1. my very caring in-laws
2. time to my self
3. friends who send me job prospects
4. chocolate
5. chances to meet very sweet babies (and see one of them wear the hat I made her- there's a special glee to seeing people enjoy your handmade gifts)

Last night, I impressed my father-in-law by showing him how to play minesweeper, and then doing so at my (admittedly rather rapid) rate. Good trick, right?

1. friends who not only come to a dinner to celebrate my senior sermon, they coordinate it, and treat me to it (really- wow folks, that was really sweet ( Read more... )

I didn't write about my senior sermon, and I'll try and do that later (it's a thing that deserves marking, even if I don't know quite what to say), but- today, we had a session on piyyut and music, for the class I'm taking on piyyut. And somehow, for all that I didn't grow up on That much classical hazzanut, so much of it felt So familiar, and ( Read more... )

Just wanted to comment, to remind myself, on how much fun I'm having with scarves and headcoverings, of late. I'm finding my experimental self, and having a lot of fun with color combinations, shape combinations, and the like. There don't tend to be a lot of options shown online (I've looked), but I'm finding that small variations are just a lot ( Read more... )

1. winning something in a raffle, for the first time ever ( Read more... )

1. H, and his wonderful baking of mishloach manot
2. a delightful, low key, Purim seudah with a couple of friends
3. shabbos plans
4. H having tomorrow off from school
5. accomplishing a decent (if not excellent) leyning of ch. 9 of Megillat Esther on only 3 days notice.

1. friends who forgive (and reschedule) when work runs Way late ( Read more... )

1. I'm done with interviews for a little bit, at least- and the latest one (today) gave me some sense of when I'd be hearing, even. (On the other hand, I'm still waiting to hear, and I need to call the last place I sent an application, to find out what's going on there ( Read more... )

1. time to relax
2. new books by authors I like
3. babies
4. crochet patterns
5. variety