that’s time, speeding by, and suddenly it’s tuesday night and i’m sitting here on my porch on my (very very rickety) porch swing but i’m going to move to the steps in a minute i think, because i feel like this thing is going to collapse at any moment.
how was your easter? get lots of chocolate bunnies/eggs? i hope so. i only got a very very small amount of chocolates which is a very VERY good thing because if i have them, i’ll eat them. i’ll eat all of them, and probably at one sitting. i ate the very small amount i got at one sitting, for example.
and the ham, did you have ham, as well? jim sullivan told me that they had ham and scalloped potatoes, and he seemed to think that the scalloped potatoes were also a critical part of the whole easter eating experience. i hadn’t heard of that, and maybe it’s just a thing in his particular family.
have i mentioned that i LOVE MY PORCH??? i was hoping to sit out here earlier but one thing led to another, as they have a tendency to do, and suddenly it’s dark, but still very nice outside. i live on a pretty busy street but really it’s not so busy most of the time.
next easter i’d like to be around some little kids so i could take part in an easter-egg hunt. but then again, who needs kids for that? in LA, christine tried to organize kids’ games like hide and go seek, but i think it was kind of difficult to get the adults interested. maybe it wasn’t hide and go seek, maybe it was tag, or kick the can. duck duck goose? no, i’m sure it was something that involved people running around out in the street.
christine lived in between hollywood and sunset boulevards, two VERY VERY busy streets, and in the section of town she lived, in the heart of hollywood, there were many homeless people and hookers and other colorful characters. not to mention LOTS AND LOTS OF TRAFFIC.
but her street was this tiny little tree-lined oasis in the midst of all that chaos around her. it was a lovely little cottage, the kind of place i’d love to have. only i’m sure that if she’d wanted to buy the place instead of just renting, it’d have cost EIGHT BAZILLION DOLLARS.
speaking of houses, i spent most of the day helping amy and jim with their cleaning and fixing up of their house which they hope to sell soon. i mostly just cleaned.
nobody in my family has ever been so zealous about cleaning, but i’ve found that if i actually start cleaning something, i just can’t stop. today i cleaned around many doors and i cleaned out the refrigerator. i tried to be outside as much as possible becuase WHAT A GORGEOUS DAY IT WAS.
still is, for that matter.
but now i’m at home and i turned on my tv for a minute because i AM paying for montly cable, and i found myself drawn to the weather channel, and they claim we’re going to have LARGE DAMAGING HAIL tonight. so hopefully that won’t happen. at least there are no more tornadoes in our immediate future.
did you get your taxes in? or were you one of the people who could claim that the tornado caused you to be late, in which case you have till the end of may? amy and jim get to do that, because their tax preparer said they could. it seems a little vague to me; in some places i’ve read you can only claim this if your home was damaaged, or your tax preparer’s business was damaged, but then somebody said you could just write SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS in red ink on the top of your return and they’d let you slide.
hard to say.
doesn’t matter, because my HUGE CHECKS are in the mail. whew. at least i don’t have to think about that for a while.
more cleaning/painting tomorrow.
that’s about all i know for a lovely LOVELY spring night here in springfield.
ok then,
april grace.