{"id":18153,"date":"2015-04-03T18:20:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T18:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=18153"},"modified":"2015-04-03T18:20:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T18:20:01","slug":"holidays-happy-passover-and-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/holidays-happy-passover-and-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"HOLIDAYS: HAPPY PASSOVER AND EASTER"},"content":{"rendered":"

HAPPY PASSOVER AND EASTER<\/h1>\n

Even though both these holidays are about resurrection and seriousness, they’re happy ones. The Jewish people celebrate being passed-over for death, and Christians celebrate their lord rising from the dead. \u00a0Or so I understand; I’m far from a religion scholar. \u00a0Or a religious<\/em> one, as I had at first erroneously written.<\/p>\n

\"imagesr\"<\/a>But I love both Passover and Easter. \u00a0Guess why? \u00a0Think of what they have in common. Ready? \u00a0Lots of delish, once-a-year foods, of course!!! \u00a0(Or, as Mr. X just correctly guessed, \u201cThey both involve chocolate!\u201d Like, dark chocolate-covered matzahs\u2014OMG!) So, I celebrate both! \u00a0(But only one in the religious sense. \u00a0The one with my own peeps, of course. Wait\u2014not the \u201cPeeps\u201d marshmallows candy\u2014that would be an Easter<\/em> treat.)<\/p>\n

But none of my pals here are much fun anymore. \u00a0Very few pals have seders in LA; they’re usually going<\/em> to ones, at homes of people I don’t know. \u00a0So, I don’t know if I’ll even be enjoying a seder this year. \u00a0But I can still get the food to have at home by my lonesome. \u00a0(Mr. X will be there with me, but he’s not Jewish, nor a fan of ethnic food. So\u2014more for me!)<\/p>\n

The juxtaposition of the two holidays this year is bringing me some wonderful memories, though. \u00a0They were in the same order when I came here as a teen-ager, knowing absolutely no one.<\/p>\n

\"11121111_10153228680543872_4549129923001648937_n\"<\/a>On the first night of Passover, I went to my new friend Ginny’s mother’s house, in the beautiful country-esque area of Pacific Palisades. For the second seder, she and I went to her father’s apartment in a high-rise in Westwood, which I thought was the absolute classiest place you could be in this town.<\/p>\n

And the next day was already Easter, just like it is this year. I spent it with my favorite family in those days, the Cardozas. My friend, whom I always referred to as \u201cThe Beautiful Desdemona,\u201d had one of the two most interesting extended family I’ve ever met, still to this day. (The other is the Hazel clan in Rhode Island, with whom I’ve always spent\u00a0my absolute favorite<\/em> Easters.) That initial LA holiday week-end is still one of my favorite time-spans ever, one that I’ve never stopped appreciating.<\/p>\n

\"Easter<\/a>But that was a simpler time. No one I know is doing any celebrations this year, except in New York, where my presence was, gratefully, requested. And I have<\/em> been invited to a gigantic Vietnamese celebration…at Pechanga Casino!!! (I really wanted to go that one, but, as I said, none of my pals are fun anymore. Except out-of-town ones.)<\/p>\n

My Colorado friend, Carol, always sends a mixed holiday card to Mr. X and me. I have no idea how she finds those missives, year after year! This year, the card will hit the nail on the head, because of them being at the same time.<\/p>\n

So, I’ll be celebrating with a couple of non-related fetes, binge-watching the six hundred hours on our DVRs with Mr. X, obsessing over the NCAA Tournament Final Four on Saturday, and resting-up for next week’s MTV Movie Awards Suites. And you know what? All that will be celebration enough for me.<\/p>\n

So, no matter which you’re reveling in this week-end, I wish you an absolutely wonderful Passover\/Easter.<\/strong> Enjoy whatever it is that you’re doing! And have some matzah ball soup, and chocolate bunnies, for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HAPPY PASSOVER AND EASTER Even though both these holidays are about resurrection and seriousness, they’re happy ones. The Jewish people celebrate being passed-over for death, and Christians celebrate their lord rising from the dead. \u00a0Or so I understand; I’m far from a religion scholar. \u00a0Or a religious one, as I had at first erroneously written.<\/p>\n

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