Apr 10 2009
Goodies Friday
Apparently, those of you in Canada and/or the UK have a four day weekend to celebrate Easter (and hopefully, by now, the arrival of spring). Here in the US of A, we rarely, if ever, get a four day weekend, and we don’t get any long weekends from New Year’s Day to Memorial Day, in late May. No wonder people keep going nuts in public in this country.
Oh, well. Easter, like most things, isn’t as much fun when you grow up. Knowing that I’m not going to wake up to a basket full of candy (or a new bonnet, for that matter) on Sunday morning will just make it easier to sleep in, cats permitting.
In retrospect, it kind of amazes me that we could eat candy at 7:00 on any morning, especially when Marshmallow Peeps are involved. Now just looking at displays of them make me shudder and avert my eyes, teeth aching.
When I got home from work today, I discovered that the recycling hadn’t been collected, though the green bin and the garbage bin had been emptied. Clearly the recycling guys have a better deal and possibly even a four day weekend.
The mailman didn’t have the day off, either, since he had left me a surprise package. On investigation, it turned out to be from my former neighbor, who has my kittens’ mother and who often surprises me with little cutenesses. This package had flowers and drawings on it, and inside, there were fabulous things from MAC, including the sold-out Hello Kitty* lipglass in Mimmy.
It was a grown-up Easter basket.
*Yes, I did love Katy Perry’s Hello Kitty top, though not the leggings.
2 Responses to “Goodies Friday”
Well, the weather here in Ottawa is not quite what you would call spring weather yet, minus 4 overnight and we got the temperature to rise to a full 5 degrees at 3 PM, so what you don’t get in time off, we don’t get in nice warm weather, want to trade. We, got to eat chocolate on Easter, been eating some ever since, love chocolate…., enjoy the weather Suzy, I’m still a kid at heart.
Up until a month ago I was supposed to have a lovely four-day weekend this past Easter weekend, then the stupid UAW returned Easter Monday as a concession. I’m not sure how that saves any money. (I’m completely pouting.)
Easter is not the same. I was ready to stay home or head to the Zoo by myself, but that would have upset Mom, so I participated in a less than satifactory family day.