Reflections

I remember watching a comedian....Jim Gafigan...terribly funny guy. Well, he was talking about Easter (many of his bits feature him doing both parts of the conversation)....and I won't get this exactly right, but here's the gist:
"Ok to celebrate Easter. We'll get a bunch of eggs.
but that doesn't make any sense
Ok. We'll hide them?
and this relates to the resurrection of Christ how?
It's ok - there's a bunny."

yeah, I laughed. But today it's got me thinking....how commercial things have gotten. I can remember when not a child around me didn't know that Easter was a celebration of Christ's Resurrection and everyone went to church and most girls got a new Easter dress and some little hats with matching purses and we'd go to church and hear for the millionth time the miracle and we'd sit in awe.

Today I look around and most kids haven't the foggiest idea what an Easter bonnet is or why on earth someone would want to go to church instead of diving into piles of candy....and while it is very well known that I am a huge proponent of eating much candy....the rest of it makes me sad. It's bad enough that the true meaning is lost....but it's also a crucial part of our heritage that's being skewed into a sugar coated commercialistic whatever you want to call it.
And that's my rant for the day.

We finally got our tax return and the laptop we've been talking about for two years and it's an adventure typing on it.....not only is it a "standard" keyboard (the one I have at work is ergonomic), I also have to get used to the heat sensitive mouse thingy that keeps moving my cursor when I get close to it....LOL
Hopefully this means that we'll find the cable to our camera and upload the pictures that have been sitting there since our honeymoon. Hrm. anyone interested in a slide show of a bunch of islands?