Just FOUR DAYS MORE until I start work at my new job. (And just five days more until the Season 11 premiere of NCIS. I'm still dreading Ziva's departure, but I'm probably going to watch her last two episodes when they air.) I'm so nervous about starting there. It's going to be such a big change for me -- but then, 2013 has been a year of big ( Read more... )

This will probably be the last post I make from this apartment. Today, between Yom HaShoah events, I signed the lease and got the keys to our new place. It's still kinda hard to believe that we're moving. When I woke up this morning, Sara said, "I can't believe we're moving tomorrow. And I don't think this apartment believes it, either." Haha. True ( Read more... )

Taken a few hours ago, looking out the living room window with the best view:


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I've been unbelievably busy for the past several days, moving Sara and me into our apartment and unpacking all our stuff. I've gotten almost everything done now. Sara bought us a nice new TV, our aunt gave us an awesome combination VHS/DVD player (I dropped it hard while moving it in, but it still works), and our computer, which was in storage for ( Read more... )

Just in front of this window is a tree with reddish-brown leaves and some bushes on the ground beneath it. Beyond that is Nathalie's red car, which always sits outside the kitchen window, some white flowers at the school gate, and a red stop sign at the entry to the school parking lot. It's a second-story window, so you can see for a long ways, ( Read more... )