a moment of silence

both the numbers of the dead and the percentage of which are reported to be children just blow my mind...

thanks, 'ptr'

i'm in the middle of being severely pissed off. instead of goign away, 'ptr's ben emailing me.  apparentl oneof his idiot friend also reads mt blog (oh, i'm so glad i have stalkers from scranton) and told him that i said here that i'd go tell our entire shul about this.

goddamn high school fuckwits!

i apologize to everybody here, but this is going to eb my last open posting.  if you want to access my blog, you must email me, tell me minimally who you are, and i will create a password for you.  i know that most of you will stop reading, and i'm sorry, but i've had more than enough from these idiots.

selfish

this is the 4th day i've been in the office since before thanksgiving.  so all the webbe rebbe emails are being sent out with apologies for the delay, as the webbe rebbe was out with an injury.

NOT ONE CONSUMER has writen back to say "oh, i'm sorry you were hurt, hope all is ok"

in my ears

you know it's going to be a weird day when you go straight from the cranberries "i just shot john lennon" to a beatles song.  my heart skipped a beat.

i like this

A group of Yeshiva University High School students is planning a mission to the Republic of Palau in conjunction with the Foundation for the North Pacific and the Palauan government.

Since gaining its independence over a decade ago, Palau has been one of Israel's strongest supporters at the United Nations, and the students hope to thank the people of Palau for this support. Palau is one of only five nations in the UN that consistently votes with Israel (two of which are Israel and the United States). The trip is a unique oppurtunity to create a strong relationship between our community and one of Israel's closest friends in the international community. The students are working tirelessly to raise funding for the trip, which is endorsed by numerous important organizations and individuals including Yeshiva University and AMCHA.

To learn more or to make a secure online donation, visit www.palaumission.org.  All donations are tax deductible.

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> We thank you for your support.

and so i am

why not

This web site is giving away Old Navy gift cards.  I figure since the free ipods worked (and free flat screens, although we're still waiting for 2 more referals to clear), this is worth a shot too.

also

HAPPY 6 MONTH ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!!!!!!!

the deepest

i just want to say that when Avraham gets smicha and everyone starts calling me Rebbetzin i will only be amused sometimes.

party

So, Benyummukah was a lot of fun.  we had latkes and wine and cheese, although i'm not sure how many peolpe caught the significance of the wine and cheese.  oh well.  benyamin's flying back out in about 2.5 hours - my first-born.  lol

there was a lot of the usual crowd, but also alot of people i rarely see, so that was the funnest.  i finally got to meet wallach baby who is quite cute and very giggly.  it's a good trait in babies.

my leg is still not better (i stoppped taking the ultracet as of thursday night).  i think i may have to start taking the meds again so i can get around today - we have a 2 hour subway ride to my in-laws which will probably put me out of commission for the rest of the day.  they're having a chanuka party.

all in all i'm tired, very happy that i got to see benyamin, wish i'd had more time with him.  seems that every time i got up from talking to him someone would steal me seat.  he kept glowering at me from across the room, which is fun.

avs took a whole bunch of pictures, i hope to get some up eventually so you can see how pretty we made it in here.  no small feat given where we live.

also a big thanks to motti both for making wonderful latkes for us and for allowing me to sit and rest instead of standing in the kitchen.  and a big thanks to avraham for, yuou know, being avraham.  *grin*

lalala, i love reisling

tgif

i'm home again today.  working on the Pesach section for the website and the guide.  There's so much to do, it's alittle over-whelmimng.  and if i make any mistakes... wow.  although it's nice to be in the position where i build an entire of the site myself.  it feels good.

avraham's going to be tovelling a ton of stuff today, mostly for the party tomorrow night.  should be alot of fun.  thank god for motti - he's coming ASAP after Shabbat to help me cook and keep me off my feet.  i can sit and organize all the food stuff, and avraham has seriously just been amazing tro me the past two weeks.  i have tried his patience every day, many times a day, and at the end of it all, he just drops a kiss on my forehead and tells me to get better.  (soon!)

we were watching without a trace last night, which focused on jack's deposition for a custody case.  his ex-wife was being a total bitch.  she was using all kinds of personal information he'd told her while they were married to prove that he was incapable of raising the girls.  she let her lawyer keep needling at him about his moither's suicide...  it was awful.

one has to wonder with people like that what the relationship was like in it's good stage.

the official word

Message from Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, OU Executive Vice President, and Rabbi Menachem Genack, OU Kashrut Rabbinic Administrator

Joint Statement of Rabbis and Certifying Agencies

sat night

so we're having this beautiful party on saturday night and i'm so excited, with wine and cheese and dried fruit and gorgeous glassware and latkes on the side.  : )  yay

and jazz

lala

i'm home, i'm home!  i woke up limping, it seemed safer to stay put.

the stupid USPS only delivered half of my packages.  i got a slip telling me i wasn't home for the rest of them.  morans.

if you are into such things

then this is the article for you:

US Certifiers of Kosher Slaughter Defend Schechita Practices

yay

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i knew it all along!

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m-m-m-my sharona

how I'm feeling - I'm well enough that i can walk to the subway in the morning.  after the ride i'm mildly limping.  midday i'm limping more, and by the time i go home, my four block walk from the subway takes 20 minutes.

i'm on new meds as of last night...  i'm not sure how they'll resolve the issues, but it's worth a shot.

my ride in today was a rather nauseous one (the meds work best on an empty stomach).  i also found last night that they have a semi-hypnotic effect on me.  falling asleep was this cycle of phasing out and back in, rather fuzzily.  i felt it mildly on the subway today as well.

you know what that means - today is a PUNK MUSIC day.  : )

maybe

my doctor prescribed a new pain medication called ultracet (and before any of you post, i already know all the possible side effects and precautionary info, but thanks).  hoping it works...

HAPPY CHANUKA!

email of the day

It's hard to be single nowadays. This was on the "Tonight Show" with Jay Leno.  Jay went into the audience to find the most embarrassing first date that a woman ever had.  The winner described her worst first date experience.  There was absolutely no question as to why her tale took the prize!

Marilyn said it was midwinter... snowing and quite cold...and the guy had taken her skiing to Lake  Arrowhead. It was a day trip (no overnight).  No, not Marilyn. They were strangers, after all, and truly had never met before. The outing was fun but relatively uneventful until they were headed home late that afternoon.  They were driving back down the mountain when she gradually began to realize that she should not have had that extra latte.  They were about an hour away from anywhere with a rest room and in the middle of nowhere! Her companion suggested she try to hold it, which she did  for a while.  Unfortunately, because of the heavy snow and slow going, there came a point where she told him that he had better stop and let her pee beside  the road, or it would be the front seat of his car.  They stopped and she quickly crawled out beside the car, yanked her pants down and started.  Unfortunately, in the deep snow she didn't have good footing, so she let her butt rest against the rear fender to steady herself.  Her companion stood on the side of the car watching for traffic and indeed was a real gentleman and refrained from peeking.  All she could think about was the relief she felt despite the rather embarrassing nature of the situation.  Upon finishing however, she soon became aware of another sensation.  As she bent to pull up her pants,  the young lady discovered her buttocks were firmly glued against the car's fender. Thoughts of tongues frozen to pump handles immediately came to mind  as she attempted to disengage her flesh from the icy metal. It was quickly apparent that she had a brand new problem due to the extreme cold.

Horrified by her plight and yet aware of the humor she answered her date's concerns about "what was taking so long" with a reply that indeed, she was "freezing her butt off and needed some assistance"!  He came around the car as she tried to cover herself with her  sweater and then, as she looked imploringly  into his eyes, he burst out laughing. She too, got the giggles and when they finally managed to compose themselves, they assessed her dilemma. Obviously, as hysterical as the situation was, they also were faced with a real problem.  Both agreed it would take something hot to free her chilly cheeks from the grip of the icy metal!  Thinking about what had gotten her into the predicament  in the first place, both quickly realized that there was only one way to get her free so, as she looked the other way, her first time date proceeded to unzip his pants and pee her butt off the fender. 

As for the Tonight Show... she took the prize hands down ...or  perhaps that should be "pants down." And you thought your first date was embarrassing!  This gives a whole new meaning to being "pissed off".

Oh, and how did the first date turn out?   He became her husband and was sitting next to her on  the Leno show.

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back at work, in sheer agony after the walk to the subway, the ride, and sitting in my chair for the past 1.5 hours.

yay for not having heat in my office so i don't feel it as much.

yay yay!

benyomin's here!  he called me from my hall way and he's on my couch AS WE SPEAK!

blablabla

in other news, i emailed avraham's cousin yesterday, whohe hasn't seen since he was about 5.  she's in school in NY, as is her sister, so we're going to get together after finals.  i'm so excited!

oh, hads

at hadar's party last night, as i was leaving, i went to kiss him goodbye.  some girl behind me says, really angry, "who IS that girl?"  some other girl replies "oh, just his sister."

hahaha - stupid hos, my brother doesn't like slutty girls!

other than that it was fine, beyond the odd person puking in the taxi (really, so gross).  i got to play with davises and tamar's awesome roommate devora, tali, naomi, and i met the prettiest, funniest girl named malki who should marry hadar tomorrow.

lala, i'm out.
oh - the ankle's still sore, but i'll live.

ow says my body

we rearranged the apartment last night, by which i mean that avraham pushed everything around while i pointed to where i wanted it to go.  : (  it's so hard to not be able to help.  i mean, i was upright for longer than i should have been, and that was dumb, but so is using a computer, cause i can't be lying down while i am.

i'm SO damned impatient, it's a wonder i ever heal.

anyway, this week gave me time to think about stuff.  the primnary thing i realized is that i've always been quite bad at the whole bikur cholim bit - i know people get bored or lonely, but i never take the time to visit.

after a week of very few people taking the time to visit, i can say without a doubt that's going to change.  i('m not trying to make anyone feel guilty)  it just sucks to be alone, to have to figure out what to do for food when you really shouldn't be standing and cooking for half an hour, to entertain yourself when you're alone for 42 hours over the course of 4 days.  at least i have avraham in the morning and at night.  i can't imagine what it's like for people who are truly alone.

i think that this may be the first time that i was out of my parents' home and laid up with somethihng where i was concsious the whole time.  epstein-barr is alittle easier, beacuse you don't have the energy to be awake most of the day.

i also realized this week that there is no WAY i could ever consider living in washington heights for real.

oh, also, for those who are wondering, i'm writing from the "ofiicial OU laptop".  yay yay to johnny for both visiting and bringing me some freedom.

lalala

lalala lying on a couch all day lalala falling asleep cause i take codeine

lalala

the dr. says...

... that i am on bed rest through the weekend, and if it still hurts monday to come back.  x-rays show nothing is broken, the tylenol and codeine doesn't seem as stong as i'd rememberd it...

i'm BORED all say.  i watch game shows.  i have nothing to read, no comuter, only so long i can hum to myself without wanting company.

so if you have good books, drop 'em off.  i'm here and waiting.