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Thursday, April 24, 2003
More April Holidays
April is the month of never-ending holidays. Just when you think Easter is it until Arbor Day you’re hit with Earth Day and Secretary’s Day back-to-back. You get a day to breathe, then are slammed with Orthodox Good Friday (which will be celebrated as “We’re Very Good” Friday: Part II) and Arbor Day on the same day to close out the month. Fortunately, we will be celebrating Arbor Day the next day, which will actually share (I had almost forgotten this one) National Scrap booking Day, which may have to be postponed until the following day, depending on the weather. Phew! Did you follow ANY of that? If you did, good for you, maybe YOU should start planning holiday celebrations, because I’ll tell you, this past week has been difficult.
I don’t know if you’d call us ‘celebrating’ these last two holidays as much as recognizing the fact that they exist, and half-assing a small gesture to the day. Example: Heather carried a rock around in her pocket for Earth Day. I sang the “Recycle Rap” at lunch with Pat. I noted Secretary’s…ahem… administrative assistant’s day on the calendar and thought of Polly, my favorite administrative assistant at the middle school I work in. Sadly, I couldn’t recognize her as we are in the middle of April School Vacation, but I’m sure she’d take the week off over a card and some flowers any day.
So although we skimped on the last two holidays, Easter was a different story. Easter is a family holiday for each of us, so part of my day was spent at my grandparent’s house with my mother, sister, aunt, her boyfriend, and one of three cousins. Sadly, most of the day consisted of watching MTV’s Real World/Road Rules Battle of the Sexes.
Actually, we only took a break for lunch.
We are a sad family.
I spent the later half of the afternoon with Heather and her family. We sat outside watching one of her cousins and her niece climb a tree, watched her sister open belated birthday gifts, ate dessert and finally, were shooed upstairs so her family could hide jelly beans for our Easter Celebration Jelly Bean Hunt.
I won’t go into details on who found the most jelly beans, but I will say this: No where in the rules did it say you couldn’t add an almost empty bag of jelly beans you found lying on the table into your cup. Besides, if people didn’t want that bag found, they shouldn’t have put it there!
Hoppy Bunny Day!
Melissa Thursday, April 24, 2003
Sunday, April 20, 2003
So many holidays, so little money.
March 26- I found out about Make Your Own Holiday Day from Scott. A teacher he works with saw it on her calendar, so Heather and I added it to ours. We decided to take this day and make it personal. Heather’s celebrated “Ice cream-Makes-Everything-Better-Day”, indulging in her favorite Ice cream, Caramel-Cup Cold Mine, and I celebrated “Plan-Your-Escape-Day”, drawing up a game plan for all the places I would like to escape to this summer.
April 1- April Fools Day was one of those holidays that could have gone one way, but we took it in a different direction going to Joker’s to win as many tickets as we could with only $4 each, and 20 minutes to do it. We came away with 500 tickets (thanks to Heather) which we traded in for more prizes then they were worth, because I swear the girl behind the prize counter thought Heather was cute. We are very good. So good in fact, we treated ourselves to a photo from the photo booth, and a stroll through Wal-Mart.
April 13- Palm Sunday was a day to learn how to read palms. Heather bought a book on palm reading, while I searched the Internet and came up ‘empty-handed’. Heather read my palm at Margarita’s the next day, and utilized her new skills Good Friday on our new friends, Tyler and Ryan.
April 17- We passed over Passover.
April 18- Good Friday, obviously, was turned into “We’re Very Good” Friday, because we are, as stated many times before, very good. Heather, appropriately, scored tickets to the musical “The Fantasticks”, where appetizers, dessert, and champagne toast were included in the very good price of ‘free’.
Afterwards, we went to our new favorite bar, Jack Quigley's, and had a very good time listening to a very good band. The end of the night was spent at Joe’s pizza where Heather showed off her new palm reading skills to Tyler and Ryan, both of whom were impressed that their palms said they were smart. Tyler read my palm, which he informed me, said I was short, and going to sleep with a guy holding a pizza box (himself) that night. Only the former was true.
It was a very good night. (Obviously)
Melissa Sunday, April 20, 2003
Sunday, April 06, 2003
Spring Equinox 3.21.03
Since Andy was having a party anyway, and it just HAPPENED to fall on the night of Spring Equinox, Heather and I decided to bring a little bit of spring to Chelmsford, Mass so we baked cupcakes and frosted them spring colors.
That’s not really how we celebrated spring, though. That was just ‘the icing on the cake’, so to speak.
According to our local weather channel, Spring Equinox officially began at 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 20. Heather and I were getting together that night to buy springs to put on top of the cupcakes we were baking the following day. After coming up empty in our search, we decided that it was a good night to take a walk. It was drizzling out, but it wasn’t too cold. Yet.
As we began our ‘spring stroll’, the North Church clock struck 8 p.m. so we shouted "happy spring!" to anyone who might have been listening (not many people were). Since most of the stores downtown were closed, we decided to play a window-shopping game where had to choose one thing we wish we could have from each window display. We walked passed stationary stores, clothing boutiques, shoe stores and jewelry stores selecting the one item we’d like most to have. When we ran out of stores, we kept walking even though it was starting to rain harder. We went all the way down to the pier before I decided I was too wet and cold to walk anymore. We looked like two wet rats by the time we got back to our cars. And since we were looking so stellar, we decided to go to Margarita’s for a drink.
Happy Spring.
Melissa Sunday, April 06, 2003
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