Yesterday, my family celebrated a little known holiday: Purdy's Tuesday (aka Chocolate Tuesday). This very special holiday follows Easter Monday, and marks the conclusion of Easter celebrations.

The ceremony is very simple. Get up early, skip showering if you've slept in (or if you think that you'll need to use the BO buffer-zone tactic), go to the mall before the stores open, line up outside of Purdy's. When the doors open, elbow other "celebrants" who might block your path to the good stuff. Pick up as much stuff as you can, purchase, and then rejoice at all the half-price chocolate you've managed to score. Yesterday, my mother managed to score a 90 (she spent $90, and got $180 worth of chocolate). She was rather shocked at being out-bought. She said that a young guy who had been sitting on the floor outside the store, reading a book, spent $200 (meaning that he got $400 worth of chocolate). Now that's how you celebrate Purdy's Tuesday.

By the way...don't ask me in a few weeks how my diet is going. It won't be going well.

Happy Easter!