I only need to be at the synagogue for 10 am and not 8:45 on Saturday. My current plan is to make an appearance, then discreetly hide in the bathroom with a book to preserve my refusal to go in synagogues where men and women are separated stance. It really depends on which family members […]
I spent the entire bloody day shopping today. It was successful, mostly, though I need shoes. But it was long. I am most excited by the hair clips (shiny! sparkly!) that I got from a secondhand store that just opened up nearby. They’re a pair, which is very hard to find, and they have a […]
One of the things I most enjoy about giving out candy is deciding who to give what to. Teenagers in jeans, anyone wearing football uniforms, anyone talking on their cell phone? Rockets. Kids in homemade costumes, snowsuits, or out with their nannies? Chocolate bars. This year I also gave into requests for exchanges (almost invariably […]
I just spent an hour or an hour and a half setting up my grandparents’ new dvd player. This included approximately 5 minutes to put the dvd player in the right place (the jacks on the tv were hard to find, and we needed to find a spare cable), 1 hour to set up the […]
Despite my usual skill at never running into anyone I know, this weekend I managed it twice — and *I* recognised them, not just the other way round. And I just found out they work at the same company (I do not know if they know each other; I know them from unrelated places).
This […]
ask.mefi thread called: how can I make my cat like my wife?
I had to open the stupid thing and see inside to figure out what characterstics his wife had that he thought his cat could emulate.
For the third row (as it were) in a station wagon? Do you also use this term for the third row in a minivan or SUV? (If not, what do you call this row?)
My family was debating this, and though we all use the same term (first used when I carpooled to preschool), we don’t […]
What’s amazing is how quickly a clean place can turn not clean. It’s the newspapers that really kill me, but my exceptionally small kitchen doesn’t help. I am almost through with the laundry, mostly now it’s just the delicates (waiting for a warmer day to air-dry) and then a few pieces. I recall thinking how […]
It is almost my birthday.
What do I want as a gift?
Sometimes you’re on a main road and there’s another road cutting in to join you, where they have the stop/yield sign.
Yesterday it was poor driving conditions, and I was on the main road. And on the side road there was a car. It waited for the cars in front of me, and it didn’t have […]