Look what I did!

( Excel is magic, I tell you. )

I have an mp3 player! I got it at the Mevaseret mall1 yesterday, and it holds 512 MB and it was under 400 shekel, and it can play lyrics, and I added the lyrics to "It's Time to Say Good Shabbos," so now anyone who wants to sing karaoke on that song can use my mp3 player to do it!

"It's Time to Say Good Shabbos" is the funniest song ever. I love ( Read more... )

Guess what ( Read more... )

After the fast last night, met whatsurtyc and Tova in town for round bread-type-things1 with cream cheese and lox. Because there is no other acceptable way to break a fast than on cream cheese and lox.

Then we went to my apartment and tried to remember the lyrics to a bunch of Weird Al songs. We wanted to play Apples to Apples2, but there were only three ( Read more... )

It is a fast day.

I am so in the mood for a burger.

Gah.

Guess what? I made chicken soup for the first time in my life on Friday. And guess what else? It wasn't even bad. Only wait 'till you hear the best part! And its name is Talia and David even took secondsAll right, now I'm going to stop talking like a fictional "almost six"-year-old. (For now ( Read more... )

I just drank an entire bag of milk. And I don't mean those little bags of chocolate milk; I mean a liter of milk, straight from the bag. In five minutes tops. Strangers who passed me in the streets all did double-takes--even the Charedi men who usually look away. It seemed like a really good idea at the time, because I was hot and thirsty, and ( Read more... )

So Pesach is going well so far. I went food shopping yesterday (and ran into mick_hale, incidentally) and bought out all the dairy from the store, so I've been doing nothing but eating: matzah and butter (with salt, of course), feta cheese, sliced cheese, milk, yogurt....I also bought lox and pickles.

ninabrujaha is crazy. She bought kosher for Passover ( Read more... )

I don't know the exact temperature because I don't do things like checking the weather, but it's hot. All of Jerusalem is walking around with ice pops (also known as ice lollies, also known as arktikim), or ice cream cones if you're like me and you believe that the highest form of charity is trying to single-handedly keep Ben & Jerry's in business ( Read more... )

If Europeans are supposed to be so smart, how come they didn't invent chummus with zatar?

The Middle East kicks ass.