Wednesday Morning First Day Rosh Chodesh Adar Alef Rambly Bits

-- Chodesh tov, everyone! In 14 days, let's all give tiny-tiny packages of food to one another, read one chapter of Megillat Esther, get vaguely tipsy, and give minimal amounts of tzedakah to people. :-)

-- Welcome to all the new folks around here. Any questions, feel free to ask. Things are odd around here on most days, filled with random ramblings about knitting, language, food, or all of the above.

-- OK, so, after being convinced by multiple folks, I have a Ravelry account. Now what do I do with it?

-- Because of a conversation with eireangus in madknits' comments, I've been thinking a lot about my frumkeit and my religious lifestyle. There may be some thinky posts coming up on that and related subjects.

-- Anyone out there who sews: Is there any (relatively straightforward) way to replace the little plastic doohicky that holds the two parts of a bra strap together (other than, say, a safety pin)? Every way I can think of requires more effort than I'm thinking this is worth.

-- I did the first half of my Shabbat cooking yesterday. I think this is the earliest in the week I've ever started Shabbat cooking. On Thursday night, I'll do the rest of it.

In Anticipation of the Jewish-Thinky Posts...

... I bring you a glossary (cowritten with embenshaul) of terms that may or may not appear in my yammerings. Now, this glossary was written for a specific fiction project, so there are terms in it that are highly unlikely to appear in my ramblings, but I didn't feel like editing them out. :-)

So, without further ado, ( A big list of words )

Now, to be clear, these are not necessarily precise definitions; there are glosses for how these words are typically used.

Also, if I use a term in some later discussion and I don't define it and it's not on this list, feel free to ping me and I'll translate. I've been accused more than once of speaking in Yeshivish (from "yeshiva," a place of Jewish learning), and sometimes I don't even notice.