Monday's child has learned to tie his bootlace

The Life of Pink

Well another weekend has come and gone. Actually, it was a pretty gorgeous weekend, when you take the past few wintery ones into consideration.
My parents came over to the house on Saturday afternoon, and C went through all the baby clothes with Mom, while Dad and I just pretty much watched the Red Sox pre-season game that was on. (They lost to Tampa Bay, btw. Big deal, it doesn't count for anything.) That evening, we just pretty much relaxed and watched House, which we had taped the previous Tuesday. We also finished up some of the extras on the Incredibles DVD, so my Dad could borrow it, along with Spiderman 2.
Sunday was an interesting one. While C was at mass, I went to Price Chopper to do the usual weekly shop, and to get a few minor things that were needed for brunch. I also fixed up her Easter basket, which had a couple of more clothing bits for Marcus. I made brunch (scrambled eggs with bearnaise sauce, and ham and cheese toasts with a mustard butter and fontina cheese... very filling those), and then while C took a nap, I went to work on the bedroom. I can honestly say that there is now open floor in there. I had to run out to the store mid-afternoon, which spurs on a rant that will be done up in due course. All the details of that running around will be told there. However, we spent the late afternoon into the evening at my parents' place for dinner (more ham! yum!), and C had made this angel food cake with an orange jello center for dessert. Tasty.
So now it's onto Monday, and the weather pretty much sums up my mood. I've got a lack of energy, and I could use a little more sleep. But then again, so could we all.



That's all I have
Nothing more to report
Carry on

An Easter Rant

Time for a Rant...

So yesterday, in the middle of the afternoon, I found that I had to run back out to the store for a couple of things. C thought I was just going to go up to the corner market for the ice cubes, but their ice cubes just kind of meld into a solid block at which we would have been chipping for hours. Nope, I thought, I am going to get the good ones at the store.
So I pull into Stop & Shop, since it's right up the road. I get to the door, and it's locked. It wasn't quite 1500 yet, but there was a sign at the door. Okay, I thought, I've got other places to try.
Off to Price Chopper once again.
I pull in, and there are a few cars in there. I'm thinking that they'd be open their normal 24 hours. Right?
I get into a parking space, and as soon as I close my door, some of the younger workers there, who I thought were just on a break and hanging around, say in a rather abrupt and impolite town, "We're closed!"
I yell back, "You could at least have signs up for it."
They pointed to the door outside of which they were gathered. "There's a sign there."
I pointed to the other door. "There wasn't a sign at that door when I was here a few hours ago this morning."
They just shrugged at me and restated the existance of a sign at the door at their side.
In a huff, I get back into my car, knowing that my the limitation on time which I had set was drawing near. As I pull out of the driveway and past these hooligan-wannabes, I just glare at them. They could have been nicer about explaining things instead of just being brats.
So I fall back upon the last, best hope for any shopping on a religious holiday -- Shaw's. Open until 1800. Lovely. I get my items -- ice cubes and garlic cheese spread (been in the mood for that as of late), go through the self-service line, and out the door. Five minutes later, as the radio is playing "Time," I get back home.

The point to my rant? The fact that only one religion seems to have control over business. Okay, so the Christians have a big holiday right now, and businesses decide to shut. Right, fine, that's nice and generous of you, allowing your employees to be with their families.
But what about those among us who don't celebrate Easter? Those who are Jewish, or Muslim, or Shinto, or Pagan? We have to curtail our shopping activities because someone decides to let their religion supress other people's activities?
Lets look at another group of people: those who either have to work until late afternoon or later, or those who are just getting home from a long plane or train or bus ride from wherever, and find that they don't really have anything to eat in the house, and have had enough of fast food and want to cook up a little something? Well, guess they're SOL and stuck with burritos from Honey Farms then.
I know Easter is a big family holiday, and I'm not holding that against anyone. Hell, C and I went to my parents' place for a nice dinner last night. But it just doesn't really seem like it should be a reason to just completely shut down a business for most of a day. I can see closing on Christmas and Thanksgiving. Those are bigger family holidays, more of a reason to travel and such. I've never really noticed businesses closing early on Easter. I don't recall if the CVS at which I worked for 5.5 years closed early on that day. Hell, one time I worked at a different store to help cover a staff shortage on Easter morning. Didn't bother me, really.
I guess in this day and older age, I am just getting a little cynical about how suppressive religion can be if you don't follow it. *shrug*

Of course, it's just the way I'm thinking... I'm quite possibly in error...

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