Holiday

So it's a big holiday weekend coming up. Just curious what everyone's doing. Will you acknowledge it in the religious sense, will you celebrate it traditionally? Will you be a part of family get-togethers, or will you do your best to ignore it?

heyjude said:

We have a lovely candlelit service tomorrow night and then my final prep work begins Saturday morning. I'm in charge of the Easter service at my church. We do an outdoor service with a festival afterwards. It's... big. Huge. The biggest event of the year for me, and the most stressful, but the most joyful, too.

After, I'll make a tofurky for my family, endure the endless joking about tofurky on Facebook, and enjoy the fact that Easter is over for another year!

How about you, Maze Runner? What's your plan?

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Ah, let's see. Immediate family. Food, don't know what yet, but we have a vegetarian in the house. We tend to cook two dinners around here on a normal day. Ham is no one's favorite. We'll have to figure this out. Music, definitely. Oh, I want to watch that Sinatra special that first airs on Easter Sunday. But it's HBO so I'll have plenty of opportunities. Wines of various colors. Lots of ghosts, but we're pretty good at welcoming them. We'll make something out of something not-much. We're pretty good at that too. The funny thing is, the business I run is 7 days a week, so I could get some calls on Sunday. But it tends to be pretty slow on holidays. Even when we're not feeling it, we get the best of a holiday. If not, they seem to get the best of you.

backslashbaby said:

We're getting hot cross buns today from our wonderful 80+ year-old bakery in town I'll still be on Lent till Sunday, but I didn't give up sweets.

Then we tend to skip the church service now, after hearing the same service for decades upon decades, lol. But we'll honor the dead and enjoy the beautiful spring awakening by walking through a gorgeous, huge graveyard that has been here since before America was a country. Many of the trees are so old, and so many of the graves and crypts are, too. There are new ones, too, and it's just a gorgeous place with all the Easter flowers left on the graves.

It's where they have a very old sunrise music service as well, but that's at sunrise, ya know. So no My dad used to play trumpet in it as a kid, though!

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Your post reminds me that a lot of people live much more interesting lives than I do.

Write_At_1st_Light said:

That last point, Maze. Like all other holidays - just another day of the week for me.

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That's what I'd do to, if I could get away with it. All of 'em.