jelly_bean

so i am doing a happy dance...a BIG happy dance. why you may ask. i will tell you...joual got his official end of army date! he is done mid-july and it might even be sooner than that..who knows! but it is like 3 months away. and for 2 months of that, he is at a course in j'lem where he will be home just about every weekend i am just really excited for him b/c i know how much he just wants to be done w/ it all and we are coming up on the home stretch of it.

then i realize that is have been w/ him for over half his 2 year army service...crazy.

so, yea...there will definitely be a celebration coming around mid july

hmm...in other news, i probably look like i have been crying all day. i haven't. damn allergies some how made my contacts go bonkers. so all day at work i looked like i had been in tears.

really though, i'm in a pretty decent mood.

tomorrow is a used book sale at school - i am going to buy a relatively easy hebrew book to read b/c i think it will help w/ my skills. then i am printing out the first 6 weeks worth of reading for one of my classes. i also have to somehow fudge a lesson plan for the class i am giving... ehh, i have 5 hours to do it all, so i am not so worried. as far as i know, i don't have any meetings w/ students tomorrow.

had a talk w/ my dad about money and my lack of it. i told him how i hate living paycheck to paycheck and that's why i want to take a year off after school, work full time and just start socking it away. more and more i think about this, the more the realization becomes that i am probably going to have to forgo going to the states end of sept. for my friend's wedding. yea, i really really really want to see everyone. but i also really really really need to start saving my shekels. unfortunately, saving has become a priority as my "little pile" (as joual calls it) has dwindled to nothing and i want to rebuild. i have expenses coming up that i need to take care of first and foremost. i have things i need to do or buy but can't afford. it sucks. like i really enjoy running but can't do it w/out music to keep me at pace so i don't look like a complete retard. i need to get some of my jeans fixed, i need new clothes in general. i don't know. i think i am going to have to say "no" to the states. it kills me too. i want to see my friends that i haven't seen in 2-4 years. but cest la vie. being an adult means having to make the hard decisions in life.

and my bday is in a bit over a week. normally where people are excited about their bdays...me, not so much. i am going to be 26... i don't know. i guess w/ my bad luck on bdays, i am just waiting for something to happen that will screw me over somehow. joual said that we would celebrate this weekend that he is home but i don't know what he is planning. i was told that i am not normal the other day by some one - usually when people think about their bday coming up, they get excited, i get the exact opposite.

i need something exciting to happen.

and trying to not procrastinate takes more effort than procrastinating.

and i find myself falling back into those ways...haha.

some things never leave us

i am excited for the passover seder next week though. miriam is planning to make it fun and entertaining, and she's creative so i know it will be interesting

the tuesday before, my friend jordan arrives. i don't have classes so we can chill all day. i think that night we are going to meet up w/ some friends and have pizza or anything really that you can't eat during passover.

it's funny, my non-jewish friends in the US looooove matzoh, i told them that if they were forced to eat it for a week, they'd be singing a different tune.

i need to find interesting things to do w/ matzoh over the holiday. any ideas?

there's this running joke, when the end of the world comes, all that will be left are cockroaches and matzoh.

i think it's true.

love you all!!

xoox

-JB