New Year's Eve and it's hard to believe
another zodiac has gone around.

While you drank yourself high on hoping
and watched the ceiling spin from the ground.

Counting down from ten it's time
to make your annual prayer.

Secret santa in the sky
when will I get my share?

Then you tell yourself
what you want to hear.

Cause you have to believe.

This will be my year.

This will be my year...Semisonic


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Sunday, April 11, 2004

Gill and I attended the longest Easter Vigil ever!

And all after a day of prepping for tomorrow. Me making side dishes, butterscotch bark (toffee, graham crackers, toasted almonds, coconut and chocolate chips YUM!!!) and one chocolate cake which will get a hot coating of chocolate glaze prior to serving. Yum. Yum. Yum.

So then we go to church. Easter Vigil is my favorite mass ever with the exception of when there are children involved in the Christmas Eve mass, because I love seeing Mary come in on the donkey...but anyway we go forty minutes early to our regular church only to find out that we'll have to wait to enter the church because they'll be lighting the fire on the stairs. Now we were not down with that because a. it was chilly and b. that guaranteed a mad rush for pews when the doors opened. We don't go to church early to be mowed down.

So I call the operator and found the mass schedule for the church that Gilly calls, "Church Anything Goes" and we sped over there. We sat down and then they told everyone that they would need to exit the church to light the fire. Gilly refused and pulled a Japanese restaurant. I felt very uncomfortable but then when the priest starting talking (with a big fake radio voice) I didn't feel so bad. I felt even less bad when they priest dragged the mass out to a record two and a half hours long. We've went to a couple of Easter Vigil masses in St. Patricks which Cardinal O'Conner did and they didn't even run that long.

However there were a couple of highlights:

The gentleman who had to be at least 70 who got baptized.

The little boy sitting in the front pumping his legs in time to the organ music. We called him "happy feet." We watched him through a whole song trying not to laugh out loud. I was impressed with how he hit all the notes and held the correct position when notes were extended. I hope someone has the good sense to send him to music lessons because I think that he would do well.

Then we went to the diner killed by the overpass that makes it hard to get to. Dinner late and me dumping all our coins into the animal shelter donation can while saying, "There but by the grace of God go Edgar and Freddie."

Home to lots more pre prep...rinsing shrimp and washing champagne glasses, etc...now I am going to bed.

HAPPY EASTER!!!
posted by JustKeepMum on 12:35 AM