There's something wonderful about a heavy workout after a disappointing day. I've talked about it, and I know it's always true, and it still surprises me how effective it is ( Read more... )

The filing and record compilation I'm working on these days is for the specific purpose of collecting documents for scanning and uploading to the shul's website. The scanning's set for tomorrow and Friday, and Thursday and Friday of next week. And I still have an embarrassing number of files to get through - I'll definitely be finished by the end ( Read more... )

Last night, my mother gave me one of the finest compliments from her I've ever received: "I didn't know you could bake like that."

I'd decided to do something fun and fancy for the first night of Rosh Hashanah - a lunar calendar means the days are measured from sundown to sundown - and made this challah in the afternoon. I've never baked a bread ( Read more... )

I'd probably be writing right now if I hadn't had to go get a phone. But I did, and the experience of insisting the phone was at the store and swapping out the SIM card and learning what was involved in everything wore me out enough I don't have the feeling of being capable of strong mental processes.

Tonight I retired my a Nokia 3150 - a brick of ( Read more... )

I've begun picking up more hours at work, doing about four-and-a-half days a week, with the half-day letting me come in a bit late on Tuesday to let me keep on going to therapy at the same time. It works out pretty well except for the part where I'm always tired and ready for bed by the time I'm done with everything and get around to writing the ( Read more... )

The first cold breezes came in off the Hudson today, pleasant on my skin and gentle reminder that winter is on its way. I made a pot of cranberry black tea, with extra dried cranberries, and now I'm a little excited and restless from having guzzled it down in under 45 minutes and finished my job work for the night. All it consisted of was sorting ( Read more... )

I met someone from work in my building today. She recognized me by my hair ( Read more... )

Home.Woot's deal of the day right here, if anyone else is interested in an affordable, quality knife set for their household, whether or not it would be a redundancy.

I'm tempted, and I already have a good knife block I bought from that website almost four years ago. They're just so pretty, it's hard to resist.

Twenty minutes late to therapy again this week, on account of a long night. Yesterday I'd wanted to get some headphones from a local electronics store, but the outing proved fruitless - leaving me with two hours' lost and a sense of having wasted the day, on account of that. As consequence, I stayed up almost until two to get the feeling of having ( Read more... )

Must be a blue moon. Haven't seen one of those in a while.