2006
lemons on sale again
maura @ 2:49 pm
Happy Spring! It’s in full force here, as our trip to the botanic gardens this morning can attest. There are 8 zillion gorgeous different pansies and tulips, and even the lilacs are starting. The cherry blossoms are about 30% there, which means they’ve timed it perfectly for next weekend’s festival (which we will not be attending, since the entire rest of the city will be. Plus I have extra recycling to take to the food coop, stinky hippie that I am.). Unfortunately it’s set to rain tomorrow and Sunday, bah. Jonathan’s dad is visiting so that means lots of crazy ordering the grandpa about by the little mister inside rather than out. Hope the neighbors are ready.
We had a nice easter weekend visiting with my family, including my brother, sister-in-law and 10 week old niece. Gus was a gas with Baby Ellie — kissing her head (“she’s softer even than a cat!”) and cooing over her various tiny extremities (“she’s like a little doll!”). It was insanely cute.
I, on the other hand, felt a little bad to be the only family member not to arrive bearing gifts. Since when did easter morph from a candy holiday to a candy-and-presents one? As the only a former catholic in my family I must admit that I feel a bit weird about easter. I am completely fine with christmas, since there’s really been a tradition of secular christmas in America for many many years now. Plus just because I’m not christian doesn’t mean I don’t think that Jesus was a good guy whos birthday deserves celebration. But easter, weeeeellllll…hard to cut the christianity out of it. I think next year we should have Aunt Maura’s agnostic easter egg hunt. Is there candy in the eggs? Are there even eggs to hunt? Maybe, maybe not.
So I finally got off my butt to redesign this site. I’m sure you’ve all noticed that the frames are gone, hooray! It’s not quite the exact way I’d like it to be yet: I need to go clean up the excessive tables + font tags in peas & carrots, and I want to add a graphic to the nav, and I am annoyed that the green in the nav will not go all the way across the screen on the blog pages, but it’s a start. I’m not the best photoshopper in the world and the wordpress stylesheets are cornfusing, so this will all take time, time, time. Someday.
4 comments on “lemons on sale again”
Thanks CSS Fairy! Take some dandelion wine as your reward. :)
OK here we go again with the comments…your birthday comments!!! This is how I’m celebrating. Also I took a break to go eat some taaaaysty ribs brought home by the hunter/gatherer Skove boys.
Anyway here I just wanted to say the agnostic Easter egg hunt is just precious!!! And maybe that’s part of the fun, you know, the not knowing for sure. We hid hard-boiled eggs around the house when I was a kid until one year we missed one. I think one of the dogs found it about a month later. Eeew. So it’s true, one never knows just what one might find, under the couch or in the soapdish (our favorite hiding spot) or in the afterlife or whereever. Could be a stale peep (the best kind), could be a broken plastic L’egg’s egg, could be a too-old hard-boiled egg. Or matzo wrapped in a napkin, which we once found at my grandmother’s. It was under a cushion in the living room, and a large shiny waterbug was keeping watch over it.
Hey, thanks for the birthday wishes! I had bunches of homework to do so spent hours at various libraries, but then the Miller boys baked me deeeelicious homemade chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting, yum. Plus I liked the library work (well, except for the print version of the Social Sciences Citation Index, which was fairly incomprehensible).
I fixed the green nav with magic dust. W00t.