"because you never know when you might need a wedding dress"

Just another quotable quote by our lovely Tiferet... of course she did mean it sarcastically -- but it did result out a quite amusing conversation about selling tuxes and wedding dresses...

enzywayz...speaking of ENZYWAYZ...I get to see Nili tomorrow :-) It's been about two years or so I think...maybe more? crazy.

It's definitely visiting season, Amitai is here for a month (although his habit of counting days and saying it's going by too quickly is kind of contagious, unfortunately) and my sister is coming in mid July and random people who I haven't seen in forever are also going to be in the country at some point in the next two months. I actually put it all on my outlook calendar at work to keep track :-P

que mas? it's becoming summer here...i.e. hot. It's nice, but just takes some getting used to in the beginning... it's the era of showers, as I like to say, where you're not used to the fact that you're going to sweat all day no matter what you do, so you just want to shower to feel clean for a little while. At least the evenings cool off quite a bit and it's really nice to walk around at night in a t-shirt -- perfect temperature :-)

i can't say that there's too much in terms of news in my life, but things are overall going really well. I had my first true Shavuot experience (it's not one that i "got around to celebrating" in the states...) which was great. It was also my grandmother's 94th birthday (i know! wow!) and so we went to Mevasseret to celebrate and I got to hang out with all my cousins on my dad's side which was nice. It's funny because I'm pretty much in the middle with that side of my family - my first cousins are all married with kids, and their kids are young but not THAT young (between the ages of 5-20) - but it's nice and in general it's great to see my grandmother so happy to be with all of her grandkids and great grandkids. So yes, I ate way too many cheese-based foods and such for Shavuot as is expected...and had a long weekend (ALWAYS appreciated). now I'm just thinking to myself...when's my next day off? nahh, it's ok. Overall, work is good. But I do sometimes wish it was like the kibbutz where I could finish up around 4pm and get to the beach for the last couple hours of sun... it's only after the fact that people TRULY realize how spoiled they were with something. I remember appreciating at the time, but probably not as much as I should have.

ok, enough rambling for now.
ciao.