Happy Easter!!

Jeg har spist et lam i dag. I hvert fald en del af lammets ene ben.  Jeg er ved at lære at drikke Linie Aquavit. Jeg har plyndret aspargesbedet, til Faster Aspargestyv's ustyrlige glæde. Og ditto rabarberbedet, så nu skal Faster Køkkenguru (Aspargestyvens søster) på banen - jeg vil lave saft, og hun har sådan en si-dims.

Efter 3 dage, hvor det lidt føltes som om alle andre end mig (og dem der bestilte rejser) holdt fri, har påskefreden endelig sænket sig. Aaaah!!!

Og den lille joy-of-seasons autist (that would be me....) går rundt og mumler forskellige hyggelige ord. Det har sig nemlig sådan, at to af mine yndlingsord er højaktuelle lige nu. Påske. Og Lam.   De ligger bare så godt i munden, de to ord. Prøv selv:

Påskeæg. Påskeferie. Lammefjord. Lamlamlam i låget. Påskelam.

Et andet yndlingsord - alene fordi det ligger så godt i munden - er Tryllefrø.  Prøv bare det også.

Happy happy happy Easter!!  I hope you will get lots and lots of easter eggs; you so deserve them!!
(PS - In case you're wondering what all the Danish gobble-de-gook is about - because surely, "happy Easter" doesn't take up that much space, even in Olde Norse? - then don't worry, you're not missing out on anything. It's just me rambling about two of my favourite words, that happen to be "Easter" and "lamb".  Also "magic frog". Makes very little sense in Danish, and absolutely none in English.   Oh, that's right, I also wrote that I'm learning to drink Linie Aquavit. Now that, I'm sure, makes an awful lot of sense)

Vi tror på Påsken og al dens væsen

Her er stille. Helt stille. Ej -ikke helt. Vinduet står åbent, så jeg kan høre fuglesang. Og langt væk noget trafikstøj. Men jeg kan ikke høre andre mennesker. Fjernsynet er slukket. Radioen er slukket. Jeg er alene hjemme. Ahhhhh!

Kender du ikke den følelse, når man kommer hjem fra arbejde - at man bare ikke gider at have mere ind i ørerne?  Nu er det nok afhængigt af hvad man laver - mit arbejde involverer ufattelig meget talen-i-telefon, og da jeg i tillæg deler kontor med 9 andre piger som dels også taler rigtig meget i telefon, og desuden holder meget af at tale med hinanden (og mig :-), så er jeg nogen gange bare helt over kapacitetsgrænsen når jeg kommer hjem.  Der ryger også mange grin ind i øregangen i løbet af sådan en dag, så det er ingen klagesang det her - det er bare så uendelig dejligt med stilhed.

Min søster er anderledes. Hos hende kører radioen dagen lang. Kæreste skal også helst have noget kørende, anlægget eller TV.  Ham og min bedste veninde griner af mig, fordi jeg altid er den gamle tante der pipper "skru ned".  Til gengæld har mine nærsynede øjne nærmest uanet kapacitet. Bog på 700 sider - haps! 24 blogindlæg - slurp!  Bustur på 10 minutter uden læsestof i nærheden - angst. (Ja, det var nok mig du så skæve ned i skraldespanden ved busstoppestedet for at se om der lå en nogenlunde ren gratisavis)

I dag har jeg pyntet påsketræ.  Jeg skal ikke være hjemme alle dagene i påsken, og Kæreste (som skal) er sådan lidt lala; det er meget hyggeligt synes han men han lægger ikke mærke til det, hvis det ikke er der.  Så hvorfor pynte til påske?  Ajmen jo, fordi - fordi det gør man da! Det er så HYGGELIGT!!  Jeg har endda eksporteret det til Amerikas forenede stater, og nu har jeg - alt for sent til postvæsenet - fundet nogen fine små pynteæg som skal sendes derover (thi Amerika, som ellers har Alt, har ikke påskeægmedsnori i den helt rigtige størrelse. Påskenazist, hvem mig? KH Indre Helga)   Så jeg satser på at de husker traditionen til næste år også.

Jeg elsker mine påskeægmedsnori som jeg har arvet fra min mor. Nogen af dem er rigtig gamle, cirka lige så gamle som mig. (Lød jeg ikke lidt som Cher fra Clueless dér? "Isn't my house classic? The columns date all the way back from 1978")  Og så er der nogen kyllinger, og nogen påskeharermedsnori.

Men i dag kom jeg til at kigge den ene ind i øjnene, og jeg véd godt det bare er sådan snoren sidder  -  men ligner ham her ikke lidt et billede af Man Gjorde En Påskehare Fortræd?

*Sigh* I can haz Easter Eggs?

Tak fordi du læser med i mit lille liv - det er hyggeligt og rart med vidner til ens eksistens. Jeg håber du får en dejlig weekend, og at solen vil skinne på dig!


Do you like Easter?  I do. Especially here in Denmark where we are good Christians who get 5 (f-i-v-e) days off work. Yes, this is me rubbing it in. But I did tell you to relocate :-)
I decorated my Easter Tree today. I enjoy it as much as I enjoy decorating the Christmas Tree - and the Easter one does have the advantage of being a lot smaller- which I especially appreciate after Easter when I have to take it all down.  All the tiny wooden eggs are ones I got from my Mom; in my mind she has had them forever which means they might be as old as me and therefore practically antique.  The little dude in the picture above this isn't that old though.  But he looks a little confused; I'll bet he'd rather be outside, delivering Easter Eggs to the children. 
I am home alone right now. And it's oh-so-quiet. Ahhh!  Sometimes, after a day in the office, my ears just need to relax.  Unlike my eyes, which apparently never tire, my ears just reach max. capacity every now and again.  So when I'm alone, I never have the radio or TV on, and it's sheer bliss!

I wish you a wonderful weekend and hope the sun will shine on you!

Easter

Some people call me the Christmas Nazi because I have very firm ideas about how it should be done. Nowt wrong with opinions, I say (but it's probably a good thing that I don't have children. They'd decorate the tree all wrong...)  But really, I am a very peaceful, mellow person - I just like the Holidays. And that includes Easter too. This time of year, I'm all about the eggs, bunnies, chickens, and of course the classical Danish Easter Brew (beer, strong, interesting effect if consumed in vast quantities)

So I put up a few decorations for Easter; my mum has always done it so of course I thought "everybody" did but apparently that's not the case. I have to admit, it's less...elaborate than my Christmas decorations; the good thing about that is that it takes much less time to put up (and, of course, take down again).  The most important part is the Easter Tree (apologies in advance for poor photo quality, it must be the camera) which is basically just 10-12 short branches from the local park in a vase. After a few days inside where it's nice and warm, they think it's really spring and the leaves come out.  I decorate them with some wooden Easter eggs I got from my mum.

(The "table" is a sub woofer. Although the boyfriend loves the

decorations, he is not too happy that he's not allowed to play very loud

music while the Easter tree is sitting there. We all have to

make sacrifices...)

The Easter tree in my hallway - I put it up yesterday so no green

leaves on this one yet

I have another sign outside that says "EASTER". Just in case the neighbours didn't know.

It's a little service I provide

The coat rack. Handy for when you run out of places to put flowers.

And even though there's also a thick winter coat and a woolen

hat in the photo, it is spring. It's just my boyfriend who hails from a

place about 4,000 kilometers further south who thinks the temperature

should be a lot higher before winter garments are stored away.

And just look at these - in a months time, these will (hopefully) be ready to go out in the garden! It's been raining here so the only gardening I've done this Easter is filling some flowerpots with pansies and tiny daffodils. I'm champing at the bit!

Happy Easter!