i just woke up

i finally caved and bought reading glasses to stop my eye from making me crazy(er)

we (the royal bronstein we) decided that if i had a tv show with an unlimited budget, it would basically be david letterman's show.  which may explain why i had that dream in high school where we met and got married.

ok, that sounds lame.  he dream was cool.  i randomly got invited to some party, and i was hearing this pink gown and there was champagne and dancing and madness, and i got totally bored.  so i wandered away from the main room, and found a dark room where some guy was watching football and smoking a cigar.  so i sat down and watched the game with him and we talked, and when the game was over and he turned on the light, it was david letterman.  etc, we got married.  the end.

in a different dream i was adopted by michael jordan.  MJ!  speaking of, i used to be a huge Bulls fan (my graduation present was a surprise drive into chicago, from pennsylvania, with my father and my siblings, to see a Bulls game).  i was very into dennis rodman (bought and read 'bad as i want to be').  he was disgustingly talented.  it's a shame he'll mostly be remembered for VH1 worstly dressed when he showed up as his own bride.  hee.

whatever happened to the Tsunami Relief Fund?  did america decide the crisis was over?

blah

this may explain the tic in my eye for the past few days

3 am (4 am is a better song)

what do i do all night?  apparently i fill out scholarship apps.

also, more lyrics no one knows but we all should:

Heart and soul, I fell in love with you
Heart and soul, the way a fool would do,
madly
Because you held me tight
And stole a kiss in the night

Heart and soul, I begged to be adored
Lost control, and tumbled overboard,
gladly
That magic night we kissed
There in the moon mist

Oh! but your lips were thrilling, much too thrilling
Never before were mine so strangely willing

But now I see, what one embrace can do
Look at me, it's got me loving you
madly
That little kiss you stole
Held all my heart and soul

thoughts on the week

we had a friend of avraham's over for diner the other night, which was overall a lovely time. he mentioned that his father was at a conference for victims of terror, and in inquired why. he told me that his little sister, malki, had been killed in the sbarro bombing (Aug 9, 2001).

the family set up a website, Keren Malki in her memory.  i recommend taking a few minutes and acquainting yourself with Malki Roth.

We also spent this weekend at the brillaton.  i really had a wonderful time.  i have to gather my thoughts a bit more before i can comment on the Q&A with prof. Tamar Ross.

so, Shavua Tov, world.  i think it's time for a good night's sleep.

HBP

i really want to discuss the book already.  am waiting patiently for the two week mark, giving people time to read it before castingmy spoilers across the universe.

monopoly

$39246

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more from mia

You Know You're From or In Pennsylvania If:

You've never referred to Philadelphia as anything but "Philly."  And New Jersey has always been "Jersey."

You refer to Pennsylvania as "PA" (pronounced Peeay).How many other states do that?

You know what "Punxsutawney Phil" ( A Ground Hog) is, and what it means if he sees his shadow.

The first day of buck and the first day of doe season are school holidays.

You can use the phrase "fire hall wedding reception" and not even bat an eye.

You can't go to a wedding without hearing the "Chicken Dance," at least 1 Polka and either an Italian song (sung in Italian,) or "Hava Nagila."

At least 5 people on your block have electric "candles" in all or most of their windows all year long.

You know what a "Hex sign" is.

You know what a "State Store" is, and your out of state friends find it incredulous that you can't purchase liquor at the mini-mart.

You own only three condiments "salt, pepper and Heinz ketchup".

Words like "hoagie", "crick", "chipped ham", "sticky buns", "shoo-fly pie", "pierogies" and "pocketbook" actually mean something to you.

You can eat cold pizza (even for breakfast) and know others who do the same.  (Those from NY find this "barbaric".)

You not only have heard of Birch Beer, but you know it comes in several colors: Red, White, Brown, Gold.

You know several places to purchase or that serve Scrapple, Summer Sausage (Lebanon Bologna), and Hot Bacon Dressing.

You can eat a cold soft pretzel from a street vendor without fear and enjoy it.

You know the difference between a cheese steak & a pizza steak sandwich and a Primanti's, and know that you can't get a really good one outside PA.

You live for summer, when street and county fairs signal the beginning of funnel cake season.

Customers ask the waitress for "drippy eggs" for breakfast.

You know that Blue Ball, Intercourse, Climax, Bird-in-Hand, Beaver, Moon, Virginville, Paradise, Mars, and Slippery Rock are PA towns.

You know what a township, borough, and commonwealth is.

You can identify drivers from New York, New Jersey, Ohio,or other neighboring states by their unique and irritating driving habits.

A traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a horse-drawn carriage on the highway in Lancaster County.

You know several people who have hit deer more than once.

You carry jumper cables in your car and your female passengers know how to use them.

You still keep kitty litter, starting fluid, de-icer, or a snow brush in your trunk, even if you live in
the south.

Driving is always better in winter because the potholes are filled with snow.

As a kid you built snow forts and leaf piles that were taller than you were.

Your graduating class consisted of mostly Polish, German, & Italian names.

"You guys" and "ynz"  is a perfectly acceptable reference to a group of men & women.

You know how to respond to the question "Djeetyet?"  (Didyoueatyet?)

You learned to pronounce Bryn Mawr, Wilkes-Barre, Schuylkill, Bala Cynwyd, Conshohocken, and Monongahela.

You know what a "Mummer" is, and are disappointed if you can't catch at least highlights of the parade.

You actually understand these jokes and send them on to other Pennsylvanians.  Plus friends who you want to know ---why you think the way you do.

woohoo!

$34,936 total assets.

also,i realized that going to my parents is a real problem - the bed they have for us is a full (as opposed to our king at home), and we're not used to the smal space.  in turning over the other night, avraham's arm conneced with my nose.  still in pain, a bit disappointes that i don't have a black eye to show off.  : )

and before the stupid comments start, yes, he beats me regularly...

victory is mine

it took me three hours, but i beat the computer at (old-school) monopoly with total assets of 28,579.  and that's after spending the first hour with everything mortgaged...

the wonder of it all

my upstairs neighbor makes a ton of noise. i'm convinced that throughout her apartment she has hoists with bags of potatoes and small bodies that she every so often drops just for the effect. i also am convinced taht she weighs about 500 pounds, because the minute she gets up in the morning, it wakes me up - the heavy footsteps, rolling chair, banging, dropping things. i actually thought that there was an entire family up there, which would account for a lot of the strange noises we hear, but no, apparently it's just this one woman.

we got back from july 4th weekend to find that our ceiling had developed a leak. the leak landed on the couch, my computer, and 2 of our remotes. my computer wasn't working (avs fixed it) and the couch smelled like sweet mold.

then 2 days ago the leak started again, with actual drops that we could see while we were in the room. so avs went up to let 'them' know. essentially, when he told her that somethign was dripping through our ceiling and into our couch, she said (nastily) that it was her air conditioner, and she wasn't about to turn it off in this heat. no "i'm sorry, but...".

i hear her squeaking her feet right now.

i decided that i'm going to have my (very tall) brother hold my (very energetic) nephew to the ceiling and let him bang his feet as long as they can hold the pose. i would totally drip something into her hair, but i dont know who she is.

hee - i'd love to kno how many people take what i say here seroously. no, i'm not going to disturb the crazy old lady - i'm just going to wait for her to die.

oh, happy

my good friend is pregnant, and i'm so excited for her!  just needed to put that out there.  : )

home warming party

excellent party yesterday - small crowd, all people we like.

good food, good music, great friends.

and then yummy chinese.  yay!!!!!!!

must go fall asleep.

side note

jimi hendrix's wild thing is ridiculous

home warming

having this party on sunday

need to make food

need to get my frikkin hair fixed from the chop job of erev pesach

am sitting in a t-shirt listening to launch radio
mostly cause i can

longest day

i may never sleep again

london

i have this burning in gut now (for so long)

i feel like if i don't throw up soon it's going to consume me

the news this morning has me uneasy - i don't feel anything that makes think something happened to someone i know, i just feel general unease

i'm waiting to hear from raffi

i can't fully accept what's happened
again

back from

we got back from an extended weekend at the lake last night.

we were talking about it a bit while we were there, but why is it that no one really warns you how hard the beggining stages of marriage are?

it would have been nice to at least have a head's up. i mean, we're not idiots, we knew it would be challenging, but everyone talks about it like it's the best years of their marriage, and i think they're smoking crack. they only love remembering it because they were younger and better looking then, i'm guessing.

i'm looking forward to a fwe years from now, when we're betting at communicating with each other, when we're better at intuiting what the other one is thinking, when we have a family and a house and more permanent feel to our life.

must make dinner, and we have nothing to eat. hee.