
No, the old man is not snoring. It's a good thing, cuz in my apartment in Tel Aviv, the guy next store snored really loud, and he sceamed at me when I would talk on the phone outside at 1 am. Sheesh. Can't talk inside, disturb the girls sleeping. Can't talk outside, disturb the neighbors who sleep with the wondows open. Solution? Talk in the park, where the dogs run wild. Oh they are cute, I made some friends there on my nightly phonecalls.
For those who live in the New York area, you can look outside and see that it is, indeed, pouring out. For me, it is a miracle, since it hardly ever rained in Israel, and its a glorious sound to hear. The downside? My basement is flooding, and I stepped into a foot of water when I got down the steps.
I'm trying to make schedules for camp. It's not as easy as I thought it would be. I keep telling myself, breath Altie, it will be fine, you'll get them done in time. Then I'm wondering why I ever agreed to do this job. Then I'm wondering why I'm sitting here staring at my inbox, willing it to pop up with 1 new message in inbox. Waiting to hear about jobs for next year is so frustrating.
Despite numerous nudging and cajoling, I will say it one more time: I am not changing my blog name right now, so stop trying to convince me to! I think it is fine the way it is. But as you can see, my blog description now says, 'where ever I am, you are with me'. It was a suggestion by our very own Childish, and I liked it enough to use it. Thank you. You can take it how you want it, but I think the meaning is obvious.
Yesterday I didn't leave the house at all. Today I was gonna go to the ohel, but since its raining, my plans were put on hold. Now I'm going shopping, so wish me luck with my reentry into the world.
Chanalia asked me if I was going to blog about after the fact, being home and all. Since she seemed to be mocking me, cuz she thinks I'm so predictable, my first reaction was ha! I purposely am NOT going to, just to spite her. But then I decided that was a bit juvenile, and I really did want to say a little something on that topic.
I miss Israel. I read on Esser Agaroth blog about Tel Aviv beach, and I felt like I was there. It's weird to think that I won't be walking the streets of Ramat Aviv anytime soon. It's weird being home, my head feels like it's gonna fall off somewhere. I'm so confused as to what to do next. It's like I need to be reprogramed just to remember to do the simplest things.
All I keep saying is, I'm going to Cali next week, I'm going to Cali next week. And despite that little niggle in my head that keeps asking, ok, cool, Cali, but what next? I tell myself, don't worry, one step at a time. Life is so much easier if you live it day by day.
Ok so today it's raining. Now I need to get off the computer before I go crazy. Tomorrow? I don't know, I'll figure it out then.
P.S. if you were cool enough to recieve a mention in this post, AND have me do you the favor of linking to your blog, then you must be kind and leave me a nice comment. If you want me to mention you in the future, let me know. If I'm ever bored enough, I may just write up a whacky story with all the bloggers I know of. Hmmm, wouldn't you all like to know what I have to say about you?
P.P.S the picture reminds me of teardrops. How fitting. Oh I do love the rain.
Rain is miserable. It makes everything wet.
ReplyDeletei love the rain, and thinga can dry. u are a pessimist.
ReplyDeleteI too am happy for the rain. It means that I can stay home and read my books, not have to worry about going out to work.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the mention ;). I'm glad you liked my idea enough to use it.
Did you really talk to wild dogs in the park?
lol it was a dog park. the owners brough them there so they could run free. i sat on a bentch talking on the phone and they would come over and sniff me, and try to play. it was fun
ReplyDeletemy comment, "juvinile" is spelled juvenile ...i won 2nd place spelling bee in 1st grade for a reason you know.....
ReplyDeletelol. was it cuz u had a cute face?
ReplyDeletethnx, i changed it. u are observant. i guess u actually read it then.
Well California is kind of like Israel (compared to NY), so you're almost once step back there.
ReplyDeleteI like the rain. Too bad we don't get more of it here...
ReplyDelete"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but about learning to dance in the rain."
Hm...should I ask you to mention me when you blog about wacky bloggers?
i love that quote! ive heard it b4 but it always makes me kind of melancholy.
ReplyDeletedude, u will be like the MAIN character in my story! i have so much to write abt u
this weather is starting to make me nuts. Can't we have a little bit of sun?
ReplyDeleteLong time TRS'ers (i.e. e) will recall a post of mine on Roving Rabbis '08 regarding my finally understanding sun worshipers.
ReplyDeleteHoly smokes, I just realized, that would be MS '07! Crazy...
ReplyDeleteE- i dont hear u singing 'mr sun, sun, mr golden sun, please shine down on me'
ReplyDeletemaybe thats why theres no sun
If you heard him singing there'd be other issues.
ReplyDeletelol why does he have such a bad voice?
ReplyDeleteTRS: I actually don't remember it. Yes, it was a long time ago, yes time really does fly. Who would have thunk....
ReplyDeleteAltie: no, just if you were near enough to hear him past midnight then I'd be wondering where you were...
ReplyDeletee: I'll try and dig it up.
"it's 12 oclock mignight. do YOU know where your child is?"
ReplyDeletevery funny trs. oh ya, like E would ever sing for me.
men do strange things for money
ReplyDeletewho said i'd be willing to pay him?
ReplyDeleteI thought that was obvious.
ReplyDeletehey no one said im not allowed to state the obvious.
ReplyDeleteAltie, i don't charge too much...
ReplyDeleteTRS, don't work too hard trying to dig it up.
e: ki l'olam chasdo
ReplyDeletereally, E, lets talk bussiness. So how much?
ReplyDeletewhat? That I'm having mercy on you and not making you dig it up?
ReplyDeletee: read tonight's TRS for full details
ReplyDeleteI honestly don't care. I can imagine what happened. You were in Kanasas. It rained. It stopped raining. You felt like worshiping the sun. Dig deal.
ReplyDeleteGood evening Mottel!
ReplyDeleteFor you a deal, 50 cents a song. But the Mr. Golden Sun song will be $2.
ReplyDeletemottel? what mottel? re: my previous comment: It's meant to be "it's a deal." When it gets late, i start making typos.
ReplyDeleteYour 9:36 PM comment sounded like something everyone's favorite Lightstone would write.
ReplyDeletewhy so expensive?
ReplyDeleteok wait, let me check my wallet.
9:36? The first comment on this post of from 10:30.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, my days of commenting on mottel's computer are over! I now have a new roommate to borrow from! But he's not a blogger, so there will be no more mix ups.
9:36 PM.
ReplyDeleteAnd mazel tov on the new computer...I mean, roommate.
oh. a.m, p.m., wtf.
ReplyDeletereally? that was mottelesque? whatever.
lol. hey E, now u have the mission of convincing him to become a blogger. everyone has the potential.
ReplyDeletek i found 2$ now wut?
Send it here! I'm e's exclusive agent.
ReplyDeleteif i send u the money, do i get the song?
ReplyDeleteYup*
ReplyDelete*contact TRS for the fine print
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ReplyDeleteTRS- im waiting for my song. where do i send the money?
ReplyDeletecmbc- do I know you? if u are talking abt the musha and chenny i know, they were not in my sem. i was in tel aviv and they were in tsfat, so i believe we are talking abt 2 different dog stories.
Send the money posthaste to my secret underground bunker in CH. I'm waiting...
ReplyDeletewith stamps these days itll cost more to send it then the song itself. so maybe its not worth it.
ReplyDeleteand how do i know u wint walk away with the money and i wont get my song? i need a guranty.
where's E in all this? does he know u are propositioning for him?
Think of me as e's pimp.
ReplyDeleteI have a one-hundred percent guaranteed or your money back policy.*
*See fine print for restrictions to this policy.
TRS, a pimp- lovely mental picture.
ReplyDeletefor some reason i cant read the fine print, unless u omitted it on purpose. i like to know wut im getting into b4 i do it.
so what r the restrictions? and what if E really sucks? do i get my money back?
It's two measly bucks, stop being such a cheap Jew.
ReplyDeleteAnd believe you me, once you hear e sing...
whats the .... will i run the other way, or be chalishing for more?
ReplyDeleteok ok i have 2 bucks. (but do u KNOW what better things i couldve spent those 2 bucks on?)
u didnt give me an address to mail it to. and when can i show up for my free concert?
It's not a free concert, you're paying two bucks for it. And you want to drop it off in the secret TRS bunker, or should I pick it up?
ReplyDeleteoh right. ok if im paying, i expect a red carpet and everything. make it nice!!!!
ReplyDeleteno i think i'll drop it off, i dont want people stalking me.
so where is this oh so secret bunker?
A red carpet for two bucks? Dream on girl!
ReplyDeleteFollow the yellow brick road...
hey long ago 2 bucks was worth a lot.
ReplyDeleteyellow brick road? do u see something i dont see?
all i can see is asphalt, white lines, sidewalks.
do u live in nevernever land?
Sometimes I just can't stand Crown Heightsers...
ReplyDeleteHey, me neither! we are in agreement, yay!!
ReplyDelete1 true fact abnout me: I am not a crown heightser. That is an insult to me. don't say it again.
Uh huh, sure.
ReplyDeletek now u are just making me mad. don't cross that line.
ReplyDeletethere are many reasons why i am not a crown heightser, despite the fact that my family lives here.
1) i wasnt born here, and have not lived here all my life
2)i escaped this hell hole and went away for high school
3)i dont think like one, act like one, dress like one, talk like one.
4) i despise the name and all it stands for.
there are more reasons, but i think those are enough.
and btw, many ppl who ask me where im from are shocked when i say crown heights. i havent even been here much in the past 5 years!! that should count for something.
why am i trying to prove myself to you? you are just a little farm boy from a hicktown called minnasota that barely made it on the map. you probably still have hay between your teeth. back off buster.
Once again, :p seems to be in order.
ReplyDeletedont stick your tongue out at me.
ReplyDeleteugh u are so closed minded. i would think u are the one from crown heights.
altie - love the picture. i love the rain. got drowned in it today. smiled the whole time.
ReplyDeletewhere in CA are you going? also, a tip - only people from the east coast call it "Cali". it is one of those things that grates on my NoCal nerves.
you should also know, its not the first time TRS has tried to pimp out a fellow blogger...
re:crown heightser - i was going to say - from crown heights, you're a crown heightser, but then i realized you're obviously not afraid of dogs, and so i concur - you are not a crown heightser.
Cheerio, who else did I try to pimp?
ReplyDeletei like the pic too, thats why i chose it :P
ReplyDeletei know i know but its shoerter to write cali than C-A-L-I-F-O-R-N-I-A. man, THAT made it even longer. i'm gonna be in brentwood, i believe its near LA. (Los Anegeles? or is LA acceptable? I gotta know if im going there ;)
trs is very nerve racking. but he can try all he wants, im not going anywhere. now that u mention it, maybe he is just scared of the competition. hmmm.... insecurities.
i'm not really from crown heights, if u knew me and my history of being away all the time. i like to say, my family happens to live here, and i come by to visit sometimes. cuz thats how it is pretty much.
re: dogs. i LOVE dogs. conclusion: i am most DEFINITLY not a crown heightser.
thanks for the support. Now we can be friends! maybe i'll even mention u in my next blog post.
"trs is very nerve racking. but he can try all he wants, im not going anywhere. now that u mention it, maybe he is just scared of the competition. hmmm.... insecurities."
ReplyDeleteI rack your nerves? Joy.
You mean, you're not leaving your own blog? Impressive.
Competition? Don't make me laugh child.
good of you to enjoy annoying people. u are like a pesky child who keeps on talking, and wont shut up. wheres the off button??
ReplyDeleteha. ha ha. ha ha ha. u are not even a bit funny. no im not leaving my own blog. for all i know u would try to take over, and impersonate me. na, u would never make a very good me.
laugh all u want, but someday down the line, you will be crying. patiance, boy, patiance.
dont say i didnt warn u
I wish I knew how to make a bemused emoticon. As in, "Sheesh, people take their 4 AM conversations very seriously. I'll never understand why."
ReplyDeleteu can invent the bemused emoticon, make some money off of it.
ReplyDeleteyou should try being serious, as opposed to making a joke out of everything. (naaa, trs couldnt do serious if his life depended on it.)
why u up at 4 am? go to bed
At least once a month a blogger says something about my inability to be serious. Just saying.
ReplyDeleteLet's see...hmm...I was helping make shabbos until about midnight, and then I was working for about an hour and a half, and since then I've been working on Motzei Shabbos's post...plus responding to all these comments...
wow u are a busy person. never wouldve guessed.
ReplyDeletethen dont u think u should take their comments to heart? try to be a little more serious? no?
u are addicted to commenting, just admit it
Aderabe. I'm b'etzem such a serious person that I need the leitzanus of people telling me to be serious to stop myself from being too serious.
ReplyDeleteAddicted? Not really. If I have something to say I say it. In fact, I often have what to say and still don't say it.
really? oh u mean uve been saying stuff for the last 20 comments? im sorry, i didnt notice.
ReplyDeleteoh ya u are so serious it bored me to tears
one liners are so lame.
ReplyDeleteyay!!! u helped me reach 70 comments on one post. it feels so accomplishing!! (remind me never to go back and read these comments. then it might bring me down)
thnks trs, now u may go to sleep.
did you take the picture?
ReplyDeletealtie - use the state abbreviation when writing CA. when speaking, it really doesnt take that much longer.
also - you really dont get TRS, do you....
trs - re:your line about taking 4 am convos seriously - giggle.
ReplyDeleteand um, ME? dont you remember the anonymous on HITH?
No, she doesn't get me.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I do recall that episode now. It was quite entertaining, no?
no i wish i took it. i just googled it. yup i revealed my secret.
ReplyDeleteno i really dont get TRS. do u? wanna explain him to me?
thats because u arent 'getable'.
ReplyDeletehe is getable. you must open your eyes, my child.
ReplyDeletethey are open. i still dont get it.
ReplyDeletewell i did get one thing. finally.
ReplyDeletesleepy.
so good night!
we'll have to continue the tutorial in all thing trs another time.
yay i am so looking forward to that!!
ReplyDelete(sarcasticallly.)
with some ppl, its easier to just accepr them than to ever try to understand them, cuz u might go crazy trying. i think this is the case with trs.
81. thats all i have to say.
ReplyDeleteyou can go crazy trying to understand some people, but trs isn't one of them. it's quite simple - he's far less serious than you think, and far more sincere than you imagine.
ReplyDeleteawwww
ReplyDeletegot to back up my bff's chassan!
ReplyDeleteexcellent.
ReplyDeletecheerio- good of u to say that. maybe with time i will understand him too, or maybe i will not bother to try, but drop the pretenses.
ReplyDeleteAltie, there is no "secret" that will make trs "gotten." You just gotta chill a little and realize that everything he says is a partially tongue in cheek.
ReplyDeleteB"H
ReplyDeleteIsrael misses you. :-}
Why is it that only non-Californians call California "Cali?"
Is it some kind of secret code?
:-S
e- thanks, i know. im learning how to 'chill'.
ReplyDeleteben yehuda- no, its like a crown heightser saying crown heightser. its just not done. when u come from a cool place like california, u dont feel the need to make it sound more cool by saying, cali. its an 'outsiders' need to fit in, and feel cool.
Altie- LOL. I see you liked my quote so much that you made a post on it. :P
ReplyDelete(P.S.- it was TLA's in my yearbook.)
which quote?
ReplyDeleteE- I think i finally get him
ReplyDeleteNow that you got me, what do you get?
ReplyDeletelol. nothing. I think you are ok.
ReplyDeleteExcellent.
ReplyDeletelol. keep this going, im almost up to 100 comments.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on "getting it"
ReplyDelete:) took me long enough.
ReplyDeleteLOL- the quote you made a post out of was TLA's in the yearbook.
ReplyDeleteThe main character? Er, isn't that where you get stage fright?
ya but u wouldnt actually be on stage. just in my story in cyberspace.
ReplyDeletetba's quote was its raining its pouring? why?
thank G-D!!
ReplyDeletelol. oh boy, have i been giving ppl headaches from my rants?
ReplyDeleteTrue...well, I guess it depends what the story is.
ReplyDeleteWhy what?
No, I had one anyways. Don't try taking credit for my headaches.