I'm trying again....

to post a picture on my blog! good luck

This is a pic of me from my friend's wedding. I am only posting this so that I can have it on my profile and that's what they told me to do.

gotta love israel....

my former roommate called me this morning from israel. she made aliyah last summer with nefesh b'nefesh. go her! it was sooo nice to speak to her in person. but the weirdest thing with my bus this morning. as usual, i left my apt, flew down the stairs, across the street and watched as my bus pulled away from the stop. but there's a red light right after the stop. so I knocked on the door. last time, the driver let me on. this time he would not (different driver) and I said "are you kidding me?" and he mouthed "NO!" and I was thinking "that's so israeli of him!" but fine. so I went to the stop and waited impatiently till the next bus came. of course there's a schedule posted which the bus doesn't follow. so you never know when the next one is really gonna come. finally it came. but it was soooo weird. it's this new electric bus....like no more gas power....environmentally better..... the number on the front was all lit up - so I could actually read it. then I got on and the seats in the back are up 2 steps. that was weird. then I was sitting trying to read my book but I was so distracted by this new bus. so I was looking around and I noticed that the buttons to signal the driver to stop were not only on the walls, like usual, but they were also on the hand poles! just like in israel.

so I had 3 israel experiences today....all in a span of a 1/2 hour....all b4 9am. I think it's a sign...

more stupid technology

so I work in a shul office. most of my job entails answering phones b/c the phone always rings. I do other stuff too, but the phone always rings. I looove my job - which I'll get to in another post. but I just wanted to share this with "you". someone called today to ask if I could mail her the form for something. I said I'd be happy to, but also, it's on our website. she said "yeah but I don't have a computer....I know...I'm a dinosaur...." so I said ok I'll mail it, and I put it on my to do list and hung up the phone. then I turned to DJ and asked her if ppl really don't have computers anymore? like is that a valid excuse now? does she really not have a computer, or is she just lying thru her teeth! argh! she didn't sound like she's 80. she sounded about 30 or 40 or something. so really, who stole her cookies from her cookie jar? no wait....wrong question.....aaaahhh phone ringing.....

aaahh....stupid technology

I just want to add that it has now taken me about 1/2 hour to figure out how to post that post above this one. All b/c I like green better than orange!

This is my first attempt at this. Don't make fun

Hi everyone! My friend "Drew" said I should have a blog. And then my friend "Devora" said she agrees. Then, my friend "Yehuda" said that my train of thought has left the station and the cars are not attached to eachother. So I'm dedicating this to "them". Their names are in quotes b/c that's not really their names. I wouldn't post actual names on the interenet......b/c I don't want someone to be able to find them.....and this makes it harder.....
I have a lot of random thoughts. Ya know that first Rashi in Parshat Behar where he says "mah inyan shmita etzel Har Sinai?" (what does the mitzvah of Shmita have to with the fact that b'nei yisrael were near Har Sinai?) So that's my life; a bunch of random thoughts. Hey, that could be my yearbook quote.....if I had a yearbook.....hmm..... (and then Rashi answers his question and explains what the pasuk means. I don't think it's relevant to my life. If I knew the rest of the Rashi, I'd be able to tell you for sure. Maybe I'll go look that up....). And that was my Dvar Torah for the night.
So my 2 friends up there said I should have a blog and post all my random thoughts. Like today, I was at work and I turned to "Devora" and said "I'm hungry. I think someone stole my commas." Of course now I don't have any....random thoughts.....and commas....but that's irrelevant. Isn't that ironic? That I don't have any random thoughts right now......unlike that song, where nothing is actually ironic. That song is just a series of unfortunate events.....like Lemony Snicket.....didn't see the movie..... Maybe she called it "isn't it ironic" b/c then the title would be ironic. But I'm not here to analyze Alanis Morriset. I can't even spell her name! Anyways, but Yo-Ya is all ironic stuff. Maybe Alanis should meet Poogy. What's Poogy?! Poogy is the Israeli dude who sings Yo-Ya. I think that's enough for the first post. Let me leave you with this thought. Mountain Dew is neither a mountain nor dew. (but it does taste like canteloup juice). discuss.....