I've never celebrated a religious holiday if that involves believing or observing attached religious rituals/observances barring sitting where I was put in school, and for non-godly ones like Thanksgiving and the fourth of July if an egg hunt isn't celebrating Easter I haven't celebrated those either because I don't do much actual thanking or cherishing the independence of the US. I just eat the food and look at the sparkly things in the sky which are no more or less pretty than the Montreal multi-day fireworks festival or any other ad-hocish display of celestial pyrotechnics. I've never kissed anyone on New Year's, etc, etc...basically just motions more than anything else, I guess. But people can still ask.

I think that, with something like an easter egg hunt, there's a difference between "Hey, what should we do on Easter? Let's go to an egg hunt!" and "Is there anything fun going on for kids this weekend? Oh, right, it's Easter, so there's an egg hunt at the park. That could be fun." Like, whether it's first deciding to do something for the holiday, and then deciding what to do, or if it's just looking for something to do and finding something that happens to be holiday-related.

Because they don't want to touch the dirty faucet with their clean hands

Is this a bathroom with no paper towels?

The hospital washrooms at UCLA now have signs recommending you use paper towels to avoid touching the door when leaving. Hmm.

"What are you guys doing FOR Easter?" "Nothing, we're Jewish."

"What are you guys doing ON Easter?" "Going to the egg hunt in the park."

Jesse is far more succinct than I am.

We can't figure out what to do for Easter this Sunday. Usually there's a family dinner at my sister's house, with a leg of lamb etc. But Mom's entirely incapable of moving: she couldn't even stand up for 2 seconds last night to get from the chair to the bed, and fell down, trapping my sister underneath her 200 lbs.

We were thinking of bringing her to my house, because I have only a couple of stairs, but I honestly don't think we can get her into the car (or out of it). The woman is trapped in the apartment building by her own body.

I just decided today to do the Easter dinner thing at my house. I have been seriously overstressed and overworked, and for some reason cooking and having people over is relaxing to me. So I guess I better menu plan soon. I invited people and found that other people hadn't made a plan either! So there will people and they will expect food, and likely will bring food and drink. Whee!

ame reason so many public faucets are now equipped with motion sensors.

Yes, but so few of those places have door-less restrooms (sometimes airports do, where it's kind of a "go around this wall and behind it is the bathroom, no doors!" thing). So it's a moot point.

From way back, Allyson that looks like a great house! I love the bougainvillaea!

Consuela, I'm sorry about all the job shenanigans. I hope you find something terrific soon, where they appreciate your work and professionalism.

Today has been a day. I'm sort of torn between two positions right now, and both have needed my full attention today. A three-day weekend intersecting with end-of-month reporting didn't help. Still, things seem to be settling down a tad (I hope).

One of my favorite scenes in SVU(Back when you could say stuff like that) was when Munch came back from a canvass and was all "Reminds me of the egg hunts of my youth." And his partner says "Aren't you Jewish?"
And Munch says "Yes, hence the forty minutes of futile searching."
But maybe it was the delivery that makes it funny. Man, Consuela, I know better than most people how rough all that stuff is.

In other news, we have reached the end of the internet.

The Internet—the global system of interconnected networks that’s become an increasingly central means of commerce and communication capable of bringing far-flung civilizations together—reached its apex this week, after a man claiming to be the fiancé of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic character Twilight Sparkle contacted a user of online community DeviantArt to demand he stop drawing sexual pictures of his imaginary pony-bride. The request was made in a letter that was then published in full on the Internet, which no longer has any reason to exist, having achieved everything it has ever set out to do.