Lily being super cute on Easter Sunday 2009. Guess how many times we have heard the Peter Cottontail song…

Easter Lily Dancing with Peter Cottontail from mob biblicone on Vimeo.

View the YouTube version.

Lily’s Easter Basket 2009, originally uploaded by biblicone.

Happy Easter to the best baby in the world. Animatronic Rabbit gift from Grandma.

Lily spent her Easter sleeping and eating.

Stuff: goings on: things: recent: thoughts: time:

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OK, lately I have been on this not liking any music kick. Usually I listen to music at work all day. I have iTunes and a few thousand songs that cycle randomly. Not now. I feel like I am not enjoying any of it.

Same goes for the stuff on the radio. Bla! So, to cure my urge to have some sort of sound around me, I have started to listen to a lot more a.m. radio. Talk radio. WBBM 780 Talk Radio. In the car or streaming at work… news all day.

Or… today, i was looking at this site (a cool new game coming out Oct 18 called Shadow of the Colossus) and listening to the music from it. The music is quite impressive orchestra type ambient music/chamber music type stuff.

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Me and -k have been deciding on wedding plans. March 20 is the date. Easter equinox. First day of Spring. And probably up just north of Seattle overlooking a cool waterfall. Plans are not set in stone, but we are pretty sure.

The wedding plan is immediate family (small) with a huge reception later back in Illinois/Chicago for everyone, friends family extended family. That way we dont have to ask many people to fly to Seattle on a weekday and spend a bunch of money getting there just for us when we plan to celebrate even further back here at home.

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Thats all I can think of right now…

Happy Easter. But did you know:

The use of eggs was forbidden during Lent, they were brought to the table on Easter Day, coloured red to symbolize the Easter joy. Easter Eggs may have its origin in paganism, for a great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter.

The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility.

The Easter Fire is lit on the top of mountains (not here in the U.S.) and must be kindled from new fire, drawn from wood by friction; this is a custom of pagan origin in vogue all over Europe, signifying the victory of spring over winter.

When Christian worship of Jesus and Pagan worship of Attis were active in the same region in ancient times, Christians “used to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus on the same date as the pagans and Christians used to quarrel bitterly about which of their gods was the real God and which was the fake God.

Well, whatever we celebrate and why, just remember: Easter Island was founded and named on Easter Sunday.

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There can’t be anything more demoralising than losing your leader. In a military sense one leader has all the armies hope’s resting on him. Once he is down you’ve pretty much got an aimless rabble. Remember that scene in El Cid where the hero’s corpse is put on a horse to rally the troops? They knew the importance of visibility. Or Easter?

Perhaps, just perhaps this war is already won and we don’t know it. To have a street fight everybody has to be in the street, that includes both sides. OK we are stuck in the streets but so are you… who’s nerve is going to hold? Now would be a good time to dangle morsels of what comes with the coalition in front of the Iraqi’s. Peace and quiet would be a good one.

12 hours on 12 hours off? Im too old for that now =)

Piff is OK. He sent a letter saying he is not coming out because “it is too noisy out there.”

On a personal note what you read is me, complete with flaws. But where are the hailstones I was expecting? Aren’t they reserved for wars? Or are they not needed heehee.

Rosie

There was a time when people never thought about stress, they just got on with life as they lived it. I still wonder how they made it through two world wars and remained sane. All those smiling faces in the trenches! How did they do that?

My first encounter with stress (now I look back) was watching Thunderbirds or Captain Scarlet. All those marmelised puppets on a weekly basis. I still have trouble watching the Fireflash episode of Thunderbirds; yes it is the best episode but for a 4 year old at the time quite scary…

These days people talk about stress all the time, like they always have it but in different quantitys. Terrorists haven’t helped us either. There seems to be a spirit of intimidation stalking the earth and the usual fear of the unknown.

Coping strategys? Well, you all know by now I have my faith to fall back on and it’s never let me down yet. So how are you all dealing with life just now? I’d be very interested to know. Who knows, you may help someone else….

So Happy Christmas everybody! This is the only time you get to live today so why not live it well.

Rosie (Who is more an Easter girl…..)