The Easter Recap

WELL WELL, what have we here? Apparently, my blog readership isn't twenty-something heavy enough, because if you'll shift your gaze to my 2008 Election Poll, Clinton is winning! What does this mean? Is this representitive of how folks are really feeling? Did that 37 minute self-aggrandizing speech turn a few people off to Obama? Has the fact that Clinton faked a sniper attack in Bosnia not really bothered anyone? What's goin on now, Amerrrica? This is all very interesting. But still, my verdict is out. I don't know who I'll vote for.

SO, THERE IS A HERSHEY'S MINIS VARIETY PACK ON THE KITCHEN COUNTER FOR EVERYONE TO SHARE. Looks like sooooomeone spent Easter in the USA! Not me, mind you, I holed up in Dublin for some reading, sightseeing, visiting with friends, and getting some mileage in before this dog of a 10k in a couple of weeks. But if you don't mind, I will still treat myself to a Mr. Goodbar from the Hershey's minis bag, since I am from America and yes, it is true what you have heard, Irish people: in most American households candy is a suitable replacement for breastmilk...

Not really, but I'd do just about anything for a free piece of chocolate. And I'm so starved for American food, I'd dance the Billy Rae Cyrus boot scootin' boogie if it meant a lil Mr. Goodbar with my morning coffee.

Anyway, I hope your Easter was as good as mine. Over here, they don't really dye eggs or put out any decorations. As far as candy goes, though, you KNOW these chocolate-guzzlers are not missing out on that! The tradition here is that everyone gets a giant chocolate egg, usually hollow and filled with other candies. The eggs come in tons of varieties: Cadbury (plain, flake, fruit and nut, whole nut...), Snickers, Maltesers (like malted milk balls), and on and on. There are walls of them in the supermarket, and as of yesterday their price dropped down to about 50c for each of them. I see a lot of diabetes emerging in the near future...

So that's the tradition here. I'll tell you some time about the Protestant church I accidentally went to for Easter:

Chapel, Trinity College Dublin

Fortunately, they held a Catholic mass, but basically the place is set up like the House of Parliament and I was feeling like Maggie Thatcher sitting there, desperately trying to hide my rosary and Papist glow about me. lol

Good Tuesday!!