thursday was the day that Mari and i go out to do my errands. we do this every month, at the end of the month. this time Racheli joined us, on my request. we went to my bank to withdraw all my millions of shekels, then over to our landlord's bank to pay the rent, then to the clinic, and then off to the mall to have brunch.

we had a great time !! we laughed our butts off and had so much fun just telling each other stories and making everyone around us crazy. at the clinic i was able to have my gross toenails taken care of. i also talked with the podiatrist about having the surgery done which takes all my toenails off and basically takes care of the ugliness problem. i got the problem with the pronounced use of steroids a few years ago. very frustrating and ugly. the only medicine that is available is a pill that would greatly affect my liver, and since i already have elevated levels of liver function, that is a non-choice. *sigh* everyone know how much i do not want any more hospital-related procedures, but it's really not something i can keep avoiding.

brunch was SO much fun with Mari and Racheli. we sat outside at the terrace of Cafe Joe. there were tons of people there. doesn't anyone in Modiin work? we kept ourselves entertained for about 2 hours. we also kept the waitress on her toes the whole time. she was pretty bad, but at least was in a good mood, so we gave her an uber-tip. i've been able to make some good progress on the website. i got a couple of sections done in the *lifestyle* category. i'll be doing more work on that category in the coming week or so, and that way it'll be ready to upload soon.speaking of uploading..... i so much wanted to start uploading files this week, but for some reason my webhosting guy disppeared all week. he finally contacted me this morning, to tell me that he's having some technical problems with his system upgrade and that i need to wait a bit more. *sigh*... again. i guess every thing is for the better. i'm not in any position to launch the site, so it doesn't really matter if his server system is behind a week or two.

Nina and Tamar are making me crazy these past few days. they are not keeping the house tidy whatsoever and now it looks like a train wreck!! AND they're now complaining about how much work they have to do to get it looking presentable. i feel so bad with Racheli around this dump. i'm sure she hates it this way. i'm in no physical shape to do the cleaning, so i'm dependant on Nina and Tamar. of course, Nina has a good excuse for the past week... she got that cut on her foot from a piece of glass. she was out of it for about 3 days and that made a huge difference here at home. at least she's a lot better now and will be able to do some cleaning and the cooking this afternoon :-) if only Tamar were as compromising as Nina.

i now need to go eat something healthy. ta ta !!

moving along.....

i have forgotten to post here lately :-( not good. i hope to once again to post here every day because it keeps me focused on life.

i've been able to make some progress on ourmoddin, but it's nothing like i want to do. i'm stuck on some areas of the site and i just don't know how to get unstuck. i hope this is a very temporary situation. some sections are much easier to compile information and some are just a pain in the ass because i have to translate the information from Hebrew into English..... uugghh !

what to do about this? i guess the best thing to do is get my notebook out and make a good working outline of the site. some of this is already done, but some just is stuck. *sigh*.

well, one thing is sure: i have to just do it !! right??

here we go again.......

kind of back on track

i'm feeling better these days. good for me since we've had a lot of fun things to do since Racheli got back last monday.

we went on a shopping spree on tuesday at our new mall here in Modiin. we were there for hours and hours and had a great time. she needed to buy new clothes for the Bar Mitzva and found some very reasonably priced items.

then we went to the Bar Mitzva on thursday. we went to the Kotel (Western Wall) and suffered through the almost unbearable heat. i hadn't been to the Kotel in years. it's such an impressive sight. being there you get an overwheming feeling of *belonging* to history.

then we went to the party all the way over on the other side of Jerusalem. now THAT was fun!! i saw people that i hadn't seen in 10, 15 and even 20 years. one after the other they all looked sooo good. we all had a blast dancing and eating great food. then we headed back home at about 6pm and we all kind of fizzled out the rest of the evening. Racheli drove up north to be part of the Shabbat celebration for the Bar Mitzva boy. she also had a great time there, even though it was a bit difficult keeping such a strict Shabbat on the religous Moshav.

last night we went to pick Rico up from the airport. oh my God !! you could not have chosen three more stupid people to pick him up; me, Racheli and Oren. a one hour adventure turned into a 3 hour exercise in patience and waiting. Rico never really gave us the correct flight info and we just went on what he wrote on Facebook. well, after about 2.5 hours of watching hundreds of people land from all over the world, i was sitting on the side waiting for the next flight from London to land at 10:38pm. all of a sudden i see Rico appear from nowhere. he had come in from some obscure city in Britian called Luton. his flight had been delayed on the ground for 1.5 hours in Luton and he was late. never mind that we were waiting for him to come in from London.

anyway... now Rico was there and Oren & Racheli were lost !! Rico was tired and hungry and kept going around the terminal looking for them. he even had them paged, to no avail. about 45 minutes later the stray father and daughter team appeared from the very top floor of the airport. we finally got into the car and sped home to have something to eat before the last open place in Modiin closed.

we had the girls meet us up at the restaurant and we all had a great time just being together.

that's it for this crazy family. we're just having fun being together and getting through these hot days.