Friday Five

1. Today is Good Friday. Can you imagine being the disciples, wondering, What just happened?! Jesus, he’s the Messiah, and he just died? That can’t be right! They didn’t know what was coming on Sunday. And Sunday changes everything.

2. My fast was over on Monday, and you better believe I ate that éclair. I’m happy to report that I actually haven’t gone hog wild with desserts and diet Coke. And that is a relief, since I often do go hog wild after a fast. What do you know, God must really be learnin’ me some stuff!

3. I have a date with the clutter in my house today. As far as dates go, I’ve had better. Just sayin’. My husband also wanted me to have a date with all the leaves in our yard on Saturday. The coming rain saved me from that one.

4. I found a helpful new website this week - Grammar Girl. It’s great (other than the annoying pop-up ads). I was looking up the difference between i.e. and e.g. for a document I was working on when I found Grammar Girl. I then went on to read about quotations (so often misused).

And then I found this little gem about the interrobang (scroll down to the subheading Surprising Questions), which, by the way, my spell check tells me isn’t a word. Oh, but it is! I know you are probably wondering what an interrobang is. I shall enlighten you. It is a combination of a question mark and exclamation point, since using the two together like this “?!” is technically incorrect. An interrobang looks like this “‽”. Awesome, right‽

5. I made a zucchini dish last night for dinner. I cut the zucchini into thin strips and then sauted them with some diced onion. Next, I added some minced garlic and diced tomato. I served it with some minced fresh basil and freshly shredded Parmesan cheese. It looked delicious. We took a bite and made a face. The zucchini was so bitter. It was inedible! I had manged to buy at least one really bad veggie. Oh, the disappointment.