While the rest of the world is celebrating Easter...

Happy Easter to those of you who actually do observe this holiday.

This isn't my holiday. Actually, most of the people who live in this area are not celebrating Easter today. I live in the most highly populated Jewish part of the county. Everyone knows this. The schools have off for Passover, not Easter. We actually have "winter recess" and not "Christmas break." We're closed for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur but open for Martin Luther King's birthday and Good Friday.

But for some reason, with very few exceptions, the entire county is closed for Easter today.

I was lazy and didn't go to the store yesterday to pick up food. Why should I? Of course the stores would be open today, right? WRONG!

So with no food in the house, we were forced to venture out and attempt to locate breakfast. Trying to find somewhere that was open was an adventure. There was literally one restaurant open. One. In three freaking towns.

Even the diners were closed! If you're actually from Jersey, then you understand why this is surprising. If not, allow me to explain: Jersey diners don't close for anything. Most are open 24 hours a day. They're open for Christmas, New Years, flash floods, freak blizzard-like snow storms in the middle of July. They're always open. Except today...

Sams club was closed. What? Do Jews not need to go out and buy paper towels and milk in ridiculous mass quantities on Easter Sunday? Someone in corporate did not plan this properly.

The mall is closed. Don't the non-Easter celebrating folk of the county need to go somewhere and blow their hard earned money on useless products and fried foods? Yes, I hate the mall. But Andrew loves checking out the people and running around the play area. And when Andrew's happy, all is right with the world.

So now I'm stuck in the house with no food and nothing to do, except the work I've been putting off all week. Good thing for Netflix and my three new movies in their little red envelopes.