Drizzly Monday Afternoon Rambly Bits

[gnomi]

-- I know I've been kind of quiet except for announcements of columns. Between Pesach (Passover) prep, Pesach itself, *recovering* from Pesach, and job searching, life's been busy. I'll strive to be more talky here, but no promises.

-- A posting on the Jewish Boston mailing list about someone trying to find a pre-season minyan on Cape Cod made me wonder about early Onset minyanim.

-- I've been and will be again chaperoning a couple's dates for religious reasons. If I have the brain to do so, I'll elaborate more in a later post.

-- I've come to the realization that I really like Shabbat morning Pesukei d'Zimrah (verses of praise, one of the early parts of the morning service).

-- Squeaker was convinced yesterday when mabfan was talking to osewalrus that it was Sabba (Hebrew for "grandfather"; what Muffin and Squeaker call my father) on the phone. I said, "No, that's Uncle osewalrus," and Squeaker just looked at me like I was nuts and said, emphatically, "Sabba!"

-- Muffin decided -- and convinced Squeaker -- that one of their tables, flipped over, is actually a slide like the ones they play on at the park. They now yell "Slide" and slide off the edge of the flipped-over table.

-- Help me. I think I'm becoming a Gleek.

-- Last week, mabfan and I watched the 1952 science fiction movie "This Island Earth." To then get the taste of that (honestly kind of wretched) film out of our brains, we watched the Mystery Science Theater 3000 movie, in which *they* watch an abridged version of "This Island Earth." We were both amused when the robots said almost exactly something I'd said while watching the movie the first time.

-- I'm in that "I have a bunch of things on needles and don't want to work on any of them" stage, but I haven't 100% figured out *what* I want to knit. I may cast on a pair of socks, just because. Or I may knit an elephant. Time will tell.

Comments

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

You're turning blue and growing a tail?

[cramerica.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[beadattitude.livejournal.com]

early Onset minyanim

::snort::

<3

[aunt-becca.livejournal.com]

ah, the shomeret role. Fun times :)

[gingicat]

I agree about the Pesukei d'Zimrah - I've loved them since I first learned them.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Random cuteness: I was at my folks' yesterday and answered the phone for them. It was my three year old niece who said, "I want to tell Sabba that I'm eating pizza!" I gave him the phone, she told Sabba that she was eating pizza and then immediately hung up. The look on my father's face was hilarious.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

what about knitting an elephant wearing socks? or socks with elephants on them?

>>Squeaker just looked at me like I was nuts and said, emphatically, "Sabba!"<<

HEEE. your kids are so cute i cannot stand it.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

I don't quite remember being a child and convincing my twin of things I came up with and vice versa, but I certainly remember agreeing often.

[fauxklore]

If you cast on the socks, they will be irrelephant.

[lcmlc.livejournal.com]

very good

[lcmlc.livejournal.com]

what's a gleek?