Nachmani 46 :-)

Yup...that's it. MY NEW (well, soon to be) ADDRESS!

Sivan and I went this morning to sign the lease and on the 25th of April we will officially get keys to our new place!

I'm so excited...and so relieved...weight lifted off my shoulders doesn't even START to describe it. And not because I don't like living with my family, I do. They are so so great and have helped me in a million ways. But let's face it, I need my own place, my own kitchen, and my own stuff --- a place all our own in the center of Tel Aviv...bring it on.

The place is so cute, and in such a great location (for those of you who know Tel Aviv, it falls on Nachmani between Rothschild and Yehuda Ha'levi). The apartment will require some major cleaning and refurnishing, but Sivan and I are up for that and it'll be fun to go furniture shopping and such.

Ok, must get back to work, but i just wanted to share the good news :-)

you say tom-ate-oh, i say to-ma-toe...

last night we watched When Harry Met Sally (yes, this is time number 2034750328529035 that i've seen it, but it's still great).

repeat after me: peeaaacaaaaan piiiiiiiiiieee.

anyway. other than counting down the days till my mom gets here (we're currently at 6!!!) things are same old same old. Job stuff is good, apartment stuff is...well, it's apartment stuff. never can be that good of a sign if i'm still looking, right? but patience is a virtue i am doing my best to have. Also my friend Sivan said that she's thinking of looking for a new place since hers was good for a little while but she's ready for a more normal kitchen and having a living room (two very important parts of any apartment i'll live in!) so perhaps we'll try to look together and see if we can find something that works. It would be great to live with someone I already know and like too, so fingers crossed!

here's a shoutout to my girl Iris who got accepted to the University College in Utrecht (sp?) and rocks big time! I had no doubts she would get in, but its still nice to know for sure and I'm so so happy for her.

Ok...I'm going to try something new. In order to improve (i.e. start) having my typing skills in Hebrew be faster than snail-paced, I am going to try to write (translate) some of this message. Maybe it'll attract more readers, who knows ;-P

טוב, אז נתחיל עם העובדה שאני כבר הרבה זמן סופרת ימים עד שאמי נוחתת בארץ, והיום הביא אותנו למספר שש. חוץ מזה הכל כרגיל, בעבודה ממש סבבה, וחיפוש דירה... טוב העובדה שאני עדיין מחפשת כבר משמן שאין חדשות טובות להודיע לכם. בינתיים המטרה היא לא לאבד סבלנות. חברה שלי, סיון, החליטה לעזוב את דירתה ולחפש מקום קצת יותר מתאים עם מטבח וסלון נורמלים, ואלה דברים די חשובים בעיניי אז יכול להיות מאוד מוצלח לחפש ביחד. תחזיקו אצבעות

אני חייבת למסור המון המון "מזל טוב" ליקירתי, איריס, שהיא לפני מספר ימים התקבלה לאוניברסיטה באוטרחט (אין לי מוסג איך כותבים את זה). לא היה לי םפק שהיא תתקבל אבל בכול זאת זה פשות מדהים לשמוע ממנה כעובדה

זהו בינתיים. להיתראות חמודים

a little update and some pics...

So none of these pictures are mine, but they are nice/pretty/amusing and as such have been posted. In order:







1) The two dogs outside the "heder ochel" at Ma'agan Michael that almost always looked as if they were dead or about to die...of boredom or depression...we'll never know.

2) Liz and yours truly at the little fiesta we had in honor of the end of the Ulpan.













3) Eitan sitting on a ledge of some sort in J-lem. Just an awesome picture I think.

4) during our Negev trip, we woke up in the Bedouin tent and outside there were camels that looked as if they were praying to the sun



5) Roie, Iris and Liz, each making a face...a picture is worth a thousand words they say...this one's gotta be worth at least double.



6) Amazing shot at the beach of MM -- it really is this beautiful. Pretty much ALL the time...











so I'm at work -- which means that i shouldn't be procrastinating by writing in my blog, but oh well. they'll forgive me.

things have been going pretty well...the apartment search goes on, but at least I saw another place that seems like it could work, so send good "Lerone-will-get-the-apartment" vibes my way, k?

I got a haircut last night -- it was meant to be a trim since the current goal is to grow my hair long(ish) but apparently this hairdresser had it in his head that i needed to cut off more than just my split ends and that "many layers" was what has been missing from my life (hair). So yeah...it'll take some getting used to, but like my mom says: "you know what the difference between a good haircut and a bad haircut is? A couple months." And she's right...as usual. I wouldn't call it a "bad" haircut really, more just "unexpected."

In other news, a girl that I used to go to camp with and then be a counselor for, Sam Preis, who at the time was just starting her singer/songwriter thing, is now working on an album-ish thing in Cali, and I wish her much luck. Some of you may remember me sharing her track, Breathe in Life, from our songwriting class at YPI. Check out her myspace website: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=18877624

Enzywayz...back to work. Enjoy the pictures :-) More to come, PROMISE!

What's cookin'

Since my last post I can't say that all that much has happened...although most of what has includes both food and friends :-)

Last Thursday night Gali and I made a Mexican (well, Tex-Mex really) style dinner for us, Eyal and some of his local crew. I have to say, we really went all out...Sangria/Coronas, nachos, chicken and beef fajitas, guacamole, refried beans, salsa, rice, and black beans. We also has salad and a strawberry/ice cream dessert that I was too full to eat more than a couple bites of. But everything was really great (yes, I'm complimenting myself) and it was great fun to be cooking again.

Then, on Friday night, after arriving at Roie's, I made vegetable soup and we brought that, along with some Thai noodles Roie whipped up, to Noa and Liz's new place at Ein Hashofet. Liz made her famous goat cheese macaroni & cheese and we had all of that along with wine :-) They set up their room rully nice with candles and a tablecloth and we had a lovely shabbat dinner. I stayed over and had a lazy Saturday with Liz in Noa, consisting mostly of staying in bed, eating chocolate and talking about boys. Doesn't get much better than that does it?

Anywayz...things at work are busybusy but good. I am feeling more and more like I am in the right place work-wise and like the people here a lot. Now that it's officially March I'm starting to count the days until my mom gets here! (we're currently at 19) The apt hunt continues and I am not-so-secretly hoping that I manage to find something before she comes just because it's such a pain to go see apartments when I'd rather be doing stuff I consider way more fun while she's here...but either way it'll be great. Hopefully I can even take off a little bit of time at work -- just half days or something. we'll see.

ok, enough rambling for now. ciaoooo.....

p.s. pictures and such will be up soon, PROMISE!