Saturday, March 31, 2018

In Preparation For The Great Ham Fest And Abandonment By Husband



Odd day. First of all, I did not wake up until 9:46. I mean, I didn't even wake up earlier and go back to sleep. I was too busy sleeping to wake up and go back to sleep. Also, I was having dreams about having dreams (hard to get a cup of coffee at a bar late at night so that you can wake up from the dream you are aware you are having) and also, I delivered a neighbor's baby and then we went on a road trip without the baby which worried me considerably.

Anyway, due to circumstances which I will be discussing soon (and nothing bad has happened), Mr. Moon needed to retrieve two vehicles from the bank where his office has been. This meant that we had to drive to town, get the two vehicles, drive them back to Lloyd, and then drive back to town to get the truck we'd driven into town originally.
For some reason, I did not mind this at all. It has been a beautiful day and driving around listening to NPR doesn't suck although when Laurie Anderson spoke in an interview I got a stomachache and then had a small anxiety attack where I felt I could not breathe properly for awhile but then I got over it and was okay.

On my final journey home I stopped at the horrible, dreaded Walmart and bought what you see above. A new canning kettle and some herbs and a small jade plant.
I did survive Walmart.
And then I planted my herbs and unloaded the dishwasher and finished some laundry and took the trash and watered the porch plants and looked up recipes for cinnamon rolls and discarded that idea of making cinnamon rolls and have butter softening to make angel biscuit dough for tomorrow's Ham Fest and egg hunt and picked and washed kale and shallots to make the frittata for tomorrow and I made up the Easter baskets.


They sort of suck, especially considering that the chocolate melted and reformed but at least Maggie and August will not notice that nor will they care. 
But hey! It's the thought that counts and they all got a bath tub toy, a small stuffed animal (I like the frog), a little notebook and two colored pens. 
Except for Levon who got a teething toy that says "My First Easter" and a small stuffed chicken. 
Or something. I can't remember. 

And now I have to make supper and the angel biscuit dough and teach Mr. Moon how to give himself his own B-12 shots because he's leaving tomorrow and that is a harrowing thought on many levels. 

Also, I got four eggs today which is sort of an Easter miracle. 
I do not know if He is risen, but let's hope the biscuit dough rises into great puffy heights of pure biscuit goodness. 

That's all. 

Love...Ms. Moon

P.S. Mr. Moon jabbed himself in the thigh with great aplomb and why I was worried, I do not know. He could probably go see Laurie Anderson in the flesh and not get a stomachache although I seriously doubt that proposition will ever be tested. 

17 comments:

  1. Mr Moon, like my own husband, is a man who gets it done. I think your Easter baskets are adorable.

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    1. Well, Target had some cute little Easter stuff and I made full use of it. And yes- our husbands just deal with what must be done, don't they? And how do they do that? I wish I could.

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  2. Jesus, I just realized it was easter tomorrow. Jonah texted wondering if we'd see the easter bunny at the airport (on Thanksgiving, we saw three adults dressed as an ear of corn, a pilgrim and a turkey) or perhaps there would be another trilogy of a bunny, a zombie jesus, and an egg. I hope so. Happy Zombie Jesus day!

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    1. I have to tell you that at our brunch today, we laughed about your Zombie Jesus Day comment. We agreed that you were perfectly correct and I wonder if Jesus was, in fact, the very first zombie of all.
      I hope your trip to go get your boy was smooth and easy.

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  3. Goddammit I need a man to do shit for me. I wonder if I have gone too far around the twist for that. Yes. The Magic 8 ball says DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT. Sorry for thinking out loud here as I prepare for umm,,,uh, what? Love you. Oh o remember now. The Great Potato Salad fest. Also hidden chocolate.

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    1. I FORGET TO EAT CHOCOLATE! And I damn well wish I had some potato salad.
      You are not too far around the twist for anything, my dear. How's the baker, by the way?

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  4. Angel biscuits sound heavenly:) I had to look up the recipe because I'd never heard of them. Sadly my oven is broken and waiting for parts.

    Happy Easter!

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    1. Well, when your oven gets fixed, bake some angel biscuits. You will not regret it.

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  5. I had to look up Laurie Anderson, never heard of her. Easter is just another Sunday around here but I rather like Ramona's quip...Happy Zombie Jesus Day. read part of an article yesterday about why and how the Jesus cult got so popular and spread so quickly and the writer was writing about the empty tomb and the sightings of dead Jesus as if it really happened so I didn't finish it but apparently it was popular because it treated women better than the other religions of the day (so sayeth the writer). too bad they didn't stick with that since modern christianity has us as useless little airheads that must be told what to do. I mean, c'mon, there was a huge debate on whether or not we even had souls! and also because early christians had so many babies being against birth control, abortion, and infanticide from the very get go.

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    1. I'm not arguing that the Catholic Church is no friend of women, but I just gogoled the souls thing, and it seems that it stems from a mistranslation. It doesn't seem to have taken place. From this account, it seems to have been a semantic debate about whether or not women could be called 'man' - I don't know if was debating their humanity rather than their soulfulness, that seems possible to me too! :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synod_of_M%C3%A2con

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    2. Was there a book that the article came from called something like the Triumph of Christianity? Because I heard the author of that book on the radio and it sounds like the same themes. And he's an agnostic, believe it or not. The thing I always wondered about (well, ONE of the things) was how no one really recognized Jesus when they saw him walking around after he'd died.
      How creepy is all of that shit? Ugh. Zombie Jesus. yes.
      I have no opinion on whether the early Christians thought women had souls but I do know that Paul surely did not think highly of us. He was so twisted. Bless his heart.

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    3. Bless his misogynist heart indeed! And Thomas Aquinas's. https://i.pinimg.com/564x/e0/da/44/e0da449200723315ac59b20b072dcf65.jpg

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  6. Hamfest Abandonment would be a good band name. I hope you have a lovely day!

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    1. You are right! That would make a good band name.

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  7. The Easter baskets turned out great! My most memorable Easter basket as a child contained a stuffed pig. It only happened one year, but my brother and I both got one and we treasured those pigs. (I don't know WHY we got pigs, as opposed to, say, ducks or bunnies. But I'm glad!)

    Glad Mr. Moon managed his shot!

    Why does Laurie Anderson prompt a stomach ache? I think I missed (or forgot) something here. I usually really like Laurie Anderson, actually. Sharkey's Day!

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    1. It's funny what you remember from childhood, isn't it?
      Laurie Anderson was talking about the death of her dog and her husband and her mother and how in some ways, their deaths had given her such a space of happiness or something like that and it was just way too esoteric for me and I thought about how I'd feel if my husband died and I got a stomach ache and then they started playing some of her music and it got worse.
      I don't know. Maybe I'm crazy. Or maybe it was just that moment in time. As happens sometimes.

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