap, next time I’ll ask two days out :slight_smile:

So now I’m having 15 people over. You folks out there have no idea of the tremors this shindig causes me and it’s really not over the food. Its the :the house has to look good/the children have to look good/I have to look good/the food has to be good and ( this is the big one) we can’t leave when we want. Usually, by the time everyone shows up I’m so pooped that I can’t wait for them to leave.

My husband should have married a nice german girl.

I have farmed out the side dishes in the Bring A Dish To Pass catagory, so I’m not worried about the food as much. Hubby has helped a great deal so far with the cleaning.
I know everything will be fine, but it’s only the second time in seven years ( you read that right) that I’ve hosted a formal get together like this. I’m more of the chili/grilling and outdoorsy entertaining person. The more I think about it, the more it bothers me. Martha Stewart I am not.

I think most of my concentration has been in presents for my son, who will be two on Tuesday and gifts for the two other children ( one nephew who is a spaztic five year old and one 11 month old neice.) and something to keep them occupied. I think I’ve blown more money on the little gifts ( books, a few toys and stuffed animals that are not connected to easter at all.) than the meal itself.

The way I look at is is that if I burn/undercook the ginger-orange glaze pork end rib roast that I’m trying for the first time on Sunday, if I make my el spazo nephew happy and keep him under control ( Like my brother and his wife can’t) then all is good.

I can’t wait until my son opens his presents. If he doesn’t go nuts over the McDuff stuffed dog I bought for him, I’ll…well…pout. I searched for weeks to find the little dog and found it at Amazon.com.

( McDuff, for those of you who aren’t in the know, is the main character, a westie, in a children’s book that has really beautiful drawings.1930’s feel to them. He just loves Duff.)

Naturally, I fully expect him to play with the boxes. I may be a moron, but I’m not naive.

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I will be having dinner with a huge family(one of which is very cute) :smiley:

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I will be sleeping in and then going to work at 4pm till Midnight. I think I’ll celebrate Easter by giving in and ordering a Pizza.

“We’re surrounded? Good, that means we can fight them in every direction!” -Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller- Greatest Marine ever.

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I should mention the last time I officially entertained was when hubby’s two german grandmothers were over from Germany. One is wonderful and I love her. The other looked like she sucked lemons every day of her life.

I also entertained all of the american relations that live over here now on that day along with a cousin who is a major in the Army. She looked at me and said I was the bravest person she knew of that would invite the German Oma’s ( grandma’s) over for dinner.

I did not serve one german dish at all either.Which is a blaspheme. ( I had chili.Ha! Take that, you krauts!)

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I’m having dinner with a major babe and with my huge family. :wink:

Cecil answered my topic once.

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Come on upstairs and say that, big guy… :wink:

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She means that literally, too! :smiley:

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Sunday is Mr. Rilch’s birthday. I’m making dinner (ham and so forth) and getting his cake from Coldstone Creamery, because that’s what he likes. I’m also giving him an Easter basket, as I do every year.

I will have a few small gifts for him, but not the stuff he really wants: the Blue Velvet DVD and the new Cypress Hill CD, because they won’t be out until Tuesday. He’s agreed to say “Go raincheck!” until then.

“Hush, village idiot!”

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I’ll be off Sunday after working 6 days 12 hours a day. Such is life. I’ll have to spend most of my day doing my ‘explicit sexual e-mails’ that I have been elected to send to the males on the board that have requested them. That should be a blast.

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As usual, I’ll be working. Can’t wait to see how many cases of vomiting, diarrhea, and chocolate toxicity come in.

You know you are a vet nurse when: it’s 4 AM and you are out of creamer for your coffee, so you use kitten milk replacer instead.

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Shirley, you are very brave indeed. I am scared to death of German women of a certain age. They sweep and mop their sidewalks, this is not normal. If you can handle two of them, you can handle anything. :slight_smile:

We don’t really celebrate Easter, just a basket for the boy and a small Easter Egg hunt. To be honest, as a non-religious person, I’ve always put Easter in the same category as President’s Day and Labor Day. It’s a nice break, but not really personally meaningful.

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I’m having dinner with a hot lady and her cool family.

Well, lunch, actually. Then we’ll all fart around (Figuratively and literally), then eat dinner.

You say “cheesy” like that’s a BAD thing.

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I am driving out to visit with my family (about 30 minutes away). Mom, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. We are going to sunrise service and then hiding Easter eggs for the little ones. Then we will eat lunch.

After that I will come back and work on my archives class project and start studying for my master’s comps (yikes!)

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since my sister is in japan in the air force, and my dad’s working midnight shift sat and sun and needs to sleep in the day, me and mom are going out to the Texas Roadhouse rest. and getting nice big steaks and beer.

“I am so smart, I am so smart, s-m-r-t, i mean s-m-a-r-t”

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Well, I got my wisdom teeth out yesterday, so I’m still sort of limited as to what I can eat easily. Food won’t be a big part of what I’m doing.
However, I’ll go to see the Smashing Pumpkins. That’ll be fun.

-Neil

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I am going to make hamburgers (well nobody would tell me what they wanted).

I will spend the day being as peaceful as possible and trying to keep my mind on what this day means to me.

That’s it, son has to work.

Lion has promised to go get me some peeps though.

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Me? I’m hostin’ an online banquet at
http://www.frozengoose.com

:smiley:

I guess I have no life! Yay me!

E.

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First I’m going to make the little easter nest things that my great aunty Alice always made before age took a hold of her mind.

Then I am going to my aunt Terri’s place with my family, grandparents and cousins for superoo.

“Organs gross me out. That’s organs, not orgasms.”
-the wallster

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Being the wonderful human that I am, an hour and a half from now I’ll be going in to work on my day off so a co-worker can have the day off to spend with his family.

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Working. Ugh.

Someone send me some ham or turkey!

Happy Easter everybody.

Take care.