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I am cooking glazed carrots and parsnips right now, for the dinner later today. I'm not sure if tsiankiio and Boy (I do his name, I 'm just preserving anonymity ;p) are coming to pick mne up after church or if I should call someone else. Well, if I'm still here around one, I'll call. Also, I have to admit, I am curious what exactly a Unitrarian easter service would be like :o I'll have to ask. I hadn't intended to put snips in with the carrots, but I just found out this mornin that Stephanie and Sami are going to be there! So now, I hope I hve enough... veggies. ¬_¬ It'll all work out.

It isn't teally a tradition in our family to have an easter dionner. In more recent years, Mom, Hazel and I would go down to Bruno's, the restairant in the Sheraton, for their Easter brunch. It is usually pretty good. Really, though, we weren't often able to all get together, because I was away, and so on and so forth. last year we went though. We almost didn't. Hazel and I were going to go with dad for a weekend in some Lodge he and Jennifer had been awarded a weekend at for helping with a charity event at their church. Hazel couldn't get the time off work, and I don't remember why I couldn't, or didn't, go in the end. We went to brunch with mom instead. It was nice to see her, and she seemed to be doing pretty well. We all chattered about various crap. I don't think the food was really as good as I had remembered it being in past years. The chef had changed... and so had the management, now that I thikn if it. It wasn't the Sheraton anymore by then, it was the Delta. I'll blame the chef for the food not being as good, but it was set up differently (people were eating in the ballroom as opposed to the restaurant proper), and I'll credit the management with that idea. But there was still lots of good stuff... thin crispy bacon, omeletts and fresh-made waffles, ham, cereals, smoked fish, fresh fruit and veggies, piles and piles of desserts... Yum. I don't remember what all we talked about, but it was nice.

Hazel said that it was the last time she saw mom before she went into the hospital. I don't think that is true for me. I'm sure I saw her, at least, briefly, after that. Maybe to pick somethignnup at the house, or to get a drive somewhere, or *something*. but ist is the last really nice, good memory I have before the hospital. And that's good. It makes me remember all sorts of other things. I keep wondering what the garden at the house looks like this year, and what the new owners will think of sall those early blooming flowers. I'm positive they must have crocuses, and maybe some daffodils, peeking up by now. They had better appreciate them.

tsiankiio and Boy picked me up here around 12, We went to a food place to get the chicken they were going to cook for dinner at four. I picked up an extra chocolate bunny to supplement my supply, since I found out we were having *three* more people than I had planned for on my original excursion. It wound up being a bigger bunny than the others, because the selection was limited.
Anyway, while we were driving out, we got a call from Michelle, and then found out that Dina thought, and had relayed the message, that dinner was at one! Whoops! We still aren't sure where the confusion came from exactly. There was a wee bit of panic, but Brent went and bought a rotissery chicken, and all wound up being okay afterall. We had lots of food. Stephanie makes this amazingly delicious artichoke dip that is a million knds of bad for you. Yum! She also makes this incredibly delicious cake that requires three days to make. It is soooooooo goooooood.... I totally need recipes. Michelle was late, but in the end brought another cake (strawberry and chocolate!) and deviled eggs. Sami and Stephanie and Art (their new roomate) left around three, and the rest of us sat around, shooting the shit (read: bitching about school), and pplaying Pit, which is a card game based on the stock market, and quite fun. it is a 'collect all the suit and win' type deal, only everyone trades at once. Crazyness. I really need to get Graverobbers from Ourter Space and Skippy's Revenge.

I dodn't manage to get rid of al my candy. This is well.... not really a good thing, not really a bad thing. It just means I'm gonna be eating malted eggs for the next little while. The only thing I can really complain about there is that I have already had so much sugar in the past two days that my mouth is getting sugar sores ¬_¬

Hmm, I think thats about it. Only I am going to go see Sin City with people on Friday, woo-hoo!