Easter. It's a wonderful holiday! The whole family gathers and as usual,..EATS! I'll have to at least have a ham and a chicken cooked,..fresh green salads,..at least two kinds of fresh warm hot breads..(probably banana nut bread and corn muffins),..and...

DAAAAAAAAAAAMN IT! I JUST WON'T DO IT! THIS TIME, NO PIES AND CAKES!! I'M GETTIN' RADICAL! I DON'T FEEL ALL THAT GOOD AS YET!!

So the Easter menu is as follows:

Sliced honey ham

Roasted chicken wst dressing

Banana nut loaf

Corn muffins

Mashed potatoes

Noodles and my chicken gravy

Green salad

Peas?

Fresh baked sugar cookies (2 dozen...iced and covered with sprinkles).

That is enough to feed a small army!! And there will only be five of us here!!

With all of the involuntary sitting that I have been doing this winter,..I was informed the other day that I have as strong a posibility of DVT...(Deep Coronary Thrombosis) as Rosezelle does.

I know what this is leading up to: a no go to the Awards Ceremony in Houston. Rosezelle tried to softened the blow the last time I talked to her, but it makes no difference. I will be talking my way through all of the possibilities, but it will make no difference. I cannot change the structure of my anatomy and physiology.

As Rosezelle said, "What good is flying down to Texas to accept an award only to drop dead with a blood clot in your lungs only a few moments later?"

I think that she is stretching the point, but "Dying to win"..was never my game plan.

(Being nasty) Rosezelle knows that I have the stories and the quips and the shape of my second book..(tentitively..titled: AND STANDING TALL),.. inside of me,..she also knows that she has to pry them out of me!!

And if either of us kicks the bucket at this point, THE BLACK HEART BOOK,..(she has refused to change the spelling of Heart to HART as she knows what my reference points are!!)..will die at it's birthing and since this is HER story,..she'll do anything legit to keep it and me going...including skipping the Awards Ceremony!!



RAAAAAAAAAAAAAATS!


On the bright side,..as an Easter Present to our entire family,..Shawn took us all out to a restaurant last night for a fish dinner!!

BIGTIME HOGTIME! I had two pieces of fried North Atlantic Cod and french fries!! Fried foods!! My forbidden fruit!!

Gawwd!!!!!

..I enjoyed it!!

Should I push my luck and go to Houston, Texas?