Pesach, oh pesach, how we love thee

Pesach is coming, as is evident from the numerous ads I see in every Jewish magazine I open to, by the Pomegranate people. They want us to shop at their supermarket this year, advertising wider isles, quick checkout, lots of products and friendly service. They call themselves 'The Pom people'. A cute and catchy name.

I have no idea where we are shopping for our pesach goods this year. It is never up to me. Nope. Despite hearing my sister complain that she "works 50+ hours a week, comes home exhausted, she shouldn't have to clean the house, Altie should do it" etc etc etc, shopping is HER forte, and G-d forbid should I try to help with that. But it gets done somehow, it always gets done. 50 pounds of potatoes, about the same amount of onions, carrots, nuts, well I don't need to tell you, I'm sure you have your own checklist of foods to buy for pesach.

Did I start cleaning yet? Nope. Cuz it always gets done somehow, right? Maybe I'll clean my room, we'll see.

There's a concept called spiritual chometz. In addition to getting rid of your physical chometz, this time of year requires some soul-searching. I have a lot of 'chometz', but no actual time to think about it. Funny, I usually have so much time on my hands, but when it comes to things like davening and learning, suddenly I find myself...busy. Hmmm, how does that work?

Well the weather is turning nice, slowly, despite the rain from yesterday, we switched the clocks and I lost an hour or sleep, and I find myself with more things to do and less free time. Almost like normal people. I say almost because my life still doesn't quite run like most peoples. No I'm not part of the mafia, I'm just on vacation. Like, a long vacation.

Anyway, I have things to do, cleaning is on the list but at the booooottom. So hop to it people. Go clean or shop or something. Heres some free advertisement for a website I'm helping out, silverdesires.com, for all your pesach silver needs. Go check it out.

Tata.