Jelly Beans @ MindSay 
I've noticed that sadness has a friend. When a creeping, weeks long sadness first sets in, it brings a partner in tow. Hi, I'm Sadness, meet my friend Grief. Oh, it's nice to meet you Grief, wait a sec, haven't we met before? Usually when a person experiences grief it's through an expression of loss. It's markedly different from sadness, but they belong to the same family. Grief is more empty and nervous system stopping. But there is a less potent grief and it happens to be a close friend of sadness. A sort of residual grief. It's a... hey remember me from when your relative died two years ago kind of grief. Sadness from the present brings grief from the past. FUCK
Sadness with a tinge of grief. I'm going to have a relationship with this sadness. A healthy relationship. The kind of relationship that makes your life better. I've been waiting a long time to meet this sadness. This is the right sadness. The sadness with a purpose. I'm not going to use it and it's not going to use me. It is old and wise, perfected through countless generations. I am going to lean on it. I am going to learn from it. I am going to grow from it. Nice to meet you Sadness.
I honestly don't know what I found more strange:
the story about a young woman who guessed the EXACT number of jelly beans in a jar (7,954) to win $25,000 and this was the second time she has managed to accomplish this feat;
or the fact that PIRATES are still something we have to worry about when sailing the seven seas?
I don't know, maybe I am naive, but I thought that in these modern times, piracy was limited to music and videos on the internet. And guessing the number of jelly beans? Come on! First off, who is the poor schmuck who had to count out nearly 8,000 jelly beans into a jar (I am guessing the payday for that was significantly less than $25,000) and second, how do you guess that exactly right? I think guessing within a hundred jelly beans would still be an unbelieveable feat (and against some serious odds) but she guessed right on the money (pun intended).
The odds stacked against her doing this at all, much less twice in her life, have got to be astronomical. That's not even math that I can do.
I wonder if she got to keep the jar full of jelly beans or if they just throw them away?
Argh, matey, what do you think?
26 days.
Basically they are the Jelly Belly rejects.
The last bag I had was great, but this particular bag had a lot of coffee flavored jelly beans and some that fell into the category of unsatisfactory taste. All in all, I think Belly Flops are a decent find. Eating them kind of reminded me of eating Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans from the Harry Potter series. Every flavor meant every flavor. Would this jelly bean taste like Bananas Foster or sweat socks?
My first non-Mexico post...YAY!
Once again I've been inspired by porkchopper. The woman must have been a Greek muse in a past life...maybe that's why Soter (her Greek husband) was so attracted to her ;) LOL! Anyway, she had asked me if I was going to take Sarah to visit the Easter Bunny. I said no, because (and I'm showing my "bad mom" side) I hate standing in line. It's hard enough psyching myself up to take her to see Santa, so sorry Easter Bunny you don't make the lazy mommy cut. However, I am planning an Easter Egg hunt with my neighbor and kikuye. We did one last year, and it was so much fun watching the kids searching for eggs, it was hysterical. What makes this Easter egg hunt even better than the traditional kind is that we use plastic eggs and fill them with candy. I don't know about you but Easter candy rocks!
My favorite Easter candy are the chocolated malted eggs with candy coating. I know every girl has done the thing where you lick the colored candy coating and then rub it on your lips like lipstick, haha, and if you haven't done it than you've missed out. To this day I still can't decide what my favorite color is, white or blue!
Of course, you can't talk about Easter candy and not talk about jelly beans. I always hated that the jelly beans would work themselves down to the bottom of the basket, and get entangled in the fake grass. I'd spend valuable "candy eating" time searching through the my basket, gathering up all my jelly beans and then finally puting them in one big pile. Then I'd carefully sort through them so I could find just the right combination of flavors. I still haven't found it, haha.
But the best...the best are those hollow chocolate bunny ears. The thing I find very odd is that I prefer the hollow chocolate bunny ears to the solid bunny ears. You would think that it would be the solid one because of all the extra chocolate that you get, but it's not enjoyable eating them. It's too much trouble, and it fills you up too much, and then you don't have room for all the other Easter treats. And then you have this half eaten, deformed looking bunny staring back at you. Nope, give me the hollow one and let me put it out of it's misery.
Hmm, I love Easter candy. How about you? What's your favorite Easter treat?
Alex has 'discovered' candy. He has had candy before (he had some peanut M&Ms a couple of weeks ago) but he's never really shown interest until today.
While at Toys R Us I decided to pick up some of the Easter candy they had for sale. I got peanut M&Ms (pastel colors of course), Sour Starburst Jelly Beans and Milky Way bunnies.
First, I opened the M&Ms for a chocolate fix. Alex saw me with a bowl and quickly came over to investigate. He always likes to see what someone else is eating! His eyes grew large when he saw the pastel colored treats in the bowl. He reached out to grab one and quickly stuffed it in his mouth. He then reached for another and another and kept stuffing them in his mouth, until he looked like a chipmunk with a bunch of nuts in his cheeks.
Alex could hardly chew because he had three M&Ms in his little mouth! I told him he had to finish eating what he had before he could have another M&M, to which he promply replied "ummmph, uh, uh". He was not happy I had limited his M&M intake. He wanted to stuff more M&Ms in his mouth, like a crazed gambler shoveling quarters in a slot machine.
After having a few M&Ms I opened the Starburst Jelly Beans. By now Alex was hovering around me like a bee at the pool. He began to eat the jelly beans, but because they were sour jelly beans he kept making faces every time he ate one. Mike was not happy I was giving Alex sugar before bedtime, but Alex was happy, so that's all that mattered.
I'm thinking that this year Alex will actually enjoy Easter and his Easter basket as he was too young last year to eat any candy or actively hunt for easter eggs.
Every Easter and Christmas I like to get Alex a stuffed bunny. But it can't be just any old bunny, it has to be the perfect bunny for the occasion. I've been on the lookout, but haven't seen any contenders for the Easter Basket. Last Christmas I got Alex a Jelly Cat bunny, which is really cute. Unfortunately though, most bunnies are pink at Easter time, so I'll have to keep on looking.
A real bunny would be nice to get, but I'm very allergic to rabbits (at least I was when I was 14). And rabbits tend to smell up their cages. I'd let it hop around the yard, but the coyotes or our dogs would probably eat it. So no bunnies for us.
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