Happy Mardi Gras! Obviously this Jewish girl doesn’t even live in Louisiana anymore, so Mardi Gras doesn’t mean much to me now. But Athena and Abram came over last weekend, and we started reminiscing about the children’s parade in our hometown, and it was enough to make me feel nostalgic. Grandma and Aunt Carla used to take all the local grandkids ( Read more... )

Last night, Sara came into my room as I was about to go to bed and said: Do you remember this book we had when we were kids? [She summarizes a story about a girl searching for her long-lost dog, along with a side character who was a professional candle-maker. I don't remember that bit at all, but I do recall the book.] What was that book called ( Read more... )

Yesterday = 1 month at my new job! I think I'm getting into the swing of things and even starting to enjoy it. It's so different working full-time, instead of part-time, and for a small business, instead of a big retailer. It makes me feel like the work I do matters more. Don't get me wrong, it can be boring and exhausting at times, but there's a ( Read more... )

I've been working on cleaning out the apartment for the past week or so. Partly because Sara and I are hoping to move later this month, and partly in preparation for Passover. (Did you knows it's a mitzvah for Jews to clean their houses before Passover?) It starts this Friday, and my temple is having a congregational seder. I can't wait!

Anyway, I ( Read more... )

Sara and I made a trip to Baton Rouge recently -- or more specifically, to Blue Bayou water park! (She is too good for the little local one I went to with Adam and Eva. Not that I blame her. It's fun, but it's just a puddle compared to Blue Bayou.) Neither of us had been to Blue Bayou in a very long time, and it was so cool seeing all the old ( Read more... )

One of Rebecca's faults is that she can't simply like something without becoming obsessed with it on a grand scale. (See: The Beatles, JM Barrie/Peter Pan, young actresses, and NCIS. A pretty random assortment, huh?) I think one of the first things to really grab hold of me was Winnie-the-Pooh. As a kid, I had all the books, tried to recreate the ( Read more... )

I kinda broke a shelfing unit at work today. I turned into a blithering idiot for a few seconds, tried to stand on it, and it collapsed from under me. (I caught myself on my arm, and now it's sore as hell.) So far no one has noticed, but I've been walking on eggshells waiting for someone to. Don't ask me what I was thinking, because I don't know. I ( Read more... )

A new NCIS episode comes on this Tuesday, and it's the first of five new episodes in a row that all lead up to the two-hour season finale! I'm so excited that I've been telling everyone I know (Grandma! Josh! Random people!) and soon I'm going to make a list of all the new episodes, their press release summaries, and tape it to our refrigerator. I ( Read more... )

Sara got me a mockingjay pin just like the one Katniss wears in The Hunger Games. It's awesome, but it's so small that often when I wear it nobody notices. I've worn it to work a few times, and my manager would've told me to take it off, but with everything else I wear at work (my nametag, my dogtag, my lanyard, and my earpiece) the mockingjay got ( Read more... )