mmm gelfite fish

sorta a really gross version of tuna fish.  and matzoh is a slightly gross version of crackers - yet together they taste pretty good.  

anyway, i had a good time.  i liked it.  it's a nice tradition.  growing up catholic (and trying every day to recovery lol) we had all these holiday dinners and not a single mention of why.  i mean sure we had grace and all.  but what was the last easter dinner you had where you talked about the resurrection.  

which by the way is an old old story that you will find in every early religion.  and by the way - the easter bunny - the goddess ostara; goddess of fertility (read new life/beginnings) and her consort the hare.  course i'm a bigger fan of the idea that jesus just doesn't like eggs so everyone hid them when they heard he was back.  

so back to my point - christians are always complaining about god being taken out of christmas etc.  now usually when they say that they aren't railing against santa claus.  generally it's because they are pissed off that other people might want to do something else.  somehow it's a problem to say happy holidays because if you're jewish then you deserve nothing, if you're an atheist then you are lucky to be allowed to breath and if you are muslim or pagan well then you're the embodiment of all that is evil.  anyway, meanwhile, some of these people i get these emails from . . . i've been in their houses for holidays and i don't hear word fricking one about why - saying grace doesn't count.  when i was little i used to make my family have a birthday party for jesus - cake and all.  but i assure you that at no point did we read from the bible or stories that retold pieces of the bible or hell, even acknowledged we knew were to find one.

i get all these emails especially at work about 'those people' who are trying to take over the country.  first off, technically religious holidays are not supposed to be federally observed period.  i'll find you cites on that later.  yeah, in fact i will follow that whole lead up.  

ah, all that lacked finesse in the way it was stated but still.  and frankly i don't care that we never visited our religion while i was a kid.  (although i very much care about the spreading of bigotry under the guise of pride - there's another group that does that; they're called skins/neonazis  . . . just saying)  i was simply noting how very different tonight was.  

also, i was very uptight at first because my son was a little off the wall (by which i mean he didn't want to sit down/ was talking while they were reading etc) and where i come from if religious stuff is going on everyone shuts up and doesn't move.

okay - how cute is hayden panitterie.  my goodness.

wow.  once again i am falling asleep with fingers on the keys which is kinda screwed because i actually slept last night.  

oh, my dentist wants me to wear my guard all the time and i have to go see her to possibly have all my teeth adjusted to battle the tmj.