The Easiest Holiday Ever

Easter is a pretty cool holiday, easter egg hunts and candy. It is also, the easiest holiday to find something to eat, as well. What do I mean? I mean that usually, that there is food that I can eat(as compared to Thanksgiving and Christmas) and plenty of it. There are tons of eggy foods(cause usually my family bought WAY too many eggs for the easter egg hunts).

In reality, it would be impossible for a vegan to be apart of our family gatherings and still make sure that they had food. (Even the mashed potatoes have butter mixed in them at the beginning of preparation).This is one reason that I am happy that I decided against being a vegan. Because Easter would probably be the most difficult. I am a vegetarian though, so it is pretty easy for me.

The lunch of pure candy probably helps too, because that is all that any one of my cousins and I ate. We usually ate so much that by the time we all left, we had all probably gained like twenty pounds (just in chocolate weight).

In hindsight, I understand that this is probably the most unhealthy thing that someone can do, this type of diet is just diabetes waiting to happen, but we were little and the only thing we were worried about was trying to figure out a way to sneak more candy before any of the adults saw us. (I used to pretend like I dropped something under the dinner table and ate like five Hershey’s kisses)

But anyway, being a vegetarian is easiest on Easter. It makes sense does it not? Easy and Easter both start with the letters eas-, coincidence? I think not! Right now, all I am thinking about is getting up and fishing through all the stuf the Easter bunny put out on our table for us to enjoy, and I just know that my mom is going to make some sort of egg today, so this will be tons of fun, even if I’m not going to see much of my family today.  But I should ask before I go, is there supposed to be some sort of turkey or ham made?(at least in traditions sake). We never have but I was thinking that there might have been something.

Alrighty, see ya later. There is a chocolate bunny calling my name.

Its Easter!!!! but I’m still sad..

My family is not the most religious family in the world, we believe in something, but we don’t really know what that something is. We used to go to church every Easter and Christmas, but that was more for the family bonding(my mother’s whole side of the family went). So really the only reason we look forward to Easter is for the candy and the easter egg hunts. (again, not very religious anymore)

Something is different this year though….we are not doing anything. Usually, we would go to back to my hometown to visit with family and have Easter fun up at the huge park near the grandparents’ house. This year, they live in Florida and all of my other family have kind of spread out, there is not just one huge glob of the family living in the same area (even we used to live there, we just moved after my fifth grade year). After we moved, we still made the yearly trek down to the family to vist on Easter. This year, we can’t do that, driving to Florida and back in one day is pretty impossible, and getting all of my family to make the same trip is NEVER going to happen. I miss the huge buckets of stuff that we used to get from grandma(there was one for EVERY grandkid, which translated to like thirteeen buckets of Easter crap and candy. I always thought that it was amazing that my grandma tried every year to make sure that each kid had a great Easter. There wasn’t a huge feast planned or anything like that, we all just sat around, ate way too much candy and if you got hungry there was sandwich stuff to make what you wanted(with plenty for this omnivore when I became a vegetarian.) As I’ve gotten older, my family has started to splinter, there are arguments and fights and all sorts of stuff that I won’t go into detail about. Now we can not even sit together for more than an hour without some drama starting.

Maybe it was there all along, but I never really noticed it until I got older and realized that the stuff they were yelling at each other was not ‘I love you’.  We always used to go up there and the fact that no one is even trying to see each other is pretty telling that something is going on, I just wish that it was not this way that we could all stomach being together again.

It Is Already Starting.

Usually, I would talking about something to do with being a vegetarian, or I would be defending the rights of animals, but this last week has been just a horrible, downer sort of week, full of crazy bouts of stress and anxiety. The reason why?? The AP exams are coming up pretty soon. Usually I would wait until it got closer to the actual exam day to start freaking out, but after I just took this quiz in AP Lang, the anxiety has started a lot sooner than usual.  AP Lang was the class that I thought I would do super well on, when I started this year off, now I just hope that I can pass the exam with a minimal amount of scars.

Worrying about AP US all year has probably helped me stay on track with that class, but now, I’m feeling the stress about AP Lang. After the quiz that I just talked about, I kind of want to go home, curl up in a ball and cry myself to sleep. This doesn’t actually happen to me often, usually I am okay with maybe struggling in classes, but now I’m just worried.  The exam is coming up sooner rather than later and I need a lot of help.

I bought both the review books for my AP classes, hoping to try and find a way to help my grade go up, especially since at Kennedy, scoring well on the AP exam is something that is pretty much expected of you.

The weird thing about this class, is that usually I am freaking out about having to write the essays and am excited to do the multiple-choice. This time, it is the exact opposite. I wish the whole AP Lang test was essays, then I could probably score better on the exam. The multiple choice are just not for me. It doesn’t help that I see people in our class cheering about the score they got, while I got the score that I got.(for embarassment purposes, I will not be posting the score here). I feel pretty stupid right now, thats for sure. I think that this class is going to kill me, and we only just started taking the practice tests. Anyone want to help a lost soul try and redeem themselves? I would sure appreciate it. Anyway, this is enough of publically breaking down for now. I will leave now.