| My Bubbie, ah |
[Jan. 22nd, 2009|01:43 pm] |
I don't know why but I've been procrastinating writing this in my blog. B"H, Bubbie lived a long and fruitful life. Her last perek of tehillim was mizmor shir leshabbos and one of the lines talks about being fruitful in their old age. She was definitely that.
I'm so grateful to Hashem that I got to see her. I couldn't here her but at least I know I was there and she knew I was there.
I want to IY"H have a small gathering for her sheloshim. Her memory should be for a blessing. |
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| Can you say glutton for punishment? |
[Apr. 9th, 2008|12:42 pm] |
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So I finally attacked the seforim.
When we moved 2 years ago (wow that was quick!) I put the seforim in haphazardly and of course today when I should be concentrating on getting rid of chometz I decided to put all the Rambam together, put all the chassidus according to Rebbe in mostly Rebbe order with the exception of the first rebbe and the last for no particular reason (well except logistics, most of our chassidus so far is from the Rebbe. We don't have nearly as much volumes of chassidus for some of the other Rebbeim.
And of course all the Tanach have to go together and the halacha seforim. Also I finally put the topics of a more sensitive nature which my 12 year old helpers don't need to look at yet (Bezres H' in a gutte sha'ah!) on the top shelf.
Now I'm wiped.
also I'm getting nervous about Yankel's trip to DC. His train is IY"H at 4pm. The interview is sometime tomorrow. I want him to do well simply because I always hope he does well with whatever he's pursuing. At the same time I know everything is besheret.
Oh and I'm not a caffeine drinker. I can't wait to stop drinking coffee! (although ironically, I'm getting some tea to prepare for Pesach so I'll be drinking caffein then too oh well) |
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| the best Pesach resort |
[Feb. 27th, 2008|11:03 pm] |
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DH handed me a flyer he got from a colleague.
I couldn't find it on the net so I'm reposting the best of it.
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Your family presents
PESACH IN YOUR HOME
COME SPEND PESACH 5768 WITH YOUR FAMILY
Celebrating over 3,000 years of Pesach with Jewish families...
For the entire Pesach:
Highly stimulating family-oriented discussions upon request
Daf Yomi and other shiurim with _your_ Rav in _your_ shul
Shul stocked with seforim
Warm friendly neighbors and friends for your children to play with
Clean, comfortable accomodations - all rooms in the main house
Sumptuous gourmet meals [okay I don't know about this if you keep minhagim like we do [: ]
Dancing and singing at every meal
All food cooked under the strict supervision of Mommy [my favorite!]
Inspiring divrei Torah and nachas from your children
oh and this is the best:
MBD, Sheweky [sic], Gabay, Lipa and Dachs
Rabbis Alter & Erps
Rabbis Frand & Krohn
Available on tape/CD the entire Chol Hamoed [I'm STILL cracking up especially because there's a pic of Rabbi Pesach Krohn taken from an ad for wherever he's going to be this Pesach]
Abba/Tatty/Dad, Mommy/Ima, Kinderlach/Children
Will be joining us for the ENTIRE Yom Tov
Special guest appearances by Bubby and Zaydey
Visit us online at: spendpesachwithyourfamilylikeyouresupposedto@trueredemption.com
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There's nothing like humor to get your point across. |
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| Etka Gittel Reich |
[Dec. 20th, 2007|11:00 pm] |
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| | Kol Dodi-D'veykus-Volume 2 | ] |
Okay I'm officially a "fan" of her writing. I noticed vaguely over chanukah that she had written a multi part historical novelette for Bina and I thought another one? Don't they already have one based in 1700s Philadelphia? I mean it's okay but I'm not so into the omniscient narrator speaking in faux 1700s English. Somehow it seems wrong especially because the characters sound more modern than the narrator at times. I mean it's interesting but Reich's story is
Amazing.
I was a few issues backed up and I read the first part along with the rest of the magazine.
Then I read the 2nd part and couldn't finish the magazine. I had to go to the next part. And then the next.
Then I found out I have to wait until Monday to read the fifth part.
I don't often clip and save articles from Bina but I almost always have clipped hers and wish I had clipped the earlier stories I had read of hers. |
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| Rochel |
[Jun. 27th, 2007|10:55 am] |
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| | WFMU's Jewish Moments in the Morning with Nachum Segal from 6/26/2007-WFMU and Nachum Segal-Jewish Moments in the Morning with Nachum Segal | ] |
is turning 4 today, ka"h! |
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| Misc. stuff |
[May. 20th, 2007|04:23 pm] |
I finally went on my big Boro Park trip. One of the nice ladies who've been helping so much took me in her car and DH stayed with the kids. First we hit Designer's Paradise and I got tons of stuff. I pretty much stuck with the look of skirt, shell and long sleeve blouse. I got 3 shells, 4 blouses, 2 skirts and a twin set. Phew. I'm still size 12 but hey I'll be wearing decent clothing which fits me finally.
I also went to Frankel's the used bookstore and got a bio on Rebbetzin Grunfeld a"h, and a Me'am Loez on Bereishis for less than the price of a full price book at a regular store. It's one of those stores that if you go too much you never find anything but if you don't go that much there's always something to find.
I also found another robe for R and a skirt at Rosenbergs.
Then R wanted to listen to this Zushe Schmelzcer Alef - Beis tape we have and it's so confusing with the dialect difference but she still likes it.
I'm starting to do the Shavuous menu. Like all years I never seem to do the dairy meal. We're going out. I'm almost disappointed but it's fun to be with friends. I'll be cooking the next two days IY"H. I've got to get produce but otherwise I think we're pretty set.
Here's what I'm making: Challah, Gefilte fish (partly done already), Salads, Soup with Knaidlach, Roast, Chicken strips with Barbecue Sauce, Some unknown side dish, Some pareve dessert, Ice cream sandwiches and a few more odds and ends. |
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| Shabbos |
[May. 11th, 2007|12:35 pm] |
I'm being ambitious. I should stop being so ambitious as we're getting ltae here. Okay so we're not but I like to have things cooked by early afternoon. So in that respect I'm late.
CHallah- I love these challah pans, thanks Mindy for the tip! I've discovered that making challah in a breadmachine is not for me even when I take it out and bake it in the oven it just seems like not challah to me. So I'm back to making it on my own.
Salmon for me
Gefilte Fish for DH (and maybe DD)
Marinated Tomato Salad
Broccoli Mango Salad
Chicken Soup with knaidlach
Poulet Chasseur
Shnitzel
Fruit
Some other dessert maybe
Of the above I haven't done the salmon, salads, schnitzel and I have to buy the gefilte fish still but otherwise I'm not doing too badly.
DD came home and was acting sleepy (for that means grabbing her blankie and sticking her thumb in her mouth and leaning on the chairs. Then she camped out in the kitchen. My kitchen is a typical NYC kitchen so I had to move her. So cute though, ka"h |
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| ebay woes |
[Apr. 19th, 2007|08:49 pm] |
WEll I've discovered that ebay is not a good place for me to go shopping for skirts. They're tsnius, B"H but each skirt wasn't what I had envisioned. I'm embarrassed to say a lot of the problem is me not properly reading the descriptions.
There's some good that comes mixed in however besides that I didn't spend much.
1. the first skirt I got was banana republic size 12. Guess what? I don't fit a size 12. Maybe I already lost weight but I could fit a size 10 by them. I'm shocked but it just goes to show how weird sizing in. I have size 12 skirts in my closet that are too tight one me. Go figure!
2. the second was a wool skirt going cheaply I figured I'd put it away for winter. It's okay but it's teal. I thought it was dark blue! I never would have bought a teal skirt ever. I'll put it away but I can't imagine wearing that. This one is a little snug on me but fits. Also size 12.
3. a black skirt with a white pattern on the bottom. Very thin material. The pattern is more garish than I'd like it. Not overwhielmingly garish but not as nice as I thought. Not bad though.
so I think I will have to make a trip to Boro Park one of these days. |
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| Today's events so far |
[Apr. 19th, 2007|09:33 am] |
Rochel woke up at 3 am or so and finally crashed at around 9:15 am. so she's home for the day. I've been up since around 5. Things will get interesting by 9pm. [:
babies are slowly starting to do solids.
and it's day 4 on the diet and I'm still on track. yey! of course with me things start getting iffy usually around 2-3 weeks after starting so we'll see. Somehow it's hard for me to keep momentum going longer than that.
Rochel has been doing things like putting her plushy simanim from the seder in the fridge and taking these new bibs somebody bought the trips on her dolls. She's being a great girl today, ka"h. It was fun eating lunch with her and I need to get off the computer and spend more time with her bclal. Although I think school is great for her this is a treat!
I started a chavrusa via jnet (not the internet filtering company). She's also BT, but doesn't really have a formal education although hashkafically we're probably on the same page as we're both Lubavitch. We started out with 1 posek in Bereishis and the Sefer ha Mitzvos shiur for the day. (but it's for kids. It tells you the first line of the mitzvah and then a story. Hopefully we'll switch to Kitzur Shulchan Aruch or the Alter Rebbe's Shulchan Aruch. I'm also hopefully starting a chavrusa with someone who is way more learned than I am. I think we'll be learning from the 3rd Rebbe's sefer, Derech Mitzvosecha although I'm not settled on that yet. Yey! |
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| Oops |
[Apr. 16th, 2007|08:08 pm] |
So I'm wrong about the sheitel.
major apologies to my sheitel macher are on order. I left her a message to call me back as it was important. She just got back in yesterday and she was thinking what happened?? Anyway, this sheitel has never been washed as I'm barely wearing it. And when I got it she was also leaving the country and I was about to have the trips so it wasn't washed and set then. Apparently the color can change and the texture can change after a wash and set and usually she doesn't like selling sheitels so quickly because of it. And the bangs are longer than I thought I guess go figure. She checked the # on my tag and she says it's definitely mine. Okay so I spent yuntiff not wearing my sheitel because I thought it wasn't mine. |
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| a couple more things |
[Apr. 16th, 2007|12:17 pm] |
Did I mention my sheitel macher did a swap on my sheitel? She was leaving the country for yuntiff and did it at the last minute and left it at a neighbor. DH picked it up and it's not my sheitel. Unless there's now a way for bangs to grow on a sheitel and for the color to change in a few day's time. I still haven't gotten a hold of her. I did fiddle with the idea of having a reddish sheitel but still what if this is somebody's? Consequently I wore my old sheitel throughout yuntiff. Wonder where my sheitel is?
and we're getting rid of the credit card debt and we left ourselves with only two cards both with very small limits. O hope this helps our fico score! |
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| Mish Mash |
[Apr. 16th, 2007|10:43 am] |
1. So we were convinced there's a dead mouse in the wall because there was a smell we couldn't get rid of even when we moved the trash. We moved away the fridge. Nothing. The cleaning lady came and cleaned the fridge and found lots of rotting raw meat. No wonder I couldn't find the chicken breasts I was looking for that I had sworn I had taken out to defrost in the fridge. They had been there all along but I never even thought to look in the vegi crisper. Oops. At least the smell will go away pretty quickly now!
2. Speaking of mice what is it with us and Pesach anyway? The mice love us then. DH caught a mice I think it was chol hamoed. Which is why DH figured there was one in the wall. And when I was pg with Rochel that erev Pesach we had our one and only mouse in our last apartment.
3. But in good news we were being attacked before Pesach by these tiny bugs the size of poppyseeds. They loved my pump pot. They're called springtails. Mamesh it's like they're moving poppyseeds. Gross beyond belief. And they seem to have found a different home B"H!
4. I've purchased a few skirts on ebay and it's interesting as I never would have found these skirts otherwise. A banana republic long khaki skirt and I'm not a banana republic shopper and a wool skirt to prepare for winter and so I can throw out my winter skirt that is seriously a rag by now and a cute shabbos skirt in black with white flowers near the bottom. So I better keep losing weight because I got size 12 so I just better not be a size 14. I still want to make a trip to Designer's Paradise however. I haven't had much luck with the internet at all and I'd rather go to a haimish store and support them. |
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| shlissel challah |
[Apr. 13th, 2007|03:17 pm] |
I'm amazed. I was somewhat bummed about my challah. I made bread machine challah and used a recipe from imamother but ran out of white flour so I made half and half whole wheat and added gluten to make it less dense. It looks good! I'm shocked! forgot to stick the key in but I have one more challah to bake. I'm really shocked because it was spreading out but it poufed up nicely. Thank you Hashem!
edit: hurroo. not as good as it seemed after all. they did spread more than I'd like and smell weird. I wonder if the flour was rancid. darn,
the rest of shabbos is a rerun practically with a few fresh items made today:
grfilte fish is fresh
salads fresh
chummus fresh
soup pesachdik
mashed potatoes pesachdik
chicken pesachdik
brownie from a box
lemon ices to use up some of my lemon juice!
the place is still a mess but DD is coming soon IY"H to help
Good Shabbos everybody |
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| Pesach and other things |
[Apr. 11th, 2007|09:00 am] |
First off even though we had Pizza I'm still somewhat in denial Pesach is over. Yes the Pesach stuff has been put away I haven't made much of an effort to move back the other things. It's probably because this year things just went so fast. AFter so much preperation it's a bit anticlimactic to be a) back in "chol" mode and b) in sefira. DH told me to take Pesach with me throughout the year. I should really get out Simon Jacobson's book and try to read it for the rest of sefira. It has a daily section on each sefira and he even gives you homework to do. And he's a difficult teacher. His homework is HARD.
Today's is (from www.meaningfullife.com) :
"Before you criticize someone today, think: Is it out of concern and love?"
That's one of the easier assignments.
I wish I would have seen that when I decided to give a musser shmooz to somebody when it really wasn't my job. Oops. I guess that's why I'm a human and not a malach. Also I find that when I don't pass tests I just have to wait until another one comes my way. Thanks Hashem. Have you ever had a teacher doing that? Here's your paper. F. Okay in a few weeks you'll have another chance to redo that paper. okay here's your paper back. F. Okay but you'll have another chance to redo that same exact paper! I mean this doesn't exactly exist but Hashem is giving us second third fourth etc chances all the time, B"H. |
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| A tale of two Mendels |
[Apr. 2nd, 2007|02:01 pm] |
Moo / Deli / Mendel happy birthday! you should live tzu longe yorn, have a wonderful year and give your parents asach yiddishe and chassidishe nachas
My Mendel just got a tooth! He wins the contest of which trip gets their first tooth first. |
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| clutzitis |
[Mar. 31st, 2007|11:30 pm] |
I've become a massive clutz in the last 2 days.
1. erev shabbos I'm using my new food processor which works amazingly well, B"H and making a potato kugel. I'm cracking eggs to check for blood spot and (TMI alert) suddenly the egg flys out of my hands down my robe and down my bra. I've never had a wardrobe change in the middle of making kugel before.
2. erev shabbos again getting nearer to Shabbos I manage to drop a jar of pickles on my foot.
3. Shabbos night I was really zonked out and making formula at the table and filling up a 32 oz. bottle of water and suddenly the bottle just jumps out of my hands (sound familiar?) and splashes all over me and the floor.
4. this afternoon making formula, open up the can and suddenly (yes you can now start filling in the rest of my sentences) the can flies out of my hands and empties itself out partially on the kitchen floor. |
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| Pesach |
[Mar. 31st, 2007|10:48 pm] |
I'm actually enjoying cooking in my Pesachdik kitchen for the first time. Also it's nice to be starting early to iron out the wrinkles. What was also nice was we had a guest staying over for Shabbos who arrived Thursday night. My nephew. And it looks like we're having someone for sedarim and I really wanted a guest so that hopefully will work out okay. And DH loved his siddur! Yey!
Shabbos was simple.
Store bought challah
gefilte fish (the one thing that didn't come out okay. I have to figure out how to make it taste better. Personally I'm going to be eating fresh fish I think.
Chicken soup, which was better than the last time I made it but not having the celery, garlic, pepper and dill makes a big difference. I think the garlic does a lot. So I probably have to add a little more salt than usual.
oh here's where I made a silly thing. I made both shephard's pie ANd potato kugel. So we were inundated by potato. Big surprise.
I made an egg salad for day wich worked nicely. sauted onions in walnut oil and chopped eggs. yummy.
Dessert was kosher l'pesach
I've also discovered I'm going to need more of some things. Oh well.
since the kitchen was Pesachdik I had to start washing the bottles in the bathroom and I've discovered that it's pretty gross. Where we were last time it was Pesach and Rochel was using formula was in a nicer bathroom but here it's tiny and you're mamesh right by the toilet and there's nowhere to put anything. So I'm going to take one of the plastic drawer units we got awhile back to organize computer things and use that to wash the bottles in and make room in the dinette to store the bottles and formula. (it's kitnyios) |
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| From Wednesday |
[Mar. 31st, 2007|10:47 pm] |
Wednesday went to little peoples and I got her 2 yuntiff outfits, 3 skirts and 3 tops. I wish it were so easy shopping for myself. She pretty much picked out what she wanted, behaved very nicely in the changing room and was very easy. We saw M.E. and her cute daughters which is good as I'm not going to make her l'chaim. I found out her oldest daughter goes on the bus with Rochel.
What was nice that Rochel is now of an age where she decides what she likes. I daven that she always wants to dress b'tsnius! One of the two yuntiff outfits is pink with one of those high waistlines it's white but covered so much with pink shapes (hearts, swirls) that it's hardly white. Wow and it's 92% cotton. I thought for sure it was mostly synthetic. A green and white dress which looks sort of like a polo shirt dress but dressed up two knotches with pleats in the front and 2 cute bows. It has two chest pockets and buttons that go down halfway which brings about the polo feel. The 3 skirts are tan black and brown and 3 colored shirts to go with.
Then we went to the shoestore. I was thinking I have to at least get shabbos shoes. Rochel of course wanted to try these pink sandals. The problem is although it's been like summer it's still spring and it could rain. Also these just barely fit her and they were the last pair. I succumbed though because they were half off. We got black shabbos shoes with velcro (so she can put them on herself and another pair of pink everyday shoes in case of rainy days. So she has gone from having one pair of shoes to 3. She's some fancy preschooler [: |
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| present for DH! |
[Mar. 27th, 2007|04:22 pm] |
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I never got him a bday present (bad bad bad) so todaay I went to Judaica World and I know he doesn't like large seforim. He got the smallest set of Chumash he could, the smallest Tanya he could, the smallest Siddur with Tehillim. Also he doesn't like hard leather he likes the plushy soft kind. I thought of getting him a haggadah but they only have the hard leather. I got him a small siddur and they're putting his name on it and everything. YeY! |
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