Anti-climatic

[thesynergizer]

I guess I owe everyone a report, since I promised, but there really isn't much. I was unhappy with the number of questions they asked, but other than that it went fine I guess. I liked being able to prepare there ... it was probably worth my $20. As far as the actual immersing, yeah, its not as beautiful and spiritual as I had hoped. I mean, it's

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[powerpuffer]

hi :) i have been reading, just not commenting too much. hope you have a nice weekend! <3

[katielovesjoel]

Okay ... What was lawngnome25's advice? And, why will you be using your pills to skip a few periods between now and summer? And how come you needed my mom's name?

And I'm sorry that it wasn't as great as you wanted it to be. What kind of questions did they ask you?

And how come Rosemary was EXHAUSTED in the car, but now she won't go to sleep for the life of her? Ugh.

[thesynergizer]

Advice: http://thesynergizer.livejournal.com/290003.html?thread=1316819#t1316819

It was weird for both of us but we didn't have any other choices. And it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

I'm skipping periods because I hate them and they're lame and going to mikvah is a pain in the butt, so I think I'm going to just not go until its time to TTC.

they asked like, where we lived, and if we were planning to move to the area anytime soon. nosy stuff. where my husband worked, just stuff that you could tell they were fishing for information about who i was exactly.

in judaism, when you pray for someone, you use their "jewish" name, which is always in the style of their full first name and their same-sex parent's name.

so you are katherine, daughter of mary.

my brother is daniel, son of michael.

get it? if they have a hebrew name, you use it, but if they aren't jewish or don't have one, you just do it in that style.

sorry about sleep :-)

[onanothertopic]

Good for you! It sounds like it could have been worse. In my exp., after the first couple of times, they give up asking questions. This was at Chabad?

I have found it easier to "get spiritual," for lack of a better phrase, as time goes on. The prep. is so long and the dunking is so short! It's crazy! I try to think of it as an analogy for life...the present is so short, the future so compelling a/o scary (whether one is thinking about the impending dunk or the upcoming, uh, irresistibility), that it's very difficult to live in the moment, that is, to fully experience the dunk itself.

[thesynergizer]

yeah, it was.

and thanks for the advice. i'd been once before, and that's about how it was then too. i'd just forgotten.