rebecca_in_blue: (red riding hood)
I overslept and was late to work this morning, but the day has gone from up there. After work, Sara bought me frozen yogurt. Employees at her store are getting free frozen yogurt for the entire month of March, and she says she's going to get some every day. (I don't doubt it.)

I just got home from Shabbat services with the rabbi. Everyone at temple is busy busy getting ready for Purim, Pesach, our annual corn beef sandwich sale fundraiser, the Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony, and all eyes are on Washington for the upcoming AIPAC conference. In fact, our rabbi will be flying up to DC to attend.

On the way home from temple, I biked to the grocery store to rent Midnight in Paris. Spring has finally arrived, and the night was so cool, with azalea bushes blooming everywhere you look. There were so many hanging baskets of petunias and impatiens for sale outside the store that I barely had room to ride my bike. There were also some little girls selling Girl Scout cookies. I bought a box of lemon cookies, and they're so good I might eat the whole box! Sara is out buying an Icee right now (she insists she can't eat popcorn without Coke or an Icee) and when she gets back we're watching Midnight in Paris -- with the only woman who can rival Cote de Pablo in sexiness, the breathtaking, beautiful, French Marion Cotillard!

And speaking of the French, on the art calendar, I'm looking at Avignon, Pont St. Bénezet, an 1836 photograph by Edouard Baldus. But if this is the fabled "sur le pont d'Avignon," then where are the people dancing?
rebecca_in_blue: (trembling hand)
I had the strangest dream last night. I was at work, doing my job as usual, when Boss-Man summoned me to his office in his most serious voice. When I got there, he said, "Ms. C------, your rabbi tells me you haven't been a good Jew lately." I said something like, "What the hell? I am so a good Jew! Rabbi W would never say that about me!" And just then, Rabbi W walked into Boss Man's office. Our conversation went something exactly like this...

Rebecca: Rabbi, how can you say I'm not a good Jew? How have I not been a good Jew?
Rabbi W: You haven't been following all 613 mitzvot.
Rebecca: What are you talking about? Nobody follows all 613 mitzvot! You don't follow all of them! [Which is true, by the way. Most Jews don't.] Even God probably doesn't follow all of them!
Rabbi W: Well, Rebecca, when I converted you, you agreed that you would follow all 613 mitzvot.
Rebecca: That was never a condition of our agreement, nor was giving Han to this bounty hunter! [Points at Boss-Man]

It was so weird. I'm not sure what it means that this dream came on the night between my birthday and Yom Kippur.

Rebecca's been in go-mode since 8:30 this morning. After biking to and from work, I drove over to Grandma's house for dinner. She had spaghetti and cheesecake for me for my birthday. Then I had to pick up a few groceries, then I drove to the temple for Yom Kippur evening services, which lasted two hours!

One member of our congregation who'd been ill suddenly fainted away in the middle of the Kol Nidre! He was really pale, and I was pretty freaked when I saw him go down. (He turned out to be okay, but he had to leave early.) Just a few minutes before, Rabbi Z talked about how back in temple days, the other priests tied a rope around the high priest before he entered the Holy of Holies, in case the intensity of the moment made him drop dead. At the end of services, our temple president addressed Rabbi Z by Rabbi W's name and never even noticed.

Right now, I've got a Shirley Temple movie playing (Poor Little Rich Girl - I'd been wanting to rewatch it) and eggs boiling on the stove, for the devilled eggs I'm making tomorrow for the break-the-fast meal. And I know what you're thinking: "Rebecca, you think you're going to be able to fast all day when you have to make devilled eggs and have leftover birthday cake and six birthday-gift lemons in your refrigerator?" (Mom and Grandma both hit the same lemon sale and gave me lemons for my birthday. For as little time as they spend together, they sure do think alike about some things.) Hey, I said I would try. I never said I would succeed.

For any Jewish readers who might be attempting the fast too, T'zom Kal!
rebecca_in_blue: (dishevelled hair)

I went out earlier today planning to run some errands, drop off some more job applications, and (finally) pay my library fine. I was on the road and driving before I remembered that today is Memorial Day, and virtually all the places where I had planned to go, especially the library, are closed! Grrr. The only thing I was able to do was put more gas in Muse Watson. I thought about seeing the Avenue of Flags at the cemetery, but I didn't have my camera with me and didn't want to go without taking any pictures.

So after that, I decided to come home and finish up that YouTube video I was making. But the website I use to convert videos seems to be on the fritz. Hmmm, what to do with my afternoon now? I think I might actually lug out my old keyboard.

P.S. I think my Jewish grandfather might be as devlish as my sister. (Heaven help me!) When I told him about her no-tell motel comment, he got mad, then laughed at said, "Well, we would never meet at a cheap motel."

rebecca_in_blue: (excited grin)
It's been cold, wet, and windy all day today – bleh! I had meant to do my laundry this evening, but instead, I'm sitting here watching the pre-SAG Awards fashion show on E. Even though I don't watch many movies and almost no TV (aside from NCIS, of course), I love award shows! It's even better when child actresses show up, and there are no less than three of them at the SAGs this year: Hailee Steinfeld, Kiernan Shipka, and Ariel Winter!

I just wish Sara were here to make sarcastic comments with me and identify all the celebs I don't know (and tell me what their kids' names are). But I'm willing to settle for watching them with Sable, and eating stale popcorn leftover from Christmas.
rebecca_in_blue: (Default)

I just called my poor 81-year-old grandma at midnight and woke her up because I accidentally dialed her instead of my brother. (He's #3 on my speeddial, she's #2.) D'oh!

I somehow let myself get talked into spending the night at my mom's house, something I haven't done since 2008. I came over this evening to watch To Kill a Mockingbird with Adam (he'd rented it from Netflix; excellent young actress performance) and ended up helping set up their Christmas village and tree. I was not a fan. Now I'm typing this up on their computer, which is so damn swanky I'm tempted to steal it every time I come over here, before going to bed. I took a sleeping pill before I left my apartment, and that damn thing works fast.

I'm off tomorrow/today, and we're celebrating Sara's birthday and maybe going used car shopping. I'm also determined to start looking for a new job.

Of course, before I left my apartment, I watched tonight's new NCIS episode and typed up my notes on it. Here they are:

Notes on 8x10 "False Witness," this season's Christmas episode )
rebecca_in_blue: (dozing off)
It's been cold, wet, and overcast all day today — geez, do you think November's here? It's raining right now, and I'm listening to it fall and playing Jackson Browne's "Going Down to Cuba." It's the most beautiful, mellow song. I let Graycat inside because it's so cold on the stairs, and she and Sable are curled up on the floor with their tails over their noses. I'm about to go curl up in bed myself. Laila tov. (That's right, Rebecca's learned two whole words of Hebrew! Impressive, huh?)

Graycat still doesn't have a real name, although we've considered Zippy, Greasy Sae, and Antoine Dodson. Suggestions?

Here's a link to Going Down to Cuba, for your listening pleasure.

rebecca_in_blue: (bemused shrug)

Anybody (besides you, Sara) know where that title line is from? Anybody?

It's been raining all day, and now we're in the middle of a big thunderstorm complete with lots of scary lightning. Our electricity flickered but didn't go out, thank goodness. Sara's working a close, so I'm home alone with Sable and a book of ghost stories, good reading for weather like this.

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