I hope you are all enjoying your weekend whether it is religious or not. For me it is another day of just staying home and trying to keep my shit together. I love my sister and she is a fantastic cook but I’m taking a pass on this season. I am a bit worried because I don’t need an invite to her house for Easter, I am always invited but she does usually email me asking if I am coming and hoping that I do. I didn’t get that this year. Perhaps she knew I would not want to come because of Banjo, and THE BAD THING. But, She has been going through a lot and I am worried that there is something my family isn’t telling me. And maybe that is a good thing. I’m trying not to think of the bad things.
A Word About Ramadan
But this is a happy day for people of many religions. It’s crazy to me that Ramadan and Passover and Easter are all happening at once. My Greek Orthodox friends still have to wait another week. That seems unfair, but they get all the Easter candy on sale! LOL! I would love to hear anything about how you guys are celebrating Easter.
I may have shared this story before. Ramadan works off a different calendar. So when I was growing up on Tripoli, Libya It happened in very hot weather. Our little crappy Fiat got stolen. I am old but I remember the moments in life that changed me. One day my Father went out with a Tripoli cop to retrieve the Fiat. And I it was like eleventy billion degrees outside (which never bothered me) and I remembered him telling my mom that it was so hot and he bought a co-cola and offer one to the cop who refused it because of Ramadan. I was raised Southern Baptist. But, I have learned about so many other religions in my life. And I respect them all.
The Easter Bunny
The Easter Bunny really liked me well into my twenties. If I was home (somehow that is the only time the Easter Bunny came 🙂 ) I would get girly things like a friend of mine sends me all the time. It made me feel sure that Mama loved me.
So tell me what you are doing today. I’d love to hear stories. ESPECIALLY if there are sibling fights. LOL. Whatever your Easter Sunday is going like. You are free to share. I plan to continue to sleep for twelve hours at a time. And the check in with you guys. My fabulous support system who know way more about me than my family. I love you all whatever your plans are. I’m probably going to sleep in late. xo~tt
Everything happens for a reason. A story from Passover Seder last night. There is purpose, meaning, and good… #CoryStories pic.twitter.com/dYm5392tyJ
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) April 16, 2022
My sister and her husband are coming over for Easter. Just having ham and potatoes and veggies. I did pick up a couple of bottles of wine. I hope it will be enough as I’m pretty sure I couldn’t turn water into wine. I do hope you TT and all who’s on here have a nice and safe Easter or whatever holiday you’re all celebrating. 💞💗💕
Happy Easter TT! We celebrated early. We had an Easter egg hunt for the grandkids and neighbors and dinner at my daughter’s house today. One good thing about being old is when you have adult kids that make dinner and you pretty much just get to sit back with a glass of wine and chill. 🐣 Lol.
Maybe I SHOULD have had children! Or maybe not …
I sent an email to you. For some reason, I could not enter anything into the subject box. Hopefully you can see it is from me.
This is my first Easter attending sunrise church. Or really even church on Easter since I was a little. I have 45 minutes from this post to get everyone out the door which includes my 1 and three year old. After church we are having potluck breakfast with the whole church.
Other than that I made my weekly bread, Angel food cake, and cinnamon rolls yesterday
My parents are in town and I plan to work on my large garden today and getting everything planted. I do have siblings….
I am making “Creamy Smothered Pork Chops with Crispy Home Fries & Roasted Carrots.” (I get boxes form Every Plate) It is a lot of food and I can usually get 3-4 meals out of what is supposed to be a meal for 2….but I am only one person, no family. I haven’t spoken to my sisters in over twenty years. My mother died when I was 14 and my father passed 12 years ago.
I have to have a new roof put on but here in Michigan we are still expecting some snow this next week. AND this past week the wind gusts were so bad it blew off a couple pieces of siding from my house. I am hoping when the roof guys come with their ladders they will take pity on an old lady and nail them back up for me. (I am not above playing the old lady card when I have to, gray hair comes in handy at times!)
Other than all that things are okay here. I have been thinking of you and hope you are doing well.
RubyLuby- We must live nearby in northern Michigan. We are weeks away from anything close to decent weather! We have dozens of trees blown over. It’s a hot mess.
I am in Southwestern Lower Michigan. Michigan has had some strange, crappy weather this year….that is for sure! Hope none of the trees were very close to your house!
I am in the UP and we have had snow a few days this past week. Today is a balmy 40 degrees, but the sun is shining! Happy Easter!
Hiking with the dogs and hubby. The woods is my church. Then do some container garden for the backyard with flowers I got yesterday. Clean the house (blech. Oh how I wish I loved to clean!). Then rib roast, mashed potatoes and asparagus for dinner.
Fun fact: I have 2 brothers. We have always been close. We have never, ever had a fight. Never. I know it’s weird.
I’m finishing my taxes. Blah. Procrastinated as long as possible
We have a really great family-style restaurant in town that does a big Easter shindig, and it has provided holiday take-out since Covid 2020. No cooking, no cleanup—can’t think of a better holiday meal for us old folks/immune compromised while avoiding gatherings.
Your family knows you’ve been through the wringer, and are respecting your privacy and mourning. Good that you have chosen to be with yourself 💟 Love to everyone here!
Happy Sunday to all of y’all too!
I took my granddaughter to see the immersive Van Gogh exhibit in Nashville. So cool! It was a great day.
(Oh and I just did my taxes last night. Nothing like waiting till the last minute. Eek)
I enjoy hearing about your lives and families.
Rest well, TT!
Barb
I usually lurk and don’t comment often, but you did ask for a sibling story on Easter! My sister and I haven’t talked for a few years. We’ve always butted heads, but it worsened after I got married and had a baby. We basically haven’t spoken since the baby 6 years ago. I just found out from my mother that she was hit by a car on her bike on Friday in Austin, Texas. She had to go to the hospital but she’s fine. There was a very implicit ‘what are you going to do about it?’ sort of vibe and now I have no idea what I’m going to do about it! We all live in different states and she has no one. It’s probably a very lonely holiday for her. I just finally caught up on last season’s RHOBH and hearing Kathy regret not talking Kyle… it feels timely. She truly hurt me and refuses to acknowledge it, but… I don’t wish her harm. I might check in?? But she told me never to speak to her again since I cared more about my newborn than her (uh, duh. It was the most traumatic birth and colicky newborn ever), so… ahhhh!
Duh! It’s your baby, it’s genetic and normal.
That said, I will quote Tim Gunn, “You will never regret taking the high road.”
You cannot control her reaction, but likely you will feel better doing what YOU can do.
Hadley, send flowers with a note that says something like get well soon, from your sister Hadley.
But … before Easter, comes Good Friday… my best Good Friday memory.
Good Friday 1970. Back then, we got off of work at the phone company for 3 hours (to attend Mass) and then had to go back to work for 1 hour. Instead of Mass, four of us went to Playland at The (SF) Beach, went on some rides, got some corn dogs and smoked some hash at Land’s End (before it was a gay trysting point).
As we went back to my car, through the cypress bushes, the fog was very thick and coming in drifts and I THOUGHT I saw a fat middle-aged naked guy coming through the bushes jerking off. No one else noticed because … fog … and stoned … or hallucinating… Then, they DID notice … Three of us were laughing and screaming, the other was was crying and screaming “Don’t tell Gilbert!” (She thought her husband would beat her up for seeing some weird middle-aged perv with glasses.) We had to find an alternate path along the cliffs in our high heels and work skirts. I wanted to go back on the ONLY path behind him and look in the bushes and steal his clothes, but Gayle, “Mrs. Gilbert,” begged me not to. So, I pulled up as close to the path as I could and screamed, “Hey naked man, you’ve got an ugly body. And a small dick!” We laughed hysterically (except Gayle), all the way back to the office. Beats Mass any day!
AHA!! 😊thank you for a hilarious wake up!!!
I didn’t know Easter was even today until noon yesterday, LOL.
I hope that Easter and what it represents (before Christ — WE DIDN’T STARVE OR FREEZE TO DEATH — better days are here) will help to heal your heart.
LOL This reminds me of a friend from the 80’s who would drive up next to an old fat guy in a sports car (take your pick), roll down her window and yell “Sorry about the size of your penis!!” and wink and drive off 😂🤣
Things are quiet here today. For the very first time I’m forgoing the big dinner and we’re just having a ham slice with cheddar potatoes and roasted asparagus. It’s just the 2 of us. We’ll miss the pea soup and ham salad leftovers but c’est la vie. My 2 sisters live in MA and we are very close. No fighting ever. Haven’t seen them in over 2 years because of Covid but we talk all the time. Hopefully we’ll see each other this summer. We have so many laughs when we’re together! I hope all of you have a peaceful, happy day.
I am in a huge fight with my sister. First fight we have ever had. Over a dress!! I visited her 2 weeks ago and she has a beautiful navy dress I was encouraging her to wear to the party for my brother in June. She can be a bitch and was adamant she would NOT wear that dress.
FF I see a hot pink and orange dress and fall in love with it. I ordered it not realizing it is the same manufacturer, same dress. She now is claiming she might wear the dress, I am no longer to be trusted. Huh? I asked her when have I ever lied to her? She can’t remember one.
She is like a mother to me, I am devastated. My younger sister was going in between us, and now she is mad at her. The sister I’m in a fight with is the oldest of the 7 of us. We do not roll like this. We have never had a fight. She is going through a lot with her husband being sick, but I never turned on anyone when Terry was sick.
DUMBEST FIGHT EVER!!! I always told people that the biggest family fight we have ever had is what kind of beer to have in the keg. You asked!! I hope everyone has a great day.
Well that sucks! I hope one day you will laugh about it.
We have not heard from our brother in about 10 years. Because … The Succubus!
None of the three of us had ever been in a fight as adults. But then … The Succubus.
Succubus: Keep smoking and drinking…🤞
I just looked up succubus! I’m sure we will laugh about it someday. 🙏 I appreciate you guys.
Loving all these stories. My sister emailed today and said she and her adult disabled daughter were sick all week and some of her kids are out of town, so the is no big deal for Easter this year. I knew something must be going on that I didn’t know about it. I’m worried for the both of them. My niece has frequent grand mal seizures as a result of a childhood vaccine she had a bad reaction to. She has a lot on her plate and is a more than ten years older than me. She has been her daughter’s nurse her entire life.
I am just enjoying a day without my phone ringing off the hook every five minutes. I watched a GREAT movie called Admission on HBO. It’s lighthearted and there are many twists and turns you don’t see coming. Highly Recommend.
Right now I am watching first ladies a new series on Showtime. It’s also really good. Sadly there is only one episode so far. I’m kind of taking the day off as much as I can and planning on sleeping as much as possible.
I added a little Twitter video from Cory Booker that I meant to add last night. I just love Cory Booker. He seems like a super good person. Why can’t he be our next president?
One more random thing since this is sort of an open forum… When my dad was nearing the end of his life he often had auditory hallucinations. He was a deacon in pretty much every church we attended. He was a very kind man. I would go to visit him and he was angry. There were two wings to the hospital and he was very angry because people were singing religious songs on the other wing. This was not even possible considering the distance to the other wing.
I say all of that to say, I have been hearing weird songs very quietly in my house lately. My anxiety reminded me of that situation. I could not find the source of it and was quite sure I was going mad. Finally, I realized that my digital alarm clock (google it along with land line) was the source. I had tried to set an alarm to wake me up for a physician’s phone appointment but could not remember how. So since then there has been music playing for a few days at a very low volume. I’m an idiot, sure But at least I’m not going mad. YET. 🙂
That’s kinda adorable. With kids & now grandkids there are times when things make noise and I end up hunting down from where & what lol
Back in the day I more than once set my alarm wrong but I never played it on a station lol figured that wouldn’t wake me – it was always set to loud static to ensure I moved!!
When I was teaching school a fellow teacher took an entire week off when he dog died. I was a cunt about thinking so go get another dog and do your job. That was way before Banjo rescued me. The kind if good news is that I dream about him a lot. And during the morning I have these weird dreams while I am kind of awake. And today I reached down to pet him because I thought he was there, I’ve said before every day I wake up I have to remind myself about who is dead, my father, my mother, my sister, my best friend Banjo. It’s a lot to take in every morning because I am a very sound sleeper and sometimes the dreams seem real.
I should probably throw out his bowls because every time I pass them I think I need to fill the water bowl. A very nice person procured us some prednisone that extended his life for weeks and that is priceless. So he drank a lot of water. When the bad thing happened. I just kept chatting with the doctor. Telling him stupid stories. I never cried. I’m not sure I have cried at all yet. I just kept yammering on as the bad thing happened. Lawn Kid stopped by earlier on the bad day. He gave me a much needed hug. He comes by to check on me. I’m the only mother figure he knows because he was dealt a crappy one. Of course he doesn’t listen to a thing I say. I told him not to get the bitch pregnant. And he did and we have never talked about it. He knows how disappointed I am. I told him about the car he got from somewhere with the tinted windows. That seems to have disappeared. But he is working and he has to pay someone to take him back and forth. He’s making 12.50 an hour which sounds like a lot to me and they are all getting two dollar raises. I think he lives with an older guy two blocks over. But again we have never discussed that. He’s a really good kid.
Sorry for blathering on. I’m off to watch AI now.
As a fellow lady of a certain age with no children, we do definitely realize what matters in life…furbabies, lawn kids, friends that are family. You have a fantastic support system, and *bonus* you have all of us on here that care about you deeply. Enjoy your AI and belt out all the songs for Banjo. He’ll hear you.
Your deceased family members are appearing in your dreams so they can communicate with you. They are letting you know they are watching over you. I’m the youngest in my family and an old lady, and my deceased parents and relatives and friends often show up in my dreams. I keep a dream log of them. My dog furbabies were my children, and they also appear in my dreams 💞
I Love those dreams! Sometimes I have dreams when my father was well and he was – just a wonderful person. He died 38 years ago. You can mention my mom who passed 12 years ago at 88, and not one sibling will cry, we have great stories about her. If you mention my Dad, omg, tears. He had early Alzheimer’s, and died at 69. He help liberate a “camp” in WWII, and was just the best person. Dream on Tamara- it’s good for you!
Happy Easter, TT! Hope you had a nice, relaxing day ❤️
Happy Easter to everyone else as well!
I just stayed home and it was a nice break.
Hope everyone had a nice Easter holiday. I cooked ham, potato salad, baked beans, green beans and a cream cheese pound cake. My daughter (my middle child of three) just bought a house in February and she and my youngest daughter moved out. I haven’t seen or heard from them since they moved. They did text me on my birthday last month, but that’s about it. I haven’t even been invited to see their home yet, although their dad, who barely participated in anything, has already been there and helps them with things around their house (as he should). They finally did text me this weekend to see if they could pick up food on Easter. I guess I’ll just have to bribe them with food if I ever want to see them again! They picked up food and didn’t stay long, which was fine because the Tournament of Champions marathon was on Food Network. This is one of my favorite shows because they have all the chefs we all know on the show going head to head, two at a time. Whoever loses their round, get sent home. The winners go on until the final two are left. It’s like the Super Bowl of cooking! This year the final two were Brooke Williamson and Tiffani Faison, both you may remember from Top Chef. This year Tiffani won. LOVE this show. It was a great weekend! Hope you are well, TT. ❤
Oh man! I wish I’d known Tournament of Champions was on! I remember Brooke and Tiffani. I gotta get back into Top Chef. My son and I used to watch that together. Good memories.