Summer breeze makes Rebecca feel fine...
After services on Friday, two old Jewish ladies told me that they'd saved some grocery bags for me to crochet with. I said, "Great," thinking that they each probably had one grocery bag filled with grocery bags. Wrong. They both had two garbage bags stuffed with grocery bags! I can only imagine that they'd must've been saving them up for some time! Luckily, I went to services in my car that Friday, so I was able to get them all home in my back seat. I cut bags into plarn for over two hours this weekend and still barely made a dent in one bag! Oy.
After services on Friday, I also ended up going out to dinner with some friends from the temple. It was really fun. We went to a Mexican restaurant and ate outside, and the weather was so perfect for it. It was kinda funny to me to hear some of them complaining about the heat and humidity, because to me, it feels very dry and still cool enough. I remember thinking, "Hey, remember last winter? Remember the polar vortex? Remember scraping ice off your car until your fingers were so frostbitten that you cried?" and then I looked at the trees and the sunset and just went ahhhh... It still feels like a relief to have that winter over.
I'd been driving to services since my asthma medication ran out, which I really hate to do, so on Saturday morning, I finally got a new prescription and medication! Shehekianu! I'm really going to try monitoring my reliance on the inhaler more closely. (I know I've said this before.) I've been without albuterol for a while and gotten into wheezy situations where I just think, "No problem, I can breathe myself out of this." But when I've got albuterol, I think, "No problem, I'll just use my inhaler" and I get overdependent on it. My goal is to try to make this inhaler last four months. I hadn't been bike-riding without my inhaler, so I immediately went for a ride, and I was worried that after not doing it for weeks, I would've fallen into a slump, but I don't think I did. I can't wait till this Friday, so I can bike to services again! It isn't really Shabbat without a bike ride.
This weekend, I also rented a young actress movie (The Book Thief) and saw Dirty Dancing in the theater! What other movie has so many great cheesy one-liners in it? I tried to decide on my favorite one, but who could pick just one? "I love to watch your hair blowing in the breeze. I envy you. But I thought that... You, you're everything! You're wild! Have you had many women? You can't win no matter what you do. Nobody puts Baby in a corner." Hahaha!
The one thing that I didn't get to do this weekend was hit the dog-park... and without that, it doesn't really feel like a weekend!
After services on Friday, I also ended up going out to dinner with some friends from the temple. It was really fun. We went to a Mexican restaurant and ate outside, and the weather was so perfect for it. It was kinda funny to me to hear some of them complaining about the heat and humidity, because to me, it feels very dry and still cool enough. I remember thinking, "Hey, remember last winter? Remember the polar vortex? Remember scraping ice off your car until your fingers were so frostbitten that you cried?" and then I looked at the trees and the sunset and just went ahhhh... It still feels like a relief to have that winter over.
I'd been driving to services since my asthma medication ran out, which I really hate to do, so on Saturday morning, I finally got a new prescription and medication! Shehekianu! I'm really going to try monitoring my reliance on the inhaler more closely. (I know I've said this before.) I've been without albuterol for a while and gotten into wheezy situations where I just think, "No problem, I can breathe myself out of this." But when I've got albuterol, I think, "No problem, I'll just use my inhaler" and I get overdependent on it. My goal is to try to make this inhaler last four months. I hadn't been bike-riding without my inhaler, so I immediately went for a ride, and I was worried that after not doing it for weeks, I would've fallen into a slump, but I don't think I did. I can't wait till this Friday, so I can bike to services again! It isn't really Shabbat without a bike ride.
This weekend, I also rented a young actress movie (The Book Thief) and saw Dirty Dancing in the theater! What other movie has so many great cheesy one-liners in it? I tried to decide on my favorite one, but who could pick just one? "I love to watch your hair blowing in the breeze. I envy you. But I thought that... You, you're everything! You're wild! Have you had many women? You can't win no matter what you do. Nobody puts Baby in a corner." Hahaha!
The one thing that I didn't get to do this weekend was hit the dog-park... and without that, it doesn't really feel like a weekend!