Rebecca changed her journal layout! THAT'S change we can believe in!

[rebecca_in_blue]

As regular visitors to this blog may have already noticed, Rebecca changed her layout! This is a huge deal for me, as I've had very similar versions of the same layout ever since I joined LiveJournal back in 2007. I'd actually been wanting to change to the minimalism style for a while now, but I didn't think it allowed header images, and I'm pretty attached to my header image of Victoire Thivisol in Chocolat. Then I found some CSS coding that lets you customize your content width and add a header image in minimalism, so I quickly switched my style. It took me a while to get everything just right, though, and I still worry that while my blog might look the way I want on my computer, it could be all jumbled up on computers with different brower widths. I need to visit it on another computer and check.

A few random thoughts for the week so far:

I've noticed that whenever I run into people who knew all of my siblings and me (certain former teachers, friends of Grandmas') the first and/or only one of us they ask about is Ben. I never noticed this before, but now that I have, it's irritating. Is it because he's the oldest? What did he ever do to warrant getting asked about first? He's not the only one of us worth asking about, nor was he ever. I should start telling people that he doesn't even support himself and still lives with his mom.

I finally came up with a New Year's resolution for 5772: to write more fanfiction about Jewish characters in different fandoms. (I already have a couple fanfics that deal with Judaism, but they're almost all about Ziva.) I think this counts as the mitzvot of k'lal yisrael, Jewish solidarity -- not to be confused with t'zionut, support of the state of Israel. My other resolution is to do more mitzvot. I've realized during these High Holy Days that even though I'm official now, I still don't really feel 100% Jewish. I suppose this will take some time. So I'm trying to build my Jewish identity any way I can.

On a similar note, I'm seriously thinking about fasting (or trying to) on Yom Kippur this year. Last year, my reaction to the whole idea was pretty much, "Fast? Like hell I'm fasting, you crazy Jews!" But this year, I'm officially one of those "crazy Jews," so I feel like I should at least make an attempt. It doesn't help that my birthday falls so close to Yom Kippur this year, and my grandma wants to cook me a special birthday dinner right when I'm supposed to be fasting!

I got a fortune out of a fortune cookie this week that told me: If you have to choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before. I LOVE that!

Comments

[alidiabin]

Nice LJ layout. Very easy to read/navigate. I often find overly colourful/sparkly ones hard to read, so I usually read them on my f-list but yours is very nice. It should be noted, I am quite a bit visually impaired.

Sigh, I know I'm being the devils advocate here, but could people be asking about your brother because he's a boy. I'm one of three sisters so people always ask my parents how the 'girls' are. And alternate who they ask about first depending on whom they know better.

Also, isn't it polite to ask about the person one is speaking too first.

I'd love to see some more fics centering around Ziva's Jewishness. If your muse ever strikes that candle it would be great.

Good luck on the whole fasting thing. I'd never be able to do it, so maybe it's a good thing, I'm Atheist.

And Happy birthday, in case I forget to wish it to you closer to the actual day.

[snuffy-chan.livejournal.com]

Like the new layout, and also the fortune!