Easter is a perfect excuse to eat and drink till you puke, ay least for me anyway. :mrgreen:
I went out to dinner, went to Home Depot and bought some plants and got a little dirty. :2razz:
Cucumbers? :2razz:
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.
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.
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.
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.
What do you need badly enough that can't wait until 6am on the 26th?
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.
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?
It was the first day of Spring for us and we got out the grill and grilled steaks (78 degrees.) :thumbs:
78 degrees? That's pretty rare. I like mine about 140 degrees.
I celebrate it by working.
(I've worked every Easter since about 1998)
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?
What do you need badly enough that can't wait until 6am on the 26th?