Easter candy, Good Friday, Ham bones, and plastic

How's everyone's Good Friday going? Mine is good so far, despite the constant noise at work. My co-worker treated us admins to lunch from Jimmy John's, so not only did I get a yummy sandwich, it was free. Thanks Mike.


Last night I went to dinner with my best friend Katie, and afterward we went to my favorite store - Target. I wanted to buy some Easter candy, which of course is a necessity. But I went crazy with the cheese whiz - I bought 10 bags of candy! And I have no children, so I don't even have that excuse. I just love candy, and I don't indulge that much, so when I saw all the lovely pastel-colored bags of delicious candies, I couldn't resist. Well, I could have, but I didn't.


They have an addictive type of jelly bean that I'd never had before - Nerds Bumpy Jelly Beans. They are soooo good. I could have eaten the whole bag last night. I wish I would've bought 2 bags. Katie recommended them, and boy, she was right.

I would recommend picking some of these up. As soon as you can. Eat them by the handful.

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My church is having a Good Friday service, and I'd kind of like to go, but we won't be going. Sometimes all the church events can be a bit much. But I plan on observing the occasion in my own way at home. My favorite band of all time, Waterdeep, has a song called Instead, that talks about our sin and how God made the ultimate sacrifice and sent his Son to die for us instead of making us pay for our own sins. It's pretty powerful, and it calls to mind the depth and gravity of what God and Jesus did for us on this day in history.
Some of the lyrics:

Cause it's a touch of love that can free you of despair
And forgiveness rolls
Thank God He's so unfair
Because I should've been dead
For what's inside my head
But He killed His Son instead.

When it's put that way, that God killed His Son instead (of us), it really puts it in perspective. We deserve to reap the fruit of our sin, but God, in his fathomless love and compassion for us, called his Son to sacrifice himself so that we wouldn't have to pay. Sometimes I still can't quite wrap my head around that.

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It's a rough transition to talk about something less serious after that, but here I go.


I bought a semi-boneless ham for dinner on Easter, and I'm actually more excited about using the leftover bone and ham pieces for soup than I am about having the ham for dinner this Sunday. I have a recipe from my mom for ham and lentil soup that is just delicious. It doesn't look that appetizing; the lentils (and possibly the ham bone) give the soup a grayish color. But you forget about the unappealing color when you're eating it, because it's just that good. If anyone wants the recipe, let me know and I will either email it to you or post it on here. It's a great way to use your leftover ham and that ol' ham bone.


Question: if a piece of meat has any bones in it at all, how is it "semi-boneless"? To me, that's an all or nothing type of deal. It either has bones, or it doesn't. It sounds like a marketing gimmick to me. But I'm not a butcher or meat expert, so what do I know?

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I bought a bag of Peeplets candies, made by the company that makes Peeps. They are described on the bag as Rich Dark Chocolate surrounding marshmallow-flavored cream. They sounded yummy. But. They. Are. Not. They tasted like plastic. (Not that I've ever eaten plastic*, but you know what I mean.) Do NOT buy these. Yuck. I took them to work with me today, because I work with vultures who devour anything edible that you put out in about 1.2 seconds. But the bag was not emptied. I guess even the vultures feel the same way about them that I do.


Know what I discovered just now while eating some of my candy? If you eat a dark chocolate m&m with a cherry-flavored Starburst jelly bean, it tastes just like a chocolate-covered cherry. The good kind, with the liquid instead of the icky cream. Mmm.


Whew, long post today. I hope it wasn't too boring. Have a great Easter everyone!


 
*although, Cool Whip is close enough to plastic in it's chemical makeup that I sort of count it. I don't know if it's true, but I heard once that Cool Whip is one ingredient away from having the same ingredients as the hair gel Dippity-Do. But does that hair gel still exist? I don't remember seeing it around lately.