חג שמח

[electrichobbit]

It's been a helluva weekend already, and I'm only halfway done. Which is good, because it's been a long time since a holiday (living in Israel makes you understand why the US celebrates MLK day and President's Day in those dark holidayless months of winter

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[fox_c]

That conversation must have been strange, but now you know =) It's good to be needed eh?

[electrichobbit]

I didn't even realize what was going on at the time...I was just like "Oh, sure, I'll light candles." It wasn't even until later that I realized he hadn't actually asked me to light them.

[mercutio_bgq]

Thank you for the update!

It must be nice to have a goy around to handle things on Saturday. I imagine it feels like having a little evil imp on your shoulder to handle the dirty details so you don't get in trouble with the big man. You don't actually ASK it to do anything, but it handles it all just the same...

And believe me, you don't want to learn Yiddish. If you do, it'll muck up your language skills (in English, Hebrew, and German) for the rest of your life. My great grandmother educated me on quite a bit of it before she passed when I was 8. Leads to some very interesting misunderstandings of the languages.

[electrichobbit]

Yeah, I think it would really confuse me...it's just close enough to Hebrew to be dangerous. But then, a lot of words from Yiddish have come into Hebrew, so I can already pick up on some of it.

[kuoirad]

Sabrina was very amused by your calling of Purim as Halloween with narrative support.

She was also intrigued by your hamentaschen fillings - the ones she made yesterday just have jams (raspberry, apricot, and strawberry) in them.

She was also a little amused by your Shabbos goy tale. I have yet to have that experience myself, though I'm sure it'll happen eventually. Though Sabrina's family isn't *that* observant about work on Shabbos - heck, we have lights and the the tv (to say nothing of my laptop) on right now *on* Shabbos here in Austin.

[electrichobbit]

Wish Sabrina a Hag Sameach from me :)

One of my friends posted on facebook about experimenting with new fillings, and I thought "why the hell not?" I mean, you eat a LOT of hamantaschen in Israel this time of year...everybody's ready for a break.

Though here the normal fillings are poppy seed, prune, and date, so I suppose raspberry would also be pretty outrageous. I have no idea where I would find raspberries, though...

[kizmet100]

I remember the playground at Ashland park in Ashland, Oregon has one of the hamster wheels. Only been in it once didn;t like it much because a bunch of the guys in our group decided to spin it all at once. I was caught unawares and couldn't keep up.

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