easter.

I haven't celebrated Easter in the religious sense since I was a wee one, but every year Mom or someone in the family cooks up a ham and a nice meal is made. But this year, I'm unfortunately in Mass. which means no fam' around, so therefore no Easter celebration. I didn't think I'd be very bummed, but listening to the neighbors' revelry next door put me in a little funk, I will admit. It also didn't help that Momma-sweet called me and listed off all the delicious goodies that were cooking in her oven (caramel rolls? yumyumyum). So I stayed home all day, mostly due to the constant drizzle outside and a little enervation of sprit. I got a nominal amount of homework done, but mostly Mr. B and I participated in our own Easter activities! Consider the following exhibits... 

Exhibit #1:

B-money pondering his next move. He ate a chunk of Lolita's cover earlier in the day.

Exhibit #2

When spirits are low, a nice remembrance of the Midwest is in order. And what says Midwest more than a copious amount of cheese consumption? I attended a grad-school schmoozer event earlier in the week and luckily professors truly understand the indigence of grad students, so I parted with this big bag of cheese. They filled me up trick-o-treat style... I really just stood there grasping the Ziplock like a 5-year-old. No shame. Luckily Mr. B is a herbivore (except for processed sugar treats) so he couldn't snag any of these. 

Exhibit #3

THEN, if all this Easter excitement couldn't get any more fraught with tension, Mr. B and I... tracked the progress of my new orchid stems! You can imagine my excitement (genuine, this time) when I noticed a few days ago that my beloved little white orchid is sprouting some new stems (two of them!). On top of that, all five white flowers are still intact on top of her (his?) current stem. Who needs Easter lilies when orchids are around? 


And finally, because I was running out of ideas to keep myself occupied, I turned back to the painting I started working on, oh, about a month ago. I'm about half done now... Not sure how I feel about the blue, but we'll see! In fact, I'm not sure how I feel about any of it, but usually these things turn out in the end...

Exhibit #4

And of course, Buddha presided over the day's events with grace and calm as always. 


I also...


1) wrote a page of my paper
2) ran two miles on the treadmill
3) finished two books
4) ate two pumpkin treats 


Pretty productive once all said and done! 


Tomorrow to celebrate actual Easter Sunday, I will be making a ham... sandwich. 


Haaaaaapy Easter!