Another city that I call home has been a target of a terror attack.
Fuck.

I joined the shuls' team for the Walk for Hunger.  It's holding me accountable to get off my ass and exercise, in addition to being an important cause that deserves to be funded and highlighted.Since committing to do so, I have started exercising more. I got new sneakers, have been working out and stretching a lot more, in addition to my ongoing PT ( Read more... )

I joined the shuls' team for Walk for Hunger.  Bought new sneakers, and have been exercising more ( Read more... )

stupid, overprotective parents drive me up a wall.  Seemingly intelligent people can turn insane when they think that somehow their perfect children may possible get their feelings hurt by normal child interactions. Or get a scrape on their knee.  Or be sad for a minute. Disappointments happen.  Kids move on after 10 seconds. But what they learn is ( Read more... )

I got a very generous gift certificate to Amazon.com for my birthday.  Sad thing is - I have abolutely no idea what I want.  I don't "need" anything, and I certainly don't have room for anything in our shoebox of a condo.  I ordered a new siddur, but so far, that's it.  Perhaps a nice, luxurious bathrobe would be nice.  What I really want is a ( Read more... )

-my Hebrew birthday and English birthday fall on the same day this year.    If it fell on Monday, all 3 would coincide. Whoa.                                                                                                                                                                                                           -we did a mitzvah ( Read more... )

If I see one more post, one more snarky meme, one more musing about how the Pope is a racist, homophobic, bigot, and that the Catholics who were excited to find out who their new spiritual leadrer is are just pathetic sheep, I'm going to scream.  This whole week has been a forum for people to rail against oganized religion in all it's forms, and to ( Read more... )

My grandmother is being evaluated for hospice.  She's considered "failure to thrive."  She won't eat.  She takes her teeth out and refuses.  And since she signed a document that only allows for palliative care, meaning no NG tubes of need be....this is where we are ( Read more... )

Ben is eating like a starved lumberjack.  or someone who has the munchies.
I assume he's going to grow a LOT at any moment, because based on the amount of food he's packing away, that can be the only explanation.  It's like the Coneheads around here- CONSUME MASS QUANTITIES!"  
He's skinny as can be, but eats like a teenage boy. Gd bless him :)

December- a week of the flu, the likes I have never experienced.  Followed by a raging sinus infection ( Read more... )