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Let us eat cake

for today, we celebrate two years of wedded life.

TWO YEARS!

does not feel like it at all.  just like it's been a long while of fun and living with my best friend.

i love you, avs.  : )

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i feel like i had things to say at some point, but they've left my head.

i am not a fan of norton anti-virus.

and the MO conference starts tomorrow and i can't go.

i got a great manicure for 5 bucks

and i need to return shoes to aerosole.

i'm listing things here because otherwise i'll forget.

sarah's home (not that with an 'h' is avraham's sister, without is mine).  so good to see her.  we stopped by for shifra's bridal shower.  caught the tail end.  which is good, cause i couldn't have been there for the whole thing - i'm too damn impatient.  i barely made it through my own.

i have to go find paper to apply my sequins and glue to.  don't tell avraham, but i'm making him an anniversary card (tomorrow's two years).

doesn't quite feel like that long...

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it was a lovely hour spent at target.  explain to me why anyone registers for 18/0 flatware...  if you're asking people to buy you stuff, why not buy stuff that wll survive the first year of marriage?  i mean, 'stainless steel' doesn't come crappier than that.

does anybody but me research stuff before they register for it?

on a happy note, we bought Apples to Apples for Shabbat, because my previous set of the game was taken over (hostilely, of course) by my family at their summer home.  if youve' never played it, try it.  if you don't think it's fun, drink some vodka and try again.

i shoudlo be eating lunch, but i can't make myself get out of this uncomfortable chair to do it.  and i should do it soon, seeing as i have an appointment in under an hour.  lalalalalala

weather reports - rumors of the rain stopping and some sunshine peaking through.  Shallow Dani wants to have a nice tan for the weddings, so just in case, i bought one of those jergen's facial mousterizer/tanner things.  i hope i don't turn orange.  if i do, i know enough lawyers.  what?

and this afternnon i'm finally dragging my sorry self to go look at hats at the riverdale mikvah.  navy or pink, navy or pink?  if the dress is navy with some irridescent navy/hot pink action going on, and i wear open toe espadrilles with a rocking hot pink manicure, what color hat is more appropriate?  and do i go for the more or the less appropriate one?  so many questions.

also, how the hell am i getting to Char's wedding without collapsing?  HELP!  i have to get from the hamptons to teaneck to philly by 11:30 am or so, and then reverse to riverdale.  avraham probably can'tget off of work, so it's just me.  ra.  am so tired.

it amazes how after about 2.5 hours of movement i need to rest.  anyone want to hire me a personal chaffeur?  did i spell that wrong?  i can't remember...

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singing:
listen to your heart when he's calling for you.
listen to your heart - there's nothing else you can do.
i don't know where you're going, and i don't know why -
Listen to your heart before you tell him goodbye.

da da da da da da da da

d d d d d d d

I want to go to a concert!!!

although, the David Broza concert was AWESOME - long version or short version?

ok, long version:

we met hadar and marisa at makor for dinner, where the concert was going to be.  as hadar came down the stairs (we were all looking at the legs coming down the stairs, and all the rest of the legs we'd seen were too short),  david broza went up them.  hadar walks over to the table and we're all like "that was him!"  and he says "i know.  be right back"

and hadar jogs back up the stairs.  comes back down a minute later with david broza in tow.  they head over to our table, we all say hi.  hadar points me out as his sister Daniela who LOVES his song Daniela.  he smiles.  they sit down, and we start to talk about his music.  marisa and hadar tell him they love one of his realy old songs, and ask if he can perform it.  he says that it's so old, he forgot the lyrics.  so hadar pulls out his ipod and hands it over so DB can write down the lyrics.  which he does, and the moment was just too cool - eating dinner with David Broza at the table, he's listening to hadar's ipod, and i'm in complete heaven.

the rumor is (and this is unsubstantiated) that he winked at me while performing Daniela.  he is too cool.

god, i just love concerts.

good old scranton initiative

from my Ima (Mother):

Dear Friends,

I want to share with you something that our little Bais Yaakov in Scranton is doing tomorrow that should be emulated and copied in every Day School and High School, and done in some form in every yeshiva ( I mean boys,too, in a different form).

The girls of BY are hosting a bridal shower for one of the kallahs from the former Gush Katif, a young lady formerly from Netzer Chazani who is getting married later this month and will, IY"H, move with her husband to a caravan. 

The girls printed up and mailed out invitations (their own computer design and printing) in which, they explained what the shower is for, put a suggested gift list on the back of the card, and clearly stated that weight is a consideration and that a check or cash would be most welcome instead. The suggested gift list was actually titled "bridal registry", and the invitation asked that whoever purchases an item please call the school so that it could be crossed off the list. They pre-arranged with several people who plan to go over to Israel soon to take the gifts and added a note about the 220 electric current.  They have been very organized, and  have also prepared a light lunch (with RSVP) so it will be like a real shower. 

An article appeared in our Federation Reporter, and you should know that people are coming and contributing who would not normally respond to a request for money.

The idea was their principal's,  Mrs. Esther Elefant, an incredible woman, and I think the biggest compliment she could get would be that the same idea, or variations on it, be done in every possible community.

Please pass this on to as many people as possible. Anyone needing a source to turn to for individual brides ( or whatever idea they conceive of) can write to me, and I will then give them the contact person's e-mail.

Thanks,  with much love,

Tova

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off for a dress fitting today - weddings are in 3.5 weeks, and this is my first fitting.  I'm also going to take the "I'm in midtow" opportunity to go LIBS and get my hair cut, my eyebrows waxed, and maybe even a pedicure and manicure.  keep in mind, people, thisis the place where i got a 3 hour hair-do for my cousin's wedding, and it cost me a grand total of $25.  so if all this extravagance today costs more than that, i'll be completely shocked.  i really just have a whole afternoon between the dress fitting and a class at 6:30 to do whatever i want.  ooh, i should get shoeseseseses for the wedding today too.  yay!

girly shopping day!

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i'm so tired.  i have about 6 weeks of school left, which means 2 more papers for cinema, an essay for education, and 3 decent research papers for ed as well.  i should get cracking on all of this, of course, but I'm way too tired to do anything but sit and space out.

the double wedding day is in 3.5 weeks, and i'm going for my first dress fitting tomorrow.  no reason to be nervous, but feeling unprepared for stuff is not a way i like to run my life.

the past 2 weekends in the hamptons have been fun - we need to start calling people and inviting them out, but i seriously have no energy to even remember who i like to hang out with.  sad.  marti - let me knwo when you guys can come; i'll try to call.

i've been looking for scissors all morning and can't find anything - think this means i have avraham put them away in some ingenious hiding spot which i promptly forgot about.

whil we're at the rambling thing, mazal tov to nomi, kivi, and big brother ami on the birth and naming of eliora rut!    cute little bugger.

and i just dropped the phone.  not out of shock or anything good, just clumsiness.