I was brought up way too Catholic. I was raised to be a virgin until marriage. (HA!) I was told it was wrong to masturbate. (HA HA!!) I was kept home on Good Friday so that I could grieve Jesus’ crucifixion. My brothers and sisters and I were NOT allowed to play, or smile, or have fun, because TODAY was the day that Our Lord was crucified!! We resented being expected to cry about this. Frankly, we didn’t give a shit. We were just living for Easter Sunday, and biting the head off of those hollow chocolate Easter bunnies. We would sneak out of our rooms and gorge on the loose jelly beans in our Easter baskets. What the fuck, we earned it. We sat through the Stations of the Cross. We listened to a blow-by-blow of Jesus’ beating, and the walk to Calgary. Still ahead of us was Easter Mass, where the church was more crowded than any other day of the year. We had to get there early. We had to wear our fanciest outfits, including gloves and hats. We had to sit still for HOURS. Was Easter even worth it? We wondered as we worked through the robin’s eggs and malted milk balls. Near-puking by bedtime, Easter candy eaten, our brains buzzing with sugar and caffeine, we thought “I can’t wait until NEXT Easter!”
Sounds a lot like my childhood lol
Look what excessive religiosity does!
Happy F’ing Easter, BPOF! I hope you get some chocolate. 🙂
Thanks very fuckin’ much! Same to you 😜
I love how you say “too Catholic.” That all sounds like a pain to me
It was exquisite pain, believe me!
Oh my God, this was so awesome – I love how you wrote it!!!!!!
So concise but it described so much….peach, it could be in a fucking major magazine (minus a fuck or two, I guess)
I never went through any of that as a non-practicing Jew, and I must say that I’m glad that I was spared the hours and hours of tedious sitting, etc.
BUT I would have been FINE with the candy part!!!!
XOXOXOXOOXO
It could be in a fucking major magazine??? Minus a fuck? How could I EVER minus a fuck??? No seriously thanks for the great compliment dearheart ❤
😉 Hope you listen to that crazy link (I tagged you on Twitter) It’s silly but it cracked me up! Enjoy!
I did listen to it. Very silly 😀
JOOOOOHHHHHHHNNNNN CENNNAA – SOOOOOOOOOOPPPER SAAALE!!!!!!!
Oh goodness. I just laughed, and felt extremely bad for you at the same time…blah. My step mother has a pin that says “recovering catholic” it is my favorite thing ever.
I consider myself to be a recovering Catholic too 😀 CRAY CRAY religion!!!
Being Catholic sounds like hard work – chocolate well earned I’d say
Heck yeah! 😀