Glad you had fun! I am suffering from an epic bout of insomnia. Can't say I've missed it.

Yay for lack of bad drama.

I saw a thing with coloring eggs in shaving cream with swirled color that looked interesting. This is the first year I didn't color eggs, mostly because I am not eating them. I am having a good sized crowd today so there are a couple dozen mini baskets on the table. Lots of good food. It is warm so swimming will happen and billiards competitions inside.

The wind was blowing in the right direction for me to hear the music and singing from the sunrise services on the beach. Reminder to self to check that out. The only part of religious ceremony that I enjoy is the music. Music plus beach is good.

Happy Easter to those that celebrate!

I'm sitting with a cat on my lap, listening to the rain outside. If only I could teleport a second cup of coffee into my hand it would be perfect.

No coloring eggs here, but I did bake the traditional family lamb cake for dinner today. (When I was a kid, Mom always baked a lamb cake for Easter in a mold like this one: [link] Problem was, she always made a pound cake, and the damn thing never baked all the way through. So she continued to make it every year, and the family mocked it and didn't eat it. It was a thing. She eventually stopped making it, though. After I got out of college, I asked her for the lamb mold, with the idea that a white cake would be fluffier and would bake through. So I made a white cake for Easter one year, and took it to my Aunt's, and everyone mocked it, because that's the Pavlovian response to the lamb cake. But I insisted that THIS cake was different, because it literally was different cake. Finally my cousin cut the head off the lamb and took a bite, and said "Holy shit, this is GOOD!" So the lamb cake was resurrected and is requested every year. It works fine with Betty Crocker's gluten-free cake mix, too.)

(I don't know why my parentheticals have to be so freaking long.)

Cool lamb cake!

Mom and I made ricotta pies last night, but we didn't color eggs. This morning I did yoga while Mom and Stepdad argued about dinner. Good times. TCG was smart and went out for a long walk. I'm waiting impatiently for my adorable niece to show up.

I had insomnia for the first time since darkening my room. Why? Because I had the first caffeine I've had in months.

Went to bed at 5am and got up at 8.

More caffeine this morning, just to be upright.

Tonight, maybe a tylenol pm and cold, cold turkey on the hard stuff for a long while.

Still, I completely scrubbed my bathroom and, by that, I mean...all the nail polish tested, all unecessary products tossed, new holder bins for better organizing, vacuumed out dryer vent, scrubbed walls, scoured tub, organized jewelry, drawers rearranged, cabinet emptied/scrubbed and reorganized...in other words, PERFECT.

Now, the kitchen...flee in fear old spices, I'm comin' fer ya.

My spring is clean...at least until the stimulant wears off.

This is my brain on drugs.

Have you ever made a red velvet lamb cake, Steph? Because I would so laugh.

No cake today, but there will be chocolate and mochi, and maybe I'll make blondies if I feel an overwhelming need for more sugar.

How do you tie-dye?

Well, more "tie-dye" than actual tie-dye, as we just used wee droppers to swirl highly concentrated dye onto the eggs. Really they were more Jackson Pollack eggs, but with more color. But cute! I will post egg pics on FB to share with people.

After handing back midterms on Friday, one student came up to me and asked why I'd marked something wrong on his paper when it was actually right. I looked at it, and I could see that, when I was grading, I had circled the answer space in the way that I do when there's nothing written there. So he had to have written in the correct answer after getting it back. I called him on it, and he backed down, but still. That's just ridiculous.

Wow, Hil, that's some balls, and not in the good way.