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HULLO!

I know I know it’s been a little whiiile….I just wanted to give you guys time to digest all that news about the ice.  Truly distressing.

So it’s Easter today…it’s been pretty nice, pretty standard.  We had our traditional BASKET HUNT this morning which was traumatic as always.  This was the first year that I didn’t even find my basket until after church.  That never happens! EVER.  But I wasn’t slacking on my problem-solving skillz, my clues were just like ridiculous I don’t know what to say.  The clues I wrote were obviously top notch.  I made my assigned person (Dominic) cry from frustration, which is always kind of the unspoken goal when we are writing the clues, so.  Mission accomplished.  Other than the hunt, Easter was rather mellow.  There was a remarkably small number of fights, my mom didn’t cry, and Siena managed to not get completely hammered at dinner so!  Yay for the Coppas for keeping it together, though I guess it ain’t over till the fat lady sings, or so they say.

On an entirely different subject, the other day at work I got like, scolded for neglecting my duties because I temporarily joined this BOOK CLUB that meets every weekend at Panera.  I hadn’t intended to join, but I see them come in every week, and they’re all pretty old and hideous and wacky seeming, but I’ve always kind of wondered what books they were discussing.  So last week I was lurking nearby wiping tables and casually listening in, and they were discussing Ender’s Game!  Which I have read so I like couldn’t RESIST and had to jump in to the discussion.  And I didn’t join for very long because my tightass manager like laid an egg.  But first of all I was definitely right about the “wacky” thing…these book-clubbers were NUTS, to make an understatement!  But second of all I was reminded of how much I enjoyed reading that book back in the day!  So anyway last night I had a READ ATTACK and was scrounging around for something good to read, and it struck me to pick it up again.  And I’ve been reading it all day, which I guess is not really an Easter-ish activity, but it’s very enthralling.  And I think since I was being made to read it in 10th grade, and I didn’t really care about it, I didn’t grasp fully how good it was.  So I’m glad I’m reading it again.  Anyway that was a very roundabout and lengthy way of talking about the book I’m reading, but I’m in like the Ender’s Game zone right now, what can I say. 

In OTHER news my BIRTHDAY is in nine days.  I just love my birthday so much, I can’t even tell you.  I mean nothing spectacular ever really happens on it, (example: last year I spent the whole day holed up in the family room working on my visual file) but there’s just something nice about the feeling that it’s my birthday.  And also I enjoy getting older (which I guess won’t last forever) because I always feel like I’m just like DECADES younger than everyone else, I don’t know why.  So even though it’s illogical, every time I have a birthday I feel like I’m maybe finally catching up.    

Oh boy! Ahem-hem-hem, it is now time for a HOUSEKEEPING NOTE:

OK so it’s been brought to my attention by some of my more finnicky readers that I frequently put words in CAPITALS, like that.  For example, instead of saying “oh gosh guys, so today was easter”, I say “oh gosh guys, so today was EASTER.”  So I wanted to briefly address this, because it is apparently bothersome to some people.  The reason I use the caps, is because I am trying to accurately convey the emotion with which I would SPEAK the words I am writing, if I were standing in front of you delivering them verbally.  I realize that I could use italics, but italics have always struck me as sort of wimpy, and I find that I rarely put wimpy emphasis on a word.  I usually put full-fledged BELLOWING emphasis on most words, hence the caps.  So my apologies if it irks some people, but I really have no intention of changing this any time in the near future. 

hohumm well I am in like a weird mood right now, if you can’t tell.  I had a lot of wine at dinner, so that could account for it.  But generally speaking, the wine aside, I have been feeling pretty not-unhappy lately, which is really a profound and exciting development in my life.  Not to say that I am constantly JulianaRAINCLOUD, but like, I rarely feel content.  And recently I have been feeling content.  So that is nice.

Anyway it is now time to go watch Rachel Getting Married with my mom and Maria.  So I’m stopping.  But Happy Easter!  Sorry for the pretty lame post.

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