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How do you celebrate Easter?

How do you celebrate Easter

  • As a religious event with Church visits but no easter eggs

    Votes: 2 4.5%

  • As a religious event with Church visits, family and easter eggs

    Votes: 9 20.5%

  • As an extra day off work, with easter eggs and family fun

    Votes: 11 25.0%

  • I am a Jewish

    Votes: 1 2.3%

  • I do not pay any attention to easter at all

    Votes: 11 25.0%

  • other …........ (please explain)

    Votes: 10 22.7%
  • Total voters
    44
3rd option was closest but I actually had to work
 
Usually end up watching some of South Park's Easter themed episodes.
 
Except for having ham at supper it is like most any other day here. Got some rain overnite so the pastures are going to green up with the fertilizer I put down. Any day it rains is a good day out here... :peace
 
ChrisL said:
I can't stand it when everything is closed. :lol: I feel so cut off. Seems like those are always the times when I need something too, whether I forgot something or whatever the case may be.
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You'd be surprised how little you miss it and how nice the sense of peace and switching off for just a day feels after a while.
 
Andalublue said:
You'd be surprised how little you miss it and how nice the sense of peace and switching off for just a day feels after a while.
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But there are times when everything is closed, and I don't like it. Such as the Christmas holiday. Just about everything is closed up for Christmas. ;) Can't say that I "like" that, but whatever, it's not THAT big of a deal either. Just a little inconvenient at times.
 
ChrisL said:
But there are times when everything is closed, and I don't like it. Such as the Christmas holiday. Just about everything is closed up for Christmas. ;) Can't say that I "like" that, but whatever, it's not THAT big of a deal either. Just a little inconvenient at times.
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What do you need badly enough that can't wait until 6am on the 26th?
 
ChrisL said:
Yeah well, not everyone celebrates those holidays. Some people want to do other things instead, and when everything is closed up you can't do anything. I was glad that there were some restaurants and stores open yesterday.
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Yes, but I am thinking of the people in those stores too. They would also like to be home with their families. That people in the food-service industry are working is a given as these kinds of days are some of the top earners for them and their bosses/companies. If you work in those kinds of industries you expect (or should expect) to work on those kinds of days. For a shop I think that is different. Special shops I might understand but who cares if shops are closed 3 or 4 days in a year. People have become too demanding of some things like shopping when they want to shop no matter what.

National holidays should be that, national holidays and not extra shopping days. Now it would be something else if people would have to work on Monday like a regular holiday but in countries on which everybody has the second easter day off too, shops should be closed on the first Easter day IMHO.
 
Gipper said:
What do you need badly enough that can't wait until 6am on the 26th?
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Sometimes Dunkin Donuts coffee in the morning. Maybe I'm out of milk or something? :lol: Who knows?
 
Peter King said:
Yes, but I am thinking of the people in those stores too. They would also like to be home with their families. That people in the food-service industry are working is a given as these kinds of days are some of the top earners for them and their bosses/companies. If you work in those kinds of industries you expect (or should expect) to work on those kinds of days. For a shop I think that is different. Special shops I might understand but who cares if shops are closed 3 or 4 days in a year. People have become too demanding of some things like shopping when they want to shop no matter what.

National holidays should be that, national holidays and not extra shopping days. Now it would be something else if people would have to work on Monday like a regular holiday but in countries on which everybody has the second easter day off too, shops should be closed on the first Easter day IMHO.
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There are plenty of people who also don't mind working holidays and those that don't even celebrate holidays. I don't think employees should be forced to work on those days, but if they wanted to why not?
 
Peter King said:
Easter is, according to religious doctrine, the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. But in countries with less religious tendencies Easter has become a long free weekend to have a short holiday or be together as a family.

How do you celebrate easter?
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I motorcycled up into New York and enjoyed low traffic...except for all those children sized speed bumps when I cruised past that church....weird.
 
Personally, we spend the weekend away at a convention having a good time, we don't pay the slightest bit of attention to Easter.
 
I experienced this Easter very much confused and angry. There was news release from the USA Embassy here that communicated in Albanian that "All Americans in Dardania should be wary while they celebrate Easter!"

There is a huge freaking Albanian Catholic Cathedral in the capital Prishtina and many others all around Dardania. What do you guys think we are at? Freaking Afghanistan?! Why scare your own citizens with BS like that?

:damn:2mad:
 
Went to church, had a family day.
 
When was Easter? :2razz:

How did I celebrate it? I woke up remained awake during all of the day light hours, I did stuff. nothing extraordinary. I also stayed up for several non daylight hours, I watched TURN and Game of Thrones, I went to bed.

As far as the side conversation of store closings, for a long while I had chickfil-a syndrome (I lived really close to one). It seemed the only time I ever was of a mind to go have a sandwich from them it was a freaking Sunday and they were closed.
 
Bob N said:
It was the first day of Spring for us and we got out the grill and grilled steaks (78 degrees.) :thumbs:
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78 degrees? That's pretty rare. I like mine about 140 degrees.
 
Grand Mal said:
78 degrees? That's pretty rare. I like mine about 140 degrees.
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He probably was using Celsius, which puts them at about 172 F - way too done for my taste
 
Woke up with a huge hangover from Saturday night, realized church service started in 10 minutes, texted my dad to tell him I wasn't going to make it, got in to an argument with my parents, went over for easter lunch, played with my nephew, went for a swim, went home, had amazing sex with the girl I'm about to make my girlfriend.

All in all, just another day in the life of Peter Grimm.
 
DDD said:
I experienced this Easter very much confused and angry. There was news release from the USA Embassy here that communicated in Albanian that "All Americans in Dardania should be wary while they celebrate Easter!" There is a huge freaking Albanian Catholic Cathedral in the capital Prishtina and many others all around Dardania. What do you guys think we are at? Freaking Afghanistan?! Why scare your own citizens with BS like that?
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Maybe they meant Kosovo....
 
Slept in, hung out with the family. Pre-cooked dinner since my daughter had to work all day yesterday. At around 4, we went to the movies, and since my daughter works at the theater, by the time our movie was over at 6, she was off. Came home, reheated the ham, fixed the rest of dinner and ate pretty late - around 8. But it was worth it to be able to eat with the family.

Sad day, though - first year my daughters didn't get Easter baskets. They are 14 and 16, so they don't get them like from the "Easter Bunny" or anything, but I usually loaded them up with goodies and a magazine, maybe a CD or an iTunes gift card or something. I just made the decision that they were too old for Easter Baskets, and I got them a large chocolate bunny and a stuffed animal. Made me sad, though. :(
 
I guess I am traditionalist:

Easter egg hunts at two different protestant churches on Saturday. Then drank three good dark beers (at a brewery, not at the evangelical churches) as alcohol was one of my "give ups" for lent. Went to Mass on Easter Sunday, then did family stuff. Though I dont like using people's labor on Easter, I went to eat with my inlaws at a restaraunt.

Oh yeah, pretty sure made a few posts here.
 
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