Hi everyone! Glad to be here outside of lurking.

I've hit "chidi buying peeps" but not yet "stirring peeps into chili"

I love this scale.

I've run out of rice, I think I will be eating barley this Passover, but steamed not cooked into bread. I am trying to maintain some semblance of observing restrictions.

My cousin just called me to thank me for organizing such a lovely seder. So that was nice. I made a Haggadah and emailed the PDF to everyone, and I lead the seder, and I'd emailed everyone a list of the things they'd need for the seder (and got like five last-minute phone calls about what to do if they were missing some foods), and I organized the Zoom call (and upgraded to a paid Zoom account for the month, since the free ones will only let you host a meeting for 40 minutes, and I know my family, and we were not going to be able to keep logging back in every 40 minutes for several hours. It took nearly 40 minutes just to get everyone logged in once.)

I'm still kind of pinballing all over the place emotionally. Holidays alone suck.

Ugh, shrift, that sounds so hard.

I am also worried about Gud.

I've hit "chidi buying peeps" but not yet "stirring peeps into chili"

I just realize I have both Peeps and chili in the house....

Not Jewish, but I appreciated the thing going around the internet about how using whatever you currently have in the house for Passover in order to avoid a current plague should be the most kosher thing.

I've hit "chidi buying peeps" but not yet "stirring peeps into chili"

I just realize I have both Peeps and chili in the house....

Dooooo eeeeeeeet.

I appreciated the thing going around the internet about how using whatever you currently have in the house for Passover in order to avoid a current plague should be the most kosher thing.

Avoiding plague is very much in the spirit of the holiday.

I was able to get matzo because a friend has pre-ordered a ton for a community seder that obviously got canceled, so she was selling it to the rest of us. And grocery delivery in Cincinnati has a lot more of a wait time than usual, but it's nothing like what I've heard from the NYC area. (Plus, I started ordering Passover food a few weeks ago, because my usually completely overboard interpretation of "plan ahead" is actually coming in handy now.)

When I'm not working, I'm mostly trying to convince myself that I'm not too tired to cook, reading fic, or collapsing on the couch to play video games or watch comedies.

Oy, shrift! I'm not working nearly as much as you are, but it's still hard to be enthusiastic about doing much. I kinda wish I was a video-game person, but I don't have a console and most games make me motion-sick anyway.

If anyone has a nice non-shooty game that I could play on my laptop without spending a ton of money, I would welcome recommendations!

Just popping in to say I hope everyone who celebrates is having a lovely Passover. Chag Pesach samech!

If anyone has a nice non-shooty game that I could play on my laptop without spending a ton of money, I would welcome recommendations!

Carcassonne, a port of the tile-laying board game is quick, can be played either against he computer or online, and is only $3.99 on Steam today>