Thoughts for the day...

I've got a big Easter egg this year. Actually, I got a huge Easter egg this year, made of chocolate. It's larger than my hand, and beneath there's twelve different pieces of chocolate all artfully decorated. I'm not one for religion, but I do enjoy Easter. It's traditionally been the one vacation I would see my family up north and spend some time with father. This year I'm gonna be celebrating Easter alone in Wales. And somehow, despite the fact I didn't think I would, I miss spending today with my father, my nan and my cousins. The weirdest part was that I missed looking for an Easter egg. I'm less than three weeks away from turning 20, officially no longer a teenager, and I missed hunting for an egg I'm quite certain my father has placed somewhere for me to find, and not a yellow bunny with a basket. Notice the quite. I'm leaving some room for hopes of future eggs should I wrong.

I do have an egg, as stated above, and it is possible the largest piece of chocolate I have ever owned. But it is not the same. You can't open it to find sickly sweet chocolates or artificially coloured pieces of plastic masking as candy. Nor can you trade different pieces with cousins. Or have your father and uncles eat the ones you don't like while pretending to be nice. In all honesty, I was trying to be nice, if they didn't want it, they could pick something else. Just not the raspberry filled chocolates. They were mine. Try that and you'd have four feet of vicious kid jumping after it. My last egg was a bright blue one, and it was hidden under a huge tree on my stepmother's parent's front lawn. That was a few years ago, because the last Easters I've spent otherwise. Either with someone I've loved or doing something I love, and that has been fine. This Easter I'm poor and alone, in a foreign country, with no one I love and nothing I love to do.

Therefore, in an attempt to stay sane, I will at least have one thing that is the same: I will still find a hidden Easter egg. Fair enough, I will hide it myself, but that doesn't count. I will still have to find a hidden Easter NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY! So shut up and let me have my fun.

Happy Easter, everyone. I'm off for a bit of egg-hunting... :D