Things to do in California when you're bored

I'm not really in a writing mood, but frankly I don't really have anything better to do. I was about to write “... but truthfully...” but I've been making an effort not to use the phrase “truthfully” or “to tell you the truth” because then it raises the question – is everything else I've been saying not the truth?

Uri and I said our goodbyes yesterday. I flew off to California to visit my brother and his family including my mom who is visiting them from Israel.

Uri when down to Mexico. He's meeting my cousin in Mexico City, and they'll travel around for the next few weeks. I would really like to tell you how he's doing, but I haven't heard from him. (Small complaint there, not too bitchy – right?)

Here in California it's nice and sunny. I know it's lame that I'm talking about the weather, but just like when it was snowing and the weather became became such a large part of our lives, the fact that it's constantly raining in Cranberry Land, despite the fact that it's July has became a huge part of my life. It's really depressing, like I'm not getting any photosynthesis or something. Though I guess I shouldn't complain, I did miss winter in Israel, so now I'm getting the Israeli winter in Cranberry Land.

OK, writing with no muse is really annoying, so I'm stopping now.

petitio principii

I have a very vivid memory of my mom, sitting in the kitchen of the house that we lived in in Maryland (11703 Greenlane Dr.), writing a letter to her mom.  She’s sitting at the kitchen table – a heavy round wooden table, the room is lit in neon lights, the floor is a laminate blue and off-white checkered floor and she’s writing a letter on a special kind of paper that you would fold into three and it itself would become the envelope.  I remember it was blue.  When I picture it in my head I even think of my mom’s hand writing, and how it’s always so round and neat and the line always straight, despite the fact that the paper was blank. 

The reason I remember this so distinctly is because this was something that would happen every day.  Every single day my mom would right to her mom and tell her what happened to us that day. 

I recalled this whole thing last week and thought to myself that I should start doing the same thing.  Not writing an actual letter but blogging every day.  This was I could let you guys (my captive following) in on the small details, rather than not blogging about the big things, or writing huge ginormous blogs because I need to explain context etc. There are other things I promised myself I’d do (like spend 30 min a day at the gym, since I’m getting pretty ginormous too).  Well, needless to say that neither happened.  I’ve been finding really good excuses for the gym part, and then using that as an excuse for the blogging part.  But since now I’m sitting at Sage and not going to the gym (I’m really tiered and my legs hurt) I thought at least I would blog.  Maybe if I start doing this every day, I’ll actually go to the gym everyday too. 

More Pictures! Yey again!

This time around, a few more words. It's been a busy two weeks or so. Uri came back, and then Lior came, and now my mom and aunt are here.
I tried my hardest to do as much work as I could while Uri was in Israel, and just before he came back I hit a low point when it seemed like despite my hard work, I was getting as much (or as little) done as everyone else. Well, in the last week I discovered that it wasn't so. I did, somehow, magically, manage to be ahead of the game. This let me go hiking with Uri and Lior, and go shopping with my mom and my aunt. Yey! for me. Now, the pessimist in me has to say that I'll see if I'm, ahead of the game or not when I actually get my grades back for the finals I have this week... but the fact is that I did feel I can take the time off. Let me tell you - it was fantastic! Now I'm back to studying hard - 3 finals in 3 days is a lot. after that, Uri and I will head to The City for a few days, and then I'll be back for the 2nd half of the semester.
What about Uri you ask? Well, he should have his new computer in a few days, so he'll once again be able to write. In the meantime I will say that he is really enjoying his new PS3.