Happy Easter... I think.

[pride_of_erin]

So it's Easter Sunday. I got dragged out of bed at 9am, which is like the middle of the freakin' night to me, considering I've been getting up at noon-1pm lately, to go eat pancakes that my mother was making. Pancakes in our house are A Big Deal, because Mum hates making them, so therefore they only come out on special occasions. And by golly, you'd better be there to appreciate them, hence me getting dragged out of bed. So I eat, tired, irritable, sensitive to loud noises, and being barked at by two brothers who have managed to make it to the respective ages of 12 and 30, without ever learning the concept of an 'indoor voice'.

Then I go get my chocolate - I got two small bags of tiny, bite-sized eggs, and that's all. Dude, I usually get at least a larger egg, and always a chocolate bunny. I must admit I was somewhat taken aback - but I absolutely did not whine, "Muuuumy, why didn't I get a buuuuuuny?" No, I didn't. I'm 22, and I can deal with the fact that I didn't get a bunny. *cough*

At which point, Mum says, "Oh stop it - you're 22, you're damn lucky that the Easter Bunny still comes to you at all." This is when I wander back to my room, to suck on tiny, el-cheapo eggs that taste like shit, contemplate the many and various ways in which growing up sucks donkey's balls, and write in my live journal about the tragedy of emo-teenager proportions that my Easter has become. *sigh*

Not to mention that it's not even 10 o'clock yet - my Easter was over in about half an hour, because for some strange reason, we did the family get together thing on Good Friday this year, not Easter Sunday. Usually, I'd have a big lunch to look forward to, but today I will probably just take a nap, and then read the Bible, purely because I'll feel guilty if I don't. Okay, yes - I will stop complaining. I did not get a bunny, but at least I am not nailed to a piece of wood. Always look on the bright side of life.

Brilliant - now I have that song stuck in my head.

Happy Easter (or generic chocolate-related holiday) to you all!

Comments

[rileyc.livejournal.com]

Well, until yesterday, the Easter bunny hadn't visited me for around thirty years. It was kind of fun to be ten again. *g*

[pride-of-erin.livejournal.com]

Oh man, why do you have to be young to get all the fun stuff? Plus, I'm a chocoholic - mess with my drug of choice and there's hell to pay, LOL.

[colleendetroit.livejournal.com]

At which point, Mum says, "Oh stop it - you're 22, you're damn lucky that the Easter Bunny still comes to you at all."

((giggle)) I was thinking the same thing...heehee The Easter Bunny stopped coming for me when grandkids popped into the scene. Argh. ;o)

[pride-of-erin.livejournal.com]

We're a whiny bunch - my parents do have grandkids, but we've made sure that the Easter Bunny will continue to visit the rest of us for as long as we live with our parents, even though the youngest kid doesn't even believe in him anymore. But if my 30-year-old brother still gets chocolate, then so shall I!

*pouts* He got a bunny...

[colleendetroit.livejournal.com]

*pouts* He got a bunny...

OH, that is just *WRONG*! ;o) I actually wish I could just get a few bags of the Hershey's chocolate robin's eggs...mmmmmm...my favorite.

[ralu-1982.livejournal.com]

Okay, I JUST HAVE to ask this: what's with the fucking bunny, man?! I'm serious, is there like some kind of mithological/religious thing behind the Bunny mania or is it just the natural product of capitalist consummerism?

Because - and I swear to God I'm not lying - the whole Bunny invasion started over here only like a couple of years ago.

THERE WAS NO BUNNY BEFORE CAPITALISM AND THERE WAS NO BUNNY BEFORE COMMUNISM!
And now - everybody loves the bunny!

It's insane. Not to mention stupid.

[pride-of-erin.livejournal.com]

Well, actually, the whole bunny thing has it's roots in paganism, as most features of religious holidays do - bunnies, eggs and chickens are all symbols of fertility and new life, and were used to celebrate the old spring festival of Ostara. Specifically, the bunny came from the goddess Eostre, although it was actually the hare that was sacred to her (I guess Easter Hare doesn't sound as good as Easter Bunny).

Yes, the whole thing has been commercialised for the modern world, but it's really not a new thing. The tradition of egg hunts, and telling kids that a bunny brings them, has been around for at least a couple hundred years, maybe more. I don't know why Romania didn't do it up until now.