I leave for Israel in 2 weeks and I have lots of reservations about it. Starting from how will my son do while I'm away to with WHAT will my husband do while I'm away to how will I do while there alone. Well, not really alone, there will be other people there, mostly college age and mainly strangers to me.
But, all that is overshadowed by my sheer excitement to finally make it Israel. I know I will feel the connection to the land that I have been longing for and I can't wait.
Raje is the organization sponsoring my trip and all expenses are paid. I am very grateful to be a part of this experience.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Front page news:
Obama declares time to fix health care is now.
Wow!
Like I said before I tend to not get into political discussions, but we've got ourselves a winner here folks.
Wow!
Like I said before I tend to not get into political discussions, but we've got ourselves a winner here folks.
Final Destination.
So, I haven’t written in a while and I couldn't think of anything that was worth mentioning ( no news is good news ) until now.
Flight AF447 - everyone heard about this. Tragic. Unfortunate. Sad! There were children on board, one 11 year old reported to have been traveling alone. I can not imagine those last moments of his life. No mom or dad to comfort and hold his scared little hand in that horrific plunge.
I pray for them.
But, what happens when you say "There but for the grace of G-d go I"? You should have been on that plane but miss it for whatever reason and make the next one to make it home safe and sound only to die in a car crash the following week? What is that? What forces are at hand here? How creepy is this situation?
I think this whole thing begs for a whole new debate about being destined for certain fates.
I always thought that we had our destinies predetermined for us before we are even able to make a single decision for ourselves.
This idea just moved up a notch in my mind.
Flight AF447 - everyone heard about this. Tragic. Unfortunate. Sad! There were children on board, one 11 year old reported to have been traveling alone. I can not imagine those last moments of his life. No mom or dad to comfort and hold his scared little hand in that horrific plunge.
I pray for them.
But, what happens when you say "There but for the grace of G-d go I"? You should have been on that plane but miss it for whatever reason and make the next one to make it home safe and sound only to die in a car crash the following week? What is that? What forces are at hand here? How creepy is this situation?
I think this whole thing begs for a whole new debate about being destined for certain fates.
I always thought that we had our destinies predetermined for us before we are even able to make a single decision for ourselves.
This idea just moved up a notch in my mind.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
I couldn't make this stuff up
Colo. woman's tofu license plate request blocked
DENVER - Kelly Coffman-Lee wanted to tell the world about her love of tofu by picking the letters for her car's license plate. But her tofu fondness ran into a snafu at the Division of Motor Vehicles, which blocked her plan because they thought the combination of letters could be interpreted as profane. Her suggestion for the plate on her Suzuki: "ILVTOFU."
courtesy of AP
DENVER - Kelly Coffman-Lee wanted to tell the world about her love of tofu by picking the letters for her car's license plate. But her tofu fondness ran into a snafu at the Division of Motor Vehicles, which blocked her plan because they thought the combination of letters could be interpreted as profane. Her suggestion for the plate on her Suzuki: "ILVTOFU."
courtesy of AP
Friday, March 27, 2009
Ugh!
This face offends me, I can't, I just can't!
Something about this girl is just, for lack of a better word, "eww"..
I can not believe that some people actually think that this face is attractive.
I'm not even going to get into her decision making skills.
I'm sorry, ( no, I'm not ) I know that she's a child, but you know what, she's in the spotlight and fair game for criticism as far as I'm concerned.
One word. Foo.
Something about this girl is just, for lack of a better word, "eww"..
I can not believe that some people actually think that this face is attractive.
I'm not even going to get into her decision making skills.
I'm sorry, ( no, I'm not ) I know that she's a child, but you know what, she's in the spotlight and fair game for criticism as far as I'm concerned.
One word. Foo.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The value of paying attention
My not-so-hands-on self decided that I would like to try something new. Follow a recipe. I never follow recipes and I rarely try anything new. What can I say, I'm a creature of habit.
With that said, I would like to note that I can obviously read as well as follow directions, but, things happen sometimes and your mind wonders and you're tired from work and you have a 6 year old asking you what wood is made of and all you are trying to do is follow a recipe and decipher the difference between tbs. and tsp. (given all the aforementioned factors, it is no easy feat).
This is how it all started: I am reading my Cosmo on the bus on the way home when I come across what looks like a very simple to make yummy truffle treat, and I think to myself, I should treat my family to something yummy and I can actually have my son help out since he loves to help with everything, we can make a thing out of it right?
So, all I need is Oreos, cream cheese, chocolates chips, powered sugar and voila! Not so hard right? So, I make a stop at the store pick up all of the above, and I figure I'll figure out the proportions when I get home. Anyway, we get home and we start…
Now, here is the tricky part - the instructions are about 5 sentences long and I think oi-vey people need directions to make something so simple? dumb people. Then I begin to read.
… blah, blah, crush Oreos - ( 8 oz. so I figured half the box, since it's about a lb. ) - done
… add cream cheese - ( 4 oz, but it doesn't seem to want to mesh with the 8 ozes of crushed cookies ) - kinda done
… make balls, put on sheet, put in freezer for one hour - problem.
I notice that I have an enormous amount of goo that doesn't seem to look right, so I go back to the recipe: 8 Oreo cookies. That's right! 8 Oreo cookies, not 8 OUNCES of Oreo cookies! Big difference.
Ok, Problem averted - double the cream cheese - done
… make into balls put into freezer - done
Next step says to melt the chocolate in the microwave for 1 minute, OK, done, but then it says to stir and NUKE for 30 seconds. What the hell is nuke? ( So, l go to look it up online of course - definition: "to attack somebody or something with nuclear weapons", totally useless in this instance to me ) All the while my son demands to know what "Nuke it" means, because he's in charge of the chocolate.
So, we just melt the heck out of that sucker and begin to lather the "truffles" in it… we realize that we better hurry because it's hardening and well, the recipe doesn't say what to do when that happens. Given this, the last few looked less like a truffle and more like a puffer but, we didn't let that faze us.
So, once this step in complete, we finally move on to the last and final step, all the confusing and unnecessary language behind us. Until we learn that we have to put the powdered sugar in a "sieve" I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I have never heard of this word before. Mike suggests that we put it in a sleeve and that didn't seem to make sense either. So, we decided to use common sense and just dusted these things with that thing and stuck them in the freezer.
Mission accomplished! They were yummy btw. :)
With that said, I would like to note that I can obviously read as well as follow directions, but, things happen sometimes and your mind wonders and you're tired from work and you have a 6 year old asking you what wood is made of and all you are trying to do is follow a recipe and decipher the difference between tbs. and tsp. (given all the aforementioned factors, it is no easy feat).
This is how it all started: I am reading my Cosmo on the bus on the way home when I come across what looks like a very simple to make yummy truffle treat, and I think to myself, I should treat my family to something yummy and I can actually have my son help out since he loves to help with everything, we can make a thing out of it right?
So, all I need is Oreos, cream cheese, chocolates chips, powered sugar and voila! Not so hard right? So, I make a stop at the store pick up all of the above, and I figure I'll figure out the proportions when I get home. Anyway, we get home and we start…
Now, here is the tricky part - the instructions are about 5 sentences long and I think oi-vey people need directions to make something so simple? dumb people. Then I begin to read.
… blah, blah, crush Oreos - ( 8 oz. so I figured half the box, since it's about a lb. ) - done
… add cream cheese - ( 4 oz, but it doesn't seem to want to mesh with the 8 ozes of crushed cookies ) - kinda done
… make balls, put on sheet, put in freezer for one hour - problem.
I notice that I have an enormous amount of goo that doesn't seem to look right, so I go back to the recipe: 8 Oreo cookies. That's right! 8 Oreo cookies, not 8 OUNCES of Oreo cookies! Big difference.
Ok, Problem averted - double the cream cheese - done
… make into balls put into freezer - done
Next step says to melt the chocolate in the microwave for 1 minute, OK, done, but then it says to stir and NUKE for 30 seconds. What the hell is nuke? ( So, l go to look it up online of course - definition: "to attack somebody or something with nuclear weapons", totally useless in this instance to me ) All the while my son demands to know what "Nuke it" means, because he's in charge of the chocolate.
So, we just melt the heck out of that sucker and begin to lather the "truffles" in it… we realize that we better hurry because it's hardening and well, the recipe doesn't say what to do when that happens. Given this, the last few looked less like a truffle and more like a puffer but, we didn't let that faze us.
So, once this step in complete, we finally move on to the last and final step, all the confusing and unnecessary language behind us. Until we learn that we have to put the powdered sugar in a "sieve" I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I have never heard of this word before. Mike suggests that we put it in a sleeve and that didn't seem to make sense either. So, we decided to use common sense and just dusted these things with that thing and stuck them in the freezer.
Mission accomplished! They were yummy btw. :)
Friday, February 27, 2009
Back to 2008 for a second.
I remembered for some reason my son's letter to Santa last year.
Since he regularly cracks me up and I tend to talk about him a lot, I figured why stop now?!
So, I decided to share this funny piece of information here.
This is a picture of the letter that he wrote:
1 Mario Game - $25
1 2009 calendar - $3
1 Wii - $$$
Money - Priceless
This is a picture of the envelope in which he sent said letter.
Since he regularly cracks me up and I tend to talk about him a lot, I figured why stop now?!
So, I decided to share this funny piece of information here.
This is a picture of the letter that he wrote:
1 Mario Game - $251 2009 calendar - $3
1 Wii - $$$
Money - Priceless
This is a picture of the envelope in which he sent said letter.
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